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MONDAY, NOveMBeR 17, 2014 8 SECTIONS P18.00 IN METRO MANILA
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syrians beheaded
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DUCKS AT PLAY A flock of Philippine ducks (scientific name: Anas luzonica)

descends on the water reservoir of the San Roque Multipurpose Dam Project in
San Manuel, Pangasinan, a favorite spot for many migratory birds escaping the
winter season in countries north of the Philippines. (Jojo Rioza)
LiFesTYLe
POsiTiViTY iN CHAOs
Jay Torres works are about finding

a kernel of hope in the dark
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eNTeRTAiNMeNT
Bangsamoro law
put off to February
House sets
nationwide
hearings
CCP TO RebOOT CiNeMALAYA

Said to be a financially ailing endeavor, the
movers behind this independent film festival
weigh in on what the future holds
F-1
busiNess
unilever mulls $120-M
expansion in PH
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Duty-free goods bill from
Yolanda areas set
for us Congress
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PH to sign AseAN-india FTA
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By CHARISSA M. LUCI
he passage of the proposed

Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL)
will have to wait until February next year as the 75-man
House committee conducting public
hearings on the measure will be able to
complete the hearings only on Dec. 17,
2014, Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Rufus
Rodriguez, the committee chairman,
said yesterday.
Malacaang had wanted the Bangsamoro bill seeks to create a new
political entity to replace the
Autonomous Region in Mus-
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DOH, AFP chiefs mingle

with quarantined officers
By ELENA L. ABEN
Armed Forces of the Philippines

(AFP) Chief of Staff Gen. Gregorio
Pio P. Catapang, Jr. and acting Health
Secretary Janette Garin visited and
mingled with Filipino peacekeepers
under quarantine on Caballo Island,
yesterday.
The visit aimed to show the public
that there is nothing to worry about
the peacekeepers being Ebola-carriers
after returning from Liberia last week;
and that government was true to its
declaration that the country remains
free of the dreaded virus.
Gusto naming ipakita sa taum-
bayan na hindi naman tayo dapat nagaalala sa Ebola. Up to now, okay tayo;
we are on top of the situation (We want
to show the nation that we need not
worry about Ebola. Up to now, were
okay; we are on top of the situation),
Catapang told reporters after their
visit to the peacekeepers who recently
returned from Ebola-hit Liberia.
The visit also aimed to determine
the living conditions of the peacekeepers, placed on a 21-day quarantine
period on the island.
Asked how the troops are doing,
Catapang replied: High morale naman sila they are
allowed to roam around the
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ITS A RUSTANS CHRISTMAS Premiere department store Rustans outdoes itself this year, as it takes on The Nutcracker
theme to welcome Christmas shoppers. Toy soldiers greet guests at Rustans Christmas Wonders, a shopping experience that
brings together classic attractions like Santas Corner, childrens activities, and new, enchanting displays.
Govt workers begin receiving

early Christmas bonus this week
By GENALYN D. KABILING
and CHINO S. LEYCO
Christmas comes early for the government workforce.

Starting this week, 1.2 million government workers will receive their
CA resolves
dispute over
Ginebra
brand name
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By CHARISSA M. LUCI
Tanduay Distillers, Inc. (TDI), the

liquor arm of Lucio Tan-controlled LT
Group, Inc., lost its legal battle with
diversified conglomerate San Miguel
Corporation (SMC) as the Court of Appeals (CA) found the former liable for
unfair competition and infringement
over the Ginebra brand name.
The mere use of Ginebra by Tanduay in its Ginebra Kapitan gin products
is trademark infringement by itself,
declared the CAs Special Sixteenth
Division in its 47-page ruling penned by
Associate Justice Rodil Zalameda.
The CA said its decision to reverse
the Oct. 5, 2012 ruling issued by
a Mandaluyong City Regional
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according to Budget Secretary Florencio Abad.

The first half of the bonuses was
already released in May this year.
For the past year, government employees have been
working quietly and without
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Palace challenged to speed up

Yolanda funding like DAP
By LEONARD D. POSTRADO
NO FEAR General Gregorio Pio P. Catapang, Jr. (right), Armed Forces of the
Philippines Chief of Staff, and Department of Health Acting Secretary Janette L.
Garin visit the Filipino peacekeepers placed on a 21-day quarantine period on Caballo
Island in Cavite, yesterday. The visit was aimed at boosting the peacekeepers
morale and allaying any fears that the group that had returned from Ebola-stricken
Liberia are carriers of the deadly disease. (Courtesy of T/Sgt. Liwag-AFP)
Christmas cash gift and the remaining

13th month pay, the Department of
Budget and Management (DBM) announced yesterday.
The early release of the holiday
perks would allow the state personnel
to prepare for the Christmas season,
The leader of the House independent bloc yesterday challenged

Malacaang to accelerate the release of
funds allocated under the P167.9-billion
Yolanda Comprehensive Rehabilitation and Recovery Plan just as fast
as it implemented its controversial
Disbursement Acceleration Program
(DAP).
Leyte Representative Ferdinand

Martin Romualdez is counting on the
Aquino administration to prioritize
the release of rehabilitation funds to
hardest-hit areas.
The President has finally signed
the master plan so that the funds can be
downloaded, of course the procedures
will take (a) few months to do so, we will
ask them to fast-track it and do
it as fast as they implemented
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LP, NP potential bedfellows in 2016

A Liberal Party (LP) stalwart proposed yesterday the teaming up of
President Aquinos ruling party with the
Nacionalista Party (NP) to guarantee
victory in the 2016 presidential polls.
Iloilo Representative and LPVisayas party whip Jerry P. Treas
said the countrys two leading political

parties have the right candidates and
the right machinery to ensure victory
in the 2016 elections.
I think that an LP-NP team up will
be unbeatable in all levels in
2016. This was already proven
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Monday, November 17, 2014
Palace probing child abuse

in Manila care facility
By GENALYN D. KABILING
he national government yesterday vowed to look into and address the alleged maltreatment
of hundreds of street children at
a care facility in Manila.
Presidential Communications Opera-
tions Secretary Herminio Coloma also assured the government is ready to help
improve the Manila Reception and Action
Center, a public institution that cares for
homeless children.
According to (Social Welfare) Secretary
Dinky Soliman, she has ordered a factfinding team to look into the conditions
so the DSWD (Department of Social
Welfare and Development) can help
the City of Manila
Social Welfare and
D e v e l o p m e n t O ffice, Coloma said
in Filipino over government radio.
Last month,
the Asian Human
Rights Commission denounced the
Manila City government for its apparent neglect to improve the conditions
of the custodial and
rehabilitation center for the street
kids. The children
were reportedly deprived of adequate
food, abused, and
tortured.
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Tubbataha, Hamiguitan recognized as ASEAN heritage parks

By Chito Chavez
he Department of Environment and Natural Resources

(DENR) announced the inclusion of two internationally
renowned parks in the country to the
list of high-status ranks of Southeast
Asias most revered and treasured
parks.
DENR Secretary Ramon Paje said
the Mt. Hamiguitan Range Wildlife
Sanctuary (MHRWS) in Davao Oriental and Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park
(TRNP) in Palawan gained the nod
of environment ministers from the 10
member-countries of the Association
of Southeast Asian Nation as the newest ASEAN Heritage Parks (AHP).
The designation of TRNP and
MHRWS as regional heritage parks is
long overdue, both having been named
earlier as UNESCO World Heritage
Sites, Paje said.
Paje said the country is honored
by the designation, which brought to
seven the total number of AHPs from
the Philippines.
This latest recognition indicates
that the natural characteristics of both
TRNP and MHRWS are so exceptional
they deserve to be protected for the
benefit of everyone in Southeast Asia,
Paje added.
The five other AHPs in the country
are the Mt. Apo Natural Park, Mt. Kitanglad Range Natural Park, and Mt.
Malindang Range Natural Park, all
in Mindanao, Mt. Iglit-Baco National
Park in Occidental Mindoro, and the
Mount Makiling Forest Reserve in Laguna.
Covering a total of 6,834 hectares,
MHRWS is shared by seven barangays, namely: Macambol and Cabuaya
of Mati; La Union, Maputi and Talisay
of San Isidro; and Osmea Sr. and
Tandang Sora of Governor Generoso,
all in the province of Davao Oriental.
Established in 2004, the sanctuary
is dominated by Mt. Hamiguitan, which
stands at 1,637 meters. Mt. Hamiguitan is distinguished by a bonsai field

or pygmy forest of 100-year-old trees
on ultramafic soil.
Noted for its rich biodiversity, the
protected area has also been identified
as one of the key biodiversity areas in
the country.
Major forest types in the sanctuary

include cultivated forests with brushland and grassland at the lower portions of the park; secondary growth
forest; and mossy forest in the highlands.
Trees within the mossy-pygmy forest have an average height of only 1.4
meters with a diameter of eight centimeters.

One of the dominant species that
can only be found in this forest type is

tinikaran or red fig tree andWendlandia nervosa.
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Battle-scarred Rangers recall Basilan fight

By ELENA L. ABEN
military spokesman said that

among the troops who engaged Abu Sayyaf bandits in a
fierce battle Friday afternoon
in Sulu were distinguished warriors
whose bravery in previous combat experiences had earned them medals.
One of them was Sgt. Castro Caster Kitong, who was among the 28
wounded in action (WIA) during the
five-hour firefight with some 300 ASG
bandits in the jungles of Mt. Tunggul
and Bud Bunga located at the boundary
of Talipao and Patikul towns.
Kitong, a proud son of Ifugao, was
hit in the abdomen while attempting to
extricate a critically-wounded soldier.
He was brought to a hospital in Zamboanga City for surgery.
Lt. Col. Harold M. Cabunoc, the AFP
public affairs office (PAO) chief, recalled
that Kitong was previously awarded
the Wounded Personnel Medal (WPM)
when he was first wounded as a Private
of the 10th Scout Ranger Company (10th
SRC) back in early 2000. Cabunoc was
then the commander of the 10th SRC.
He fought heroically when my unit
figured in a six-hour firefight against
more or less 200 Abu Sayyaf bandits in
Balatanay, Basilan on October 7, 2001,
Cabunoc said
I can vividly remember Kitong as
the one whom I ordered to crawl into
an Abu Sayyaf position to grab an M60

machine gun. He bravely advanced forward with militiaman Leonardo Orozco
while I engaged the bandits in a shootout to provide them covering fires.
He successfully took away the prized
machine gun but he sustained a minor
wound in his back, said Cabunoc.
Having witnessed Kitongs exceptional bravery in combat, Cabunoc said
he did not hesitate to recommend the
soldier for the Gold Cross Medal, the
third highest combat medal.
I was not surprised that Kitong
would emerge as one of the trustworthy
non commissioned officer (NCO)-leaders of the First Scout Ranger Company
(1st SRC) in one of the bloodiest firefights that the unit got involved in its
unit history, said Cabunoc.
It was also the 1st SRC that figured
in the first major encounter of the military against the ASG after the release
of the two German kidnap victims three
weeks ago.
The AFP PAO chief said when he
talked to Kitong after last Fridays
encounter that left five soldiers and 10
ASG bandits dead, he (Kitong) was in
high spirits despite having difficulty
sharing his experience.
Cabunoc said Kitong told him that
he lost three of his team members in
the fiercest battle that he experienced
in his life.
I am saddened by the deaths of my
dear teammates. I did my best to save

them all but God has plans for them,
Cabunoc, quoting Kitong, said.
Aside from Kitong, 30-year-old First
Lt. Michael Asistores, 1st SRC officerin-charge, also bears scars, including a
wound on his face, which he sustained
from previous combat engagements.
It was the third time that the Philippine Military Academy graduate (Class
of 2007) was wounded in battle in his
young career as an Army officer.
Asistores said he was very lucky to
manage to have escape death in the
past years.
By Gods grace, he always protected me. Also, our tactical training
in the Scout Ranger Training School
has equipped us with mission-essential
skills and can-do attitude which are
needed in the field, he said.
Asistores was first wounded in an
encounter with New Peoples Army
(NPA) rebels in Lingig, Surigao Del

Sur in 2008.
He got his second combat wound in
a three-hour encounter with Abu Sayyaf
bandits in Al-Barka, Basilan in 2011.
He sustained his third battle wound
last November 14, two hours into a
desperate fight with some 300 heavily
armed Islamist militants.
Bullets rained on us. There were
too many of them, Asistores said,
noting that there were plenty of M203
grenade launcher rounds that exploded
around them. He also said that the bandits met them frontally despite being
met with gunfire.
Finding himself in the middle of
overwhelming enemy fires, Asistores
called for more support from his battalion commander, Lt. Col. Eugene
Boquio. One by one, he saw his men
bloodied after being hit by the enemy.
Asistores said he yelled at his team
leaders amid the intense exchange

of fires and instructed them to direct
some of their personnel to extricate
the wounded.
Seeing the dead and wounded soldiers around him, Asistores pressed
the fight by rallying the remaining
soldiers to hold their line to provide
support as the casualties are being
evacuated.
But after about two hours of dodging bullets, Asistores was hit near his
arm pit. He said he felt that something
pierced through his flesh but he maintained his composure to inspire his
men. The young officer kept shooting
at the bandits who tried to come near
him.
At this point, one of his team leaders, Kitong, came to his side and helped
him control their remaining troops.
Kitong was later wounded while trying
to carry another injured soldier.
DIAMOND FORMATION A fly-by exhibition by Philippine Air Force SIAI-Marchetti trainer jets
highlighted the Diamond Anniversary of the Department of National Defense yesterday at the GHQ
Grandstand in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City. Leading the luminaries who attended the celebration, dubbed as Kagawaran ng Tanggulang Pambansa: 75 Taon Sandigan ng Mamamayan, were
Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin (in polo barong) and Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Gregorio
Pio P. Catapang Jr. (Linus Guardian Escandor II)
Faster processing of UK visas

By ROY C. MABASA
The Philippines will be at the vanguard

of a new visa service being rolled out to
priority countries around the world by the
United Kingdom.
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond made the announcement following
the success of the pilot project in Beijing
and New Delhi.
With this move, Manila will join New
York, Paris, Abu Dhabi, Istanbul, Bangkok
and Pretoria in offering the service of processing visas within 24 hours for those who
have an urgent need to travel to UK.
In a statement, British Ambassador Asif
Ahmad welcomed the announcement that
the Philippines has been included in this
first wave of countries which will ensure
that travelers to the UK can have a service
which fits all their possible needs.
This is a testament to the growing bilateral trade, investment and tourism between
our countries, said Ambassador Ahmad.
Manila has been picked due to the high
demand from businesses and high value
travelers.
According to the top British diplomat in

Manila, British visitors to the Philippines
are at their highest ever level. Likewise,
Filipino visits to the UK are up 23 percent
so far this year.
He said the new Super Priority Service will
be available for an additional fee and will be
open for travelers in Manila in April, 2015.
The service is designed for business
travelers but will also be available to those
who want to pay a premium for expedited
processing.
This will mean that, whatever the need,
there will be a service available to get you
where you need to be in the UK, when you
need to be there, the ambassador said.
Ahmad pointed out that people have
a clear choice and can use any one of the
three options. They can apply in good time
and pay the standard fee or pay more for a
one- or four-day service.
Currently, the British Embassy in Manila offers efficient and fair regular services
with decisions made within 15 days, he said.
Applicants already have the option to pay for
a four-day turnaround service and choose a
preferred appointment slot.
Senate to honor Flavier

By HANNAH L. TORREgOzA
The Senate resumes its sessions today

by paying tribute to former Senator Juan
Flavier and honoring his contributions to
legislation, including landmark laws that
helped shape the governments health and
anti-corruption programs.
Senate President Franklin Drilon is expected to lead current members and officers
of the Senate in paying their respects to the
former senator at the Senates session hall.
Senate Secretary
Oscar Yabes said
senators would wait
for Flaviers remains
at 9:30 a.m. at the
main entrance of the
Senate building.
Yabes said the
senators, together
with Flaviers wife
and children, the
Senate Secretary,
Sergeant-at-Arms,
Deputy Secretaries, Senate Legal
Counsel, DirectorsGeneral would escort
the urn containing
the ashes of the former senator to the
Session Hall at the
Second floor of the
building.
Afterwards, senators will then take
turns in delivering
eulogies for the former legislator.
Flavier served as senator from 1995 to

2007. He succumbed to pneumonia last Oct.
30 at the age of 79.
The Senate is also expected to pass a resolution expressing the Senates profound sympathy and sincere condolence on the death of
the former senator to Flaviers family.
The resolution will take note of how
the hard working legislator registered
a perfect attendance during the sessions
and was instrumental in the enactment
of landmark legislations promoting public
health care and improving the quality of life
of the people.
According to Yabes, the Senate will host
lunch for the family and relatives of the late
Honorable Flavier, senators and guests at
the Recto-Laurel Rooms.
Flavier authored and sponsored several bills that became laws such as the
Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act
(Republic Act 8423); Social Reform and
Poverty Alleviation Act (R.A. 8425); Philippine Clean Air Act (R.A. 8749); Indigenous
Peoples Rights Act (R.A.8371); Anti-Money
Laundering Act (R.A. 9160); law declaring
Eidl Fitr as a National Holiday (R.A. 9177);
Barangay Micro-Business Enterprise (R.A.
9178); National Service Training Program
for Tertiary Students (R.A. 9163); the Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 (R.A. 9165); the
Plant Variety Protection Act (R.A. 9168); the
Philippine Nursing Act (R.A. 9173) and the
Tobacco Regulation Act (R.A. 9211).
During his term as Health Secretary,
Flavier gained recognition for initiating
various health programs such as Oplan Alis
Disease, Kontra Kolera, Stop TB, Araw ng
Sangkap Pinoy, Family Planning and Doctor
to the Barrios program.
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Benefit show to
raise funds for
Catholic education
By LesLIe ANN G. AqUINO
he Archdiocese of Manila (RCAM)

is staging a Christmas benefit show
to raise funds for poor but deserving students to continue attending
Catholic schools.
This is due to the continued decrease
in the number of enrollees in parochial
schools.
Although it has been our joy and privilege to be serving and forming these young
people, the financial cost of maintaining our
schools has been a heavy burden for the
Archdiocese, Manila Archbishop Lus Antonio G. Cardinal Tagle said in a CBCP News
post.
He said the enrollment in RCAMs parochial schools has gone down by three percent in the last five years, with poor students
opting to transfer to public schools.
We are afraid that this trend would con-
tinue and would therefore deprive many of

our young people good Catholic education
and formation. We can, however, stem the
tide. With your help, we can raise funds to
provide students with scholarships or financial aid, said Tagle.
RCAM runs 27 schools that offer basic to
tertiary education, with a third of its roughly
30,000 students receiving scholarship or financial assistance.
According to Tagle, Catholic education
is one of the primary works of the Catholic
Church so that young people will learn about
faith and also grow in Christian virtue.
It is for these reasons that His Eminence
is appealing to the public to support the benefit concert.
The Patron of the Arts, the RCAMs yearly Christmas benefit show, is organized by
the Jesuit Communications Foundation Inc.
(JesCom) and will be held at the Meralco
Theater in Pasig City on December 12, 2014.
Installation of CCTVs at NAIA

delayed due to failed bidding
By RAYMUND F. ANTONIO
Airline passengers and workers will

have to wait a little longer before the installation of closed circuit television (CCTV)
and surveillance system that will cover Terminals 1, 2 and 4 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).
The first bidding participated by 34 companies was a failure.
Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) General Manager Jose Angel
Honrado said that the bidding for the P480million CCTV project will have to be re-conducted.
(In the first one) first one; the lowest
bidder failed. I think it was a six to sevenpage enumeration of technical deficiencies.
He did not file for any motion for reconsideration, he said.
The next bidder was also not as lucky,
but the firm opted to file a motion for recon-
sideration to appeal its case. MIAA denied

its plea.
Honrado said that the pre-bid meeting
with prospective bidders, including those
who failed to pass the first bidding, was
scheduled last November 15.
They can vie again. That is the rule,
he said. He added that negotiations will
happen only after two failed biddings. The
project calls for the construction and installation of a complete CCTV system within 240
calendar days from the award of the bid.
Security at the airport, or the lack of it
due to the absence of CCTVs, has raised
brows following two high profile incidents
at NAIA that grabbed headlines in the past
years. The infamous brawl between actor Raymart Santiago and his wife actress
Claudine Baretto and columnist Ramon
Tulfo, and the ambush on Labangan Mayor
Ukol Talumpa of Zamboanga Del Sur come
to mind.
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House to focus on priority

measures as sessions resume
Newsbits
Help spread
Papal visit theme
The Catholic Bishops Conference
of the Philippines - Episcopal
Commission on Youth (CBCPECY) has called on the Filipino
youth to reflect and start helping
spread the theme Mercy and
Compassion for the upcoming
apostolic visit of Pope Francis.
In an interview over Church-run
Radio Veritas, Fr. Conegundo
Garganta, executive director of
CBCP-ECY said. The youth must
start reflecting on the theme
for the papal visit now, and to
observe it in their lives especially
as the season of Advent and
Christmas nears, Garganta
added. (Christina I. Hermoso)
PAGASA sees
more rainshowers
Light to moderate rains triggered
by the tai-end of a cold front
will prevail over Cagayan Valley,
Eastern and Central Visayas,
Aurora province, Surigao and
Negros Occidental, the Philippine
Atmospheric, Geophysical
and Astronomical Services
Administration (PAGASA) said
yesterday. Metro Manila and
other parts of the country will
have isolated rain showers and
thunderstorms with partly cloudy
to cloudy skies. Winds will be
moderate to strong over Luzon,
where coastal waters will be
moderate to rough. Elsewhere,
winds will be light to moderate,
with slight to moderate sea
conditions. (Chito Chavez)
Judicial pork
barrel probe
The House probe into the Supreme
Courts spending of its so-called
pork barrel or the Judiciary
Development Fund (JDF) remains
hanging as the House leadership
continued to yield to the request
made by Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes
Sereno that the SC en banc be
allowed to first hand down its final
decision on the constitutionality
of the Disbursement Acceleration
Program (DAP) before any
representative can attend the
House hearing. Iloilo Rep. Niel
Tupas Jr., chairman of the House
Committee on Justice said the
hearings on two measures seeking
to reform the JDF system will not
happen during the Congress
two-week long session. (Charissa
L. Luci)
By CHARISSA M. LUCI
he legislative mill will keep

grinding until Congress adjourns for Christmas holidays
on Dec. 17 as the House of
Representatives is seeking to ensure
the ratification of the 2015 P2.606-trillion
General Appropriations Bill (GAB) as
well as the plenary consideration of the
economic charter change (Cha-cha)
resolution, the anti-political dynasty
bill and the committee report junking
the impeachment complaints against
President Aquino.
Speaker Feliciano Sonny Belmonte
Jr. said they are targeting to approve significant measures before the 15-session
days lapse on Dec. 17.
He said the ratification of the 2015

national budget will be prioritized, as
well as the passage of the joint resolution
granting President Aquino emergency
powers to deal with the projected power
shortfall and the deliberations of the
proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law and
the House Committee on Justices report dismissing the three impeachment
complaints against Mr. Aquino.
We are so busy to deliberate all
these measures, Belmonte said as Congress resumes sessions today following
the Halloween break.
Iloilo Rep. Niel Tupas Jr., chairman
of the House Committee on Justice, assured the plenary voting on his panels
report junking President Aquinos ouster will take place on or before Congress
adjourns for Christmas break.

The committee report dismissing
the impeachment against the President
will be acted upon by the plenary when
Congress resumes session (Monday) or
at the latest before Congress adjourns
for the Christmas break, he said.
At least 98 lawmakers have to vote
against the committee report to overturn the Tupas panels decision to kill
the three ouster complaints last September 2.
House Majority Leader and
Mandaluyong City Rep. Neptali Boyet
Gonzales II assured that they would find
time to tackle Belmontes Resolution
of Both Houses No. 1 or the economic
Cha-cha and House Bill (HB) No. 3587
or an Act Prohibiting the Establishment
of Political Dynasties
The two measures are both pending
for plenary discussions.
Gonzales earlier cited the possibility
that the House could pass Belmontes
resolution this year.
Meantime, The House Committee on
Ways and Means will prioritize the approval of the proposal modernizing the
Bureau of Customs and the fiscal incentives rationalization bill before passing
the measure seeking to lower individual
and corporate income tax rates.
Marikina Rep. Miro Quimbo, the
panel chairman said they are targeting
to approve the two measures during
the 15-session days before Congress
adjourns for Christmas holidays on
December 17.
Senate wants
more reliable
witnesses
during probes
By HAnnAH L. ToRReGozA
The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee

should consider the proposal to require
resource persons invited to its hearing
to first submit their sworn affidavits so
they wouldnt waste Senate probers time,
Sen. Juan Edgardo Sonny Angara said
yesterday.
Angara said he is amenable to the
suggestion of Sen. Sergio Osmena III,
vice-chair of the Blue Ribbon committee, to compel invited witnesses to
submit their affidavits and supporting
documents before they are allowed to
participate in investigations conducted
by the panel.
We do not want a repeat of Mr.
(Manuel) Mejoradas testimony where
he could not present a single evidence to
substantiate his allegation, Angara said
referring to Senate President Franklin
Drilons accuser in the alleged overpricing of the Iloilo Convention Center
(ICC).
It can be recalled that when Angara
cross-examined Mejorada during last
Thursdays hearing at the Senate, the
latter admitted he has no evidence to
support his claims.
He further admitted basing his conclusions on rumors, newspaper reporters
and Wikipedia.
Well established is a citizens freedom of speech but anybody who goes
before the committee should have done
their homework as much as possible and
come with supported testimony, said the
senator, who is also the chairman of the
Senate Committee on Ways and Means.
BLooD DonoRS Members of the Bureau of Fire Protection join other volunteers and donors at the San Lorenzo Ruiz Church
in Binondo, Manila yesterday during the Txt Fire Philippines blood donation drive for the Philippine Blood Center. Around one
thousand donors stepped forward to donate blood. (KJ Rosales)
Protracted legal battle looms over terminal fee row

By SAMUeL P. MeDenILLA
The countrys largest labor group

said airlines which will implement the
new scheme of the Manila International
Airport Authority (MIAA) to integrate
the terminal fee into the fares for
international flights, could also face
legal action.
In a statement, former Senator
Ernesto Herrera of the Trade Union
Congress of the Philippines (TUCP)
said the MIAA Memorandum Circular
No. 8,is illegal since it covers overseas
Filipino workers (OFW), who are exempted from paying the P550 Interna-
tional passenger service charge (IPSC)

or terminal fee.
If it persists, then even the airline
companies that signed a Memorandum
of Agreement for the implementation
of the IPSC may be the subject of a
class suit by those being deprived of
legally-granted exemptions, such as our
OFWs, Herrera said.
Last month, some Filipino migrant
advocates questioned the legality of the
MIAA circular before Pasay Regional
Court (RTC) branch 109 before it could
be implemented on 1 Nov. 2014.
The RTC has since then issued a
temporary restraining order (TRO)
against the new policy, which is expected to end this week or 20 days after the
court decision was issued on 31 Oct.
It has also ordered the MIAA to
submit supporting documents to justify
the legality of its new circular.
Herrera pointed out that this is
unlikely since it violates Republic Act
10022 or the amended Migrant Workers Act of 1995, which automatically
exempts OFWs from the IPSC.
He also said the MIAA may have
overstepped the boundaries of its duties
in crafting circular since it will require
the government to pay additional fees
to airline companies.
Sin tax revenues eyed vs

rare childhood diseases
By Ben RoSARIo
With rare diseases affecting

75 percent of Filipino children, an
administration lawmaker is batting for the allocation of a portion of
the huge sin tax revenues to establish a comprehensive and sustainable health system that would
address this health problem.
Las Pias City Rep. Mark
A. Villar filed House Bill 4781
to provide for the health care
program for rare diseases and
help patients and their families
cope with the financial and nonfinancial challenges of dealing
with such ailments that are usually difficult to treat.
The creation of a comprehensive and sustainable health system
for rare diseases will provide better

access to adequate medical care,
health information, and health
care products needed to treat their
condition, Villar said.
Among the rare diseases
identified in the bill are Gaucher Disease, Maple Syrup Urine
Disease, Pompe Disease, Galactosemia, Phenylketonuria,
Methymalonic Acidemia, Urea
Cycle Defects, Hurler Syndrome,
Hunter Syndrome and PraderWilli Syndrome.
Villar said a report made
public by the Philippine Society
for Orphan Disorders indicate
that there are about 6,000 to
8,000 cases of rare diseases in the
country that affect 75 percent of
children in the country.
Six-year term for

barangay officials sought
By CHARISSA M. LUCI
A second-termer congressman
is convincing Congress to explore
the possibility of extending the term
of all barangay officials to save public funds and to improve political
stability in the grassroots level.
Bulacan Rep. Joselito Jonjon R. Mendoza wants to amend
Republic Act No. 7160, otherwise
known as the Local Government
Code of 1991, to extend the current three-year term of all barangay officials to six years.
The Code gives barangay
officials the vital role of being
front liners in the delivery of ba-
sic services to the people at the

grassroots level, he said.
Mendozas HB 5073 was
referred to the House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral
Reforms chaired by Aklan Rep.
Fredenil H. Castro
To minimize political interference in the barangay level and
improve local stability; To allow
barangay officials to focus on longterm service goals; To maximize
training programs for barangay
officials; and To save public funds
that would have been spent on
barangay elections were among
the reasons Mendoza cited in filing HB No. 5073.
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UN-WFP endorses DOST's Momsie

By EDD K. USMAN
omsie, a ready-to -eat

supplementary food, has
received endorsement
from the United Nations
World Food Programme (UN-WFP) for
distribution in times of emergencies
and disasters.
The Department of Science and Technology's (DOST) Food and Nutrition
Research Institute (FNRI) developed
Momsie in response to the need for food
that can be eaten without cooking or
heating, particularly during disasters and
calamities.
FNRI has been developing other readyto-eat foods, among them instant noodles
fortified with squash, instant cream soups,
and compressed food bars.
Momsie is made from monggo, soybeans, peanuts, sesame seeds, oil,
skimmed milk, margarine, cocoa, sugar,

salt, and emulsifier.
FNRI said Momsie has enough nutrients and protein to prevent malnutrition during disasters.
"It will be part of the food packs to
be distributed during emergencies,"
assured Dr. Martin Parreo, WFP
national program officer, during the

2014 Dr. Juan Salcedo Memorial Lecture, a nutrition
forum hosted annually by the
Nutrition Foundation of the
Philippines, Inc. (NFP) and
supported by the Philippine
Council for Health Research

(PCHRD-DOST).
For its supplementary food program
against acute malnutrition in the Philippines, WFP is currently importing
foodstuff from France.
FNRI figures state that 25 grams of

Momsie, which has a 12-month shelf life,
may cost P10 per sachet and P100 per
bottle of 300 gramsa cheaper choice
over imported brands.
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Man who set daughter on fire commits suicide

By AnnA LizA ViLLAs-ALAVAren
vercome by guilt, the father who doused his

11-year-old daughter with thinner then set
her on fire, took his own life just hours after
his horrible deed.
The lifeless body of Emmanuel Santos, 39, a caretaker who resides at the Manila South Cemetery in
Makati City, was found inside a mausoleum in the cemetery, hanging by the neck with a nylon cord. His body
was discovered 8 a.m. Saturday.
His co-workers rushed him to the Sta. Ana Hospital
in Manila but was declared dead on arrival.
Santos suicide came just 11 hours after he nearly
killed his daughter inside their makeshift home in the
cemetery.
Earlier reports said that Santos, who was high on
drugs, barged into their home at around 7 p.m. Friday

while his daughter was asleep.
Then, in the presence of relatives, doused the girl
with thinner and lit her on fire.
A cousin came to the aid of the girl and tried to put
out the fire that had engulfed her.
But instead of breaking out of his mad assault on
his own daughter, Santos even splashed more thinner
on her.
The girls mother, Weng Valdez, arrived just in time
to her daughters help and immediately rushed her to
the Ospital ng Maynila.
The girl sustained second degree burns on her chest,
arms and legs.
The Makati City government has pledged to shoulder all the medical expenses to help the girl recover
from that horrific experience.
RELIEF EFFORTS Hundreds of families pack the Delpan Gym in Tondo, Manila after they were left homeless when a sixhour fire razed the densely populated Parola Compound. So much grief for what fire investigators said was a conflagration
sparked by a candle that was left unattended. (KJ Rosales)
Man stabs own father to death

By FrAnCis T. WAKeFieLD
After being scolded for being lazy and getting

whacked on the head twice by his father, a 23-year-old
man went on a stabbing frenzy and killed his father
Friday night at their home in Quezon City.
Reports reaching the Quezon City Police DistrictCriminal Investigation and Detection Unit (QCPDCIDU) headquarters in Camp Karingal, identified the
victim as Alfredo Reyes Jr., 52, a resident of No. 9978
Kasunduan St., Barangay Commonwealth.
He was stabbed dead by his
namesake, Alfredo III.
Chief Inspector Rodel Marcelo, QCPD-CIDU chief, said
the stabbing incident happened
at about 7 p.m. Friday.
Marcelo said that Ace Reyes,
the victims other son, told investigators that he and his father
were about to have dinner when
his brother arrived home.
After eating dinner, Reyes Jr., who was then under the influence of liquor, got irked because of his
indolent son.
Marcelo said the suspect suddenly pulled out a
knife and allegedly pointed it at the victim, not finding
enough courage to attack his father.
But when the suspect went back a few minutes
later, his father assaulted him with a piece of wood and
hit him twice on the head.
That proved to be too much for the suspect, as he
went on a blind rage and stabbed his father before
fleeing.
Marcelo said relatives were able to bring the victim
to East Avenue Medical Center (EAMC) but died at
2:36 p.m. Saturday.
Cursory examination later revealed that the victim
sustained a lone stab wound at the left side portion of
his body.
A case of parricide is expected to be filed against
the suspect who is still at large.
Police Officer 2 (PO2) Louie Serbito is investigating
the incident.
4 nabbed for attempted estafa

By JOnATHAn M. HiCAP
Three women and a man were arrested

by the Muntinlupa City Police for trying to
get a car loan using allegedly falsified documents.
Senior Supt. Allan Nobleza, Muntinlupa
Police officer-in-charge, identified the suspects as Grezilda Pinangay, Theresa Lorenzo,
Anafe Medallo and Edgar Eser, who were
arrested at Chevrolet Alabang branch, owned
by Juno Cars, in Alabang, Muntinlupa.
The police said the three acted as clients
seeking to purchase a 2014 Chevrolet Trailblazer 2014 through a car loan. They presented documents to Sheryll Manalili, Juno
Cars group vehicle financing manager.
The suspects presented falsified proofs
of billing such as Sky Cable and Destiny
Cable. When Chevrolet Alabang verified
the bill, there was no subscriber under their

names.
Chevrolet Alabang informed the police
about the groups modus operandi and it
was found out that it was not the first time
that it had tried to purchase a car using the
same scheme.
According to Manalili, last Oct. 23, Lorenzo and Pinangay were able to purchase a
Nissan Navarra truck at Nissan Dasmarias,
Cavite, which happens to be sister company
of Juno Cars.
The Nissan dealer discovered that the
buyers used falsified documents in purchasing the vehicle. Company personnel were no
longer able to contact the buyers and locate
the vehicle.
Cases of attempted estafa are set to be
filed against the suspects with the Muntinlupa Prosecutors Office.
Laborer kills co-worker

at construction site
By rACHeL JOyCe e. BurCe
Revenge may have led a construction

worker to repetitively stab and kill his coworker early yesterday morning at a church
in Sampaloc, Manila.
Police identified the victim as Mario
Gorpedo, 27, stay-in construction worker of
Flashbuilt Construction Inc. and native of
Northern Samar. The suspect was identified as Jonard Caberte, 35, co-worker of the
victim and native of Negros Occidental.
Case officer PO 3 Marlon San Pedro
disclosed the incident happened around 4:30
a.m. Sunday at the construction site of Grace
Gospel Church located in Mangga Avenue
corner Buenos Aires Street in Sampaloc.
Initial investigation said that the suspect
may have taken advantage of the victim who

was asleep and repetitively stabbed him
then casually walked away.
Moments later, a co-worker, Anito Galias,
saw the suspect escaping the scene as he attended to Gorpedo who was fatally wounded,
gasping for breath on his wooden bed.
The victim was rushed to Ospital ng
Sampaloc but was declared dead on arrival.
Examination showed that he had multiple
stab wounds in different parts of his body
that led to his death.
[The reason for the killing] may be out
of revenge, because last Friday, the victim
along with his unknown companion ganged
up on the suspects brother who is also
their co-worker, San Pedro told Manila
Bulletin.
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MMDA to DPWH:
Why the delay in
road projects?
By aNNa Liza viLLaS-aLavaReN
ould this set off another round of the

blame game between these two government agencies?
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has asked the
Department of Public Works and Highways
(DPWH) to explain the delays in the long
overdue road projects that has contributed
to the snail-paced traffic in the metropolis.
MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino sent
Reynaldo Tagudando, DPWH-National Capital Region director, a letter asking about the
status of at least 24 unfinished road projects in
various parts of Metro Manila.
Tolentino said some of the projects should
have been completed during the second quarter and third quarter of the year.
Most of the 24 pending road projects
should have been finished on July 29, September 3 and October 11, 2014, Tolentino said in
the agencys radio program over DzBB.
Tolentino said these road projects aggravate traffic congestion in the metropolis.
We cannot figure out why these projects
are not yet completed and have even reached
this Christmas period, he said.
Tolentino cited a road project in Tandang
Sora, which should have been completed within 21 calendar days, but is still on going.
To recall, both agencies have previously
blamed each other over unfinished roadworks
and drainage projects that contributed to
flooding in several streets in the metropolis
sometime last year.
The MMDA chief noted that the delays
have made thoroughfares unavailable to be
Christmas and Mabuhay lanes.
The Christmas lanes serve as alternative routes to help motorists avoid the
Christmas traffic. These lanes also lead
to and from shopping centers in Makati,
Pasay, Quezon City, San Juan, Manila and
Marikina, where traffic is usually heavy
during the holidays.
Bulacan firm hired to recycle

QCs hazardous waste
By Chito Chavez
The Quezon City (QC) government has

hired the services of a firm engaged in the
recycling of hazardous materials in a bid
to ensure proper disposal of lead-acid batteries, commonly known as automotive
batteries.
The citys environmental protection
and waste management department (EPWMD) has contracted EcoGlobal Inc.,
a Bulacan-based firm an agreement
which Mayor Herbert Bautista has described as vital in the city governments
continuing effort to ensure public safety
against the adverse effects of exposure to
hazardous wastes like lead.
EPWMD head Frederika Rentoy confirmed that lead-acid batteries contain
toxic substances that can damage the
brain and kidneys. Exposure to the sub-
stance can also affect ones sense of hearing and create significant learning disabilities in children.
QC has initially donated 70 units of
used-up batteries to EcoGlobal.
Rentoy said that her office aims to ensure the safety of city residents by teaching proper handling and disposal of hazardous waste materials.
However, Councilor Victor Ferrer Jr.
wants the city government to do more.
He has consistently called for stiffer
fines and longer jail terms for abusive and
habitual violators of proper waste management and disposal.
Ferrers call was in reaction to the
findings of toxic watchdog EcoWaste Coalition, which revealed that consumer
items tainted with dangerous elements
are being sold in Quezon City and other
parts of Metro Manila.
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Good government
eliminates corruption
By MeLito SaLazar Jr.
EYoND those who have been advised to moderate your greed,

there are some who trace the
beginnings of their corrupt practices to the demands of their constituencies
for their living, educational, health, and
emergency needs. If government provides
for these needs, we can assume that the
pressure on the elected public officials to
dip into the public coffers to satisfy the
electorates demands is lessened or disappears.
If there is full employment and no underemployment in the Philippine economy, we
will not see citizens lining up at the house
gates of politicians asking for help in getting
jobs or pleading for money to cover their living expenses. All Filipinos who are willing to
work will get employed if government does
its job making sure that there is a match
between the education and technical skills
of potential workers with the requirements
of industry, business, and other employers;
the cost of doing business is comparable if
Black
rom the three West African nations of

Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, the
Ebola epidemic appears to have jumped
across the border north to mali. There,
an imam and the nurse looking after him were
reported to have died and everyone in the clinic
where he had been treated are now all under
close quarantine. These are 30 people, half of
them medical staff and patients. The other half
are 15 United Nations Peacekeepers assigned to
a mission in mali.
We are fortunate that the Filipino UN Peacekeepers who returned recently from Liberia were
not in any direct contact with any Ebola patient
during their stay in that country. Otherwise, we
would all be doubly worried about the health of the
108 men who arrived the other day and are now on
Caballo island at the mouth of Manila Bay.
Ebola is such a dangerous disease that spreads
through direct contact with a patient, through body
fluids such as sweat and blood. Thus the need for
doctors and nurses to be totally covered from head
to toe protective gear which we still do not have.
Hospital personnel in the centers assigned to re-
ceive any Filipino Ebola patient have complained

that the protective gear they were issued while in
training had openings in the neck and face.
The ability of the Ebola virus to easily jump from
one person to another by mere touch is said to be
one of the main causes of the spread of the disease
in West Africa. Traditional African funeral rites, it is
said, call for surviving family members to pay due
honor to a departed member, apparently including
some touching. God forbid that we should ever have
an Ebola case in our country, but should there be
one, how can a Filipino mother not hold her child
one last time?
The precautions taken by our Armed Forces in
quarantining our returned UN Peacekeepers for
21 days on Caballo island may seem excessive to
some, since they had all been already cleared by
UN doctors before leaving Liberia. But we must
accept them. The statistics are ominous enough
5,160 deaths already and 14,000 cases worldwide.
But more than the figures is the human element.
No less than the people of West Africa, we have our
own Filipino culture of love and respect for our loved
ones, Ebola victims or not.
reflections today
The healing of
the blind beggar
rEFLECTIoNS
SoN oF DAVID. One wonders why Luke emphasizes that this Man from Nazareth (northern part)
is called Son of David, the famous king of the South.

In the Canticle of Zechariah, the Messiah is to come
from the house of David (cf Lk 1:69). So this account
is an affirmation that Jesus is indeed the Messiah
who, in Lk 4:18, comes to proclaim recovery of sight
to the blind.
As we acknowledge that Jesus is the Messiah,
following Him closely in our faith journey, even up to
our own Jerusalem, our eyes slowly open up to the
wonders and marvels of Gods actions in our lives.
And our good example of opening our life to Jesus,
saying, Lord, please let me see, hopefully encourages others to praise and bless God.
In your own experience, what were the things that
sometimes prevented you from seeing Gods actions
in your life?
SoUrCE: 365 Days with the Lord 2014, ST.
PAULS Philippines, 7708 St. Paul rd., SAV, makati
City (Phils.); Tel.: 895-9701; Fax 895-7328; E-mail:
books@stpauls.ph; Website: http://www.stpauls.
ph.
(Philippine General Hospital, Lung Center, Kidney Center, Heart Center, etc.) having specialized equipment and
personnel. A voucher system could be instituted so that
the citizen can chose the medical facility to avail of in the
process supporting well run private hospitals.
Government must make the difficult but necessary
decision to close down substandard government educational institutions as it also through CHED and DepEd
should stop private universities and colleges that are not
able to meet the accreditation standards. I recall during
the Marcos years, the Technical Panel for Agricultural
Education through establishing minimum standards for
agricultural colleges was able to prevent the creation
of new ones (every high school principal aspires to be
a college dean and a college dean wants to be a university president with the local politicians catering to their
desires) but was not able to close a single one, due to
political reasons. The projected voucher system as a way
of helping ease the difficulties in the adoption of K to

12 may be extended to the whole educational system,
resulting in an improved education system and better
qualified graduates. The government in collaboration
with the banking system could establish a Study now,
Pay later program with the government guaranteeing the student loans. We would have more dedicated
and serious students knowing that they will have to
pay for their education later.
Corruption will go away if government adheres
fully to Section 9 of the Declaration of Principles and
State Policies of the Philippine Constitution, The
State shall promote a just and dynamic social order
that will ensure the prosperity and independence of
the nation and free the people from poverty through
policies that provide adequate social services, promote full employment, a rising standard of living and
an improved quality of life for all.
Luke 17:1-6
S [Jesus] approached Jericho a blind man

was sitting by the roadside begging, and
hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what
was happening. They told him, Jesus of
Nazareth is passing by. He shouted, Jesus, Son of
David, have pity on me! The people walking in front
rebuked him, telling him to be silent, but he kept calling out all the more, Son of David, have pity on me!
Then Jesus stopped and ordered that he be brought
to Him; and when he came near, Jesus asked him,
What do you want Mme to do for you? He replied,
Lord, please let me see. Jesus told him, Have sight;
your faith has saved you. He immediately received
his sight and followed Him, giving glory to God. When
they saw this, all the people gave praise to God.
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not competitive with that of other ASEAN

nations; information is provided to the jobseekers (kudos to the DOLE website) on job
openings; business and industry operations
are facilitated by a competent and caring
bureaucracy; and there is necessary logistical infrastructure for efficient and effective
movement of goods and services.
With health and social security systems
that approach full coverage, there is no
need for the citizens to crowd the offices
of elected officials asking for an endorsement to a government health facility or
for funds to pay private hospitals as the
government facility has turned them away.
Government should ensure the provision
of health centers, town or city hospitals,
provincial hospitals and regional hospitals
to meet all the health needs of the community. If government is able to provide proper
information and education to the population
on good health practices, there will be less
pressure on the health facilities. Adequate
equipment and personnel with appropriate
capacity should be the norm in all hospitals
with only the regional and national hospitals
The human
tragedy of Ebola
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Nurturing the
reading habit (2)
By ignacio r. Bunye
rESIDENT Manuel L. Quezon once proclaimed that the

reading of good books or the
printed page is one of the most
effective methods of bringing enlightenment within the reach of the largest possible number of people, and of promoting
the cause of popular culture with its
tremendous social benefits.
He added that it is desirable that the
task of arousing a widespread interest in
the reading of good books be recognized
as a highly patriotic duty as well as a
privilege.
While Quezon designated in 1936 the
last week of November of every year as
National Book Week, reading must really
be a daily habit.
Reading, one of the three basic skills
that we need, must be nurtured as early
as possible and the best reading teachers are, naturally, our mothers.
In the online reference Jose Rizal:
Life and Works, a story is told of how
our national hero developed the reading
habit. His mother taught him to read using a Spanish reader called El Amigo de
los Ninos (The Childrens Friend).
At the start, the young Rizal was
asked to read the book aloud which he
did so but with difficulty. Noticing this,
Rizals mother took the book from him
and said I going to read you a story. Now
pay attention.
Rizal recounted years later the impact of that story reading session:
On hearing the word story I at once
opened my eyes wide. The word story
promised something new and wonderful I settled down to listen. I was full
of curiosity and wonder. I had never
even dreamed that there were stories
in the old book which I read without understanding. My mother began to read
me the fable of the young moth and the
old one. She translated it into Tagalog a
little at a time.
To emphasize the need to develop
the reading habit among the young, Rizal
later wrote his version of the Filipino
folklore The Monkey and the Turtle.
Rizals version saw print in Trubners
Oriental Record in London in July 1889,
just two years after the publication of his
first novel Noli Me Tangere.
Incidentally, I came recently came
across a rare book Yahin, Nihay written for adult readers-tellers of stories.
Fully illustrated in color, the book is written in Filipino (but with English translation) by lawyer Eliseo Alampay. It tells
of two beautiful sister caterpillars. One
(Yahin) metamorphosed into a normal
butterfly. The other (Nihay), by design
because she wanted others to envy her,
became a golden butterfly.
The need to inculcate the habit of
reading becomes especially imperative with the advent and tremendous
developments in broadcast and in the
film industry which tend to convert
many, especially the young, into passive
learners.
The National Statistics Office (NS0)
declared in 2010 an increase in the number of people who can read and write in
any language or dialect in the Philippines compared to 10 years ago.
The Census of Population and Housing (CPH) showed that of 71.5 million
individuals who are 10 years old and
above, 97.5 percent or 69.8 million were
literate or could read and write.
I suspect, however, that the figures
do not actually capture the actual reading capabilities if we are to use international reading benchmarks.
The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
has categorized reading abilities into 5
levels, as follows:
Level 1 Very poor literacy skills.
Level 2 Has capacity to deal only
with simple, clear material involving
uncomplicated task.
Level 3 Adequate to cope with the
demands of everyday life and working in
an advanced society.
Levels 4 and 5 Strong skills. Individuals at these levels can process
information of a complex and demanding
nature.
Against those benchmarks, more
needs to be done in order to raise our
reading skills on a national scale. The
battle has to be waged both in the homes
and in the classrooms. In both arenas,
the young must be given the proper
learning environment and the proper
facilities to give them a good start.
That will be quite a challenge for
parents, teachers and the community.
For feedback, email us at totingbunye2000@gmail.com .
special report
With new team in

place, Indias Modi
tightens grip on power
By Frank Jack danieL
and ruPaM Jain nair
EW DELHI, India (Reuters)

Anil Swarup is just the
kind of man Prime Minister
Narendra Modi is relying on
to fix India a high-flying civil servant
with a taste for complex policy and swift
decisions.
Modi has drawn trusted bureaucrats into a tight embrace. Interviews
with two dozen sources, including close
aides, reveal that key decisions are now
thrashed out between his office and
civil servants, often at the expense of
ministerial authority.
Swarup sees a golden era for those
willing to rise to the challenge. In his
case that means ending coal shortages
that keep much of India in the dark, a
top priority for Modi.
In a series of meetings with civil
servants, often without the ministers
they nominally report to, Modi has
urged bold decisions and promised all
the help they need.
He has given a virtual carte
blanche. Go and do it, Swarup told
Reuters. However, he did not say the
responsibility handed to him had come
at the expense of ministers.
Such moves, along with disciplinary
innovations such as finger scanners to
track attendance, have helped break a
logjam in decision-making that undermined the last government, spawned
corruption scandals and soured the
investment climate.
Modis style also lessens dissent
from potential rivals, helping him capture power to a degree not seen since
Indira Gandhi ruled India with an iron
fist 30 years ago.
Critics call it authoritarian and
say he is weakening Indias collegiate
cabinet system. Some in government
caution that in a country as complex
as India, over-centralization can lead
to new bottlenecks.
The government denies there is
interference in the ministries, saying
Modis role is to facilitate policy.
There is one misconception - the
PMO (Prime Ministers Office) does

not issue direction to the ministries,
Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said.
The shakeup started as soon as Modi
took office six months ago, when he declared all important policy issues part
of his portfolio. He quickly took control
of bureaucratic appointments, cutting
ministers out of the loop.
Since September, there have been
three major reshuffles in the civil service, all closely overseen by Modi and
his core team. Top officials have woken
to find themselves thrust into the limelight, or shunted into administrative
backwaters.
A cabinet expansion on Sunday and
a new finance ministry team advised by
leading economist Arvind Subramanian
should boost the capacity and intellectual heft of the government.
Yet not everyone is happy with the
new order.
Those on the wrong side of reshuffles dub them midnight massacres
that have slowed policies. Survivors
murmur they are scared to take decisions that might anger Modi.
A program to sell stakes in stateowned companies worth $9.5 billion has
barely started, in part because Modi
purged the top team of bureaucrats at
the finance ministry before bringing in
Subramanian.
Tales of cabinet members clipped
wings abound.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh has
been weakened, ministry officials say,
since rumors swirled that his son was
influence peddling. Modi publicly denied
those rumors and backed Singh, but has
kept him on the back foot since.
When heavy shelling broke out between home ministry border troops and
Pakistani Rangers in October, Singh
was hardly consulted.
The PMO is directly communicating with officers. Rajnath is a mere
decorative figure in the ministry, said
one senior home ministry official. Singh
ranks second in the government, but
has been silent at cabinet meetings,
another official said.
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Below the line
When teachers fire first volley

By JoS aBeto zaide
rEE PLANTING DIPLOMACY. President Benigno

Aquino III hopes his chance
meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at APEC tree-planting
event bears fruit of reconciliation between neighboring nations.
one swallow does not a summer
make. Unless one side swallows his
pride.
But the chance meeting is a far cry
from the ASEAN-China Fair where
DTI Secretary Domingo represented
PH, the feature country at the time,
when PNoy was disinvited because
the Spratleys storm was spilling out
of the teacup.
SCHIZoPHrENIC DIPLomACY.
Within 48 hours PNoy hopped to
myanmar and started again talking
tough (although in more measured
diplomatese).
One side is planting a tree, the
other insists on shoveling.
TEACHErS STrIKE. The manila

Public School Teachers Association
Inc. (mPSTA) joined with Alliance
of Concerned Teachers (ACT) to
strike for pay 55,000 teachers
from 800 schools in manila, QC,
makati, mandaluyong, and muntinlupa linked with 100,000 others from
Davao, Southern Tagalog and Eastern Visayas.
The MPSTA and ACT demand
hiking entry-level salaries for teachers from P18,549 to P25,000 and nonteaching personnel from P9,000 to
P15,000.
Congress 2015 national budget

has no allocation for a pay hike for
public schoolteachers.
FIRST SLIPPER DROPPED. ACT
Chair Benjamin Valbuena said they
will press for inclusion of teachers
salary hike before the budgets approval by the Senate and President
Aquino. MPSTA president added, The
sit-down strike is the opening salvo of
our campaign called Strike for Salary
Increase and Quality Education, Strike
against Pork and Corruption. (More
to follow if the Presdint does not react,
with threat to go on mass leave.
Earlier last week, mayor Erap
announced Christmas bonus for
manilas Finest and for City Hall
staff, but none for the citys school
teachers.
Nothing new, really. My mother, a
public school teacher at Torres High
School, said that teachers used to have
a much higher pay than police because
of their responsibility for educating the
next generation.
Keystone cops pound our streets
to keep the peace and order; teachers keep the peace and order in
classrooms.
Manila City Hall neither confirms
nor denies that the absence of benefits
for teachers owes to the history of Hizzoner Erap being kicked out of a Jesuit
school in primary grade.
Erap says that he was expelled
for fighting, not for academics.
TURNOVER. With the best of intentions, party-list Rep. Silvestre H. Bello
III filed House Bill No.4501 to lower the
compulsory retirement age of public

school teachers to 60 years old. Bello
said 14,000 newly licensed teachers
each year can not land teaching jobs
because the posts are held by senior
teachers.
What to do with teachers who
have made it their life-long vocation?
When onofre Pagsanjan was asked
why he continues to teach into his
old age and despite his exhaustion,
he answered: Because I get the opportunity to serve people. Because
its not only the stomach that has to
be filled; it could be that the stomach
is full, but kung kulang dito [points
to his heart] at kulang dito [points
to his head], baliwala yung pagkabusog ng tiyan.
My Aunt Leilia Zaide taught well
into her 80s at PWU because she loved
to teach and was loved by her students.
Teaching is a gift, and cannot be easily
imparted.
PoE STAYS CoY. Senator Grace

Poe on Thursday said she is cautious about revealing her plans for
the 2016 presidential elections to
avoid a repeat of what happened
to the presidential campaign of her
father, the late Presidential aspirant
Fernando Poe Jr.
Poe made the statement after Vice
President Jejomar Binay said Thursday
that Poe could be his vice presidential
running mate in the 2016 polls, and that
the match would be unbeatable.
The lady senator didnt say if as
presidential standard bearer, she
would ask VP Binay to run again
as her vice president. FEEDBACK:
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punchline
Eco prospects; political twists

By Fred M. LoBo
HE Philippines will likely enjoy the most favorable growth

momentum in Southeast Asia
in the next five years.
A favorable forecast.
***
But political twists and gyrations
continue to develop threatening
to disturb the countrys economic
equilibrium.
No to dirty politics and major
economic disturbances.
***
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
says in its 2015 economic outlook for
Southeast Asia that the Philippines
enjoys the most rosy forecast in the
region.
PH star shining, economic path
clearing and smelling good.
***
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) adds that this is the
first time since the outlook was first
published in 2010 that the Philippines has the best growth forecast
among the Asean-5 countries.
Growth forecast improving.
***
The OECD projects that the 10member Association of Southeast
Asian Nations (ASEAN) will likely post
an average growth of 5.6 percent in the
next five years.
Robust and favorable.
***
(But) among the ASEAN-5 countries, the Philippines has the best
growth perspective with an average
growth forecast of 6.2 percent for
2015 to 2019, the DFA points out,
adding that other ASEAN-5 countries are projected to only grow by
only 6.0 percent for Indonesia, 5.7
percent for Vietnam, 5.6 percent
for malaysia, and 4.1 percent for
Thailand.
PH to leads the pack. Hooray!
***
Likewise, the Philippines has
emerged as one of the top three countries in the world that have the most
effective financial inclusion programs,
according to the Global Microscope
2014 index of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) which assessed the
of 55 countries.
An improvement from the 2013s
4th ranking.
***
Peru, Colombia, and the Philippines demonstrate the most conducive environments for financial
inclusion, with PH improving its
score to 79 (out of 100) from last
years 67.9, trailing behind Perus 87
and Colombias 85,says the report.
A welcome feat, courtesy of the
BSP.
***
Meanwhile, Malacaang says
President Aquinos advice for the Senate to speed up the investigation of the
allegedly overpriced Makati City Hall

Building II involving Vice Pres. Binay
.will not create a bad precedent as
feared.
Not an interference by the Executive branch with the Senate, Palace
says
***
Presidential Communications
operations office (PCoo) Secretary Herminio Coloma, Jr. says that
President Aquino was simply expressing his views on the appropriate mechanisms for ferreting out the
truth and for exacting accountability
in a manner consistent with law.
Let the truth set us free, he
says.
***
Presidential spokesman Edwin
Lacierda adds there was nothing
unusual when the President urged
Senate President Franklin Drilon to
speed up the investigation against Binay so that the legislature could focus
on other pressing concerns.
Was it against the law? he asks.
***
Speaker Feliciano Sonny Belmonte Jr., says that like President
Aquino, he wants the Senate to
expedite its ongoing probe of corruption allegations against the Vice
President to ensure that legislative
mill keeps grinding in both chambers of Congress.
Translation: No congressional
roadblocks, please!
analysis
G-20 summit to be test

of forums staying power
By kriSten geLineau
and StePHen WrigHt
rISBANE, Australia (AP)

The annual G-20 leadership
summit that groups democrats with authoritarians and
rich nations with poor has long suffered
from a perception its all talk and no
action. This year, leaders are under
extra pressure to produce something
tangible.
The global forum is regarded as having been at its most successful during
its first summit in 2008 when an alarming financial crisis that was nursed into
being on Wall Street rippled around the
world, toppling giant banks and casting
tens of millions out of work.
Since then, the gathering has been

criticized as having produced a lot of
lofty goals, but little follow-through
despite its member countries representing about 85 percent of the global
economy.
Prompting pressure for tangible
results at the Group of 20s Brisbane
summit this weekend, experts say,
are comments from the International
Monetary Fund warning about a new
mediocre for the global economy, with
Europe teetering on the brink of recession, Chinas growth slowing and Japan
in a malaise.
What the world really needs is a
little burst of confidence, said Mike
Callaghan, program director of the G20
Studies Center at the Lowy Institute,
an Australian think-tank. There is the

pressure on the G-20 to provide signs
of confidence that the countries are
cooperating together.
One concrete measure of the G-20s
success could come from its previously
announced goal of creating tens of millions of new jobs by adding $2 trillion to
global GDP over five years.
Prior summits have shied away
from setting such targets because of
concerns that the G-20s credibility
could be attacked if the targets were
not achieved.
Australia, as this years chair of the
G-20, has been determined to give the
forum new relevance, an outcome that
would burnish its credentials and image
on the world stage.
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Phoenix-like
Vietnam
By FLoro Mercene
ormEr Senator Eddie

Kuya Eddie Ilarde, the
first president of the Philippine-Vietnam Friendship
Association, returned to Manila from
Hanoi, impressed by what he saw.
Vietnam has emerged as one
of the fastest-growing economies in
Southeast Asia. It has an open Foreign Investment Law, offering up to
100% foreign ownership, he said in
an interview with Radio Tapat.
Open policies of Vietnam have
brought about low trade barriers,
fast custom clearances, and simple
administrative procedures, thus,
shaping a dynamic business environment for Vietnam nowadays.
As of June, 2014, more than 16,300
FDI projects were active in Vietnam,
pulling in US$238 billion. Manufacturers like Samsung Electronics Co., LG
Electronics, Inc., Nokia Oyj, and Intel
Corp., have set up operations in Vietnam, another option after China.
The Philippines ranks 17th among
the countries that invested in Vietnam, and Ilarde said wants to bring
more Filipino businessmen to Vietnam and expects their entrepreneurs
to do business here soon.
Asked about his impressions of
Vietnam, Ilarde said that countries

ravaged by war like Vietnam progressed after experiencing extreme
difficulties.
In 1986, Vietnam launched its
reform policy which apparently bears
fruit. After expanding 5.42% in 2013,
Vietnams economy has been expanding faster this year with third quarters annual growth of 6.19%. The consumer price index in September rose
by 2.25% from December, 2013, lowest
rate in a decade. The interest rate
is 2% lower than 2013, credit growth
increased by 7.26%, and expected to
be between 12-14% this year.
He said Vietnams foreign currency reserves are at a record level
of US$35 billion. Balance of payment
is on the plus side.
Poverty rate in Vietnam has been
substantially reduced to around 10%
in the last three years and the Philippines and the Filipinos should learn
from Vietnams industriousness and
frugality.
Has Vietnam overtaken the Philippines in terms of growth?
Ilarde said: In no time at all, we
may be sorry, we will be left behind
if we cannot stamp out massive corruption in government and get our act
together. It seems that we have much
to learn from our neighbor Vietnam.
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China sets
climate targets
By Jack cHang
EIJING (AP) Chinese

leaders pledged for the
first time to cap the countrys decades-long growth
of greenhouse gas emissions. Since
China emits more carbon and other
heat-trapping gases than any other
country, the pledge boosted global efforts to prevent catastrophic climate
change.
Fulfilling its pledge, however, will
require China to transform a booming
economy that still largely depends on
polluting industries such as steel production and manufacturing. The country does have important advantages,
having already developed enormous
capacities for solar, wind and other
renewable energy sources.
What china has pledged:
China pledged to halt the growth in
its greenhouse gas emissions around
2030 or earlier if possible. It didnt,
however, specify a peak emissions
level. It said it would produce a fifth
of its total energy from non-fossil-fuel
sources, including nuclear energy, by
2030. That would double the current
share of non-fossil fuels in the countrys energy mix.
China accounts for about 30 percent of global emissions and releases
twice as much greenhouse gases as
the United States, the worlds secondbiggest emitter. US gover nment
estimates show China doubling its
emissions by 2040 without major
changes.
What its already done:
China produces more solar panels
and wind turbines than any other
country and has built dozens of dams
inside and outside the country to produce hydropower.
According to a National Energy
Administration plan, China will boost
hydropower to 290 gigawatts next
year, marking 6 percent annual growth
since 2010. Wind power will hit 100
gigawatts, marking 26 percent annual
growth, and solar power will reach
21 gigawatts at 90 percent annual
growth.
Many cities such as the capital,
Beijing, are plagued by extreme air
pollution and have started phasing
out coal burning. The central government is now considering a nationwide
cap on coal use. This year, coal consumption dropped in China by 1 to 2
percentage points.
The challenges China faces:
The worlds most populous country has built its powerhouse economy
over three decades in large part
through dirty industries such as steel
production that depend heavily on coal
power and release millions of tons of
heat-trapping carbon into the atmosphere every year. Chinese leaders
have set targets of about 7 percent
economic growth a year, and officials
are evaluated based on hitting those

economic targets, not environmental
ones.
On top of that, hundreds of millions of Chinese are buying cars, appliances, and other goods, which only
add to energy demand.
Coal generates about 80 percent
of the countrys electricity, so cutting carbon emissions will require
overhauling Chinas energy mix. At
the very least, the country needs to
hit coal reduction targets at least five
years before 2030 to meet the goals
announced this week, said Alvin Lin,
China climate and energy policy
director with the US-based Natural
Resources Defense Council.
The country also must implement
and enforce tougher energy efficiency
standards. The price for energy as
well as water for many Chinese is subsidized, which discourages consumers
from conserving.
The possible solutions:
China needs to expand and accelerate what its started. That means
overhauling energy infrastructure
to use more renewable sources and
creating incentives for consumers,
especially commercial and industrial
users, to switch to renewables and to
conserve energy.
The countrys banks and governments could help by making more
financing available for energy users
to install solar panels, said Rosie
Pidcock, a Beijing-based business
development manager with the US
company Urban Green Energy. The
US government, for example, provides
a generous tax break to people who
install solar panels and other renewable energy equipment.
If the government could step in
to do more guarantees to help rooftop solar reach that point where its
recognized, that would help because
the economics are certainly there but
financing is lagging behind in enabling
those installations to scale up more
quickly, Pidcock said.
China also needs to build more
energy-efficient power plants and
buildings, as well as better quality
wind turbines and other clean energy
infrastructure, said Gianluca Ghiara,
a Beijing-based renewable energy
consultant. So far, Chinese-made
wind turbines still lag behind most
European-produced turbines in product life, he said.
China so far is focused on building
huge plants, enormous plants, Ghiara said. China should start to think
that its not a matter of building plants.
Its a matter of the efficiency of plants,
the performance of plants.
According to the official Xinhua
News Agency, China and the US will
work together to build a major carbon
storage project in China that would
pump carbon underground and prevent it from reaching the atmosphere.
The worlds first large-scale power
plant to store carbon produced from
burning coal opened last month in
Canada.
By eLinando B. cinco
H AT h a p p e n e d a s a n
enigmatic twist in a tidbit
of ancient war history has
an ominous relevance to
the impending energy shortage seen
during the summer months of 2015.
It is narrated by street historians
that after conquering one third of the
world, Mongolian warlord Genghis
Khan heard of the richness of the British Isles and decided to add them to
his empire.
Genghis Khan and thousands of his
marauding warriors were all lined up
at the beaches of what is now Belgium,
ready to cross the English Channel to
England.
Fortunately, England knew of the
planned invasion much earlier and
solicited the help of the kingdoms of
Scotland and Ireland which sent battleready contingents.
The composite protectors were also
on the ready camping at the long shoreline of southern England armed to the
teeth anticipating a bloody skirmish.
The following morning, to the
surprise of the British defenders, they
learned that Genghis Khan and his
myriads of pillagers were nowhere at
the Belgian peninsula. They had disappeared mysteriously.
And then peace reigned in the
United Kingdom.
Now for the present similitude.

