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Former President Fidel V. Ramos will be the keynote speaker for the 18the season of the Civic Journalism Com-munity Press Awards.

Dubbed “PPI@50 and Beyond,” this year’s PPI gold-en anniversary theme calls to mind the national news-paper association’s collective and individual feats as well as the enormous challenges facing the Philippine press.

The spate of journalist killings that continues to alarm both local and inter-national media groups and human rights advocates, newspaper viability in the increasingly digital era, the much-anticipated passage of the long-overdue Freedom of Information bill, and poor

media compensation and working conditions along-side the need to profession-alize the journalists ranks are some of the issues that con-tinue to hound members of the press, particularly those working in communities.

“As PPI head for the past 12 months or so, I’ve had the privilege of touching base with some media colleagues all over the country,” says PPI chairman-president Atty. Jesus Dureza. Yet, the concur-rent Mindanao Times pub-lisher has also seen “that the challenges affecting the me-dia have remained the same.”

It is against this back-drop that the PPI marks “its half-century milestone, mindful that the Philippine

press must continue to per-form its role in upholding press freedom and providing the public with verified, accu-rate and truthful information that is so vital to democracy,” says the newspaper associa-tion in a statement.

Toward this end, the PPI has forged strategic part-nerships (and strengthened existing ones) with select de-velopment and corporate in-stitutions to implement vital media projects in the coming months. The PPI’s upcom-ing initiatives resulting from these partnerships will be formally launched during its 50th anniversary celebra-tion. It is also set to begin this year the promotion of the or-ganization of regional press

PPI MARKS 50TH YEAREdge Davao finalist in ‘best edited paper,’3 other PPI-Coke nat’l journalism awards

The Philippine Press Institute, also known as the association of Philippine newspapers, will celebrate its 50th anniversa-ry with a two-day commemorative event slated to unfold on

May 1 at the Traders hotel in Manila.

councils as public redress mechanisms.

2013 CIvIC JournalIsM awardsWhile the PPI is well

aware of the issues con-fronting the media, particu-larly at the community level, it continues to recognize the outstanding contributions of the community press to the reconstruction of public life where ordinary folk have a strong voice in local affairs.

The Civic Journalism Community Press Awards, launched in 1996 and con-ferred annually on outstand-ing community newspapers, will be one of the highlights of the upcoming PPI anni-versary celebration. The PPI’s institutional partner-ship, initially with Konrad Adenauer Foundation and currently with Coca-Cola Philippines, has made this undertaking possible.

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In 4 awardsEDGE DAVAO, which

celebrated its sixth found-ing anniversary last April 10 with a special supplement featuring Davao’s six top newsmakers led by Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Dute-rte, is finalist in “Best Edited Community Newspaper” category along with two other daily publications in the Visayas and Luzon.

Finalists for the “best-edited community daily newspaper” plum oth-er than Edge Davao are Sun.Star Baguio in Luzon and Sun.Star Cebu in the Visayas, both decades-old publica-tions.

The finalists were se-lected through a screening process managed by the prestigious Asian Institute of Journalism and Commu-nication.

Edge Davao, the young-est of all contenders, is also

finalist in three other nation-al awards for 2013 jointly sponsored by PPI and The Coca Cola Philippine Export. They are “Best Editorial Page,” “Best in Business and Economic Reporting,” and “Best in Photojournalism.”

A total of seven awards will be given to the commu-nity daily newspapers. As finalist in four awards, Edge Davao got the biggest num-ber.

In “Best Editorial Page,” the other finalists are Sun.Star Baguio and Cebu Daily News. In “Best in Business and Economic Reporting,” Edge Davao’s only rival is The Visayan Daily Star of Bacolod, while in “Best in Photojournalism,” it is pitted against Sun.Star Baguio and Cebu Daily News.

The remaining three awards in the daily newspa-per category and the finalists are “Best in Environment

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Reporting” - - Sun.Star Cebu and Sun.Star Davao; “Best in Culture, Arts and History Re-porting”- Sun.Star Baguio, Sun.Star Cebu and Mindanao Gold Star Daily; and “Best Reporting on Disasters” (Coke Bayanihan Special Award) – Cebu Daily News and Mindanao Gold Star Daily.

The general criteria for judging include how the com-peting newspapers served as catalyst for community action during the year under review (2013) and coverage of issues that are relevant to community life and aspirations.

For excellence in coverage, content, writing and editing, the newspaper must demon-strate a high level of consis-tency in its quality of writing and reporting that empowers community members to think, observe or act on issues and concerns affecting their com-munity.

For distinguished edi-torial writing – clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influ-ence public opinion in what the writer conceives to be the right direction. The newspa-per must be able to provide a forum for diverse opinions of community members, giving all sectors of the community the opportunity to express themselves, communicate

their concerns for community welfare and mobilize everyone to act on issues and concerns.

For excellence in the coverage and reporting of local business and economic events, the newspaper must demonstrate regularly in its coverage and frequency of in-depth reporting of economic activities in the community. It is focused on economic and business developments of the community – its issues, con-cerns and most importantly, existing and potential eco-nomic opportunities. It pro-motes entrepreneurship and presents to the readers the impact of global and national business and economic issues and trends on the community economy.

For excellence in news coverage of the community through photos, thus captur-ing realities in the communi-ty which may need to be ad-dressed or simply appreciated as part of its dynamic trans-formation actively participat-ed in by the reading public, the newspaper must demon-strate creative ability to depict human interest subjects in pictures to enhance the mar-ketability of the newspaper without resorting to portrayal of sex and violence.

Finalists will receive Plaques of Merit while the

eventual winners will receive cash prizes and special tro-phies. The winners will be known during the 18th staging of the Civic Journalism Com-munity Press Awards at the Traders Hotel in Manila on May 1.

The two-day event will also mark this year’s annu-al PPI members’ assembly, which will bring together representatives from least 50 newspaper members from across the country. The annu-al membership meeting and launch of new partnership programs with Holcim Phil-ippines, Plan International, Coca-Cola FEMSA, Nickel Asia Corporation and Eon will take place on May 2, the culmina-tion of the two-day PPI golden anniversary gathering.

The 50th Anniversary is being supported by Coca-Co-la Philippines as principal partner, Malaya, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Manila Stan-dard Today, The Philippine Star, Journal Group, and Busi-nessWorld. It is sponsored in part by Nickel Asia Corpora-tion, PLDT, National Commis-sion for Culture and the Arts, Metrobank Foundation, First Philippine Holdings Corpo-ration, SM Investments, Phil-Health, UNILAB, SM Retail, Land Bank of the Philippines, and Traders Hotel Manila.

PPI MARKS 50TH YEAREdge Davao finalist in ‘best edited paper,’ 3 other PPI-Coke nat’l journalism awards

THE Task Force Isla Verde has issued an as-surance that the fire vic-

tims can return to their resi-dential areas even as there are some parts of lands that were declared as not habitable.

“Wala mi nag ingon na wala nay makabalik, gihan-ay lang namo. We are on plan-ning stage pa po,” task force member and city housing and homesite division chief Roy Ryan A. Rigor said.

Rigor said that they are still making a plan according to the needs of the victims and actual condition in the area.

“Sa first plan na among

nabuhat nag provide mi’g road networks unya nigamay ang na generate na lots so what we are doing now is we will make a scheme nga haum sa actual situation,” said Rigor.

“Last week nahuman namo tong scheme na dapat para diha pero we were told na irevise kay dili siya haum sa actual situation,” Rigor added.

Rigor said that they also plan to integrate the drain-age in the area to the sys-tem of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).

He said they already allo-

cated spaces for the residents and the roads networks in both Isla Verde and to the temporary relocation site in Los Amigos, Tugbok district.