There is this alarming call sounded
jointly by the government and the private sector. A shortage of electricity will
descend upon the country, especially
in Metro Manila, with unimaginable
consequences if public and private
authorities will not do something to
forestall it.
Thus, the Department of Energy
and the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) have come up with an undertaking
notably convened as Interruptible Load
Program or ILP.
Many who were in the dark as to
the rationale of ILP thought this was
a power input to a cellphone prepaid
load!
Seriously, the program enjoins big
commercial and industrial establishments that are heavy users of electricity to use their own generator sets in
powering their energy needs, instead of
connecting to the national grid, during
the summer months next year when
energy supply is forecast to dwindle.
To emphasize the advocacy to a
much wider audience, the proponents
of ILP run regular print advertising
insertions in some broad sheet newspapers during weekends called the
ILP WATCH.
Aside from briefly explaining the
reason behind the program, the ads list
down names of big-energy-consuming
corporate and industrial entities that
have signed up in support of the objectives of ILP.

A growing number of commercial
and industrial companies are heeding the DOE and Meralcos call to
participate in the Interruptible Load
Program - a demand-side management
solution regarded as one of the countermeasures meant to help mitigate
the projected power supply strain in
the summer months of 2015, says the
programs paid print advertising.
Thus, ILP works by calling on business customers with loads of at least
1MWto run their own generator sets,
if needed, instead of drawing power
from the grid, continues the advertising message.
One megawatt is equivalent to one
million watts. A middle-income household of 4-6 members uses an average
of 150 watts every 12 hours of electricity a day.
The energy supply is forecast as
bleak by the DOE in the coming blistering months from March to June, thus,
the sounding of the clarion call. And
appealing to big power users of their
patriotism to take part in the ILP and
help caution any adverse effect which
may result from that shortage.
December 1, 2014, is the deadline
for enlisting. As of November 14, 30
companies have joined ILP, with a
combined de-loading capacity of 171
megawatts.
ergo
Is Binay self-destructing?
By Leandro dd coroneL
EEP Jojo Binay is taking a lot

of heat from his withdrawal
from his debate with Sen.
Sonny Trillanes. If before his
critics were crucifying him, now theyre
roasting him alive.
The reactions to Binays U-turn
from the debate were spontaneous
and sharp. Especially in social media,
which are often cruel and unrestrained
because theyre uncensored.
Ergo was stunned by the Veeps
decision. Its mind-boggling, to say the
least, after all it was the vice president
who had challenged Trillanes to a debate. Binays reputation as a fighter is
getting tattered and shredded to pieces
because of his inexplicable moves
lately.
Many of the comments, especially
those of Trillanes, were blunt and
unsparing. There was talk about cowardice and a lack of a palabra de honor.
Many other uncomplimentary remarks
were thrown around.
But Ergo wont participate in the
intemperate language, the deluge of
ridicule, against the vice president.
Its better to analyze the situation in a
sober manner in an attempt to fathom
Binays state of mind when he cancelled
what had promised to be a blockbuster
debate.
As Ergo has been wondering in
recent columns, Binay has been showing signs that hes befuddled by all the
pressure brought to bear upon him
by the seemingly inexhaustible list of
charges of corruption. He cant seem
to get a handle on all thats happening
to him since the first salvo was fired by
his ex-gofer and ally, former Makati Vice
Mayor Ernesto Mercado.

Hes been like a man drowning in
the sea, this time a sea of accusations,
splashing and thrashing helplessly in
the water. Its like a person whos forgotten how to swim and is desperately
trying to save himself from going down.
He hasnt come up with a plan or strategy to respond to the specific charges
leveled against him.
None of his public statements so
far has been convincing. None of them
addresses directly any of the charges.
What hes done is to call his accusers
names as his way of devaluing their
accusations and destroying their reputations.
Binays defenders, as Ergo has
pointed out more than a few times,
havent issued anything more convincing, either. All theyve succeeded in
doing is to further muddle and confuse
the issues at hand. Theyve not helped
their principal any.
The conclusion that suggests itself
is that the accusations against Binay
are true. Else, why hasnt he been able
to counter the charges? Why hasnt he
presented any credible proof to belie
the accusations? Why hasnt he made
a point-by-point effort to dismantle the
seemingly damning evidence ladled
up by his critics? Why have many of
the people accused as his partners in
crime seemingly disappeared from the
face of the earth?
Is he getting conflicting advice from
his advisers and family members? Why
havent any big-time politicians come to
his defense? Why hasnt he devised a
water-tight defense to exonerate himself? Why has he been evading a direct
confrontation with his accusers?
His recent decisions indicate a per-
son lost in a maze (sorry for the allusion

to the impressive gardens in Hacienda
Binay). He doesnt seem to know where
to go, what to say in a coherent manner,
how to save himself.
For a long time, he couldnt decide
if he should attend the Senate hearings. He kept saying he was weighing
his options on whether to go or not. He
indicated he might go if the Blue Ribbon
mother committee was the one that
invited him. And when the committee
did invite him, he declined after much
hesitation.
And then he challenged Trillanes
to a debate, which the latter readily
accepted. And then his camp floated
trial balloons about the inadvisability
of him participating in a debate that
would be a no-win for him. And then, he
backed out, again with an unconvincing
explanation.
Binay seems to be self-destructing
practically before the peoples eyes. He
has failed to project an image of a man
who can be in control of any given situation, who is in command, and who is decisive. What hes shown is a person who
can be curt with questioners, who seems
to decide on impulse, and who cant
make decisions and stick to them.
What hes shown is a man who
may not be able to handle the constant
demands of the presidency. Who cant
decide in a calculated manner in order
to come up with a well-thought-out
response or stand. Who cant be dispassionate in times of crisis, who cant
maintain grace under pressure, who
cant keep his cool and composure in
order to be an effective leader.
Binay, in this time of grave crisis for
him, hasnt been able to save himself
from self-destruction.
special report
The fighters of Iraq

who answer to Iran
By BaBak deHgHanPiSHeH
AGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters)

Like the fighters, Khazali
wore green camouflage. But
he also sported a shoulderstrapped pistol and sunglasses and was
flanked by armed bodyguards. When he
was not on the battlefield, the 40-yearold Iraqi donned the robes and white
turban of a cleric.
Khazali is the head of a militia called
Asaib Ahl al-Haq that is backed by Iran.
Thanks to his position, he is one of the
most feared and respected militia leaders in Iraq, and one of Irans most important representatives in the country.
His militia is one of three small
Iraqi Shiite armies, all backed byIran,
which together have become the most
powerful military force in Iraq since the
collapse of the national army in June.
Alongside Asaib Ahl al-Haq, there
are the Badr Brigades, formed in the

1980s during the Iran-Iraq War, and the
younger and more secretive Kataib
Hezbollah. The three militias have been
instrumental in battling Islamic State
(IS), the extremist movement from
Islams rival Sunni sect.
The militias, and the men who run
them, are key to Irans power and influence inside neighboring Iraq.
That influence is rooted in the two
countries shared religious beliefs.
Irans population is overwhelmingly
Shiite, as are the majority of Iraqis.
Tehran has built up its influence in the
past decade by giving political backing
to the Iraqi government, and weapons
and advisers to the militias and the remnants of the Iraqi military, say current
and former Iraqi officials.
That was clear this summer, when
fighters from all three militias took
on IS. During ISs siege of one town,
Amerli, Kataib Hezbollah helicoptered

in 50 of its best fighters, according to
Abu Abdullah, a local Kataib Hezbollah commander. The fighters set up an
operations room to coordinate with the
Iraqi army, the other militia groups,
and advisers from the Quds Force, the
branch of Irans Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps that handles operations
outside Iran and oversees Tehrans
Iraqi militias.
Over days of fierce fighting in August, and with the help of US bombing
raids a rare example of Iran and
the United States fighting a common
enemy those forces successfully expelled IS.
Tehrans high profile contrasts
sharply with Washingtons. Both Iran
and the United States are preparing
for a long battle against IS. But Iraqi
officials say the two take very different
views of Iraq.
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IS video claims beheading of

US aid worker, 18 Syrian troops
EIRUT (AFP) The Islamic

State jihadist group on Sunday claimed to have executed
Peter Kassig, a US aid worker
kidnapped in Syria, as a warning to the
United States.
The same video showed the gruesome simultaneous beheadings of at
least 18 men described as Syrian military personnel, the latest in a series of
mass executions and other atrocities
carried out by IS.
This is Peter Edward Kassig, a US
citizen of your country, said a blackmilitant wearing a balaclava, the same
outfit worn by the man who beheaded
two American journalists and two British aid workers in earlier videos.
The man stood over a severed head
bearing a resemblance to Kassig, a former American soldier who risked his life
to provide medical treatment and aid to
those suffering from Syrias civil war.

Here, we are burying the first
American crusader in Dabiq, eagerly
waiting for the remainder of your
armies to arrive, the militant said.
Kassigs family said Sunday they
were awaiting official confirmation on
the death of their treasured son.
We are aware of the news reports
being circulated about our treasured
son and are waiting for confirmation
from the government as to the authenticity of these reports, Ed and Paula
Kassig said in a statement. Kassigs
parents asked for media coverage to
focus not on the gruesome footage but
on their sons work and life.
Dabiq is the site of a major 16th
century battle in what is now northern
Syria that saw the Ottomans defeat
the Mamluks and begin a major expansionist phase of an empire the IS
Bangsamoro law put...

lim Mindanao (ARMM) approved
before the end of year. The House of
Representatives was expected to approve the measure by Dec. 17, after
which it would go to the Senate.
But Congressman Rodriguez said
his committee has scheduled 32 public
hearings on the measure in various
sites in Mindanao, Visayas, Luzon, and
at the Batasan itself. These would be
completed only by December 17.
This will be the most comprehensive and inclusive consultations in the
history of the House of Representatives, he said.
The committee will then deliberate
on the bill when we resume session on
January 19 (2015), he said.
From the committee, the bill will go
to the entire assembly and the plenary
debates are expected to start February
2. Approval is expected by the end of
February, Rodriguez said.
Last September, Rodriguez said his
panel had expected the bill to be approved in the plenary by Dec. 17, with
the holding of a plebiscite set for March
30 at the latest.
Speaker Feliciano Sonny Belmonte Jr. said the BBLs immediate
passage remains a House priority.
He said they will try to pass the
measure by Dec. 17 as originally
scheduled.
Rodriguezs ad hoc committee
conducted public consultations on

Oct. 22-24 in the indigenous municipalities in Maguindanao North and
South UPI, Cotabato City, General
Santos City, Koronadal City, South
Cotabato, and Tacurong City, Sultan
Kudarat.
The BBL is the legal translation of
the Comprehensive Agreement on the
Bangsamoro (CAB) signed between
the Government of the Republic of
the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro
Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on
Mar. 27, 2014.
Coordination Forum
Both Nur Misuari and Al-Haji Murad Ebrahim have approved the meeting of their groups in the Bangsamoro
Coordination Forum (BCF) held in
Makati Citylast Nov. 12-13, in pursuit
of the goal of unity and peace.
Misuari chairs a group of the Moro
National Liberation Front (MNLF)
while Ebrahim is head of the Moro
Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
In a post on Luwaran.com, the latter said both Moro leaders gave their
imprimatur to their representatives
meeting on Nov. 12-13 in the forum
hosted by the Organization of Islamic
Cooperation (OIC) in Makati City.
Although the two were not present
physically at the meeting, the MILF
said both have given their blessings
to their respective delegations.
DOH, AFP chiefs...

whole island; wala nang restriction
(Their morale is high they are allowed
to roam around the whole island, there
are no more restrictions)
Our peacekeepers are jolly, they
are happy and they are strong. They
are doing about their daily activities,
he added.
For her part, Garin said: We want
to show (to the public) that without the
necessary Ebola symptoms such as
high-grade fever, bleeding, and diarrhea, no infection or contamination can
take place.
Still, she stressed that despite the
lack of symptoms, the DOH is taking
every possible precaution to ensure
that Ebola will not make foothold in the
Philippines.
In touch with families
The peacekeepers are not totally cut
off from the outside world, Malacaang
said earlier.
Use of personal mobile phones,
or those provided at the facility, and
Internet connection allow them to communicate with their families, said Presidential Communications Operations
Secretary Herminio Jr. in an interview

over radio.
The peacekeepers had recently
returned from Liberia where Ebola had
claimed almost 3,000 lives. The Ebola
death toll has reached 5,160 as of November 9, according to a WHO report.
Coloma explained the peacekeepers
have unlimited use of their personal
phones while those who have no mobile
units can avail of the telecom equipment at the facility with certain time
limits.
Caballo Island
Upon arrival in Manila last week,
the 133 peacekeepers were immediately brought to the island in Cavite for
the mandatory quarantine procedure
to prevent the entry of Ebola in the
country.
Some family members reportedly
complained of the difficulty to contact
their loved ones on the island despite
a government pledge to allow their
constant communication.
Coloma extended the governments
gratitude to the families of the peacekeepers for their understanding of
CA resolves dispute...
Trial Court (RTC), which ruled in favor of
TDI, is consistent with the decision dated Aug. 15, 2013 rendered by the Special
Former Thirteenth Division on a similar
case involving the same parties.
It further explained that it decided to
merely adopt the Special Former Thirteenth Divisions dispositive portion which
directed TDI to pay Ginebra San Miguel
Inc. (GSMI) 50 percent of the total gross
sales of its Ginebra Kapitan products
from the time of the filing of the case
before the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of
Mandaluyong City in 2003 up to the finality
of the judgment.
The appellate court also ordered TDI
to pay GSMI the amount of P2 million as
exemplary damages and P500,000 as attorneys fees and remanded the case to the
Mandaluyong RTC for the purpose only of
the accounting of the gross sales of TDIs
Ginebra Kapitan and for the determination
of the amount of actual and compensatory
damages to be awarded to GSMI.
Furthermore, the CA ordered TDI to

remove from the market all its gin products bearing the mark Ginebra including
all bottles, labels, signs, prints, packages,
wrappers, receptacles and advertisements bearing the said mark.
The TDI was also directed to cease
and desist from using Ginebra in any of
its gin products.
The CA ruled that through its long
use in the country, Ginebra has become
singularly synonymous with GSMIs
gin products and GSMI itself as the
manufaturer, thus, the mark has already
acquired a secondary meaning in trademark laws.
After almost two centuries of usage,
effective tri-media promotions and advertisments ghas beestowed upon Ginebra
a secondary meaning exclusively identifiable to GSMI and its gin products, the
CA added.
The CA also pointed out that TDI
committed infringement in its use of the
group considers to have been the last

caliphate.
In a highly choreographed sequence
earlier in the video, jihadists marched
at least 18 prisoners said to be Syrian
officers and pilots by a wooden box of
long military knives, each taking one as
they passed, then forced them to kneel
in a line and decapitated them.
IS spearheaded a militant offensive
that overran much of Iraqs Sunni Arab
heartland since June after seizing
major territory in neighbouring Syria,
and carried out a series of atrocities in
both countries.
The group has killed hundreds of
Iraqi and Syrian tribesmen who opposed it, attacked religious and ethnic
minorities, sold women as slaves,
executed scores of Iraqi security personnel and carried out beheadings on
camera.
Misuari and Ebrahim formed the
BCF in their OIC-initiated meeting in
May, 2010, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, as
a vehicle for their groups collaboration and to resolve issues and concerns in relation to the Bangsamoro
peoples aspiration for self-determination and struggle for peace, unity,
and economic development.
The OIC has long been urging the
MNLF and the MILF to work as one,
not necessarily merging the groups
into a single organization, which neither Front wants.
Their groups signing of a Final
Communiqu was described by the
MILF as historic in many ways.
It did not only outline the convergence points of the two Fronts in
terms of programs and plan of actions
but, more importantly, it impressed
upon all and sundry, including the
international community, that unity
can be done and pursued in many
forms, it added.
The MILF cited the 57-member
OICs continuing recognition and
commitment to help the Bangsamoro
people in the pursuit of their inherent
and collective (aspiration) to selfdetermination.
The Final Communiqu called for
the establishment of the BCF Executive Bureau in Cotabato City and Zamboanga City and the groups readiness
to continue the initiative to converge
or harmonize their struggle. (With a
report from Edd K. Usman)
the quarantine procedure as a health
precaution.
December homecoming
Citing information from Armed
Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Harold
Cabunoc, Coloma said the peacekeepers may be reunited with their
families in the first week of December.
A welcome ceremony is planned in
Malacaang for that occasion.
The Palace official later clarified
that such event to recognize the Filipino peacekeepers from Liberia is still
subject to approval and confirmation
by the Office of the President.
Malaria
Meanwhile, one of the peacekeepers who reportedly contracted malaria
will still undergo the 21-day quarantine
procedure for Ebola, according to
Coloma.
The unnamed soldier was earlier
transferred from Caballo Island to the
Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITC), for further tests.
According to the Department of
Health, the peacekeeper who tested
negative for Ebola and positive for
malaria will still undergo the 21-day
isolation, Coloma said in Filipino. (With
a report from Genalyn D. Kabiling)
Ginebra mark and unfair competition in
the way it designed its bottle and label
for consumers.
There is no dispute that the shapes
of the bottles are similar. Even the shapes
of the labels are almost, if not, totally identical. Looking at the bottles, it becomes
apparent that Tanduay has designed its
bottle and label to somehow make a colorable similarity with the bottle and label of
Ginebra S. Miguel, it added.
Records show that on Aug. 2, 2014,
the CA Eleventh Division granted GSMIs
petition seeking the nullification of the
decision rendered by the Office of the Director General of the Intellectual Property
Office (ODG-IPO) on Sept. 24, 2013, which
approved the application filed by Tanduay
for the registration of the mark Ginebra
Kapitan.
In its application for registration,
Tanduay insisted that Ginebra is a
generic word which means gin, thus,
could not function as a trademark and
cannot be registered for exclusive use of
any company.
It added that GSMI would not be dam-
WELCOME, POPE FRANCIS The Papal Visit is two months away but welcome signs
have been posted in anticipation of the event. In photo, a welcome sign hangs outside
the Binondo Church in Manila. The Vatican has released the official itinerary of Pope
Francis when he visits the Philippines from January 15 to 19, 2015. (KJ Rosales)
Palace challenged to...

the DAP, Romualdez said.
Last month, President Aquino approved the 8,000-page Yolanda master
plan for the recovery of 171 Yolandahit cities and municipalities, nearly a
year after the worst tropical cyclone
struck the country. It seeks to build
back better the lives of the Yolanda
survivors.
Romualdez expressed hope that
the national government could release
funds to provide permanent shelters to
tens of thousands homeless families in
Tacloban City.
They can accelerate the downloading of funds and there should be no
excuse for the slow and non-release of
funds, he said, lamenting that the assistance being provided by the government
is not enough to support the needs of
the typhoon survivors.
Earlier, Tacloban City Mayor Alfred
Romualdez also lamented that only 200
units of the much-needed 14,500 perma-
nent housing units have been built, so far

and that half of them were constructed
by private sectors.
He said that instead of prioritizing
the rehabilitation of government buildings, the national government should
provide permanent homes to Yolanda
survivors.
We have been bragging about a
strong economy, but the people dont get
a piece of that, he pointed out.
Secretary Panfilo Lacson, presidential assistant for rehabilitation and
recovery, said the national government released a total of P51.9 billion
for the implementation of the 18,400
projects included in the master plan.
Under the rehabilitation plan,
P75.6 billion will be allocated for the
resettlement of Yolanda survivors;
P35.1 billion for the infrastructure
projects; P30.6 billion for livelihood
projects; and P26.4 billion on social
services.
Govt workers begin...

fanfare for the good of the nation. Its
only proper that their efforts and hard
work are given fair recognition. The
year-end bonus and extra cash should
help them prepare for the holiday season and its demands, Abad said in a
statement.
Government workers are entitled to
a year-end bonus equivalent to a months
pay and cash gift of P5,000 based on Budget Circular 2010-1. The bonuses will be
for both civilian and uniformed personnel
across all government departments and
agencies, including regular co-terminus
employees in government.
Abad said the funds for the holiday
pay of national government agencies are
sourced from this years national budget. Government-owned or -controlled
corporations (GOCCs) and government
financial institutions (GFIs) will tap into
their corporate funds for the bonuses,

while local government units (LGUs) will
source their perks from local government
funds.
Funds to support the requirements of
government personnel were released to
the agencies at the very start of the year.
The General Appropriations Act (GAA)as-release-document ensures that funds
are sufficiently available to the agencies
from the very start, so that they can roll
out the year-end bonuses and cash gifts at
the appropriate time, Abad said.
Last year, President Aquino ordered
the early release of the year-end perks
of the government workers following the
massive destruction left by super typhoon
Yolanda. The incentives were meant to
help them respond better to the calamity,
whether or not they were directly affected
by the disaster.
LP, NP potential...
in 2013 when the two parties worked

together in the midterm polls. This
will work again in 2016, Treas said in
a statement.
He said Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas can be
named as the coalitions presidential bet
and NP can field their best candidate for
the post of the vice-president.
But he was quick to clarify that his
position does not reflect the position
of the LP.
Treas said that with a deep bench
of members who are qualified to run for
office in 2016 elections and a well-oiled
and well-supported political machinery,
the LP-NP team up could be the unbeatable tandem in the 2016 polls.
We have strong candidates and we
both have strong political machineries. If we work together and further
strengthen our coalition for the 2016

presidential elections, our candidates
will be unbeatable, Treas said
He noted that the since 2010, the
LP and NP of former Senator Manuel
Manny Villar have been partners
in pushing for the implementation of
economic reforms as well as measures
seeking to stamp out graft and corruption in the bureaucracy. To prove his
point, he cited the LP-NP tandem in
Iloilo City where the Mayor Jed Patrick
Mabilog is an LP while the Vice-Mayor
Jose S. Espinosa III, is a Nacionalista.
This LP and NP partnership can
be easily managed because there is no
conflict not only among the personalities in both parties but are also bound
by the same ideals and principles in
terms of governance and public service, Treas said. (Charissa M. Luci)
aged by its registration and use of the

mark Ginebra Kapitan on its gin product
since the dominant portion of the mark
would be Kapitan, which is not identical to the San Miguel trademark of the
petitioner.
In ruling in favor of GSMI, the appellate court gave credence to its argument
that the term Ginebra had long become
an iconic trademark which is exclusively
associate by the Filipino-drinking public
with its gin products.
The CA gave weight to surveys conducted by GSMI which showed 90 percent
of gin drinkers in Luzon gave the top of
minds responses Ginebra San Miguel,
San Miguel, Ginebra Blue and La
Tondea when shown a flashcard with
the word Ginebra and at least half
of those surveyed wrongly identified
Ginebra Kapitan to the product of the
petitioner.
What is clear, however, based on the
record, is the fact that the relevant public
perceives the word Ginebra as the gin
product of the petitioner, it added.
Furthermore, the CA said it agrees
with the petitioner that the term Ginebra had already acquired a secondary
meaning under Section 123.2 of the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines,
since it has become associated with the
source of goods rather than with the goods
themselves.
While the term Ginebra may originally descriptive term for a gin product,
the said word had already become distinctive of the products of the petition
in view of the latters extensive and
substantive use of the term Ginebra
on their gin products for over 180
years, it noted.
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US, Japan, Australia urge peaceful

resolution of maritime disputes
Newsbits
Mexico campus
shooting
MEXICO CITY (AP) A city police
officer was put under arrest and
is being investigated following
a shooting incident Saturday
that wounded a student on the
main campus of the National
Autonomous University of Mexico,
prosecutors said. The shots were
fired after a crowd verbally and
physically assaulted the officer and
three others officials sent by the city
prosecutors office to investigate a
students complaint of a cellphone
theft earlier this month. The officer
reported that he fired shots into
the air trying to deter the crowd of
about 20 people and a bullet struck
a male student in the thigh, the
statement said. It said the officer
was being treated at a hospital for
bruises and was put in custody while
the incident is being investigated.
Theft-proof bike
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) Its a
bicyclists dream: a bike that cant
be stolen. The Yerka, a prototype
designed by three young Chilean
engineering students, is the latest
entry in a recent trend of bikes that
can be locked using some of their
own parts. They include Brooklynbased Seatylock, which uses its
saddle seat as a lock, and Seattlebased Denny, which is locked with
its detachable handlebars.But the
inventors of the Yerka have made
a twist in that approach. The bikes
lower frame opens up into two arms
that are then connected to the seat
post and locked to a post, so thieves
would have to destroy a Yerka to get
it unlocked, leaving it valueless.
RISBANE, Australia (AFP)

The US, Australian and
Japanese leaders on Sunday
called for peaceful resolutions
of maritime disputes, a day after Barack
Obama warned of the dangers of outright conflict in Asia as China contests
disputed territory.
In a joint statement Obama, Tony
Abbott and Shinzo Abe urged freedom
of navigation and over-flight, and the
peaceful resolution of maritime disputes
in accordance with international law.
The trio said they were committed
to deepening their already strong security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific,

which comes amid Chinas increasingly
assertive expansion in the region.
Beijing is locked in dispute with four
Southeast Asian countries over lonely
outcrops in the South China Sea, and
with Japan over another set of islets.
The three leaders, meeting in Brisbane on the sidelines of the G20 leaders
summit, said their partnership aimed to
ensure a peaceful, stable, and prosperous future for the Asia-Pacific.
They noted that this partnership
Worlds largest
hallaca
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP)
Venezuelans may be struggling
with shortages of basic food
items, but Christmas treats were
in abundant supply Saturday. With
some help from the Ministry of
Nutrition, some cooks set a record
for making the worlds biggest
hallaca _ Venezuelas version of the
tamale that is traditionally eaten in
December. Hundreds of spectators
were on hand for the creation of the
huge hallaca, which features pork,
beef, chicken, olives and raisins
folded into corn dough and wrapped
in a banana leaf. The Guinness
Book of World Records certified the
nearly 400-foot-long creation as the
worlds largest.
Row over Santa

sidekick
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP)
Police arrested 90 protesters
Saturday as a traditional Dutch
celebration of the arrival of
Saint Nicholas was disturbed by
demonstrators who say his faithful
sidekick, Black Pete, is a racist
caricature, and by supporters of
the popular childrens figure. In
some of the worst scenes of unrest
in the increasingly acrimonious
debate about Black Pete, opponents
scuffled with police on the historic
market place of the central city of
Gouda as thousands of children
welcomed Saint Nicholas nearby.
Prosecution office spokesman
Wouter Bos said 60 anti-Black
Pete activists were arrested for
demonstrating away from a location
set aside for protesters and were
each fined 220 euros ($275).
Another 30, both supporters and
opponents of Black Pete, were
arrested for disturbing public order,
Bos told The Associated Press.
Video from Gouda showed scuffles
breaking out in its historic downtown
while childrens songs played in
the background. Protesters were
detained by police as children
watched.
must be a responsible actor on the

world stage.
In a speech in Brisbane on Saturday
he warned of the dangers of outright
conflict in Asia and vowed that Washington would remain anchored in the
region.
The US president said while there
had been stunning economic progress
in Asia since World War II, there were
also genuine dangers, saying there
were disputes over territory -- remote
islands and rocky shoals -- that threaten
to spiral into confrontation.
Surgeon with Ebola arrives

in US for treatment
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) A surgeon who
contracted Ebola while working in Sierra
Leone arrived in Nebraska Saturday for
treatment at a biocontainment unit where
two other people with the disease have
been successfully treated.
Dr. Martin Salia, who was diagnosed
with Ebola on Monday, landed at Eppley
Airfield in Omaha on Saturday afternoon
and was taken by ambulance to the Nebraska Medical Center.
The hospital said the medical crew
that accompanied Salia, 44, from West
Africa determined he was stable enough
to fly, but that the team caring for him in
Sierra Leone indicated he was critically
ill and possibly sicker than the first patients successfully treated in the United
States.
The disease has killed more than
5,000 people in West Africa, mostly in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leona. Of the 10
people treated for the disease in the U.S.,
all but one has recovered.
Salias ambulance to the hospital was
accompanied by a single Nebraska State
Patrol cruiser and a fire department vehicle a subdued arrival in contrast to the
August delivery of Dr. Rick Sacra, whose
ambulance was flanked by numerous police cars, motorcycles and fire vehicles.
Salia has been working as a general surgeon at Kissy United Methodist
Hospital in the Sierra Leone capital of
Freetown. Its not clear whether he was
involved in the care of Ebola patients.
Kissy is not an Ebola treatment unit, but
Salia worked in at least three other facilities, United Methodist News said, citing
health ministry sources.
KOALA DIPLOMACY? U.S. President Barack Obama (right) and Australias Prime
Minister Tony Abbott cuddle koalas during a photo opportunity on the sidelines of
the G-20 Summit in Brisbane, Australia. Obama, Abbott and Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe urged Asian nations to find peaceful means in resolving territorial
disputes. The three leaders likewise agreed to fortify security ties. (AFP)
Putin cites need to sleep

as he leaves tense G20 summit
Chemical leak kills 4

LA PORTE, Texas (AP) A federal
agency that investigates chemical
accidents has announced that
it will send a team to a Houstonarea industrial plant where a
chemical leak killed four people.
The USChemical Safety Board said
Saturday night that it is sending
seven people to the DuPont
plant where the leak of methyl
mercaptan killed four employees
and hospitalized another. The leak
began around 4 a.m. Saturday and
was contained about two hours
later. The cause of the leak was not
immediately clear.
rests on the unshakable foundation of

shared interests and values, including a commitment to democracy and
open economies, the rule of law, and
the peaceful resolution of disputes,
the statement said. The three leaders
reaffirmed the global reach of their
cooperation and the value of comprehensive US engagement in the AsiaPacific region.
Obama has repeatedly denied that
the United States is bent on thwarting
Chinas economic and political emergence, but has stressed that Beijing
DOC IS EBOLA PATIENT Dr. Martin Salia, a surgeon infected with the Ebola virus
while working in Sierra Leone, arrives at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha,
Nebraska on Sunday. Salia worked at the Kissy United Methodist Hospital in
Freetown, Sierra Leone. He tested positive for Ebola last week. (AFP)
Obama
immigration
moves due by
years end
security chief
SIMI VALLEY, United States (AFP)
US President Barack Obama will
announce immigration policy changes
he expects to enact by executive order,
including on border security, by years
end, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh
Johnson said Saturday.
We are in the final stages of developing some executive actions, Johnson
said at a national security conference at
the Ronald Reagan presidential library
in Simi Valley, California.
Unfortunately the (Republicanrun) house didnt act last year, and
meanwhile we have a broken immigration system, he said.
Obama will make an announcement before the end of the year,
Johnson said.
It will be comprehensive, he
added, explaining that it will include
strengthening border security.
Arizona Senator John McCain, one
of the Republicans who supports immigration reforms, urged Obama to give
the new congress some time to see if
we can move forward.
BRISBANE, Australia (AFP)

Vladimir Putin jetted out of Australia
Sunday after a testy G20 summit
where he faced concerted Western fire
over the Ukraine crisis, saying he left
slightly early because he needed to get
some sleep.
The Russian strongman, a judo
black belt who prides himself on his
stamina, left before the final communique from the weekend talks was issued,
but attended the annual forums wrapup lunch and praised the constructive
discussions.
Speaking at a news conference
just before flying out of Brisbane, he
thanked Tony Abbott for hosting the
event, despite the Australian prime
minister threatening to confront him

over the shooting down of Malaysia
Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine in
July.
Putin added in comments reported
by the RIA Novosti news agency that
the decision to leave Brisbane early
had nothing to do with tensions over
Ukraine.
Instead, he wanted to catch up on
some sleep ahead of a full days work
back home on Monday.
We need nine hours to fly from here
to Vladivostok and another nine hours
from Vladivostok to Moscow, he said.
Then we need to get home and return to work on Monday. Theres a need
to sleep at least four to five hours.
Russian TV claims it has photo of MH17 crash

MOSCOW (AP) Russian state
television has released a satellite photograph that it claims shows that a
Ukrainian fighter jet shot down Malaysia
Airlines Flight 17. But the USgovernment dismissed the report as preposterous and online commentators called the
photo a fake.
All 298 people aboard the Boeing 777
flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur
were killed when it was shot down July
17 over a rebel-held area of Ukraine.
Ukraine and the West have blamed the
attack on Russia-backed rebels using a

ground-to-air missile.
The photo released Friday by Russias Channel One and Rossiya TV
stations purportedly shows a Ukrainian
fighter plane firing an air-to-air missile in
the direction of the MH17. The channels
said they got the photo from a Moscowbased organization, which had received
it via email from man who identified
himself as an aviation expert.
The USState Department on Friday
dismissed the Russian TV reports as
yet another preposterous attempt

by Moscow to obfuscate the truth and
ignore ultimate responsibility for the
tragic downing of MH17. It renewed
a call to Moscow and Russia-backed
separatists to grant unfettered access
for international investigators to the
crash site.
Several bloggers said the photograph is a forgery, citing a cloud pattern
to prove the photo dates back to 2012,
and several other details that seem
incongruous.
FLOODS IN
ITALY A
solitary
pedestrian
braves
floodwaters
along a major
street in
Italys fashion
and industrial
hub of Milan.
Storm-induced
torrential
rains likewise
triggered
landslides,
leaving five
people dead.
(EPA)
UN confronts North Korea over crimes against humanity

UNITED NATIONS, United States
(AFP) The United Nations is preparing to confront North Korea over its
dismal rights record with a key vote this
week that could compel Pyongyang to
answer to crimes against humanity.
A UN General Assembly committee will vote Tuesday on a resolution
drafted by the European Union and Japan condemning human rights abuses
in North Korea and calling for a war
crimes probe.
While North Korea often features
on the roster of resolutions targeting
pariah states, the latest text has been
the focus of intense diplomacy over provisions that could see the Pyongyang
regime in the dock at the International
Criminal Court (ICC).
The resolution draws heavily from
a UN report released in February that
detailed a vast network of prison camps
and provided accounts of torture, summary executions and rape, mostly from
testimony from North Korean exiles.
Responsibility for these crimes
lies at the highest level of the state,
according to the report by the UN
inquiry, which concluded that the
atrocities amounted to crimes against
humanity.
The landmark report stirred alarm
in Pyongyang, which launched a dip-
lomatic offensive to ensure the key

provisions urging the Security Council
to refer Pyongyang to the Hague-based
ICC were scrapped.
Rushing to North Koreas defense,
Cuba last week presented an amendment that will also be put to a vote
dropping all references to the ICC
and instead encouraging cooperation
through fact-finding visits and talks
with the UN rights office.
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Irrigation canal in Isabela generates 45-KW electricity

By CEASAR M. PERANTE
SAN MATEO, Isabela The National Irrigation Administration-Magat

River Integrated Irrigation System
(NIA-MARIIS) here announced over
the weekend operation of a 45-kilowatt
mini-hydropower plant in this agricultural town.
Implemented by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
through the Department of Energy
(DOE), the mini-hydropower plant
straddles Lateral B of the MARIIS main
canal traversing Barangay Villafuerte
in this town.
We dont tap water just for irrigation, we also run mini hydro-electric
plants that could generate power to
maximize our resources in serving
both our farmers and people in the
countryside, said NIA Administrator
Florencio Padernal during the recent
inauguration of the power plant.
Padernal spoke in view of the fact
POWER FROM WATER Administrator Florencio Padernal (left), of the National Irrigation
Administration is joined here by officials from the Department of Energy and the Japan
International Cooperation Agency in the ceremonial switching on of the control panel
that launches the mini-hydropower plant in Barangay Villafuerte, San Mateo, Isabela,
into operation. (Ceasar M. Perante)
that the MARIIS irrigated 81,000 hectares of rice lands with an estimated
return of P8.3 billion from the rice
harvests last cropping season in this
province and the rest of the Cagayan

Valley Region.
Joining him in launching the minihydropower plants operations were
DOE Undersecretary Zenaida Monsada

and JICA Senior Representative Eigo
Azukizawa.
The NIA chief expressed satisfaction that the project, which started
construction last March, had been
completed in October and is now operational.
NIA would like to replicate this
project in other areas. Thats precisely
the reason why all of our irrigation
managers from the different parts of the
country are now here, Padernal said at
the inauguration ceremonies.
NIA-MARIIS Operations Manager
Mariano Dancel said the mini-hydropower plant is the first of its kind in
the country and sees the feasibility of
utilizing existing irrigation canals in
other areas for power generation.
While we drive water to irrigate our
farms, the 45-kilowatt capacity minihydropower plant could be replicated
nationwide to answer the projected
power crisis next year, Dancel said.
NPAs execute soldier in Sorsogon

By NIO N. LUCES
and RUEL SALDICO
AMP ELIAS ANGELES, Camarines Sur/CAMP SIMEON

OLA, Legazpi City Some
50 New Peoples Army (NPA)
rebels flagged down a tricycle in Barangay San Antonio, Barcelona, Sorsogon,
yesterday morning and gunned down
one of two soldiers on board.
Colonel Cesar Idio, commander of
the Philippine Armys 903rd Infantry
Brigade which covers Sorsogon, said
the guerrillas flagged down the tricycle
carrying the two soldiers from the 9th
Infantry Battalion (9IB) at 7:45 a.m.
Chief Superintendent Victor Deona,
Police Regional Office 5 (PRO5) director, said Corporal Zaldy B. Bengua, married and assigned to the 9IBs Peace
and Development Team in Sorsogon,
was shot at close range as soon as he
got out of the tricycle.
Deona said Bengua and Private
First-Class Rommel Pagaduan were

on their way to send money to their
respective families when their tricycle,
driven by one Erwin S. Talha, 34, when
the incident happened.
Inspector Malu Calubaquib, PRO5
spokesperson, said the tricycle sped
off with PFC Pagaduan on board and
reported the incident to the Barcelona
Police Station.
It was unclear whether or not Bengua was a specific target of the rebels
and if PFC Pagaduan was not recognized by the rebels as a soldier.
This incident while isolated will further intensify the effort of the 903rd Brigade to continue its aggressive conduct
of Bayanihan Team Operation and Focused Military Operation in the affected
areas to win the peace and prosperity in
the Brigades Area of Responsibility covering Sorsogon and Masbate provinces,
Idio told the Manila Bulletin.
He said army soldiers are now after
gunmen who killed Bengua.
With the release of the budget, the

Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)
can now go full steam ahead with various agrarian projects worth P10 million in the province of Albay, under the
Grassroots Participatory Budgeting
(GPB) system.
Albay Provincial Agrarian Reform
Program Officer Romulo Britanico said
the projects involve the construction of
the 100-linear-meter spillway in Barangay Aurora-White Deer, Jovellar town;
the 1.5-kilometer Marayag-San Isidro
farm-to-market road in Libon town; and
the 35-linear-meter concrete footbridge
in Sitio Lagsingan, Rapu-Rapu.
Britanico said the GPB also calls
for the development of a coco-cased
processing and farming system in
Guinobatan town with the project ben-
efiting 10,400 farmers, of which 527 are

agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs).
Preparatory activities for these
projects are now being undertaken
by the DAR Albay with the help of the
concerned mayors.
Guinobatan Mayor Ann Gemma
Ongjoco expressed her gratitude to
the DAR for helping them boost the
economic lives of Albayanons.
For his part, Mayor Ronald Galecia
of Rapu-Rapu said he is looking forward
to bigger projects through DAR to sustain the development the government
has initiated in their community.
The GPB, previously called Bottoms-Up Planning and Budgeting
(BUB), was adopted as a strategy to
identify various programs and projects
that address the development needs
of poorest cities and municipalities in
the country.
DUMAGAT SPEAK Members of the Dumagat tribe in Bulacan approach Governor Wilhelmino
M. Sy-Alvarado to thank him for keeping them in mind in his provincial government programs
and aired their other grievances during an informal meeting, recently. (Freddie C. Velez)
BUSTOS, Bulacan A modernized monitoring system for the three

dams in Bulacan is being set up and
will cover other flood channels like the
Candaba Swamp, the Angat River and
the Bocaue-Sta. Maria River.
Bulacan Governor Wilhelmino M.
Sy-Alvarado revealed over the weekend
that the new monitoring center of the
Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction
and Management Office (PDRRMO),
headed by Liz Mungcal, is being built
with modern monitoring equipments.
He said closed-circuit television
(CCTV) cameras will be set up in
strategic places at the Angat, Ipo, and
Bustos Dam as well as in other floodprone areas.

Alvarado said that the repair of
the Bustos Afterbay Dam will soon
begin and include the renovation of
the Bustos Dam Clubhouse as part
of the major plan to convert the reservoir of the dam into a major tourist
destination.
The governor also announced that
dikes along the Angat River are also
being strengthened.
In a related development, League of
Municipalities-Bulacan Chapter president, Mayor Enrico A. Roque of Pandi
said local chief executives believe that
the rehabilitation or repair of the Angat
dam is nearly at hand.
TAGAYTAY, Cavite The temperature

in this ridge city is dipping to a
chill thats just right for Christmas.
The City Tourism Office said that
the ridge temperature has already
registered 18-19C, the coldest
these days, and may drop further as
the holiday season nears. The cool
climate and clean air of this scenic
city overlooking the Taal Volcano
and Taal Lake is one of the reasons
an average of 1.4 million local and
foreign tourists visit year-round.
(Anthony Giron)
Quirino Day
VIGAN CITY, Ilocos Sur The
one-year countdown to the 125th
birth anniversary of the late former
President Elpidio Quirino next year
was formally announced in simple
rites here yesterday. Speaking
at the 124th birth anniversary
celebration of Quirino, Ilocos Sur
Governor Ryan Luis V. Singson he
and the Eddie Quirino, grandson of
the late president, are now on the
process of planning the activities
for next years grand celebration.
Apart from province-wide contests
and festivities, the occasion will be
marked by the minting of hundreds
of President Quirino Medallions by
the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas,
Singson said. (Freddie G. Lazaro)
DAGUPAN CITY, Pangasinan This

city has organized its Local Poverty
Reduction Action Team (LPRAT)
recently led by Mayor Belen T.
Fernandez. The LPRAT will prepare
citys list of priority projects for the
formulation of the Local Poverty
Reduction Action Plan (LPRAP)
under the Grassroots Participatory
Budgeting Process. The LPRAP
contains programs and projects
collectively drawn through a
participatory process that will directly
address the needs of the poor
constituencies and the marginalized
sectors in the city to be implemented
in 2016. (Liezle Basa Iigo)
Mutya ng Batangas
CHRISTMAS COME As if Christmas were already here, revelers mill around a giant
Christmas tree at Baguio Citys Christmas Village which was opened last Saturday night
by the management of the Baguio Country Club. (Zaldy C. Comanda)
Zambales builds mining road

By JONAS REYES
STA. CRUZ, Zambales Trying to

find a balance between environmental
protection and provincial income, the
provincial government here is building an alternate mining road away
from the affected communities of this
town.
At present, mining operations in
this town remain suspended by the Department of Environment and Natural
Resources (DENR) due to its damaging effects to a number of communities,
leaving more than 3,000 mine workers
unemployed.
Governor Hermogenes Ebdane
Jr. believes that building an alternate
route is an answer to the complaints
against mining operations, particularly
those complaining about the horrendous road conditions of the town due
to trucks hauling nickel ore.
Several months ago the DENR
stopped the mining operations as
coastal area residents here complained
that the sea water had turned virtually
red due to erosion from mining.
Ebdane said the new road being
built spans 20 kilometers, passing
through foothills in remote parts of
Barangay Guisguis and Tubo-tubo
North, ending at the Sta. Cruz Port in
Barangay Longos where they ship the
nickel ore out of Zambales.
This road will bypass the communities and other built-up areas, so we
hope it will answer complaints about
dust in summer and muddy roads during the rainy season, Ebdane said.
Modernized monitoring of dams seen

By FREDDIE C. VELEZ
Christmas chill
Poverty reduction
Albay projects bankrolled

through GPB strategy
By CHITO A. CHAVEZ
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TAAL, Batangas The 23 Mutya

ng Batangas candidates were
formally presented to the public
in a press conference held in
this municipality, Saturday. The
candidates together with the local
and provincial officials toured
the main streets of Taal in a
motorcade. Provincial Tourism
Officer Emily Katigbak said the
contestants were carefully chosen
among the fairest Batanguea
applicants. The winner of the
pageant will represent the province
of Batangas in various activities,
especially related to promoting
the province, here and abroad.
The coronation night will be on
December 5. (Vicky Aclan Florendo)
Food carts
LUCENA CITY, Quezon A total
of 28 food carts were distributed
over the weekend to the Rural
Improvement Club (RIC) and 4H Club
members in various towns of this
province. The recipients were from
the towns of Guinayangan, Plaridel,
Gumaca, Buenavista, Catanauan,
San Antonio, Real, Pagbilao, Padre
Burgos, Candelaria, Macalelon,
Sariaya, Unisan, San Francisco,
Atimonan, Lopez, Agdangan,
Lucban, Mauban ng Tayabas City.
Quezon Governor David C. Suarez
said the food carts, equipped with
cooking utensils, come with a buildup capital to help womenfolk start
a small business enterprise. (Danny
J. Estacio)
Gawad Kalasag
LANTERNS MADE IN JAIL Various designs of the parol (Christmas lantern), handcrafted
by these inmates of the Ilocos Norte Provincial Jail, are available already available for
sale at the facilitys lobby. (Freddie G. Lazaro)
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga

Pampanga Vice Governor Dennis
G. Pineda received the Regional
Gawad Kalasag for Best Provincial
Disaster Risk Reduction Management
Council (PDRRMC) from Office of
Civil Defense (OCD) Regional Director
Josefina Timoteo at awarding rites
held at the Heroes Hall, here, last
Friday. Other awardees are the
PDRRMOs of Tarlac and Bulacan as
best PDRRM Officers; CDRRMO of
Malolos City and City of San Fernando
as Best CDRRMOs; Palayan City
CDRRMO as third Best Government
Emergency Response (GEM); City
of San Fernando as 2nd Best GEM
and Tarlac as Best GEM. (Franco G.
Regala)
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No need to probe
ICC further
Trillanes
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By HAnnAH L. ToRRegozA
Visayan Sea Triangle

protection urged
SAGAY CITY, Negros Occ. (PNA)
Four Visayas governors are calling
on President Aquino to declare the
Visayan Sea Triangle a protected
area. The call is contained in
the resolution to declare and
establish as protected area
waters beyond the 15-kilometer
waters of municipalities and cities
surrounding the Visayan Sea
which was passed during the 6th
Visayan Sea Summit at the Museo
Sang Bata sa Negros Friday. The
resolution was signed by Governors
Alfredo Maraon Jr. of Negros
Occidental, Arthur Defensor Sr.
of Iloilo, Rizalina Seachon-Lanete
of Masbate and Hilario Davide III
of Cebu (represented by Ricardo
Lachica).
Woman rebel,
companion nabbed
BACOLOD CITY, Negros Occ. (PNA)
A woman political instructor
of the New Peoples Army (NPA)
and her companion were recently
nabbed in a military checkpoint
at Sitio Kinabong 3, Don Salvador
Benedicto, Negros Occidental. Col.
Jon Aying, Brigade Commander of
the Philippine Army (PA)s 303rd
Infantry Brigade identified those
arrested as Angelita Quinsina, alias
Bem, 27, of Brgy. Monteswerte,
Carmen, Bohol; and Reman
Manlanat, alias Kim, 17, of Brgy.
Libertad, Escalante City. The two
members were flagged down while
onboard a motorcycle on their
way to Bacolod City. Confiscated
from them were 80 rounds of .30
caliber ammunitions and subversive
documents.
Illegal drug
personalities
rounded up
ILOILO CITY (PNA) - Seven
suspected drug personalities were
rounded up Friday by operatives of
the Philippine Drug Enforcement
Agency in Region VI (PDEA-6) who
raided a drug den in Brgy. Bakhaw,
Mandurriao, Iloilo City. PDEA-6
Director Paul Ledesma identified
the drug personalities as Wayne
Jover of Divinagracia, Lapaz district
and Renante Guzman of Brgy.
Hinactacan, Lapaz; Reynante Jitiayon of Bgy. Sambag, Jaro district
and John Christopher Guzman of
Brgy. Tagbak, Jaro; Rolly Jimenia
and his daughter Rubelyn JimeniaIntrebuena, both of Brgy. Bakhaw,
Mandurriao, Iloilo City; and, Jonas
Pabilona of Leganes, Iloilo. However,
slippery suspect, Merly Degala, alias
Dacdac, tagged as the maintainer
of the drug den, escaped with both
hands handcuffed. Ledesma said
the unfortunate incident happened
after one of the arrested suspects
diverted the attention of the
arresting lawmen, giving Degala a
chance to slip past PDEA agents
unnoticed.
DPWH call center

operations
expanded
TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte (PIA) The
Department of Public Works and
Highways (DPWH) has expanded
its 24/7 Call Center Hotline 165-02
operations to its regional offices
so as to promptly address issues
and complaints concerning the
agency. DPWH hotline 165-02
serves as a tool for monitoring and
analyzing public opinion and issues
where formulation of guidelines
and policy improvements and/
or issuances shall be based. In a
statement circulated by the Region
VIII office of DPWH (DPWH-8), Sec.
Rogelio L. Singson underscored the
importance of the new system as all
complaints are directly routed to the
agencys regional offices for prompt
action. We want to hear peoples
views on DPWH programs, projects,
policies and activities as we are
prepared to listen and learn from
one another, Singson said. The
call center, outsourced to Pilipinas
Teleserye, facilitates DPWHs
feedback communication with its
stakeholders and directly provides
support to Singsons reform
programs in the agency.
PINOY HUMOR Passersby along the road on the way to Diit in Tacloban City will notice the signage naming this small store
after super-typhoon Yolanda. (Rolan Garcia)
Fishing industry cries foul over

radical Fisheries Code changes
Operators frustrated over govts non-consultation in initiating amendments
By TARA YAP
LOILO The fishing industry

is crying foul from the lack of
public consultation over proposed
amendments in Republic Act. No.
8550 (R.A. 850) or the Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998.
Panay Fishing Boat Operators Association (PAFISBO) director Arnaldo
M. Borres, Jr. said the countrys commercial fishing industry under the Alliance of Philippine Fishing Federation
Inc. (APFFI) is shocked and utterly
frustrated with the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)s
move to effect changes in R.A. NO.
8550, without consulting the fishing boat
operators.
The Senate and the House of Representatives are scheduled to hold a
bicameral session on November 24 to
deliberate the proposed amendments
on the law that aim to make the Fisheries Code at par with international
standards.
Time is running out and if the
amendments are passed, it will have
a major negative impact both on the
commercial fishing industry and the

consuming public, Borres stressed.
The negative impact Borres speaks
of entails a hefty increase in penalties
for violating the new proposed amendments. From a mere P10,000, the new
penalty imposed ranges anywhere from
P500,000 to P1 million for violations of
unauthorized fishing, obstruction of
fishery law enforcers or failure to report
volume of fish catch. The punishment
also includes imprisonment of fishing
vessel operator and confiscation of
fishing vessels.
Similar increases in penalties will be
imposed on operators and their fishing
boat crew on mere suspicion of violation
of the law.
Another concern of PAFISBO and
APFFI is the amendment proposed by
BFAR on Section 14 or the Monitoring,
Control and Surveillance of Philippine
Waters in the Fisheries Code. If passed,
fishing vessel operators will be required
to acquire substantially an expensive
vessel monitoring system (VMS) unit
to be installed in each fishing boat.
The VMS is a satellite-based tracking
system that BFAR will use to monitor
locations of fishing boats. Not a few

fishing boat operators, said Borres, are
wondering who will be supplying this
expensive equipment. Will it be BFAR
or a supplier favored by the agency?
PAFISBO and APFFI are also crying foul over the proposed creation of
a Fisheries Adjudication Board, which
will be a separate judicial body from the
regular courts, to handle cases involving violations of RA 8550.
Borres said the only time that
PAFISBO and other APFFI members
were called to a meeting with BFAR
was last Saturday, November 14. He
said he flew to Manila from Iloilo, where
his fishing operations are based, and
proceeded to the BFAR main office at
Quezon City only to learn that BFAR
Director, Atty. Asis Perez, was out of
the country.
Borres lamented that BFAR only
called for a meeting a week prior to the
scheduled bicameral session.
In a letter written to Perez by PAFISBO through its President, Joemarie
Borres, the group asked, that more talks
and public consultations are needed before the Fisheries Code is amended.
Senator Antonio Trillanes IV yesterday said he finds no need for the Senate
Blue Ribbon Committee to dig deeper
into the alleged overpriced Iloilo Convention Center (ICC). He said the lack
of documentary evidence presented by
complainant Atty. Manuel Mejorada in
last Thursdays investigation, has put
into question allegation of anomalies
in the ICCS construction.
In a radio interview, Trillanes also
said the Blue Ribbon sub-committees
probe into the Makati City Hall Parking
Building 2 should not be compared to
the mother committees proceedings in
the ICC investigation. He refuted Sen.
Sergio Osmenas IIIs observation on
the Senates friendly approach when
it held its initial hearing into the ICC.
I think (the treatment) was the
same with the (Senate Blue Ribbon)
sub-committee. He (Osmena) has
not been attending (the hearings) and
thats why I think he has a wrong assessment of the probe. But the people
saw what happened, Trillanes said in
an interview over Radio DZBB.
There are hostilities when resource persons are lying and or trying
to flatter the senators. Like Mr. (Antonio) Tiu and an official from Hilmarcs
(the ICC contractor). Resource persons
are really not allowed to fool around the
committee, he said.
In contrast, Trillanes said those
resource persons who appeared in
the ICC probe offered satisfactory and
clear testimonies, like Department of
Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez,
and Department of Public Works and
Highways Secretary Rogelio Singson.
The testimonies given by Secretaries Singson and Jimenez were
satisfactory, and very clear. Even the
representative from Hilmarcs was
able to give us direct information,
said Trillanes. Mr. Mejorada, too, was
clear in admitting candidly that he had
no evidence to present. Why are we
going to scold him when hes telling the
truth, he said.
Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III had
earlier said he has reservations on Sen.
Teofisto Guingona IIIs plan to hold a
second hearing on the ICC probe.
Guingona is head of the main panel
of the Senate Blue Ribbon while Pimentel is heading its sub-committee which
is in-charge of investigating the alleged
overpriced Makati City Hall Parking
Building 2.
According to Pimentel, Guingona
has decided to hear former Iloilo Rep.
Augusto Syjucos testimony against
Senate President Franklin Drilon, who
is accused of facilitating the construction
of the ICC using his pork barrel funds.
Panay reassured of Yolanda shelter aid

ROXAS CITY, Capiz - Department of
Interior and Local Government (DILG)
Sec. Mar Roxas is reassuring officials in
Panay Island that funding for financial
aid in rebuilding shelter for survivors of
super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) will be
released in due time.
Roxas stressed that President
Aquino has not forgotten Yolanda survivors in Aklan, Antique, Capiz, and Iloilo
provinces.
The DILG secretary, along with
Department of National Defense Voltaire Gazmin and Department of Social
Welfare and Development Sec. Corazon
Soliman, was in Capizs provincial capital, Roxas City late last week to preside
over a Yolanda rehabilitation consultative meeting for Panay Island.
Roxas discussed the status of repairs of damaged public infrastructures
and also tackled questions regarding
the release of financial aid for shelter.
Iloilo Governor Arthur Defensor
Sr. asked if the national government
will release the P30,000-financial aid for
each Yolanda survivor whose houses
were totally destroyed or the P10,000
for those whose homes were partially
damaged.
Yes, it will be released, answered
Soliman.
In Iloilo province alone, Soliman
said DSWD-6 is verifying the combined
129,081 houses that were both reported
to have been totally destroyed and
partially damaged by Yolanda. Of that
figure, 43,077 refers to totally damaged
houses and 86,004 to partially damaged
houses.
Defensor also prodded the Cabinet
secretaries on when the funds will be
released to Yolanda survivors.
By end of January 2015, was Solimans reply.
Defensor pressed on further, asking if Yolanda survivors who initiated
the repair of the homes could still avail
of the shelter funding committed by
government for Panay Island. Soliman
gave assurances that they would still be
included among the funding recipients.
Still, Manila Bulletin has received
reports of concern from Yolanda survivors through Panay Island regarding
officials who have conducted ocular
inspection of typhoon-hit houses telling them they can no longer avail of
aid from government since they have
already started to effect minor repairs
on their homes.
Governors Florencio Miraflores
REASSURING PANAY OF AID Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary

Mar Roxas (center) led the November 12 consultative meeting in Roxas City, Capiz on
rehabilitation programs for areas in Panay Island affected by super typhoon Yolanda.
Joining him were (from left) National Disaster Risk and Reduction Management Council
(NDRRMC) Executive Director Alexander Pama, Department of National Defense and
NDRRMC Chairman Voltaire Gazmin, Department of Social Welfare and Development
Sec. Corazon Soliman and Capiz Governor Victor Tanco, Sr. (Tara Yap)
of Aklan, Exequiel Javier of Antique

and Victor Tanco Sr. of Capiz who were
present at the meeting also urged the
national government to prioritize the
needs of Yolanda survivors in affected
areas on Panay Island.
Along with Gazmin, who concurrently serves as chairperson of National Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management Council (NDRRMC),
was NDRRMC Executive Director
Alexander Pama. (Tara Yap)
APEC hosting bolsters Iloilos global city aspiration

ILOILO CITY (PIA) The hosting
of the Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) ministerial meetings in
2015 is a good starting point in realizing the development of Iloilo as a
global city.
In the 3rd Western Visayas Business Forum held recently at Hotel
Del Rio here, National Competitiveness Council (NCC) Private Sector
Co -Chairman Guillermo Luz said
hosting the APEC meetings provides
opportunities for infrastructure and
investments.
Iloilo City has been assigned to
host two meetings by the APEC National Organizing Committee (NOC).
The city will host the Small Medium
Enterprises (SME) ministerial meeting on September 21-25, 2015 and the
Food Security Week (High Level Policy
Dialogue on Food Security and the
Blue Economy) on September 28 to
October 6, 2015.
However, Luz stressed that it is important that preparations to go global
should be made beyond APEC.

This early, we should be thinking
of what can we do to make Iloilo City
prosper beyond APEC, he said.
Luz said that in terms of competitiveness, Iloilo ranks sixth among 122
cities in the country in the latest round
of the Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index (CMCI) conducted
by the NCC.
According to the NCC, cities and
municipalities are ranked on their
competitiveness based on an overall
competitiveness score which is the

sum of scores on three main factors,
namely, economic dynamism, government efficiency and infrastructure.
Iloilo City is competing with other
cities for investments, trade, services,
tourists, image and brand, said Luz.
He added that the city must continue
tracking local competitiveness indicators, formulate programs to improve
competitiveness, and engage in investment promotion activities to attract
investors and create new jobs.
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Duterte raises R1-M bounty

for capture of Enzos killer
By ALEXANDER D. LOPEZ
AVAO CITY Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has handed

P1 million to the Philippine
National Police (PNP) and
the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) as reward money
that could expedite the arrest of the
persons responsible for the murder of
race car champion Enzo Pastor.
In his regular TV program Gikan
sa Masa, Para sa Masa Sunday, Duterte said the P1 million was part of the
P5-million fund that was culled by the
private sector here that was intended
as bounty for the arrest of carnapping
syndicate leader Ryan Baktin Yu.

But since Baktin voluntarily surrendered to authorities, the P5-million
reward money went untouched.
Duterte was recently irked by a
statement in social media that the
reward money for Enzos killers were
taken from the coffers of the government.
This money was really intended for
Baktin and was raised by the private
sector especially those who were victimized by his carnapping syndicate,
Duterte clarified.
In 2012, when Duterte was still the
Vice Mayor here, he launched an all-out
campaign for the arrest of Baktin.
He had said that enraged victims

of Baktin voluntarily contributed to the
bounty.
In an audacious statement, Duterte
offered P1 million to any one who could
point to the whereabouts of Baktin, P2
million if the fugitive was brought to
him dead and P3 million for any one
who could bring Baktins head to him
in a cooler filled with ice.
The third offer got the ire of Commission on Human Rights (CHR)
chairperson Etta Rosales that sparked
a series of arguments between her and
Duterte.
The reward for Baktin was not materialize, Duterte stressed, adding that
some of these were already utilized for

peace and order campaign purposes.
The government had nothing to
do with this money. This was raised by
private persons, he said.
Duterte criticized the unidentified
person who posted in social media the
allegation that public funds were used
for the reward money.
I am certain that the father of this
man is a thief, Duterte described his
unnamed critic.
Though Duterte did not specifically
name this critic in social media, some
sectors have hinted that the person
must be one of his political rivals in
Davao City.
USAID enters
into MOU with
Zambo City
By NONOY E LACSON
CIVILIAN ADVISERS Maj. Gen. Edmundo Pangilinan, commander of the 6th Infantry Division (in uniform) swears in the 10
initial members of the Armys civilian advisory board in Maguindanao during formal rites Saturday at the military headquarters
in Awang, Datu Odin Sinsuat. The board chairperson is Prof. Susana Anayatin who is shown next to Pangilinan. (Ali G.
Macabalang)
PDEA scores big in Zamboanga ops

By FRANCIS T. WAKEFIELD
Another member of the notorious

Alih Drug Group was recently arrested by operatives of the Philippine
Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in
Zamboanga City for allegedly selling
methamphetamine hydrochloride or
more notoriously known as shabu to a
PDEA undercover agent.
Undersecretary Arturo Cacdac, Jr.,
PDEA Director General identified the
suspect as Emma Ahmad Abubakar,
alias Sarahima, 56, a vendor and
resident of Brgy. Santo Tomas, Mutia,
Zamboanga del Norte.
Cacdac said Abubakar is the grandmother of Nadzhul Alih, the leader of
Alih Drug Group.
Her son, Nardizabal Abubakar Salih, alias Totoh Salih or Ping-ping,
was previously arrested for violation of
Republic Act 9165 on August 18, 2009.
He was also charged for frustrated
murder. The drug case, however, was
dismissed in court.
Cacdac said anti-narcotics op-
eratives of PDEA Regional Office 9

(PDEA RO9) under Director Joseph C.
Ladip conducted at 9 p.m. Wednesday
a buy-bust operation in the vicinity of
Zamboanga City Public Market, Zamboanga City that led to the arrest of
Abubakar.
A PDEA agent who acted as poseurbuyer was able to buy one heat-sealed
transparent plastic sachet of suspected
shabu weighing approximately 50
grams with an estimated value of P80,
000.
Confiscated from Abubakar were
one brown paper used as wrapper,
one black sling bag, one plastic pack
containing four bundles of transparent
plastic cellophanes, one green Nokia
mobile phone and P500 used as buybust money.
Abubakar is now facing charges for
selling and possessing illegal drugs.
Meanwhile, in Zamboanga del
Norte, a local government employee
was arrested PDEA operatives in a
buy-bust operation in Dapitan City.
Arturo G. Cacdac identified the
suspect as Gilbert Borbon Quines, alias

Tata, 46, a data entry machine operator of the local government of Dapitan
City, Zamboang del Norte, married and
a resident of 196 Governor Carcinero
St., Potol, Dapitan City.
Cacdac said that based on reports
he received, the suspect was arrested
at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday by the PDEA
Regional Office 9 (PDEA RO 9) under
the supervision of Director Joseph C.
Ladip during a buy-bust operation at
the junction of Crisosotomo Ibarra St.,
Brgy. Dawo, Dapitan City, Zamboang
del Norte.
Confiscated during the operation
were one heat-sealed transparent
plastic sachet of suspected shabu, one
leather wallet containing several Identification cards, cash amounting P70.00
and the P500 used as marked money.
Quines is now facing charges for
violation Section 5 (Sale of Dangerous
Drugs), and Section 11 (Possession of
Dangerous Drugs), Article II of Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive
Dangerous Drug Act of 2002.
Illegally cut lumber seized in Surigao

By MIKE U. CRISMUNDO
BUTUAN CITY Over 1,300 board

feet of illegally-cut lawaan lumber were
confiscated during separate anti-illegal
logging operations conducted by police
force in Surigao provinces over the
weekend, police reported yesterday.
The identity of the owners of the
confiscated illegally-cut forest products
have been temporarily withheld pending
further joint investigation by the police
and Department of Environment and
Natural Resources in preparation for
filing of charges in court in violation of
PD 705 otherwise known as the Forestry
Code of the Philippines.
Initial report reaching the regional
command and tactical operation center
of Police Regional Office 13 (PRO 13)
based at Camp Rafael C. Rodriguez
here stated that the joint elements of
the intelligence section of Surigao del
Norte Police Provincial Office (PPO)
and Gigaquit Municipal Police Station
(MPS) and supervised by Surigao del
Norte PPO Director Senior Supt. Julito
Morin Diray responded a report that
illegally-cut lumbers were found along
the pathway of Purok Kalubian, Barangay San Isidro, in Gigaquit town.
The combined police force arrived at
the reported area and found the undocumented lawaan lumbers.
The owner of the seized forest products is a known furniture maker, said
Chief Supt. David Y. Ombao, regional
director of PRO 13, quoting the initial
report of Senior Supt. Diray.
The confiscation was done after a
concerned citizen reported that several
Lawaan lumbers were being hauled at

the place, added Chief Supt. Ombao.
The confiscated lumber was turnedover to Surigao City DENR-Community
Environment and Natural Resources
Office yesterday for further investigation
and final scaling in preparation for filing
of appropriate charges in court.
Meanwhile, 158 board feet of banned
Yakal and Doyok-doyok lumbers were
also seized in a separate operation conducted by the combined Carmen MPS
and Alpha Company of the Armys 36th
Infantry Battalion (36th IB) at Kilometer
2 Barangay Puyat, in Carmen town,
Surigao del Sur.
The confiscated forest products are
now under the custody of Alpha Coy
36th IB at Barangay Puyat in that same
town for documentation and would later
be turned-over to DENR PRO 13, the
report added.
PRO 13 has intensified its anti-illegal
logging operation in full support to governments environment preservation
and forest protection and put an end the
backbone of illegal logging operation in
Caraga region.
To date, Surigao del Sur DENRProvincial Environment and Natural
Resources Officer (PENRO) Rosendo
A. Asunto disclosed that the all-out
anti-illegal logging operation has already
netted 35,607.44 board feet of illegallycut lumber and 393.03 cubic meters of
illegally-cut logs.
The illegal logging operations in the
province dramatically declined to more
than 50% as compared to previous year,
PENR Officer Asunto said.
The provinces top forestry official
cited the 71,221.30 bd. ft. of lumbers and

474.02 cubic meters of logs that were
confiscated last year.
ZAMBOANGA CITY United

State Ambassador to the Philippines
Phillip Goldberg yesterday underscored Zamboanga Citys potentials
as an engine of growth in the country,
as he reaffirmed the US governments
strong commitment to assist the city
attain its goals.
Goldberg made this assessment
when he witnessed the signing of a
memorandum of understanding between Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco
and USAID Mission Director Gloria
Steele that forged five-year partnership towards attaining peace and
development in a program dubbed
as Cities Development Initiatives
(CDI).
This is a reaffirmation of the US
governments strong commitment to
Zamboanga City. We have had a long
standing and rich relationship and we
look forward to see Zamboanga City
realize its potentials, the ambassador
said.
Climaco said the CDI program was
one way to accelerate growth in Zamboanga in the light of the challenges
besetting the city.
You dont know how this means
to us, she told Goldberg and the
USAID officials. Id like to say thank
you to the men and women of USAID.
We will continue to rebuild a better
Zamboanga.
Aside from the ambassador, District II Rep. Lilia Nuo also witnessed
the signing ceremony held at the Garden Orchid Hotel.
The CDI aims to encourage economic growth in urban areas outside
Metro Manila and is intended to
improve investment climate in the
secondary cities by fostering an open
and competitive business climate,
facilitating investments in high-value
industry clusters, enhancing human
capital development and promoting
industry-academe linkages, strengthening health services and ensuring
urban environmental resiliency.
Other cities that have already become part of CDI are Batangas, Iloilo
and Cagayan de Oro, which have all
made significant progress in fostering
and opening competitive progress.
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Newsbits
White corn farm

GENERAL SANTOS CITY In
partnership with the Department
of Agriculture (DA), the local
government here is eyeing a
100-hectare farmland for white
corn production. The Manero
family, who owns the property
located in Barangay Mabuhay,
has offered the land at no
cost to the city government for
agricultural development. The clans
representative Edel Manero said they
are willing to offer their lands to be
developed into white corn farmlands.
City Mayor Ronnel Rivera had already
forged a partnership with DA-12
officials for the development of white
corn production in the area. He said
the program is pursuant to the DAs
Agri-Pinoy Corn Program which seeks
to augment the requirement for
nutritious and cheap staple foods in
the locality. (Joseph Jubelag)
Eco- tourism site

DAVAO CITY A new communitybased eco tourism site was recently
opened in the Island Garden City
of Samal (IGACOS) which tourism
authorities said will help promote
and develop sustainable tourism
in the area. The new eco tourism
site, called the Sanipaan Marine
Park Tours, sits within a 158hectare land in Barangay Tambo
in IGACOS. The site which is also
considered as one of the Marine
Protected Areas in IGACOS will have
four different zones composed of
the marine sanctuary, a multiple
use zone, a mangrove protection
and rehabilitation zone, and an
eco-tourism and recreational zone.
Samal Island Tourism Council
Chairperson Generose Tecson told
the media here that the new eco
tourism site envisions a sustainable
tourism that will give emphasis
on peoples nature and culture.
(Alexander D. Lopez)
Signature campaign
TANDAG CITY A signature
campaign to privatize the Tandag
City Water District started early
this week, due to severe shortage
of water supply. The signature
campaign appeals to the legislative
body of Tandag to look for possible
means in addressing the water
shortage suffered by 52,114 city
inhabitants since early this year. The
campaign also asked local officials
to present their recommendations
and solutions to the situation where
the business community already
suffered since January. (Mike
Crismundo)
Mindanao Spatial
Strategy
DAVAO CITY The National
Economic and Development
Authority (NEDA) Board for Regional
Development Committee (NBRDCOM) reviewed and endorsed the
2015-2045 development framework
of the Mindanao Spatial Strategy
(MSS), recently, during its 15th
conference at the Seda Abreeza
Hotel here. The MSS framework
was presented to the NB-RDCOM
body by NEDA-11 Director Maria
Lourdes Lim that embodied five
major principles that are anchored
to the National Spatial Strategy.
RDC Davao region chairperson and
Davao del Norte Governor Rodolfo
del Rosario said that the MSS
framework is seen to accelerate
the socio-economic development
of the various regions in Mindanao.
(Alexander Lopez)
Agri-biotechnology
PERIL AMONG TREES A worker prunes a coconut tree before it is eventually cut
down in Kidapawan City. Residents in the area have been complaining how these
trees along the city sidewalks have posed danger to passersby due to falling
coconuts. (Alexander D. Lopez)
Agriculture-biotechology
(agri-biotech), including the
commercialization of Bacillus
thuringensis (Bt) eggplant, has
received a shot in the arm from 142
delegates of the First Mindanao
Agri Farmers Congress in Cagayan
de Oro City last Oct. 29. They
made the declaration of support
as leaders of the Agriculture and
Fisheries Council (AFC) from the
six regions of Southern Philippines
gathered at the event. The
delegates signed the Declaration
of support to Biotechnology and Bt
Eggplant, even as they promised
to continue the information and
education campaign (IEC) on Agribiotechhnology led by the AFCs.
The 142 participants unanimous
support to Agribiotecnology and the
commercialization of Bt eggplant
came as the case on the genetically
engineered (GE) eggplant now in
the Supreme Court has yet to be
concluded. (Edd K. Usman)
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Sports
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VolleybAll
IEM wins Shakeys V-L mens title

I
By KRISTEL SATUMBAGA
nstituto Estetico Manila (IEM)

outplayed Systema Tooth and
Gum Care in the final set to
secure a 25-21, 24-26, 25-22, 1425, 15-12 victory yesterday to crown
itself the inaugural mens division
champion of the Shakeys V-League
Season 11 Reinforced Conference at
The Arena in San Juan.
The Volley Masters shrugged off
a lackluster fourth set that saw them
stumbling into a maze of errors and
came back rejuvenated in the deciding frame by unloading a barrage of
kills that shattered the rock-solid defensive wall of the Active Smashers.
Rudy Gatdula sealed the win for
IEM with a crosscourt attack off the
block of two Systema defenders to
complete the Volley Masters comeback from a loss in Game 1.
IEM lost the series opener, 21-25,
23-25, 25-19, 25-23, 16-14, but bounced
back in Game 2, 19-25, 25-19, 13-25,
25-21, 15-13, to set up a fitting conclusion to the leagues third conference.
We cannot avoid those kinds of
situations given the fact that this
team is new. But I told them to forget the first four sets and start all
over again in the fifth set, said IEM

Coach Jun Balubar, who is also a
Math teacher at Quezon City High
School.
This is just a race to 15, we should
jump the gun, huwag makuntento sa
isang block para magkaroon tayo ng
segments of points, he added.
Conference Most Valuable Player
Jeffrey Jimenez showed nerves of
steel to finish with 16 points, including 15 kills to be later adjudged as
the Finals MVP.
Karl Dela Calzada and Gatdula
also provided ample support with 14
and 10 points, respectively, while Best
Setter Rennz Ordonez finished with
three aces and 44 excellent sets.
Chris Macasaet poured almost
everything for Systema by exploding
with 25 points, but his efforts to lift
his team to the championship went
futile.
Earlier, Far Eastern University
survived the strong challenge of
Rizal Technological University as it
won the last two sets to eke out a 2522, 20-25, 16-25, 28-26, 15-13 victory to
take the bronze medal.
The feat gave the Tamaraws of
veteran coach Kid Santos a boost in
their preparation for the UAAP season which starts on Nov. 22.
World No. 1 Novak Djokovic

reacts after winning a point
against Japans Kei Nishikori in
the semifinal of the ATP World
Tour Finals Saturday in London.
Djokovic will meet Roger Federer
for the title. (EPA)
Members of Instituto Estetico Manila pose for a trademark jump shot after completing a five-set win over Systema to capture the
inaugural mens division crown of the Shakeys V-League yesterday at The Arena in San Juan. (Linus Escandor II)
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UV rallies to beat NU
CEBU CITY University of the

Visayas came back from a 17-point second quarter deficit to stun UAAP champion National University, 77-74, for its
first win in the Philippine Collegiate
Champions League Elite Eight Saturday at the Cebu City Coliseum here.
The Green Lancers played listless
in the first half, allowing the Bulldogs
to take a 32-15 lead. But the hometown
squad came back to life behind the efforts of Franz Arong, John Michael
Abad and Nigerian center Steve Akomo.
Arong and Abad came through with
big shots even as NU began to get frustrated with UVs physical play. Then,
Akomo came through with the key plays
down the stretch to lift the Lancers to a
thrilling victory.
Akomos putback with 1:09 remaining put UV up 74-72, then made a key
defensive stop that denied the Bulldogs

a tying basket in the final seconds.
NUs Gelo Alolino was on the verge
of scoring a transition layup after a UV
turnover but Akomo swatted the ball to
the delight of the boisterous crowd.
Raffy Oktubre converted a layup following the block to make it 76-72 for UV
with 16.4 seconds to go. The Bulldogs
reduced the deficit to 76-74 but failed to
regain the possession when the Lancers won a jumpball with five seconds
left.
Nag-focus lang talaga kami sa depensa at nagtiwala ang mga players sa
isat-isa, said UVs interim coach Gary
Cortes, who took charge after Donbel
Belano was fired following a tumultuous CESAFI season marred by two
Lancers engaging in a heated argument during a semifinal game.
Abad finished with 18 points, Arong
had 17 markers while Akomo added 14
points for UV, which bounced back from
a 74-64 loss to defending national champion La Salle on Friday.
In the second game, NCAA titlist
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Games Today (Cebu City Coliseum)
5:15 p.m. - USC vs UV
7 p.m. - SWU vs Arellano
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3rd UNTV Cup

under way today
Public servants, including senators, congressmen and law enforcers,
take centerstage as they show their
sporting prowess in the 3rd UNTV
Cup which starts today at the Mall of
Asia Arena in Pasay City.
A brainchild of multi-awarded
broadcaster Daniel S. Razon, the basketball tournament provides public
servants an opportunity to play an
active part in helping the underprivileged members of society through
sports.
From six teams, the event now has
11 branches of the government taking
part in the noble project where each
team will have to submit its chosen
charitable institution as its beneficiary.
The champion in the event that
will have PBA legend Atoy Co as one
of the commissioners will have the
bAdminTon
Badminton
listup on
Registration for the P1.5 million
Bingo Bonanza National Open badminton tournament is ongoing with organizers expecting the roster to swell as the
event, slated Dec. 11-14, draws near.
Fee is pegged at P800 with the listup
ending on Nov. 28 at 5 p.m. The list of
players will be posted on Dec. 1 with the
draw set on Dec. 5, according to the or-
privilege to donate P1.5 million to its

beneficiary. The runner-up and third
placer get P650,000 and P250,000, respectively.
Known as Mr. Public Service, Razon will give the inspirational message during the opening rites that will
be graced by top UNTV and government officials.
The event which will run till April
next year also aims to promote unity,
camaraderie, and physical fitness
among public servants, among them
Senators Ralph Recto, JV Ejercito,
Bam Aquino, Sonny Angara and Antonio Trillanes, Congressmen Niel
Tupas Jr., Sherwin Tugna, Mayor
Niel Tupas III, Vice Mayor Francis
Zamora, cabinet secretaries Sec. Joel
Villanueva and USec. Mark Lapid and
Court Administrator Justice Jose Midas Marquez.
ganizing EventKing Corp.
The team managers, coaches and
players meeting will be held Dec. 9 at 2
p.m. at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex Badminton Hall. For details and
online listup, visitwww.bingob.com/nationalopentournament or email to EKC
at info@eventkingcorp.com.ph.
The cream of the countrys badminton crop, the leading players from the
collegiate and corporate ranks and a
slew of rising stars are expected to participate in the tournament sponsored
by Bingo Bonanza in its continuing effort to help develop and promote the
sport.
Arcilla, Dandan
rout doubles foe
The No. 3 tandem of Johnny Arcilla
and Kyle Joshua Dandan made short
work of Joshua Miranda and Dennis
Vitaliano, 6-0, 6-0, yesterday to advance into the next round in the mens
doubles event of the 33rd Philippine
Columbian Association (PCA) Open at
the PCA claycourts.
Kinuha namin ng mabilis yung
laro dahil gusto naming makapagsave ng energy para sa second round
ng mens singles bukas (Monday).
Maganda yung chemistry namin sa
loob ng court ni Kyle, said the 34-yearold Arcilla in this event presented by
Cebuana Lhuillier and Metro Global
Holdings.
Arcilla and Dandan will battle
Leo Toledo and Bernan Bering, who
made it to the next round via walkover
against Rodolfo Barquin and Joshua
Kinaadman.
Defending champions Patrick John
Tierro and Ronard Joven also made it
into the next round without any resistance when Inigo Caguiron and Butch
Mejico likewise failed to show up.
PH netters eye
Phinma berths
Jacob Martin and Justin Suarez
came away with victories in varying
fashions as the two Filipino bets stayed
in the hunt for four berths in the main
draw of the Phinma-PSC International
Juniors Tennis Championships which
get going tomorrow at the Rizal Memorial Tennis Center.
Martin whipped Korean Hyun June
Jeong, 6-3, 6-2, while Suarez survived
Finlands Richard Wohlstrom, 7-6(5),
6-4, in the first round of the two-day
qualifiers yesterday. But the two local
bets will have their hands full in todays resumption of the elims.
San Beda squandered a double-digit

lead before surviving CESAFI runnerup University of San Carlos, 85-75, to
open its Elite Eight campaign.
Art dela Cruz scored 23 points, including five straight points that came
after the Warriors tied the game at 67all on a three by Francis Arjon with 6:26
left in the fourth.
Baser Amer also came through
with key baskets late for the Red Lions,
who won under the tutelage of interim
mentor Adonis Tierra although former
coach Boyet Fernandez took a break
from his new role as NLEX tactician in
the PBA to act as team consultant.
NBA RESULTS
Washington 98, Orlando 93
Toronto 111, Utah 93
Cleveland 127, Atlanta 94
Indiana 99, Chicago 90
Memphis 95, Detroit 88
Dallas 131, Minnesota 117
Portland 97, Brooklyn 87
Sacramento 94, San Antonio 91
L.A. Clippers 120, Phoenix 107
Golden State 112, Charlotte 87
Xavier rallies to stun CKSC,

battles NU in PSSBC semis
Tyler Tio erupted for 28 points to
help power Xavier School to a comefrom-behind 77-72 win over Chiang
Kai Shek College and into the semis
of the 3rd Philippine Secondary
Schools Basketball ChampionshipIroncon Builders Cup knockout quarterfinals Saturday at the Chiang Kai
Shek College gym in Tondo, Manila.
The sweet-shooting Tio keyed a
decisive 14-3 run in the last four minutes as the Xavier Stallions arranged
a semis showdown with the reigning
UAAP champion National University.
Aside from shooting 10-of-20
from the field, including 3-of-6 from
the 3-point territory, Tio also hauled
down eight rebounds to highlight
yet another solid all-around performance.
The NU Bullpups, on the other
hand, went to Mark Dyke in the final
half to eke out a pulsating 78-76 victory over the Mapua Red Robins. The
Bullpups and the Stallions are still
playing at presstime.
The other semis match pitting
NCAA champion San Beda and Far
Eastern University is also being held
at presstime.
Dyke delivered 10 of his game-
high 20 points in the final period to

help NU rally from a 66-60 deficit in
the last five minutes. He also had 15
boards to finish in double-double for
the third straight game.
The Baby Tamaraws, meanwhile,
leaned on a torrid shooting of Marvin Lee and Tricky Peromingan in
the first half to beat Hope Christian
High School, 78-61, and advance to
the semis of the tournament also
sponsored by MEC Computers, Jumbo Plastic Linoleum, Rain or Shine,
Hapee Toothpaste, Blackwater-Ever Bilena, Dickies Underwear and
Freego.
Mapua had one last chance to win
the game but Sherwin Concepcion,
who tied the count at 76-all after
burying back-to-back triples, missed
the one that could embellish his status as one of the league clutch shooters.
The Red Cubs leaned on the 21point performance of Evan Furaque
to dispatch the Jose Rizal University
Light Bombers, 72-63.
Furaque scored all his 21 points
in the second half, including the Red
Cubs last 14 points in the third quarter to pull away for good.
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Bakbakan goes to Pasay

The first Metro Manila eliminations of 2014 NFGB National Bakbakan 12 -Stag Derby fires off today at
Pasay City Cockpit.
Competition continues on Nov. 19
and 22 at Roligon Mega Cockpit in
Paranaque.
A participant must score at least
2 points to qualify for the semis round
on Nov. 25 at Pasay Cockpit.
The last chance to join Bakbakan

is on Nov. 24 (Pasay Cockpit), Nov. 26
(Roligon ) and Nov. 27 (Pasig Square).
Semis is on Nov. 29 at Roligon.
Sponsors are Thunderbird, B Meg Derby Ace, Sagupaan Complexor
3000, Salto, Excellence, Hagibis, Lakpue, VNJ Distributors and Pitfighter.
For
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RC Cola ends Petrons

Superliga win streak
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By CHRISTIAN JACINTO
Games Wednesday (Cuneta Astrodome)

2 p.m. Cignal vs Generika (Womens)
4 p.m. - mane n Tail vs Rc Cola (Womens)
6 p.m. - PldT vs bench (mens)
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Algieri in for a
shockRoach
If a one-dimensional puncher like

Ruslan Provodnikov could give Chris
Algieri a taste of hell, imagine what
Manny Pacquiao can dish off against
the unbeaten but vastly inexperienced
Algieri on Nov. 23 in Macau.
Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach,
who is about to close the book on what
he described as the best training camp
ever in his more than 13 years of working the corner of the 35-year-old Pacquiao, said he is certain that Algieri will
be in for a shock.
Ruslan is not like Manny. (Theyre)
totally different, said Roach late last
week before presiding over the Filipinos
last few workouts in General Santos City.
Algieris claim to fame was picking
himself up from two first-round knockdowns against Provodnikov last June in
New York en route to a dramatic decision win that paved the way for a shot at
Pacquiaos World Boxing Organization
welterweight crown. NICK GIONGCO
C Cola finally solved the puzzle that was Petron.

The Raiders put a blemish on the erstwhile unbeaten
Blaze Spikers with a 25-20, 25-20, 16-25,
25-22 victory in the 2014 Philippine Superliga Grand Prix yesterday at the Cuneta Astrodome.
Joy Cases woke up from her deep
slumber with an inspiring performance
to carry the Raiders to their fourth win
in seven tries as it ended Petrons winning streak at six.
The diminutive open spiker fired
14 points as RC Cola caught Petron off
guard by taking the first two sets.
Showing big heart, the Blaze Spikers
bounced back in the third as American
import Alaina Bergsma scattered 10 of
her 25 in the third set to stay alive.
But that proved to be fools gold for

the Blaze Spikers as imports Emily
Brown and Bonita Wise finished what
Cases started to complete the Raiders
upset victory.
Nakachamba lang kami. Grabe.
Buti nung fourth set nakabalik kami,
said RC Coach Rhovyl Verayo.
Brown led the Raiders with 17 points
anchored on 13 attacks. Wise also had her
moments as she finished with 13 while
Liza de Ramos chipped in 11 points.
Dindin Santiago had a quiet night,
finishing with just 13 points. Mina
Aganon, who is usually very reliable,
finished with a measly nine points.
In the second game, Generika survived the 39-point explosion of import
Kristy Jaeckel to beat Mane N Tail, 2522, 27-29, 25-18, 22-25, 15-12.
Donnie Nietes, who is nicknamed Ahas, walks to the ring wearing his pet snake like an
oversized necklace before his fight with Mexicos Carlos Velarde Saturday night in Cebu
City. Nietes won by seventh round TKO. (Juan Carlo de Vela)
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Nietes TKOs Mexican foe, extends title reign

By JONAS TERRADO
CEBU CITY Donnie Nietes displayed the prowess worthy for big fights
with a one-sided win that is expected to
cement his place as the longest reigning Filipino world champion of all-time.
Nietes retained his World Boxing
Organization (WBO) junior flyweight
crown with a seventh round TKO of
Mexican challenger Carlos Velarde in
this bustling city Saturday night, paving the way for a promising future for
the 32-year-old fighter.
The bout ended after the seventh
round of the main event held in front of an
animated crowd at the Waterfront Hotel
here when Velarde was forced to quit following a clash of heads that left the visitor with a nasty cut in his left eyebrow.
With Velarde an image of a bloodied
fighter in his stool, veteran referee Rob-
ert Byrd signaled for the end of the bout

in an anticlimactic finish that gave Nietes, who has been a world champion in
two weight divisions since 2007, a clear
path to break the record of the great
Gabriel Flash Elorde in January.
Other than the record, Nietes made
Velarde a stepping stone for his impending Valentines Day fight at a bigger
stage in Macau and a move to the 112-lb
flyweight division to join an abundance
of great boxers like Roman Gonzales

and Juani Francisco Estrada.
Nietes, who brought his ring record
to 34-1-4 with 20 knockouts, wouldnt
mind facing either fighter but made
clear who he wants to fight.
I think its Estrada, said Nietes
of Estrada, who is scheduled to face
Rocky Fuentes next week. I like his
fighting style because he attacks a lot
and I believe I can hit him.
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Barako humbles Macau-bound Kia

By TITO S. TALAO
Games Tomorrow
(Smart Araneta Coliseum)
4:15 p.m. blackwater vs Purefoods
7 p.m. Talk n Text vs Globalport
hile Kia Motors is headed

to Macau for the Manny
Pacquiao-Chris
Algieri
fight, Barako Bull is headed most likely to the quarterfinals.
The Energy blew away the Sorento,
87-71, yesterday and staked a claim at a

playoff spot in the PBA Philippine Cup
at the Smart Araneta Coliseum where
only 10 of the 12 ballclubs will advance
to the quarterfinals after the single
round eliminations.
The Energy hit 13 of 17 free throws
in taking the half, 46-39, and never faltered the rest of the way.
Barako Bull (1-5), Kia (1-6) and fellow newcomer Blackwater (0-6) are
locked in a trench war for the 10th and
last berth, with Kia initially hugging the

inside track by virtue of its opening day
victory over Blackwater. But Barako
Bull has now seized the pole position by
ending a five-game losing start, leaving
the two other ballclubs at a dilemma.
Barako Bull and Blackwater still
have a date on Nov. 26, however, the
outcome yet having a bearing on which
team will be aboard the last bus to the
quarters.
Regardless, Pacquiaos Sorento
team will be on the plane to Macau in

the next few days courtesy of its playing-coach, who will square off with an
unbeaten challenger for the WBO welterweight championship on Nov. 23.
None of these was lost on Barako
Bull coach Koy Banal.
Yes, I read about it na championship daw yung game namin and how
they wanted to use it as a motivation
against us, said Banal. Siguro, silently, nag-stick yon sa minds ng mga
players namin.
Rookie Jake Pascual from San Beda
came through with a breakout game, pouring
21 points on 9 of 13 shooting with 12 rebounds
and 3 steals, spoiling the 21-point game of LA
Revilla, the hero of Kias inaugural victory
over Blackwater.
Meantime, veteran center Dorian Pena,
out for eight months with an Achilles injury,
is reportedly set to return, giving Barako
Bull something to look forward to.
In the second game, San Miguel forward
Arwind Santos hit four free throws in the
closing seconds in finishing with 22 points
and nine rebounds and center June Mar Fajardo, who turns 25 today, had 21 and 15 as
the Beermen weathered a furious comeback
by Barangay Ginebra San Miguel, 79-77, to
grab solo second with their fifth win in six
games.
First Game
BARAKO BULL 87 Pascual 22, Wilson 11,
Miranda 9, Lanete 8, Garcia 7, Pennisi 6, Lastimosa
5, Intal 5, Marcelo 5, Hubalde 4, Paredes 3, Salvador
2, Pena 0, Silva 0.
KIA 71 Revilla 21, Cervantes 15, Alvarez 8,
Webb 6, Jaime 5, Buensuceso 4, Lingganay 3, Pascual
3, Padilla 2, Dehesa 2, Thiele 1, Sanga 1, Ighalo 0,
Alonzo 0, Raymundo 0.
Quarters: 22-14; 46-39; 66-53; 87-71.
Second Game
SAN MIGUEL 79 Santos 22, Fajardo 21, Lutz
10, Pascual 7, Tubid 6, Chua 4, Ross 3, Lassiter 3,
Mercado 2, Maierhofer 1, Semerad 0, Fortuna 0,
Omolon 0.
GINEBRA 77 Slaughter 16, Aguilar 15, Tenorio
10, Helterbrand 10, Caguioa 7, Ellis 6, Mamaril 3,
Urbiztondo 3, Yeo 3, Reyes 2, Brondial 2, Monfort 0,
Baracael 0, Forrester 0.
Quarters: 14-17; 38-33; 61-49; 79-77.
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Hapee eyes 4th

straight victory
Games Today
(ynares Sports Arena, Pasig City)
12 noon - Racal vs mP hotel
2 p.m. - bread Story vs hapee
4 p.m. - AmA U vs mJm
Hapee looks to remain ahead of the

pack when it tackles a surging Bread Story
in the PBA D-League Aspirants Cup today
at the Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig City.
The Fresh Fighters continue to live up
to its billing as the leagues team to beat,
posting blowout victories in their initial
three games.
Hapee coach Ronnie Magsanoc will,
however, take their opponent seriously given the fact that the Smashing Bakers have
beefed up their line-up with the inclusion
of spitfire guard Jiovanni Jalalon to their
roster.
The Smashing Bakers posted their first
victory in the D-League with a 69-64 victory
over the Tanduay Light Rhum Masters just
last Thursday.
Ang mga teams ngayon nagpapalakas
ng nagpapalakas. Bread Story, they have
added Jalalon to their line-up which makes
them very dangerous, Magsanoc said.
Yung learning curve, hindi dapat tumitigil yun, he added.
Another problem that hell have to deal
with is fatigue for most of his San Bedabased players.
His San Beda core, composed of Baser
Amer, Ola Adeogon, Art dela Cruz, JP Mendoza, Ryussei Koga and Michole Sorela,
recently returned from Cebu to represent
the Red Lions in the Philippine Collegiate
Champions League last Saturday.
Whether or not those players will be
seeing action today is still a game time decision for Magsanoc and the Hapee management.
CHRISTIAN JACINTO
Golf
Tabuena sizzles
Miguel Tabuena moved himself up the
leader board with a robust four-under-par
68, jumping into the top 20 of the Chiangmai Golf Classic Sunday at the Alpine Golf
Resort in Chiangmai, Thailand with many
of the leaders still out on the course because of a one-hour rain delay.
Tabuena, 20, had a clean card of four
birdies and no bogeys but trails three coleaders at press time who are tied at 15
under par. With his total of 281 seven under par, Tabuena ( 70-72-71-68) is tied for
15th place in the $700,000 tournament.
Jay Bayron, the other Filipino golfer
who made cut, shot an even par 72 and
was tied in 48th place with a total of 288.
Tabuena birdied the seventh, 10th,
14th and 18th holes and overall had only
27 putts for the round, saving pars from
missed greens on five holes.
Though Tabuena missed three straight
cuts prior to this event, he had his worthiest finish in the Yeangder tournament
where he placed second.
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News In Brief
P/$ rate stands
at P44.94/$1
Unilever sets $120-M expansion in PH

By BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT
The peso
exchange
rate stands
at P44.94 to
the US dollar
last Friday at the Philippine Dealing & Exchange Corp. (PDEx). The
weighted average rate stands at
P44.93.
Overpriced
bottled water,
Noche Buena items
Trade and Industry Undersecretary Victorio Mario Dimagiba has
warned owners of some bottled
water brands, which are being
sold in the Manila airports and
bus terminals. Dimagiba also
asked four supermarkets to
explain for selling Noche Buena
items higher than the suggested
retail prices (SRPs). (BCM)
E-mail: business@mb.com.ph
nilever, the world's leading

consumer goods manufacturer, has proposed a $120
million investment over a
six-year period to expand its Philippine
manufacturing operations and ensure
profitability by adopting sustainable
programs under the inclusive business
model.
Data from the Board of Investments
(BOI) showed that the planned $120
million investments would be used to upgrade Unilever's manufacturing operations in the country. At present, Unilever
Philippines has a main manufacturing
facility in Paco, Manila.
Of the $120 million planned investments, $90 million would be alloted for
the acquisition and installation of new
manufacturing equipment as the company seeks to adapt new technologies
to increase production capacities by 30
percent from the current 100,000 tons
by 2020.
Unilever plans to adapt new tech-
nologies for its food, personal care and

home care operations.
For food, the company plans to acquire new twin shaft millers, move to
new fat handling technology, automate
material handling and traceability, and
high-speed cubing line of 800 to 1200
rpm.
For its personal care division, Unilever shall implement patented micosheet technology and install sonolators.
The document showed that Unilever
would increase its asset base with the
purchase of additional 129 assets, upgrade 33 existing assets, and retire 7
existing assets.
By 2020, Unilever shall have 12
processing lines, upgraded 9 existing
processing lines and retire 7 lines. It has
existing 16 processing lines.
For its filling operations, the company shall have installed 60 filling lines
and upgraded 20 existing lines.
For its end of product automation, the
company plans to purchase and install 58
new end-of-line units and upgrade four
existing ones. The company now operates four end of line units.
Based on the document, it was hinted
that Unilever could be a candidate as an
enterprise under the Inclusive Business program of the BOI.
Inclusive business is a private sector approach that, keeping its for-profit
nature, contributes to poverty reduction
through the inclusion of low income communities in the value chain of companies'
core business as suppliers, distributors,
retailers, or customers.
The document stated that inspired by
Unilevers global leadership, the local
management is in the midst of seriously
redefining what it is to be a sustainable
business.
The Unilever Sustainable Living Plan
(USLP) is aimed at ensuring the companys long-term profitability while reducing the its environmental footprint and
increasing its positive social impact.
The USLP goals including helping
billions of people to take steps in improving their health and well-being, have the
environmental impact or footprint of its
products, by reducing its energy and

water use and waste; and to source all
agricultural raw materials sustainably
and have a positive impact in the livelihood of millions of farmers worldwide.
In so doing, Unilever subscribes to
Inclusive Business to contribute to poverty reduction through the inclusion of
the marginalized community sectors in
the value chain, whether as producers,
suppliers, customers or consumers.
In the Philippines, the multinational
giant is already sourcing locally grown
Tamarind for its Knorr Sinigang Mix and
Ube for the Ube Selecta Ice Cream.
The company believes that it should
work on sustainable sourcing of raw
agricultural materials not just for its
own security of supply, but because this
provides the highest opportunity and
potential in making a big difference in
the lives of people, particularly small
landholders and farmers.
With majority of the countrys population still dependent on agriculture,
Unilever seeks to pursue
new ventures and projects
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Formulating competition policy and law
ne does not have to be a

leftist to make the observation that the Philippine
economy is still in the
clutches of a privileged few who,
through monopolistic or oligopolistic
practices, are able to concentrate
wealth and income in their hands
and to set prices of basic goods and
services unreasonably high. The
Philippines still ranks low in global
competitiveness because of, among
other reasons, the persistent weak
perception on the effectiveness of
our country's anti-monopolicy policy
among ASEAN countries. Although
the criminal code of the Philippines
includes antitrust activities among
those acts punishable by imprisonment, no one has ever gone to jail for
restraining competition. It is about
time we are gifted by our Legislature
with an effective competition policy

and law. It is my hope that before the
term of the present Administration
ends, HB 4090 or some variant, will be
passed into law, especially now that
the people in Congress will no longer
be distracted by the "extra-curricular
activities" occasioned by the notorious
pork barrel system.
Although there are numerous bills
in both the chambers, I am especially
impressed by HB 4090 for its comprehensiveness. As a long-time student of
industrial structures, having studied
under Harvard professors who were
expert scholars of monopoly, oligopoly,
and monopolistic competition, I find the
provisions of HB 4090 fully complying
with the dictum that anti-competitive
behavior among firms, such as price
fixing and bid rigging, should be penalized, and not the relative size of the firm
within its relevant market per se. In
fact, more than 40 years ago, I already
issued an opinion during the Marcos
regime that even while San Miguel
Corporation was the only manufacturer
and seller of beer at that time, there
was no sign of monopolistic practices
because there was freedom of entry,
and beer has numerous substitutes as
an alcoholic beverage.
According to HB 4090, "it shall be

unlawful for an entity, in collusion with
another entity or other entities, to enter
in any agreement or conduct which has
the object or effect of unreasonably
restricting competition substantially.
The agreement or conduct prohibited
by this Act includes but is not limited
to the following:
a. any agreement or conduct among
competitors to restrict competition as
to price or other terms of trade;
b. any agreement or conduct among
competitors to set, limit, or control
production, markets, technical development, or investment;
c. any agreement or conduct among
competitors to divide or share the
market, whether by volume of sales
or purchases, territory, type of goods
or services, buyers or sellers or any
other means;
d. any agreement or conduct among
competitors to fix price at an auction or
in any form of bidding including cover
bidding, bid suppression, bid rotation
and market allocation and other analogous practices of bid manipulation; or
e. any agreement or conduct
among competitors to apply dissimilar
conditions to equivalent transaction
with other parties, thereby placing
them at a competitive disadvantage,

except where reasonably necessary
to create a new product, share risk,
integrate productive activity, set legitimate technical standards, or otherwise
achieve efficiencies likely to enhance
competition, productivity and consumer welfare.
Among the various bills on competition policy, HB 4090 provides the most
concise list illustrating market behavior that is likely to prevent or restrict
competition. It also provides that there
is a rebuttable presumption of dominance if an entity controls at least 50%
of the relevant market. It says further
that the Competition Authority shall
consider the structure of the market,
degree of integration, technological
and financial advantages and other
relevant factors in determining the
control of market. This assumes that
the Competition Authority will have
access to experts on microeconomics,
especially industrial economics, who
can analyze market structures and
behavior. HB 4090 is so comprehensive
that it also includes certain refinements not found in the other proposed
bills. For example, price differentials
for the same goods or services are not
considered anti-competitive if they
are motivated by socialized pricing

for the less fortunate sector of the
economy; or if they reasonably or
approximately reflect differences
in the cost of manufacture, sale,
or delivery resulting from differing
methods or quantities in which the
goods or services are sold or delivered; of if they are in response to
the competitive price of payments,
services or change in the facilities
furnished by a competitor; or if they
are in response to changing market
conditions, marketability of goods or
services, or volume.
Finally, HB 4090 bypasses the
jurisdiction of Regional Trial Courts
over civil and criminal cases on violations of competition law by creating
a separate Competition Commission
equivalent to the Court of Appeals.
In my opinion, this Competition
Commission should not be under
the Department of Justice, as it is
now. Global best practice shows
that competition regulatory agencies
with operational autonomy or administrative independence from the executive branch are more effective in
the performance of their functions.
For comments, my email address is
bernardo.villegas@uap.asia..
Duty-free goods bill from Yolanda

areas set for US Congress
By BERNIE
CAHILES-MAGKILAT
he government has
delayed plans over
its proposed bill asking the US government to grant duty-free access of goods produced in areas affected by super- typhoon
Yolanda until the US mid-term
election is finished.
Trade and Industry Secretary Gregory L. Domingo
said the DTI has already a
draft bill for this Philippine
initiative but it has to wait
until after the US mid-term
elections.
There has been a draft
for several months but it had
to wait until the mid-term
elections are finished so we
can find sponsors for it,
Domingo said in a text message.
Domingo had already

eas but labor-intensive
discussed this with Amoperations. Domingo
bassador Jose L.Cuisia
has also asked the PhilJr., Philippine envoy to
ippine Economic Zone
Washington.
Authority if they have
The Philippines has
an available space that
to look for sponsors in the
can be converted into
Lower House as well as
an ecozone.
in the Senate and must
This would be lahave enough support to
bor-intensive industries
get the bill passed.
like garments. Weve
The duty-free privitalked to the garments
lege to enter the US marindustry already, said
ket would be attractive
Domingo noting that
enough for companies to
these companies are
invest in the Yolanda-afwilling to relocate in
fected areas. This move
the Yolanda-affected
is expected to generareas. Part of the plan
DOMINGO
ate economic activities,
is to create an economic
create jobs and help rebuild lives in the
zone for the new investors.
Visayas-affected areas.
The volume of goods to be exported
It will also entice residents who have
to the US duty-free may not be that big
left their homes to come back.
and would be time bound but that should
Earlier, Domingo said they are planbe a good incentive for new businesses
ning of enticing light to medium manuto locate in an area ravaged by the
facturing companies to locate in the arstrong typhoon.
Unilever mulls $120-M...
B-1
that should include

and benefit more
farmers.On environment, Unilever
has been involved
in the management
of solid waste particularly of postconsumer wastes
such as flexible
packaging/plastic
sachet wrappers.
On health and
well-being, Unilever said its various brands have
taken initiatives like
conducting seminars on the simple
act of proper handwashing, ensuring
clean and germ
free homes, feeding
modules and nutritional enhancement
program.
Earlier, the BOI
launched its Inclusive Business initiative as a complement to President
Aquinos inclusive
growth thrust.
The BOI, however, is still crafting
the guidelines on
what would qualify as an Inclusive
Business model
that it could be eligible for government assistance
not necessarily in
terms of fiscal incentives but also
government intervention and policy
reforms.
In terms of tax
incentives, the BOI
grants income tax
holiday for a maximum of 8 eight
years and zero duty
on imported capital
equipment.
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For ASEAN Economic
Community
2O15?
Regl banking has space

for all Citi executive
By LEE C. CHIPONGIAN
anks in the region regardless

of economies of scale, once the
ASEAN integration is in full
force, will have its own space
of operation and time to settle in its own
market niche.
I think every single bank will have
a different role in the region be it a regional bank, global bank and local bank,
said Citi Philippines chief executive officer/country manager, Batara Sianturi.
Theres a space for everybody to play
because I dont think theres a single
bank that can play in all space in terms
of financial inclusion.
Sianturi, speaking as panelist in
a forum hosted by Hong Kong-based
The Asset financial magazine, said Citi
as a global bank (Citibank N.A.) has
been happily entrenched in the Philippine banking market for 112 years and
they have always had a different target
market.
I dont think we are going in the
same target market (compared with
local banks). There is some overlap but
we focus mostly on MNCs (multinational
corporations). Were in Metro Manila
only and we only have five branches
in the city. Again, theres a space for
everybody and BSP (Bangko Sentral
ng Pilipinas) has been articulating a
lot on financial inclusions pawnshops,
mobile money I think theres space for
everybody to play.
Sianturi said the Philippines is the
first in ASEAN to further liberalize foreign bank entry when President Aquino
signed the amended law (Republic Act
No. 10641) in July this year. Last week,
the BSP approved the rules and regulations that will govern and guide the new
foreign banks.
This signals the countrys readiness
for banking regional integration by the
year 2020. The BSP is part of negotiations
that will implement the ASEAN Banking
Integration Framework or ABIF which
will identify so-called ASEAN banks.
Sianturi said Citi have already set up
its ASEAN structure and they have the
advantage of a global footprint as well as
regional, be it Asia or ASEAN.
According to Sianturi, the most important thing in a regional integrated
community is how to connect.
Citi is in 101 countries and operating
in 160 countries so I think global footprint
is very important and we believe that
globalization is one of the cyclical trend
its going to be emerging market with
developed market and developed market
with developed market and emerging
market with emerging market. Those
were the trade flows and finance follows
trade, he added.
American bank Citi is one of 14
foreign banks in the Philippines. Established in 1902 in Manila, it is the second
oldest international bank after British
bank Standard Chartered Bank which
set up a local branch in 1872.
Citi is also the first global bank to
put up a business process outsourcing
operation in the country at a time when
there was no call center industry to
speak of. Its Philippine BPO serves as
its Asia Pacific hub and it has since been
expanded from simple customer sales
and service into a more value added
financial and management reporting
center.
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PH to sign
ASEANIndia FTA
By BERNIE
CAHILES-MAGKILAT
The government has assured India of its formal concurrence to the services and
investments agreement under
the ASEAN-India Comprehensive Economic Cooperation before end this year.
Trade and Industry Secretary Gregory L. Domingo
said after his return from
the recently concluded East
Asia and India-ASEAN summits in
Myanmar.
President Benigno Aquino gave his
assurance to Prime Minister Narendra
Modi during their bilateral meeting
on the sidelines of the summits. The
Philippines is the only country in the
10-nation ASEAN to sign a Free Trade
Agreement for services and investments
with India. India has formally signed the
long-pending pact with the other nine
southeast Asian nations: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar,
Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
We commit to submit our formal
concurrence this year. Once done, the
agreement is all set for implementation,

Domingo said.
All the government agencies involved
are required to approve the formal concurrence.
Although the formal concurrence is
just a matter of procedure, Domingo said
the agreement cannot be implemented
without the Philippines formal concurrence.
The services agreement will open
up opportunities of movement of both
manpower and investments. The pact will
also allow India to leverage its competitive edge in the areas of finance, education, health, IT, telecommunications and
transport.
It seeks to liberalize trade in services
and bilateral investment, building on their
existing free trade agreement (FTA) for
goods and covering a combined population of 1.8 billion.
The agreement is also seen to help
balance India's deficit with ASEAN
countries in trade of goods. The India
ASEAN agreement on trade in goods
was operationalized in 2010. The current
India-ASEAN trade is around $81 billion
and a target of $100 billion has been set
for 2015. The FTA will help provide a
commercially meaningful market across
ASEAN for India's professionals.
Xurpas IPO 4x oversubscribed
By JAMES A. LOYOLA
he P1.37 billion initial public

offering of Technology firm
Xurpas Inc. is over four times
oversubscribed even before
its offering period which is slated for
November 17 to 25, 2014.
In an interview after the firms investors briefing, issue underwriter SB
Capital Investment Cororations director
Martin Villalon said the oversubscription
could be higher since this is just based on
initial orders for Xurpas shares.
The company intends to use the net
proceeds from the IPO to finance its expansion and acquisition plans, domestic
and evolving markets within the South

East Asia region.
Xurpas said it intends to expand to
existing points of distribution such as
Indonesia, at a cost of P392.73 million;
Bangladesh, for P117.72 million; and
Thailand for P157.09 million. It will also
spend P250 million for the development
and expansion of existing content while
setting aside P261.83 million for general
corporate purposes.
Xurpas President Nix Nolledo said
they intend to grow the firms mobile
consumer content and services business by establishing operations within
the South East Asia region to expand its
sales of mobile consumer content to a
broader range of customers, including

Telcos within the region.
He noted that the region represents
a mobile subscriber population of over
one billion, excluding the Philippines.
These markets present conditions
similar to the Philippine mobile market, as these markets feature rising
internet and smartphone penetration
and its mobile subscriber populations
are predominantly under prepaid arrangements.
The firm also intends to implement
strategic acquisitions of existing mobile
consumer content, enterprise and applications developers and proprietary
technologies.
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Local banks have edge over foreign IFC

By LEE C. CHIPONGIAN
hilippine banks will still have

home-grown advantage over
larger foreign lenders in the
local market, even as the foreign financial giants have as much as
40 percent foreign control of the entire
banking system.
In the beginning, Filipinos will not
go to somebody they dont know so having the local advantage will be there for
some time, commented International
Finance Corp. (IFC) resident representative to Manila, Jesse Ang. IFC is the
World Banks investment arm.
But, given time and as people become more familiar (with the foreign
banks), they will go where they will
get better returns for their deposit
products, where they can access the
(bigger) loans, etc., said Ang.
The Monetary Board of the Bangko

Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) approved
last Thursday the implementing rules
and regulations (IRR) of the Republic
Act No. 10641 or the law that opened
up the banking sector after removing
the 10-bank restriction and allowed
foreign banks to acquire up to 100 percent of the voting stock of an existing
domestic bank.
The central bank said size will not
be the be-all in approving who can set
up here but that these foreign banks
will have to be publicly-listed financial
institutions in their own country.
Ang sees mergers and joint ventures shaping the new domestic banking sector to achieve economies of
scale. It depends how open is open.
Theres (an allowed) 100 percent investment but the question is who can
access the Philippine market? Can
a bank in Malaysia without having a

Philippine franchise access work here?
That means they dont have to merge
here. Its not clear.
Despite the BSPs pronouncements about size and reputable banking institutions, Ang said the relatively
small size of Philippine banks will be
a key factor in how effective can local
banks compete. Youre allowing size to
come in with economies of scale (so) I
think our size will be a challenge.
There will also be rules on the slew
of banking products and services that
can be offered by the new entrants.
How this will evolve will depend on
how much access is allowed and what
the Philippine banks and as well as
foreign banks will do, added Ang.
The IFC country head said the
prospective for expanding the domestic banking market is huge and this is
what will attract the big foreign banks

with global or regional networks to
establish a branch or a subsidiary in
the country.
About 27 million Filipinos of a
population of 100 million have bank
accounts. So theres a lot of potential.
But, I think if you want to expand in a
major way banks have to find a way to
really get to the bottom of the pyramid
because if it is just where the top local
banks have access, its a relatively
small market. They need to go get the
73 percent of the market who do not
have bank accounts, said Ang.
For me its not clear yet, commented Ang. Right now, the banks
are not big enough but the rules need
to be set.
According to the BSP, there are
three ways for a foreign bank to enter
the local banking market.
The minimum capital requirements applicable to foreign bank

branches have been aligned with that
of domestic banks of the same category.
However, foreign banks entering under
new law will have to comply outright
with the new capital requirements as
well as with the prescribed minimum
capital ratios.
With the limits of the old 1994 foreign bank entry law, only 11.8 percent
of the current local banking market
is controlled by foreign banks. Of the
36 universal and commercial banks
in the Philippines, six are branches of
foreign banks.
Under the 20-year-old law, foreign
banks are allowed entry either through
ownership of up to 60 percent of the
voting stock of an existing bank or of a
new banking subsidiary with full banking authority.
Marubeni eyes small-scale

gas plant in PH
By MYRNA M. VELASCO
Japanese firm Marubeni Corporation

is eyeing investments in smaller-scale
gas plant of 54 megawatts but eventually
be increased to 200MW capacity.
This was indicated to media by Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho L. Petilla,
yet qualifying that the Japanese companys plea to government will be for it to
be offered cost-competitive gas fuel.
But since new gas extraction from
the Malampaya facility may not come until the end of 2015, the energy chief noted
that his advice will be for them to initially
venture into a plant that could also take
on diesel as an alternative fuel.
With that investment configuration,
Petilla noted that the plan of Marubeni
will be to bring into the country an idled
54-MW facility that it may be able to run
immediately when called for dispatch.
The facilitys proposed siting will be
proximate to the 1,200-MW Ilijan gas
plant.
Although there is nothing firm yet
with that business proposition, Petilla is
counting on it as a measure that could
shore up next years electricity supply primarily on the critical months of
summer.
The offer of Marubeni is they want
to put up a gas plant, merchant plant.
But they just have one condition for
them to be given a competitive gas
price they said, they can invest for up
to 200MW plant, Petilla expounded.
He noted that he apprised them to
instead propound a gas price that they
deemed competitive or reasonable,
because the government might be able
to link them for discussion with the

Malampaya consortium.
Petilla said he cannot offer the
banked gas which is now under the
charge of the Philippine National Oil
Company because that is up for auction
as government policies require.
I told them (Marubeni): What price
are you looking at? Because I might be
able to put them into contact with Shell
for additional gas because it has extra
gas. The size of the banked gas is the
same as the banked gas that Shell has,
the energy chief stressed.
If combined, the volume of the
government-owned banked gas and
the additional production anticipated by
Shell may still power additional 400MW
capacity.
Yet aside from scale, the question
raised on the extra gas output from the
Malampaya field is how long it could last
in running power facilities.
The Malampaya consortium led by
Shell Philippines Exploration B.V. is
currently winding up its multi-year and
multi-phase $1.0-billion investment to
reinforce pressure for gas production
at the field.
The capital outlay was made so the
Malampaya consortium can sustain
the level of gas production based on its
commitment to off-takers under their
gas sale and purchase agreements or
GSPAs.
Without the fresh investment, gas
yield from Malampaya will start dwindling next year and may not be able to
keep pace with its underwritten supply
volumes until the lapse of its contracts
by year 2024.
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the international marketing arena. Photo shown during the awarding at the Wendys APEMEA Regional Conference held
at Ayala Museum, Makati City, Oct. 14, 2014 are (from left) John Pain VP & Managing Director, Asia Pacific & EMEA, The
Wendys Company, Michael Kho President, Wendys Philippines, Mr. & Mrs. Lucio Co, Mr. & Mrs. Jose T. Pardo, Founder
Wendys Philippines, Yvette Orbeta, Chairman, Wendys Philippines, and Darrel Van Ligten, President, Wendys Global
Restaurants LLC.
PH joins OECD fiscal affairs committee

By CHINO S. LEYCO
The Philippines will take part in

the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD)
Committee on Fiscal Affairs (CFA) to
help steer the global response to base
erosion and profit shifting (BEPS),
which refers to tax planning strategies
aimed at eroding taxable base to avoid
paying the right amount of tax.
According to the Department of
Finance (DOF) this places the Philippines at the forefront of the joint effort
from both developed and developing
economies in addressing troubling
trends in unfair and unjust tax avoidance and evasion.
The Philippines will use its seat to
present developing country perspectives and priorities, as well as shape
strategies, tools, and other outputs to
curb the global BEPS phenomenon,
DOF said.
BEPS is used to describe tax
planning strategies that rely on mismatches and gaps that exist between
the tax rules of different jurisdictions.
It is aimed at shifting profits in ways
that erode the taxable base.
Internal Revenue Commissioner
Kim S. Jacinto-Henares, who was
recently been appointed as United
Nations international tax expert, welcomed this development.
We look forward to developing
international tools to combat base
erosion and profit shifting. Together,
we can address a fundamentally unfair
practice where multinationals make a
huge profit in countries they pay little
to no taxes, Jacinto-Henares said.
We expect these corporations to
at least contribute to building and developing the nations they made huge
profits from, she added.
Referencing the recently concluded International Tax Forum organized
by the DOF, Jacinto-Henares added,
Living in an increasingly globalized
world requires governments to adapt

and update tax policy and enforcement
strategies.
International cooperation is key if
we want to raise sustainable amounts
of revenues to continue funding growth
and investments to our people and
country, she said.
The official also said this initiative is consistent with the Philippines
need to rationalize fiscal incentives, a
DOF priority bill on which is pending
in Congress.
While empirical evidence shows
that granting of tax incentives is not a
key motivation for multinationals on investment locations, it remains a major
source of revenue loss for developing
economies.
The OECD strategy hinges on
three main pillars: The coherence
of corporate tax at the international
level, the realignment of taxation and
substance, and transparency coupled
with certainty and predictability.
DOE drops EWC plant

from committed projects roll
DIAMOND HOTEL PHILIPPINES REPRESENTATIVE YET AGAIN BAGS MABUHAY
AWARDS The Association of Human Resources Managers (AHRM) for Hotels
and Restaurants named Diamond Hotel Philippines Timothy Decker L. Gokioco,
Chef De Partie, as the Supervisor of the Year during the 19th Mabuhay Awards
with the theme Filipino: ASEANs Pride. Photo shows (from left) Danny Padilla,
AHRM Director; Supervisor of the Year Timothy Decker L. Gokioco; Vanessa
Ledesma Suatengco, General Manager of Diamond Hotel Philippines; and
Judith Imperial, AHRM Treasurer. Every year, AHRM awards the best managers,
supervisors, and rank-and-file staff from the hospitality industry by holding the
annual Mabuhay Awards.
SEC issues warning vs

bogus investment firm
By MADELAINE B. MIRAFLOR
After being informed of a bogus

organization based in Laguna soliciting
investments from the public, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
is advising the public not to pour in any
funds in the company called Grand Alliance of Business Leaders Association,
Inc. (GABAI).
In a public advisory, the corporate
regulatory watchdog said it has received information that GABAI, a nonstock, non-profit based in Lucena City,
Quezon has been asking investments

from the public with a promise of profit
of 20 percent to 40 percent interest per
week.
As part of the scam, GABAI will
sell shares to the public and will ask
investors amount that ranges from
a minimum of P350 to a maximum of
P35,000 per day.
The SEC said that GABAI is not
licensed to offer or sell securities under the section eight of the Securities
Regulation Code (SRC).
It is important to note that securi-
Piqued by the lingering puzzle as

to when its facility will really reach
commercial commissioning, Energy
Secretary Carlos Jericho L. Petilla
has directed his department to temporarily drop the 600-megawatt Energy
World Corporation (EWC), a project
development of an Australian-led firm,
from their roll of committed power
projects.
For now, EWC is out from our list
(of committed projects), the energy
chief has grudgingly told reporters, as
he recalled how many times the company had made commitments on when
the plant will come on stream.
For the delivery of their gas turbines
alone, Petilla noted that the Department of Energy (DOE) was promised
every month as to the timeline of the
equipments arrival at its project site.

First, they said it was February
this year, then March, then May, August
and finally September, but my guess is:
It arrived in October, he stressed.
At this point, he noted that EWC has
given word that their facilitys construction is being fast-tracked and they have
been aiming to bring in new 200MW
capacity to the Luzon grid next year.
For now, they are still out in our
list. We put them back when we see
that they can finally deliver on their
commitment, Petilla said.
Beyond dilemmas on shipment of
equipment, it was gathered that EWC
also had to struggle with its financial
closing because of the merchant market set up of power development in the
restructured Philippine electricity sec-
tor. Its third dilemma is on gas supply to

fuel its prospective power plant.
In the list of committed power
projects submitted to Congress last
week, the EWC project was manifestly
withdrawn from it that the scuttlebuttdriven industry had been prompted on
array of speculations.
Due to the critical power supply
hitting Luzon grid next year, the energy
department has been closely keeping
an eye on the construction updates of
power plants.
From the initially targeted 700MW
of supply shoring up to Luzon grid
prior to March next year, that list had
been continually going down until the
DOE could only now promise for less
than 300MW of new capacity addition.
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ties under section 8 of the SRC must be

registered with the SEC before being
offered or sold to the general public,
SEC said.
Now, the agency is calling on any
individual of entity who may have invested with GABAI to submit a sworn
statement to the principal office address of the Securities and Exchange
Commission or the office of the City
Mayor of Luceno City.
To verify registration and licenses
in engaging in investment-taking activities, the public is also advised to

contact SEC Company Registration
and Monitoring Department, Markets
and Securities and Regulation Department, and Corporate Governance and
Finance Department first.
In August, SEC has warned the
public of a fake company selling shares
through the social networking site
called Facebook.
In its earlier memorandum, the
commission said it received information that some individuals and business

entities are engaged in the offering
and selling of shares of WMAC Holdings Corp. in the Philippines through
Facebook.
In an interview, SEC Commission
Secretary Gerard Lukban said it is
always important that the public would
be aware of these scams as soon as
possible to avoid further damage on the
victims side.
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On cost impact, market risks
First Gen re-assessing LNG investments

By MYRNA M. VELASCO
wo major factors cost impact

on consumers and market risks
-- are being studied and re-assessed by First Gen Corporation
of the Lopez Group before pursuing investments on their planned series of Saints
gas plants and an integrated liquefied
natural gas (LNG) terminal.
In an interview with reporters, First
Gen chairman Federico R. Lopez indicated
that they are keeping track of developments as to how gas prices will shape in the
Asian market following last weeks signing
of a gas supply deal between the super
power economies of China and Russia.