City Information Office Leo Villareal, spokesperson of the task force said that there are portions in the ar-eas which will not be avail-able for settlement as these are considered no suitable for human habitation.

“Mao nay isa sa nahis-gutan gahapon (last Wednes-day) sa meeting nga dunay portion didto nga nasunog nga dili na pabalikan,” Villar-eal said.

Fire victims assured of return by city gov’tBy arMando B. FeneQuITo Jr.

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THE Davao City Mayor›s Office is planning to increase its assistance

to the victims of the fire that wiped out eight hectares of residential buildings last April 4 in Isla Verde here.

“I have to talk to the councilors to sort it out,” May-or Rodrigo R. Duterte said in an interview.

Duterte noted that there are still no details regarding the increased assistance.

The city government has already provided fire victims in eight evacuation sites with assistance amounting to P45 million from the city›s quick response fund.

About 3,700 families benefited from the assistance, doled out to the different shelters in the form of food and non-food items as well as cash.

The city’s quick response fund is established for emer-gency situations, like natural and man-made calamities, and the amount is broken down into P28 million for cash assistance, P13 million for food and the rest for non-food items.

House owners received P10,000 per family while renters and boarders affected by the fire received at least P3,000.

The data was collated by the City Social Services and Development Office.

The quick response fund comes from the city’s calam-ity fund, which was issued after the council declared ba-rangays 22C and 23C under a state of calamity.

Leomides R. Villareal, Task Force Isla Verde spokes-person, said Duterte is also considering giving more cash assistance to fire victims to help them move from the evacuation centers to a tem-porary relocation site in Los Amigos, in Tugbok.

Villareal said the funds would help the families get back on their feet as soon as possible but did not specify how much.

The quick response fund comprises 30 percent of the city’s calamity fund, with the remaining 70 percent alloted for disaster preparedness and mitigation measures to help the city prepare for calami-

ties.The city’s total funding

for the quick response fund was only P71 million.

During the city council session approving the release of the funds, City Administra-tor Melchor Quitain said he had reservations about giv-ing out more than the alloted quick response funds, as this would mean the city has to find other funding in case the quick response fund is deplet-ed.

City Accountant Rizalina Justol, meanwhile, said the local disaster board should recommend to the city coun-cil to augment the city’s quick response fund from the pre-paredness fund.

The lot where Isla Verde is situated is owned by the local government and according to Proclamation No. 85, was declared a human settlement site during the time of former President Joseph Estrada.

Duterte earlier said they will allow informal settlers who lived in the area at the time of the fire to return and rebuild their homes. [Min-daNews]

Duterte mulls more aid to fire victims

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ACQ BIRTHDAY. International evangelist Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy shares slices of his birthday cake with Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte and Gov. Rodolfo del Rosario of Davao del Norte during his birthday celebration held at the Kingdom of Jesus Christ Compound along the Carlos P. Garcia Highway (Diversion Road) Friday night. Lean Daval Jr.

MALACANANG on Sat-urday said the En-hanced Defense Co-

operation (EDC) agreement between the Philippine and United States, which will lead to the return U.S. troops to the Philippines on a rotational ba-sis, is still undergoing consul-tation.

Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said that it has yet to be an-nounced if the agreement could be signed in time for U.S. President Barack Obama’s state-visit to the Philippines on Monday and Tuesday (April 28-29).

“I was able to communi-cate with Defense Undersec-retary Pio Batino who heads the Philippine panel, he said that the Philippine and U.S. panels are in continuing con-sultation,” Valte said over state-run dzRB Radyo ng Bayan.

She further said it will be the Philippine panel to give

progress updates on what is being discussed on the EDC agreement.

“We can expect updates perhaps tomorrow (Sunday) from the panel,” Valte added. “We should wait for an an-nouncement from them.”

Valte raised the issue fol-lowing a report from the Wall Street Journal which men-tioned that “the centerpiece of the trip (of President Obama) is expected to be the signing of a new agreement on En-hanced Defense Cooperation.”

She earlier said that the Philippine government was in no hurry to get the EDC agree-ment signed before President Obama’s visit to the Philip-pines.

What was more import-ant, she said, is assuring that what is being discussed and agreed upon conforms with the 1987 Constitution and is under the framework of the existing Visiting Forces Agree-ment (VFA). [PNA]

THE local government units (LGUs) are urged to include in the an-

nual budgetary allocation funds for projects and activ-ities related and focused on climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Presidential Communi-cations Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Herminio Coloma said during the Min-danao Media Summit last Friday at The Royal Mandaya Hotel that LGUs should allo-cate funds to be utilized once

a disaster occur and even for other activities related to disaster risk reduction and management.

“Kung hindi maglal-agay ng pera eh, ano lang yun, photo ops lang yun. We should make them account-able for it, yun siguro ang ibig sabihin ng political will – putting your money where your mouth is,” said Coloma.

Coloma said that every department and offices of LGUs should have an em-bedded consciousness for

climate change.“Halimbawa, merong

City Engineer’s Office, eh, my equipment na yun… dapat iniisip na nila na gumawa ng matitibay na structures,” he said.

Coloma said all stake-holders should be included in disasters risk reduction up to the grass roots level. He said that LGUs should make an effort to inform and educate his constituents on the risk of climate change.

Meanwhile, Coloma sug-

gested that if the people liv-ing near the coastline like the Badjao community will not evacuate despite the risk, the local government can plant mangroves in the area just to protect them for a possible storm surge.

“We are not discriminat-ing against cultural commu-nity,” he said.

He said the LGUs should work with the vulnerable communities for a respon-sive solution that would not violate their cultural beliefs.

AS Major Gen. Jeffrey F. Delgado formally took command of the Philip-

pine Air Force (PAF) on Friday, he vowed to pursue the credi-ble defense goal of his prede-cessors.

He also took the oppor-tunity to thank his immediate predecessor, Lt. Gen. Lauro Catalino Dela Cruz, for doing everything he could to improve the capability and firepower of the PAF before his formal re-tirement after 38 years of mil-itary service.

“I am grateful to him and all (previous) commanding generals of the PAF for bring-ing us closer to the vision of (a) professional and competent Air Force (which is) responsive to national security,” Delgado

said.He added that Dela Cruz

and the others before him are proof that responsible leader-ship and sense of duty can go far in improving the PAF and other military services.

“In this important period in our history, internal stabili-ty through Internal Peace and Security Program ‘Bayanihan’ and a whole of nation ap-proach has firmly taken root enabling the defense estab-lishment to shift its focus to the more pressing concerns of ter-ritorial defense,” the new PAF commander stressed.

Delgado said that the “clar-ion call” for now is to have “a credible defense posture to pursue the ends of policy and

House members are seeking the compen-sation of persons who

had been wrongfully convicted of crime in order to indemnify them for the loss, injury and damage caused by such erro-neous court rulings.

Rep. Rufus Rodriguez (2nd District, Cagayan de Oro City), principal author of the pro-posal embodied in House Bill 3811, said while the Constitu-tion provides for due process of law for any person, there are numerous cases when the Supreme Court (SC), upon re-view, reversed the decisions of the lower courts and decided to acquit the convict.

“The Supreme Court’s re-versal of the ruling of the low-er court consequently means that a person not otherwise guilty of the crime for which he

or she was charged, had been incarcerated for a crime he or she did not commit,” Rodri-guez, a lawyer, said.

According to the lawmak-er, a person’s entitlement to due process is explicitly pro-vided for in Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution, which states, “No person shall be de-prived of life, liberty, or prop-erty without due process of law, nor shall any person be denied the equal protection of the laws.” Furthermore, he said Section 14 (1) provides that “No person shall be held to answer for a criminal offense without due process of law.”