Additionally, the company is looking at
the various geopolitical factors that have
been swamping the global oil market with
supply which in turn, could have price pull
down effect on gas commodity.
A lot of the gas coming from Japan is
still on the expensive range about $15-17
per million BTU (British thermal unit).
But what we see when China signed this
deal with Russia, it was lower price than
the first one Lopez said.
Although he noted that the details
of the agreement have been sparse, the
information circulating to market watchers had been that with a lot of gas now
flooding the market, its interesting and

its bringing down prices, (theres) a lot of
competition.
First Gen board director Richard
B. Tantoco has added that the current
thinking right now is that LNG is heading
toward a bit of oversupply and prices will
trend down.
The Lopez firm, according to company
president Francis Giles B. Puno will reach
decision point on the next phase of their
successive gas power projects next year
the proposed 414-megawatt Sta. Maria
gas plant. But the crucial consideration
there will be off-take agreements for the
plants capacity.
This will follow the development plot

of the 414-MW San Gabriel power project
which broke ground this year and due for
commercial commissioning in 2016. If the
final decision is to move forward with the
Sta Maria facility, First Gen is looking forward to putting that on stream by 2017.
Lopez admitted that the higher cost
of gas as a fuel for electricity generation
remains a hurdle that they must seriously
consider especially in an electricity market of penny-pinching consumers like the
Philippines.
You have to compete against each
other, so at the end of the day, if your gas
cannot compete, its hard to bring that to
the market. Most of the consumers, they

still look for cheap power, he stressed.
For the domestic power industry, he
noted that the lack of fuel mix policy could
spur the preponderance of cheaper technologies in the mix with the environment
or air quality case just being relegated to
the background.
The only thing is that it will, I mean
with the Philippine setting, even if you put
up LNG terminal, power plants you still
have to compete with other sources. And
the big challenges that the Philippines
have is that we compete. Its not like in
other countries they determine whats the
fuel mix, Lopez stressed.
Another wind project to hike power rates

The third wind power project that will
be endorsed by the Department of Energy
(DOE) for the availment of feed-in-tariff
(FIT) may come up as an ugly winner
for the electricity consumers because it
will be a factor that could further drive up
electricity rates.
Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho
L. Petilla admitted that the third wind
project could push up the FIT Allowance
(FIT-All) charge because the plan is to take
in the whole capacity of the plant even if
the leeway for wind installation based on
prescribed cap now is just lean.
To date, the energy department
already endorsed 169-megawatt of wind
capacity for FIT availment, and if hinged
on the 200MW cap, it now just has a room
for 31MW. The first qualifiers are the
150-MW wind power facility of Energy
Development Corporation and the 19-MW
Northwind expansion of the Ayala group.
However, the projects being re-vali-
dated are of 81MW and 54MW capacities,

inferring clearly that the availment could
go beyond 200MW.
Petilla hinted that the next FIT qualifier will likely be a plant of bigger capacity
so if the 81MW project will be factored
in, the installation for wind could spillover
by 50MW and that could be an unforeseen
increase in the consumers electric bills.
For taking the risk, we would have
to take them (their capacity) as a whole,
Petilla said, while indicating that this will
definitely entail upward adjustment in the
FIT-All rate.
The FIT, being a sure source of cash
stream for developers for the next 20
years, had technically rendered the
renewable energy projects gaining legs
because they became the subject of fierce
competition even for the energy sectors
big boys club.
The plan of the DOE is to pursue the
FIT adjustment in the next round of filing
or for calendar year 2016, although this is

a matter that has yet to be resolved by the
Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC)
because this implies prospective change
of rules at mid-stream.
Aside from higher cost impacts, the
energy department may also need to explain why a leaked email of an official of
one of its units just apprised some and
not all developers - as to the step-by-step
process of FIT availment and that was
done in October way before any plant
had reached nomination or endorsement
phase for the subsidy.
The tough contest is not only on the
wind sphere of technology developments,
but it also goes the same with the solar
sector wherein only two projects may
qualify for FIT settlements. Petilla said
the solar installation cap of 50MW cap may
already be breached, and such will also be
included in the portended adjustment in
FIT-All application. (MMV)
SUPPORT FOR PHLS BIGGEST WIND FARM - Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary
Carlos Jericho L. Petilla (4th from left) extends a congratulatory handshake to
Federico R. Lopez (5th from left), Chairman and CEO of Energy Development
Corporation (EDC) and EDC Burgos Wind Power Corporation (EBWPC), during a
ceremonial loan signing and cocktail reception held on Nov. 13, 2014, in Taguig
City for the $315-million loan agreement between EBWPC and a syndicate of
foreign and local banks. The loan facility is for the construction of EBWPCs
150-megawatt Burgos Wind Project, the countrys largest wind farm located in
Ilocos Norte. EBWPC is an affiliate of Energy Development Corporation (EDC), a
Lopez Group company. Also in photo are (from left) Ernesto B. Pantangco, EDC
director and Executive Vice President; Jose Raymund A. Acol, DOE Assistant
Secretary; Nestor H. Vasay, EDC Senior Vice President and CFO; Jonathan C.
Russell, EDC director; and Richard B. Tantoco, EDC President and COO.
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World
November 14, 2014 closings
NOVEMBER 14, 2014

52 Weeks
HIGH
LOW
STOCKS
PAR
VALUE
2012
EPS
PREV
CLOSE
OPEN
HIGH
LOW CLOSE
VOLUME
VALUE
PE
RATIO
FRANKFURT
****BANKS****
75.3
107.4
101.8
63
31.6
91
30.5
75
94.95
140
95
59
157
130
63.5
67.5
82.5
48.4
23.2
69.35
19.38
37.75
76
99.9
75
41.5
105.1
66.2
ASIA UNITED
BDO UNIBANK
BANK PH ISLANDS
CHINABANK
EAST WEST BANK
METROBANK
PB BANK
PBCOM
PHIL NATL BANK
PSBANK
PHILTRUST
RCBC
SECURITY BANK
UNION BANK
71
105.7
94.55
48.65
26.5
85
19.4
37.55
83.45
100
52.9
153.9
70.6
158,280
5,025,760
932,990
78,800
92,100
2,080,030
46,200
7,300
9,550
6,110
0
207,220
93,040
27,880
11,246,403
527,006,946
88,579,576.50
3,830,550
2,440,620
175,880,687.50
895,766
274,365
793,381.50
611,002
0
10,954,502
14,373,108
1,960,960
14.06
16.99
18.22
13.63
14.56
10.60
6.38
6.40
17.10
8.20
69.85
13.39
18.52
5.02
4.2
2.3
19.6
2.9
49
1.01
890
1.55
392
1,700.00
1.9
1.94
13.5
1.73
16
0.175
711
1.17
276
1,281.00
**** OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

****
**** OTHER
FINANCIAL INSTITUTION ****
0.55
0.1
3.33
3.29
3.29
3.28
3.29
BRIGHT KINDLE
1.00
0.19
2.21
2.12
2.12
2.12
2.12
BDO LEASING
1.00
0.65
13.6
13.6
13.6
13.58
13.58
COL FINANCIAL
1.00
0.05
1.89
1.9
1.9
1.8
1.9
IREMIT
1.00
0.19
45.6
45.65
45.65
45.65
45.65
MACAY HLDG
1.00
-0.02
0.61
0.61
0.64
0.6
0.62
MEDCO HLDG
0.00
11.31
800
800
800
800
800
MANULIFE
1.00
0.01
1.17
1.17
1.17
1.17
1.17
NTL REINSURANCE
1.00
11.53
292
293
293
289
291.8
PHIL STOCK EXCH
0.00
110.64 1,574.00
1,550
1,550
1,550
1,550
SUN LIFE
426,000
31,000
524,100
37,000
300
772,000
10
50,000
3,880
190
1,401,470
65,720
7,127,656
66,900
13,695
475,180
8,000
58,500
1,125,816
294,500
32.90
11.16
20.89
21.11
236.28
-31.00
11.91
117.00
25.31
14.01
2.3
42.6
8.3
27.1
92
295
30
14.48
7.03
5.5
2.68
1.25
31.75
4.25
12.2
48.9
246
20.35
11.2
3.93
4.1
1.37
**** ELECTRICITY, ENERGY,

POWER & WATER **** ENERGY, POWER
**** ELECTRICITY,
1.00
0.07
1.96
1.96
1.96
ALSONS CONS
1.00
3.32
41
40.9
41.1
ABOITIZ POWER
1.00
0.46
8.1
8.1
8.14
ENERGY DEVT
1.00
1.23
26.2
26.15
26.3
FIRST GEN
FIRST PHIL HLDG
10.00
4.09
90.25
90.35
90.8
MERALCO
10.00
15.27
262
262
262.4
MANILA WATER
1.00
2.34
29
29
29
PETRON
1.00
0.28
11.64
11.84
11.84
PHX PETROLEUM
1.00
0.45
4.13
4.13
4.13
SPC POWER
1.00
0.67
4.2
4.48
4.49
TA OIL
1.00
0.12
2.38
2.38
2.41
1.95
41.1
8.1
25.95
89.95
261
29
11.8
4.09
4.49
2.4
1,041,000
5,365,000
21,012,100
3,411,200
338,390
212,480
942,400
3,394,100
346,000
30,000
1,769,000
2,037,310
220,148,335
170,353,141
88,803,755
30,478,212.50
55,505,068
27,253,845
39,806,854
1,418,010
134,490
4,250,500
26.35
16.31
32.14
21.08
22.01
17.09
12.39
42.14
9.09
8.63
20.00
5.98
113
17.2
27.5
15.5
12.98
26.5
199.8
90
275
5.37
6.68
8.1
0.315
193.5
1.3
5.5
2.02
40.2
14.6
16.6
5.98
10.32
15.8
150.8
13.38
210
4
4.82
5
0.118
111.3
0.55
1.68
**** FOOD,
**** FOOD, BEVERAGE & TOBACCO
****
1.00
-0.22
AGRINURTURE
10.00
0.13
BOGO MEDELLIN
1.00
-0.0008
CENTURY FOOD
0.01
52.6
DEL MONTE
1.00
0.39
DNL INDUS
1.00
0.52
EMPERADOR
1.00
-3.97
GINEBRA
1.00
4.45
JOLLIBEE
1.00
0.63
MAXS GROUP
10.00
17.38
PUREFOODS
0.15
0.24
PEPSI COLA
1.00
0.22
RFM CORP
1.00
0.52
ROXAS HLDG
1.00
0.06
SWIFT FOODS
1.00
4.6
UNIV ROBINA
1.00
0.39
VITARICH
1.00
0.28
VICTORIAS
2.39
60
16
16.88
14.84
10.6
15.96
194.2
21.65
225
4.17
5
6.9
0.195
187
0.99
4.83
22,000
150
642,500
164,900
5,832,600
815,600
52,500
416,150
36,200
22,850
4,607,000
3,351,000
29,300
8,580,000
937,360
3,425,000
35,000
52,740
9,000
10,266,244
2,784,884
86,778,748
8,691,734
840,068
80,866,613
776,730
5,074,690
19,442,820
16,740,740
201,680
1,679,780
174,336,730
3,387,030
164,800
-10.86
461.54
-20000.00
0.32
38.05
20.38
-4.02
43.64
34.37
12.95
17.38
23.04
13.27
3.25
40.65
2.54
17.25
8.65
0.96
0.82
8.68
8
12.8
8.55
8.6
9.94
1.6
1.33
**** CONSTRUCTION,
INFRASTRUCTURE &INFRASTRUCTURE
ALLIED SERVICES ****
**** CONSTRUCTION,
& ALLIED
1.00
0.03
8.7
9
9
8.98
ASIABEST GROUP
0.35
1.38
1.86
1.89
2
1.89
SEACEM
0.02
-0.06
2.2
2.18
2.23
2.17
DAVINCI CAPITAL
EEI CORP
1.00
0.94
11.2
11.28
11.3
11.2
FED RESOURCES
1.00
-0.1
13.8
14.2
15
14.2
HOLCIM
1.00
0.71
14
14.02
14.02
14.02
LAFARGE REP
1.00
0.64
9.5
9.5
9.5
9.48
MEGAWIDE
1.00
1.13
8.7
8.7
8.74
8.7
PHINMA
10.00
0.86
10.32
10.3
10.5
10.3
TKC STEEL
1.00
-0.69
1.78
1.68
1.78
1.68
VULCAN INDL
1.00
0.1
1.55
1.53
1.53
1.5
1.21
2.8
**** CHEMICALS ****

EUROMED
LMG CHEMICALS
15.8
56.8
0.82
9.4
0.98
6.49
9.82
21.5
0.0076
2.05
0.32
3.37
**** ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS

& EQUIPMENT ****
**** ELECTRICAL
COMPONENTS
CIRTEK HLDG
1.00
0.72
14
14
CONCEPCION
1.00
1.95
39.95
40
GREENERGY
0.01
-0.0003
0.55
0.55
INTEGRATED MICR
1.00
0.25
8.57
8.57
IONICS
1.00
-0.14
0.62
0.65
PANASONIC
1.00
0.19
4.12
4.13
2.64
1.7
**** OTHER INDUSTRIALS ****

SPLASH CORP
1.00
2.7
0.7
747
61.6
31.85
7.39
3.29
3.3
11.06
84
3.3
0.66
1,110.00
7.1
65
0.9
7.05
19.9
0.73
6.55
4
5.4
0.067
0.84
2.24
2.2
834.5
87
3.5
156
0.7
0.435
0.51
1.6
0.46
508
48.5
21.95
6.3
1.06
1.07
7.39
14.5
2.51
0.144
706
5.3
36.7
0.58
3.95
13.42
0.58
4.5
3.08
4.06
0.027
0.355
1.4
1.04
680
54.5
1.5
58.05
0.158
0.15
0.295
**** HOLDING FIRMS ****

ASIA AMLGMATED
ABACORE CAPITAL
AYALA CORP
ABOITIZ EQUITY
ALLIANCE GLOBAL
ANSCOR
ATN HLDG A
ATN HLDG B
COSCO CAPITAL
DMCI HLDG
FJ PRINCE A
FORUM PACIFIC
GT CAPITAL
HOUSE OF INV
JG SUMMIT
LODESTAR
LOPEZ HLDG
LT GROUP
MABUHAY HLDG
MINERALES IND
MJC INVESTMENTS
METRO PAC INV
PACIFICA
PRIME ORION
PRIME MEDIA
SOLID GROUP
SM INVESTMENTS
SAN MIGUEL CORP
SEAFRONT RES
TOP FRONTIER
UNIOIL HLDG
WELLEX INDUS
ZEUS HLDG
0.375
25.5
35.7
2.07
6.15
1.99
0.201
6.1
1.89
0.98
1.09
0.37
1.77
2.25
9.03
1.79
2.4
5.3
0.18
0.47
25.9
2.06
3.6
1.02
18.38
7.23
1.96
6.5
0.185
10.98
23.7
1
4.41
0.99
0.068
5
1.05
0.47
0.85
0.175
1.18
1.22
5.81
1.19
1.35
3.12
0.07
0.325
18.72
1.45
2.9
0.58
14.1
3.05
0.89
4.37
**** PROPERTY ****

ARTHALAND CORP
ANCHOR LAND
AYALA LAND
ARANETA PROP
BELLE CORP
A BROWN
CROWN EQUITIES
CEBU HLDG
CENTURY PROP
CYBER BAY
EMPIRE EAST
EVER GOTESCO
FILINVEST LAND
GLOBAL ESTATE
8990 HLDG
IRC PROP
CITY AND LAND
MEGAWORLD
MRC ALLIED
PHIL ESTATES
ROBINSONS LAND
ROCKWELL
SHANG PROP
STA LUCIA LAND
SM PRIME HLDG
STARMALLS
SUNTRUST HOME
VISTA LAND
46
9.04
1.97
27
6.8
0.485
**** MEDIA ****

ABS CBN
GMA NETWORK
MANILA BULLETIN
2,008.00
2.85
3,486.00
1,590.00
1.15
2,572.00
**** TELECOMMUNICATIONS ****

GLOBE TELECOM
50.00
LIBERTY TELECOM
1.00
PLDT
5.00
9
0.82
2.28
5.99
0.62
10
4.3
0.026
1.5
2
0.35
4.39
**** INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

****INFORMATION
****
DFNN INC
1.00
-1
6.85
ISLAND INFO
0.01
-0.0002
0.77
ISM COMM
1.00
0.07
1.5
JACKSTONES
1.00
-0.66
3.98
MG HLDG
1.00
-0.88
0.41
PHILWEB
1.00
0.21
6.04
3.25
13.26
79.2
118.9
4.32
6.6
1.95
1.56
10
44.8
94.4
1.9
3
1.2
**** TRANSPORTATION SERVICES

****TRANSPORTATION
****
2GO GROUP
1.00
-0.16
2.59
2.59
ASIAN TERMINALS
1.00
0.6
11.98
11.56
CEBU AIR
1.00
0.84
73.2
73.55
INTL CONTAINER
1.00
0.07
111.5
112.1
MACROASIA
1.00
-0.14
2.34
2.33
PAL HLDG
1.00
-0.53
3.8
3.9
HARBOR STAR
1.00
0.24
1.5
1.5
1.44
0.164
0.49
0.92
0.077
0.305
**** HOTEL & LEISURE ****

ACESITE HOTEL
BOULEVARD HLDG
WATERFRONT
1.00
0.10
1.00
0.1
-0.0004
-0.003
11.98
0.87
10.14
0.59
**** EDUCATION ****

CENTRO ESCOLAR
STI HLDG
1.00
0.50
0.79
0.1
28.5
15.82
0.017
18
8.28
0.012
**** CASINOS & GAMING ****

BERJAYA
1.00
BLOOMBERRY
1.00
IP EGAME
0.01
16.8
4.2
4.57
12.34
19
15.74
10.98
14.7
14.5
2.5
2.17
2.5
4.55
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
20.00
10.00
100.00
40.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
5.05
6.22
5.19
3.57
1.82
8.02
3.04
5.87
4.88
12.19
1.71
3.95
8.31
14.07
71.95
103
95.65
48.5
26.8
82.45
19.4
37.6
83.25
100
95
53
152.5
69.25
72
103.2
95.6
48.5
26.5
82.8
19.4
37.6
83
100.1
53
152.6
70
72
105.7
95.6
48.7
26.5
85.15
19.4
37.6
83.5
100.1
53.2
154.8
70.6
70.1
103.2
94.55
48.5
26.4
82.8
19.38
37.55
83
100
52.7
152.6
70
& WATER ****

1.94
40.85
8.08
25.85
89.7
260.6
28.7
11.62
4.08
4.48
2.38
2.4
60
15.86
17
15.2
10.8
16.02
196
21.7
222.2
4.17
4.93
6.9
0.2
189.4
1
4.71
2.4
60
16
17
15.2
10.8
16.02
196.5
21.7
225
4.3
5
6.9
0.203
189.4
1.01
4.83
2.39
60
15.68
16.88
14.84
10.6
15.96
193.2
21.25
222
4.15
4.82
6.88
0.193
185
0.98
4.7
1,400
2,544,000
144,000
45,900
25,000
3,700
564,300
12,300
5,100
11,000
1,899,000
12,598
4,892,870
314,110
516,324
370,950
51,874
5,357,049
107,164
52,730
18,580
2,865,940
345.38
1.41
-36.67
12.01
-144.23
19.75
14.88
7.72
11.98
-2.58
15.41
0.05
-0.01
1.6
2.9
2.82
0
20,000
0
56,840
32.00
-296.84
14.1
40
0.52
8.41
0.62
4.08
113,600
174,000
717,000
317,100
201,000
373,000
1,595,370
6,960,000
374,360
2,677,968
125,350
1,503,300
19.55
20.51
-1762.71
33.05
-4.43
21.47
2.2
2.39
4,757,000
10,758,930
18.38
1.65
0.495
706
51
24.05
7.1
2.7
2.7
7.9
15.26
3.23
0.42
1,050
6.2
62.45
0.62
6.66
13.36
0.64
5.62
3.36
4.98
0.052
0.7
1.56
1.31
772
74
2.75
124.5
0.425
0.275
0.395
1.65
0.51
710
51
24.3
7.15
2.78
2.7
7.9
15.32
3.23
0.43
1,074
6.33
62.45
0.63
6.66
13.58
0.67
5.8
3.36
5.02
0.052
0.7
1.56
1.34
778
74.8
2.75
124.6
0.435
0.28
0.395
1,000
101,000
249,540
924,490
13,881,200
31,600
55,000
5,000
3,681,700
5,253,400
72,000
3,370,000
262,655
1,300
2,500,970
181,000
1,327,400
701,700
16,050,000
224,300
2,000
13,623,000
15,950,000
145,000
37,000
255,000
217,280
78,560
10,000
9,790
6,720,000
4,640,000
900,000
1,650
51,010
176,939,180
47,482,288.50
336,930,370
225,925
151,480
13,500
29,294,522
80,395,906
235,470
1,462,100
281,669,405
8,216
156,268,287
112,280
8,903,846
9,526,350
10,891,300
1,276,504
6,720
68,347,775
843,100
102,020
57,780
335,450
168,661,755
5,829,063.50
27,500
1,219,519
2,899,100
1,299,100
355,700
-485.29
1.43
34.58
13.39
17.67
6.62
-219.24
-212.93
14.98
2.15
10.43
-430.00
21.71
6.41
42.23
-144.50
15.65
15.98
12.67
-575.51
-80.00
17.99
-1300.00
2.26
55.71
14.56
22.30
5.51
140.74
6.03
-117.57
-8.51
-1538.46
0.28
11.8
34.85
1.67
5.05
1.19
0.151
5.2
1.08
0.54
0.87
0.224
1.59
1.84
7.81
1.79
1.35
4.9
0.152
0.38
25.9
1.77
3.37
0.84
17.82
7.23
1.59
6.34
0.28
10.98
34.5
1.56
4.98
1.15
0.145
5.18
1.05
0.52
0.87
0.219
1.57
1.83
7.66
1.59
1.35
4.85
0.142
0.365
25
1.74
3.3
0.82
17.6
6.96
1.52
6.27
0.28
11.3
34.65
1.56
4.98
1.19
0.148
5.18
1.06
0.53
0.87
0.219
1.59
1.84
7.7
1.72
1.35
4.88
0.149
0.375
25.5
1.77
3.37
0.84
17.78
7.17
1.53
6.3
20,000
15,000
6,978,300
40,000
1,002,000
110,000
8,190,000
299,500
1,995,000
1,309,000
342,000
1,450,000
10,318,000
209,000
846,000
59,808,000
18,000
29,784,000
35,890,000
500,000
603,000
228,000
9,000
1,341,000
9,439,500
4,134,300
10,478,000
37,678,000
5,600
166,800
241,709,755
64,230
5,017,180
130,500
1,207,190
1,557,200
2,123,900
693,520
297,540
320,550
16,305,670
383,830
6,549,902
102,178,700
24,300
145,321,810
5,329,090
185,350
15,486,035
398,680
29,910
1,111,350
167,950,834
29,342,534
16,326,810
237,583,031
5.26
10.87
41.25
190.24
14.15
580.49
-7400.00
19.92
5.02
-18.28
41.43
14.60
9.94
54.12
14.81
5.38
6.75
15.84
4.97
31.25
23.39
7.70
32.72
30.00
30.34
38.55
170.00
10.62
45
7
0.72
44.6
6.9
0.72
45
6.9
0.72
75,400
24,900
275,000
3,385,065
173,169
198,000
16.74
20.12
18.00
1,690
2.39
2,996
26,405
120,000
99,000
44,541,740
276,910
296,586,560
45.07
-4.69
18.29
6.73
0.77
1.55
3.33
0.405
6
6,300
40,830,000
43,000
2,000
60,000
327,100
42,449
31,245,800
65,100
6,670
24,050
1,977,590
-6.73
-3850.00
23.13
-5.05
-0.46
28.49
2.55
11.56
71
112.1
2.33
3.71
1.49
2.64
11.56
71.15
113.9
2.35
3.9
1.49
175,000
800
2,904,950
850,690
398,000
131,000
106,000
453,160
9,248
207,837,448.50
96,612,067
931,450
497,770
158,350
-16.50
19.27
84.76
37.30
-16.79
-7.38
6.21
1.21
0.111
0.365
1.21
0.12
0.38
54,000
642,670,000
1,610,000
67,940
75,399,480
597,100
12.00
-300.00
-128.33
0.78
0.78
0
11,000
0
8,580
13.80
8.13
25
13.5
0.015
27
13.52
0.016
500
9,889,200
49,700,000
12,700
133,743,574
789,600
21.31
-109.03
-2.67
2.86
2.86
2.82
13.9
40
0.5
8.4
0.62
4
November 14, 2014 closings
BANGKOK
2.25
2.25
2.4
1.65
0.51
709
51.9
24.5
7.2
2.7
2.87
7.96
15.26
3.15
0.43
1,069.00
6.32
62.95
0.63
6.75
13.38
0.65
5.9
3.25
5.03
0.053
0.7
1.67
1.35
778
74.4
2.76
124.1
0.445
0.285
0.395
1.65
0.51
707
51.9
24.65
7.15
2.75
2.7
8.05
15.5
3.29
0.445
1,069
6.33
62.55
0.64
6.7
13.38
0.65
5.8
3.36
5.04
0.053
0.71
1.57
1.34
774
74.5
2.75
124.5
0.445
0.29
0.41
1.65
0.51
710
52
24.7
7.15
2.78
2.7
8.05
15.58
3.3
0.445
1,080
6.33
63
0.64
6.82
13.66
0.7
5.8
3.36
5.06
0.054
0.71
1.57
1.34
780
74.8
2.75
125
0.445
0.295
0.41
0.28
11.02
35
1.6
4.99
1.19
0.149
5.2
1.06
0.54
0.9
0.225
1.57
1.84
7.78
1.59
1.38
4.85
0.145
0.365
25.1
1.77
3.35
0.8
17.6
7
1.51
6.35
0.28
11
34.55
1.67
4.99
1.15
0.151
5.2
1.06
0.54
0.87
0.223
1.57
1.84
7.81
1.59
1.35
4.86
0.143
0.37
25
1.75
3.37
0.82
17.6
7
1.55
6.3
**** MEDIA ****

1.00
1.00
1.00
2.69
0.34
0.04
45
6.89
0.74
45
6.9
0.72
**** TELECOMMUNICATIONS ****

37.25
-0.51
163.67
1,650.00
2.35
2,996.00
1,670
2.34
2,994
1,690
2.39
3,002
1,664
2.27
2,984
TECHNOLOGY ****
6.75
0.77
1.5
3.34
0.4
6.04
6.75
0.78
1.55
3.34
0.405
6.15
6.73
0.75
1.5
3.33
0.4
6
*** HOTEL & LEISURE ****

1.2
0.112
0.385
1.26
0.113
0.385
1.26
0.122
0.395
**** EDUCATION ****

10.9
0.78
0.78
0.78
**** CASINOS & GAMING ****

1.27
-0.12
-0.006
27
13.5
0.015
25
13.6
0.015
27
13.6
0.016
0.26%
Phisix
7,217.34
(18.71)
SEOUL
ShANGhAI
0.27%
Composite
2,478.82
(-6.78)
0.78%
Kospi Index
1,945.14
(-15.37)
SINGAPORE
SYDNEY
0.32%
ST Index
3,315.67
(10.74)
0.21%
S&P
5,454.30
(11.60 )
TOKYO
TAIPEI
0.02%
W Index
8,982.88
(2.21)
0.56%
Nikkei
17,490.83
(98.04)
Top Gainers
STOCKS
PRICE %CHG
FEDERAL RES.INVESTMENT GROUP, INC.

IRC PROPERTIES, INC
IRIPPLE, INC.
MANILA MINING CORPORATION A
BOULEVARD HOLDINGS, INC.
SPC POWER CORPORATION
IP-EGAME VENTURES, INC.
SPLASH CORPORATION
STA. LUCIA LAND, INC.
CENTURY PEAK METALS HOLDINGS CORP
15.00
1.72
34.90
0.015
0.120
4.49
0.016
2.39
0.84
0.96
8.70%
8.18%
7.38%
7.14%
7.14%
6.90%
6.67%
6.22%
5.00%
4.35%
Top Losers
STOCKS
PRICE %CHG
JACKSTONES, INC.
PRIME MEDIA HOLDINGS, INC.
MANILA MINING CORPORATION B
COAL ASIA HOLDINGS INC.
MEGAWORLD CORPORATION WARRANTS
ATN HOLDINGS, INC. B
GREENERGY HOLDINGS INCORPORATED
THE PHILODRILL CORPORATION
BDO LEASING & FINANCE, INC.
ASIAN TERMINALS, INC.
3.33
1.56
0.015
1.05
13.31
2.70
0.52
0.022
2.12
11.56
-16.33%
-6.59%
-6.25%
-6.25%
-5.97%
-5.92%
-5.45%
-4.35%
-4.07%
-3.51%
Most Active
STOCKS
VOLUME VALUE
BDO UNIBANK, INC.

ALLIANCE GLOBAL GROUP, INC.
PLDT COMPANY COMMON
GT CAPITAL HOLDINGS, INC.
ROB. RETAIL HOLDINGS, INC.
AYALA LAND, INC.
VISTA LAND & LIFESCAPES, INC.
ABOITIZ POWER CORP.
CEBU AIR, INC.
AYALA CORPORATION
5,025,760
13,881,200
99,000
262,655
3,570,010
6,978,300
37,678,000
5,365,000
2,904,950
249,540
527,006,946.00
336,930,370.00
296,586,560.00
281,669,405.00
246,320,787.00
241,709,755.00
237,583,031.00
220,148,335.00
207,837,448.50
176,939,180.00
Dividends
SERVICES ****
2.64
11.56
74
113.9
2.4
3.95
1.5
MANILA
0.11%
KLCI
1,813.79
(-2.02)
**** PROPERTY ****

0.18
0.05
1.00
1.04
1.00
0.84
1.00
0.008
1.00
0.35
1.00
0.002
0.10 -0.00002
1.00
0.26
0.53
0.21
1.00
-0.03
1.00
0.02
1.00
0.02
1.00
0.16
1.00
0.03
1.50
0.52
1.00
0.32
1.00
0.2
1.00
0.31
0.20
0.03
1.00
0.01
1.00
1.09
1.00
0.23
1.00
0.1
1.00
0.03
1.00
0.59
1.00
0.19
1.00
0.009
1.00
0.59
0.28%
Hang Seng
24,087.38
(67.44)
KUALA LUMPUR
**** HOLDING FIRMS ****

1.00
-0.003
1.00
0.36
50.00
20.53
1.00
3.81
1.00
1.38
1.00
1.08
1.00
-0.01
1.00
-0.01
1.00
0.53
1.00
7.13
1.00
0.3
1.00
-0.001
10.00
49.7
1.50
0.99
1.00
1.48
0.10
-0.004
1.00
0.43
1.00
0.85
1.00
0.05
1.00
-0.01
1.00
-0.04
1.00
0.28
0.01 -0.00004
1.00
0.31
1.00
0.03
1.00
0.09
10.00
34.85
5.00
13.43
1.00
0.02
1.00
20.67
1.00
-0.004
1.00
-0.03
1.00
-0.0003
hONG KONG
0.08%
Set Index
1,575.88
(-1.33)
**** OTHER INDUSTRIALS ****

0.13
0.35%
CAC40
4,202.46
(14.51)
Asia-Pacific
& EQUIPMENT ****

14.1
40
0.55
8.57
0.65
4.13
PARIS
0.10%
Dow Jones
17,634.74
(-18.05)
**** CHEMICALS ****

1.00
1.00
0.29%
FTSE
6,654.37
(18.92)
NEW YORK
SERVICES ****
8.98
1.94
2.2
11.3
15
14.02
9.49
8.72
10.3
1.78
1.53
LONDON
0.05%
DAX
9,252.94
(4.43)
BEVERAGE & TOBACCO ****

2.44
58.6
15.84
16.9
15.2
10.72
16.3
196.9
21.5
222.2
4.18
4.99
6.99
0.2
186.4
1
4.84
SYM
EDC
CPG
MWIDE
PX
REG
REG
OV
PFP
TYPE
VALUE
Cash
R0.10
Stock 0.2065 PS or 20.65%
Stock
45.50%
Cash
0.03
Cash
R0.10
Cash
R0.15 PS
Cash
R0.00050
Cash Pref.at R20.00 PS
**PS - per share

**PCS - per common share
**PSS - per share (special)
**PSR - per share (regular)
EX-DIV
DATE
Oct 15, 2014
Oct 22, 2014
Oct 17, 2014
Nov 07, 2014
Nov 04, 2014
Nov 04, 2014
Nov 07, 2014
Nov 14, 2014
**RPA - rate per annum

**DRPA - dividend rate per annum
**PDPS- per day per share
**PDPOS- per day per share
RECORD
DATE
Oct 20, 2014
Oct 27, 2014
Oct 22, 2014
Nov 12, 2014
Nov 7, 2014
Nov 7, 2014
Nov 12, 2014
Nov 19, 2014
DATE
PAYABLE
Nov 13, 2014
Nov 14, 2014
Nov 17, 2014
Nov 28, 2014
Dec 1, 2014
Dec 1, 2014
Dec 1, 2014
Dec 3, 2014
**POS - per outstanding share

**POCSS - per outstanding share (special)
**POCSR - per outstanding share (regular)
**STA - subject to approval
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NOVEMBER 14, 2014
52 Weeks
HIGH LOW
22.8
11.84
15.1
2.4
0.71
2.13
11.32
PAR
VALUE
STOCKS
2012
EPS
14.54
5.82
10.94
1.42
0.265
0.26
7.78
PACIFIC ONLINE
LEISURE AND RES
MELCO CROWN
MANILA JOCKEY
PRMIERE HORIZON
PREMIUM LEISURE
TRAVELLERS
4.05
48.5
74
105.5
8.49
3
31.45
48
81
7.59
**** RETAIL ****

CALATA CORP
PUREGOLD
ROBINSONS RTL
PHIL SEVEN CORP
SSI GROUP
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.31
1.43
3.79
1.49
0
1.09
1.04
0.59
0.36
**** OTHER SERVICES ****

1.00
APC GROUP
1.00
NOW CORP
-0.008
-0.1
19
0.0098
17.24
12.7
1.73
1.2
10.98
0.46
0.455
0.475
0.023
0.026
8.2
3.35
48.85
1.03
3.06
12.88
420
0.016
9.43
0.0028
11.48
6.2
0.76
0.5
4.93
0.395
0.26
0.27
0.012
0.014
2.53
1.47
14.22
0.22
1.24
7.87
115.9
0.0087
INING
ATOK
ABRA MINING
ATLAS MINING
BENGUET A
COAL ASIA HLDG
CENTURY PEAK
DIZON MINES
GEOGRACE
LEPANTO A
LEPANTO B
MANILA MINING A
MANILA MINING B
MARCVENTURES
NIHAO
NICKEL ASIA
OMICO CORP
ORNTL PENINSULA
PX MINING
SEMIRARA MINING
UNITED PARAGON
1.00
-0.13
0.01 -0.00005
8.00
0.92
3.00
0.04
1.00
-0.02
1.00
-0.008
1.00
-0.1
1.00
0.0001
0.10
0.08
0.10
0.08
0.01 -0.00006
0.01 -0.00006
1.00
0.58
1.00
-0.45
0.50
0.82
1.00
-0.02
1.00
0.31
1.00
0.07
1.00
21.11
0.01
-0.0003
0.33
0.02
0.021
0.04
7.67
10.42
9
0.225
0.014
0.015
0.025
5.4
6.3
3.95
**** OIL ****

BASIC ENERGY
ORNTL PETROL A
ORNTL PETROL B
PHILODRILL
PETROENERGY
PX PETROLEUM
TA PETROLEUM
0.25
0.01
0.01
0.01
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.009
0.002
0.002
0.002
0.008
-0.06
0
46.1
540
515
9.04
1.3
0
77.25
78.95
81.85
26.3
490
500
6.22
0.99
0
74.2
74.5
75
PREFERRED
ABS HLDG PDR
AC PREF B1
AC PREF B2
GMA HLDG PDR
LR PREF
PCOR PREF 2B
SMC PREF 2A
SMC PREF 2B
SMC PREF 2C
0.00
100.00
100.00
0.00
1.00
1.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6.75
4.45
0.001
1.21
WARRANTS
LR WARRANT
MEG WARRANT
10.96
15
64.95
2.4
3.5
8
SMALL
DOUBLEDRAGON
MAKATI FINANCE
IRIPPLE
0.10
1.00
1.00
119.6
94
EXCHANGE
FIRST METRO ETF
100.00
SECTORIAL SUMMARY Open

FInAnCIALS
InDUSTRIALS
HOLDIng FIRMS
PROPERTY
SERVICES
MInIng & OIL
SME
ETF
PSEI
ALL SHARES
gRAnD TOTAL
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.25
0.25
0.10
1.14
0.29
-0.74
2.22
0.002
0.001
0
PREV
CLOSE
OPEN
HIGH
LOW
CLOSE
VOLUME
16
11.66
13.8
1.99
0.63
2.12
8.21
15.9
11.78
13.98
2.04
0.62
2.13
8.35
16.12
11.84
14.16
2.06
0.65
2.16
8.35
15.9
11.66
13.86
2.04
0.62
2.08
8.1
15.9
11.68
13.88
2.05
0.64
2.1
8.1
700
1,919,500
2,902,100
220,000
5,257,000
57,912,000
7,409,000
11,174
22,558,936
40,394,542
451,230
3,353,000
122,387,900
60,723,440
13.93
40.94
-18.76
0.92
278.26
1875.00
26.13
3.13
35.05
67.8
87
7.95
3.2
35.15
69.5
87
8.12
427,000
2,823,400
3,570,010
30
13,558,800
1,349,270
99,435,965
246,320,787
2,610
109,573,869
10.00
24.58
18.34
58.39
0.00
0.83
0.63
0.81
0.61
0.82
0.63
1,270,000
1,212,000
1,042,650
753,280
-97.40
-6.01
12
0.0088
11.76
8.78
1.13
0.96
6.95
0.415
0.27
0.28
0.015
0.015
5.8
2.5
42.5
0.66
1.95
8.85
124
0.012
10.84
0.0085
11.7
8.02
1.04
0.92
6.9
0.4
0.265
0.275
0.015
0.015
5.56
2.42
40.8
0.64
1.9
8.76
119
0.012
12
0.0087
11.74
8.78
1.05
0.96
6.9
0.41
0.27
0.275
0.015
0.015
5.75
2.42
41.4
0.66
1.93
8.79
123.6
0.012
1,600
968,000,000
126,200
6,900
4,539,000
430,000
2,900
40,000
4,950,000
400,000
47,200,000
100,000
3,576,300
420,000
1,906,600
93,000
348,000
208,100
1,429,170
4,100,000
18,492
8,297,300
1,478,930
59,632
4,806,820
402,110
20,150
16,300
1,334,050
110,150
708,000
1,500
20,345,950
1,024,750
79,239,300
61,340
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0.405
0.265
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By MADELAINE B. MIRAFLOR
or this week, SSI Group,

Inc., the countrys largest specialty retailer,
is the most recommended stock after its entry in
the Philippine Stock Exchange
(PSE), with an analyst thinking
that the firm remained undervalued from the time it joined the
local stock market.
Brokerage firm Nieves Securities, Inc. analyst Miko Sayo
is recommending market participants to consider investing
on SSI Groups shares for its
potential as a stock and as a
company itself.
SSI Group is still undervalued but it has a lot of potentials,
Sayo said.
The last traded price of SSI
stood at P8.12, up 1.50 percent
from its opening price of P7.99
on Friday. From the time of its
listing, the companys stock price
has already soared to an all-time
high close of P8.15 per stock.
The company concluded its
initial public offering in the previous week, raising a total amount
of P7.45 billion. The company saw
its share price rising to P8.49 at
the opening of the trade, higher
than its listing price of P7.50 per
share.
Other than SSI, Sayo also
cited other top performing stocks
last week, joining other companies such as Leisure and Resorts
World Cop. (LRWC), Premium
Leisure Corp. (PLC), and Suntrust Home Developers Inc.

Sayo said LRWC and PLC
generally performed well in the
past few trades because of the
bright outlook in the countrys
gaming sector.
On Friday, LRWC closed at
P11.68 per share from P11.66,
while PLC closed a little lower
at P2.10 from P2.12 Thursday
closing price.
Suntrust, on the other hand,
was considered a speculative
stock because it will soon hold
its annual stockholders meeting
where the board of the company
will likely announce the companys growth and expansion
plans.
For BPI Asset Management,
Inc., the best performing companies in the local stock market in
past few trades were Semirara
Mining and Power Corp.,, up 3.87
percent to P123.60; Metropolitan
Bank and Trust Company, which
climbed 3.09 percent to P85
apiece; BDO Unibank, Inc., which
increased 2.62 percent to P105.70;
and Globe Telecom, Inc., up 2.42
percent to P1,690.00.
The worst performing stocks,
on the other hand were, Aboitiz
Equity Ventures, down 1.73 percent to P51.00, Jollibee Foods
Corp., down 1.37 percent to
P194.20; and Bank of the Philippine Islands, down 1.15 percent
to P94.55.
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Low
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992,061,397.75 nO. OF DECLInES: 90
1,092,961,317.50 nO. OF UnCHAngED: 37
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997,852,409.37
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5,487,370.00
249,408.00 FOREIGN SELLING
R3,284,212,576.43
2,438,225,656
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Pro-Friends eyes Jan. IPO

With only less than two months
left in 2014, property developer
Pro-Friends Group, Inc. may no
longer be able to conduct its initial
public offering this year, and is
now getting ready for what could
be its plan B to become the first
company to enter the local stock
market in 2015 instead.
Formerly known as Amicus
Holdings, Inc., Pro-Friends is
planning to sell up to 385.750
million shares at P20 per share
to raise proceeds of about P7.7
billion. These shares should have
been offered to the public from
October 8 to October 14 and were
supposedly listed in the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) on
November 12.
Roberto Juanchito Dispo,
president of First Metro Investments Corp. (FMIC), one of the
underwriters for the initial public
offering (IPO), said the market
debut of Pro-Friends may just
take place in January.
The official listing at the PSE
may just occur in] January but the
offer period may be in December.
So Pro-Friends will also be the
first company to list next year,
Dispo said.
Until now, the company is still
waiting for the approval of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to be able to proceed
with the share sale. (MBM)
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Gov't still hopeful for 7.5% GDP in 2014

T
he government has not given

up on the high end target of
the 6.5-7.5 percent Grossn
Domestic Product (GDP)
growth range this year despite its admission that it is a challenge and that
achieving the low end of the target is
more likely.
Socio-economic Planning Secretary
Arsenio Balisacan in a speech at the
52nd Annual Meeting of the Philippine
Economic Society in Makati said that he
was still confident of meeting this years
growth target.
"The low end of the growth target
would still be met, but the higher end

target is a challenge," Balisacan said.
Balisacan, however, also stressed
that the government has not given up
of meeting the high-end target.
"Nothing is impossible," Balisacan
said noting some positive factors are
working in favor of the domestic economy that could still help boost growth in
the second semester.
For instance, he cited the strong
growth in exports. For the first half of
this year, GDP expanded at 6 percent,
below the 7.8 percent in the same six
months of last year. A 6.9 percent growth
in the second half of 2014 is needed to
achieve the lower end of the 6.5 percent
to 7.5 percent full-year growth target.

He noted though that he was surprised that exports posted strong
growth in the third quarter despite all
expectations that the lingering port
congestion was going to impact third
quarter results.
The country's chief economic planner even noted the government will
review growth targets for exports noting the electronics sector, the country's
single largest exporter.
Data showed the countrys merchandise exports increased by 9.2
percent to $40.75 billion from the $37.33
billion reported from January to August
last year. The electronics sector rose by
5.17 percent to $16.28 billion from $15.28

billion while the non-electronics sector
grew by 12 percent to $24.47 billion from
$21.85 billion.
In the first eight months of 2014, the
Philippines export growth of 9.2 percent
was second to Vietnams 14.9 percent.
This prompted the Semiconductor
and Electronics Industries of the Philippines Inc. (SEIPI), which tracks the
export performance of the countrys
electronics and semiconductor industries, to raise their growth projection to
5 to 8 percent from their initial 5 percent
target due to strong demand on their
products.
But Balisacan also said that govern-
ment is not going to revise the growth

target this year and the 7-8 percent GDP
growth forecast for 2015-2016.
On the slower growth in the agriculture sector, Balisacan said this may
not have a huge impact on the country's
overall growth because it only accounts
for a small 11 percent contribution to
GDP. The agri sector grew 9.55 percent
in terms of value and 0.33 percent in volume in the first nine months this year.
But since majority of Filipinos are
engaged in agriculture, Balisacan said
that a slower lower growth in agriculture will have a negative effect on the
country's poverty incidence and employment figure.
G20 mulls overhaul of global energy market Travellers profit rise

on stronger gaming revenues
BRISBANE, Australia (AFP) An
overhaul of the global energy market
could be a surprise outcome of the G20
summit with plans for a new agency to
protect against oil and gas supplies being used as foreign policy tools, a report
said Saturday.
Energy security is a vital issue for
many countries, and the long-term stability of oil markets is seen as crucial to
ensure the reforms necessary to meet
the G20's aim of lifting its combined economic growth by at least two percent
over the next five years.
The Australian newspaper said that
central to ensuring open markets was
the creation of a new global institution,
giving a greater voice to rising economies and addressing energy security
fears.
It said this weekend's Brisbane
summit would not establish the new
agency, but was aiming to agree the
principles that it would adopt.
If approved, it would lay down principles of governance for all participants
in energy markets and sit above both
the OPEC cartel and the International
Energy Agency (IEA).
There was no immediate comment
from the Australian government or
other G20 delegations.
The emergence of energy as a central G20 platform comes with oil prices
diving well below the $80-per-barrel
mark, with global prices collapsing by

some 30 percent since June.
Russian President Vladimir Putin,
who reportedly supports the idea of a
new institution, admitted volatile energy prices were a major concern.
''We're considering all the scenarios,
including the so-called catastrophic fall
of prices for energy resources, which is
quite possible, and we admit it,'' he said
in an interview with the TASS agency
ahead of the G20 when asked about
global imbalances.
Putin said Russia, a key major oil
and gas producer, was well-placed to
deal with such issues but expressed
concern about how emerging economies would cope.
''Our reserves are big enough and
they allow us to be sure that we will
meet our social commitments and
keep all the budgetary processes and
the entire economy within a certain
framework,'' he said.
''And what about those who don't
have these reserves?
''It will be hard for them in a situation like that, but I'd like to say once
again that I expect us to have a joint
discussion and seek a joint solution on
how to change things for the better and
eliminate these imbalances.''
The IEA this week forecast that
prices would keep sliding well into
2015, held down by weak demand and
increased shale production, amid ''deep

structural changes'' transforming the
industry.
China, after voraciously consuming
energy for years, is now possibly entering a less oil-intensive stage of growth,
while technological innovations have
unlocked shale resources in North
America.
Crude exporters struggling
In a report to the G20 industrial powers ahead of Brisbane, the International
Monetary Fund said the ''recent appreciable fall in oil prices, if sustained, will
boost growth''.
But the lower prices are hurting
some crude exporters, including Venezuela, Iran and G20 member Russia.
The latter two are also struggling with
the impact of Western sanctions.
The front-page splash in The Australian said although last-minute wrangling over the wording on energy in
the G20 communique was still taking
place, it was understood that OPEC
leader Saudi Arabia, as well as Putin,
supported the agreement.
Putin, who is under intense pressure at the G20 over the Ukraine crisis,
has previously used gas exports as a
weapon to pressure neighbours.
More than half of the Russian gas
shipped to Europe, where it accounts
for 15 percent of the total, passes
through Ukraine.
RESORTS WORLD MANILA TOPS OUT MARRIOTT HOTEL MANILA ANNEX Resorts World Manila (RWM) and Marriott Hotel
Manila recently held a topping out ceremony of the hotels West Wing due to open by December of 2015. The development
of the annex is part of RWMs phase 2 expansion project designed to maximize the integrated resorts sprawling
property with a state-of-the-art grand ballroom set to open by first quarter of 2015. Marriott West Wing is expected to
house an additional 228 rooms, ramping up Marriotts total room count to 570 by the time the project finishes. The West
Wing will also be home to a new Chinese restaurant, lounge, and exclusive health club for the five-star international
hotel brand. Present during the Marriott Hotel Manila West Wing topping out ceremony were (from left to right): Marc
Creencia, Director for Engineering, Marriott Hotel Manila; Patricia May Siy, Chief Corporate Planning Officer, RWM; Scott
Sibley, Chief Hotel Operations Officer, RWM; Bruce Winton, General Manager, Marriot Hotel Manila; Manuel Sy, General
Contractor, New Golden City Builders and Development Corporation; Stephen Reilly, Chief Operating Officer, RWM; and
Bernard Than, Chief Financial Officer, RWM.
Ford expands air bag recall

after Malaysian death
DETROIT (AP) The death of a
pregnant Malaysian woman in a car
crash involving a faulty air bag has led
to another US recall, as the auto industry struggles with a widening problem
across the globe.
Ford Motor Co. agreed to recall
more 2004 and 2005 Ranger small pickup
trucks after the crash in Malaysia because their air bags are similar to the
one that caused the woman's death, the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday.
More than 12 million vehicles have
been recalled worldwide because of
a potentially deadly problem with air
bag inflators made by Japanese auto
parts supplier Takata Corp. At least five
deaths and multiple injuries have been
linked to the problem, which occurs
when air bags inflate with too much
force and blow apart metal canisters,
sending shrapnel into the passenger
compartment.
After the July 27 crash, which killed
a pregnant Malaysian woman and her

unborn baby, NHTSA began looking into
air bag inflators made at a now-closed
Takata factory in LaGrange, Georgia,
south of Atlanta. Takata told the agency
the plant made the single-stage inflator
that went into the woman's 2003 Honda
City small car. It was not used in any U.S.
vehicles, according to a NHTSA memo
released Friday.
But Takata said some Rangers got
a similar inflator. In discussions with
NHTSA, Ford agreed to recall the
pickups to replace the driver's air bags.
Complicating matters, many of the same
pickups already were under recall for the
passenger air bags made by Takata. The
Rangers are the only US vehicle with
inflators similar to those used by Honda
in its City model, the agency said.
It was unclear how many Rangers
are covered by the additional recall, but
NHTSA said about 25,000 still are in use
in the US. A Ford spokeswoman said
Friday night she was not aware of any air
bag incidents involving Rangers.

The pickups are among 26,000 vehicles that Ford added to its list of recalls
for the air bag problem, bringing its total
to about 85,000.
NHTSA said it is investigating
Takata air bags that are more than a
decade old, regardless of where they
were manufactured. The company also
has air bag plants in Mexico and Washington state.
In addition to the NHTSA investigation, Takata is being probed by the US
Attorney's Office in Manhattan and a
federal grand jury in New York. Company executives are also scheduled to
appear before a Senate committee on
Thursday.
All of the recalled Ford vehicles are in
high-humidity areas of Florida, Hawaii,
Puerto Rico or the US Virgin Islands.
Takata has said airborne moisture can
cause the air bag propellant, ammonium
nitrate, to burn too fast, shattering the
metal canisters.
By JAMES A. LOYOLA
Travellers International Hotel

Group, Inc. (TIHGI), owner and operator of Resorts World Manila (RWM),
reported a 12 percent hike in unaudited
consolidated net profit to P4.0 billion
in the first three quarters of 2014 on
stronger gaming revenues.
In a statement, Travellers said it
posted total gross revenues of P8.0
billion in the first nine months of 2014,
up 4.7 percent over the same period
in 2013.
Gaming revenues contributed P7.2
billion of gross revenues, with hotel,
food and beverage, and other revenues
at P772.3 million.
Travellers gross gaming revenues
for the third quarter of 2014 registered
a 6.2 percent improvement versus the
same period last year, with the improvement in win rate which is seen to
continue to the next quarter.
Hotel occupancy for third quarter
remains solid with all three hotels,
Maxims, Remington, and Marriott registering occupancy rates of 89 percent,
95 percent and 83 percent, respectively.
Total room count for the three hotels
is at 1,226.
Company expenses for the third
quarter of 2014 remain in check with
promotional allowances at P784.8
million or at 10.9 percent of the gross
gaming revenue. Direct cost is at P1.9
billion, and general and administrative
expenses at P2.9 billion.
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA)
for the third quarter of 2014 reached
P2.8 billion or 41.6 percent higher compared to the P2.0 billion reported in the
same period last year.
EBITDA for the first nine months
is at P7.49 billion or 15.1 percent higher
compared to the P6.5 billion reported
in the same period last year. Travellers
remains on net cash position at P4.8
billion as of September 30, 2014.
In September, Travellers announced
the infusion of P4.0 billion in paid-in
capital to Resorts World Bayshore City,
Inc. (RWBCI) following the completion
of subscription to 95 percent of RWBCIs
shareholdings.
RWBCI will own and operate Bayshore City Resorts World, the companys integrated resort complex at
Entertainment City.
Global demand seen surging

for health-related businesses
An international network marketing firm sees a surging demand for all
health-related products and services,
particularly natural and functional food
supplements, spawning an enormous
industry beyond everyones expectation.
Acting on its own projections, Forever Rich Philippines Inc. (FRPI), now
with branches in East Asia, Africa and
Southeast Asia, is also looking elsewhere and preparing to diversify its
portfolio of natural health products to
complement the ones already on the
market.
FRPI president and chief executive
officer Susan Barlin said she had been
exploring the world for several years
now for the right products that would fit
perfectly into the peg of such an emerging global consumer demand.
This phenomenon is brought about
by factors that are surfacing at only this
part of history, Barlin said, referring
to the upward trend in lifestyle-related
diseases, faster growth rates of old
and aging populations than the young,
mounting consumer aversion to artificial and chemical-laden foods and food
sources, and increasing public support
for the environment and sustainable
development, Barlin pointed out.
Citing a report from ABC News,
Barlin said natural foods stores in the
US made $15.9 billion for a 7.3 percent
year-on-year jump, with $8.7 billion of
the total spent on foods and the rest on
dietary supplements.
Similarly, Euromonitor International has described the consumer demand for natural products as showing
no sign of abating, citing its own data
that 39% of global health and wellnesspositioned food and beverage value
sales in 2013 were set to be accounted
for by naturally healthy (NH) products,
followed by fortified/functional (35%).
On the other hand, Barlin underscored Philippine government statistics
showing growth rates of older age group

(65 and over) at a faster 3.4 percent rate
than the younger (0-14 years old) at 1.5
percent, and the working (15-64 years
old) at 2.8 percent over the 40-year
1970-2010 period.
The same trend holds true in Europe and the US, said Barlin, a FilipinoAmerican business and civic leader who
had been catering to the needs of the
baby boomers, or those born from 1946
to 1964, whom she would refer to as the
forever young.
The US, according to UK firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, spends
$8,508 per person on healthcare, or
nearly $3,000 more than Norway, the
second-highest spender.
The answer to all these problems
is a healthy lifestyle, or preventive
medicine, stressed Barlin, whose Say
Mo Doc health and wellness program
on GMA News TV 11 at 8:00 to 8:30 a.m.
on Sundays was conceived for that
purpose.
FRPI may not be able to provide
the worlds ever-growing health and
wellness needs, so we are advocating
and propagating adherents of healthy
lifestyle through our TV show to help
reduce the number of future victims of
chronic diseases, Barlin added, citing
the Say Mo Doc as accessible in the
US via cable television.
Say Mo, Doc is a public health
service program that promotes preventive medicine and total wellness by
featuring doctors from various fields
of specialization and technologies and
best practices from all over the world
from the oldest and traditional to the
newest and most modern all in a bid to
help reduce the number of the worlds
current and future patients.
According to the Deloitte website,
more than a billion people worldwide
lack access to a healthcare system, and
Europe will run short of 230,000 doctors
in the near future. (BCM)
Other Ford vehicles involved include

2005 through 2008 Mustangs, 2005 and
2006 Ford GTs. Spokeswoman Kelli
Felker said the company is investigating
one complaint to NHTSA of an injured
Mustang driver.
In an Oct. 30 complaint, the owner
of a 2007 Mustang wrote that in August,
the car crashed into the rear of another
vehicle at 35 mph. The air bag deployed
with abrupt force and a metal fragment
dislodged, causing injury to the driver's
leg, which required medical attention,''
the complaint said. Car owners who

file complaints with NHTSA are not
identified.
The series of recalls worldwide involve 10 automakers including Toyota
Motor Corp., Nissan Motor Co. and
General Motors Co. in various nations
such as Japan, China and European
countries. About 8 million of the recalls
are in the United States. There are about
37.8 million vehicles with Takata air
bags on US roads, according to NHTSA
documents.
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Puerto Princesa, Palawan
Avenue Plaza Hotel

Magsaysay Avenue, Naga City
Bayfront Hotel
Zambales
Canyon Cove Residential

Beach Resort
Nasugbu, Batangas
Baguio Holiday Villas
Baguio City
C Boutique Hotel Baguio
Baguio City
Camayan Beach Resort & Hotel
Subic Bay
Canyon Woods Resort Club
Batangas
CBD Plaza Hotel

Naga City
Casablanca Hot el
Legaspi City
Casablanca Suites
Legazpi City
Crystal Waves
Hotel and Resort
Talavera, Nueva Ecija
Deep Forest Garden Hotel
Puerto Princesa City, Palawan
(052) 480-8334 to 35
Badian Island Beach Resort

Badian, Cebu
ALBA UNO HOTEL

Apas, Cebu City
Alta Cebu Village Resort
Cordova, Cebu
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Pearanda St.,Legazpi City 4500 Philippines Tel No.(052)480-8334 to 35 Fax No.(052)480-8338 e-mail: info@casablancahotel.ph / http://www.casablancahotel.ph
Ananyana Beach
Resort
Panglao Island
Be Resorts
Mactan Island
Bellavista Hotel
Mactan, Cebu
Bohol Beach Club
Bohol
Bohol La Roca Hotel

Tagbilaran City
Bohol Tropics Resort

Tagbilaran City
Bethel Guest House
Dumaguete City
C & L Bay View Inn
G. Teves Street,
Dumaguete City
Castle Peak Hotel

Cebu City
Citi Park Hotel
Cebu City
City Corporate Inn
Iloilo City
Coco Grove Beach Resort
San Juan, Siquijor
Dumaluan Beach Resort

Panglao Island
The Marco Polo-Davao
Davao City
Apo View Hotel
Davao City
1st Avenue Apartel / Inn
Sumpong, Malaybalay
2nd Avenue Hotel
Quirante Ii, Tagum City

Almont Hotel's
Inland Resort
Butuan City
ALU Hotel Davao
corner Padre Faura
Street, Davao City
Amandari Cove
General Santos City
Arnaldo's
Hotel and Restaurant
Digos City
Anisabel Suites
Davao City
Ariano's Inn
And Restaurant
Butuan City
Azienda Meo
Apartelle
Davao City
Bahay-Bakasyunan
Sa Camiguin
Misamis Oriental
Balanghai Hotel / Mazaua Island Resort
Butuan City
ALM NT
BELDENT STAR HOTEL
Beldent Star Hotel

Tacurong City
Big Apple Hotel
Davao City
Bluejaz Beach Resort
and Water Park
Island Garden City Of
Samal, Davao
Blue Velvet
Hotel and Caf
BlueVelvet Hotel and Caf
Davao City
Bonhomie Leisure and Resort
Davao Oriental
PENSION HOUSE
Cabua-An Beach Resort

Mambajao, Camiguin
Camp Anatolia
Kimagango, Midsayap
North Cotabato
Casa De Rosario
Residence Inn
Davao City
Casa Ruby
Pension House
Davao City
Azucena
Casa
Casa Azucena
Cagayan De Oro City
Chali Beach Resort

Zone -3, Cugman,
Cagayan De Oro
Chateau Del Mar
Resort Hotel
Lizada Beach, Davao City
City View Pension Hauz

General Santos City
Cotabato Diamond Hotel
Cotabato City
Country Village Hotel
Cagayan De Oro City
Great Eastern
Hotel-Makati
(632)
318-0788
Vivere Hotel & Resorts

Alabang, Muntinlupa City
Hotel Stotsenberg
Pampanga
Macagang Hotel & Resort
Nabua, Camarines Sur
Venus Parkview
Resort Hotel Baguio City
Garden
Plaza Hotel
637-7888
551-5555
Discovery
Suites
Great Eastern
Hotel
Fersal Hotel
Malakas, Diliman
Greenhills lan
Hotel Modern
Makati Palace
Hotel
771-8181
854-8888
Hotel
Rembrandt
Hotel Kimberly
Manila
Lancaster Hotels
Lido De Paris Hotel
Sta. Cruz
Lotus Garden
Hotel
526-1555
719-8888
371-8282
Fontana Hot Spring

Leisure Parks
Pampanga
(045)
499-0777
(054)
288-3091
EGI Albergo Hotel

Baguio City
(074)
442-5597
442-6452
El Masfino
Resort and Hotel
San Rafael Bulacan
Elegant Star Apartelle
Tagaytay City
(074)
752-8933
(048)
433-0123
(054)
473-9999
(047)
252-1948
Eurotel
Baguio City
Eurotel
Naga City
Camsur
Farmhouse Hotel & Cafe
San Jose City, Nueva Ecija
Naga City
(02)
908-1111
(02) 750-2507
889-7827
(074)442-6679
(074)
619-0158
(02) 945-7777
Filipiniana Hotel
Or. Mindoro
Go Hotels
Puerto Princesa
(047)
252-8000
Grandview Tower Hotel

Angeles City
(632)
521-7878
Fax: 664-6169
Hotel Fleuris Palawan

Puerto Princesa City
Hotel Gregorio
Batangas
(054) 472-0318
(02) 359-7007
Hotel
Gregorio
Batangas
(052)
480-8334
480-8335
Hotel Kimberly
Tagaytay
Hotel La Corona
De Lipa Batangas
(044)
411-0834
09237194074
09204599148
(048) 434-1702
433-3877
09052823129
Hotel Lorita Tuguegarao
(032)
401-3303
to 05
F & C GUEST HOUSE

Canlaon City
(032)
520-5000
505-2111
0917 3205 005
Go Hotels Bacolod
(032)
496-7399
(038)
502-8101
GoHot elsD umaguete

Go Hotels Iloilo
(6332)
236-8888
GoHot els Tacloban
(032)
340-7821
(038)
411-5222
Goldberry Suites & Hotel

Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu
Grand Dame Hotel

Iloilo City
(038)
411-3798
411-3179
Grand Regal Hotel

Bacolod City
(038)
411-3510
GT Hotel - Bacolod City
Harbor Town Hotel

Iloilo City
(035)
422-8000
225-2000
422 8011
09176339575
Honeycomb Tourist Inn

Dumaguete City
Hotel Cesario
Mactan, Cebu
(032)
233-1811
(033)
335-0166
09173251292
09399155123
(035)422-9820
Hotel De Mercedes
Cebu City
Hotel Del Rio

Iloilo City
TelNo.:(033)335.1171to74FaxNo.:(033)337.0736
Hotel Essencia
Dumaguete City
(038)
502-9092
Iloilo Grand Hotel

Iloilo City
(082)
221-0888
Cresta Del Rio Splash Resort

Koronadal City
(082)
221-6431to 40
221-2281
(088)
221-3224
09177229850
D'Counter Executive
Davao City
D'leonor Hotel
J. P Laurel
Avenue, Davao City
D'leonor Inland Resort
Buhangin,
Davao City
655-6238
(085)
342-7414
(63 82)
227-5232
226-3756
(083)
554-2654
826-1074
826-1070
(082)
553-3314
553-3411
0999 993 9060
(+6382)
225-8114
(085)
342-7462
225-9431
(082)
284-6689
227-4119
(088)
387-0131
09177212798
(085)
342-3064
345-5864
(064)
200-3698
200-4734
(082) 234-1399
234-1339 Fax:
(082) 234-8459
09199101281
(082)
304-650
Fa x ( 0 8 2 )
300-6327
(082)
300-2000
300-8800
305-2888
09331123067
(082)
284-1847
(043)
757-3178
Hotel Ivory
Tuguegarao City
481-0788
481-0789
(032)
422-8833
422-3388
Eurotel
Angeles City
Angeles City
Dmorvie Suites
Yacapin Branch Cagayan De Oro City
Dmorvie Suites
Capistrano Branch Cagayan De Oro City
Dmorvie Suites
Lapasan Branch Cagayan De Oro City
Dmorvie Suites
C.M. Recto Davao City
Dmorvie Suites
San Pedro Extension, Davao City
Dmorvie Suites Iligan Branch
Iligan City
Davao Fortune Inn

Davao City
Duka Bay Resort
Misamis Oriental
Duka Bay Resort
Medina, Misamis Oriental

(088) 857-5488
09198239094
Driggs Pension House

General Santos City
Eagle's View Hotel
Dalisay Road, Tagum City
Gingoog Mountain Air Hotel & Eastland Restaurant

Gingoog City
(088) 861-1359
8842-7999
Eagles View Hotel
ct
ma Vi orias In
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Em
El Bajada Hotel
Bajada, Davao City
Embassy
Butuan City
Emma Victoria's Inn

Davao City
Enricos Inn and Apartelles
Davao City
Executive Hotel
Ozamis City
Executive Pension
Cagayan de Oro City
(088)
387 2103
09197257402
09399168034
09129496400
(082)
Family Country Hotel
295-9155
Convention Centre
282-4822
FCH
General Santos City
282-4771
(082)
Florotel Gensan
Duka Bay Resort
226-2335
Medina, Misamis Oriental
General Santos City
(088) 857-5488
09189425442
09198239094
(088)
Frances Inn
856-3402
Ecoland, Davao City
09236593973
(088)
Gingoog Mountain Air Hotel
855-2108
& Eastland Restaurant
855-5941
Gingoog City
to 42
(082)
Goat 2 Geder
Hotel & Eastland Restaurant
234-3472 Gingoog Mountain Air
Gingoog City
305-8998
(088) 861-1359
Butuan City
8842-7999
235-2516
(083) 552-7337
Grand Men Seng
301-6096
Hotel
303-1588
Davao City
0923 2327 120
GOA
(064)
421 6170
421 5118
858-3004
858-3006
DER
Greenstate Suites
Koronadal City
Hannie's Inn
Davao City
The Oasis Paco Park
Royal Bellagio
Hotel
Sir William`s
Hotel
Stone House
Bed & Breakfast
638-7777
526-8088
Copacabana
Apartment Hotel
Best Western Oxford Suites

Makati City
400-0088
Aloha Hotel
813-8888
Manila Manor
Hotel
+632
588-6688
354-4151
526-1212
Citystate
Tower Hotel
988-9999
(02)
312-9999
Manila Pavilion
Hotel
B Hotel
Muntinlupa City
City Garden
Hotel Makati
City Garden Suites
(632)
928-9888
908-7888
Pan Pacific Manila

The Bellevue
Manila
The Heritage
Hotel Manila
Sofitel
Philippine Plaza
Bayview
Park Hotel
The Pearl
Manila Hotel
The Richmonde
Hotel
528-8888
238-8888
Holiday Inn
Manila Galleria
Ortigas Center
Ramada
Manila Central
Binondo
720-2000
Dusit Thani
Manila
F1 Hotel
Global City Taguig
The Exchange Regency

Residence Hotel
Pasig City
Timog, Q.C.
828-8181
828-8585
828-8383
The Sul Riviera

The Copa
Businessmans Hotel
Tri-place
Hotel & Apartelle
24h Apartment
Hotel, Makati City
899-1111
536-1451
708-9600
to 09
Armada
Hotel Manila
Malate, Manila
851-8888
Azotea Suites
Bel Air Makati
426-7308
Best Western Plus

Antel Hotel
Makati City
Brentwoods Suites
Quezon City
522-4835
898-2888
Broadway Court
Apartelle
744-7979
Cocoon Boutique Hotel

Quezon City
Eastwood
Richmonde Hotel
Quezon City
Eurotel
Las Pias
Branch
Eurotel
Araneta
Branch
Eurotel
North EDSA
899-0344
373-3333
521-1888
532-1818
(02) 708-8888
to 91
498-8888 to 91
L uzon
Eurotel
Pedro Gil
522-1515
Hotel Luna
Vigan City, Ilocos Sur
(02)
576-6463/9526
(045) 599-5000
HotelSup reme
Baguio
(074)
424-2620
( 0 2 ) 54 2 - 9 5 3 7
542-9150
924-2443
924-2456
(046)
483-0491
0916 2209934
0928 6844186
Hotel Veniz - Baguio City

Inn Rocio - Baguio City
355 - 0000
(045)
624 - 0229
355-0000
(074)
444-3876
Java Hotel - Laoag City

Kartini Hotel - Kawit, Cavite
La Maja Rica Hotel & Restaurant
Ligtasan, Tarlac City
355-0000
(044)
806-1167
09175367250
Laoag Renzo Hotel

Laoag City
(043)
286-2624
(048)
4340001-03
Lee Boutique Hotel

Tagaytay
Le Monet Hotel
Baguio City
Lendes Tourist Inn - Naga
Almeda Highway, Naga City
(045)
304-1015
892-8555
(048)
434-4338
434-4339
Lendes Tourist Inn - Banasi

Bula, Camarines Sur
Lendes Tourist Inn - Baao
Baao, Camarines Sur
Lendes Tourist Inn - Pili
Pili, Camarines Sur
(043)
757-3178
(078)
844-1275
846-1722
(046)
483-8888
(043)
756-1223
Magallanes Square Hotel

Sta. Rita Road Tagaytay
Moonbay Marina
Villas Zambales
MAGALLANESSQUAREHOTEL,INC.
MagallanesSquareComplex
MagallanesDrive,TagaytayCity
Tel.No:0465440062
FaxNo:0464133918
EmailAdd:magallanessquarehotel@yahoo.com
SunNo:09228043129/09228043125
GlobeNo:09175047820
(078)
844-1390
846-2565
Mountain Lodge
Hotel & Restaurant Baguio City
(035) 4003 368

09175597919
09999953440
Injap Tower Hotel Iloilo

Iloilo City
(035)
522-1100
or 02
Kapis Mansions
Roxas City
Kings Hotel
Bacolod City
(033)
335-0375
335-0249
335-0486
(053)
5230391-93
Lawaan Garden Inn

Roxas City, Capiz
Mango Park Hotel

Cebu City
+63 32
239-0000
+63 32
239-0619
(033)
320-5252
320-5353
(034)
708-5888
432-0888
(034)
432-1888
to 89
Manhattan Suites Inn

Dumaguete City
Maribago BlueWater
Beach Resort
Mactan, Cebu
Montebello Villa Hotel

Banilad, Cebu City
(033)
337-2384
Movenpick Hotel
Mactan Island , Cebu
MVW
Restaurant & Tourist Inn
Roxas, Capiz
Rm Guest House
Dumaguete City
(035)
225-1181
422-3184
09228393435
(032)
340-0211
(032)
253-1105
(033)335-1171
to 74
337-0736
(035)
422 1137
09177007735
09088202123
O Hotel
Bacolod City
Pension Bacolod
Bacolod City
Plantation Bay
Mactan, Cebu
M indanao
(033)
335-1801
to 04
(083)
228 8998
228 7160
(082)
226-2045
221-8651
Radisson Blu
Hotel & Resort
Cebu City
Hill Park Inn

and Restaurant
Midsayap, Cotabato
Hillsview Inn & Inland Resort

Trento, Agus and Del Sur
Hotel Angelo
and Restaurant
Midsayap, Cotabato
(082)
221-1160
(082)
302-6158
302-6152
(088)
856-9080
(082)
852-2015
(082)
856-7197
Hotel De Crisbelle
Davao Del Sur
Hotel De Susana & Restaurant
Valencia City, Bukidnon
Hotel Elena
Davao City
Hotel Esse
Davao City
(082)
221-0075
09425918521
Hotel San Marco

General Santos City
Hotel Sogo
Cagayan De Oro City
(082)
285-3756
(063)
223-3255
(081)
221-0819
(088)
331-2288
0917-483268
(083)
553-0088
09179089731
(084) 655-6115
0929-979-4919
Fax: (084)
655 6114
(082) 221 2729

+63 927 9795179
+63 920 2473002
+63 923 8063887
(085)
342-5883
225-9560
(082)
297-5523
(082)
297-7692
321-1042
09189003792
(088)
521-0360
09177220360
(088)
856-4360
09177004360
(083)
552-8895
to 97
301-0774
(083)
554-0880
(082)
295-6463
301-8549
(088)
861-1359
8842-7999
(085)
341-7871
341-1657
(082)
221-9040
(083)
228-5409
520-1816
(082)
297-3315 to17
297-3485
Hotel Uno
Davao City
H
TAVERN
Eurotel
Makati
Fersal Hotel
Annapolis, Cubao
521-2371
Fersal Hotel
Kalayaan, Diliman
899-5555
Fersal Hotel
Manila
371-4333
Fersal Hotel
P. Tuazon Cubao
Fersal Hotel
Makati
Go Hotels
Mandaluyong
724-7551
924-5051
844-8811
GoHot elO tis-Manila
(632)
410-4111
410-8658
410-6981
Holiday Inn & Suites Makati

Ayala Center, Makati City
(02)
899-2424
Hostel 1632
355-0000
844-8645
+63(2)812-7477
912-5852
912-2691
Oyster Plaza Hotel

Paraaque City
Paragon Tower
Hotel Manila
924-2689
912-2691
742-7292
912-2691
Raffles and Fairmont

Makati
Makati City
Riviera Mansion
Malate, Manila
912-8000
912-2691
897-9123
912-2691
Robbinsdale Hotel
0922-4646835
San Carlos Mansion
+63 (2)
354-1053
Seda BGC Bonifacio Global City,

Taguig City
Sogo Regency
Hotel, Manila
(632)
909-0888
Southhomes Apartelle
Timog-Q.C.
522-8888
St Giles Hotel
Makati City
(02)
829-1925
826-9610
526-5541
to
526-5547
555-9888
523-4511
716-1262
523-8110
(632)
945-8888
522-7646
928-4647
410-4461
988-9888
988-9883
238-6100
The Bayleaf
Intramuros, Manila
(632)
318-5000
(63 2) 403-0888
403-0808
Fax No. 403-0854
403-7572
Hotel Celeste
Makati City
Hotel H20
Luneta, Manila
Icon Hotel
North Edsa
415-9385
The Contemporary
Hotel
716-8266
927-8888
Jade Vine Executive Inn

Ermita Manila
524-8601
to 05
526 0888
338-0983
898-3695
Apartelle
San Juan City
722-7411
726-2931
(02)
921-2706
to 08
Apartelle
Mandaluyong City
Luxent Hotel
(02)
570-7777
Timog Ave., Q.C.
355-0000
806-7646
355-0000
995-8452
355-0000
376-7096
355-0000
523-5256
Manila Airport Hotel

Paraaque City
Millenia Suites
Pasig City
The Orange Place
San Juan City
The Orange Place
Quezon City
+63 2
373-3333
376-5059
Matabungkay
Beach Hotel Batangas
(074)
443-2016
Nagaland Hotel
Naga City, Camarines Sur
(074)
446-0700
Palawan Uno Hotel

Puerto Princesa, Palawan
887-8080
Be central
531-0173
to
531-0177
Tune Hotel
Aseana City
(02)
922-8888
Tune Hotel
Ermita
(632)
708-9888
Tune Hotel
Makati City
(632)
817-0888
Tune Hotel
Ortigas City
(632)
656-0888
Tune Hotel
Quezon City
(632)
426-0567
Y2 Residence Hotel
(02)
224-3000
854-7549
to 50
(02)
7528552
09088870596
(077)
770-4898
(632)
781-3632
Radiant Star Apartelle

Tagaytay City
(046) 413-2456
544-0050
0926 6977948
09174091514
(054)
228-0018
(054)
066-3239
(054)
477-7644
228-0008
(046)
544-0062
(047) 252-9718
252-1663
250-2099
252-8518
(074)
442-4544
Subic Bay Peninsular Hotel

Subic
Subic Bay Yacht Club

Zambales
THEEXQUISITEHOTELANDBUSINESSMANAGEMENTGROUPCORP.
Bldg.675CanalRoad,SubicBayFreeportZone,2222Philippines
TelephoneNumber:(047)2521888or09178363942Facsimile:(047)2528404Email:customer_service@subicbayveneziahotel.com
Sunlight Guest Hotel, Inc.

Puerto Princesa City,
Palawan
Summer Plac e Hot el

Baguio City
(054)
473-2111
09177000040
(048)
433-9999
433-0455
Paseo Premiere Hotel

Santa Rosa Laguna
Princesa Garden Island
Resort and Spa
Puerto Princesa Palawan
Queen Margarette Hotel
Lucena City
RK Hotel
Subic Bay Gateway Park
Star Plaza Hotel

Dagupan City
Starview Hotel
Naga City
Subic Bay Hotel Venezia
Zambales
Subic International
Hotel Zambales
Torre Venezia Suites

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

Serviced Residences
Makati City
Taal Vista Hotel

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

Naga City
The Lake Hotel

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

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

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

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

Olongapo
(047)
222-8541
09178447327
Rajah Park Hotel

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

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

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

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

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

Boracay Island

BoracayHills Hills
Boracay
(036)2883315
Boracay
(036)2883764
Island
Boracay Mandarin
Island Hotel
RedCoconut
Malay,
Aklan
BeachResort
TheBoracayBeachResort
Sitio Bolabog, Boracay Island
Boracay Tropics
Boracay Island
WillysBeachClubHotel
Villas
Cohiba
Boracay Island
(036)2883208
(036)2884288
(036)2883794to97
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New Dawn
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Cagayan De Oro City

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

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

Malay Aklan
Vista de Boracay
Alta
BoracayGardenResort
(036)2886633
Boracay
Island
ResortandConventionCenter
433-3377
(034)
434-7065
(083)
301-1818
09228217332
(088 )
852-0383
(02) 401-9285
(082)
282-1111
09255111011
(036)
621-2956
621-1216
(035)
422-4000
(034)
433-7401
708-8889
(082)
227-3773
295-3485
09227152573
+63 32
492-7777
+63 02
799-1111
(082)
233-1941
Boracay
(632) 417-5751
(6332)
492-0100
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A. Luna Streets,
Cagayan De Oro City
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Cagayan De Oro City
Orchard Hotel
Bajada, Davao City
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Limketkai Luxe Hotel

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

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

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

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

(036)2883208Dive Resorts
(036)2884288

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The District Boracay

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

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

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

Toril, Davao City
The Dynasty Court

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

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

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

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

Cagayan De Oro
Villa Paraiso Resort

and Apartelle
Mambajao, Camiguin
Uno Business Hotel & Cafe

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

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

are cautious.
The Dow Jones Industrial
Average and the S&P 500 each
repeatedly broke all-time records over the
past week. But by Friday neither had managed to rise as much as 0.4 percent in the
five sessions.
Friday ended with the S&P 500 managing
a minor surge in the final minutes of trade
to eke out a fresh record, up 0.39 percent for
the week at 2,039.82.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average added
0.35 percent for the week, ending at 17,634.74,
18 points below its Thursday record.
Meanwhile the Nasdaq Composite kept
up its march to recover from the 2000 dot-
com crash that stunned markets. On Friday

the heavily tech-oriented gauge finished at
4,688.54, its best level since March 28, 2000.
After a 1.77 percent gain for the week, it
nevertheless remained 360 points shy of the
all-time high on March 10, 2000.
The widespread caution was clear, with
shares at high valuations by a number of
measures.
''Neither buyers nor sellers are showing much conviction at this juncture.. it is
basically a game of chicken right now to see
which way the market turns and, importantly,
why it turns (if it turns at all),'' said analysts
at Briefing.com.
''We came so far so fast, it would only
be natural to pull back at least a little bit,''
said Tom Cahill of Ventura Wealth Management.

''Between now and the end of the year, the
markets probably will move sideways a little
bit and then move a little higher.''
Wall Street shares remained supported
by firm earnings growth over the past week,
with Walmart's forecast-beating third-quarter results Thursday boosting its shares 4.7
percent and propelling the Dow to a new
zenith.
For many that was a good sign -- along
with a rebound in consumer spending in
October reported by the Commerce Department Friday, and the plunge in gasoline prices -- that year-end holiday spending on travel,
gifts and restaurants could be strong.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) South Koreas
Hyundai Heavy Industries said it had signed
Wednesday a $1.94 billion deal to build offshore oil and gas processing platforms in the
United Arab Emirates. Under the deal with
Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Co. -- a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co.-- the
worlds top shipbuilder will build four giant
platforms and underwater power cables as
part of a new offshore oil and gas production
complex.
Shipping Bulletin
Airbus earnings drop

on loss-making A380
PARIS (AP) Airbus says its net profit
slumped in the third quarter as it delivered more of its loss-making A380
superjumbos. The European jet maker
reported net profit of 264 million euros
($328 million) in the July to September
quarter, down 41 percent from 445 million euros a year earlier.
Airbus delivered nine of its A380 superumbo jets in the quarter, up from four a
year earlier.
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CEB on track with 17-M

passenger target in 2014
By EMMIE V. ABADILLA
Cebu Pacific (CEB) is on track with

its 17 million passenger target for 2014.
With its increased presence in key
markets, the sustained demand for air
travel and industry capacity rationalization, the airline has already flown
12.5 million passengers from January
to September 2014, an increase of 14.8%
year- on-year.
For this third quarter, the airline carried 4 million passengers, 16.8% more
versus the 3.4 million flown in the same
period in 2012.
"The Cebu Pacific Air group is on
track to meeting our target," confirmed
Atty. Jorenz Taada, CEB Vice President for Corporate Affairs.
CEB's total revenues increased by
KEELUNG HARBOUR IN NORTHERN TAIWAN (EPA) A picture made available on November 12, 2014 shows a ship is being
loaded at the Keelung Harbor in Keelung, northern Taiwan. On 12 November, Vice Foreign Minister Vanessa Shih urged
foreign countries to sign free trade agreement (FTA) with Taiwan. Shih made the appeal as Taiwan is worried after South
Korea and China finished talks on signing FTA on 10 November. The deal is a huge blow to Taiwan as nearly 80 percent of
Taiwanese and South Korean export to China are similar and once the Seoul-Beijing FTA takes effect, South Korean goods
will replace Taiwanese goods as they will enjoy zero tariff from China. According to the Economics Ministry, Taiiwan will
suffer US$3.1-8.4 billion loss in export to China annually after South Korea-China FTA takes effect.
Boeing loses to Airbus

in PH aircraft market
A
merican aircraft manufacturing giant Boeing is losing out

to competitor Airbus in the
Philippine aviation market
having accounted a dismal 4 percent
market share out of total 141 commercial aircraft being used today by local
airlines.
A statement by the Philippine
embassy in Washington D.C. on the
recent visit of Philippine Ambassador
to Washington D.C. Jose L. Cuisia to
the companys Everett factory, near its
main hub in Seattle, noted of Boeings
strong desire to raise its presence in
the local market.
John S. Schubert, managing director for marketing for Asia Pacific and
India, noted during the meeting that
demand for aircraft in Southeast Asia
over the next 20 years will reach 3,500
units valued at $500 billion. However,
in the Philippines, out of the 141 commercial aircraft currently being used,
only six are Boeings, a dismal 4 percent market share, Schubert said.
The six Boeing aircraft in service
are the 777-300ERs that Philippine
Airlines currently uses for its longhaul flights to North America, which is
considered the flag carriers largest and
most profitable market with a population of more than 4 million Filipinos.
With airline passenger traffic in the
Philippines expected to grow in the next
two decades, Boeing wants Philippine
carriers to take a second look at its longrange passenger planes to serve the
profitable North American market.
Boeing officials made clear their
desire to play a larger role in the Philippine market, which is currently dominated by Airbus Industries, during their
briefing for Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia,
Jr. who recently visited the companys
Everett Factory near Seattle.
Noting the 6.6 percent projected
growth in airline passenger traffic for
the Philippines in the next 20 years and
the backlog in Airbus aircraft orders,
Boeing executives told Cuisia they are

ready to make aircraft for Philippine
carriers available in 2016.
Dave Kell, Director of Product Marketing, Boeing Commercial Airplanes,
said the 777 remains one of the most
in-demand aircraft today, with 1,805
firm orders from 69 customers. He said
it is likewise the most preferred, most
reliable and most valued aircraft in the
market.
The 777 is the most suitable aircraft
for long range North American routes
such as those of Philippine Airlines,
Kell said.
During their briefing for Ambassador Cuisia, Boeing executives also
informed him of companys assistance
to the Philippines, including $750,000
from both the Boeing Company and
Boeing Employees for relief efforts for
victims of Typhoon Yolanda as well as
a cooperative effort between World Vision, Philippine Airlines, and Boeing to
airlift relief supplies during a 777-300ER
delivery flight last year.
Vietnam Airlines raises $52M from IPO
VIETNAM AIRLINES RAISES $51.2 M THROUGH IPO (Reuters) A Vietnam Airlines

aircraft prepares to land at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi November 14, 2014. National
flag carrier Vietnam Airlines Co. Ltd. raised 1.09 trillion dong ($51.2 million) by
selling 3.47 percent of the company in an initial public offering (IPO) on Friday,
the countrys main stock exchange said, the biggest share auction so far this
year.
HANOI (AFP) Vietnam Airlines
Friday said its long-awaited IPO had
been a success, raising more than
$52 million for the national flag carrier,
control of which remains firmly in state
hands.
After decades of speculation and
multiple failed attempts, the IPO went
ahead with some 49 million shares
-- around 3.5 percent of the company
-- sold to more than 1,500 investors, the

airline said.
The company sold all of the shares
offered at an average price of 22,307
dong ($1.05) a share, it added in a statement, raising more than $52 million.
The buyers included two corporate
investors, the statement said, without
giving further details.
In Vietnam an IPO is a separate
process from a stock market listing. It

is not clear when shares in the airline
will actually be traded on the Ho Chi
Minh City stock exchange.
The IPO today is an important
landmark, said Pham Viet Thanh,
chairman of Vietnam Airlines, in the
statement.
The communist state retains a controlling 75 percent stake in the airline.
A further 20 percent stake will be
sold to strategic partners, while the
rest is set aside for airline employees
and the trade union.
Analysts say Vietnam Airlines is in
a relatively strong position domestically, despite new competition from
low-cost VietJet Air, with the country
of some 90 million a fast-growing aviation market.
But it will face stiff competition from
regional rivals if it seeks to expand longhaul routes.
The IPO is part of a broader drive by
Vietnam to clean up its sluggish state
sector, long a drag on the countrys
economy, by equitizing -- the local term
for privatizing -- hundreds of state-run
companies.
32.4% year on year to P11.7 billion this

third quarter.
Passenger revenues grew by 34.2%
to P8.9 billion. Ancillary revenues grew
27.9% to P2 billion driven by 9.5% increase in ancillary revenue per passenger and increased passenger traffic.
Cargo revenues also posted an increase of 26.1% as CEB carried 43 million
of kilos of cargo, an increase of 31.6% for
the same period last year.
CEB's 52-strong fleet is comprised of
10 Airbus A319, 29 Airbus A320, 5 Airbus
A330 and 8 ATR-72 500 aircraft. It is one
of the youngest fleets in the world with
an average age of 4.28 years.
Between 2015 and 2021, Cebu Pacific
will take delivery of 9 more brand-new
Airbus A320, 30 Airbus A321neo, and 1
Airbus A330 aircraft.
FedEx expands retail

network in Philippines
FedEx Express, a subsidiary of
FedEx Corp. and the worlds largest
express transportation company, today
announced the expansion of its retail
network in the Philippines. Customers
can now ship through FedEx Authorized
Ship Centers in 313 strategically-located
2GO Express and Universal Storefront
Services Corporation (USSC)outlets
nationwide.
FedEx is dedicated to enhancing the
shipping experience of our customers in
the Philippines. The addition of new 2GO
Express and USSC outlets in the FedEx
retail group ensures that customers
can more conveniently access shipping
solutions that connect them to over 220
countries in the FedEx global network,
said Rhicke Jennings, managing director,
FedEx Philippines and Indonesia.
FedEx recently announced an alliance with 2GO Express to strengthen
the FedEx operational network in the
Philippines. From 176 outlets in March,
the figure has quickly grown to the cur-
rent total of 313 FedEx Authorized Ship

Centers nationwide.
We are proud that the inclusion
of our new agent USSC allows FedEx
customers greater convenience to visit
an expanding network of outlets for
their shipping needs, said Bing Arroyo,
general manager and vice president,
2GO Express.
The retail network expansion is part
of FedExs long-term commitment to
deliver world-class shipping services
and solutions in the Philippines. The full
list of FedEx Authorized Ship Centers
is available at http://www.fedex.com/ph/
dropoff/index.html.
FedEx Express is one of the world's
largest express transportation companies, providing fast and reliable delivery
to more than 220 countries and territories. FedEx Express uses a global airand-ground network to speed delivery of
time-sensitive shipments, by a definite
time and date with a money-back guarantee.
Thai Airways appoints

new president
BANGKOK (Reuters) Thai Airways
International has appointed Charamporn Jotikasthira, former president of
the Thai stock exchange, to lead a turnaround of the loss-making flag carrier.
The state-controlled airline has
made a net loss in the past five quarters
and has been awaiting the appointment
of a new company president since July
1 after Chokchai Panyayong resigned to
allow the military government to select
its preferred candidate.
"Charamporn is the most suitable
to help recover the airline. He will get
involved in outlining the restructuring
plan and business strategies," acting
Chairman Areepong Bhoocha-oom said
on Wednesday, adding that the board
wants Charamporn to start work as early
as next month.
Charamporn, a former executive at
Siam Commercial Bank , was not available for immediate comment.

Hit by weak tourism after months of
political unrest that resulted in the military government's May coup, Thai Airways is on track to implement strategies
to boost revenue by 3 billion baht ($91.41
million) this year and cut operating costs
by 4 billion baht, Areepong said.
It is also working on the restructuring plan for 2015, which will be submitted for board approval in December
and government approval by the end
of the year.
Areepong said that the airline, which
has also had to contend with fierce
competition from regional and low-cost
rivals, expects to post a net loss this year
but return to profit in 2015 after adjusting
some routes to European and domestic
destinations.
SAUDIA announces
new Makati corporate office
In line with its mission statement
to be a world-class airline, Saudi Arabian Airlines (SAUDIA) has moved its
Corporate Offices and City Ticket Office
(CTO)- Makati to a new and better location to further improve its services to its
growing number of valued clientele.
SAUDIA is now located at the 19th
Floor, Zuellig Building, Makati Avenue
corner Paseo de Roxas, Makati City, Philippines. The new telephone numbers are
+632 3337700for its corporate offices and
+632 333 7777 for reservations.

In its more than 30 years of operations
in the Philippines, SAUDIA remains to be
the leading Middle East Carrier offering
direct flights from Manila to its mainline
stations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
namely, Jeddah, Riyadh and Dammam,
with 53 international and 26 domestic destinations. SAUDIA further prides itself in
being the first Middle East Carrier to be a
member of the SKYTEAM, the successful
and growing global airline alliance.
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Despite anti-dumping duty
LT Group nets P2.5B in nine mos, down 67%
Turkish flour traders

to maintain import level
urkish flour imports will

continue to account for 8-9
percent of total flour supply
into the country as exporters
can live with the average 4 percent
anti-dumping duties imposed on them
by the government.
Ernesto Chua Co Kiong, owner of
flour trader Malabon Long Life Trading and chairman of Philippine-Turkish Business Council, told reporters
over the weekend that Turkish flour
importers and exporters got a better deal with the Tariff Commision's
definitive anti-dumping duty than the
provisional anti-dumping duty imposed by the Agriculture Department
in April this year.
The Agriculture secretary had
imposed in April this year an average provisional anti-dumping duty of
39 percent, which already lapsed last
October 2. It was significantly higher
than the average 4 percent definitive
anti-dumping duty for regular exporters while the maximum anti-dumping
duty rate was only 16 percent.
"We can live with it. We are happy
because it is better than the provisional anti-dumping duty. The 4 percent
average is acceptable," Chua said.
Aside from the acceptable antidumping duty, Turkish flour traders
would benefit from the increasing
prices of US wheat, which is being
used by local flour millers. Locally
milled wheat flour has a price range
P720 to P750 per bag, higher than the
equivalent Turkish flour of only P600
to P620.
Local flour millers have their own
fighting brand to compete with Turkish flour, but of limited supply only.
With these factors working in
their favor, Chua said Turkish flour
importers are confident they can still
continue bringing in the same volume
of supply and maintain its share of
between 8 to 9 percent of total local
flour demand.
Importers also appreciate the
Commission's decision to impose
uniform anti-dumping duty for each
exporter regardless of how many
kinds of flour he exports because it
would easier to implement.
Their only problem though is
the $600 additional cost per 20-foot
container van as a result of the port
congestion. This add on cost would
make the 25 kilogram bag of flour P30
to P40 more expensive.
Chua, however, said they can still
absorb the higher logistical cost. If
ever, he said, prices may be adjusted
in January next year yet but it would
be lower than the locally milled flour.
Turkish soft flour, which is used for
the manufacture of noodles, biscuits,
lumpia wrapper etc, is being sold for
P600 to P620 per bag.
Turkish flour importers have
already shipped around 90,000 MT
from January to September this year.
They lso have a window from October
3 up to the last week of this month
up to early December to ship in flour
without the anti dumping duty but just
the 7 percent regular duty on imposed
on flour from Turkey. The definitive
anti-dumping duty is expected to
take effect late this month or early
December.
At the outset though, Turkish importers were disappointed because
they thought the Tariff Commission
was going to dismiss the anti-dumping
petition because there was no imminent threat of material injury to the
local players because local flour millers had been more profitable in 2013
than 2012, Chua said.
"Local millers are even expanding
like San Miguel Flour Mills and Wellington Flour Mills," Chua said.
Chua also noted of conflicting
claims by local flour millers of a poor
industry average capacity utilization
rate of 57 percent which they blamed
on Turkish flour imports.
By JAMES A. LOYOLA
LT Group, Inc. (LTG) reported a 67

percent drop in attributable net income
to P2.5 billion for the first nine months of
2014 from the P7.6 billion earned in the
same period last year, amidst the difficult
operating environment of its various
businesses.
Philippine National Banks (PNB)
attributable net income contribution
to LTG amounted to P1.3 billion or 52
percent of total. Asia Brewery, Inc. (ABI)
contributed P796 million or 32 percent of
total, followed by the tobacco business at
P462 million or 19 percent.
Eton Properties accounted for P65
million or 3 percent while Tanduay Distillers, Inc. (TDI) posted an P83-million
loss.
PNB reported a profit of P3.7 billion in
the first three quarters of 2014, 46 percent
lower than the P6.8-billion net income
posted in the same period last year.
This is largely due to higher trading
gains in 2013. In 2013, PNB booked P7.6
billion in trading gains, substantially
higher than the P1.2 billion realized in
2014.
ABIs net income for the first nine
months of 2014 reached P797 million,
27 percent higher than the P626 million
reported in the same period in 2013.
LTGs income from the tobacco
business amounted to P462 million for
the first nine months of 2014, from the
P2.8 billion reported in the same period
last year, as PMFTC continues to be
adversely affected by the illicit trade in

cigarettes.
Etons net income amounted to P65
million for 2014. Leasing revenues were
higher with the contribution of Centris
Cyberpod Three, the latest BPO office
building at Eton Centris, in Quezon City,
Metro Manila.
TDIs sales volume increased in the
first nine months of 2014 due to intensified marketing efforts for its flagship
product, Tanduay Five Years.
However, due to higher raw material
costs, coupled with higher selling and
marketing expenses, the company reported a loss of P83 million for 2014. TDI
was able to reverse part of the losses,
generating an income of P89 million in
the third quarter of 2014.
PLDT Home dominates broadband mart

By EMMIE V. ABADILLA
The Philippine Long Distance

Telephone Company (PLDT), through
its home digital services group PLDT
Home, has maintained its leadership
in fixed broadband with a 70 percent
market share at the end of the third
quarter of 2014, more than triple that
of its nearest competitor.
PLDT Home has remained the
preferred broadband provider in the
country with consistent double-digit
increases in broadband subscribers
as it grew 18% at the end of September from its year-ago level, bringing
its total broadband subscriber base to
nearly one million.
Our fixed broadband businesses
generated P10.2 billion in revenues
for the first three quarters of the year,
up by 12 percent from P9.1 billion in
the same period in 2013, according to
PLDT President & CEO Napoleon L.
Nazareno.
Majority of the broadband market
prefers our products and services due
to our integrated approach of providing
a range of high-quality voice, data, and
multimedia services to our customers, he added.
PLDTs fixed broadband services
led by PLDT Home DSL and PLDT
NAzARENO
Home Fibr serve as the foundation for
value-added services such as Pay TV,
video on demand, and live streaming
noted PLDT EVP and Head of Home
Business Ariel P. Fermin.
PLDT Home expects sustained
growth in broadband with new revenue
streams through various services
offered in PLDT HOME Telpad and
TVolution.
"The increased multimedia usage in Filipino homes is evident as
our Cignal over Fibr subscribers

expanded by five-fold this year, he
pointed out.
In September this year, PLDT
also grew its Time-Division DuplexLong Term Evolution (TD-LTE)
network to over 400 cell sites to
fortify its leadership in providing
high-speed Internet services to
more Filipinos nationwide.
The continuous expansion of
our TD-LTE network will further
strengthen connections at home,
especially those who live in remote
towns and provinces. TD-LTE will
provide them access to the internet
and allow them to experience the
benefits of broadband technology.
PLDT HomeUltera, one of
PLDTs latest services launched
earlier this year, gives the countrys
internet service a fresh boost by
enabling more Filipino homes to
gain ready access to multimedia
services like social media, movies,
games, and music through fourthgeneration wireless broadband
platform.
And We are bringing all these
digital services within reach of more
Filipino homes across the country
with our various plan options, Fermin concluded.
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Re-creating the gym experience

This gym for real people is out to make a name and niche for itself in the Philippines
By Em P. GuEvara
ot everyone is comfortable
going to the gym, but Anytime
Fitness promises to make
the gym feel like home. The
global fitness club chain recently
launched its first gym in Manila, and is
set to open dozens more in the country
as fast as prospective franchisees
come in.
The gym for real people
We believe that the Anytime
Fitness concept is a perfect fit for
consumers in Asia who are looking
for a convenient, non-intimidating
and value-oriented place to exercise,
says John Kersh, vice president of
International Development at Anytime
Fitness. Anytime Fitness also offers
a unique and low-cost alternative for
Asian entrepreneurs looking to enter
this fast-growing industry, he says.
The Anytime Fitness concept
is as follows: the gyms are open
24/7, which means youll never have
an excuse to miss your workout,
even on busy days; the gyms are
located near communities, within
walking distance of most residential
areas; and the gyms have a nonintimidating atmosphere and friendly
personal trainers, which help create
an environment to make one feel right
at home. Were not the aspirational
(From left) Johannes Raadsma, Anytime Fitness director; Maurice

Levine, master franchisee; Eric Keller, vice president of International
Franchise Support.
gym for the elite athlete; were the gym

for real people, emphasizes Maurice
Levine, master franchisee for Anytime
Fitness Asia.
Aside from accessibility, safety is
another important factor for Anytime
Fitness. The special electronic access
keys issued to members allows that one
key opens the doors to over 2,600 Anytime
Fitness gyms around the world.

Now in the Philippines
Anytime Fitness opened its first gym
in the Philippines last October in Pioneer
Center. The gym in Pioneer is quickly
reaching capacity. We are expecting
another six gyms opening in the next
few months and even more expected
to open throughout Asia, including

China, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore
and Taiwan, says Eric Keller, vice
president of International Franchise
Support at Anytime Fitness.
We vow to our members that we
will out-care our competition, create
memorable membership experiences,
and live up to the Anytime Fitness
vision of improving the self-esteem of
the world, one member at a time. The
gyms will feel like home, promises
Levine.
Specific club locations include
communities where the market for an
Anytime Fitness club exists but where
no health clubs are currently located.
Membership fees are attractive and
reasonable, at R2,300 a month for a 12month membership, and R2,100 a month
for an 18-month membership.
Similar to Anytime Fitness gyms
in the U.S., the gyms in Asia will be
approximately 3,500 to 5,000 square feet,
or about 300 to 500 square meters. Each
gym features a wide variety of cardio
equipment, strength training machines,
personal trainers and industry leading
programs and classes. And virtual
personal training is available anytime,
especially useful for after hours or 10
p.m. onwards.
Good news for franchisees
With over 2,600 gyms in 20 countries,
Anytime Fitness is the worlds fastest-
growing fitness club chain and the

largest co-ed fitness network in the
world. Ranked the worlds #1 franchise
by Entrepreneur Magazine for 2014,
Anytime Fitness has knocked such
franchise icons as Subway, McDonalds
and Pizza Hut off the top spot with its
proposition of 24-hour communitybased gym facilities.
The initial franchise fee is $60,000,
which includes the design manual
and consultations about the site,
demographics, vendors and suppliers,
and more. There is a monthly fee of
$1,895 thereafter, which covers oneon-one training and virtual connection
through the franchisee dashboard. You
dont have to be in the gym industry to
open a gym, assures Levine, adding
that almost all our first franchisees
end up opening their second and third
gyms.
The group is so confident about their
concept and service, Levine points out
that, Our real competition is apathy.
There is very small gym penetration
in the country right now, but obesity is
high. The system here is responsive,
not preventive, and we want to change
that. Anytime Fitness is poised to get
Filipinos to a healthier lifestyle in gyms
that are fun, comfortable and affordable,
one franchisee at a time.
For more information, visit www.
anytimefitness.ph.
Taxing the informal sector

HoNESTLy SPEAKING...
MoN AbREA
s taxing the informal sector antipoor? Does it mean collecting

taxes from the poorest of the
poor? Is the underground
economy included in this sector?
Would our legislators be willing to
commit political suicide by taxing the
informal sector composed of majority
of our electorates?
The Social Reform and Poverty
Alleviation Act (RA 9485) defines the
informal sector as poor individuals
who operate businesses that are very
small in scale and are not registered
with any national government agency;
and workers in such enterprises who
sell their services in exchange for
subsistence wages or other forms of
compensation.
Clearly, we have constrained
ourselves to simply associating the
informal sector with the poor and
powerless in society. How about
the proliferation of those in the
underground economy, engaging
in illegal transactions and directly
competing with those registered and
taxpaying companies?
Whether we admit it or not, they
have the numbers and the longer it
takes for the government to reach out to
the growing informal sector, the more
injustice will be inflicted on those in the
formal sectorboth professionals and
businesses painstakingly complying
with government regulations.
The impact may be uncertain
but definitely significant, as it will
legitimize and regulate a number
of transactions either initiated or
participated by the informal sector.
But whats in it for them to join the
formal sector? This has been the long-
standing question of people being asked

to pay taxes that fund our government.
Its about time we run our government
like private corporations, where the
major shareholders are the Filipino
citizens, and quality product/service
is expected.
Simplify, simplify
Ninety-nine-point-six percent of
businesses are composed of micro, small
and medium enterprises (MSMEs).
Despite this, our government remains
indifferent to the plight of our struggling
entrepreneurs in complying with
government rules and regulations.
Compliance costs have become
very firm in her position that

the BIR is not a customer
service agency but an
enforcement agency, and that
their mandate is to assess
and to collect taxes. Time and
again, taxpayers have found no
shelter in the doors of the BIR.
They dont see the benefits of
complying with the tedious
and endless tax rules and
regulations set by the bureau,
resulting consequently to
more non-compliance and
compromise.
If Finance Secretary
The impact may be uncertain but definitely

significant, as it will legitimize and regulate
a number of transactions either initiated or
participated by the informal sector.
too significant, such that it becomes

more convenient and practical to
deal with fixers or bribe government
employees. The only way to address
this is to simplify the entire process to
make it easy for anyone who wants to
do business.
During our joint meeting with the
Tax Management Association of the
Philippines (TMAP) to consolidate all
proposals to simplify the tax system for
our MSMEs, we all agreed on four key
results: 1) simplify tax compliance; 2)
provide incentives instead of penalties;
3) broaden the taxpayer base; and 4)
increase voluntary compliance.
Aside from the basic classification
of MSMEs, setting a sales threshold to
monitor their compliance is necessary.
However, in the process of further
simplifying their compliance, the tax
administration will have to do more
work in monitoring and assisting
taxpayers.
Commissioner Henares has been
Purisima wants to overhaul

our tax code, lets start with
one crucial addition to the
B I R s d u t i e s : p r o v i d i n g
excellent taxpayer service.
It seems the mission of the
BIR has only stayed within
the walls of the agency: The
Bureau of Internal Revenue
is committed to collect taxes
for nation-building through
excellent, efficient and
transparent ser vice, just
and fair enforcement of tax
laws, uplifting the life of every
Filipino.
Mr. and Mrs. Santa
In partnership with the
YesPinoy Foundation founded
by Commissioner Dingdong
Dantes of the National Youth
Commission and supported
by the Abrea
Consulting Group,
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CSR program aims to improve classroom learning
ince its inception in 2011, Nature

Class-chosen Manila public
science high school teachers
continue to receive grants
for field immersions that promote
enhanced teaching techniques in
natural environmental settings. Its
successful pilot project provided select
science teachers extensive lectures on
marine life from marine experts and
advocates through the project dubbed
Marine Reef Quest.
The following year, Nature Class
partnered with the Wild Bird Club of
the Philippines, as well as with science
department heads of 35 public schools
in Manila, to experience Bird Watching
(Bird Quest) in Candaba, Pampanga.
On the third year of Nature Class,
tree planting was the main objective
wherein teachers grouped together to

give a permanent home for native trees
and plants at the foot of Mt. Makiling.
Venny Alano, a science teacher from
Cayetano Arellano High School and one
of the grantees of Nature Class, is set
to demonstrate and impart her firsthand experience in Nature Class to her
students. The classroom demonstration
will be aided by special colorful visuals
on biodiversity provided by the Center
for Outdoor Recreation and Expedition
(C.O.R.E.). The learning did not stop
from the classroom discussion as the
students also imparted their brand new
knowledge and newfound advocacies
on biodiversity through a series of
activities, from poetry, poster and
slogan making, among others.
C.O.R.E aims to pursue collaboration
efforts with the Manila Natural Science

Instruction and Supervision section
to assure that teachers integrate
this knowledge in their respective
classroom learning agenda. Coming
up next for C.O.R.E is another exciting
learning activity involving native trees
and plants in coordination with the
Philippine Native Plants Conservation
Society, Inc.
Nature Class is a project of C.O.R.E,
in support of the urgency to promote and
spread awareness for environmental
conservation.
(From left) Kristine Villaflor, program officer,C.O.R.E.; Venny D. Alano,
master teacher 1, Cayetano Arellano High School; Rebecca Roxas, oIC,
Natural Science Instruction and Supervision Section Manila; Vivian
Intatano, oIC, AHS-Science Department; and Misha Peralta, program
associate, C.o.R.E.
De Los Santos Medical Center, Fortune Care

strengthen ties
De Los Santos Medical Center strengthens
its partnership with Fortune Care Health
Maintenance Organization by opening
the Fortune Care Wing, to further deliver
quality services at affordable rates.
The partnership, according to Fortune
Care Chairman of the Board and CEO
J. Antonio A. Cabangon, Jr., is known
to explore breakthroughs that improve
patient experience. He adds that they will
also introduce a new Point of Sale System
that should streamline transactions made
by their cardholders at De Los Santos Med. Photo shows (from left) Geronimo V. Francisco,
president and COO, Fortune Care; J. Antonio A. Cabangon, Jr., chairman of the Board and CEO,
Fortune Care; Raul C. Pagdanganan, president and CEO, De Los Santos Medical Center; and
Lysander P. Ragodon, MD, VP for Hospital Operations, De Los Santos Medical Center.
Resorts World Manila

turns over new
school building
Travellers International Hotel Group,
Inc. (Travellers), owner and operator of
Resorts World Manila (RWM), recently
turned over a three-storey, nineclassroom school building to the Jose
Rizal Elementary School (JRES) in
Barangay 88, Pasay City to benefit over
2,500 students currently enrolled there.
The project was made possible through
Travellers designated beneficiary foundation, Manila Bayshore Heritage Foundation, Inc. (MBHFI),
under the supervision of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) and
in partnership with the Department of Education (DepEd) and the local government of Pasay
City. Present during the turnover ceremonies in JRES were (from left) PAGCOR Assistant Vice
President for Community Relations and Services Henry Reyes, Pasay City Mayor Antonino Calixto,
PAGCOR President and Chief Operating Officer Atty. Jorge Sarmiento, Resorts World Manila Chief
Operating Officer Stephen Reilly, JRES Principal Librado Torres, Pasay City Congresswoman
Imelda Calixto-Rubiano, DepEd Schools Division Superintendent Dr. Evangeline Ladines, and
JRES General Parent-Teacher Association President Junto Carinan.
bDo, Visa award grand winners of Exciting

Getaways promo
Two lucky BDO Visa Platinum cardholders
each received a Cebu Pacific travel
voucher valued at P250,000 after winning
the BDO Visa Exciting Getaways Promo.
Winners Rose Beth So and Katrina Sales
were awarded the travel vouchers after
using their BDO Visa Platinum credit
cards to pay for their transactions.
Additional vouchers were awarded to
six second prize winners (P25,000) and
20 consolation prize winners (P10,000)
during the grand draw. A total of 115
winners also received vouchers worth
P10,000 in daily draws since the start of
the promo. Photo shows (from left) Visa
Country Manager for the Philippines and Guam Stuart Tomlinson, BDO Visa Exciting Getaways
Promo winners Katrina Sales and Rosebeth So, and BDO Senior Vice President and Consumer
Lending Group Marketing Head Ma. Nannette R. Regala.
bUSINESS RoUND-UP
ECHostore wins in
International Womens
Entrepreneurial Challenge
The Chamber Trade Sweden will welcome women

entrepreneurs from Nigeria, Zambia, Malaysia, Europe,
Australia, and North and South America to celebrate the
Eighth Annual International Womens Entrepreneurial
Challenge Conference (IWEC) on November 16 to 19 in
Scandinavia. ECHOstore Sustainable Lifestyle, represented
by Pacita Chit Juan, is the 2014 awardee from the
Philippines. The conference will recognize successful
women entrepreneurs from industries that include
computer software, fashion, manufacturing, oil and gas,
agribusiness, health services, skin care, travel, research
technology, shipping and freight forwarding, education, and
other enterprises. IWECs mission is to develop a global
business network for successful women business owners,
helping them gain and expand access to international
markets by presenting a platform for the exchange of
knowledge, experience and connectivity, further promoting
dialogue among women entrepreneurs and business
leaders throughout the world. This year, 32 women from
the U.K., Peru, Spain, Sweden, South Africa, the United
States, Turkey, Philippines, Australia, Serbia, Taiwan,
Ethiopia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh and India will be
honored.
Amdocs announces network

cloud offerings
Amdocs, a leading provider of customer experience

solutions, unveils its Network Cloud Service Orchestratora
new open, vendor-agnostic, catalog-driven solution that
enables service providers to define and activate complex
services containing virtual network functions (VNFs) from
For more information, visit C.O.R.E.s

website at coreasia.org.ph. Like them
on facebook.com/CORE.ph. C.O.R.E. is
the advocacy arm of the Primer Group
of Companies.
banKo, SHFC partner for mortgage program venture

BPI Globe BanKO, the countrys first and only
mobile phone-based savings bank, has been
tapped by government agency Social Housing
Finance Corporation (SHFC) as its official
financial technology partner for SHFCs
Community Mortgage Program (CMP)a
project that provides financing for socialized
housing for low-income communities in
the Philippines. The joint endeavor aims
to promote mainstream financial inclusion
to over 200,000 CMP members nationwide
by using BanKOs platform and its slew of
mobile banking services. The October 10
launch saw the simultaneous roll-out of
caravans in more than a dozen communities in Tacloban City and Metro Manila, encouraging
members to enroll in BanKO and gain immediate access to a mobile-based PondoKO savings
account with life insurance. BanKOs Chief Development Officer Rob Nazal, SHFC Vice-President
for Legal and Visayas and Mindanao Group Atty. Salie Taguian, and President of Mineland Shelter
Foundation Siony Sia joined other presidents of Mineland Community Associations in Tacloban
City to celebrate the partnership. For more information, call (2) 654-7758, visit www.banko.
com.ph or www. facebook.com/magbankona.
bosch reports status

of yolanda projects
Bosch announced that it has completed
two rebuilding projects in Daanbantayan,
Cebu. Bosch turned over the two-classroom
school building in Purgason Primary School,
as well as a library for the Looc Primary
School. The construction of establishments
in Cebu kicked-off in May when 22 Bosch
associates flew to the identified areas for the companys service week initiative. The rehabilitation
efforts were mobilized with the help of Habitat for Humanity. By establishing a tie-up with
Hansgrohe SE, Tindog Pilipinas also had the advantage of Hansgrohe basin mixers, which resolved
the sanitation concern in all rebuild locations in Northern Cebu and Leyte. Tindog Pilipinas is also
in the process of constructing several school facilities in Leyte, such as a Science Math Center in
Alang-alang National High School, including the provision of building supplies and materials; and
an industrial building in Tanuan II Central School. Once reconstruction projects are completed,
sites will accommodate about 4,000 schoolchildren in Central and Eastern Visayas. Raised mostly
by Robert Bosch, Inc. in Stuttgart, Germany, funds for Tindog Pilipinas amounted to 174,000
(P10,822,356), including significant contributions voluntarily coming from Bosch associates across
the globe. Photo shows (from left) Habitat for Humanity Philippines Deputy COO for Disaster
Response Chay Holganza and Bosch Philippines Managing Director Andrew Powell presenting the
symbolic key to the classroom to Ana Jella Conejos, the Principal of Purgaso, Daanbantayan Mayor
Augusto Diaz Corro, and DepEd District Supervisor Pableo Tuling.
McDonalds bares 2014 Coca-Cola glasses

McDonalds takes customers dining experience up a notch
with the 2014 Coca-Cola Modern Glass collection. Fusing
modern imagery and contemporary design to create six
visually distinctive patternsdiamond, linear, mosaic, pixel,
ripple and steel this years Coke Glasses take inspiration
from graphic elements and will all be offered in a light
grey color, adding a premium yet playful touch to ones
dining experience. Customers can take home any of the
six 2014 Coke Glasses by adding only P25 to a purchase
of a McDonalds Extra Value Meal. The promo is also valid
for purchases of a BFF Burger or Chicken Bundle and
breakfast Extra Value Meals. The Coca-Cola Glass collection
is available at McDonalds stores nationwide via Dine-In,
Take-Out, Drive-Thru, or McDelivery (86-2-36 and www.
mcdelivery.com.ph).
multiple vendors in a matter of days instead of months. The

latest product is also complemented by Amdocs NFV Service
Partner Program which is focused on pre-integrating a rich
set of VNFs and Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure
(NFVI) elements in order to simplify the complexity of service
orchestration, improve service time-to-market, and address
end-to-end Service Level Agreement considerations. Amdocs
has a range of VNF products including Amdocs Policy Controller
which enables service providers to rapidly introduce highly
tuned data offers for performance-critical services such as
Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and customized market applications,
including virtual packet core for enterprise.
The Generics Pharmacy

taps Microsoft Dynamics AX
One of the countrys leading drug stores, The Generics

Pharmacy (TGP), entered a partnership with Microsoft to
power its operations with Dynamics AX. Since 2001 when it
ventured into retail, TGP has managed to establish over 20
outlets in Metro Manila alone. Today, TGP continues to be a
trusted health and pharmaceutical partner of the Filipinos
and intends to be more strategic by leveraging modern-day
business solutions like Microsofts Dynamics AX. Microsoft
Dynamics AX enables retailers of all sizes like TGP to be
dynamic and to deliver a complete shopping experience to
their customers. The solution capacitates TGP to efficiently
deploy modern point of sale, store operations, merchandising,
e-commerce, call center, marketing, and finance among many
others. To learn more about Microsoft Dynamics, visit www.
microsoft.com/dynamics.
Teleperformance Philippines
is 2014 Aon Hewitts best
Employer
Teleperformance, a global leader in outsourced multichannel

customer experience management, recently announced that
its operations in the Philippines has been certified by Aon

Hewitt, the global talent, retirement and health solutions
business of Aon plc, in its Aon Hewitt Best Employers
program. The Aon Hewitt Best Employers global program
measures and recognizes employer excellence worldwide.
Teleperformance has achieved certification from the Aon
Hewitt Best Employers global program throughout 10
countries around the world, including the Philippines.
Were proud to be recognized by the Aon Hewitt Best
Employers program at this important stage of the
companys rapid growth, says Travis Coates, managing
director, Teleperformance Philippines. Teleperformance
Philippines is one of the largest BPOs in the Philippines and
we remain committed to generating new jobs and growing
our footprint within the country to match our global
position as the leader in Multichannel Customer Experience
Management.
buffalo Wild Wings

to open in PH
Popular American restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings

famous for its New York-style chicken wingswill open
at Capitol Commons in Pasig City this December. It was
in 1982 when Jim Disbrow and Scott Lowery founded
Buffalo Wild Wings, shortly after the two friends moved to
Ohio from Buffalo. Driven by their craving for New Yorks
popular bar food that was nowhere to be found in Ohio,
Disbrow and Lowery opened their own wing joint near The
Ohio State University campus. Three decades later, it has
grown into an influential brand with over 1,040 locations
in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and soon, the
Philippines. Aside from the food and drinks, the restaurants
contemporary design, complete with wall-to-wall HD flatscreen TVs, allows guests to watch sports shows. The
Philippine launch is part of The Bistro Groups ongoing
expansion effort geared towards providing quality options
in the local food scene and restaurant concepts that are in
sync with the markets evolving and diverse preferences.
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The organized mind: How to survive

information overload and accomplish more
CAF bIz
EVANGELINE
NAVARRo
hile I was checking

my e-mail on my
phone for preparatory
requirements of a
business trip on which I was to leave
at midnight, I was on speakerphone
explaining the budgetary kinks of
a different project to a business
partner. At the same time, I could
hear the minute beeps of incoming
messagesundoubtedly related to
different matterswhile the blank
screen of my laptop sat disapprovingly
on the side, waiting for an article
long overdue. As I mustered my way
through multiple tasks, I realized
that the Information Age has raised
our hopes that we can be smarter,
decide faster, and achieve more in
our lives than ever before by doing
a lot of things with the aid of smart
gadgets. Truth is, our brains were
NOT designed for multitasking.
Even if we seem to be able to
do two things simultaneously, MRI
scans show that the brain is not
really functioning concurrently, but is
actually switching between the tasks
in a serial way. The penalty for doing
this is high. Jeff Sutherland, in his
book Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice
the Work in Half the Time, cited
a study that showed that context
switching or reorienting your mind
to focus on an entirely different task,
say between five projects,

will result in seventy-five
percent of your work going
nowhere. In other words,
you would have worked
three-fourths of your day
for nothing. This may
be counterintuitive, but
studies show that working
long hours on multiple
things means that you
actually expend more
resources and energy but
achieve less.
Our brain, which has
evolved over millions of
years and remains barely
unchanged since the
Stone Age, has sufficiently
developed to help us survive
but it is structurally inept
to handle the huge amount
of knowledge and demands
placed on our attention
by a modern world. More
data does not mean we
are more productive or
effective. High obesity rate
despite the availability of diet and
exercise information is a case in point.
The danger of information overload
could be an increase in apathy and a
sense of disempowerment. A crucial
part of our continuing education should
be to learn how to sift through and
organize information that allows us
to make decisions and complete tasks
more effectively.
To reduce the brains processing
bottleneck, Sutherland advises
completing a whole task before doing

another. Harold Pashlers experiments
in the nineties showed that as you add
another task, no matter how simple, the
time involved doubled. For every task,
the brain apparently has to reboot and
reorient itself on what needs to be done;
this continuous rebooting process eats
up a lot of time as you start and stop on
concurrent tasks. Like it or not, people
can really only think about one thing
at a time. Continual shifting actually
causes the brain to burn through fuel

and depletes the brain of nutrients.
Daniel J. Levitin, a cognitive
neuroscientist at McGill University,
author of The Organized Mind, advises
offloading a lot of the organizational
load of your brain to your environment
or using the physical things around you
to remind you what needs to be done.
This means keeping your most-needed
items (e.g. keys, diary or meeting notes)
at a visible, regular place; maintaining
a filing system with well-thought out

labeled categoriesphysically and
electronically; writing things down
because memory decays; and keeping
redundant sets of things that save
you extra time from scurrying around
(e.g. toilet travel kit; chargers in your
car, luggage, office and bedroom).
He avers that a creative mind is
actually organized, as in the case of
John Lennon who neatly categorized
unfinished music and of Michael
Jackson, who maintained an archivist.
Levitin also counsels moderating our
brains instinctive urge for novelty (e.g.
do e-mail check once or twice a day,
time your Net surfing), delegating tasks
as much as we can, and getting enough
sleep. It is also good mental hygiene
to give yourself 10 minutes after a
meeting to digest the information and
another 10 minutes before the next
meeting to allow your mind to switch
gradually.
Highly successful executives,
artists and athletes have learned to
maximize their creativity and efficiency
by organizing their lives so that they can
spend less time on the mundane, and
more time on the inspiring, comforting
and rewarding things in life, observes
Levitin. Overall, wouldnt that be a
better way to live?
Evangeline Navarro is a serial
entrepreneur and investor, a finance
teacher; and a student at heart on
how money and resources affect
people. She can be contacted at
evangeline.navarro@gmail.com.
Most consumers in
Asia Pacific optimistic
MasterCard study
onsumers in Asia
Pacific largely remain
optimistic on their
e c on omic ou t look
despite continued uncertainty
in the global economy, with the
exception of Australia, according
to the MasterCard Index of
Consumer Confidence.
Respondents were asked
to give a six-month outlook on
five economic factors including
the economy, employment
prospects, regular income
prospects, and their quality of
life. The Index is calculated with
zero as the most pessimistic,
100 as most optimistic, and 50
as neutral.
Consumer confidence
across the Asia Pacific region
has reached its highest level in
more than 10 years, says Pierre
Burret, head of Delivery, Quality
and Resource Management for
Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle
East and Africa, MasterCard
Advisors. The region is up 6.9
Index points to 68.3 Index points
in H1 2014 from 61.5 Index points
in H2 2013.
Compared to six months
ago, 12 out of the 16 Asia Pacific
markets surveyed recorded
both positive sentiment and
experienced either some or
significant improvement in
consumer confidence. Four
markets moved above the
50-point neutral mark in the
survey, leaving only Australia
and South Korea as the only markets
out of the 16 to remain below the 50point neutral mark.
Asia Pacific markets showed
increases in each of the key economic
indicators: economy (67.1 index points
in H1 2014 from 59.3 index points in H2
2013) employment (69.2 from 62.2 index
points), regular income prospect (77.5
from 72.1 index points), stock market
(65.7 from 57.4 index points), and quality
of life (62.2 from 56.3 index points).

Markets like Bangladesh and
Taiwan show strong increases in
consumer sentiment, bolstered by
key influences such as a perception of
better employment prospects and of an
improving economy, says Burret.
Bangladesh recorded the biggest
uptick in consumer confidence, jumping
a whopping 25.9 points (from 40.5 index
points in H2 2013 to 66.4 index points in
H1 2014). Taiwans consumer confidence
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Caf, Metrobank (ASSET) Alumni
Scholars Association, and Goldilocks,
among other sponsors, we are bringing
the joy of Christmas to 500 patients of
the Philippine Children Medical Center
(PCMC) in Quezon City.
The program is dubbed Pamaskong
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we traveled all the way to Kinatarcan

Island in Cebu to celebrate a very
special Christmas party with 500 kids
from families affected by Typhoon
Yolanda. This year, it will be extra
special as Mr. and Mrs. Santa are
coming to celebrate with us.
Mon Abrea is the founding president of
the Center for Strategic Reforms of the
also grew by a large

percentage, up 24.6 points
(from 33.0 index points in
H2 2013 to 57.6 index points
in H1 2014).
Other significant
double-digit improvements
in consumer confidence
were recorded by Thailand,
up 14.6 index points (from
72.0 index points in H2 2013
to 86.6 index points in H1
2014); Singapore, up 13.2
index points (from 47.4 index
points in H2 2013 to 60.6
index points in H1 2014);
Indonesia, up 11.3 index
points (from 82.8 index
index points in H1 2014);
and New Zealand, up 10.8
index points (from 55.0 index
index points in H1 2014).
Myanmar, Indonesia
and India recorded the Asia
Pacific regions highest
consumer confidence scores,
with 94.1 index points,
94.0 index points and 89.1
index points, respectively.
Meanwhile, Australia
recorded the largest dip in
consumer confidence, down
12 index points to 37.2 index
points in H1 2014 from 49.2
in H2 2013.
The regions overall
optimism for the future is
an encouraging sign, and
demonstrates the importance
of continuing to innovate with partners
in emerging markets like Myanmar,
India and Indonesia, in efforts to drive
economic growth, Burret ends.
The Index is based on a survey
conducted between July 2014 and
August 2014 on 12,574 respondents
aged 18 to 64 in 27 countries across
Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa.
This is the 43rd survey of Consumer
Confidence conducted since 1993.
Philippines (CSR Philippines), a nonprofit organization that champions

and consolidates initiatives to
empower MSMEs. He is also the Chief
Strategy Officer of the countrys first
social consulting enterprise, the Abrea
Consulting Group (ACG), which offers
strategic finance and tax advisory
services to businesses, professionals
and individuals. Feedback is welcome
at consult@acg.ph.
Dunkin brands honors Golden Donuts,

Inc.-Philippines with Southeast Asia
Franchisee Awards
Dunkin Brands, the parent company of Dunkin Donuts and Baskin-Robbins,
has recently recognized Golden Donuts, Inc.-Philippines with the 2013
Dunkin Donuts Southeast Asia Marketing Campaign Excellence and Comps
Excellence Awardstwo of the companys highest distinctions. The awards
were presented to Golden Donuts, Inc. by Dunkin Brands Chairman and
CEO Nigel Travis at a ceremony in Manila last October 8. We are pleased to
recognize the tremendous efforts of Golden Donuts in the areas of marketing
and business results with these two prestigious awards, says Nigel Travis,
chairman and CEO of Dunkin Brands. The team at Golden Donuts continually
drives the Dunkin Donuts brand forward in the Philippines with best-in-class
marketing and creative campaigns. The Marketing Campaign Excellence
Award recognizes the most impactful and creative marketing campaign of the
year. Golden Donuts, Inc. was selected as the winner due to its innovative
R199 Dozen Donuts program, a 360-marketing campaign which drove
growth for the brand. The Comps Excellence Award, on the other hand,
recognizes the top comparable store sales growth performer in the region.
To learn more about Dunkin Donuts, visit www.DunkinDonuts.ph or follow
them on Facebook (www.facebook.com/DunkinDonuts).
Autism Society Philippines, SAP

partner to improve autism care
he Autism Society Philippines

and SAP recently announced a
pilot project in the Philippines,
which aims to improve the
quality of care provided to those with
autism. At the center of the pilot is Care
Circles, an SAP service for tablets and
smartphones similar to a private social
network.
This project marks the first national
pilot of Care Circles, the first in the Asia
Pacific region, and the first outside
the United States. Care Circles helps
patients and their families connect with
advocacy and healthcare programs and
providers, which provide best practices
in self-care and care giving. This service
helps create healthier lives by enabling
communities and empowering families
to care for each other.
Tens of millions of people in Asia
live with autism, and they are typically
supported by a circle of caregivers.
Care Circles can help these caregivers
improve the lives of those living with
autism through best practices and
collaboration, says Andy David, director
for Healthcare in the Asia Pacific at
SAP. Social networks can provide great
support to people who have unique
interests or feel stigmatized, and so we
believe Care Circles, as a private social
network for healthcare, can help improve
lives. It brings the benefits of social
networks to healthcare, he adds.
Through the pilot, the Autism Society
Philippines will share Philippine-
specific resources, expert content

and family-centric insights on autism,
which will be accessible to people
using Care Circles. The Autism Society
Philippines aims to complement their
efforts in family- and communitybased rehabilitation with technologies
that their network of families, speech
pathologists, occupational therapists,
physical therapists and developmental
pediatricians can use for the care of
Filipinos with autism. The Autism
Society Philippines is hopeful that
with widespread adoption, the solution
will help crowd-source answers to
questions on the prevalence, incidence
and impact of autism on the Philippine
population.
Autism is a lifetime condition. With
Care Circles, the case management of
individuals with autism will now be a
social experience shared with his circle
of guardian angels from childhood
to their transition to adulthood, says
Erlinda Koe, chair emeritus of the
Autism Society Philippines.
Care Circles helps people learn about
a family members condition, share
knowledge, and track daily progress.
Care Circles also provides a platform to
publish best practices. In addition, Care
Circles lets people collaborate through
a private journal to take preventative
action and track daily progress.
Care Circles is available for iPhone
and iPad from the App Store.
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U.S. roadshow eyes R300-M

in condo sales in Cebu
By malou m. mozo
CEBU CITY, CebuCapitalizing

on the promotion of Cebu as a second
home destination, a 48-men delegation
from Cebu announced it has started
its 15-day sales mission to the United
States, encouraging Filipinos there to
buy condominium properties in Cebu.
Leuterio Realty and Brokerage Inc.
(LRBI) a leading property brokerage
firm in Cebu, led the group of licensed
brokers and sales agents to visit at
least five states in the US for the next
two weeks in a roadshow covering New
Orleans, Los Angeles, New Jersey, New
York, and San Francisco.
The group expects to generate at
least R200 to R300 million in deals that
would translate to an estimated 80 to
100 condominium units.
The demand is ver y strong.
Filipinos residing and working in
the U.S., as well as foreigners are
looking for good properties in Cebu, and
condominiums are a popular choice,
Anthony Leuterio, LRBI president
and chief executive officer said in an
interview.
According to Leuterio, the U.S.
has always been one of the most
effective marketing and sales venues
Cebu as a second home. A sales mission to the U.S. is encouraging Filipinos there to buy more properties in
this province. (MB file photo)
for the real estate sector, specifically for

developers, brokers and sales people,
as actual sales and closing of deals are
immediate.
He says there are over 6,000
condominium inventories in Cebu that
are up for sale, including those that are
scheduled to be completed in the next
two to three years.
Brokers usually endorse

condominium properties that are on
the pre-selling stage because prices are
still affordable, Leuterio adds.
Last year, he notes that the same
group generated an estimated sales of
R150 million from similar promotional
events held in the US.
Leuterio said 80 percent of the
demand in real estate in Cebu are for

condominium units priced R60,000 to
R75,000 per square meter. The increase
in demand comes from the overseas
Filipino workers and foreign buyers
from the U.S., Europe, Australia, Japan
and Korea.
In addition, Leuterio points out that
the cost of real estate is up to four times
cheaper in Cebu than in Manila. He says

the relatively low cost of living in Cebu
makes it more viable for international
buyers to consider Cebu because of
its balanced business and leisure mix,
where from the work place, one could
go to the mountain or the beach in 30
to 45 minutes.
He says English is widely-spoken
in Cebu and there are a number of
education and medical facilities here.
Cebus cost of living, he adds, is 30
percent lower than that of Manila.
Supported by seven property
development companies like Apple
One, Contempo, King Properties,
Duros Land Properties Inc., Primary
Homes, Landmasters and Tambuli
Properties, Leuterio says the group
also scheduled an inter national
convention in New York next week,
where developers will be allowed to
present their products to prospective
U.S. buyers.
To date, about 300 to 400 buyers
have already registered to attend the
Real Estate International Convention
organized by Leuterio's company.
Licensed brokers and sales persons
participating in the sales mission will
not only promote properties in Cebu
but also those in Bohol, Davao, and
neighboring cities and provinces.
A closer look at the IBM and Apple tie-up

IBM XCITE 2014 zooms into the exclusive IBM and Apple deal on a new class of business apps
Text and photos by JEn BalBoa
ost mobile phone and

device users download
an app, use it once, then
remove it. An International
Business Machines (IBM) executive
made this observation during the
technology and consulting giants IBM
XCITE 2014 conference recently in
Singapore, underscoring one of IBMs
latest high-profile partnershipsthat
with Apple Inc., makers of the iPhone
and iPad.
The IBM and Apple partnership
will redefine the mobile enterprise,
according to Tim Greisinger, IBM
vice president for its Smarter Cities
arm and leader of the companys
Systems of Engagement program.
Its an exclusive partnership [that
will] transform enterprise mobility
through a new class of business apps,
Greisinger explains. The partnership
will be harnessing capabilities of IBM
in big data and analytics, and bring
this to the iPhone and iPad.
The apps to be created by the
IBM and Apple partnership aims to
transform specific aspects of how
businesses work to raise efficiency
and customer satisfaction, faster
and easier.
Power coupling
While the partnership was officially
announced as early as July, it was during
IBM XCITE 2014 when IBM was able
to give a fuller presentation of what the
tie-up will be about for businesses and
organizations. In an official statement
from IBM headquarters, the company
The Future is Now session with Kellar Nevill (IbM ASEAN), Tan Tong Hai (Starhub), TVT Chari (Celcom Malaysia) and Robert Morris (IbM Research).
explains that the partnership is a

powerful extension of [their] existing
MobileFirst portfolio and is their
response to the worlds historic shifts
[in] data, cloud and engagement at the
level of individuals. IBM foresees this
shift as something that will define the
migration of value in our industry, and
shape the agenda of global business.
The partnership also goes in line
with IBMs current focus on the business
of big data analytics, as stated in their
current financial reports. The company
has also just announced last October
a deal with social micro-blogging site
Twitter, a deal which will see IBMs
clients gaining access to millions of
daily Twitter posts, and through IBMs
supercomputer Watson platform,
be able to analyze all the tweets for
marketing and product trends.
Apple is no stranger to the world of

enterprise. iPhones and iPads can be
found in 98 percent of the Fortune 500.
The collaboration draws on the distinct
strengths of each company: IBMs big
data and analytics capabilities, with
the power of more than 100,000 IBM
industry and domain consultants and
software developers behind it, fused
with Apples legendary consumer
experience, IBM headquarters
declares.
Practical applications
The apps and cloud sof tware
services to be developed and sold
under the partnership will have four
common characteristics: (1) each
addresses an industry priority or
pain point; (2) each is powered by
analytics and integrates with the core
enterprise processes and data; (3) each

is designed for mobility, not reverse
engineered for a mobile device, and;
(4) each unlocks a new possibility in the
way work is done, focusing on real-time
action, from showroom to shop floor.
The first apps are set to come out late
this year.
The apps will r un on Apples
signature mobile devices, the iPhone
and the iPad. These apps will be
available even for the latest iPhone6
and iPad models. Both companies will
focus on delivering the IBM MobileFirst
platform for iOS solutions. We will
create an exclusive suite of more
than 100 new IBM MobileFirst for
iOS business apps that fuse Apples
legendary ease-of-use with IBMs
unmatched industry depth, enterprise
sof tware and big data analytics
expertise, according to IBM.