He said under House Bill 3811, a person wrongfully convicted of a crime, after being qualified as such as de-termined by the appropriate

Congressmen seek compensation to persons ‘wrongfully convicted’

Credible defense posture is goal of new PAF chief

LGUs urged to allocate budget on climate mitigation projectsBy arMando B. FeneQuITo Jr.

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Consultation on PHL-U.S. military deal still ongoing

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DISTRICT GOVERNOR-ELECT. Rotary International District 3860 Governor-elect Remegio “Boy” Salanatin addresses his fellow Rotarians during the Presi-dent-Elect Training Seminar District Assembly (PETS-DISTAS) 2014 at the Waterfront Insular Hotel Davao on Saturday. Lean Daval Jr.

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SIx more passengers from Region 12 of Eti-had Airways flight EY

0424 have tested negative for the deadly Middle East Respi-ratory Syndrome-Corona Vi-rus (MERS-CoV).

Dr. Teogenes Balu-ma, Department of Health (DOH) Region 12 director, said Friday such develop-ment was based on the test results released as of Thursday by the Re-search Institute for Trop-ical Medicine based in Alabang, Muntinlupa City.

On Wednesday, two Etihad passengers from this city were initially found negative of the vi-rus and immediately re-leased from quarantine at the Southern Philippines Medical Center in Davao City.

A report released by DOH Region 12’s epide-miology and surveillance unit (RESU) showed that 11 of the listed 415 passengers of Etihad flight EY 0424 had been traced as either resi-dents of the region or proceeded to visit the area.

Region 12, which is also known as the Soccsk-sargen Region, comprises the provinces of South Cotabato, Sultan Kuda-rat, Sarangani, North Cotabato and the cit-ies of General Santos, Koronadal, Tacurong, Kidapawan and Cotabato.

“So far, eight of them have tested negative of MERS-CoV and their quarantine was already lifted,” Baluma said in a radio inter-view.

He said they were still waiting for the re-sults of the tests on three more passengers, who are all returning over-seas Filipino workers (OFW).

One of them is still confined at the municipal hospital of Kiamba town in Sarangani while the two others are being quar-antined at their homes in Polomolok town in South Cotabato and Pik-it in North Cotabato, he said.

“We remain on high alert and continually monitoring for possible MERS-CoV cases since there are a number of re-turning OFWs from the Middle East who are coming in at our airports on a daily basis,” Baluma said.

On Thursday, the city health office here con-firmed that a female OFW who just returned home from Saudi Arabia was placed on quarantine at a local hospital after re-portedly showing sus-pected symptoms of MERS-CoV.

Dr. Mely Lastimoso, chief of the city health of-fice’s epidemiology and surveillance unit, said the OFW volunteered to un-dergo quarantine and testing for MERS-CoV af-ter being diagnosed with respiratory infection several days after arriving from Saudi Arabia.

She said the patient arrived in Manila ahead of the April 15 Etihad Airways flight from Abu

Dhabi, United Arab Emir-ates that included a passenger who had tested pos-itive for MERS-CoV.

Meantime, Dr. Rog-elio Aturdido Jr., South Cotabato Integrated Provincial Health Of-fice (IPHO) chief, said they have been taking the necessary precaution-ary measures to prevent the disease from possibly entering and spreading to the area.

He said they have as-signed the IPHO’s epide-

miology and surveillance unit, rural midwives and municipal health offi-cers of the province’s 10 towns and lone city to lead the monitoring for the disease.

“As of now, there’s no need to worry about this since there was no confirmed case yet that has en-tered the country. The national government and the World Health Organization have been also taking all necessary precautionary mea-sures against MERS-CoV,” he said.

But it case it reach-

es the area, Aturdido as-sured that they are ready and the DOH has al-ready issued a protocol in terms of their handling and treatment.

In Zamboanga City, the regional health office said five OFWs from the area who took the same Etihad flight also tested negative of MERS-Cov.

But RESU head Dr. Norvie Jalani said they are still waiting for the results of the laborato-ry analysis on a sixth passenger, a foreigner

who visited Zamboanga del Norte.

Of the five OFWs, two are from this city, one is from Zamboanga del Sur, one is from Zamboanga del Norte, and another one is from Zamboanga Sibugay. Three of them are females and two are males.

Jalani urged peo-ple “especially those who have history of travel around the Arabian Penin-sula” who showed symp-toms of MERS-Cov to go to the hospital for early treat-ment. [MindaNews]

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PEACE AND QUIET. The Teresian Carmelite Monastery in Pal-ing in Malaybalay City offers an excellent place for meditation and prayer. Located some 400 meters from the national highway and surrounded by trees and hills, only the chirping of birds can be heard in the place. [MindaNews photo by H. Marcos C. Mordeno]

11 more Etihad passengers from Mindanao negative of MERS-CoV

THE provincial gov-ernment of Davao del Norte is launch-

ing on April 28, 2014 the Talaingod-DavNor Runners, a community sports academy designed to train tribal kids to be-come elite runners.

In his effort to maxi-mize sport as a catalyst for peace and social de-velopment, Governor Rodolfo del Rosario will unveil the running school for the Ata-Manobo chil-dren, which capitalizes on their natural physical strength and endurance in open footraces.

The governor will lead the unveiling cere-mony at the Municipal

Hall in Barangay Sto. Niño, Talaingod, Davao del Norte.

The project was first conceived to equip the Lumad children with all the necessary athletic preparation to be able to bring home top medals from running competi-tions here and abroad.

However, recent de-velopments have made the project all the more relevant, as the town reels from the impact of military operations that affected over a thousand IP individuals.

The situation was ag-gravated by the internal dispute among the mem-bers of the tribal council.

Del Rosario said the launch of the project is timely given the pow-er of sports to promote peace, tolerance and un-derstanding by bringing people together across boundaries and ideolo-gies.

The academy will ini-tially open with 10 native school children ages 10 to 15, who come from the far-flung villages of the conflict-torn ethnic town.

The students will be living in the quarters pro-vided by the municipal government for the year-round duration of their training.

The project was made possible through the col-

laboration of the provin-cial government, the local government of Talaingod and the DepEd Schools Division of Davao del Norte.

The province provided the athletic gears, as it will yet shoulder the year-long supply of rice and supple-ments to the student ath-letes. While the town and the Division have already provided two trainers/coaches each.

Gracing the launching rites on Monday are 1st Distict Congressman An-thony del Rosario, DavNor Schools Division Super-intendent Dr. Josephine Fadul and Mayor Basilio Libayao. [by Noel Baguio]

Talaingod-DavNor Runners to promote peace

GENERAL Santos City Mayor Ron-nel Rivera has

declared that the city is still the Tuna Capital of the Philippines.

Rivera said reports stating that Occidental Mindoro is now the king of fishing are “impossi-ble.”

A couple of weeks ago, the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) re-ported that Occidental Mindoro is the Philip-pines’ emerging tuna capital because of the region’s significant in-crease in tuna catch for

the past years. “GenSan is still the

tuna capital. We are the tuna capital. Being the tuna capital is not based alone on the number of catches but it should be all encompassing,” Rive-ra quipped.