When asked to explain the
practical benefits of their Enterprise
Mobility program, where the tie-up
with Apple is in line, IBM cites several
examples.
For sales associates, it means
having access to real-time product,
inventory and location information,
as well as analytics-based insights
into customer profile data that will
allow them to delight the customer
and save the sale by delivering a
real-time recommendation.
As for flight crews, it translates to
providing them with powerful realtime information about a passengers
preferences and travel patterns when
faced with a delay or cancellation, so
the crew can instantly suggest the
next best customer action.
Philippine Bamboo Exhibit 2014 previews solar

lighting solution for Yolanda-affected areas
rom September to December

2, MyShelter Foundation
(MSF), in partnership with the
Philippine Bamboo Industry
Development Council (PBIDC), is
showcasing innovative solar lamps
powered by Philips at the Philippine
Bamboo Exhibit 2014 hosted at the
Design Center of the Philippines
(DCP).
These lamps made of styrene sheets
and bamboo paper use 100 percent
solar-powered LED lights developed
by Philips. During the launch of the
exhibit, Illac Diaz of MSF shared how
this initiative celebrates the fusion of
Filipino creativity with Philips solar
technology.
With MSF winning the Innovations
that matter to you initiative by Royal
Philips through its affiliate, Philips
Electronics and Lighting, Inc. (Philips
Philippines), Diaz worked with Philips
to use one-of-a-kind Philips solar LED
cards to innovate MSFs existing Liter
of Light DIY solar lighting project.

bringing light to
yolanda survivors
Since April, Philips and MSF have
been sitting down as a team with one goal
in mindto deliver the very first Philips
meaningful innovation that will affect
change in the quality of lives of families
in the Visayas affected by Yolanda
(Haiyan), shares Fabia Tetteroo-Bueno,
country manager of Philips Philippines.
The collaboration has yielded remarkable
results with the turnover of the Philips
solar LED cards, and both parties
are bound to put together its other
components such as batteries, solar
panels, and enclosure to have a complete
functioning system for the Visayas.
Moreover, the creation of the Philips
solar LED cards fulfils another objective
of the partnership, which is to increase
the efficiency of assembly while keeping
costs low. Eight components from
the old design were reduced to just
Fabia Tetteroo-bueno, country manager of Philips Philippines, and

Illac Diaz of MyShelter Foundation, winner of the very first Meaningful
Innovations program of Philips in the Philippines.
three including the LED card and new

enclosure. The time to build the lamp
was reduced from two hours to 30
minutes, and both parties believe that
this can still be reduced to 15 minutes.
We are happy to update the public

that we have entered our product design
and testing stage, with the very first
usage of the newest Philips LED card
on solar lamps currently installed at
the DCP, says Bueno. The creatively

designed solar lamps displayed here
at Philippine Bamboo Exhibit shows
the great progress in setting the stage
to bring this innovation to Yolandaaffected areas.
Using a community livelihood
program where beneficiaries are
taught skills to build solar lights, MSF
and Philips Philippines aim to bring
light to the Filipino families affected by
super-typhoon Yolanda by December
2014. The Solar Night Light Project by
the Meaningful Innovations program
is expected to light up 5,000 homes.
The 2014 Philippine Bamboo Exhibit
will run until December 2 at the Design
Center of the Philippines Building
located at the Cultural Center of the
Philippines Complex, Pasay City.
For more information, visit www.
meaningfulinnovation.asia/
philippines or www.facebook.com/
PhilipsPhilippines.
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Ultima U03 allows users to

carry data around in fashion
and ease. It is available in up
to 128GB high capacity, and its
built-in internal LED indicator
illuminates through the front
cover to display data transfer
status during use.
All Silicon Power USB flash
drive products come with a
lifetime warranty, as well as SP
Widget application software,
which provides seven major
back up and security tools.
Lollipop the sweetest

OS in candy shop
There are two things we want to talk about: Android 5.0 Lollipop and the first hardware that ships
with it, the Nexus 9.
To set us high balling, the Android 5.0 Lollipop is
simply, revolutionary. It has a plethora of features,
performance improvements, and takes on the biggest
changes in design.
The Lollipop uses a new UI called the Material
Design. This gives vibrant colors and a lot of animations within the UI. Animations like app folders pop
open like a piece of folded paper, or the gear Settings icon turn as users drag the notifications up or
down. Also, as the app opens, the screen doesnt just
switch toward the app. Instead, the app unravels, like
a pop art, and gives users, in what Google believes,
a smoother transition. The icons for the back, home,
and menu buttons have all been changed to blend in
with the Material Design backdrop.
Users receive notifications from the lock screen in
small dialogue boxes that doesnt take up the entire
screen space. Double tap on the box and it will take
you straight to the app. The notifications bar itself
has been revamped to be smaller, and doesnt take
the entire screen space. The following features can
be accessed via Settings.
The Lollipop treats
Selective Interruptions is now possible with Lollipop. Users can sort out their contacts by which ones
get to reach them, and which ones to hit a brick wall.
Priority app makes a scene here. Users will be able
to select which apps appear in the notifications bar.
We liked this because users get the option to block
apps notifications, and receive only those deemed
important (like Facebook!).
If youre an owner of a Chromecast, you can use it
to receive images from the Lollipop device by dragging down the notifications and tapping on the Cast
screen.
Double-tap makes a return to wake the device up.
Although that is hardly new, we welcome its inclusion
to the Lollipop.
Finally, a big surprise is the Lollipop game app. It
took a while until someone discovered this little bugger. This can be accessed by hitting Settings, About
Tablet, and keep on tapping the Android Version until
a lollipop appears, long press that and youre off to a
world of pain.
However, there are a few issues we discovered.
There were times when some apps take time to load,
and were talking about more than three seconds.
Sometimes the app wont work, back and menu buttons are stuck and doesnt do anything. The only
thing that did something was the home button, and
we had to press it at least twice before were taken
back to the home screen. This, however, only happened a few times.
Nexus 9
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has satisfied
its sweet tooth
for the latest treats in mobile
devices. So we went shopping in
the candy shop and got the new Nexus
9, sporting the deliciously revolutionary
Android Lollipop operating system. What
can we say, Lollipop looks and tastes better
than Android KitKat.
Nexus 9
Now, lets breeze over the Nexus 9. As seen in

the picture, it features a well-rounded specs sheet.
Its beautiful, but holding it doesnt feel premium,
from the lack of an aluminum built and glossiness.
Nonetheless, its something you can walk down the
street with pride.
Audio is loud because of HTCs design of frontal
speakers. Crank the volume all the way up, and audio
slightly distorts youll only hear it if its a big deal.
Battery sports a little over 6,000, which seems kind of
low, but Lollipop has been designed to run with a neat
power savings mode to keep the tablet treat flowing.
What we didnt like is the back camera. It protrudes just a little bit to one side, ruining the entire
tablets ergonomics. Put the Nexus 9 down the wrong
way, and we get this jarring feeling that some rough
surface will damage it. Thankfully, this wasnt the
case.
The Nexus 9s specs make it a surefooted device.
But it is the early treat of the Android 5.0 Lollipop
that gives the sweetest treat of all.
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elcome to the fast-lane.
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Corporation has unveiled its new
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Concentrating on elegant aesthetics and compact construction, Samsung
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hristmas is just around the
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The ideal multimedia companion, the Acer Iconia Tab 8
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Weighing in at 360 g and only 8.5 mm thin, the slim, elegantly designed Acer Iconia Tab 8 fits comfortably in your
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This reliable offering from SanDiskcomes in 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB capacities
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In a size that's smaller than a fingernail
yet built with a storage space of 128GB,
this epic device, dubbed the world's largest
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geeks.
This memory card allows users to
download up to 7,500 songs, capture 3,200
photos, and shoot 16 hours of full HD video
and install more than 125 applications
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The SanDisk Ultra microSDXC runs
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can be used with the SanDisk Memory
Zone app to make viewing and storing files
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when transferring bigger files
This memory card from SanDisk comes
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fit for all kinds oftechjunkies.
The SanDisk Ultra microSDXC 128GB
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For college students and yuppies who
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Galaxy Alpha,
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Staying at full battery at all times with high conversion efficiency mobile power from KINGMAX
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According to the statistics of TRI, each household in

the world owns 2.8 internet devices on average, with the
number of mobile electronic devices steadily increasing.
However, as the performance and features of various
mobile devices become more powerful, the speed of power
consumption has also grown in proportion. To illustrate,
while the latest iPhone 6 Plus allows users enjoy a bigger
display, the 6 Plus consumes considerably more power
compared to iPhone 6. With the myriad of APPs available today, smart devices have no doubt become the best
personal assistants that any user could ask for.
We use our smart devices on many occasions, such as
contacting clients when we are out of office, looking up
for information on the internet or even checking the map
during our vacations, so much so to the point that we are
heavily reliant on our smart devices.
Here is a quick solution from KINGMAX, the
10000mAh power bank KEBG-005. Results of extensive
tests show that the KEBG-005 is capable of charging the
iPhone 6 fully 4 times or the iPhone Plus 2.5 times. "Why
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with the latest Sam sung Gear Fit, Gear Live
and Gear 2 wearables.
The Galaxy Alpha is now available in all
Samsung Experience Stores. At launch, it will
be available in Charcoal Black, Dazzling White,
Frosted Gold and Sleek Silver.
Globe revolutionizes Filipino mobile experience with

Piso Mall
Prepaid and TM customers get access to over 200, 000

videos on their mobile phones for as low as Pl each
Globe Telecom further enriches the mobile experience
of prepaid customers with the launch of Piso Mall, a onestop stop virtual video store which enables Globe prepaid and TM customers to watch videos on their mobile
phones from a selection of over 200,000 video content, with
each video available for as low as PI.
With Piso Mall, Globe prepaid and TM customers can
enjoy their favorite TV shows, movie trailers and clips,
music videos and video tutorials at a pocket-friendly price,
anytime, anywhere via their mobile phones. Videos can
be chosen from over 12 channels including VIVA, ABSCBN, GMA, Hollywood and news, Music, Kids, For Men,
Lifestyle, Sports, Extreme, Technology, Cooking and Web
Series.
The telco's Piso Mall is home to music and lyric videos
from VIVA Entertainment featuring music icons such as
pop star Sarah Geronimo, video clips from broadcast giant ABS-CBN headlined by its top celebrities, and popular
it correctly: the KEBG-005 comes with two 2.IA output

sockets, making it possible for you to charge two devices
(such as your smart phone, tablet or even notebook PC) simultaneously. If you charge only one device at a time, the
power bank is capable of operating at an impressive power
conversion efficiency at 92%!
The KEBG-005 is capable of automatically detecting
the battery's charge/discharge status and automatically
stop charging when it is full to prevent potential hazards of
short-circuit or overheating. KINGMAX has also incorporated eco-friendly measures in each step of KEGB005's manufacturing process on top of using premium
eco-friendly materials in order to be truly environmental
friendly. The KEBG-005 has a sporty and fashionable look.
KINGMAX power bank offer safety; and it is also a statement of personal taste, trendiness and environmental
protection.
The 10400mAh Mi Power Bank weighs at 250g and
Sony's 10000mAh CP-VIO weighs at 245g. KINGMAX
KEBG-005 is the clear winner in terms of weight at merely
232g. KEBG-005 is a high quality power bank that is safe
and reliable; it not only weighs less but also comes at a
lower price tag to offer the most bang for your buck among
the offerings that are available out there. (Carl Inocentes)
videos starred by international pop icons and local celebrity couples.

"Strengthening our content play, Globe is bringing mobile entertainment to prepaid customers with Piso Mall,
giving them access to hundreds of thousands of videos of
various genres and categories.
For as low as PI, prepaid and TM customers can use
their smartphones and its features fully, going beyond the
usual calls and texts. With Piso Mall, we are changing the
prepaid landscape once again by providing our customers
easy, affordable and hassle-free access to video content,
enabling them to live their digital lifestyle," says Issa
Cabreira, Senior Vice President, Globe Consumer Mobile
Marketing.
Prepaid customers need not worry about charges from
data usage because video browsing on Piso Store is free
and does not require maintaining balance. Prepaid customers will only be charged upon video viewing.
Globe and TM customers may access Piso Mall by texting PISO to 8888 or by visiting http://m.pisomall.com.ph
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Not one, but two iPhones to choose from

Grab one that truly fits your hand
So here are the two new iPhones. The iPhone 6 is bigger than the
previous iPhones, but the iPhone 6 Plus is the biggest of them all.
Some say size does matter, but when you talk about an iPhone, do
you really believe that?
They have similar screen magic, the same power processors and awesome camera tricks. So we go to size and see which is better.
The iPhone 6 is the mini-me of the 6 Plus, the latter 2cm taller, 1cm
wider and 2mm thicker. Which means, if youre into one-handed mobility, the iPhone 6 should be it. The iPhone 6 Plus, however, gives you
more with the size of screen. A bigger screen -- 5.5-inch versus 4.7-inch
-- is a no-brainer when you browse the internet, play games or watch
videos.
Of course, its handier to use the iPhone 6 when taking photos, but
consider these: the iPhone 6 Plus is full-HD on a 401PPI while the iPhone
6 is 1334 x 750 pixels or 326PPI. The PPI means pixels per inch -- the
higher the number the sharper the display.
They have identical front facing cameras, the rear cameras pretty
much the same. Both use 8 megapixel sensors with 1.5 micron sensor
pixels, dual tone flash and include phase detection. The iPhone 6 Plus,
however, comes with optical image stabilisation or OIS helps take better photos by eliminating the blur caused by the small hand movements
when taking a picture.
The larger the iPhone means a larger battery which means longer battery life. The iPhone 6 Plus has a 2915mAh battery to the 1810mAh of
the iPhone 6.
Cut these out and use to feel the right size for your hand.
Onkyo, Dolby Atmos team up

nkyo has announced
its collaboration
with Dolby Atmos to
launch a new series
of network A/V receivers, TX- NR636,
TX-NR737, TX-NR838, TX-NR1030,
TX-NR3030 , and PR-SC5530. This
special series will deliver a nextgeneration audio format that delivers captivating multidimensional
sound in home theatre environments.
All of Onkyos 2014-model A/V
receivers and controllers, beginning with the TX-NR636, feature
Dual 32-bit Processing Engines
to decode, scale, and calibrate
Dolby Atmos for any home theater
configuration.
Dolby Atmos, the most significant audio advancement in home
theater in the last 20 years, brings
consumers deeper into the story
by delivering an experience that
moves sound in every dimension
throughout the room with amazing
clarity and true-to-life detail, said
Yoong Leong-Yan, Regional Head,
Asia Pacific, New Initiatives, Dolby
Laboratories.
Pioneered and perfected in the
cinema, Dolby Atmos has generated tremendous excitement from
the home theater industry and enthusiasts alike. We have teamed up
with an amazing group of industry
leaders to give consumers around
the world the very best entertainment experience when they choose
to watch a Dolby Atmos movie in
their home.
With Dolby Atmos joining
THX-certified theater-reference
audio performance, built-in Wi-Fi
and Bluetooth, support for Hi-Res
Audio playback as well as HDMI
Jose Ma J Fernandez
Boomer Gen
Roughing it up
with the wide-path camper
uring my scouting
days in Grade School,
one of the activities
we looked forward the
entire scout contingent of the school.
Of course, being greenhorns and
with parents hovering like anxious
mother hens, we often went to the
known campsites that scouts would
frequent. Rarely, if ever, did we really dare to rough it up in areas far
from the madding crowd.
But the memories of these
attempts at outdoor living remain, even in this late stage of
this Boomers life. Thus, it is not
surprising that I invested in several
tents, most of them good for two to
three people only, but also a large
one that could fit as many as ten
people in. Somehow, I dreamt of
going camping in my middle age,
with two teenage boys as my ready
contingent. Unfortunately, the
tents are gathering dust somewhere in the recesses of my house,
and that does not include the tins
of a type of solid fuel that I bought
that could be used for cooking and
warming liquids.
Then, there is the collection of
flashlights and Swiss Army knives
that I have built up over the years,
ostensibly to be used in future
camping trips. Come to think of it,
I also bought a Coleman gas lamp
and some Ice Chests...suitable paraphernalia for the typical weekend or
monthly camper.
This is one reason why I look at
the Wide Path Camper -- a light and
foldable camper that can be towed
by a bicycle -- with moist eyes. It reminds me of the outdoor man I probably will never get to be but which I
had always hoped to become.
The Wide Path Camper (WPC) is

quite small and light, weighing in at
a mere 40 kg, which is why the builders boast that it can be towed easily
by a fit person riding a bike. It has a
storage area of over 300 liters, and
can sleep two adults and one small
child. This is achieved by converting
the sitting area into a bedroom set.
It is said to be quite sturdy and protective against the elements -- but
forget about waiting out a typhoon in
this one if you have a choice.
I have some thoughts to add to
this exercise. First, not everyone
is fit enough to lug a 40 kg camper
by way of a bicycle. Second, by the
time one is through packing enough
food for a trip, with suitable clothing
for daily or regular changes -- unless one is willing to smell during
the whole trip -- the camper will be
really good and heavy. Especially if
one packs water for both cleaning
up and drinking.
There is a built in battery to
provide power for the barest of
comforts. But the builders say they
can add on a solar panel that should
provide more power, especially for
juicing up the essential cellphones
and rechargeable batteries or accessories.This is one feature that
should be ticked off when looking on
how to make the WPC a much better camping tool.
Second, when old boomers like
me decide to take a camping trip
like this, with a bare-bones tool like
the WPC, I would prefer to hook up
a trusty motorbike of scooter to the
WPC for effortless hauling. No need
to prove one is macho, those days
are way behind us now. And then, I
will head off to the nearest possible
campsite not too far away from the
nearest 7-11, just in case.
With Dolby Atmos

joining THX-certified
theater-reference
audio performance,
built-in Wi-Fi and
Bluetooth, support for
Hi-Res Audio playback
as well as HDMI 2.0
and HDCP 2.2 copy
protection, these Onkyo
components have
power to elevate nextgeneration media to
transcendental heights.
The TX-NR636 wins
prime position on your
gear rack for some
reasons.
2.0 and HDCP 2.2 copy protection,

these Onkyo components have
power to elevate next-generation
media to transcendental heights.
The TX-NR636 wins prime position on your gear rack for three
reasons. Firstly, its among one of
the few A/V receivers to support
Dolby Atmos multidimensional
sound following a quick firmware
update. This receiver is also ready
for Ultra HD streaming and 4K
gaming at 60 fps with the latest
4K/60 Hz HDMI inputs and HDCP
2.2 compatibility. Qdeo upscaling
technology is included to convert
low-res video into pin-sharp Full
HD or Ultra HD.
Secondly, it sounds incredible,
with high-current Three-Stage Inverted Darlington Circuitry on the
L/R/C channels for all-enveloping
surround sound and musical twochannel audio.
Thirdly, its simple to use with
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for universal
audio streaming via PC, NAS, and
mobiles, plus theres a huge selection of music streaming services
waiting for you to explore. Overlaid
menus with InstaPrevue technology make loading content quick and
easy. Throw in a phono equalizer

and Powered Zone 2 and youve
got a value-packed powerhouse
ready for the next wave of highresolution entertainment.
Step up to THX-certified surround sound with the TX-NR737
the most potent and future-ready
A/V receiver in its class. With a
high-current massive transformer,
discrete Three-Stage Inverted
Darlington Circuitry amplification,
and extremely robust construction,
this heavyweight is ideal for showcasing the latest movies mixed in
Dolby Atmos.
This exciting multidimensional
format places and moves sound
above and around the audience,
bringing movies to life with stunning detail, depth, and clarity.
There are 4K/60 Hz-capable
HDMI inputs and HDCP 2.2 support for streaming Ultra HD video
and 4K gaming at 60 fps. Also
included is Qdeo 4K upscaling
technology so you can enjoy DVDs
and console games in up to 4K
resolution.
Music lovers can choose from
a huge selection of internet music
services.
TX-NR636
TX-NR737
TX-NR838
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Korean-American novelist Chang-rae Lee gives us a peek

into his creative writing classes at Princeton and how his
early struggles with English and his own experience as a
student shaped him to become the teacher he is now.
By Amyline Quien Ching
Portrait by Pinggot ZuluetA
t didnt start out rosy, this love affair that KoreanAmerican novelist Chang-rae Lee has with the English language.
Throughout kindergarten and all the way to the
first few months of first grade, he did not speaknot one
wordhaving found solace in silence against a language
that was as much alien to him as the people who spoke it.
But he kept at it and never gave up, his young brain
clutched at syllables and words as one would a life raft. He
listened and read booksread what he could finduntil
English wasnt a stranger anymore. And so by the time
he was 10 years old, he was translating for his mother. In
middle school and high school, he wrote poetry and stories. At 30, he published his celebrated first novel Native
Speaker, winning literary awards left and right, and, now
at 49, finished his fifth novel On Such a Full Sea.
Yet all the while, he never forgothis struggles, his
frustration, and saving gracebooks. And so, for his creative writing class at Princeton University, he would de-
mand from his students to read, and read, and read. He

would give them reading lists that include the novels of
Junot Diaz, Richard Ford, and Louise Erdrich. I dont
teach writing, he insists. I teach reading to help writers read their own work. In fact, his advice to wannabe
authors is this: Read many novels. Read the books that
you love or you think you would like. Chang-rae recently
came to Manila for the Philippine Literary Festival.
He, however, laments that people are less readers
now, which, for him, is ironic considering that there are
more people now who want to write. Its too bad because
to be a good writer, you have to be a good reader. Any
quality story can teach you a lot, instruct you well on how
a story is built. So I try to train my students to become
readers first.
ProCess vs. theory
For Chang-rae, creative writing courses are not there
to teach you how to write but to teach you about writing,
especially your own writing. For instance, when you
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After the battle with the Dutch, the galleon San Diego sank off of
Fortune Island in Batangas (December 14, 1600). Sailors and crew
swam for their lives toward the Dutch ship Mauritius under admiral
Olivier van Noort. The galleon had been hurriedly converted to a
warship and was captained by the inept Antonio de Morga. Print by
Johann Theodor de Bry (1602)
Coming Soon: A Museum

of the Galleon Trade
Once, I was on a
other foreign trade
panel to select the
goods suppliers.
best history teacher
The commerce
of a Metro Manila
did not benefit incity. I asked the fidios who mainly
nalists, What do you
logged and hauled
consider the 10 most
timber down from
important events of
the forests; conPhilippine history?
structed ships; supMany replied (panplied foodstuff; and
icking), Magellans
served as crew. DeWALA LANG
discovery of the Philmand was only for a
DR. JAIME C. LAYA
ippines [long pause]
handful of local prod Cry of Balintawk
ucts like cotton cloth
Martial Law EDSA?
from Ilocos and locally made
Actually, the Museum of the
objects dart.
Filipino People at Rizal Park surShipping space was exclusive
veys the panorama of our past,
to religious orders and resident
much of it inferred from geologiSpaniards. Profits therefore accal, archaeological, anthropologicrued to the favored and to the
cal, and linguistic studies. Hintforeign merchants who supplied
ing at the comtrade
goods.
plexity and global
However, taxes
effects of the galThe galleons brought generated releon trade, a maturned in the
Western thinking
jor feature of our
form of the real
and institutions;
history, is an exsituado or subsicommercial plants
hibit on the 1,600
dy that financed
we take for granted the colonial govshipwreck of San
Diego, sunk off
coffee, tobacco,
ernment machinBatangas during
maize, cacao, cassava, ery and public
a battle between
peanuts, chili pepper, and ecclesiastiSpaniards (with
cal structures.
beans, and tomato;
Pinoy
crew)
More imporand, last but not least, tantly, the galand Dutch.
priests who made the leons brought
The new museum, the Museo
Philippines Catholic. Western thinking
del Galen, will
and institutions;
greatly expand
commercial
our knowledge. The museum is
plants we take for granted
being formed by a foundation
coffee, tobacco, maize, cacao,
spearheaded by Sen. Edgardo
cassava, peanuts, chili pepper,
Angara, Hans Sy, and former
beans, and tomato; and, last but
Mexican ambassador Tomas
not least, priests who made the
Calvillo. SM broke ground at
Philippines Catholic.
the Mall of Asia last week for
By the late 1700s, trans-Pathe museum building that fitcific trade began to decline with
tingly faces Manila Bay and the
falling foreign demand for tradigalleons Cavite anchorage. The
tional exports; greater competicenterpiece will be a full-size reption from British, Dutch, and othlica of a galleon in a magnificent
er traders; depletion of Mexican
building designed by Filipino and
and Peruvian silver mines; the
Mexican architects.
industrial revolution and cheaper
Manila was a major center of
European substitutes; and the
world trade from 1565 when the
start of the Latin American Wars
first galleon sailed from Cebu to
of Independence that severed our
1815 when the last galleon lifted
ties across the Pacific. The end
anchor. Goods from all over
of the galleon trade also accelAsiasilk, porcelain, spices,
erated our efforts for economic
etc.were brought to Manila,
self-reliance.
shipped across the Pacific to AcaThe Museo de Galen will
pulco, and then to the rest of the
help Filipinos, including history
Americas and Europe. Each year,
teachers, better appreciate the
up to three ships (galleon or nao)
375 years that separated Magelsailed, adding up to 350 to 400
lan and Andrs Bonifacio.
crossings in each direction. New
World silver coin and bullion were
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vited, addressed to walangwabulk promptly exited to China and
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as of this writing. The modern

hen I took on
founder of Pranic Healing and
the responArhatic Yoga pored through litsibility
of
erature and traveled the globe
becoming a
researching life energy (known
Manila Bulletin Lifestyle
also as chi or ki, driving princolumnist, I tried as much
ciples behind things like tai
as possible to brush up on
chi or reiki), documenting and
expectations of the jourdeveloping what would eventunalistunbiased reportCURIOSITY
ally become protocol for any ining, thorough research
FILLED ThE hAT
dividual interested in becoming
that looks at as many
SARAh MEIER
a healer.
angles as possible, breakI wanted to know more being new stories that have
cause I was super curious about
yet to be told. I would like
energy, and headed to the Institute of Into start todays entry by apologizing, for
ner Studies, the same headquarters the
should that, too, have been what you were
Queen had referred to. Here I immersed
expecting of meI have failed you. Much
myself in their weekend Basic Pranic
of my writing has been a first person narHealing workshop.
rative; the spewing out of opinions, the reWhat will you learn? The basics of how
hashing of things that have been written
to heal people, the identifying of chakras,
about before, but from the authors perthe methods of scanning someones
spective. Today will be no different, as I
aurawhich later evolves into more adtell you about the latest installment of my
vanced classes at the institute that delve
Curiosity Filled the Hat journey. It will
into Psychotherapy, or how to prevent
be no different, perhaps, than the last New
negative people from affecting you, or
Age-y sort of piece you read about healing
and energy, or whatever it is
those kids these days are
into now. Unless, of course,
what I have to tell you
is different.
And in many senses,
Pranic Healing is quite unlike anything Ive ever encountered beforea modern practice based on ancient principles of cleaning
and energizing the chakras,
or energy vortexes of life
and vitality, in the subtle
body. But before I lose you
by launching into an explanation using a language that
I myself am still grasping,
let me rewind a little bit.
the heAling touCh

In a catch-up session
with a fellow half-Swiss
half-Filipina girlfriend, we
stumbled onto the topic of healing. I had
expressed that I was fascinated with different forms of itfrom touch to music,
and shared a story about an experience
with my life coach (hi Coach Pia!) in
which a simple placement of her hand
somewhere near the small of my back
had released a furiously toxic archive of
decade-old pent up trauma. The palpability of the peace I had felt from that day
forward would not let me forget that therapy worked in a way that I had refused
to give it credit for prior. My
friend then told me about a
lengthy conversation she had
had on a flight in from Zurich,
seated next to an Arab queen,
who was en route to Manila
because the global headquarters for Pranic Healing
is located in Makati. I had no
idea that this practice, being adapted so
progressively around the world was actually born in our backyard. At the time
of this particular conversation, the man
responsible, Master Choa Kok Sui, may
have still been alive.
He was a Chinese-Filipino chemical
engineer and successful businessman,
but it was his work and research in esoteric sciences that led to the authoring of
20 books (published in over 30 languages),
and the sprouting up of branches of centers teaching his findings in 80 countries
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have a feeling that you are not doing this kind of thing very well but
cant really see it, cant really recognize it, you sometimes need other
peoples eyes to look at it and point
out, corroborate what you, yourself,
may intuitively know but cannot
consciously articulate.
This, perhaps, came from his
own experience in Garrett Hongos
class. Garrett, later on, became
Chang-raes mentor. I was able to
see how other people looked at my
work, not that I want to change it to
please them, but I saw their reasons.
It gave me a way to look at my work
more objectively. I got some good
advicethat maybe I was trying too
hard, and I didnt have to. I didnt
need to push so hard because people
even studies on religions like Christianity

and Buddhism and their hidden teachings. What did I learn? That I am doubtful and a skeptic, an over-thinker, and a
lover of drastic improvement. I wanted
to do something crazy, see something
that would completely blow my mind, like
levitate a classmate. I wanted to give a
blind person sight, maybe. And what did
I get? Nothing of the sort. But this is not
the place or the practice for showmanship or my brand of arrogance. This is a
nitely being something there. Perhaps

most profoundly in the experience of doing a very straightforward non-secular
Meditation on Twin Hearts for Peace
and Illumination, which consists of basic
warm up exercises and listening to Master Choa lead you to visualizing peace via
a CD. Sounds completely underwhelming
when I put it that way, I know. But theres
been a shift in my life of the most positive
nature, and thats what drives me to say
that in this day and age of exaggeration
and extremes, I am upset at what beauty
and truth we could be missing because
were looking for the flash boom bang, the
big reveal, the spectacle.
The real miracles are seemingly much
more subtle than that. Theyre in the way
Bien removes the aches and pains in his
elders bodies, and the gratitude he feels
in being able to help in whatever small
way. How Aldrich found Pranic Healing
at the age of 18 and found it to be his lifeline out of depression borne of being an
overachiever. You find it in the stories of
girls like Hengameh, a young architect
who is visiting Manila in the midst of acquiring her Ph.D., her studies revolving
around how principles she has learned
through Pranic Healing and Arhatic Yoga
are consistent with scientific studies done
against the backdrop of color and energy
in architecture, and the effects they have
on humansin health, relationships,
and financial success. Or Ali, who refused to believe Hengameh. Perhaps his
grandmother, who still has the scan of
where doctors found a tumor, as well as
the scan of where doctors
lost the tumor pre-surgery,
will attest to Alis full growth
from skeptic into a successful healer. Theyre all under
30 years old, and have used
the things theyve learned
in Pranic Healing on everything from school exams to
finding a friends house by scanning unit
numbers, to attracting one hundred
thousand dollars when you only targeted
one thousand dollars in terms of business success.
Have a whirl. The Institute for Inner Studies has free healing sessions
from 3 to 6 p.m. every Thursday, for
anyone that has physical ailments big
and small; a free orientation course the
same day from 6 to 7 p.m., and a group
meditation session from 7 to 8 p.m. www.
globalpranichealing.com
What did I learn? That I am

doubtful and a skeptic, an overthinker, and a lover of drastic
improvement.
were already seeing it, without me having to hit them over the head with it. I
just had to let it flow.
As a teacher, he is more into the
process than theory. He would look
closely at the text and what can be done
to improve it. And hes good at that
spotting the missing link. One of his
students, Fil-American novelist Lysley
Tenorio, pointed out how good Changrae is at zeroing in on whats lacking.
Hes smart, rigorous, and succinct in
pointing out whats working in a piece
of fiction and what isnt. I am a better
writer because of him.
What Chang-rae sees as pretty
common among young students now is
the tendency to rush and summarize,
which is perhaps another byproduct
of the truncated, insta-world that the
Internet offers. They are not patient
enough. Theyll rush through quickly
over a scene or a thought and they
wont elaborate to the extent that they
need to. They think that its going to
place that I learned to tune into fine lines

of energy launching out of every living being. In a conversation with Jon, I heard
my summary of the workshop experience
oscillating between things like, I didnt
really feel anything, and But there was
definitely something there.
DeFining there
Subtleties. It has been a week since my
introduction to Pranic Healing, and while
Im still not curing cancer, Im sticking by
my rather flimsy description of there defi-
be too boring to go into too much detail of the work.

Still, he never gets tired of reading his students works and, in fact,
enjoys the crazy stuff. He even encourages his students to experiment
and take risks, to try out new styles.
The zanier, the better. I never try to
put them in a box or restrict them. I
give them as much freedom as I can,
and just guide them.
And in this way, he learns from
them, too. When we discuss literature,
they always give me an angle that I have
never thought of. And thats a new perspective, a new way to look at things, at
life. And as an author, you need that to
make you grow.
not Just teAChing but insPiring
For him, being a teacher isnt about
providing students the answers but in
inspiring them to want to know the answers, enough to let go of their pride
and ask the questions. In writing and in
life, there is nothing more powerful than

want, than desire, than full-on commitment and sometimes, that is what separates those who do from those who
just can.
I dont think you need a good mentor for technical things. I think you
need a good mentor, a wiser person,
to teach you about living as a writer
and as an artist. I had a great mentor
in Garrett. He was the director of the
program I went to. We were able to talk
about a lot of things, not just about writing but about life. He taught me to take
my own writing seriously, to care about
it, and take ownership of it. I did not,
then, maybe because I was afraid of being rejected or to say this is me, this is
mine. I learned to respect my own talent, my own vision, to not be careless,
or not take things lightly. I was 25 then
and, overnight, I grew up. I started to
take my work seriously. I didnt just do
it because I was decent at it. I did it because its what I wanted and loved.
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Artist At WorK
Lifestyle
Positivity in Chaos
Jay Torres works are about finding a kernel of hope in the dark
By sArA grACe C. FoJAs
Images by Pinggot ZuluetA
or artist Jay Torres, art is a

chance to spread positivity.
Though my art was made
from disturbing thoughts,
there is always light at the end of the
tunnel, he says. Torres works are
often surreal, showing how he sees
lifes negativity but chooses, instead,
to spread positive messages.
The way I paint is like dissecting
the meaning of beauty. Everything is
temporary and change is constant
this is my style. For me, art is an unending process of experimentation.
My paintings lead to a more simplified
coalition of elements, says the 27year-old painter.
Jay started painting in 2010. Like
most artists, he discovered his skill
when he was just a kid. He took BS
Nursing in college but fate brought
him back to his first true loveart.
He would later take up Fine Arts, ma-
Rebuild, oil on canvas
jor in Advertising at the Far Eastern

University. His big break came when
he joined the Shell Art Competition in
2010. This motivated him to continue
his passion.
I started with surrealism, and
then I was influenced to do figurative paintings. I felt that I should go
back to doing basics, which is realism.
From realism, I
tried to deconstruct
and reconstruct the
figures through juxtaposition. But then,
I felt restricted with
realism. Now, I feel
that my paintings
have a life of their
own, he says.
He joined numerous
group
exhibits and competitions,
which
eventually led him
to his first exhibit, Moments of Uncertainties ongoing until Nov. 21 in
Art Underground. He says that this
exhibit served as his entrance to the
art world.
It made me feel that this path
is where I am supposed to be. Art is
what I will be doing until I grow old,
he says.
His artworks show various situations where curiosity plays a big role,
that despite the confusions in life, we
ultimately realize that we are connected to each other.

Observing his paintings, youll see
that instead of eyes, nose, or mouth,
symbols occupy the faces of his characters. His painting Finding Huckleberry is about how you cannot choose
the people you meet in life. For him,
they are trees that grew from seeds
we spread through
the chances we take,
incidents we partake,
and coincidences we
sometimes deny.
His other piece
Rebuild, on the other
hand, reflects his life.
The piece speaks of
the chaos surrounding me. I deal with
chaos by just going
with the flow. My solution is to observe
it until I can build
something good from it. Positivity then
takes place. Observance is signified by
the big chair in the middle, the hammer
on the chair symbolizes my belief that
I can reconstruct, and the Lego piece
implies I can build positivity from every elements of chaos, he says.
I deal with chaos

by just going
with the flow.
My solution is
to observe it
until I can build
something good
from it.
814 Balagtas Street, Addition

Hills, Mandaluyong City. 02 721-0745,
artundergroundmanila@gmail.com,
www.aumanila.com
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After Beethovens
Own Heart
Considered as one of the best Beethoven
soloists of our time, maestro Christian Leotta
brings his expertise to Philippine shores.
By Angelo g. gArCiA
can imagine what its like to be at the

home of Italian maestro Christian
Leotta. The sound of Ludwig van
Beethovens romantic sonata or the
classic symphonies of Franz Schubert
would ethereally fill his house with every
stroke of his fingers on his grand piano.
The virtuoso pianist says that he practices every day as a form of mental and
physical exercise.
Well, the first thing you should do
is practice, second is practice, third is
practice, he says after being asked how
he reached that level of mastery in his craft. He is known
to hypnotize audiences with
his performances.
Maestro Christian held a
one night concert at the Cultural
Center of the Philippines (CCP)
last Tuesday, his Philippine debut. The performance titled An
Evening With Christian Leotta:
From Bach to the Romantic Piano of Schubert, Rossini and Beethoven,
was presented by the Embassy of Italy
in Manila, the Philippine Italian Association, and the Cultural Center of
the Philippines.
sician says. Of course you must be lucky,

too, and study with good teachers who
know how to perform the music the right
way and style.
He studied at the Milan Conservatory
under Mario Patuzzi and was a former
pupil of acclaimed pianist Karl Ulrich
Schnabel. He then studied at the Theo
Lieven International Piano Foundation and at the Tureck Bach Research
Foundation in Oxford, England with
Rosalyn Tureck.
Schnabel was the best student of
Theodor Leschetizky, who was, in turn,
the best student of Carl Czerny, who was
ter than Beethoven or he is better than

Mozart. They are all very, very, difficult.
They have the same language that they
share very well.
musiC is About mAgiC
After the 70s, everything started to
change. Everything became focused on
perfection. Whats perfection? Everything became more mechanical. The
piano schools of the past generations
started to lose [their grasp on] what
music was all about. Its about feeling.
Its about magic. Its about making the
public dream. All the rest is not important, he explains.
It saddens him that
younger pianists forget
about these aspects and that
very few now play the classical music of Beethoven, Mozart, or Schubert. These
are the most difficult, the
most profound compositions, and they require all
knowledge of the performer
and their styles, otherwise, there is no
point in performing.
There is even less appreciation of
classical music. While most young music lovers prefer the upbeat, auto-tuned
popular music, Christian says the only
solution is to expose them to more
classical sounds, whether at malls
or restaurants.
They are intimidated because classical music is not heard anymore, he
points out. Where do you listen to classical music? They should start playing
at all shops, all restaurants, all train
stations, all television channels, and
lets see what happens. If we do that,
maybe in two years time, people will fall
in love again with classical music.
The piano schools of the past

generations started to lose [their
grasp on] what music was all about.
Its about feeling. Its about magic.
Its about making the public dream.
All the rest is not important.
MUSIC MAN At age 22, maestro Christian Leotta became the

youngest pianist since Daniel Barenboim to perform and
record all Ludwig van Beethoven's 32 paino sonatas.
DireCt From the mAsters

A piano virtuoso since he was young,
Christian started playing the piano at age
seven. At 11, he already knew how to play
every classical piece, and at 14, he performed in his first international concert
in Japan. At age 22, he was hailed as the
youngest pianist since Daniel Barenboim
to perform and record all 32 Beethoven
piano sonatas.
But it takes more than practice to become a great pianist, the 34-year-old mu-
the best student of Beethoven himself. So

when I was with him, he shared with me
tremendous tradition, knowledge coming
directly from Beethoven. Its actually the
only direct line that exists, he says.
Classical music is not easy. Christian
says that all compositions by the Masters are difficult to perform. That is why
one needs to train a lot, even virtuosos
like him.
This music requires, in each second,
the highest level of concentration, passion, and knowledge. This gives me the
highest pleasure. Thats why I perform.
One hundred percent of my recitals are
by master composers, he says. These
classical composers, all of them are difficult. I wouldnt say Schubert is bet-
Are You Ready

for Christmas?
NOV2014
Christmas came early for primetime and blockbuster princess Kim Chiu
when she was cast by Walt Disney Southeast Asia to be the face of
Mulan for its 2015 calendar. In her cover story, The Success Story That
is Kim Chiu in this months issue of Sense&Style, the chinita beauty,
clad in chic and polished 60s fashion, shares her journey from the
Pinoy Big Brother house to teleseryes to the big screen, and the secrets
to her staying power: gratitude, perception, and constant passion for
her craft. With Christmas right around the corner, this issue is also rife
with style insiders tips (and off-the-rack pieces) for every fashionistas
fantasy holiday party looks perfect for the happiest, most glamorous
time of the year.
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F-1 Monday, November 17, 2014

By MICHAEL JOE T. DELIZO
mid reports that Cinemalaya is

facing financial challenges after mogul Antonio Tonyboy
Cojuangco supposedly decided
to stop subsidizing the decade-old film
festival, Chris Millado, vice president
and artistic director of Cultural Center
of the Philippines (CCP) says they hope
to go on next year. In fact, he says Cinemalaya is underwiring, refreshing
were rebooting it.
Millado is hesitant to give details,
however, noting, baka hindi matuloy
eh. Still, he hinted that unlike in the
old Cinemalaya system wherein filmmakers were only given a few months
to complete their projects, there might
be a new pattern and new cycle to the
scheduling in 2015.
Millado said they are currently reviewing the past 10 years of the festival
to glean better strategies and make it
bigger and better. Kasi were going
international, thats one thing. But yun
lang muna, he said.
He said they are looking for possible partners to expand Cinemalaya
and enable it to screen in more commercial theaters, apart from the Ayala
cinemas.
As to reports that Quezon City
entertainment.mlabulletin@gmail.com
CCP to reboot Cinemalaya

Said to be a financially ailing endeavor, the movers behind this
independent film festival weigh in on what the future holds
WINNERS of Cinemalaya X (Photo by Tony Pionilla)
Mayor Herbert Bautista, through the

Quezon City Film Development Commission (QCFDC), is now working
closely with Cinemalaya officials,
Millado said, Its great that Quezon
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By PAU AGUILERA
he Kim Chiu-Xian Lim tandem, known to their throng

of fans as KimXi, continues to be among the most
marketable ones in local show business, evident in the string of hit TV
shows and movies they have done in
recent years.
At the press conference for their
upcoming film Past Tense a sort
of reunion project for the love team
that last worked together January
this year Xian expounded on factors
that make their pairing work since
hitting it off on the romantic comedy
TV series My Binondo Girl.
Uumpisahan ko na sa yung
inaalalayan kasi ako lagi ni Kim sa
mga eksena na she really wants to
work. Kumbaga may nakikita ako,
may nakikita siya, its an open thing
na parang pwede kaming magsabi
(sa isat isa), he said.
In the course of their teamup, Xian also learned to consider other peoples opinion
Kasi dati,
about their work. Kasi
ayoko pang tanggapin (ang
), pero ngayon tangfeedback),
gap lang ako nang tanggap
dahil marami akong
natututunan.
Kim, for her part,
shared, Tinuturuan niya ko ng jokes.
Hindi kasi carry ng
face niya mag-joke,
so sakin niya na lang
pinapasa. Tapos ako,
yung mga serious serious, binibigay ko
sa kanya, so parang
tulungan.
And there is also the matter of making fans happy.

Kung paano kami minahal ng mga
sumusuporta sa amin, ganun (pa) din
kami. Hindi kami nagbabago or hindi
namin kino-compare yung love team
namin sa iba, she explained. Siyempre utang namin sa lahat ng fans (kung
anong meron kami ngayon), sobrang
solid sila sumuporta.
After missing working with each
other for months, Xian and Kim are
more than happy to team up again in
Past Tense.
Pinagdarasal talaga namin na
sana hindi nawala yung suporta ng
fans samin. Sana kung gano nila kami
sinuportahan sa Bride For Rent, sana
nandiyan pa rin sila para suportahan
kami (dito sa pelikulang to), Kim
said.
City is excited about being part of it and

(have) expressed publicly their interest
in it. They hope this would result in
additional funds because thats what
we need.
If there is one thing that Millado

would want to assure Cinemalaya
fans, its keeping the tradition alive.
Definitely, and in whatever form, he
said. Whether its going to be at the
CCP pa din or if its going to involve

other venues.
He maintained, Basta were discussing details and wed like to be prepared with (them) once we announce
developments concerning Cinemalaya
because were thinking of not only having one next year, were thinking of
having it in the next 10 years.
Whatever happens to Cinemalaya,
Millado assured that the 46th anniversary of CCP next year, which carries
the theme Young, creative and innovative, will still showcase several exciting
events. The lineup includes Beauty
And The Beast in January, Pasinaya
Festival in February, Marco Polo: An
Untold Love Story in March, National
Rondalla, TP Summer Theater and
Sayaw workshops in April, Translational Narrations: Paperworks in May
and Virgin Labfest in June.
Theres also Don Quixote in July,
the 2015 Thirteen Artists Awards Exhibition in August, Gawad CCP Para
sa Sining in September, Pangarap Sa
Isang Gabi Ng Gitnang Tag-araw (A
Midsummer Nights Dream) in October, The Nutcracker in November and
Peter Pan in December.
For more info, visit www.culturalcenter.gov.ph.
Xian Lim and Kim Chiu know exactly what

makes their pairing work like magic
Simply professional
In the romantic comedy Past Tense,
Kim and Xian test their acting mettle
with actress-comedian Ai Ai delas Alas.
The veteran actress humility made
quite an impression on Kim.
Parang wag mong ilagay sa utak
mo kung nasaan ka man, kung anuman
yung narating mo, sobrang andiyan ka
na pero magmamaldita ka (na), Ayoko
na, cutoff ko na, uuwi na ko! Hindi siya
ganun, she said of Ai Ai. (Instead, she
would ask,) Ilan pa ba? O sige tapusin
na natin, hanggang dun na lang ang
kaya ko. Parang ganun na kaya pa
namang habaan ang oras

Kim is no stranger to how critical
people are in show business, and how
simple things can spur chitchat. (Pero)
kay Mama Ai, (pag) pinag-usapan siya,
Ang bait ni Ms. Ai, kahit ang tagal na
niyang artista pero ganun pa rin siya.
Parang gusto ko ganun din ako.
She wishes to have the same impact
on people na pag-alis ko, maganda
yung mga sinasabi sa akin ng mga
tao. Pag-talikod ko, maganda ang reviews.
Xian, meanwhile, noted how professional the veteran actress is.
Kaka-recover pa lang niya sa

sakit, tapos wala talaga siyang reklamo kahit yung bahay na pinagshushooting-an namin is sobrang dumi,
puro alikabok, tapos pinapahiga si
Ms. Ai Ai sa sahig, pinapagulunggulong siya, kung anu-anong pinapagawa, kay Ms. Ai okay lang talaga
lahat, he shared.
Kumbaga si Ms. Ai, go with the
flow lang talaga, Gagawin ko to
dahil gusto ko to.
Directed by Mae Cruz-Alviar, Past
Tense, opens nationwide on Nov. 26.
(Photo by Bhenj Agustin)
KIm ChIu and Xian Lim
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS

Now showing across the Philippines
in theaters and IMAX, Interstellar is
distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a
Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
Interstellar
With our time on Earth coming
to an end, a team of explorers
undertakes the most important
mission in human history: traveling
beyond this galaxy to discover
whether mankind has a future among
the stars, in Warner Bros. Pictures
futuristic thriller Interstellar.
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(NOTICE TO MOVIEGOERS:The
schedules of showing are subject
to change without prior notice.
Sometimes a movie is pulled
out earlier than its stipulated
days of showing due to sudden
change in exhibition contract or
poor performance at the boxoffice. The following schedules
are provided us in advance by
exhibitors. You may call the
theaters for confirmation.)
From acclaimed filmmaker

Christopher Nolan (The Dark
Knight films, Inception),
Interstellar stars Oscar winner
Matthew McConaughey, Oscar
winner Anne Hathaway, Oscar
nominee Jessica Chastain, Bill
Irwin, Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn
and Oscar winner Michael Caine.
The main cast also includes Wes
Bentley, Casey Affleck, David Gyasi,
Mackenzie Foy and Topher Grace.
Directed by Christopher Nolan, the
film is written by Jonathan Nolan
and Christopher Nolan.
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OUIJA IN 2D S/
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Nov. 15 & 29
Hajji and Rachel Alejandro 8:00 PM
Nov. 21
Jed Madela The Repeat
8:00 PM
Nov. 26
Michael Pangilinan
8:00 PM
Nov. 28
Ariel Rivera , Martin Nievera ,

Zsa Zsa Padilla
8:00 PM
Nov. 21 & 25
Rex Navarrete Live
8:00 PM
Nov. 22
Teatrino Film Series: Shift
5:00 PM
Senior Year
7:30 PM
Nov. 29
Ang Huling Chacha Ni Anita 7:30 PM
INTERSTELLAR IN 2D
BEG HERO-6 IN 2D
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HORNS IN 2D
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BEST OF ME IN 2D S/ GODS
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JUHN WICK IN 2D
HORNS IN 2D S/ WHITE BIRD IN A
BLIZZARD IN 2D
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BLIZZARD - R-13/*R-16
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THE DROP R-16
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HORNS/*NIGHT CRAWLER BOTH R-16
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BIG HERO 6 PG
BIG HERO 6 IN 2D
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HORNS S/ NIGHTCROWLER IN 2D
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RELAX ITS JUST PAG-IBIG
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Entertainment News
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Why Lani loves Vegas

By ALEX V. BROSAS
inger Lani Misalucha

and her family live in
Las Vegas and she
has come to love the
place for its laid-back ambience.
Di ba ang Las Vegas
parang pag tiningnan mo
napaka-busy Alam mo
ang family life doon, ang
private life doon ay talagang
gusto ko. Parang laid back
compared to California, she
said on Aquino & Abunda
Tonight.
Lani has imbibed the Las
Vegas vibe after performing there for a long time.
She channels the feel of the
vibrant entertainment city
in her upcoming
concert, La Nightingale.
According to
Lani, the show will
feature Cirque du
Soleil-type numbers
aside from her repertoire of new songs,
a few ballads and
pop tunes.
Host Boy Abunda asked if L ani
had backed out of
a concert that was
originally scheduled
on Oct. 17.
Walang katotohanan yun. Actually, ngayon ko lang
narinig yon, a surprised Lani said.
Actually, ang pinaka-main reason
doon is sa production, on the production
LANI mISALuChA
side, she explained.

Disparate audience
Having performed for US audiences
for a long time, the singer noted how
different they are from Pinoy viewers.
Ang mga Amerikano mas madali silang ma-please. In other words, mabababaw lang sila, she said.
Isa pa, nasa ano na natin yung
medyo may hiya, medyo me pagkareserved. Tayo hindi talaga ganoon kademonstrative, ka-expressive. Medyo
me kimi pa tayo.
Lani revealed that she still feels
nervous every time she performs, which
she quells with the thought that (I) just
really have to face it.
She added, Mga first few songs medyo nenerbyosin (ako) pero towards the
middle, okay na Ganoon din, when
it comes sa boses, dahil medyo may
nerbyos sa unahan, hindi pa lumalabas
nang todo-todo.
Lanis La Nightingale concert
happens on Dec. 6 at the Smart Araneta
Coliseum. She will be joined by Arnel
Pineda, Jed Madela, G-Force and other
surprise guests.
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BALTIC & CO.
by Roni Santiago
PUPUNG
by Tonton Young
COPY-PASTE
by Stanley Chi
IPENUTS
by Felipe de la Cruz
NORMANS ISLAND
THE Daily Commuter Puzzle
by Norman Izaac
DENNIS THE MENACE
by Hank Ketcham
BLONDIE
MOTHER GOOSE & GRIM
ZITS
MARVIN
BEETLE BAILEY
THE BORN LOSER

by Dean Young & Jim Raymond
by Mike Peters
by Scott and Borgman
by Tom Armstrong
by Mort Walker
by Art Sansom
Edited by Wayne Robert Williams
CALLOUS
by Carlo Jose San Juan MD
YOUR STARS
(Monday, 17 noveMber 2014)
ARIES (March 21-April 20) It is best to avoid a too intimate association with someone expecting you always to pay more than your fair share. Do
not be afraid of drawing your own conclusions; sometimes even experts can
be wrong. However where you do draw your conclusions do make sure your
facts are right and updated.
TAURUS (April 21-May 20) Seek to prove how good you are by
your work and not by your words. You will be better able to relax if you do so
with a clear conscience having accomplished what needs to be done. You
should not allow yourself to be satisfied with less than high standards.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) A new project is best started early next
week and not today. You are easily influenced by others now so it would do
you good to avoid deciding on sensitive issues at present. The best remedy
to a lack of harmony within the family is to remain open and consider all possibilities.
CANCER (June 21-July 20) You will benefit from taking another
look at your sense of values. Seek to consolidate and make secure your
own position. Do not be too bothered about the fact that some others have
more than you. This is no better time to be reckless in money matters than
any other.
LEO (July 21-Aug. 20) Be honest with yourself and you will not
succumb to self-deception. Seek not to put a friendship in jeopardy by asking
for more than he is able or prepared to give you. Do not interfere with other
peoples plans how would you like it if they interfered with yours.
VIRGO (Aug 21-Sept. 22) You will be able to see more sense in a
highly confused situation. A decision by which you are bound will tend to be
rather unfair. Yet by accepting it you will be able to make it more bearable.
Seek to look at your affairs from a broader point of view.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You will be able to do something to maintain your own and arouse other peoples enthusiasm. Do not forget that in a
conversation others too should be allowed to express their views. Try to hang
around with intelligent and respected personalities and this will give you connections you didnt have before.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) If you try hard to improve your performance you will definitely succeed. You will be able to meet a stressful situation adequately only if you do not fret or lose your temper. There will be some
intrigues and shady dealings around you; try to have nothing to do with it.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 20) Do not be too self-righteous and
permit others to express their views respecting them. There is no reason for
you now to disbelieve someone you have always known to be truthful. Take
care; you would be quite wrong to trust too much to good fortune.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 21-Jan. 19) Some unfinished business you
have left behind must now be completed. Otherwise it will interfere with your
future plans. It would be best to put an agreement you have made down in
writing. If you think you have been very busy lately that your partner feels
neglected, apologize and make amends.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) You will need all the support and encouragement you can get, so do not turn it down. It will take a while before you
can actually rely on others. You will first have to relay what you want them to
do and some time to make sure that they fully understand the work at hand.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) You will be able to get off to a good
and early start, but you are liable to run out of steam so do not allow your
concentration to flag. You will feel less like traveling but should not allow this
disinclination to predominate. Make sure you show your gratitude, better to
excess than too little.
TOK & MOL
BURUNTONG
by William Contreras
Aldrin Gulapa
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TVGuide
Monday,N ovember17,2014
your everyday guide to local television and cable TV.
Local Channels
ABS CBN 2 5:00 Umagang Kay Ganda

7:30 KrisTV 8:45 Inazuma Eleven 9:00
SpongeBob SquarePants 9:25 Kurokos
Basketball 9:45 Naruto Shipudden
10:05 Midnight Phantom 10:35 The
Singing Bee 11:30 Be Careful with My
Heart 12:15 pm Its Showtime 2:50
Kapamilya Blockbusters 4:30 Bistado
5:00 Bet On Your Baby 5:50 Dream
Dad 6:30 TV Patrol 7:40 Hawak Kamay
8:25 Forevermore 9:10 Two Wives 9:55
Aquino & Abunda Tonight 10:10 Angel
Eyes 10:55 Bandila 11:35 Mukha 12:05
am O Shopping! 4:30 Mutya ng Masa
GMA 7 4:30 a.m. Aha! 5:00 Unang Hirit
7:35 Doraemon 7:55 Ghostfighter 8:15
Inuyasha 8:35 Bleach 8:55 Hunter X
Hunter 9:20 Dragonball 9:45 Bantatay
10:15 Basta Every Day Happy 10:45
Dont Lose The Money 11:30 The Ryzza
Mae Show 12:15 pm Eat Bulaga 2:30
The Half Sisters 3:15 Yagit 3:45 Ang
Lihim Ni Annasandra 4:25 Alisto 5:05 May
Queen 5:50 Coffee Princce 6:30 24 Oras
7:50 More Than Words 8:35 Strawberry
Lane 9:10 Hiram Na Alaala 9:55 Second
Chances 10:45 Bet Ng Bayan 11:00
Empress Ki 11:30 Saksi 12:00 a.m.
Planet Earth 12:30 The Tim Yap Show

1:00 The Medyo Late Night Show
ABS-CBN Sports and Action 7:00 a.m.
Thomas & Friends 7:30 Dora, The Explorer
8:00 Bubble Guppies 8:30 Team Umizoomi
9:00 Metal Fight Beyblade 9:30 Supa
Strikas 10:00 Spiderman and His Amazing
Friends 10:30 Power Rangers Samurai
11:00 Once Upon A Time 12:00 p.m.
Movie 2:00 UAAP Womens Volleyball 5:30
Once Upon A Time 6:30 Touchline 9:00
News 9:30 The Score 10:30 UFC Now
TV 5 12:00 a.m. Shop Japan 5:30 Aksyon
Sa Umaga 7:00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
7:30 Handy Manny 8:00 Lloyd In Space
8:30 The Replacements 9:00 Johnny Bravo
9:30 Oggy And The Cockroaches 9:45 Ben
10: Ultimate Alien 10:15 Face The People
11:20 Lets Ask Pilipinas 12:00 pm Aksyon
Sa Tanghali 12:45 T3: Enforced 1:30 2014
Asian Games 4:00 NCAA 6:00 Aksyon
7:00 The Amazing Race Philippines 7:30
Wattpad 8:00 2014 Asian Games 10:00
Aksyon Tonite 10:30 Demolition Job 11:00
T3: Enforced 11:30 Face The People
PTV 5:00 a.m. Panahon.TV 5:30 Balitaan
7:00 Good Morning Boss! 9:00 Physics

in Everyday Life 9:30 Science Made Easy
10:00 Chemistry in Action 10:30 English
High School 11:30 Kahanga-hangang
Pilipinas 12:00 p.m. Home Shopping
Network 1:00 News@1 2:30 Damayan 3:30
Yan ang Marino 4:00 Tipong Pinoy 4:30
ABC Monsters 5:00 PTV Sports 5:30 Here
Comes Mr. Oh 6:00 News@6 7:00 My Love
By My Side 7:30 Concert at the Park 8:15
Smile People 8:30 Personage 9:00 Noli Me
Tangere 9:30 Angels Revenge 10:00
Philippine Lotto Draw 10:15 NewsLife 11:30
BizNews 12:30 am Oras ng Katotohanan
ETC ON RPN 9 6:00 a.m. The Rachel Zoe
Project 7:00 Pretty Little Liars 8:00 Nikita
9:00 Camp 10:00 All About Steve 12:00
pm Insider Weekend 12:30 Etcetera 1:00
Beauty And The Beast 2:00 The Millionaire
Matchmaker 3:00 Reign 4:00 Reign 5:00
Gossip Girl 6:00 Insider 6:30 Extra 7:00
Project Runway All Stars 8:00 Fashion
Fund 9:00 Etcetera 9:30 Dukes Of Melrose
10:00 Insider 10:30 TMZ 11:00 Pretty
Little Liars Tuesday, 12:00 am Project
Runway All Stars 1:00 Fashion Fund 2:00
Etcetera 2:30 Dukes Of Melrose 3:00
Camp 4:00 All About Steve
2nd AVENUE ON RJTV 29 12:00 a.m.