In 2011 and 2012, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and WWF reported that Occidental Mindoro has an average of 600,000 kilos of tuna delivered throughout the Philip-pines and outside the country. [GENSAN CPIO/ Ian John M. Lagare]

GenSan still the ‘Tuna Capital of the Philippines’

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as of May 2013

Stat Watch

MONTHLY AVERAGE EXCHANGE RATE (January 2011-September 2013)

Month 2013 2012 2011

Average 42.23 43.31December 41.01 43.64November 41.12 43.27October 41.45 43.45

September 43.83 41.75 43.02August 43.86 42.04 42.42

July 43.35 41.91 42.81June 42.91 42.78 43.37May 41.30 42.85 43.13April 41.14 42.70 43.24

March 40.71 42.86 43.52February 40.67 42.66 43.70January 40.73 43.62 44.17

7.1 1st Qtr 2013

7.8 1st Qtr 2013

USD 3,741 million

Feb 2013USD 4,708

million Feb 2013USD -967

million Feb 2013USD -640

millionDec 2012

P 4,964,560 million

Feb 2013

2.4 % Mar 2013P113,609

million Mar 2013

P 5,281 billion

Mar 2013

P 41.14 Apr 2013

6,847.5 Mar 2013

132.8 Apr 2013

2.6 Apr 2013

3.1 Apr 2013

418,108 Feb 2013

20.9% Jan 2013

7.1% Jan 2013

1. Gross National IncomeGrowth Rate(At Constant 2000 Prices)

2. Gross Domestic ProductGrowth Rate(At Constant 2000 Prices)

3. Exports 1/

4. Imports 1/

5. Trade Balance

6. Balance of Payments 2/

7. Broad Money Liabilities

8. Interest Rates 4/

9. National Government Revenues

10. National government outstanding debt

11. Peso per US $ 5/

12. Stocks Composite Index 6/

13. Consumer Price Index 2006=100

14. Headline Inflation Rate 2006=100

15. Core Inflation Rate 2006=100

16. Visitor Arrivals

17. Underemployment Rate 7/

18. Unemployment Rate 7/

Indicator Latest

1. Gross National Income Growth Rate (At Constant 2000 Prices)

6.8 2nd Qtr 2013

2. Gross Domestic Product Growth Rate (At Constant 2000 Prices)

7.5 2nd Qtr 2013

3. Exports USD 5,045 million

Sep 2013

4. Imports USD 5,711 million

Sep 2013

5. Trade BalanceUSD -665

million Sep 2013

6. Balance of Payments USD 692

million Jun 2013

7. Broad Money LiabilitiesP 5,980,938 million

Aug 2013

8. Interest Rate 2.0 % Sep 2013

9. National Government Revenues

P 127,336 million

Sep 2013

10. National government outstanding debt

P 5,609 billion

Sep 2013

11. Peso per US $

P 43.83 Sep 2013

12. Stocks Composite Index

6,191.8 Sep 2013

13. Consumer Price Index 2006=100

135.2 Oct 2013

14. Headline Inflation Rate 2006=100

2.9 Oct 2013

15. Core Inflation Rate 2006=100

2.5 Oct 2013

16. Visitor Arrivals 382,022 Aug 2013

17. Underemploymen Rate

19.2% Jul 2013

18. Unemployment Rate 7.3% Jul 2013

THE City Govern-ment of Davao has declared October

20-26, 2014 a celebration week for BIMP-EAGA and IMT-GT as it plays host to an international trade fair and business leaders conference to be held at SM Lanang Premier’s SMx Convention Center.

Dubbed as the 2nd BIMP-EAGA & IMT-GT Trade Fair and Business Leaders’ Conference, the event expects to draw around 800 business lead-ers, government officials, traders, and potential in-vestors from across five countries within ASEAN. More than 200 interna-tional exhibitors are also expected to participate in the trade fair.

BIMP-EAGA stands for Brunei Darussalam Indo-nesia Malaysia the Philip-pines East ASEAN Growth Area, while the IMT-GT stands for Indonesia Ma-laysia Thailand Growth Triangle. Both sub-region-al groupings are among the most dynamic eco-nomic cooperation in ASE-AN.

“The City of Davao welcomes this event as an opportunity, not only for Davaoeños, but also for residents and entrepre-neurs in other cities and municipalities in Mindan-ao, to effectively promote investments and generate trade in their respective

jurisdiction,” Mayor Ro-drigo Duterte said in Proc-lamation No. 3, signed on April 8, 2014.

The city government also issued an execu-tive order creating the BIMP-EAGA & IMT-GT Committee to serve as the main collaborating arm of the city with the other lo-cal and national agencies involved in the prepara-tion for the event.

Overall preparations

are spearheaded by the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA), the Philippine Coordinating Office for BIMP-EAGA.

At the City-led com-mittee meeting held this week, MinDA Executive Director Janet Lopoz en-couraged Davao City and Mindanao-based entre-preneurs to participate in the said international event, which provides strategic opportunities for trade and investments.

“Beyond mere show-case of unique products and investment opportu-nities from across the five countries, this internation-al trade fair and confer-ence will also benchmark on the our preparedness for the ASEAN economic integration by 2015,” she said.

The weeklong event is also a commemorative cel-ebration of BIMP-EAGA’s 20th this year. BIMP-EAGA was launched in 1994 in

Davao City as a key strate-gy to accelerate social and economic development of less developed areas in participating countries.

Other activities fea-tured during the week-long celebration also in-clude East ASEAN Film Festival, ASEAN Street Food Festival, Information Communication and Tech-nology (ICT) Summit and Innovation Expo, Import-ers/Exporters Forum and a Golf Tournament.

Davao City gov’t gears up for global trade fair, business gab

TRANSIT POINT. A laborer in Bankerohan market, Davao City prepares a sack of squash, which will be transported to Tandag, Surigao del Sur. The squash, produced in Matanao, Davao del Sur, were delivered to Bankerohan market that serves as transit point of vegetable products in the region. [MindaNews Photo by Keith Bacongco]

A SIMPLE technology may be the antidote to El Niño weather

most likely to occur this year.

The Alternative Wet-ting and Drying or AWD technology is highly rec-ommended by rice scien-tists; it consists of a per-forated bamboo or plastic tube that is inserted into the ground to determine if there is enough water to max rice growth.

AWD is a water-saving technology that lowland rice farmers can apply al-ternately to reduce their water use in irrigated fields, say scientists at the International Rice Re-

search Institute (IRRI).The AWD – a 40-cen-

timeter long, 15-cm di-ameter tube – provides a peek at the water table. According to IRRI: perfo-rate the tube with holes on all sides; dig the tube in the soil so that 20 cm protrudes above the soil surface; remove the soil from the inside so that the bottom of the tube is vis-ible; check that the water table inside the tube is the same as outside the tube. Then it’s not yet time to irrigate the field.

The threshold of 15 cm water depth (below the surface) before irriga-tion is called “Safe AWD”

– it will not cause any de-crease in yield. The num-ber of days of between ir-rigations varies from one day to more than 10 days.

It’s a 10 year old technology and for just as long has been recom-mended by IRRI and the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice); the latter includes AWD in its check list for farmers of essential to-dos in rice growing.

AWD is promoted by the National Irrigation Administration because the technology enables farmers to save on irriga-tion fees by saving from 15 percent to 30 percent

in irrigation water.The technology is one

way to ease the heat of El Niño. The opposite of the cooler and rainy La Niña weather, El Niño sunlight will be more intense and drought is likely to occur in countries that are near the equator, like the Phil-ippines

In mid-April, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said that a “fairly large potential” for an El Niño is “most likely” by the end of June.

The most recent El Niño events – only two in 15 years – occurred between June 2009 and

May 2010.The Philippine Atmo-

spheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration’s (PA-GASA) Seasonal Climate Outlook says the weather is heading towards an El Niño.

“With El Niño the reduction in rain is typ-ically associated with increased sunlight in the Philippines, causing yields to increase when water supply is adequate for rice production,” said Dr. Roland J. Buresh, the Principal Scientist at IR-RI’s Crop and Environ-mental Sciences Division (CESD). [SciPhil]

Simple tech helps farmers cope with El Niño weather


THE UN weather agency Tuesday, April 15 warned there was a good chance

of an “El Niño” climate phe-nomenon in the Pacific Ocean this year, bringing droughts and heavy rainfall to the rest of the world.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said its modeling suggested a “fairly large potential for an El Niño, most likely by the end of the second quarter of 2014.”

“If an El Niño event de-velops...it will influence tem-peratures and precipitation and contribute to droughts or heavy rainfall in different re-gions of the world,” WMO chief Michel Jarraud said in a state-ment.

The El Niño phenomenon occurs every two to 7 years, when the prevailing trade winds that circulate surface

water in the tropical Pacific start to weaken.

WMO pointed out Tues-day that since February, trade winds had weakened and there had been a significant warming of the waters below the surface in the central Pacific.

“While there is no guaran-tee this situation will lead to an El Nino event, the longer the trade winds remain weakened, and sub-surface temperatures stay significantly warmer than average, the higher the likeli-hood,” it said.

Two-thirds of climate models predicted that the phe-nomenon would begin some-time between June and August, with a few suggesting it could start as early as May, and the remainder predicting no El Niño this year, it said.

The last El Niño occurred between June 2009 and May

2010.It is often followed by a

return swing of the pendulum with La Niña, which is char-acterized by unusually cool ocean surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific.

Scientists, who closely monitor the two climate pat-terns, say that while they are not caused by climate change, rising ocean temperatures caused by global warming may affect their intensity and fre-quency.

“El Niño has an important warming effect on global av-erage temperatures,” Jarraud cautioned, stressing that com-bined with human-induced warming from greenhouse gases such events had “the po-tential to cause a dramatic rise in global mean temperature.” [AFP]

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THINK GLOBAL, ACT LOCAL. Darrel Blatchley, curator of D’Bone Museum posts a challenge to take an active roles in communities with respect to the environment during the Mindanao Media Summit in Davao City on April 26, 2014. [MindaNews photo by Toto Lozano]

UN weather agency warns of ‘El Nino’

DURING the Global Oceans Action Sum-mit, world leaders

called for action and taking responsibilities in protecting the oceans and food security on Thursday in The Hague.

One month after the Nu-clear Security Summit, the Netherlands hosts another global summit. More than 70 global leaders, ocean practi-tioners, scientists, and repre-sentatives from government, business, civil society and international organizations came together from April 22 to 25 to discuss solutions for a cleaner ocean and food se-curity.

The Global Oceans Ac-tion Summit is organized by the Dutch government in col-laboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Bank and the govern-ments of Grenada, Indonesia, Mauritius, Norway and the United States.

Why a summit on the oceans? According to the summit organizers the cur-rent health of the oceans is critical and food security is at stake for future genera-tions.

“Healthy oceans are essential for global food se-curity, livelihoods and eco-nomic growth,” said the or-ganizers, dding “The oceans cover some 72 percent of the Earth’s surface, and are both an engine for glob-al economic growth and a key source of food security. Ocean health and produc-tivity must be at the heart of global efforts to eradicate poverty, strengthen food se-curity and build resistance to climate change.”

On the penultimate day of the summit, Sharon Di-jksma, the Dutch State Sec-retary for Economic Affairs, dealing with agriculture, nature and food quality, called for action.

“It takes courage to look beyond borders and to work together to take action for healthier oceans and food security,” she said. “Action should be taken. We must move forward, start-ing today.”

The following oceans summit will be organized by the United States on June 16 and 17 in Washington this year.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addressed the attendees in The Hague with a video message.

“Ultimately what we need is a new global ocean policy agenda,” Kerry stat-ed. “And the kind of clear and comprehensive agenda I talk about cannot be de-veloped without the input of governments, the private sector, civil society lead-ers and other stakeholders around the world.”

“Protecting the ocean is not only an environmental issue,” Kerry added. “It is en economic issue, a global health issue, a food security issue and above all a moral responsibility. I am look-ing forward to hearing the outcome of the summit and carry your ideas forward in June.”

The participants are ex-pected to publish a joint fi-nal statement with possibly agreements and measures on Friday, when the Sum-mit will be closed. [PNA/Xinhua]

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EDITORIAL

THE nation is agog over a list of 13 Philippine senators reportedly tagged by businesswoman Janet Lim Na-poles as being involved in the P10-billion pork barrel

scam. This is a litany of names given by Napoles to Justice Secretary Leila De Lima during a marathon meeting where-in the jailed suspected scam mastermind told De Lima all what she knows about the grand pillage of taxpapers’ mon-ey, through the use of fake non-government organizations as conduits of the plunder. This is a similar list purportedly recorded in a USB thumb drive obtained by former senator now Rehabilitation czar Panfilo Lacson from Napoles’ hus-band, Jimmy.

In fairness, both Lacson and De Lima have not revealed the names in their lists pending the production by Napoles of other documents to support the authenticity of their lists.

Secretary De Lima is quite right when she said that re-vealing the Napoles list prematurely and without support will only cause confusion. Many more lists have reported-ly come out from some other sources. Already, some ea-ger-beaver media establishments could not resist revealing the contents of their own “lists.” The lists, whether authentic

or fake, will cast doubt on the honor and might spell doom on political future of the persons included, mostly specially the innocent.

This Napoles list is so unlike the famous Schindler’s list which saved the lives of thousands of Jews. It was a list pre-pared by Oskar Schindler, a heroic German businessman, so a Nazi general whom he bribed would exempt thousands of Jews from being thrown to German concentration camps where they would be slaughtered by Adolph Hitler’s mur-derous minions.

This Napoles list and its mutations, if not handled well, by De Lima and her prosecutors, will throw a monkey wrench on the ongoing investigation and prosecution of the pork barrel and similar big-time scams in our government that have shocked millions of Filipinos.

If this is a ploy of the political opposition many of whose members have been visibly hurt by the pork barrel scam, they ought to be warned that Filipinos are no longer as gull-ible as before and that this suspected maneuver is already generating smirks of condemnation from enlightened citi-zens.


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SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS

A matter of interest

SOME SORT OF A ‘TRAWLING ExPE-DITION’ - As it turns out, the startling reversal of Janet Lim-Napoles, the

primary suspect of the infamous Priori-ty Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) otherwise known as pork barrel funds to divulge all what she knew about the scam and the revelation of the names of other members of Congress who allegedly ben-efited from the highly illegal transactions was some sort of a “trawling expedition” – with an unusual twist.

That’s one way of looking at it. Anoth-er is that, by precisely issuing a distinction rather than a forceful, serious response, the Justice Department probably due to mounting pressure seems not keen on swallowing Napoles’ perturbing revelation “hook, line and sinker.” It may be of great help to the ongoing investigation, but still lot of things have to be weigh in carefully says, the DOJ.

And there’s a third option. The fact that Napoles’ complete turnaround is being discussed at all shows how seriously the DOJ and other investigating bodies are tak-ing the need to fast track the resolution of the pork barrel scam, not necessarily the idea of making Mrs. Napoles a state wit-ness. Right now, the more she makes her “list of beneficiaries” longer, the more she becomes less credible and convincing.

In other words, lawmakers included in the new list said in jest that perhaps there’s an influential and powerful political figure behind the scheme aimed at muddling the PDAF investigation and veer away public’s attention from the true intent. The whole thing is really absurdity.

But one thing sure is the presumption that those who were embroiled earlier in the pork barrel scam are victims of political harassment may be true, but the presump-tion that they are potentially involved in the illegal money-making venture is even truer. So the legal zarzuela continues with no end in sight.

A POSSIBLE SOPHISTICATED SLEIGHT OF HAND – Faced with mounting criticism over unabated crime, anti-poor issues, high

u n e m p l o y -ment rate and w i d e s p r e a d corruption in all government levels, Presi-dent Benigno Aquino III may have to seek the services of notable prob-lem-solution experts with extensive experience in han-dling political glitches.