Chef Roble and Company 1:00 1600
Penn 1:30 Suburgatory 2:00 Winners
And Losers 3:00 Top Chef Masters 4:00
Now Eat This! With Rocco Dispirito 4:30
Inside Edition Weekend 5:00 HSN 6:00
ET Weekend 7:00 The Ellen Degeneres
Show 8:00 1600 Penn 8:30 Suburgatory
9:00 Eat, Drink, Love 10:00 The Middle
10:30 Life Of Riley 11:00 ET 12:00
p.m. The Ellen Degeneres 1:00 The
Mindy Project 1:30 Web Therapy 2:00
Top Chef Masters 3:00 Witches Of The
East End 4:00 Life After Top Chef 5:00
Growing Up Fisher 5:30 Sean Saves The
World 6:00 Chef Roble and Company
7:00 Love & Other Drugs 9:00 Top Chef
Masters 10:00 The Ellen Degeneres
9TV 12:00 a.m. The Best Of Talk 1:00
Inside Edition 1:30 NBC Nightly News 2:00
Opposing Views 3:00 60 Minutes 4:00 Inside
Edition 4:30 The Best Of Talk 5:30 Today
Weekend 7:00 Daybreak 8:30 NBC Nightly
News 9:00 60 Minutes 10:00 Serbisyo
All Access 11:00 Opposing Views 12:00
p.m. Newsday 1:00 Cebuano News 1:30
Kapampangan News 2:00 Home TV Shopping
4:00 Opposing Views 5:00 Inside Edition
5:30 NBC Nightly News 6:00 Network News

7:00 Legal Help Desk 8:00 EDSA, The Full
Story, 9:00 Nightly News 10:00 Sport Desk
10:30 Legal Help Desk 11:30 Inside Edition
IBC 13 6:00 a.m. Gospel Of The
Kingdom 7:00 Oras ng Katotohanan
8:00 Report Kay Boss 9:00 Ez Shop
12:00 p.m. Radyobisyon 1:00 Kalinga
Para Sa Magsasaka 1:30 Post Sona 2:00
EZ Shop 5:00 Tipong Pinoy 6:00 PBA
D-League 8:30 News Break 11:00 HSN
GMA NEWS TV 5:00 a.m. Light Up
5:30 Adyenda 6:00 Takilya Blocbuster
7:30 Pinoy Records 8:15 Sarap With
Family 8:30 Tara Lets Eat 9:00 News
To Go 10:00 Born To Be Wild 10:30
Byahe Ni Drew 11:15 Sarap With
Family 11:30 Balitanghali 1:00 p.m.
TKO: Tanghali Knockouts 3:00 Spooky
Nights 4:00 Balita Pilipinas Ngayon
4:45 I-Witness 5:30 News TV QRT
6:00 Misteryo 6:30 Born To Be Wild
7:00 Sarap With Family 7:15 Mars
8:00 Good News ni Vicky Morales 9:00
State Of The Nation 10:15 Bawal Ang
Pasaway Kay Mareng Winnie 11:00 OFW
12:00mn Adyenda 12:30 Legal Forum
MORE THAN WORDS airs pilot DREAM DAD starts airing today
MA Networks newest lighthearted drama series MORE

THAN WORDS, starring
Villa Quintana remake stars Elmo
Magalona and Janine Gutierrez,
starts airing today, Nov. 17.
Janine plays Ikay, a girl taunted
as a weirdo at school because of
her unique looks and constant
daydreaming and spacing out
most of the time. She finds solace
in writing fiction online, creating
the character of Katy Perez I. Her
work is entitled Diary of a Queen
Bee.
Katy, a popular girl at Southville

Academy, is surprised to see a boy
washed ashore. He is exactly the guy
she pictured in her blog entry. Breathing
life to the character of Hiro is Elmo
Magalona.
Also in the cast of MORE THAN
WORDS are Jaclyn Jose, Gardo
Verzosa, Enzo Pineda, and the 80s
popular loveteam of Rey PJ Abellana
and Leni Santos. Andoy Ranay directs
the light fantasy drama series.
Dont miss the pilot airing of MORE
THAN WORDS tonight after 24 Oras
on GMA Telebabad.
BS-CBNs newest feelgood family drama

series DREAM DAD is
set to bring positive vibes on
primetime TV beginning today
(Nov. 17). The teleserye
will introduce the newest
Kapamilya couple, Zanjoe
Marudo and Kapamilya child
actress Jana Agoncillo.
DREAM DAD will
revolve around the story
of its two main characters,
ELMO MAGALONA and Janine Gutierrez
ZANJOE MARUDO and Jana Agoncillo
Cable Channels
AXN 6:00 a.m. Hannibal 6:50 CSI: NY

7:40 Blue Bloods 8:30 Hannibal 9:20
CSI: NY 10:10 City Hunter 11:10 CSI:
12:05 p.m. Caught On Camera 1:00 The
Amazing Race 1:50 Hawaii Five-0 2:40
Falling Skies 3:30 Blue Bloods 4:25 CSI:
NY 5:15 City Hunter 6:15 CSI: 7:15 The
Amazing Race 8:05 Hollow Man 10:00
NCIS: Los Angeles 10:55 The Amazing
Race 11:50 NCIS: Los Angeles 12:45
am Caught On Camera 1:40 Blue Bloods
2:30 CSI: 3:20 Hannibal 4:10 Blue
Bloods 5:00 City Hunter
beTV 6:00 a.m. Nashville 7:00 Bloopers
7:30 Men At Work 8:00 Cupcake Wars
8:50 Everybody Loves Raymond 9:50
Nashville 10:40 Pregnant In Heels 11:30
Hollywood Unzipped: Stylist Wars 12:20
pm Cupcake Wars 1:10 Drop Dead Diva
2:00 Everybody Loves Raymond 3:00
Worst Cooks in America 3:50 Pregnant
In Heels 4:40 Nashville 5:30 Bloopers
6:00 Men At Work 6:25 Everybody Loves
Raymond 7:20 Hollywood Unzipped:
Stylist 8:10 Cupcake Wars 9:00 Teen
Wolf 9:50 Top Chef 10:40 Cupcake Wars
11:30 Teen Wolf 12:20 a.m. Everybody
Loves Raymond 1:20 Top Chef 2:10
Worst Cooks in America 3:00 Bloopers
3:30 Men At Work 4:00 Damages 5:00
Worst Cooks in America
HBO 8:00 a.m. Little Nicky 9:30 Mission:
Impossible 2 11:30 Flight 1:45 pm
Spider-Man 2 3:50 The Bachelor 5:30 The
Odd Life Of Timothy Green 7:20 Poseidon
9:00 The Newsroom S3 02 10:00 The
Comeback S2 02 10:30 The Hand That
Rocks The Cradle 12:20 am One Night
At McCools 1:50 Munich 4:30 Breakout
(2013) 5:55 Girl, Interrupted
MAX 6:40 a.m. Enemy At The Gates 8:45
Dangerous Ground 10:25 Band Of Brothers
S101 11:35 Band Of Brothers S102 12:30
pm Hollow Man 2 2:00 15 Minutes 4:00
The Night Of The Following Day 5:50
Extreme Measures 7:45 Hollywood On Set
8:15 The Village 10:00 Ice Soldiers
11:35 Deadfall (2012) 1:05 am Gothika
2:40 Helter Skelter 5:00 Tomcats
STAR MOVIES 1:20 a.m. How Do You
Know? 3:20 Barbershop 2: Back In
Business 5:10 Hitchcock 6:50 Pretty
Woman 8:45 Hellboy 10:50 Enders Game
12:45 pm Iron Man 3 3:00 The Starving
Games 4:25 Mud 6:40 X2: X-Men United
9:00 The Internship 11:05 Beat The World
STAR CHINESE MOVIES 1:25 a.m.
Ab-normal Beauty 3:10 House of Mahjong
4:45 Echoes of the Rainbow 6:45 On
His Majestys Secret Service 8:30 The
Unbelievable 3:The Skeleton Road 10:10
Initial D 12:05 pm Love 1:45 Bet to Basic
3:25 Frogmen 4:15 Passion Island 5:55
Romancing Star 2 7:40 The Wedding Banquet
9:35 Tactical Unit: Partners 11:10 Roommate
DIVA UNIVERSAL 6:00 a.m.
Unconditional 7:55 Just For Laughs 8:25
Aurora 9:20 Cruel Love 10:15 Hottest
Home Baker 11:10 My Kitchen Rules 1:35
p.m. Law & Order 2:30 Twist of Fate 4:15
Aurora 5:10 Cruel Love 6:05 Hottest Home
Baker 7:00 How Do I Look? 8:00 Clean
House 8:55 Just for Laughs 9:25 Downton
Abbey 10:25 The Getaway 11:20 Hottest
Home Baker 12:15 a.m. Clean House
1:10 Just For Laughs 1:40 Betrayed 3:30
Dance-Off 5:30 Just for Laughs
CINEMA ONE 12:00 a.m. Sinner Or Saint
2:00 Tender Age 4:00 Ibulong Mo Sa Diyos
6:00 Cinemanews 7:00 The Sisters 9:00
Ipaglaban Mo The Movie 11:00 Bahay Kubo
Kahit Munti 1:00 p.m. Eat All You Can 3:00
My Only U 5:00 Minsan Lang Kita Iibigin
7:00 You Are The One 9:00 In My Life
11:00 City After Dark
CINEMAWORLD 6:00 a.m. Shelter 7:50
Brning 9:30 The Third Half 11:05 Hostages
12:50 pm French Film 2:25 The Foster
Child 4:05 Sunday Dads 5:40 The Bletchley
Circle: Uncustomed Goods 7:20 The Tuche
Family 9:00 Clownwise 11:05 Troubled
Waters 2:20 am Shelter 4:10 The Scapegoat
ESPN 1:00 a.m. Baseball Tonight
Intl 2:00 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
5:00 KIA X Games Asia 7:00 Vietnam
Triathlon 8:00 MLB Regular Season
1:30 Barclays Premier League 3:30 MLB
Regular Season 6:30 Baseball Tonight

Intl 7:30 Fox Sports Central 8:00
Asean Basketball League 10:00 Fox
Sports Central 10:30 Basketball Tonight
11:00 Baseball Tonight Intl
E! POP OF CULTURE 12:00 a.m. E!
ES 1:00 E! THSC: 2:00 Kate and Will:
Happily Ever After 2:30 Style Star
3:00 E! News 4:00 E! ES: 5:00 Pop
Innovators: 6:00 E! News 7:00 Golden
Globe Awards 8:00 Kimora: House
Of Fab 9:00 Pop Innovators: 10:00
A- List Listings 10:30 Celebrity Style
Story 11:00 Hello Ross 11:30 The
Soup Investigates 12:00 p.m. E! News
1:00 Playing With Fire 3:00 Guiliana
and Bill 5:00 E! News 6:00 Live From
The Red Carpet 9:00 Worlds Specials
10:00 E! ES: 11:00 E! News
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Star Myx 10:30 Urban Myx 11:00
Baste (Zanjoe) and Baby

(Jana), an orphan in search
for a family who will love and
accept her.
Directed by Jeffrey
Jeturian, Dream Dad also
stars Maxene Magalona,
Beauty Gonzales in her
first female lead role in a
teleserye, Yen Santos, Ana
Feleo, Katya Santos, Ketchup
Eusebio, Ariel Ureta and
Gloria Diaz.
Mellow Myx 11:30 Myx Sure Fire Hits

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11:00 How Do They Do It? 11:30 How
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4:30 Monsuno 5:00 Robot & Monster
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11:30 Mr. Bean 12:00 pm Gravity Falls 12:30
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Marvels Avengers Assemble 2:00 The Return
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12:00 pm Blue Dragon 12:30 The
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The File Of Young Kindaichi
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3:30 am Yugioh Zexal 4:00 Tiger and
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11:00 Trigun 12:00 p.m. Kyouran
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Once Upon A Time in Wonderland 4:30
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American Idol (Season 13) 2:35 p.m.
Revenge 3:30 New Girl 4:20 Once Upon A
Time 6:10 Americas Next Top Model 7:00
American Idol (Season 13) 8:00 New Girl
8:55 How I Met Your Mother 9:45 The
Crazy Ones 10:40 Glee
STAR PHOENIX 12:00mn Phoenix
Midnight News Update 12:25 a.m.
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12:30 Phoenix Kidult Drama 1:20
Update with Lu Yu 2:10 Worlds To The
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World Chit-Chat 3:00 Drama 3:55
Trendy Guide 4:15 Phoenix Buster 4:50
Health Express II 4:55 From Phoenix
To The World 5:20 News Line 6:10
Behind The Headlines w/ Wen Tao 6:40
Music Video Selection 6:45 Cultural
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9:00 PanzoramicEyeshot Of Phoenix
9:40 From Phoenix To The World 10:10
A Date w/ Lu Yu 11:00 Newsline 11:25
Health Express II 11:30 Health Express
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11:55 Earth Report 12:00nn Behind
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Afternoon Express 1:00 Summary Of
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2:30 In the Newsroom 3:00 Arirang
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at Noon 10:30 Korea Today 11:00
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10:00 Being Human 10:50 The Simpson
11:15 Family Guy 11:40 Arrow 1:20
p.m. Being Human 3:00 Alphas 4:40
The Simpsons 5:05 Family Guy 5:30
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5:30 When The Love Is Gone 7:30 Pag
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Apprentice 4:30 So You Think You Can
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10:30 So You Think You Can Dance
12:00 p.m. Hawaii Five-0 1:00 Cougar
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Especially For You 12:00 pm Front
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KaraOkray 5:00 Chillin with Chicser 5:30
Pantaxa 6:00 Dobol or Samting 6:30
Especially For You 7:30 Petras Panniest
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11:00 The Jon Santos Show
AUSTRALIA NETWORK 1:00 a.m.
Obsession Magnifique 2:00 Photo
Finish 2:30 The Mix 3:00 ABC News
9:00 Giggle and Hoot 9:02 Bananas
in Pyjamas 9:25 Five Minutes More
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10:00 ABC News 12:02 pm Bananas in
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Giggle and Hoot 12:32 Play School
12:58 Giggle and Hoot 1:02 Bananas in
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Giggle and Hoot 1:32 Play School 1:58
Giggle and Hoot 2:00 Good Game 14:25
Business of English Getting Acquainted
2:35 Home and Away 3:00 News 3:30
Grandstand 4:00 AusBizAsia 4:30
Catalyst 5:00 Landline 6:00 The World
6:30 The Business 7:00 AusBizAsia 7:30
Catalyst 8:00 Landline 9:00 The World
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Entertainment News
F-6
Jennifer Lawrence
on popularity and privacy
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JANET susAN
AN
NEPALEs
ONDON Wearing a
brown long-sleeved
paisley dress and
donning a cute chinlength bob, Jennifer Lawrence was blooming despite
feeling under the weather the
night before.
The 24-year-old actress
from Kentucky, who achieved
superstardom when she
played Katniss Everdeen in
the The Hunger Games
film series, talked about
the latest installment of
the franchise, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
Part 1.
Touching on the
theme of rebellion,
we asked her if she
feels the need to let
her voice be heard.
JENNIFER LAWRENCE (Photo by Ruben V. Nepales)
There is so much unfairness

and imbalance in the world that
its hard not to feel that, being
aware of whats going on in our
own countries and around the
world, she said. In my own
personal life, the hard part that
comes with this job is losing a
lot of your privacy and control
over things that, just out of human decency, you should have
control over.
From playing a rebel, she
said she learned how important it is to have a voice and to
stand up for whats right, even
when its difficult, even when
its scary and not to take the
easy way out.
She admitted that she
feels pressure being a role
model. Young women do
come see these movies but
so do young men, she said.
But I also feel its important
for all women to support each other

Women have a history of being meaner
to our own race, and men are drawn
on sex. So, yes, I do feel that pressure
but I also feel it with everybody. I feel
all the pressure, all the time
For her, it is something you just
have to live with She noted, I just
make sure I dont disappoint myself,
because I feel pressure that so many
young people are looking up to me...
She does not dispute the fact that
there are wonderful things and
difficult parts (things) that I feel
like I have to give up that come with
her job, so she can connect with the
feeling of a struggle of give-and-take.
Relating it to her Katniss character,
she said, (I) understand the fight that
has to be done. I love my job, but there
are difficulties that come with it.
Celebrated in Hollywood for being
genuine and unaffected, she admitted,
Sometimes, its frustrating because
there can be so much backlash for
just saying something silly. Then its

just confusing because everybody is
like, Dont change. ButI can understand why it is difficult not to change
because the entire world around you
changes.
Being one of the biggest movie
stars in the world, and an awardwinning one at that, she does deal with
fame on a massive scale. I dont think
it would do much good for my psyche
to absorb that kind of information,
she said. I just love acting. I love my
job so I just show up to work and I film
movies. I dont absorb any of that stuff
because I dont think it would be good
for me. Im incapable of it. Thats very
flattering, though.
She insisted that having perspective keeps her grounded and unaffected. I didnt grow up in this business. I
didnt even grow up in LA. I grew up in
Kentucky and I didnt become successful until a few years ago. So Im very
aware of what the real world is
Of roles and relations
By ROWENA TAN
anjoe Marudo is always ready

to take on new challenges as
an actor. In fact, he welcomes
the characters he gets to play
and while others may take issue with
taking on father roles, the 32-year-old
has no problem with it.
It helps that he enjoys working
with kids. Masarap kasi sila katrabaho, masaya and kadalasan, nagiging close ako sa kanila.
In fact, he spends some of his free
time with his nieces and nephews.
Sila yung lagi kong kasama, lagi
kong kausap, iba yung pakiramdam,
magaan, he said.
Asked if he is already dreaming
of having his own kids to take care of,
Zanjoe retorted, Hindi din naman
nawawala sa isip ko na balang araw
magiging daddy ako. Pero siyempre
marami pa akong dapat i-consider.
Marami pa akong pangarap para
sa sarili ko.
Light role
Zanjoe is currently seen on
Dream Dad, where he plays
a bachelor company president
who is trying to move on from
a heartbreak by focusing on
his family.
Mayaman
Mayaman ako dito eh.
Yung mga roles ko dati puro
mahirap, ngayon naka
suit na ako, business
executive, he said
laughing.
The actor has
no problems with
the show being
light drama.
Actually
ganito yung
mga gusto
kong gawin.
Ayoko ng
masyadong
mabibigat na
tipong iyakan sobra.
Ang maganda
rito may kasama pa akong
bata.
Busy December
Zanjoe expects to have a busy December this year with several projects
already lined up for him.
Still, he hopes to block some time
for a vacation with girlfriend Bea
Alonzo.
Mahilig kasi kami mag-travel
ni Bea. Pero siyempre ngayon di
pa sure kung paano kasi busy nga,
he said.
Zanjoe said he plans to ask ABSCBN management for a week-long
break. Sana payagan kami. Para
makapag-pahinga din kami ni
Bea.
A-OK
Zanjoe denied his three-year old
with Bea is on the rocks.
He is, in fact, puzzled why such
rumors are flying around. Masaya
kami eh. Siguro may mga tao lang
na gustong maghiwalay kami kaya
gumagawa ng ganung isyu, he
said.
Still, he revealed that he and Bea
got into an argument recently because
of their respective schedules.
Kasi pagkatapos ng
teleserye niya (Sana Bukas Pa
Ang Kahapon), na halos arawaraw yung taping, eh bigla
naman akong nagka-project
nagkakaya ayun, he said.
He assures fans that
they are both commitcommit
ted to making their
relationship work.
Iniintindi namin
ang isat-isa.
Kasi hindi nana
man pwedeng
tumigil yung
isa sa amin (sa
pagta-trabaho)
para magkasamagkasa
ma lang kami,
kami
he said.
Dream
Dad, which
also stars child
actress Jana
Agoncillo, airs toto
day on ABS-CBNs
Primetime Bida.
zANJoE mARudo
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LE PAVILLON, METROPOLITAN PARK
THANKSGIVING PARTY 2014

Special Supplement
SS1 Monday, November 17, 2014
#MBthanksgiving14
A NIGHT OF
GRANTED
WISHES
Manila Bulletin says thanks with a million (and more)
Images by ALI VICOY and

JIM GUIAO PUNZALAN
The Food
he first clue that it was going

to be a magical night was the
flying carpet right by the door.
It was a promisetonight, you
will be whisked away to a party beyond
your wildest imaginations. There will be
beautiful dancers garbed in thawb and
keffiyeh swaying to the beat of a naker.
Tables groaning under the weight of a
sumptuous array of rich food will leave
you satiated. And a genie will come to
make all your dreams come true.
And so it came to pass that on Oct.
16, 2014, guests of the Manila Bulletins
(MB) Thanksgiving Party had the time
of their lives. Dedicated to its loyal
advertisers, Arabian Nights was a
treat for the guests, who were offered
pleasure fit for a sultan.
Before entering the venue proper,
the guests passed through a souqinspired market. There were themed
booths like the Sense&Style Beauty
Mission where guests were treated
to a special beauty session. Visitors
were able to try the hookah or flavored
tobacco in the Hook on Hookah booth
of Cruising Magazine. There were also
games like the Mystery Hunt where
participants had to find hidden objects
on big touchscreen displays. The
shawarma stand was overflowing with
the favorite Arab snack. And guests
could take a photo with a python in the
Animal Encounter booth of Animal
Scene magazine.
One hundred fourteen years of
business, 114 years of meaningful
changing times, two world wars,
revolutions, coups, as well as changing
of guards at the Malacaang palace with
15 presidents. One hundred fourteen
years of being the longest-running
newspaper in the country with the
reputation of honest, fair, and credible
reporting, upholding the trust of our
readers. One hundred fourteen years of
adjusting to volatile times and the fastpaced technology, says MB chairman
Basilio Yap. We are indeed grateful for
all your continued support, without you,
we will not be here today. Thank you
very much.
A dance competition was held for the
agencies and direct clients. The task was
to deliver a full-on Arabian production
number. And deliver they did! The
gourps impressed with their elaborate
costumes and thrilling choreography.
In the end Universal McCann won third
place receiving P15,000 in cash, second
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Guests were treated to a menu fit

for sultans, catered by the Grand
Dame, Manila Hotel
The Entertainment
The night was filled with
unforgettable presentations
from Follies de Mwah and
Manila Bulletin's Advertising
Team, an Arabian-themed dance
competition, exciting raffle
draws, and many more surprises.
The Attire
The Venue
Le Pavillon in Pasay was transformed into an souk, lined up with booths

that offer delicious snacks and fun activities.
People came in Arabian chic.

Turbans; long, flowy tunics,
and gold jewelry were the
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went to Starcom MediaVest Group with
a 1"'30,000 prize, and Carat Philippines
finished first place with a 1"'50,000 cash
prize. The Zoobic Safari group also received a special prize.
MB also gave special awards to
outstanding clients and partners. They
gave a special award to Pilipinas Shell
Petroleum Corporation for their false
cover advertisement placement with a
QR code while Megaworld Corporation
was also awarded for its pop-up spread
advertisement. MB awarded the
Outstanding Partner Award to Zenith
Optimedia, Starcom MediaVest, and
Omnicom Media Group. This award is
given to the advertisers who supported
and believed in the strength of Manila
Bulletin for the past year.
But what excited the guests the
most was the raffle. MB Thanksgiving is
known for its generous giveaways. Some
of the minor prizes included GoPro
cameras, Tiffany & Co. bracelets, iPads,
iPhones, portable speakers, Fujifilm
Instax Mini cameras, Powerbanks, and
Skull Candy headphones, and overnight

stay and spa packages at the Manila Hotel. The grand prize of the night was two
vacation trips for two at the Anantara
Resort in Dubai UAE. Cris Cepeda of
Maxus and Allen Catindig of Federal
Land went home with the prizes.
The surprise twist for the night,
however, was one "grand wish" for one
lucky guest. The guests were ready
to leave but a genie's voice echoed
through the venue and surprised the
guests with one final prize. A very
lucky lady from Group M was picked
for the special prize. To everybody's
astonishment the last "grand wish"
was one million worth of wishes! The
lucky winner was given a choice to
make the million into cash or anything
equivalent to the amount. She chose
1"'1,000,000 in cash.
"I'm so happy! We've been supporting Manila Bulletin ever since and I'm
very grateful for this prize," she says.
Somewhere, the MB genie is planning
his next great giveaway.
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Thanksgiving Facebook Photo Contest, which

was open to all the guests of the event
winners or non-winners.
It incorporated photos and creative
captions from the participants, with the hash
tag #MBThanksgivingPhotoContest. The top
three photos with the most number of Likes
won the units. These include Kash Zabala of
M2M, Rowena Munsayac of OMD, and Trish
Esclabanan of Universal McCann.
Manila Bulletins business partners
and clients went crazy online as posts and
comments kept pouring in about the raffle
draws and the contest.
Good job, Manila Bulletin on keeping the
ball rolling! This is what thanksgiving is all
about giving thanks to the advertisers and
receiving thanks from all the advertisers,
posts Faye Marie Arellano from AQA Group
of Companies.
Clariz Umali of Manprom, Inc. also
expressed her amazement, saying, Youre so
generous, Manila Bulletin! Kayo na talaga!
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nly weeks after its Arabian Nights

Thanksgiving Party, Manila Bulletin
continues to spread good cheer and
happiness by giving away iPhone
6 units to its business partners through
Facebook raffle draws and photo contests.
Last Oct. 23, the MB Advertising Team
raffled off six units of iPhone 6 to the guests
who didnt get to bring home any prize for the
Thanksgiving party.
In its Facebook account, the team posted
videos of its draws announcing the winners,
in the presence of different MB employees
and officials.
Among the new owners of iPhone 6 are
Liza Obispo of OMD, Jing Carandang of
Manprom, Madel Nario of Starcom, Martin
Paz of Resorts World Manila, Pat Makalinao
of Zenith Optimedia, and Ana Queppet of SM.
Right after the raffle, three more iPhones
were given away, this time, through its
Photo Contest winners
Trish Esclabanan
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Rowena Munsayac
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Winners of the Arabian Dance contest
Raffle winners
Third Place - Universal McCann
Champion - Carat Philippines
Liza
Obispo
Second Place - Starcom Mediavest Group
Zoobic Safari gets the award for the Direct Client Category
The Lucky Grand Prize winners

Madel
Nario
MB Chairman Basilio C. Yap with the winner of P1,000,000, along with Kathy
Chua, MB's AVP for Advertising and hosts Giselle Sanchez and Sam YG
Allen Catindig of Federal Land Inc. and Kris Cepeda of Maxus receive
their awards worth a trip to Abu Dhabi for two
Manila Bulletin's Outstanding Partners of 2013

For the advertisers who supported MB for the past year
Jing
Carandang
Mr. Emilio C. Yap and Ms. Kathy So-Chua give the award Mr. Onel Querijero receives one of the Outstanding
to OMG represented by Ms. Liza Obispo
Partner awards in behalf of Starcom Mediavest Group
Zenith Optimedia Philippines also wins Outstanding

Partner Award 2013 received by Ms. Kristine Ong
Best Creative Execution 2014

Pilipinas Shell
Petroleum
Corp. also wins
Best Creative
Execution for
their false cover
with QR code
placement last
January 10, 2014.
It was received
by Ms. Kris
Cepeda
Ms. Tin Asuncion

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Best Creative
Execution Award in
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INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY
In collaboration with
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Copyright 2014 The New York Times
Where
Failure
Is Accepted
Bending Nature
To Cool the Earth
By CLAIRE MARTIN
Five years ago, Cassandra Phillipps founded FailCon, a one-day

conference in San Francisco celebrating failure. Discouraged by a
growing chorus of start-up founders
promoting their triumphs throughout Silicon Valley, and nervous
about her own prospects as an entrepreneur, she craved the stories of
people who had flopped.
The conference was a success.
And every October for the next four
years, up to 500 tech start-up newbies have gathered with industry
veterans who lead discussions with
titles like How to Conduct Yourself
When It All Goes Off the Rails.
But this year, the FailCon event
in San Francisco was canceled, and
Ms. Phillipps says part of the reason
is that failure chatter is now so pervasive in Silicon Valley that a conference seems superfluous. Its in
the lexicon that youre going to fail,
she said.
According to research by Shikhar
Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard
Business School, 30 percent to 40
percent of venture-backed start-ups
spend most or all of their investors
money, and 70 percent to 80 percent
JASPER JUINEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; TOP, ILVY NJIOKIKTJIEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
A Dutch playground with a surface of olivine, top, a green-tinted mineral that takes carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
Continued on Page 5
New Consideration for Manipulations to Slow Global Warming

By HENRY FOUNTAIN
JIM WILSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Cassandra Phillipps said failing

is normal in Silicon Valley.
UTRECHT, the Netherlands

The solution to global warming,
Olaf Schuiling says, lies beneath
our feet.
For Dr. Schuiling, a retired
geochemist, climate salvation
would come in the form of olivine, a green-tinted mineral found
in abundance around the world.
When exposed to the elements, it
slowly takes carbon dioxide from
the atmosphere.
Olivine has been doing this
naturally for billions of years,
but Dr. Schuiling wants to speed

up the process by spreading it on
fields and beaches and using it for
dikes, pathways, even sandboxes.
Sprinkle enough of the crushed
rock around, he says, and it will
eventually remove enough carbon
dioxide to slow the rise in global
temperatures.
Let the earth help us to save
the earth, said Dr. Schuiling, 82,
from his office at the University of
Utrecht.
Such ideas for countering climate change known as geoen-
gineering solutions were once

considered the stuff of fantasies.
But the effects of climate change
may become so severe that geoengineering solutions could attract
serious consideration.
Dr. Schuilings idea is one of
several intended to reduce levels
of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, so the atmosphere will
trap less heat. Other approaches,
potentially faster and more doable but riskier, would create the
equivalent of a sunshade around
the planet by scattering reflec-
tive droplets in the stratosphere

or spraying seawater to create
more clouds over the oceans. Less
sunlight reaching the earths surface would mean less heat to be
trapped, resulting in a quick lowering of temperatures.
No one can say for sure whether
geoengineering of any kind would
work. And many of the approaches are seen as highly impractical. Dr. Schuilings approach, for
example, would take decades to
Continued on Page 4
INTELLIGENCE
WORLD TRENDS
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
ARTS & DESIGN
In America, looking
ahead to 2016. PAGE 2
Muslims in Myanmar
face hardships. PAGE 3
The risks and costs of

space flight. PAGE 11
International sounds
out of Lisbon. PAGE 16
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O P I N I O N & C O M M E N TA RY
For more than two years, rising
tensions between China and Japan
have unsettled Asia and raised concerns that the two economic giants
might stumble into a military confrontation. Recently, their leaders
showed unexpected statesmanship
with an agreement that seems likely to ease the dispute.
In similarly worded statements
from both sides, the two countries
finessed their claims over islands
in the East China Sea essentially
by saying that neither side had won
or lost. Meanwhile, they opened the
door to a resumption of diplomatic
and security discussions that have
been frozen since 2012. That was
when Japan nationalized the is-
ED I T O RI AL S O F T HE T IME S
Calming the Waters

lands called Senkaku by the Japanese and Diaoyu by the Chinese
by purchasing the land from private owners.
Since then, China has asserted
its own sweeping claims over the
islands and beyond, sending ships
and fishing boats into adjacent
waters while their jets challenged
Japanese aircraft in the skies. In
a deft use of diplomatic language,
the statements acknowledged that

different positions exist, thus requiring no concessions, yet giving
both countries space to move forward.
The agreement suited the interests of both President Xi Jinping of
China and Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe of Japan. Mr. Xi was the host
of an Asian-Pacific economic group
summit meeting in Beijing and
wanted the event to run as smoothly as possible. Also, Japanese investment in China has dropped by
nearly half this year. Mr. Abe has
been eager to meet Mr. Xi in Beijing, and some sort of agreement
on the islands was seen as a prerequisite. His willingness to stoke tensions with China has also worried
the region and the Obama administration, which has pressed him to
ease off.
The two sides also pledged to
establish crisis management
mechanisms and work to keep the
situation from getting out of hand.
The concern was that because the
fundamental issues remained unsolved, these commitments would
be forgotten once the summit meeting was over.
To reassure the region, Mr. Xi
and Mr. Abe should spend some
serious time together to reinforce
their commitment to the recent
agreement and set in motion a truly
constructive process where the focus is on resolving their differences, not confronting each other in the
East China Sea.
INTELLIGENCE/ROBERT KUTTNER
Clintons Road Ahead

While American Democrats took
a serious beating in the recent midterm elections, that may work in
their favor in the presidential race
in 2016. Hillary Rodham Clinton,
who is overwhelmingly favored to
win the partys nomination, is most
likely to treat the Republicans, who
now have majorities in both houses
of Congress, as an incumbent party. She will blame them for continuing weaknesses on both the economy and foreign policy.
Where President Barack Obama
tried and failed to make progress
by meeting Republicans halfway,
Mrs. Clinton is a tougher politician
and will present herself as a more
resolute leader. She is also likely to
benefit from a unified party, while
the Republicans are badly divided between the populist, deeply
conservative Tea Party bloc and
a more mainstream big- business
faction. There are no major Democratic challengers to Mrs. Clinton,
but at least five serious Republicans are likely to seek their partys
nomination, portending a long and
draining primary season.
Robert Kuttner is co-editor of The
American Prospect and a senior
fellow at the policy group Demos.
Send comments to intelligence@
nytimes.com.
Yet Democrats and Mrs. Clinton

may face deeper voter unease. This
is paradoxical, since polls suggest
that voters agree more with Democrats than Republicans on most
issues.
Voters support Democrats to
use government for the general
good when they support government at all. Today, however, large
majorities view government as
corrupt and unreliable. Only about
one American in five agrees that
you can trust the federal government to do the right thing most of
the time, down from 60 percent in
2003. Its an open question whether
Mrs. Clinton could win back that
lost trust.
Though she served as Mr.
Obamas secretary of state, she has
already distanced herself from the
relatively unpopular president. In a
widely quoted interview in The Atlantic magazine in August, she criticized his failure to give more help
to Syrian rebels as a direct cause
of the rise of the jihadists known as
the Islamic State.
President Obamas achievements include an economy that is
on the mend; a new health plan for
the uninsured; and the withdrawal of United States ground troops
from Iraq, just as he promised. Yet
his popularity is near record lows
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Hillary Rodham Clinton is the early favorite to win her partys nomination for president.
and many blame him for the Democrats poor election performance.
For some analysts, the election
was a rejection of the presidents
personality and leadership style,
which many voters consider aloof.
The election was also a classic case
of a deep pattern of American politics: In the sixth year of a presidency, fickle voters tend to be weary of
the incumbent. This pattern caused
large congressional losses for such
popular two-term presidents as
Ronald Reagan, Dwight D. Eisenhower and even Franklin D. Roosevelt all of whom had won their
own re-elections easily but whose
party took big defeats just two
years later.
Yet Mrs. Clinton has her own vulnerabilities. For many Americans
she is a figure from a now-distant
era, the 1990s. She will be 69 years
old in 2016. Her husband, former
President Bill Clinton, is a brilliant
strategist but also known to create
political problems with some of his
comments. Some voters will won-
Voters have spoken,

but the message for
2016 isnt clear.
der whether they would be electing
a co-president.
The Clintons have blended charitable, financial and political interests in the far-flung conglomerate
known as the Clinton Foundation,
which has enabled the couple to
trade favors with wealthy donors.
These activities could present a
high-profile target for both the
press and the opposition and suggest a candidate too cozy with big
business, especially for a Democrat. This image evokes some of
the same liabilities Mr. Obama has
suffered.
His bailout of the big banks may
have helped save the economy from
a second Great Depression, but it
also suggested a government too
cozy with Wall Street. His health

plan will help millions get insurance, but it is complicated and frustrating to navigate, reinforcing the
Republican story of government
incompetence.
In states where Republicans
govern, they have succeeded in
erecting barriers to voting that hit
minorities and the poor, including
requirements of photo identification. Even where there were no
obstacles, groups that tend to support Democrats (when they vote at
all) voted in record low numbers
this year, apparently out of general
disaffection. It remains to be seen
whether Mrs. Clinton, who relies on
the same set of Wall Street advisers
as the president, can win these voters back.
So she could be more vulnerable
than many assume. She was also
the presumed Democratic nominee in 2008, but was defeated by a
novice, and an African-American
no less. It is a long way to November 2016.
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WORLD TRENDS
In Delhi, Multitudes
Of the Dead Unknown
By ELLEN BARRY
Police officers are also expected

to investigate. Asked about this,
Dr. Gupta gave a small, dry smile.
They may or may not try, he
said.
This is no city for the poor.
Drive around New Delhi at
night, and great numbers of men,
women and children can be seen
curled up on the sidewalks sleeping, or trying to sleep. These people pavement dwellers, they
are called figure in occasional
newspaper articles about drunken drivers whose vehicles jump
the curb and plow into a row of
sleepers.
The most desperate gather
around temples, where observant Hindus are encouraged to
distribute food to the poor after a
death in the family. Mohammad
Yamin, an investigating officer
at the Kashmere Gate police
station, said families often abandoned terminally ill relatives at
the nearby Hanuman temple because they are unable to get them
admitted to government hospitals.
But most of the
unclaimed dead
appear to come
f rom a not her
group: men from
distant villages,
sent to the city in
their teens or 20s
to earn money as
rickshaw drivers
or casual laborers, and broken
ALTAF QADRI/ASSOCIATED PRESS
down by harsh
conditions and
Cots set up for the homeless at a New
Delhi park. More than 3,000 bodies found brutal extremes
of temperature.
in the city each year cannot be identified.
Harsh Mander, a
social worker and
activist who led a 2010 analysis
bodies a year unidentifiable
of unidentified bodies in Delhi,
not because they are unrecogfound that the average age of men
nizable, but because they carry
who died alone here it is almost
no documents and there is no one
always men was around 42.
who knows them.
Police records offer the vaguIt is an extraordinary number.
est of explanations. Most often,
New York City buries as many as
the cause of death is given as
1,500 homeless or poor people in
natural, but others are marked
trenches in its potters field on
as illness/weakness, due to
Hart Island every year, but of
hunger or thirst, due to exthose the number who remain
unidentified averages around 50.
treme cold or heat, accident,
In Delhi, one regularly encountuberculosis, suicide, or, peculiarly, beggar type. Often the
ters the unknown dead: By law,
bodies are entirely naked.
photographs of their corpses
Once, Mr. Yamin managed to
must be published in newspapers
discover the identity of a man
and posted in police stations,
whose corpse he had found. He
under the Dickensian heading
took it all the way to the mans naHue and Cry Notice. Protocol
tive village, where his uncles still
requires the mortuary to hold
lived. They gave him a two-line
each body for 72 hours so that
response: He sold off his home
relatives have a chance to spot
and his belongings many years
the announcements and claim
ago, as a young boy, and his parthe dead, but Dr. Gupta said they
rarely do.
ents are no more. You can do what
Nobody reads them, he said.
you deem fit with his body.
NEW DELHI The most lost
of the lost people of Delhi end up
here, in a cold metal-sided room
at the Sabzi Mandi mortuary.
They are lying on every available surface, including the bloodsmeared floor, some with body
parts flung out in the position of
their death, protruding from the
white plastic bags that are used
to store them.
In a corner, the bodies are
crowded together on the floor.
Youll find them one on top of
the other, said the mortuarys
chief doctor, L. C. Gupta. Where
are we supposed to put them?
The mortuary attendants say it
is so difficult to procure supplies
as basic as disinfectant from the
government that workers bring
soap from home so that they can
wash their hands after handling
the bodies, many of which are infected with tuberculosis.
On average, the police in this
city register the discovery of
more than 3,000 unidentifiable
TOMAS MUNITA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
More than 100,000 Rohingya people have been placed in camps like the one in Rakhine State.
Myanmar Wants Muslims Gone

By JANE PERLEZ
SITTWE, Myanmar The

Myanmar government has given
the estimated one million Rohingya
people in this coastal region of the
country a dispiriting choice: Prove
your family has lived here for more
than 60 years and qualify for second-class citizenship, or be placed
in camps and face deportation.
The policy, along with new decrees and legislation, has made
life for the Rohingya, a persecuted
Muslim minority, ever more desperate, spurring the biggest flow
of Rohingya refugees since a major
exodus two years ago.
In the last month, 14,500 Rohingya have sailed from the beaches of
Rakhine State to Thailand, with the
goal of reaching Malaysia, according to the Arakan Project, a group
that monitors Rohingya refugees.
In a public appeal to the government, President Obama asked
President Thein Sein of Myanmar
to revise the anti-Rohingya policies,
specifically the resettlement plan.
Myanmar must support the civil
and political rights of the Rohingya
population, Mr. Obama said.
The Rohingya have faced discrimination for decades. They have
been denied citizenship, and evicted from their homes, had their land
confiscated, and been attacked by
the military. After one such attack
in 1978, some 200,000 fled to Bangladesh.
The latest flare-up began with
an outbreak of sectarian rioting in
2012, in which hundreds of Rohingya were killed and dozens of their
villages burned to the ground by
radical Buddhists. Since then, close
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to 100,000 have fled Myanmar, and

over 100,000 have been confined to
squalid camps, forbidden to leave.
The Rakhine Action Plan represents a final humiliation, said
Mohamed Saeed, a community organizer in a camp near Sittwe, the
capital of Rakhine State.
Many Rohingya came to Myanmar in the 19th century when the
British ruled all of what is now India, Bangladesh and Myanmar,
formerly known as Burma. But the
governments demand for proof of
residence since 1948 is too onerous
for many, who either do not have
the paperwork or fall short of the
six-decade requirement, human
rights advocates say.
Those who can prove residence
qualify for naturalized citizenship,
which has fewer rights than full
citizenship and can be revoked.
Moreover, they would be classified
as Bengali, suggesting they are
immigrants from Bangladesh and
opening the way for possible deportation.
Human Rights Watch described
the plan as nothing less than a
blueprint for permanent segregation and statelessness.
This year, in line with the governments position that they are
foreigners, the Rohingya were prevented from participating in the
national census.
The policies come on top of the
dire situation in Rohingya camps

and villages. In the camps near
Sittwe, where 140,000 Rohingya
live, health services are virtually
nonexistent.
Most Rohingya who want to
leave the camps or the villages in
northern Rakhine pay brokers $200
just to board a boat. Once in Thailand, the refugees must pay smugglers an additional $2,000 for the
second leg to Malaysia.
Some, like Nor Rankis, 25, who
said she wanted to join her husband
and brother in Malaysia, do not pay
anything, an almost certain sign
she will be sold into servitude by
traffickers in Thailand. I dont
want to live here, she said. I cannot survive.
A spokesman for Rakhine State
insisted the Rohingya did not belong in Myanmar and defended the
resettlement plan as necessary because the higher Muslim birthrate
threatened the Buddhist majority.
There are no Rohingya under
the law, said the spokesman, U
Win Myaing, assistant director of
the Ministry of Information. They
are illegal immigrants.
Some government officials have
described the Rakhine Action Plan
as a draft proposal, but the government has already begun to carry
out the plan in at least one camp,
Myebon, nearly 100 kilometers
south of Sittwe.
After a few nights of waiting for a
smuggler, Nor Rankis waded into
the inky Bay of Bengal to a small
wooden boat, jammed with a score
of others.
Im depending on God, she
said. Thats why I dare to go.
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WORLD TRENDS
Bending
Nature
To Cool
The Earth
Turning Down the Heat

Some scientists and policy makers say that the world may
someday have to consider geoengineering intentionally
manipulating nature to combat climate change.
SUN
THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
Some sunlight is reflected by the atmosphere, but

much is absorbed by the surface and emitted as
thermal energy, which is trapped by carbon
dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
SOLAR
RADIATION
Continued from Page 1

have even a small impact, and the
processes of mining, grinding and
transporting the billions of tons
of olivine needed would produce
enormous carbon emissions of
their own.
Many people view the idea of
geoengineering as a last-gasp
approach to climate change that
would distract the world from the
goal of eliminating the emissions
that are causing the problem in the
first place. The climate is a vastly
complex system, so manipulating
temperatures may also have consequences, like changes in rainfall,
that could be catastrophic or benefit one region at the expense of another. Critics also worry that geoengineering could be used unilaterally by one nation, creating another
source of geopolitical worries.
But experts argue that the circumstances are becoming dire.
There may come to be a choice
between geoengineering and suffering, said Andy Parker of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability
Studies in Potsdam, Germany.
In 1991, a volcanic eruption in
the Philippines spewed the largest cloud of sulfur dioxide gas ever measured into the high atmosphere. The gas formed droplets
of sulfuric acid, which reflected
the suns rays back into space. For
three years, average worldwide
temperatures fell by about half a
degree Celsius.
One geoengineering approach
would mimic this action by spraying sulfuric acid droplets into the
stratosphere.
David Keith, a researcher at Harvard University, has suggested
that if this kind of geoengineering,
called solar radiation management, or S.R.M., is undertaken, it
should be done slowly and carefully, so it could be halted if damaging
weather patterns or other problems arose.
And some critics of geoengineering are skeptical that any
impact would be balanced. People
in underdeveloped countries are
affected by climate change that
has largely been caused by the actions of industrialized countries. So
why should they trust that scattering droplets in the sky would help
them?
No one likes to be the rat in
someone elses laboratory, said
Pablo Suarez of the Red Cross/Red
Crescent Climate Center.
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Surface of the earth is heated.
POSSIBLE WAYS TO REDUCE THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT:
REMOVING CO2
MANAGING SUNLIGHT
More thermal energy can

escape to space.
More solar radiation is

reflected to space.
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One approach is to remove some

carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
so it would trap less thermal energy.
Another is to make the atmosphere

more reflective, by adding particles or
altering clouds, so less heat is trapped.
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Ideas to remove carbon dioxide

from the air provoke less alarm.
While they have issues of their own
olivine, for example, contains
small amounts of metals that could
contaminate the environment
as a geoengineering method they
would work far more slowly and
indirectly, affecting the climate
over decades by altering the atmosphere.
Dr. Schuiling has been talking for
years about his idea in the Netherlands. As a result, the country has
become an olivine hotbed. If you
know where to look, you can see the
crushed rock on paths, in gardens
and in play areas.
Eddy Wijnker, a former sound engineer, created greenSand, a company in the small town of Maasland
that sells olivine sand for home or
commercial use; it will soon receive
a shipload from a mine in Spain. The
company also sells green sand certificates that pay for spreading the
sand along highways.
Dr. Schuilings doggedness has
also spurred research. At the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in Yerseke, Francesc Montserrat, an ecologist, is investigating the idea of spreading olivine on
the seabed. In Belgium, researchers at the University of Antwerp
are studying the effects of olivine
on crops like barley and wheat.
Many in the geoengineering
community see a need for more research. Computer simulations go
only so far, they say.
Very little money is set aside
worldwide for geoengineering re-
search. But even the suggestion of

conducting field experiments can
cause an uproar.
People like lines in the sand to
be drawn, and theres a very obvious one which says, fine, if you
want to do stuff on a desktop or a lab
bench, thats O.K., said Matthew
Watson of the University of Bristol
in Britain. But as soon as you start
going out into the real world, then
thats different.
Dr. Watson knows all about those
lines in the sand: He led a project,
financed by the British government, that included a relatively benign test of one technology. In 2011,
the researchers planned to tether a
balloon about a kilometer in the sky
and try to pump a small amount of
plain water up to it through a hose.
The proposal prompted protests in
Britain, was delayed for half a year
and then was canceled.
The prospects of government
support for any kind of geoengineering test seem slim right now in
the United States, where many politicians deny that climate change is
even occurring.
The conventional wisdom is
that the right doesnt want to talk
about this because it acknowledges the problem, said Rafe Pomerance, a former environmental official in the State Department. And
the left is worried about the impact
on emissions.
Getting the topic out in the open,
then, would be a good thing, Mr.
Pomerance said. Its going to take
a little more time, he added. But
its coming.
Dont Think.
Just Get Up and Go.
Why are impulse-buy items
like candy bars and chewing
gum so hard to resist at the grocery store check-out line? Because of a phenomenon known
as decision
LENS
fatigue. Now
that you have
made your
way around
all of the
various aisles
and chosen
among the
hundreds, if
not thousands, of products, your
brain is more likely to give in to
temptation.
And while that can have a relatively low impact in this example
just a few extra calories, say,
and a small amount of money
elsewhere the effect can be more
profound.
President Obama has said
he limits his clothing and food
options because he doesnt want
such minor matters to use up
even the smallest amount of
energy. Youll see I wear only
gray or blue suits, he once told a
magazine. I dont want to make
decisions about what Im eating
or wearing. Because I have too
many other decisions to make.
It is the same reason you
will see Mark Zuckerberg, the
Facebook chief executive and
co-founder, dressed in identical
gray T-shirts each day.
I want to clear my life so I
have to make as few decisions as
possible about anything except
how to best serve this community, he said this month during a
discussion with about 200 Facebook users at the companys
headquarters in Menlo Park,
California.
Even making small decisions
around what you wear or what
you eat for breakfast or things
like that, they kind of make you
tired and consume your energy,
Mr. Zuckerberg said. I feel like I
For comments, write to
nytweekly@nytimes.com.
am not doing my job if I spend any

of my energy on things that are
silly or frivolous about my life. So
that way I can dedicate all of my
energy towards just building the
best products and services and
helping us reach our goal.
The phenomenon also applies
when it comes to moral issues,
according to research published
in the journal Psychological Science, which found that people are
more likely to cheat, lie and commit fraud as the day wears on.
One experiment found that
subjects cheated 25 percent
more often in the afternoon, a
result that was echoed in other
studies. Researchers said that
the part of the brain in charge
of executive control becomes
tired, a fatigue resulting from
even a task as simple as memorizing numbers.
To the extent that youre cognitively tired, Isaac H. Smith, an
assistant professor at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University in
Ithaca, New York, and one of the
articles authors, told The Times,
youre more likely to give in to
the devil on your shoulder.
These factors should all be kept
in mind when facing daunting
tasks like the one Steven Kurutz
explored in The Times recently:
mattress shopping. Is there any
home purchase more confusing
and fraught with anxiety than
buying a mattress? he asked.
The Kafkaesque maze of
mattress options is enough to
wear down any brain, with similar-sounding brands like Simmons, Sealy and Serta; with the
brands offerings varying from
store to store; and with a seemingly endless variety of coils and
foams.
Walking into a store and facing
what the Simmons vice president Brett Swygman described
as a sea of white rectangles,
youd want to be sure you had a
good nights sleep first. Though
for that youd probably need a
good mattress. TESS FELDER
Impulse buying
at the grocery
store might
not have a
big impact on
your life, but
elsewhere it
might be wise to
focus on what is
important.
MIKE BLAKE/REUTERS
MANILA BULLETIN
WORLD TRENDS
For Outlaw, Easier

To Hack Than Hide
By ANDREW HIGGINS
ARAD, Romania He reveled in

tormenting members of the Bush
family, Colin L. Powell and prominent Americans, and in outfoxing
the F.B.I. and the Secret Service.
Early this year, however, the elusive online outlaw known as Guccifer panicked. He smashed his hard
drive and cellphone with an ax.
That spasm of precautionary destruction, at his home in Romanias
Transylvania region, did not help
him much especially as he left
pieces of what would later become
evidence scattered in the mud.
Two weeks later, on January 22,
a global hunt for the celebrated
and mysterious hacker who first
revealed self-portraits painted by
George W. Bush and plundered a
trove of personal emails from politicians, military officers and celebrities finally ended in an early
morning raid of his home.
I was expecting them, but the
shock was still very big for me,
the hacker, now serving a seven-year sentence, said. He spoke in
an interview, his first, at the Arad
Penitentiary here. It is hard to be
a hacker, but even harder to erase
your tracks.
In many ways, however, his
two-year rampage through the
email accounts of rich and powerful Americans showed how easy it
can be to go rogue on the Internet
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do not deliver their projected return on investment.
Now failure is emerging as a
badge of honor, as entrepreneurs
publicly trumpet how they have
faced adversity head-on.
The gusto for failure is lagging
beyond Silicon Valley, and that has
presented Ms. Phillipps with another opportunity. Four years ago,
she began licensing the FailCon
event for a $1,500 fee to producers
in other countries, including Brazil, Japan, Iran, Saudi Arabia and
Israel.
Nobody wants to fail, said Ashley Good, founder of Fail Forward.
Its awful. You will never hear me
say to celebrate failure. But, she
added, failing intelligently is an
increasingly important skill.
In a blog post titled Today My
Start-Up Failed, the New Yorkbased entrepreneur Chris Poole described the demise of his company
DrawQuest, a drawing-game app.
No soft landing, no happy ending we simply failed, Mr. Poole
wrote in February.
and, even when armed with only

rudimentary skills, to stay one step
ahead of the law, at least for a while.
The hacker who signed off as Guccifer a nom de guerre coined, he
said, to combine the style of Gucci
and the light of Lucifer turned
out to be Marcel-Lehel Lazar, a jobless 43-year-old former taxi driver.
He had no expertise in computers,
no fancy equipment, only a clunky
NEC desktop and a Samsung cellphone, and no special skills beyond
what he had picked up on the web.
Viorel Badea, the Romanian
prosecutor who directed the case,
expressed dismay that Mr. Lazar
had gotten so far with so little. He
was not really a hacker but just a
smart guy who was very patient
and persistent, Mr. Badea said.
Instead of using computer worms
and other tools, the prosecutor
said, Mr. Lazar trawled the web for
information about his targets, then
simply guessed the answers to security questions. He is just a poor
Romanian guy who wanted to be
famous, Mr. Badea said.
It took six months of trial and
error for Mr. Lazar to guess the
answers and gain access to the
emails of Corina Cretu, a 47-yearold Romanian politician who sent
pictures of herself in a bikini and a
flirtatious message to Mr. Powell,
the former secretary of state. Mr.
Powell, who has denied having an
Marcel-Lehel
Lazar, also
known as
Guccifer,
tormented
various
celebrities
using no special
computer skills
beyond what he
had picked up on
the web.
CRISTIAN MOVILA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
affair with Ms. Cretu, had urged

her to delete all their messages
after he discovered that his own
email account had been hacked.
Mr. Lazar, who is half-Hungarian, acknowledged that he relied
mostly on educated guesswork. He
said he had no training in computers, though he did work, briefly, in a
computer factory. I got fired after
two weeks, he said.
He did have a previous conviction, for hacking into the email accounts of Romanian starlets and
other celebrities under the name
Micul Fum, or Little Smoke.
Late last year, Mr. Lazar started
boasting to The Smoking Gun, an
American website that on January
6 posted a defiant email message
in broken English from the still
unidentified Guccifer: NO I am
not concerned, i think i switch the
proxies go to play some backgammon on yahoo watch tv, play with

my family and daughter.
A day later, however, Mr. Lazar
got a shock when George Maior,
the head of Romanias domestic intelligence agency, announced that
the authorities would soon catch
Americas most wanted hacker,
a vow that suggested they knew
he was in Romania. Mr. Lazar, in
his prison interview, said he was
also badly shaken by Mr. Maiors
description of him as Little Guccifer, which to him indicated that
investigators had linked Guccifer
with Little Smoke, the pseudonym
he used before his 2011 arrest.
Thrown into a panic, he decided it
was time to destroy evidence of his
hacking and took an ax to his computer and cellphone in his yard in
the village of Sambateni, about 18
Where Start-Up Failure Is Acceptable

His tone was confessional. Few
in business will know the pain
of what it means to fail as a venture-backed C.E.O., he wrote. Mr.
Poole explained that even though
the DrawQuest app had been
downloaded 1.4 million times, the
business could not survive. It may
seem surprising that a seemingly
successful product could fail, he
wrote. But it happens all the time.
Jordan Nemrow, whose app Zillionears.com allowed musicians
to sell their music directly to consumers through short-term sales
known as flash sales, posted that
Zillionears.com imploded because
people really didnt LIKE anything about our product. He added, No one that used the service
thought it was that cool. After the
post went viral, something odd
happened. We got like 100,000 hits
in a weekend on that blog, which actually resulted in like 10,000 views
of our app, Mr. Nemrow said. Before that we had 100 views total.
It may hurt when a

start-up fails, but it
wont kill a career.
But unfortunately for him, by the
time the company received that attention it had already failed.
In some ways, FailCons success
created a quandary for Ms. Phillipps. Conferences sold out, each
drawing 400 to 500 people who
paid $100 to $350 each. And FailCon attracted big-name sponsors,
including Amazon Web Services
and Microsoft. She said the conference was financially profitable, but
that the areas embrace of failure
had outgrown the format. She is
aiming to rework FailCon. She may
turn to smaller, more interactive
workshops and an invitation-only
application process. FailCon 2.0 is
to make its debut in October 2015.

Entrepreneurs still need to learn
about failure because Silicon Valley tech incubators typically dont
advise start-ups about how to prepare for it, said Dr. Michael A. Freeman of the University of California,
San Francisco. Failure, he said, has
been significantly destigmatized
on a cultural level in Silicon Valley
and the Bay Area, even though on
an individual level it can still be
painful to endure.
For Trey Griffith, running a failing tech start-up felt like pounding
your head against the wall and trying a bunch of things, but nothings
working, he said.
Mr. Griffith presided over a
start-up called Endorse.me, which
set out to help companies recruit
college students by using teacher
recommendations. When he was
trying to keep his business going
he wrote a blog post pleading for
advice from readers. As a result, he
met his current boss.
kilometers east of Arad, the Transylvanian city where he is now in

prison. I knew they were coming
for me, he recalled.
Mr. Lazar said he could have covered his tracks better if hed had
more money for a more powerful
computer, for instance.
Of course, I could have stolen
money from them, he said, distancing himself from the legions
of his countrymen who have made
Romania a global leader in Internet
fraud. I didnt. Not a single dollar.
With no access to a computer in
jail, he now pours out phobias and
conspiracy theories in notebooks
filled with his small, neat handwriting.
O.K., I broke the law, but seven
years in a maximum-security prison? he said. I am not a murderer
or a thief.
Mr. Griffith is now vice president for technology at Teleborder,

a company that makes software
for human resources departments
to use in organizing visas for overseas employees. He said that when
interviewing job candidates for
positions at Teleborder, he doesnt
dismiss those with failures on their
rsums.
He wrote about his failings about
the same time Mr. Nemrow of
Zillionears.com wrote about his.
Mr. Nemrow offered support. The
two stayed in touch and now they
have something else in common:
success. I thought it would be really important to see start-ups that
succeed, Mr. Nemrow said of his
decision to work at Shop It to Me, a
website. I wanted to see the inside
workings of them.
Recently, Mr. Griffith recruited
Mr. Nemrow to work with him at
Teleborder as a software engineer.
Its, like, the least sexy business, Mr. Nemrow said of his new
company. But right now, there are
so many sexy businesses that are
failing. Its going to be much different. Itll be an interesting change.
MANILA BULLETIN
WORLD TRENDS
As Shabab Fall Apart,

Feared Fighters Defect
By ISMAIL KUSHKUSH
and JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
BAIDOA, Somalia Bashir

was a true believer, a foot soldier
who recently quit after seeing too
many innocents slaughtered.
Ahmed deserted the Shabab
because he wanted a real family,
not just a bunch of heavily armed,
sociopathic militants who called
themselves a family, he said.
And young Nurta was a slender assassin, with a bright purple
scarf and wide, seemingly innocent eyes.
There is no life with them,
she said.
Even before its leader was cut
down in an American airstrike in
September, the Shabab militant
group in Somalia, once one of Al
Qaedas most powerful franchises, began unraveling. In the past
few months, the group has been
shedding territory and fighters.
Dozens of defectors have been
staying in a drab, one-story, heavily guarded concrete-block building in Baidoa, in central Somalia.
The picture they paint is one of
the Shabab in decline. Just a few
An Al Qaeda group
loses its way after its
leader is killed.
years ago, the Shabab held much
of southern Somalia. Shabab
fighters chopped off heads,
starved children, snatched up
adolescent brides and stoned to
death those girls who refused.
Until the advent of the Islamic
State, or ISIS, in Iraq and Syria,
the Shabab controlled more territory than any Qaeda subgroup,
bringing in millions of dollars by
running ports and imposing taxes, which bankrolled terrorist attacks across the region.
But African Union peacekeepers have dislodged Shabab from
all major towns in southern Somalia. The Somali population has
turned against the group.
In killing the Shababs leader,
Ahmed Abdi Godane, with little
collateral damage, the United
States showed that it had finally
cracked the groups code.
Since Mr. Godanes replacement is a little-known fighter,
Shabab defectors said the groups
allure is virtually gone. Western
intelligence officials estimate
there are just a few thousand
hardened Shabab fighters left.
Afyare A. Elmi, a Somali pro-
fessor at Qatar University, predicts Shabab will continue to shed

territory but will keep up its
guerrilla attacks and explosions.
Four Shabab gunmen massacred
dozens of civilians in a mall attack
in Nairobi, Kenya, last year.
At the transition facility in
Baidoa, elders are pushing computer skills, carpentry and welding. The easiest way to deradicalize former jihadists, the theory
goes, is to give them jobs.
Bashir, 24, said that when he
first joined the Shabab, he believed in their ideas. But when
Mr. Godane took over the Shabab,
around 2008, Bashir was no longer sure what he believed in.
Mr. Godane allowed for the
killing of innocent people. And
I think he worked for elements
from other countries, not for Somalia.
I am happy to hear he is dead,
Bashir said.
So is Nurta, the young female
assassin. Her involvement with
the Shabab was never a matter of
choice. She was kidnapped, she
said, by foreign fighters, white
men, who snatched her from her
school when she was 16. She was
the perfect terrorist: a young
woman whom few might suspect
of being a killer.
I was trained to shoot targets
in public areas, how to jump over
buildings and target watchtowers, she said.
Nurta said she soon became an
expert in the tools of death: AK47s, sniper rifles, bombs, pistols
of various makes.
She said she was dispatched to
the Kenyan coast in 2011 to help
kidnap two foreigners, crimes
that deeply hurt the countrys
tourism industry and helped lead
Kenya to later send troops into
Somalia.
But at one point, Nurta grew
sick of seeing her colleagues
cavalier disregard for human
life. Even when the Shababs own
fighters were wounded, she said,
they didnt care and left them to
die.
After defecting, Nurta went underground. But the Shabab were
determined to find her. She knew
too much.
Earlier this year, while she was
in the market in Baidoa, she saw a
Shabab assassin whom she knew.
Their eyes locked. She tried to
run as he pulled the pin on his
grenade. The explosion knocked
her down. Shrapnel sliced into
her face. She survived, but shortly after that, the Shabab murdered her brother.
I ask God to forgive me, she
said.
Junior Samuel,
8, received
treatment for
Ebola that
was similar to
that given to
Rancy Willie,
9. Doctors
said they did
not know
why Junior
survived.
DANIEL BEREHULAK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Ebolas Way: One Lives, One Dies

By SHERI FINK
SUAKOKO, Liberia After he

lost his parents to Ebola, Junior
Samuel, 8, slumped inside a treatment center here. Within a day, he
began bleeding from his gums, an
ominous sign.
Ten days later, 9-year-old Rancy
Willie, who had just lost his mother,
arrived. He, too, would soon begin
bleeding.
The boys became roommates
at the center, run by the American charity International Medical
Corps. They received essentially
the same care. But one boy died
hours before the other one went
home, having recovered. And the
fate of a third boy, 5-year-old Williams Beyan, remained unclear.
Over and over, doctors have been
confounded by the divergent paths
of patients whose cases appeared
similar at first. No matter how
long we were there, we didnt know
how to predict it, said Dr. Steve
Whiteley, a California physician
who volunteered.
The World Health Organization
said those under 15 made up 13 percent of cases in the epidemics first
nine months, though they accounted for about 43 percent of the population. They may be less exposed
to major risk factors, such as caring
for sick relatives.
Junior, who weighed 19 kilograms, seemed very ill at admission. Like the two boys with whom
he would share the ward, his viral
load was fairly high, a bad sign. He
was given an intravenous line and
oral liquids with electrolytes to
combat dehydration.
Over days, his trajectory was
noted. October 3: admitted with
fever, vomiting, diarrhea, loss of
appetite, difficulty swallowing,
and pain in his abdomen, chest and
head. October 4: bleeding from
gums. The only other child in the

ward was scared to death to be in
the room with him, Audrey Rangel, an American nurse, said. October 5: diarrhea and vomiting. October 7: stable and jumping around
like crazy pants. October 10: fever
of 39 degrees Celsius.
Rancy Willie arrived three days
later, weighing only 16 kilograms.
He was severely dehydrated. As
the nurses held each forearm aloft,
Rancys hand drooped like a flag.
Youre so brave, Ms. Rangel
said. A colleague inserted the needle but missed his vein. The team
decided to wait for morning, when
a nurse experienced in pediatrics
would be on duty.
Ms. Rangel helped him sit up to
The same symptoms

and treatment, but
different outcomes.
drink a rehydration solution. His
sips were so small, though, that he
barely swallowed anything. Moments later, he vomited.
O.K., better? Ms. Rangel
asked. Then another wave overtook him.
Rancy was moved into Juniors
room on the ward for confirmed
cases. Two nights later, Rancy fell,
and began bleeding profusely. It
took an hour and a half for a nurse
to come because staff members
were busy admitting patients.
Junior no longer had a fever and
had begun sitting outside during
the day and eating again, his face
brightening into a smile whenever he was greeted. Each day, he
looked better.
On the night of October 17, his
fifth at the center, Rancy moaned
and moaned. He was cleaned and
given a painkiller and a sedative
to help him sleep. He was bleeding
from his eyes, nose and mouth. His
sister and a cousin had been admitted, but they were too sick to offer
comfort.
Rancy, whose stepfather said
he loved dancing and soccer and
wanted to be a civil engineer, died
before sunrise.
That morning, after more than
two weeks at the center, Junior was
discharged to live with his aunt and
uncle, Ebola no longer detectable
in his blood. He smiled broadly and
said he had not been afraid until
people around him began to die.
Williams was still a patient when
Junior left. His father, George Beyan, had been discharged the same
day Williams tested positive for
Ebola, and aid workers encouraged him to help care for his son.
Mr. Beyan sat Williams up, encouraged him to eat and drink, asked
staff members for extra juice, and
even walked him outside. The
father held him close overnight,
wrapped in the same blanket. Mr.
Beyan would tell anyone who asked
that his son was doing better, little
by little. Small, small, he would
say in Liberian English. The doctors wanted to believe it, too, even
as Williams ran high fevers and
had continuing diarrhea.
After all, Juniors survival had
surprised them, and so had Mr.
Beyans.
Williams began crying one
evening, after having had a fever
that day. He had just been outside
watching a movie. Then he was
gone.
My little boy, Mr. Beyan
sobbed, inconsolable.
MANILA BULLETIN
WORLD TRENDS
A towers
crown in
Valls; far
right, a
contest in
Tarragona.
ARNAU BACH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Human Towers Stand

For Catalonia Statehood
By RAPHAEL MINDER
VALLS, Spain It took the child

about a minute to scramble up the
wobbly human tower, more than
three stories tall. He paused for a
few seconds, to steady himself, before raising his hand to thunderous
applause from the crowds packed
into this towns main square.
The spectacle was part of a festival in October in Valls, the birthplace of the castells, as the human
towers are called in Catalan, a tradition established here in 1801 and
developed out of a folkloric dance.
Since then, the castells have become only taller risking collapse
as they employ as many as 600 people who interweave arms and bodies, sometimes in nine or 10 tiers of
participants. Recently, they have

taken on new significance as Catalonia presses to break away from
Spain.
During the festival, the walls and
balconies of the main square were
covered with Catalan flags and
banners urging residents to vote
for secession. In a straw poll on November 9, Catalans overwhelmingly supported secession, with 80.7
percent of the votes cast in favor of
independence.
In June, as part of a day of secessionist demonstrations, castells
were erected by Catalans in cities
in Europe, including Berlin, Rome,
Brussels and Paris.
Some politicians have seized on
the castell as a metaphor for their
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state-building ambitions. Great

structures can be built if people are
united in pursuit of a clear goal,
said Jordi Agrs Estalella, a regional culture official.
The castells are fiercely competitive affairs and the largest tournament takes place every two years
in Tarragona, inside a bullfighting
ring.
To build a castell, the biggest and
strongest participants clutch each
A Police Chief Strikes Fear Into Taliban

By DECLAN WALSH
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan
Lieutenant General Abdul Raziqs
boyish looks and hesitant smile belie his reputation as a man of courage and cruelty: the tough guy who
kept the Taliban out of Kandahar.
I dont think people fear me,
said the police chief of Kandahar
Province, speaking at his tightly
guarded home as three giggling
children swarmed him. At least I
dont want them to fear me.
Yet fear is a word associated
with General Raziq, 37, who has, by
most reckonings, become the most
powerful man in southern Afghanistan and one of the richest. Since
taking control of security in Kandahar three years ago, he has imposed an uneasy peace on this onetime Taliban citadel insurgent
attacks have fallen by two-thirds,
Zia ur-Rehman contributed
reporting from Pakistan.
according to estimates. His name

prompts dread among the Taliban,
experts say.
But those gains have been sullied
by accounts of human rights abuses by his security forces.
Now, as American troops depart
Kandahar, the dilemma of how to
handle General Raziq has been
inherited by Afghanistans new
president, Ashraf Ghani, who has
vowed to dismantle the fiefs of regional strongmen.
The presidents advisers have
told him that its time to rein in
Raziq, said Graeme Smith, a senior analyst with the International
Crisis Group, a nonprofit research
group. But that could be difficult,
practically speaking, because the
president also needs Raziq to keep
the peace.
General Raziq rose to prominence after 2001 as the police chief
of Spinbaldak, a border town nearly 100 kilometers south of Kanda-
har, and quickly built a reputation

as a ruthless anti-Taliban operator.
He also exerted a tight grip on the
lucrative cross-border trade in an
area rife with drug smuggling, Afghan elders and Western officials
say, giving him personal wealth of
at least tens of millions of dollars.
And he used his powers to pursue old vendettas against tribal
rivals most notoriously in March
2006, when 16 people were killed
near Spinbaldak and their bodies
dumped in the desert.
But powerful allies sheltered him
from scrutiny. In 2007, President
Hamid Karzai blocked Western
efforts to have General Raziq fired
over human rights concerns.
Raziq is the god, the prophet,
the governor and the president
here in Kandahar, said Gul Agha
Shirzai, a former governor and
Raziq ally. Hes the king.
But General Raziq also faces accusations that his harsh tactics are
other to form the pinya, or base, on

top of which others climb to raise
the actual tower. As the tower rises,
the participants shrink in size until
only one child climbs to the apex of
the tower and raises a hand.
Some members of the Colla Vella,
the oldest team in Valls, said they
joined as children because their
family took part since the 19th
century. One change has been the
inclusion of female participants,
particularly among the youngest
climbers.
The official slogan of the castells
is fora, equilibri, valor i seny
strength, balance, courage and
common sense.
Castells were recognized as an
intangible cultural heritage of humanity by Unesco in 2010, at the

same time as flamenco, the dance
of southern Spain.
While there have been few fatalities, injuries sometimes occur.
Now the children who climb to the
top wear helmets.
After watching the competition
from the balcony of his town hall,
Albert Batet, the mayor of Valls,
said he was also hopeful about
Catalonias progress toward statehood, drawing a comparison between the values required to create
a nation and a human tower.
Both are proof that we can build
great things if we come together,
Mr. Batet said.
Lieutenant General
Abdul Raziq has
checked the insurgents
while being accused of
human rights abuses,
presenting Afghanistans
new president with a
dilemma.
tions are an irksome diversion from his focus on PakiDECLAN WALSH/THE NEW YORK TIMES
stan, an enemy he accuses
of feeding the insurgency from bashelping to stoke the insurgency. A
United Nations human rights rees across the border in Baluchistan
Province. The Taliban and some
port published last year stated that
Pakistani officials blame the police
81 people had disappeared in the
chief for the killings of pro-Taliban
custody of the Kandahar police in
clerics in Baluchistan last year.
a year.
To the Taliban, General Raziq
Rights groups have collected
is a prized target. A scarlet rash
evidence of secret prisons where
on his right hand is the mark of a
detainees have been electrocuted,
Taliban suicide attack that nearly
beaten with cables or subjected to
killed him two years ago. In July,
execution. Health workers in Kanduring the Islamic festival Eid aldahar have reported receiving the
Fitr, bombers struck at his home.
bodies of former police detainees
I dont care how many times
with smashed faces and drill marks
they try to kill me, he said. I will
in their skulls.
never compromise.
To General Raziq, such accusa-
MANILA BULLETIN
WORLD TRENDS
Leader Pulls Hungary

Toward Putins Russia
By RICK LYMAN
and ALISON SMALE
BUDAPEST A quarter-century ago, as Hungary helped ignite

the events that would lead to the
collapse of communism, the ferment produced a new political star.
Viktor Orba n
was 26 then and
a longhaired law
graduate. In June
1989, five months
before the Berlin
Wall came down,
he lit up a commemoration of the
Viktor
failed 1956 revolt
Orban
against Moscow
with a bold call for
free elections and a demand that
80,000 Soviet troops go home.
Now Hungary is a member of
NATO and the European Union and
Mr. Orban is in his third term as
prime minister. But what was once
a journey that might have embodied the triumph of democratic capitalism has evolved into a complex
tale of a country and a leader who
have come to question Western values, foment nationalism and look at
Russia as a model.
After leading his right-wing party to a series of election victories,
Mr. Orban is centralizing power,
raising a crop of crony oligarchs,
cracking down on dissent, expanding ties with Moscow and generally
drawing uneasy comparisons from
Western leaders and internal opponents to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

He is the only Putinist governing in the European Union, said
Joschka Fischer, the former German foreign minister.
Some other Eastern European
countries, especially Poland, have
remained oriented toward the West
and still harbor deep suspicions of
Russia.
But Hungary is one of several countries in the former Soviet
sphere that are now torn between
the Western ways that appeared
ascendant immediately after the
fall of the Soviet Union and the resilient clout of todays Russia. Money, culture and energy resources
still bind most regional countries
to Russia as tightly as to Europe.
Mr. Putins combative nationalism
is more popular here than what
many see as Western democratic
sclerosis.
In a speech this summer, Mr. Orban declared liberal democracy to
be in decline and praised authoritarian illiberal democracies in
Turkey, China, Singapore and Russia.
He traced his views to what he
portrayed as the failures of Western governments to anticipate and
deal adequately with the financial
crisis. He called that period the
fourth great shock of the past century the others being World War
AKOS STILLER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Hungary has cracked down on dissent, but a recent protest against an Internet tax was allowed.
I, World War II and the end of the
Cold War and the impetus for
what he called todays key struggle: a race to invent a state that
is most capable of making a nation
successful.
Hungary, Mr. Orban said, will
build a new Hungarian state that
will be competitive in the great
global race for decades to come.
Achieving that vision will require
tougher stances toward outside
forces, including nongovernmental
organizations, the European Union
and foreign lenders and investors,
he said.
Until 2008, Mr. Orban was a critic of Mr. Putin. But the two have
grown friendly, with Russia investing heavily in Hungary.
The grand center of Budapest,
with its tourist-choked streets, betrays little sense of authoritarian

unease. Yet behind the designer
boutiques, young and struggling
artists worry about when their
state financing might be cut off if
they fail to hit the proper note, and
government watchdog groups suffer attacks in the state-controlled
media while waiting anxiously for
the arrival of investigators.
In the west of Hungary, German
auto plants and other foreign investments create the semblance of
a Western European lifestyle. But
the feeling is quite different in the
rural east, where destitute families toil in one of Mr. Orbans public
works projects or languish in hopes
the economy will improve.
Even his harshest critics con-
cede that Mr. Orban has gone to nowhere near the lengths of Mr. Putin
in silencing opponents.
But some say that the government uses its financing to control
the arts and the news media.
And even some conservative
supporters are slightly wary of
the extent to which Mr. Orban has
packed the courts and the chief
prosecutors office with loyalists,
and altered the Constitution so his
party dominates.
He ran as someone who would
bring the two sides together in
Hungarian politics, said Balint
Ablonczy, domestic political editor
of the pro-government journal Heti
Valasz. But when he got in he said,
no, it is the time of the right, the
time for revenge on the left.
PARIS JOURNAL
Regular
visitors
to the
catacombs
under
Paris try
to keep
the tunnel
entrance a
secret. In
an artists
gallery.
In the Underbelly of the City of Light

By AURELIEN BREEDEN
PARIS On a recent evening, a

31-year-old street artist led a small
group through a dark tunnel off a
disused train track in the south of
Paris. After crouching, crawling
and sometimes wading through
water, using headlamps to light
their way, they finally arrived in
a chamber with vaulted ceilings
about three meters high.
A brewery once stored bottles
here, but it is now part of a network
of abandoned galleries below this
city where a secretive community
of street artists, history buffs and
Parisians prowls. They are called
cataphiles: lovers of the catacombs, as the network is known.
Some seek quiet, others an
unusual canvas for their art, still
others a place to party with friends
more cheaply than in the bars
above. Many cherish the secrecy
and exclusivity.
My creations have a lot more
value here, because they are intended for a limited audience that
deserves to see them, said the
artist who led the group and went
by the name Nobad. They went
through the trouble of coming
here.
Nobad stencils European paintings with a twist, like Gustave
Courbets Desperate Man in
glow-in-the-dark paint. But the
walls are covered with art, including paintings in the style of
Egyptian tomb murals, grimacing
black and orange devil faces, a
giant multicolored parrot and
graffiti. In one room, the walls are
encrusted with mirror shards, and
a glittering disco ball hangs from
the ceiling.
The term catacombs designates only a small part of this vast
underground network, the fraction

where the remains of six million
Parisians were transferred in the
1780s from several of the citys
overflowing and unsanitary cemeteries. That ossuary is one of the
rare parts of the network legally
open to the public and has become
a tourist attraction.
But the bulk of the network
more than 270 kilometers of tunnels and other chambers has
been off-limits to legal passage
since 1955 and is a legacy of early
quarrying in Paris. That is where
the cataphiles roam.
Today, trespassers risk a 60-euro fine. Explorers could be hurt by
falling rocks, lose their bearings
in the dark maze, or drown in deep
wells.
Those familiar with the network
say that there is a core of about
100 regulars who venture under-
DMITRY KOSTYUKOV FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
ground each year.