The sole purpose is to ease out the tension swirling around his coveted lead-ership. With the presidential elections scheduled for May 2016, political analysts are predicting that by treating the crucial issues with cold shoulder, it can badly af-fect the chances of the probable candidates of the ruling party.

The President and his trusted political adjutants and well-paid image-builders should work overtime to cushion the im-pact brought about by the critical issues hurled against the administration and stress solidarity in the Liberal Party (LP) ranks. That may prove quite an impossible task given the gravity of the mounting is-sues raised by various quarters notably the opposition die-hards.

Nevertheless, party chiefs already ac-knowledged they have dodged all the polit-ical “low blows” emanating from different directions and putting on a unified front geared at flexing the muscles and strength-ening the political fortress of the ruling ad-ministration party.

As the general elections draws near dissatisfaction has risen with the wrong impression that the Aquino administration has been unable to tackle, in particular, is-sues of utmost concern. Political adversar-ies and avid detractors think the series of criticism even eaten into the popularity of the President.

Moreover, there are persistent rumors that a possible sophisticate sleight of hand had something to do with the issues con-

fronting the present leadership taking as hint the topics have no indication what-soever of simmering down. Some political sources insist there is a driving force be-hind the “war of nerves,” stealthily fanning the prevailing issues aimed at blowing out of proportion.

This would seem a matter of interest for the ruling political party, far more im-portant than whether the overrated po-litical contenders of the other contending parties are in better position to win in the 2016 polls against them. Taking the ver-bal attack in stride is less strenuous, and less dangerous specifically in clarifying crucial issues. In this case, an important question arises: “Do you believe a certain vested interest group is pulling and deliv-ering its punches because it wants to derail the political aspirations of other political hopefuls who are keeping a moist eye on higher posts during the 2016 presidential elections?

Are the popular personalities treat to the ambition of another wily and pow-er-obsessed politician? Speculations are thick that covert operatives who are in cahoots with political figures adverse of the Aquino administration probably have done this early an effective demolition job – a prelude to the 2016 presidential polls. Clearly enough, the anti-administration campaign was pure dirty political tricks aimed primarily at besmirching the person and character of some promising political figures.

Meanwhile the President and the rul-ing party coalition may be able to do more than just put a smiling face on the assort-ed of brickbats and bitter side comments trained at their direction. Their action to take the denigration in stride is well taken, and will only prove that the party remains solid, moderate, united and strong.

Sad to lament, though, at this very early stage there are already dirty political ma-neuverings designed to break the entropy of the political exercise. For sure, many things haven’t changed – murky political games in a Philippine setting.

By MANNy VALDEHUESA

WORM’S EYEVIEW

Typecasting OFWs as caregiver/domestic

worker

IT’S been an awkward source of pride to many of our countrymen that OFWs (overseas Filipino workers) are stereo-

typed abroad as domestic service provid-ers.

The stereotype is viewed with discom-fiture, in some cases with a sense of humili-ation, as if it was an affront against nobility. That it springs from a positive appreciation of the Filipino’s fastidious and reliable ser-vice does not assuage the unease about such (to them) a “lowly” branding of our compatriots, especially among the snob-bish elite and social-climbing crowd.

“That’s not fair; we’re better than that!”—the class-conscious, elitist Pinoy may exclaim at the thought of being associ-ated with (to them) the underclass.

They may even cite the many success-ful professionals, entertainers, wealthy urbanites, classy entrepreneurs—and yes, beauty queens and fashion plates!—here and abroad as the better stereotype.

They wish! But it can’t be helped anymore; the stereotype has stuck. The care-giving connotation of the word “Fil-ipino” has entered some modern lexi-cons—as in domestic helper, housemaid, or caregiver.

So what? It has nothing to do with the Filipino’s intrinsic worth or dignity as a person. It’s only an observation of reality based on occupational numbers. They’re all over the place, they’re mostly domestic workers, and who can deny that?

No denying a sociological phenome-non. It’s readily verifiable in urban parks where they like to hobnob or congregate on their days off. From Hong Kong and Taipei to Oman and Riyad to Madrid and Paris you can seek them in their favorite park on weekends and holidays.

Remember when the term “Chi-naman” was associated with being a coo-lie, a cook, or a personal servant? Back then, “not a Chinaman’s chance” was the way to characterize someone with zero odds of success in any ambitious endeav-or.

The Chinese then, like today’s Pinoys, were all over the world—famously as coolies, hawkers, cooks, laundry service workers, and the like.

The same phenomenon is being act-ed out in today’s working world by over-whelming numbers of Filipinos abroad—care-giving, housekeeping, domestic ser-vicing.

But why worry? The term “Filipino” is not likely to denote a person down on his luck, utterly bereft of a chance to succeed as “Chinaman” used to imply. That’s been taken care of by the glory of Edsa ’86, the allure of Lea Salonga at Broadway, the re-nown of Dado Banatao in Silicon Valley and Manny Pacquiao on the ring, and be-hold our beauty queens!

They and countless others including ice-skating star Christian Martinez of the Sochi Olympics have already given us a shine that overpowers the “shame” in be-ing Filipino and an OFW. Ask Simon Cow-ell, Oprah Winfrey, or Harvard University which has just recruited an outstanding Filipina to join its law faculty. The Filipino has arrived on the world stage, gloriously!

FILIPINOS love to talk. Whatever remains of what may be rightly called Filipino culture has survived

through time mainly by word of mouth. This is a double-edged sword, a weak-ness and strength at the same time.

Take for example, customary law, which is still being observed by indige-nous communities especially in resolv-ing disputes and conflicts. Since it is unwritten, the parties to a conflict enjoy enough space for flexibility in interpre-tation until mutually acceptable terms are agreed upon. At the same time, how-ever, there may arise a pronounced di-vergence in interpretations that could lead to an impasse.

Yet, if oral tradition has served the purpose of preserving the flexibility of customary law as its inherent advan-tage, it seems to not have done a good thing for disaster management. The ex-

perience with typhoon Pablo (interna-tional name: Bopha) that ravaged Davao Oriental in December 2012, as Press Secretary Sonny Coloma said on Friday (25 April) during the 9th Mindanao Me-dia Summit, was instructive.

Secretary Coloma explained why. People in the province had no memory of typhoons much less the destruction they could cause. Not until Pablo struck did they and the rest of the country know that a typhoon had visited Min-danao’s southeastern areas over a cen-tury ago. Most probably, nobody who had witnessed the wrath of that earlier typhoon was still alive by the time Pab-lo came. Nobody from that generation lived long enough to give the warning

that could have saved many lives.This is where the importance of

documentation and written local his-tory comes in. For while oral story-telling is wonderful in that it builds bridges that strengthen cultural bonds between generations, there is never an assurance of perpetuity. No one can tell if and when the process of connecting consciousness would end.

Somewhere between Pablo and the earlier typhoon the journey of the spoken word stopped, and so did the journey of inherited memories. Add to that the myth that Mindanao was typhoon-free. A hundred years later, those memories rose from the depths of oblivion in a way that nobody wished for. [MindaViews is the opinion section of MindaNews. H. Marcos C. Mordeno can be reached at [email protected]]

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DESPITE the nega-tive developments overseas, some Fili-

pinos still want to achieve that dream to live in the land of milk and honey.

Filipinos need not worry about not finding a “kababayan” (country-man) abroad because there is a big chance they will.

Based on the Commis-sion on Filipinos Over-seas’ (CFO) 2012 Com-pendium of Statistics on International Migration, there are about 10.46 mil-lion Filipinos outside of the Philippines as of De-cember 2011.

”Filipinos overseas” is defined under Batas Pam-bansa 79, which created the Commission on Fili-pinos Overseas (CFO), as Filipino immigrants and their descendants.