Information on where to find
entrances to the underground is
still a fiercely kept secret. But the
overall spirit below is welcoming,
and many find a sense of community and equality. Throughout the
underground maze, cataphiles
have sparsely furnished several
chambers with stone benches and

tables to rest and socialize.
We are here for the same passion and we share the same things,
regardless of what we are above,
said Gaspard Duval, a cataphile
in his 40s who comes down several
times a week. No one cares about
your social class.
MANILA BULLETIN
MONEY & BUSINESS
Hollywood
Frets Over
Global Shifts
Mexicos Oil Industry

Starts to Look Deeper
By MICHAEL CIEPLY
SANTA MONICA, California

Twice in the last few months, there
was a faint knock on the door of
American supremacy in the global
film market.
In early September, a Chinese-language fantasy, The Monkey King, climbed to number 21
at the worldwide box office, with
$186.1 million in sales. A few weeks
later, a Chinese comedy, Breakup
Buddies, shot to number 22, with
$143.1 million in ticket sales.
As competitive threats go, that
isnt much. But it is enough to make
Hollywood fret.
United States companies and
their partners backed the top 20
performers at the world box office
every year for the last five. A rare
standout was Intouchables in
2012, from France, ranked 16th,
with $432.6 million in global sales,
just behind Universal Pictures
British-created Les Misrables,
with $442 million.
The years best performer is Paramount Pictures Transformers:
Age of Extinction, with about $1.1
U.S. supremacy in
the film business is
less than assured.
billion in world sales, much of that
in China. In all, markets outside the
United States accounted for roughly $25 billion of $35.9 billion in sales
last year, according to the Motion
Picture Association of America.
Still, Jonathan Wolf, managing
director of the American Film
Market, an annual production and
distribution convention, has been
watching what he calls a global
shift away from U.S. product over
the last 25 years.
Government subsidies for local
film have changed tastes in some
regions of the world, as has a new
generation of television-trained international filmmakers, Mr. Wolf
said.
Mr. Wolf has a sharp eye on China, where the annual box-office
take is second only to that in the
United States. Ticket sales there
are likely to exceed $5 billion this
year.
American companies have
looked to China for growth through
collaborative ventures. But Chinese viewers, with a nudge from
government policies to keep do-
ALEXANDER F. YUAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS; BELOW, WETA/20TH CENTURY FOX
The Chinese popularity of Transformers has made it the

worlds top hit. Fans waiting for the movies Beijing premiere.
mestic films on screen, have shown
an increasing tilt toward purely
Chinese movies.
According to Rentraks box-office tracking service, American
studio titles accounted for 39 percent of Chinese ticket sales in 2013,
down from 44 percent a year earlier.
Speaking in October, Rob Cain, a
producer and consultant with considerable experience in China, said
the American share was back to almost 44 percent.
China has yet to become a powerful exporter of film. To date, it
has been more like India, a prolific
producer whose wares are mostly viewed within its borders, and
among a vibrant diaspora around
the world. But powerful Chinese
companies like Dalian Wanda,
Fosun International and Le Vision
Pictures are looking for global inroads.
American films face a particularly serious challenge in Russia,
which ranked seventh among national markets last year and is rapidly growing: As new political tensions rise, some Russian officials
and others have discussed quotas
or even a ban on American films.
For major producers like QED
International or Red Granite Pictures, the loss of Russian sales
would be a blow because they have
increasingly relied on foreign buyers for the funds to make some major American films.
The studios seem to be in a
de-risking strategy, said Riza
Aziz, co-owner of Red Granite. He
spoke of increasing reluctance by
American studios to use their own
capital, relying instead on money
raised by others, often through foreign sales.
Films With Universal Appeal

The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Sony Pictures Entertainment

$202.9 million domestic
$506.1 million foreign
71.4% FOREIGN
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Paramount
77.3% FOREIGN
How to Train Your Dragon 2
DreamWorks Animation
and 20th Century Fox
71.3% FOREIGN
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
20th Century Fox

70.3% FOREIGN
Rena Ronson, who handles film
finance and other issues for Hollywoods United Talent Agency, said
the world market remains vibrant
but increasingly demands that almost everything genre, star, story, distribution plan be perfectly
aligned.
Ms. Ronson said, You have to
tick all the boxes.
By ELISABETH MALKIN
ment, a job made possible by generous discoveries in the shallow
LA MURALLA IV, Gulf of
waters of the southern gulf in the
Mexico The computer screens
1970s. The result was that Pemex
in the control room on this giant
suffered losses and never investfloating platform monitor presed for the future. Closed off from
sure levels in a narrow shaft cut
the global industry, it fell behind
through bedrock to a reservoir
the energy giants.
of natural gas five kilometers
Since the peak in 2004, Mexbelow.
ican crude oil production has
For six months, an internationfallen by about a million barrels
al team hired by a contractor for
a day to an expected 2.35 million
Petrleos Mexicanos, or Pemex,
barrels a day this year.
Mexicos state-owned oil monopAnd Pemex has neither the fioly, has been drilling an explornancial capital nor the expertise
atory well here. Now, the work is
to produce oil and gas from its
nearly done.
complex deepwater reserves.
An operation like this would atMr. Lozoyas priority for deep
tract little attention in the northwater next year is to attract partern part of the gulf, where dozens
ners to begin production at two
of deepwater platforms are part
fields. Private investment in oil
of the mosaic fueling Americas
and gas production is forecast to
energy boom. On the Mexican
side, though, the
search is just beginning.
Pemex is counting on a future in
deepwater production. But after eight
years of exploratory drilling, it is still
years away from
producing the first
barrel of oil in deep
waters. Before it
ADRIANA ZEHBRAUSKAS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
can, Pemex must
Mexico is years away from extracting oil
shed its past as a
lumbering state mofrom deep water. A Pemex drilling rig.
nopoly and remake
itself as a streamrise steadily each year to reach
lined company ready to compete
about $27 billion by 2020.
on a world stage.
But Pemexs reputation for corThe real large fields, the maruption is one of investors main
terial opportunities for Pemex,
concerns, said Deborah Byers, a
lie in deep water, Emilio Lozoya
managing partner at EY consultAustin, the companys chief exing in Houston, Texas.
ecutive, said. This is where our
Mexican prosecutors are inbiggest learning curve lies.
vestigating one of Pemexs largMr. Lozoyas ambitious plans
est contractors, the politically
are part of a sweeping overhaul of
connected marine services comMexicos energy sector intended
pany Oceanografa, over accusato increase flagging oil and gas
tions of a $400 million bank fraud
production. By ending Pemexs
scheme.
monopoly, the government hopes
To tighten control over Peto attract serious outside investmexs $40 billion contract operament for the first time since Mextions, Mr. Lozoya has centralized
ico kicked out foreign oil compathem in one department.
nies in 1938.
And Pemex has trouble manWithin a year, Mexicos reguaging its sprawling industrial
lator, the National Hydrocarbons
properties that bleed money and
Commission, will hold the counattention from the companys
trys first open auctions for oil
exploration and production diviand gas fields, including deepwasion. The company has lost $1.15
ter regions in the Gulf of Mexico.
billion this year to criminals tapPemex will not have any speping into its pipelines.
cial privileges at all, said Juan
Mr. Lozoya argues that Pemex
Carlos Zepeda, the president of
has taken the most important
the hydrocarbons commission.
step in a turnaround. We have
The change will not be easy for
stopped talking about barrels,
Pemex, long run as an arm of the
he said. We only talk about U.S.
government. The companys task
dollars and pesos now. Its not
has been to pump oil and provide
about volumes. Its about value.
cash for the Mexican govern-
10
MANILA BULLETIN
MONEY & BUSINESS
Investors Lining Up
For African Bonds
By DANNY HAKIM
Five men in business suits gathered before Maria Kiwanuka in a

semicircle. They were international bankers and they had a pitch to
make.
Ms. Kiwanuka, the finance minister of Uganda, sat on a riser, her
bright pink and gold dress a sharp
contrast to the mens suits.
Bankers are jockeying for the
next sovereign debt deal in Africa,
a continent that foreign investors
have long been wary of for its economic woes, rampant poverty and
political instability. Now those con-
Bankers decide
sovereign debt is
worth the risk.
cerns are easing, and one sub-Saharan nation after another is jumping into the debt market.
The Ebola outbreak, which is ravaging West Africa, could cost $33
billion, the World Bank estimated.
But the sovereign debt market is
booming, with sub-Saharan African countries raising nearly $7
billion so far this year, more than in
all of 2013, according to Dealogic, a
market research firm.
The yields on many of the new
bonds in Ghana, Kenya and Nige-
ria have dipped even as the Ebola

crisis has intensified. That means
that the markets outlook for those
countries has improved.
The pitch to Ms. Kiwanuka took
place at the London office of Standard Bank, based in Johannesburg,
during an African investment conference the lender hosted this summer. A few days before, the bank
was one of three to manage Kenyas
$2 billion debut in the sovereign
debt market. Now, it wanted to do
the same for Uganda.
I dont see the sovereign bond as
the end of the story, Ms. Kiwanuka said. Its just a tool to get things
sorted.
Uganda could use the money for
power plants, rail lines, roads or
similar projects. Countries around
the continent are generally using
proceeds from the bond sales to improve infrastructure, restructure
debt and finance deficits. Rwanda
is finishing a convention center and
building a new hydropower plant.
Kenya is expanding its ports and
railway system.
African nations have been borrowing in a variety of ways over the
years, issuing bonds on their domestic market and taking out loans
directly from foreign banks.
But they have also been known in
the West for their inability to repay
debts because of wars, political upheaval and economic tumult.
Sovereign bonds, which are
typically denominated in dollars,
can be a far cheaper way to raise
BEN CURTIS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kigali, Rwanda, is finishing the construction of a civic center, above, and hydropower plant.
money than local lending rates,
though they are more expensive
than direct aid or low-rate loans
from government aid groups,
which often come with oversight
requirements. Before 2006, only
South Africa had issued a sovereign bond. Now more than a dozen
sub-Saharan countries have tested the market.
It shows the opening up of Africa to private capital, said Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu of the Central
Bank of Nigeria. From the point
of view of the young man sitting at
a hedge fund in London, its a new
frontier, he said.
There are risks. Countries can
lose any cost advantage if their own
currency weakens. And investors
can go cold on regions.
The appeal to investors is clear.

The yields on sub-Saharan debt
can be more than three times as
high as those on United States
Treasury securities.
But investors also face risks. Many sub-Saharan countries have a
history of fragile institutions and
corruption, and some countries
have defaulted on other forms
of debt. Nigeria, Africas largest
economy, restructured its debt four
times from 1986 to 2000 but defaulted on the agreements nonetheless,
according to its debt management
office.
My belief is always that youre a
successful participant in the international capital markets not when
youve issued your first bond, but
when youve repaid it, said Moritz
Kraemer at Standard & Poors.

Mark Roland Thomas, an economist at the World Bank, said the
trend does say something genuine and true about the progress
Africa has made in the last couple
of decades.
But he added: Does it create
more challenges and does it mean
that macroeconomic management
has become more complicated?
Does it mean that relatively small
economies are now more exposed
to international economic conditions? Yes, and our clients are
aware of that.
Uganda, though, is remaining on
the sidelines, at least for now. Our
debt service is still below 10 percent
of our total budget, Ms. Kiwanuka
said. We dont want it to spiral.
An E-Book Fictional World Mingles Love and Product Placement

By ALEXANDRA ALTER
The heroine of Find Me Im

Yours, a new novel by Hillary
Carlip, is a young woman named
Mags who is searching for love in
Los Angeles. But it also has another
protagonist: SweetN Low.
The artificial sweetener appears
several times in the 356-page story,
in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.
In one scene, Mags gets teased for
putting SweetN Low in her coffee.
Hellooo, isnt it bad for you? the
friend asks. Mags replies that she
has researched the claims online
and found studies showing that the
product is safe: They fed lab rats
twenty-five hundred packets of
SweetN Low a day ... And still the
F.D.A. or E.P.A., or whatevs agency, couldnt connect the dots from
any kind of cancer in humans to my
party in a packet.
The scene was brought to you by
J. EMILIO FLORES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Hillary Carlip, left, and

Maxine Lapiduss founded
Storyverse Studios together.
the Cumberland Packing Corporation, the Brooklyn-based company
that makes SweetN Low. It invested about $1.3 million in Find Me
Im Yours.
The book is not like most. Its an
e-book, a series of websites and

web shows, and a vehicle for sponsored content. And if it succeeds, it
could usher in a new business model for publishers, one that blurs the
lines between art and commerce.
RosettaBooks publishes Find
Me Im Yours through the major
digital retail channels. But it is also marketing the $6.99 e-book with
cards that readers can use to download it. Since publishers can print
different batches, a company could
buy 10,000 cards to give away, with
brand-specific sponsored content.
And because the cards are marked
with individual download codes,
they offer access to information on
how readers engage with the book.
Find Me Im Yours, a romantic
comedy, centers on Mags, a quirky,
struggling artist in Los Angeles
who discovers her boyfriend cheated on her. When she finds a video-
Romantic comedy
mixed with other
sweet stuff.
taped message from a handsome
stranger, she is convinced they are
soul mates and sets out to find him.
To flesh out the fictional world,
Ms. Carlip built 33 websites that
connect to the story line. As readers progress through the story,
they can click on Bridalville, the
website where Mags works, and
read articles, or visit Freak4mypet.
com, a site where Magss ex-boyfriend posts photos of her dogs (and
where readers can post their own
pets). The sites are intended to host
sponsored content a pet food
company might sponsor a series on

Freak4mypet, for example.
Find Me Im Yours has taken
three years and $400,000 to develop. It is the first project to come
out of Storyverse Studios, an entertainment company Ms. Carlip
co-founded with Maxine Lapiduss,
a TV producer and writer.
Steven Eisenstadt, the president
and chief executive of Cumberland
Packing, said he saw Find Me Im
Yours as a way to reach younger
female consumers and to combat
latent myths about the health
risks associated with artificial
sweeteners.
It seemed like a more modern
version of product placement on
TV, he said. Theyre cleverly and
carefully having a product written
into the story, but doing it in a way
that didnt tarnish the integrity of
the piece.
MANILA BULLETIN
11
New Thoughts on Math

Of Effective Baby Talk
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA
It has been nearly 20 years

since a landmark education study
found that, by age 3, children
from low-income families have
heard 30 million fewer words
than more affluent children,
putting them at an educational
disadvantage before they have
begun school.
Now, a growing body of research is challenging the notion
that merely exposing poor children to more language is enough
to overcome the deficits they face.
The quality of the communication between children and their
parents and caregivers, the researchers say, is of much greater
importance than the number of
words a child hears.
A study presented last month
at a White House conference on
bridging the word gap found
that among 2-year-olds from
low-income families, quality interactions involving words the
use of shared symbols (Look, a
How, not how often,

you speak to a child
may matter most.
tors of language ability at age 2.

The total number of words had no
correlation with future ability.
Even the 1995 study that introduced the notion of the 30-million-word gap, conducted by the
University of Kansas psychologists Betty Hart and Todd R.
Risley, found that parental tone,
responsiveness and use of symbols affected a childs I.Q. and
vocabulary.
But this years studies are the
first time researchers have compared the impact of word quantity with quality of communication.
For the new study, Dr. HirshPasek and colleagues selected
60 low-income 3-year-olds with
varying degrees of
language proficiency from a long-term
study of 1,300 children
from birth to age 15.
The quality of communication accounted for 27 percent of
variation in expressive language skills
one year later, Dr.
Hirsh-Pasek said.
But those who urge
parents
to talk to
KATHERINE TAYLOR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
their children more
Simply exposing poor children to more
say increased quanwords is not enough to overcome the
tity of language inevdeficits they face, studies have shown.
itably leads to better
quality.
Anne Fernald, a
developmental psychologist at
dog!); rituals (Want a bottle
Stanford University in Califorafter your bath?); and convernia, said, When you learn to talk
sational fluency (Yes, that is a
more, you tend to speak in more
bus!) were a far better predicdiverse ways and elaborate more,
tor of language skills at age 3 than
and that helps the childs cogniany other factor.
tive development.
Its not just about shoving
Still, Ann OLeary, director of
words in, said Kathryn HirshToo Small to Fail, a joint effort of
Pasek, a professor of psychology
the nonprofit Next Generation
at Temple University in Philadeland the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea
phia and lead author of the study.
Clinton Foundation that focuses
Its about having these fluid conon closing the word gap, acknowlversations around shared rituals
edged that messages to parents
and objects, like pretending to
could do more to emphasize qualhave morning coffee together or
ity.
using the banana as a phone.
When were doing these camIn a related finding, published
paigns to close the word gap, they
in April, researchers who obdo capture the imagination, they
served 11- and 14-month-old childo get people understanding
dren in their homes found that the
that we do need to do a lot more
prevalence of one-on-one intertalking, she said. But we also
actions and frequent use of parneed to be more mindful that part
entese the slow, high-pitched
of what we need to do is model
voice commonly used for talking
what that talking looks like.
to babies were reliable predic-
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In Space Ventures, Great Risks

By JAD MOUAWAD
Space travel has long been the

preserve of governments and science fiction fans, but recent commercial ventures, often backed by
billionaire entrepreneurs, have
been seeking to get into the race.
Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder,
set up Blue Origin to lower the cost
of space technology; Elon Musk
founded SpaceX with the aim of going to Mars one day; and Richard
Branson started the space tourism
company Virgin Galactic. But two
recent accidents involving commercial rockets have underscored
the high risks and soaring costs involved in any spaceflight.
On October 31, a Virgin Galactic space plane exploded during a
test flight over the Mojave Desert
in California, killing one pilot and
injuring another. Days earlier, an
Orbital Sciences rocket carrying a
supply vessel to the International
Space Station blew up seconds after it was launched from a Virginia
island.
The engineering and physics
of space tend to be unforgiving,
no matter who is doing this, said
Scott Pace, a former assistant administrator at NASA, the American space agency.
The common thread between
these new space initiatives is that
they all are looking for ways to
sharply cut the cost of spaceflight.
Without that, analysts say, there
is no realistic prospect of making spaceflights both routine and
affordable in the future. After pioneering space exploration and
landing on the moon, NASA has
had to adapt to tighter budgets and
redefine its mission. Today, one of
its main goals is to encourage and
fund the development of commercial space entities.
Kenneth Chang contributed
reporting.
JOEL KOWSKY/NASA, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
In October, an Orbital
Sciences rocket exploded
and Virgin Galactics
SpaceShipTwo, top, crashed.
Orbital Sciences is operating under a $1.9 billion contract from NASA to deliver cargo to the space station. SpaceX was recently awarded $2.4 billion by NASA to build a
transportation system for astronauts within the next three years.
SpaceX was also the recipient of
an earlier $1.4 billion contract to
deliver cargo to the space station.
Boeing also won a NASA contract
for $4.6 billion to build a spacecraft
capable of flying astronauts to the
space station.
SpaceX and Orbital Sciences
have sought to reduce costs in different ways. Orbitals rockets use
a pair of refurbished engines built
in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and
1970s.
SpaceX, by contrast, builds its
engines for its Falcon 9 rocket and
aims to reduce costs, in the long
term, by reusing the rocket.
NASA is looking for cheaper

access to space, said Marco A. Caceres, a space analyst at the Teal
Group, a consulting firm in Virginia. The trouble, he said, is that
reliability and price are often tied
together. It may be unreasonable
to expect to pay under a certain
amount to get a reliable vehicle,
he said.
Virgin Galactic is an exception
to the model of government-funded
launchers. The company has been
working on an experimental vessel
to take paying passengers to the
edge of space and back.
The craft, called SpaceShipTwo,
was designed to be launched from
a plane, then rocket up to about 100
kilometers, an altitude considered
the boundary of outer space.
At the top of the ascent, two tail
booms would rotate upward into a
position intended to create more
drag and stability, and allow the
plane to descend gently back into
the atmosphere. Accident investigators said that the plane had shifted early into this configuration for
reasons that are unclear.
Mr. Caceres said the new space
entrepreneurs were good at creating excitement about their ventures.
Before the latest accident, about
700 people had reserved seats on
Virgin Galactic, with tickets costing $250,000 each.
You are talking about a brand
new era of space, Mr. Caceres
said. You have personalities like
Richard Branson and Elon Musk
and Jeff Bezos, who are not engineers. These are different kinds of
people and they can generate a lot
of excitement and capital investors
who are willing to give you a lot of
money.
However, he added, the downside is that if you have problems,
you have all this attention focused
on you.
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MANILA BULLETIN
Complexity Explained,
Through Absurdity
By KENNETH CHANG
While giving a physics talk for

high school students five years ago
at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Randall Munroe could
tell that his audience was, in his
words, not totally with me.
He was trying to explain potential energy and power not complex concepts, but abstruse.
So, in the middle of his three-hour
presentation, Mr. Munroe, who is
best known as the creator of the
web comic xkcd, switched gears to
Star Wars.
I thought about the scene in
Outlandish physics
from the creator
of a web comic.
The Empire Strikes Back when
Yoda lifts the X-wing out of the
swamp, he said. It occurred to me
as I was lecturing.
Instead of abstract definitions
(an object lifted upward gains potential energy because it will accelerate if dropped; power is the rate
of change in energy), Mr. Munroe
asked a question: How much Force
power can Yoda output?
And so I did a rough version
of the calculation on the fly in the
classroom, looking up the craft dimensions and measuring things in

the scene on the projector in front of
them, Mr. Munroe said. They all
perked up.
For most people, physics is not
interesting in itself. The tools are
only fun when the thing youre using them on is interesting, he said.
The students started asking other questions. What about the end
of The Lord of the Rings when
Saurons eye explodes? How much
energy is that?
The experience inspired Mr.
Munroe to start soliciting similar
questions from his xkcd readers.
Mr. Munroe has now collected
that work, including a version of his
Yoda calculations and new material, into a book, What If? which
has been on the nonfiction best-seller list since it was published in September.
As its cover asserts, the book is
full of serious scientific answers
to absurd hypothetical questions.
It exercises your imagination,
and his dry wit is charming, said
William Sanford Nye, better known
as Bill Nye the Science Guy. He
does, for lack of a better term, absurd scenarios, but theyre very
instructive.
What would happen if you tried to
hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent
the speed of light? (The answer
turns out to be a lot of things, Mr.
Munroe writes, and they all happen very quickly, and it doesnt end
RANDALL MUNROE/HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
well for the batter [or the pitcher].)

If every person aimed a laser pointer at the moon at the same time,
would it change color? (Not if we
used regular laser pointers.) How
long could a nuclear submarine last
in orbit? (The submarine would be
fine, but the crew would be in trouble.)
The explanations are accompanied by the same stick-figure drawings and nerdy wit that made xkcd
popular. (What does xkcd mean?
The comics website explains, Its
just a word with no phonetic pronunciation.)
While a physics major at Christopher Newport University in Virginia, Mr. Munroe started working
as an independent contractor on a
robotics project at the nearby NASA Langley Research Center, and
he continued after graduating.
During that time, he started scanning his doodles and posting them
on the web.
By mutual decision, the NASA
contract ended in 2006. Mr. Munroe

became a full-time cartoonist and
moved to the Boston area, because,
he said, he wanted a bigger city
with geekier things to do. In 2012,
he added the What If? feature to
the website.
Now, he said, he receives thousands of questions a week. Many
are obviously students looking for
help with homework. Others can be
answered simply: No.
One of them was Is there any
commercial scuba diving equipment that would allow you to survive under molten lava? Mr.
Munroe said. No, theres not.
As a child, Mr. Munroe also
asked questions. In the books introduction, he recounts wondering
if there were more hard things or
soft things in the world. The conversation made such an impression on his mother that she wrote it
down and saved it.
They say there are no stupid
questions, Mr. Munroe, now 30,
writes. Thats obviously wrong; I

think my question about hard and
soft things, for example, is pretty
stupid.
But it turns out that trying to
thoroughly answer a stupid question can take you to some pretty
interesting places.
One of his favorite replies, which
ends the book, comes in response to
this: What if a Richter magnitude
15 earthquake were to hit America?
The short answer is that it would
destroy the planet. Thats not all
that interesting, Mr. Munroe said.
But each step downward in the
scale means the amount of energy released diminishes a factor by
one thirty-second. A magnitude of
minus 15, he calculated, would be a
mote of dust landing on a table.
After so many questions involving death and destruction, Mr.
Munroe said, Its nice to leave the
world alone for once and leave it
quiet.
Tracking Baby Turtles Frenzies as They Swim for the Open Ocean
By JAMES GORMAN
When loggerhead turtles hatch

on the beach of Boavista, the easternmost of the Cape Verde Islands,
they head for the water to begin
what biologists call a swimming
frenzy.
The beach and coastal waters are
full of predators, and the babies are
tasty and defenseless. They need to
reach ocean currents as quickly as
they can, to be carried to less dangerous waters.
This is the pattern of baby sea
turtles in general, and scientists
have had a good idea of what currents they ride. But they havent
had a reliable way to track the turtles swims and see exactly how
they manage their first hours.
With the help of a nano-tag, a
miniature acoustic device that
weighs about half a gram, Rebecca
Scott and several colleagues for the
first time got detailed records of the
early hours of turtles lives, information that adds to understanding

of this internationally endangered
species.
We were able to track newly
hatched turtles from the beach to
the open ocean, said Dr. Scott of
the Geomar Helmholtz Center for
Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany.
Weve always known theyve been
swept away by ocean currents, but
this is the first time weve been in
the sea with them.
She attached the tiny transmitters to 11 hatchlings on Boavista.
The devices were developed by Vemco, a company in Nova Scotia, primarily for tracking salmon smolts.
Researchers then followed the
baby turtles in a boat for as long as
eight hours, listening to the pings
sent by the transmitters. The turtles swam as far as 14 kilometers to
reach the open ocean.
The scientists used the boat to
REBECCA SCOTT
Scientists followed the pings

emitted by acoustic devices
attached to baby turtles.
scare away predators, and 10 of the
hatchlings survived more than
would be expected to make it without such intervention.
Its very labor intensive, Dr.
Scott said. The seas were very
rough, and we had a very old fishing boat.
Dr. Scott said that the use of such

tags could lead to a better understanding of how the young behave
after they hatch, which can be
matched with recent work that relies on computer models of ocean
currents to track where they go.
Of the seven species of sea turtle,
six are threatened or endangered,
so there is a need to understand
their behavior and migrations.
Dr. Scott and her colleagues also
ran an experiment with hatchlings
swimming for about a week in a
pool on Boavista. The babies wore
tiny Lycra harnesses attached by
monofilament line to a device that
registered when they were swimming.
The initial swimming frenzy
stayed constant for 24 hours. It
declined strongly the night of the
second day. And after that, the
hatchlings slept at night and did
not swim.
Transmitters show
how endangered
hatchlings scramble.
Loggerhead hatchlings in a similar pool experiment conducted by
other researchers in Florida, where
they would have much farther to
swim to reach ocean currents, did
not stop swimming at night, she
said. They are born knowing what
they should do.
Dr. Scott reported the work in the
Proceedings of the Royal Society
B: Biological Sciences, with other
scientists from the ocean research
center in Kiel and from the Turtle
Foundation on Boavista, and with
Christophe Eizaguirre of Queen
Mary University of London.
MANILA BULLETIN
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H E A LT H & F I T N E S S
Surfaces and Seatmates

Harbor In-Flight Germs
By MARTHA C. WHITE
In the battle against in-flight

germs, Arlene Sheff, a consultant
for Boeing, wears a personal air
purifier around her neck. Over
the years, she has burned out
several of the devices.
I am concerned about the air
in the airplane, she said. I dont
know if it exactly prevents you
from getting germs, but I wear it
as a precaution.
With flu season upon us, not to
mention the reports of Ebolas
spread, passengers might find
themselves wondering if they are
effectively floating in a petri dish
at 12,000 meters.
The answer, medical experts
say, is for the most part no,
though there are some common-sense measures travelers
can take. The biggest risk is not
On an airplane, the
risk is not in the air
passengers breathe.
in the air passengers breathe, but
in the surfaces they touch.
Garth Ehrlich, a professor of
microbiology and immunology
at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said a little hand sanitizer
could go a long way. Surfaces
can get contaminated, he said.
It generally tends to be surfaces
that are touched by people with
their hands, like tray tables and
buttons on the armrests.
In experiments using real aircraft seat components, researchers at Auburn University in Alabama replicated the temperature
and humidity of a plane cabin inflight and found that MRSA and
E. coli bacteria can live for days
on these surfaces.
The bacteria were more easily transferred from nonporous
surfaces like plastic tray tables
and metal toilet flush buttons, but

lived longer on porous surfaces
like seats.
Nonporous surfaces are easier
to clean, said James M. Barbaree,
the microbiologist who directed
the study. On porous materials,
theyre hard to get to. One of the
main places we saw survival was
the pocket cloth on the back of the
chair. MRSA lived for a week on
the seat-back pocket, and E. coli
survived on the armrest for four
days.
Although people often suspect
that the recirculated air they
breathe in the cabin spreads
germs, Richard Aboulafia, an
aviation analyst at the Teal
Group Corporation, said thats
not the case. Its nothing to do
with the aircraft or the way the
air is treated.
Air in a planes cabin is a mixture of compressed air drawn
in from outside and filtered, or
recirculated, air. It all goes
through HEPA filters, which are
really good at getting particles,
Mr. Aboulafia said. The objective is to filter out all particulate
matter, he added, since germs
can be transmitted by hitching a
ride on airborne particles.
Airlines say they have cleaning
protocols in place to prevent the
spread of pathogens. Experts say
a seatmate with a cold or other illness is a bigger risk than the armrest or tray table. For someone
with a normal immune system, I
would say that their risk is very
slight, Mr Ehrlich said.
For some travelers, the
germ-avoidance ritual begins
even before boarding the aircraft.
I save shower caps from hotel
rooms so my feet arent touching anybody elses germs that
have been on the ground, Kay
Leibowitz, owner of a stationery
store, who flies a few times a year.
I wipe off the seats, the headrest,
the armrest, the seatbelt, the tray
tables anything that anybody
else could have touched.
Flying
precautions
can include
cleaning
wipes and
helpful
or not
an air
purifier.
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KATHERINE STREETER
A Life Upended by a Tiny Stumble

By KATIE HAFNER
SAN FRANCISCO Joan Rees,

79, had hardly been ill a day in her
life. Her biggest problem was arthritis, mostly in her knees, but at
home in San Francisco she walked
every day and she traveled frequently.
But at dusk last November in Istanbul, on the final day of a cruise,
she missed a step and tripped.
When she couldnt stand up, she
knew something was terribly
wrong.
In that trivial act of misplacing
her foot and falling, she had fractured her pelvis in multiple places.
It was a complete shock, she said,
that I did something so destructive to my body.
Her life would change with cruel,
unanticipated swiftness.
Geriatricians generally agree
that some older people possess an
exaggerated sense of what they
can still do, even as hazards lie in
wait: staircases, throw rugs, slick
bathtubs, tree roots, their own pets.
And medications like hypertension
drugs and antidepressants, which
can cause dizziness, are increasingly the cause of falls.
Twenty-five percent of older people who fall and fracture a hip in
America die within a year. Eighty
percent are left with severe mobility problems, no longer able to walk
a city block. Those who die or become severely disabled after a hip
fracture are usually people who
were frail or sick or both before their fall, said Dr. Mary Tinetti, a geriatrician at the Yale School
of Medicine.
Mrs. Rees was a textbook case of
a serious injury waiting to happen.

Her risks included previous falls,
impaired balance and the arthritis
in her knees.
On a trip to London to visit her
daughter Barbara Rees in 2008,
she fell on the sidewalk just outside
her daughters apartment. She fell
twice after that, but each time, she
picked herself up without a scratch.
In hindsight, Barbara Rees, who
has since moved to San Francisco,
realizes that perhaps she should
have paid closer attention to her
mothers balance. Yet none of Mrs.
Reess children thought about suggesting to their mother that she
take preventive measures enroll in a balance class, for instance,
or avoid dehydration, which can
cause dizziness.
Balance is a complicated equation involving vision, muscle
strength, proprioception (the
bodys ability to know where it is
in space) and attention. As people
age, those elements deteriorate.
Falls are a very difficult thing,
because its such a scary idea,
said Dr. Judy A. Stevens, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
People dont want to hear about it
and people affected dont want to
talk about it.
Word of Mrs. Reess accident in
Istanbul spread rapidly among her
friends back in San Francisco. The
reaction was one of sympathy, followed by a collective shiver. Desa
Belyea, a friend of Mrs. Reess who
is in her 80s, said she feared falling more than she feared getting
sick. It becomes your worst nightmare, said Cathy Fiorello, another
friend who is also an octogenarian.

Mrs. Rees, a retired schoolteacher and former owner of a bed-andbreakfast in New Jersey, moved
to San Francisco in 2006. Her husband had died 13 years earlier and
she wanted to be closer to her children, three of whom lived in California.
After her fall in Istanbul, she
went to stay with her son John and
his family in Saratoga, south of San
Francisco. But after three weeks
there she began to feel like a burden
and returned to her San Francisco
apartment.
The process from wheelchair
to walker to cane took months.
Once back in her own apartment,
Mrs. Rees soon felt isolated and
scared of falling again. For the first
time in her life, Mrs. Rees felt truly
old. She grew cranky, even bitter.
She was very, very hard on herself, which made her hard on others, her daughter Joanna Rees
said.
Six months after the accident,
with regular physical therapy,
Mrs. Rees had recovered remarkably well.
Nearly a year has passed since
her injury, and now Mrs. Rees considers herself nearly fully recovered. Her sunny outlook on life has
returned, and she is back to taking
lengthy walks.
Yet as her children see it, Mrs.
Reess tumble in Istanbul was a
defining event in her life, the moment when the roles of parent and
child began to reverse. Said her
daughter Joanna, This is Mom 3.0,
in terms of how things will go from
here.
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MANILA BULLETIN
H E A LT H & F I T N E S S
Smaller Ball Aims

To Make Soccer Safer
By CLAIRE MARTIN
CASSANDRA GIRALDO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Tamara Marrow, center wearing a cap, leading a Brukwine class based on hip gyrations.
In Heels, Sweating to a Sultry Swivel

By DANIEL KRIEGER
For those averse to working out

in gyms or who wouldnt go for a
jog if they were paid to, there are
still enjoyable ways to get going
without feeling as if it were Exercise with a capital E. Thats what
three dozen women were after
when they attended a recent Jamaican-inspired dancehall fitness class at Ripley-Grier Studios
in Midtown Manhattan.
The class, called Brukwine,
is an invitation to women of all
shapes and sizes to shed their inhibitions and move with abandon.
Its geared toward those who may
steer clear of more traditional
types of exercise, and it offers a
spin on the sultry moves that accompany Jamaican-style dancehall music.
Brukwine is all about moving
the hips something that the
creators, Tamara Marrow, 35,
and Autavia Bailey, 34, know all
about. They have performed with
the dancehall star Sean Paul, pop
stars like Beyonc and Jennifer
Lopez, and others.
They started Brukwine in 2012
as a workout, first and foremost,
Ms. Marrow said.
In a long, dimly lit room, participants faced mirrors in rows.
Some were wearing Brukwine-emblazoned short shorts,
tops, leggings or hats. A trained
assistant known as a Brukwine Gyal guided them through
stretches. Then, after many of the
women put on pumps, platforms
and stilettos (sneakers are also
fine), a second Brukwine Gyal led

hip-isolation practice to Every
Gyal a Mine, by Demarco. Like
belly dancing, Brukwine involves
hip movements that call for lots of
muscle independence.
Ms. Bailey stepped to the front
in golden stilettos. She drew
cheers as she began demonstrating the routine of the day, which
she and Ms. Marrow choreographed for a song called Touch
You, by Konshens.
Ms. Bailey counted slowly as
the class followed along with her
Working out with

moves taken from a
Jamaican dancehall.
steps and the rhythmic hip gyrations called wines, which she
said were the basis of our whole
workout. The wines, varying in
speed, are performed with a circular flow punctuated by a complementary move called a tick,
a jerk of the hips resembling the
ticking motion of a clock.
Get that hip in it, she told the
class, which went through some
rounds before taking it from the
top with the music at a club-like
volume. Then Ms. Marrow, in
neon pink stilettos, walked the
class through the next piece in the
routine at an easygoing pace. It
included more steps, a neck and

body roll and a drop, in which
everyone squatted down and
sprang back up.
At the end of the 60-minute
class, the room steamy and bodies glistening, the group went
through it once more, followed by
loud cheers, laughter and excited
chatter.
Kadian Abrahams, a 25-yearold Jamaican lingerie designer
who lives in Midtown, recalled
how worn out she had been after
her first class a week earlier.
I was sore in places I didnt
know I could get sore, she said,
smiling. But that didnt stop her
from putting on her platform
boots and returning for more, as
much for the intensity of the fullbody workout as for the friendly
atmosphere. (Those with counters have said that the hourlong
Brukwine session can burn 1,000
calories.)
Devin Edwards, 33, an administrative assistant, said she had
been to almost every class for
more than a year and was in much
better shape as a result.
Gyms are boring this is
not, Ms. Edwards said. Its sexy
to work out in heels, she added,
and some say it makes the routine
more strenuous.
The Brukwine creators feel
strongly that there is a place for
sexiness in exercise.
We want women to feel confident about themselves, Ms.
Marrow said. Everyone can be
sexy.
At age 12 or 13, many soccer

players around the world graduate
from the soccer balls designed for
children to the larger ones used by
professionals. But when a Danish
youth soccer coach named Majken
Gilmartin watched her daughters
team make that transition in 2007,
she was alarmed by what she saw.
As soon as the girls started using the larger ball, Ms. Gilmartin
detected a difference in how they
played. They got fatigued, she
says. She worried that the ball
might increase their risk of injury.
I thought, Why are we training
with that size ball in this age? she
recalls. This is a ball that we play
with when we are adults. Why are
young girls playing with it?
Ms. Gilmartin knew some elite
female soccer players with persistent knee and ankle injuries.
She was also a lifelong soccer
player herself, with her own history of knee surgeries seven in
all, starting at age 16. She believed
that the balls were at least partly
to blame. So, in 2008, she decided
to develop a smaller, softer soccer
ball for girls and women. She now
sells the ball through Eir Soccer
(pronounced air), a nonprofit she
founded in Copenhagen.
The Eir ball, which is made in India and Pakistan using materials
from Korea and Japan, is 28 grams
to 85 grams lighter and up to four
centimeters smaller in girth than
a professional-size soccer ball. It
is also made of softer materials,
including foam on the inside that
provides extra bounce.
The Eir ball costs $58. High-quality balls used in soccer games, by
contrast, can range from about $35
to $160. So far, soccer clubs and individual players throughout Denmark have bought 16,000 Eir balls,
according to Ms. Gilmartin.
An expert who advised Ms.
Gilmartin on the design was Thomas Bull Andersen, an associate professor in the sport science department at the University of Aarhus in
Denmark. Mr. Andersen found that
womens more slender legs and ankles mean that they have to kick
a standard soccer ball at a higher
velocity, on average, than men to
make the same shot. The Eir balls
design adjusts for that difference.
The Eir ball also safeguards
against a type of danger that Ms.
Gilmartin was not aware of initially: concussions. For girls, soccer
poses the highest concussion risk
of any sport, says Dr. Robert Cantu,
clinical professor of neurology and
neurosurgery at the Boston University School of Medicine. Only a
small percentage of concussions
are caused by contact with the ball,

but some of those injuries could be
avoided with a ball like the Eir, he
says. He notes that a shift to softer
balls in youth baseball has resulted
in fewer head injuries in that sport.
Almost all sports have adapted to give female players the best
chance to succeed, Ms. Gilmartin
says.
She believes that ball size should
be determined by age and stature,
and that girls, boys, women and
smaller men would benefit from a
smaller, softer ball.
The Danish Football Association,
Denmarks governing body for
soccer, approved Eir balls for girls
and womens recreational games
four years ago. Ms. Gilmartin recently asked the group to make it
the standard ball for Danish women, and says she hopes that FIFA,
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Majken Gilmartin, a Danish

youth soccer coach, with the
smaller Eir Soccer ball.
the worldwide organization, will do
the same.
Brandi Chastain, who played
in the Womens Premier Soccer
League and is a former member of
the United States womens national team, agrees that boys and girls
would benefit from the Eir version: It just doesnt make sense,
she says, that youre having a
12-year-old use the same size ball
as a 6-foot-4-inch, 195-pound man
uses.
Changing ingrained attitudes is
a challenge. But according to Ms.
Chastain, the Eir ball has something working in its favor: Its faster.
It could be better for scoring
goals because it would be harder
for goalies to pick off, she says of
the ball, which she has tried out.
And I think most people, especially in American culture, feel that
soccer needs more goals.
MANILA BULLETIN
15
ARTS & DESIGN
Now Performing in a Video Game

By CHRIS SUELLENTROP
Francis Underwood, the devious

politician at the center of the Washington drama House of Cards,
regularly unwinds by playing video games in the dark. But thats just
acting. I cannot say that any more
bluntly, said Kevin Spacey, who
portrays Underwood. I have never played a game in my life.
But he has performed in one.
The new Call of Duty, developed
by Sledgehammer Games, and
published by Activision, stars Mr.
Spacey as Jonathan Irons, the villainous chief executive of a private
military contractor that amasses a
force so large and powerful that the
United Nations grants it a seat on
the Security Council.
Acting in video games is experiencing one of the biggest shifts in
the mediums short history, and
Mr. Spaceys performance in Call
of Duty a multibillion-dollar
first-person shooter series provides some of the clearest evidence
for how its changing.
For years, voice acting and
physical acting the movements
of a characters body were performed separately in video games,
sometimes by different people. An
actors voice would be recorded in a

booth, similar to how an animated
movie would capture voice work,
and then the characters physical
actions would be recorded on a set
using motion capture.
That process is outdated and
gone, said Michael Condrey, the
chief operating and development
officer for Sledgehammer Games.
Your voice and body move together in a very natural way. When
you separate and then reassemble
those elements, he said, the character that you see on screen can be
pretty creepy looking.
Performance capture, a technology that allows software to record
voice and body work at the same
time, is the new buzzword in video game acting. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare offers one of its
most sophisticated examples yet.
The lead actors in the game, including Mr. Spacey, worked for 10 days
on the same soundstage in Los
Angeles where James Cameron is
shooting his Avatar sequels.
Performance capture is an
emerging blend of the physical and
the digital in acting, very much like
what enabled Andy Serkis to play,
say, Gollum in Peter Jacksons
The Lord of the Rings movies.

Except in this case, Kevin Spacey
was animated to look just like Kevin Spacey, rather than a monster or
a magical creature.
Its really odd, Mr. Spacey said
of the process, which involves acting in an ensemble while surrounded by scores of tiny cameras.
No makeup, no hair, nothing,
he said. They put dots on your face.
Then you get into a kind of jumpsuit,
which is exceedingly unattractive.
A bunch of rubber-dot things all
over that. They make you go into a
room, and you have to do all kinds
of physical things. Mr. Spacey
stood up and performed a full squat.
Theyre making sure your body is
going to be actually captured. So
you have to do all these things, and
get your legs moving, incredibly
stupid things that you wouldnt do
in a yoga class.
Then they place helmets on the
actors and ask them to do a bunch
of facial gestures for a couple of
hours, capturing the extremes
of each persons face down to the
pores.
At last, its finally time to deliver
lines. And then youre in a completely empty studio, Mr. Spacey
Kevin Spacey in his

performance-capture gear
during his work on Call of
Duty: Advanced Warfare.
ACTIVISION
said. Its as dull its like being in

a cardboard box.
Not all actors excel under these
conditions. Well before performance capture began to take off
in recent years, the peculiar requirements of game acting led to a
decline in demand for Hollywood
talent in favor of more anonymous
specialists.
When you pay $100,000 for an
on-camera celebrity, and then
you put them in the voice booth,
sometimes you get the worst performance imaginable, said Lev
Chapelsky, the general manager
of Blindlight, a company that helps
game studios land well-known actors.
Or sometimes the A-list names
arent interested. Jack Black, who
has appeared in two video games,
wanted too much money for Halo 3, Mr. Chapelsky said. Robin
Williams, who was known to play
games, said he wouldnt appear on
the other side of the screen for any

price.
There are important techniques
to learn that distinguish video
game acting from film or stage
acting, Jennifer Hale said in August during a master class on the
craft. Ms. Hale, described by The
New Yorker magazine as a kind of
Meryl Streep of the form, is one of
the best-known video game actors.
Game actors, Ms. Hale said, rarely
see scripts in advance, so learning
to do cold readings is essential.
When game animation was more
cartoonish, she said, the medium
demanded a very presentational
kind of acting. Now, with more realistic visuals that allow for smaller
gestures and nonverbal cues like a
stare or a grimace, the style of acting is closer to what you see on film
and television.
The secretive nature of the industry meant that Activision hid Mr.
Spaceys role from his colleagues
until the day he appeared on the
set, to the shock of the other actors.
I was like, Why are you all looking at me like I fell out of a tree?
Mr. Spacey said.
To Reel In Visitors, Virginia Museum Entices Them With a Fake

By WILLIAM GRIMES
The 19th-century artist James

E. Buttersworth, although a titan
in the field of marine art, cannot
be described as famous. Prized for
his exquisitely detailed portraits
of racing yachts and clipper ships,
he remains unknown to the general public and therefore has limited
drawing power.
To overcome this obstacle, the
Mariners Museum in Newport
News, Virginia, hit on a novel solution for its new exhibition of his
work: Toss in a forgery and challenge museum visitors to sniff it out
from among the 34 genuine Buttersworth works.
About that ringer: Museums
and forgeries are natural enemies.
The museum couldnt be seen
spending money on this and putting it in the collection, said Lyles
Forbes, the museums chief curator
and the organizer of B Is for Buttersworth, F Is for Forgery: Solve a
Maritime Mystery, which opened
in October.
When it came down to it, he added, he was not even sure how to acquire a forgery. Help arrived from
a man who has agreed to identify
himself only as a friend of the
museum. (Because his name appears as a lender on the wall text
of the forged painting, providing it
CENTER, KEN PERENYI; OTHERS, JAMES EDWARD BUTTERSWORTH/THE MARINERS MUSEUM
The Mariners Museum show of James E. Buttersworth paintings includes a forgery. So does the group of paintings above.
here might give away the secret to
visitors.)
The friend took on the assignment of securing a forged Buttersworth, which proved to be relatively easy, since, when it comes
to bogus Buttersworths, nearly
all roads lead to one man: Ken Perenyi.
For years, Mr. Perenyi studied
and imitated the work of Buttersworth, turning a tidy profit by
selling his paintings to unsuspecting dealers and collectors. He now
plies his trade legally.
The friend of the museum acquired, through an intermediary,
a genuine fake Buttersworth, from
Mr. Perenyis stock on hand, for
about 5 percent to 10 percent of the
price that the painting might fetch

if it were authentic.
Mr. Perenyi said that his prices
range from $5,000 to $150,000.
The museum has made a point of
not mentioning Mr. Perenyi, who
said he did not know until a reporter approached him that his work
was in its show. We did not want
to lend any legitimacy to the forger
or be seen as promoting him in any
way, Mr. Forbes said.
On entering the exhibition, visitors approach a digital image of
Magic and Gracie off Castle Garden, an 1871 Buttersworth that
shows two yachts, sails taut in the
wind, racing in New York Harbor.
On a nearby television screen,
hot spots, activated with the
touch of a finger, explain the fine

points: the signature, size, background features, sky and weather,
seas and sea gulls, composition and
meticulous detailing of the ships.
Visitors, prompted by clues in
the wall texts, then try to identify
the forgery. Those in the know are
asked not to give away the secret.
Mr. Forbes invited Colette Loll
of the consulting firm Art Fraud
Insights to write wall texts. He
seems to have no remorse for diluting the body of work of an artist
he professes to admire with all the
forgeries he has inserted into the
market, she said of Mr. Perenyi.
Mr. Perenyi is more than happy
to explain the techniques required
to fake a Buttersworth: the favored
New York settings; the play of light

on clouds and water, reflecting the
influence of the Luminist painters; and the attention to detail.
Hardest of all is the unique way he
painted water, he said. He did not
follow the tried and true technique
that British artists developed for
waves and water. He rolls or twists
his brush in his fingers as he pulls it
along, to get ribbons of highlights.
Close study and constant practice, Mr. Perenyi said, have made
him the equal of his master.
If he could come back to life, he
would shake my hand, he said.
After all, I devoted 30 years to understanding him. He would say, I
would be proud to put my name on
it myself.
16
MANILA BULLETIN
ARTS & DESIGN
PHOTOGRAPHS BY PATRICIA DE MELO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Buraka Som Sistema mixes Angolan dance music

with Caribbean inflections. Above, residents of
Buraca, an area of Amadora, a Lisbon suburb.
In a Lisbon Band, Echoes From Africa and Beyond

By RACHEL DONADIO
LISBON On a warm, moonlit

fall night, the band Buraka Som
Sistema took the stage at an outdoor festival here. Andro Carvalho, known as Conductor, shouted
out lyrics while Blaya, the bands
high-octane frontwoman, leapt
around in sparkly short shorts.
From Portugal to the world! Kalaf Angelo, another vocalist, called
out to the crowd, which ranged
from pre-teenagers to retirees, all
dancing to the intense beat.
Founded in 2006, the band mixes
Kuduro, a strain of Angolan dance
music born in the late 1980s, with
electronic music and some Caribbean inflections. In a country
better known for its mournful fado
music and for the general gloom
induced by the euro crisis the
band reveals a side of Portugal and
of Europe as a multiethnic musical
melting pot. This is post-colonial-
ism you can dance to.

Theyre the opposite of fado,
said Vitor Belanciano, a music critic at Pblico, a Lisbon daily.
The five-member group released
its latest album, Buraka, in September.
When they were growing up in
Amadora, a lower-middle-class
suburb of Lisbon, the bands Portuguese founders, Joo Barbosa,
34, who goes by Branko, and Rui
Pit, 36, who goes by DJ Riot, used
to hear African beats coming out of
car windows. As teenagers, they
fell into Lisbons club scene, coming
of age in the Europe of open borders
and low-cost airlines that made it
easy to travel to hear new sounds,
and in the world of Myspace, YouTube and now SoundCloud.
They named the group after
Buraca, a working-class section
of Amadora with a large population of immigrants from Angola
and Mozambique, former Portuguese colonies, and spelled it with

a K because it seemed cooler. (The
groups full name means Buraca
Sound System.) They found new
sounds through friends and bootleg Kuduro CDs. The sound was
generated in the city, said Mr. Angelo, 36, the vocalist, who moved to
Lisbon from Angola to study when
he was 17. Even though this is very
local, it has a global appeal its
communicating and its talking
to different scenes, he added.
The Rio de Janeiro scene via the
Jamaica scene all those movements somehow made sense on a
big scale.
The band has toured the world,
including Angola, Mozambique,
Latin America where it played
its largest concert yet, to an audience of 150,000 in Bogot, Colombia
Russia, Japan and the United
States. They search the web for
new sounds from South America

and Africa.
Buraka Som Sistema is a typical example of world urban music,
music being created, being mixed
and developed in suburbs of big
European cities, said Marc Benaiche, founder of Mondomix, a
Paris-based online magazine. Its
a very genuine and very new mix
and its why, in a way, it works very
well, he added. Its a music which
is talking more and more to young
people because young people themselves are more and more of mixed
ethnicity.
The members of the band come
from a generation generally at
home in its multiple identities. Mr.
Pits father, who is half Indian, is
from Mozambique, and his mother
is Portuguese. Mr. Carvalhos father is Angolan, and his mother is
Cuban; now 34, Mr. Carvalho spent
part of his childhood in Cuba and
Closing of a Chapter in a Literary Life

By ALEXANDRA ALTER
I wanted this to be the saddest

thing Id ever written, the writer
Michel Faber said recently.
Mr. Faber was talking about his
new novel, The Book of Strange
New Things, which he initially envisioned as a weird and outlandish
story set among aliens on a faraway
planet. But six years ago, the story
took on the grim contours of reality
when he and his wife, Eva Youren,
learned she had terminal cancer.
The novel morphed into an interstellar domestic drama, a wrenching
tale of mortality, human frailty and
the unbreachable distance between
a couple, as well as an elegy to Eva,
who died in July just as he was making final changes to the manuscript.
The novel will also be his last. I
felt that I had one more book in me

that could be special and sincere
and extraordinary, and that that
would be enough, Mr. Faber said.
Mr. Faber, 54, who was born in the
Netherlands, raised in Australia
and lives now in Scotland, first rose
to fame a dozen years ago with his
best-selling historical novel, The
Crimson Petal and the White,
about a Victorian-era prostitute.
The premature end to Mr.
Fabers novel writing has shocked
his peers and publishers. Some feel
that hes abandoning a promising
career just when hes on the cusp of
becoming a major literary star. Mr.
Fabers books are published in 35
countries and have sold more than
two million copies. Last year, his
debut novel, Under the Skin, was
released as a feature film, starring

Scarlett Johansson, and The Book
of Strange New Things has been
optioned for a television series.
Those who work closely with Mr.
Faber say that his decision to stop
writing novels may be a manifestation of grief for Eva, his companion
of 26 years and his wife since 2004.
Eva was the one he wrote for,
and he was blessed in having someone of her intelligence and judgment
be his constant sounding board,
said Jamie Byng, the publisher of
Canongate, which has published Mr.
Fabers books in Britain for 16 years.
In terms of his creative process,
she was the absolute center of it.
Mr. Byng said: Its such an extraordinary novel about grief and
loss and people being forced apart,
moved to Lisbon at 18. Hes now

obtaining a passport from Cape
Verde, where his wife is from. Hes
like the third-world Jason Bourne,
Mr. Barbosa said, teasing him.
The bands three albums and one
EP have sold more than 100,000
copies combined, but most of the
members income comes from live
performances. Mr. Pit, Mr. Barbosa and Mr. Carvalho work as D.J.s
on the side. Mr. Angelo writes a
newspaper column for Pblico and
is writing a novel.
Blaya, 27, whose name is Karla
Rodrigues, teaches classes in her
high-energy dance moves. After
the outdoor concert, many teenage
girls sought her autograph. Youre
so pretty, and you dance so well,
one star-struck girl said to Ms. Rodrigues, who is Brazilian and has
pictures of her grandparents tattooed on a well-toned thigh.
From the world to Portugal.
Michel Faber, whose wife died

while he was finishing his
latest book, says he will not
write another novel.
ANDREW TESTA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
and the emotional integrity and

power comes from the very heartbreaking things that he was going
through when he was writing it.
If its the last novel that he ever
writes, so be it.
Mr. Faber said that lately hes
been writing poetry about Eva and
may eventually seek to publish
some of it.
Even for Mr. Faber, whos written historical fiction, thrillers, satires and three novellas, The Book
of Strange New Things stands
apart. While the bulk of the book
takes place on another planet it
doesnt read like science fiction, or
like any genre.
But hes content with making the
book his last.
History proves that most writers get forgotten anyway, he said.
Thats very likely to happen to my
books, and if Im extremely lucky,
maybe one of my books will survive. The books Ive written are my
contenders, and whatever happens
will happen. Its enough.

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