Relatively, the Omni-bus Rules and Regulations implementing the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995, as amended by Republic Act No. 10022, refers to “over-seas Filipinos” as the mi-grant workers.

Bulk or 47 percent of the Filipinos who are outside of the country as of 2011 are accounted for by permanent migrants numbering to about 4.86 million followed by the

workers at 4.51 million, 43 percent.

And while it is unfor-tunate that some Filipinos travel outside of the coun-try without proper docu-mentation this is a reality.

According to the Com-pendium, 10 percent of Filipinos outside of the Philippines as of 2010 are accounted for by irregular migrants numbering to 1.07 million.

As expected US re-mains the top destination of Filipinos who want ei-ther to work or immigrate.

The Compendium said some 3.43 million or 32 percent of those living and working abroad are based in the US.

Of the total, 3.06 mil-lion of Filipinos in the US are permanent migrants, 112,997 are temporary migrants and 260,335 are irregular migrants or un-documented persons.

This is given due in part to Filipinos’ exposure to the American culture, thus, the want to be part of it.

The second top des-tination is Saudi Arabia followed by Canada, UAE, Malaysia, Australia, Japan, UK, Italy and Singapore.

The CFO report noted that more than 80 per-cent of Filipinos currently based in the US, Canada,

Australia, Germany and Austria are permanent residents.

The number of those who have immigrated has surpassed the number of those going abroad just to work, it said.

While Saudi Arabia is the top 2 destination of Filipinos going abroad, it is the first in the list in terms of destination of Overseas Filipino Work-ers (OFWs).

The Compendium said some 1.55 million Fili-pinos are based in Saudi Arabia as of 2010.

During the 10-year period from 2003-2012, most of the Filipinos who went abroad to either work or permanently transfer went to the US totalling to 406,881 or about 53.8 percent of the total 756,298.

The other coun-try-destinations of Fil-ipinos during the same period are Canada, Japan, Australia, Italy, New Zea-land, Korea, Spain, UK, Germany.

Other countries not identified accounted for 2.27 percent of the total.

Women took a bigger share of the pie for those who have emigrated at 452,897 of the total from 2003-12 while male to-talled to 303,401.

During the same 10-year period, most of the Filipino emigrant came from the National Capital Region (NCR) at 219,100 followed by those who came from Region IV-A, 133,479; Region III, 117,226; Region I, 82,360; and Region xI, 25,221.

Filipino workers abroad have been a big contributor to the con-tinued growth of the do-mestic economy because of the impact of the re-mittances on private con-sumption.

Remittances account to about nine percent of gross domestic economy (GDP) in recent years and economic officials remain confident that remittanc-es will continue to be among the main drivers of the domestic economy.

Among the job seg-ments, most or 11.16 percent of the Filipinos abroad from 2003-12 are in the professional, tech-nical and related indus-try, 84,426; followed by those into sales at 31,690; equipment operators and laborers, 23,788.

The others are are clerical workers; manage-rial, executive, and admin-istrative workers; service workers; workers and fishermen, and members of the armed forces. [PNA]

protect our core interest.”“With the crucial events

last year, our Air Force (has) responded swiftly in providing an air bridge, safety, assistance and rehabilitation in the af-termath of Zamboanga, Bohol and ‘Yolanda’, “ he pointed out.

Delgado added that these series of actions have high-lighted the PAF’s capability to respond to any call, in times of disasters, both natural and man-made, in any part of the country.

He also expressed grati-tude to the leadership of Pres-ident Benigno S. Aquino III

for supporting their calls for modernizations and upgrade.

“What is most encour-aging is the full support of our national leadership to modernize the Armed Forc-es of the Philippines which deserves the wholehearted thanks from all of us. The initial delivery starting this year of various advance air-craft, new radars and mod-ern equipment (which) will translate to increased capabil-ities for air defense, maritime security and national devel-opment,” the new PAF chief stressed. [PNA]

court, shall be entitled to the payment of compensation in an amount not exceeding twice the amount of the claimant’s income in the year prior to his incarceration or to P100,000 for each year of incarceration, whichever is greater.

“The bill aims to compen-sate a person wrongfully con-victed of a crime in order to in-demnify him or her for the loss, injury and damage brought about by such wrongful con-viction,” said Rodriguez.

The bill, co-authored by the lawmaker’s brother, Rep. Maximo Rodriguez, Jr. (Par-ty-list, Abante Mindanao), pro-vides that any person convict-ed and subsequently impris-oned for one or more crimes, which he did not commit may, under certain conditions, bring an action for damages before any court of competent juris-diction.

The person, referred to as the “claimant” shall estab-lish the following by clear and convincing evidence, based on the bill: He was convicted of a crime and subsequently sen-tenced to a term of imprison-ment, and has served all or any part of his sentence; He did not commit the crime for which he was convicted; and He did not by his own conduct cause or bring about his conviction.

It further provides that the action initiated by a verified

petition containing statement of the facts concerning the claim for damages, shall be brought by the claimant within a period of two years after his release from imprisonment.

In addition to the damages awarded, the claimant shall be entitled to receive reasonable attorney’s fees, the bill pro-vides.

The proposal now pending at the House committee on jus-tice chaired by Rep. Niel Tupas, Jr. (5th District, Iloilo) further provides that a person serving a term of imprisonment for a crime other than a crime for which he was mistakenly con-victed shall not be eligible to file a claim for damages.

The proposal also pro-vides that a person shall not be eligible to file a claim for damages if the sentence for the crime of which the person was mistakenly convicted was served concurrently with the sentence for the conviction of another crime.

Lastly, it provides that within 60 days from the effec-tivity of the proposed Act, the Department of Justice (DOJ), in coordination with the ap-propriate office, department or agency of the SC and the Department of Finance, shall promulgate the necessary rules and regulations for the effective implementation of the proposed Act.[PNA]

4TH TOWER. Vista Land officially starts the construction of its fourth tower, Liverpool, located at Camella Northpoint along J.P. Laurel Avenue in Davao City yesterday. The construction kicked-off was graced by (from left to right) Camella Davao’s marketing head for vertical projects Fritzie Joy Gepolio, planning head for architecture Arch. Rerry Jannie Abian, planning head for engineering Engr. Runar Quindoza, Moses Inc. and Construction Management representative Engr. Jephone Agustin, Ryan Rodriguez and Camella Davao staff. Lean Daval Jr.

SPECIAL FEATURE

Filipinos and their presence overseas


THERE is truly no stopping the coun-try’s leading exhibi-

tions and events organizer, Worldbex Services Inter-national (WSI), in jump-starting economic growth and breaking new grounds to discover limitless oppor-tunities with the upcoming Philippine Building and Construction Exposition or PHILBEx Davao on May 15 to 18 at the SMx Conven-tion Center Davao.

Patterned after WSI’s highly-anticipat-ed WORLDBEx, which is dubbed as the largest and most comprehensive building and construction exposition in the whole country, and PHILBEx In Cebu for Visayas, PHIL-BEx Davao aims to raise the bars in terms of the way people do business in Mindanao, to tap into the world-class potential of Davao and to widen the industry’s business hori-zons – with the end goal of boosting the Philippine economy altogether.

With two decades of experience in organizing trade shows for the high-grade exchange of global industry trends, WSI is confident to deliver a high-ly productive and insight-ful four-day exposition that will serve as a primary source of the latest indus-try innovations, a means to gain industry reports, a platform to witness live demonstrations, as well as a venue to network among local and international trade players.

Picking up where WORLDBEx left off, PHIL-BEx Davao will take on the theme of “Connecting the World through Resil-

ient Construction.” With-out sustainability, pre-paredness, and resilience, growth will not be con-sistent. That is where the need to address the threats of environmental disaster becomes a top priority for the construction and build-ing industry. As such, WSI wants to advocate resilient construction all the way to Mindanao as a way of pre-venting the disruption of life.

At the four-day event, PHILBEx will showcase nearly 100 participating exhibitors with its large-scale industry ties. Visitors can expect a diverse array of display including build-ing materials, equipments and services, construction materials, interior designs and design services, reno-vation products, mechan-ical engineering systems, electrical engineering sys-tems, construction promo-tions, information technol-ogy, telecommunications, real estate and housing, and many more.

With partner associa-tions such as the Europe-an Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Real Estate and Builders’ Association, Institute of Integrated Electrical Engineers of the Philippines, Philippine In-stitute of Civil Engineers, and the Philippine Institute of Interior Designers at the helm of this exhibition, PHILBEx Davao runs on a global scale especially with exhibitors coming in from countries like China and Singapore.

It is no wonder that the country’s top construction and building companies are likewise supportive of the large-scale exhibition

with sponsors including Boysen, Apo Roofs, Apo Floors, and Firefly among others. From local to for-eign big wigs, PHILBEx Davao is definitely the place to be to take part in wondrous business oppor-tunities.

Furthermore, the ex-hibitors will highlight in-novations with the fore-most intent of designing and building landscapes, establishments, communi-ties, and regions in direct response and prepared-ness against

disaster. Highlighting the trade show would be the Developers’ gallery where guests can observe and discuss with the coun-

try’s top developers. There is also the Architects’ gal-lery and the Interior De-sign gallery which are ideal for those who are looking to have their spaces re-structured or designed.

As PHILBEx Davao en-visions to be a source for the latest industry infor-mation and concise trend reports, guests are invited to take part of the PhilBex Seminars, where industry professionals and experts will be conducting insight-ful talks and discussions.

Positioned as the larg-est and most exclusive construction event to hit Davao, PHILBEx is expect-ing visitors from various countries as well – result-ing in the biggest gathering

where premium informa-tion and knowledge are to be shared. Over 1,000 peo-ple are expected to flock the trade show each day which makes it a highly op-portunistic avenue for in-dustry professionals who are looking for future part-ners and collaborators.

The exhibition is also the best gateway for the in-ternational community to discover the ripe potential of the Philippines through Davao. As the turn-out is expected to be a success, this could finally be the im-petus needed to truly cata-pult the Mindanao building and construction industry to global heights.

The first-ever PHIL-BEx to hit the Mindanao

region, WSI sees this as the beginning of something big and monumental. This is only the start and with decades-worth of experi-ence in producing high-grade exhibitions that in turn propel and expand the growth of industries, Davao is bound to experi-ence progress like no other.

Don’t miss the chance to make history happen. Mark your calendars on May 15 to 18 with the first-ever Philippine Build-ing and Construction Ex-position Davao at the SMx Convention Center, Davao City. Admission is FREE. For more information, go to www.worldbex.com or follow us at www.face-book.com/wsifanpage

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A firm believer in the importance of style and design as much as it values technologies and innovation.Limitless opportunities abound as local and global companies participate in the biggest construction expo in Mind-anao.

The perfect place to find business prospects and potential partnerships.

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Durianburg and Japan has a special re-lationship that dates back to a time when abaca was all the rage in the world and vast plantations of it owned by americans dotted the landscape. back then, the workers in these fields came from Ja-pan and it was then that they settled in the city bringing with them their own culture and lifestyle (Davao was once known as little Tokyo due to the vest number of Japanese nationals living here) add-ing to the colourful tapestry that was Davao. Most of the Japanese nationals went back to Japan following the end of World War ii but their legacy in Durianburg still remains. Fast forward to april 22, 2014 and Japan is out to con-quer Durianburg once again as the Consular Office of Japan in Davao held the “Ja-pan big Day: Discover and Explore Japan 2014” exhibit at SM Lanang Premier. The atrium of the mall

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The big day when Japan conquered Durianburg again

was bursting with cherry trees in full bloom with a traditional Japanese shrine and kodo drum welcoming guests to the exhibit. The af-fair which ran from april 22 to 23 showcased traditional Japanese dance performances Senju Einojo, songs from the Kuroda band, as well as Japa-nese calligraphy artist group Shockers. The Japan big Day also had a cosplay event, a bonsai exhibit, and Japanese food kiosks. “The exhibit aims to pro-mote cultural exchanges be-tween Filipinos and the Japa-nese community in Davao City.” said Japanese Consul

Koichi ibarra. He also adds that the exhibit is also in line with Japan’s tourism thrust. The Japan big Day show is co-presented by the Japan Philippines Volunteer as-sociation, Hello World Tour, inc. in cooperation with the Department of Tourism, the City government of Davao, City Tourism Operations Office, Hello World Tour, inc., Philippine nikkei Jin Kai, inc. Mindanao Koku-sai Daigaku and SM Lanang Premier. Follow me on Instagram or on Twitter @kennethkingong for happenings in, about and beyond Durianburg.

Traditional Japanese dance by Senju Einojo. Traditional Japanese koi banners.

Okonomiyaki or Japanese “pizza”.

A member of caligraphy group, Shockers, showing off his calig-raphy skills.

A Japanese shrine.

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Transformer Book TrioTransformer book Trio is the world’s first three-in-one laptop, tablet, desktop PC and the only Dual OS laptop. With a gorgeous metallic industrial design and amazing versatility, Transformer book Trio is a device like no other. Fea-turing an easily detachable 11.6-inch Full HD screen, it switches nearly instanta-neously from being a high-performance Windows 8

and android laptop to an android tablet. attach the PC Station dock to an ex-ternal monitor, and Trans-former book Trio becomes a powerful desktop PC. This incredible versatility makes Transformer book Trio ideal for mobile users by reducing the number of separate devices they need to carry, along with the need to transfer informa-tion among devices. as a Windows 8 lap-top and PC, Transformer

book Trio features a pow-erful 4th-generation intel® Core™ processor for seam-less multitasking and en-hanced productivity. as an android tablet and laptop, its large, Full HD multi-touch screen and fast per-formance makes it easy to enjoy millions of mov-ies, music tracks and apps from google Play

The New Zenbook UX302Zenbook uX302 is an ultrabook that combines breathtaking style with incredible durability, per-formance and innovative design. its crystalline glass and ceramic coating gives Zenbook uX302 a rich lus-ter that is both elegant and beautiful. The lid is covered with a layer of Corning® gorilla® glass 3 with na-tive Damage resistance™ to make Zenbook uX302 incredibly scratch resistant and enhance its durability. inside the lid is a bright and colorful 13.3-inch high-resolution FHD dis-play that makes everything from web pages to work documents look great. The display on Zenbook uX302 also comes with multi-touch capability that provides an enhanced computing experience with Windows 8 touch support. Zenbook uX302 has a unique hinge design that is inspired by book spines and provides ideal viewing angles and typing comfort when fully open.

aSuS products won 11 prestigious iF Product De-sign awards at a ceremony held today at the bMW Welt Event Forum in Mu-nich germany. Spanning three product design cat-egories, the eleven awards are the most ever won by aSuS at a single iF De-sign awards ceremony. in the Computer cat-egory, aSuS won design awards for Transformer book Trio, The new Ze-nbook, MeMO Pad HD 7, Zenbook nX5000, the aSuSPrO Pu series, the aSuS Proart Pa Series monitors, aSuS g10aC and republic of gam-ers (rOg) Maximus Vi Formula motherboard. PadFone mini won an award in the Telecommu-nications category, and the aSuS S1 mobile LED pro-jector won an award in the audio/Video category. iF Design awards is recognized worldwide as seal of quality for products that excel in specific crite-ria including design qual-ity, degree of innovation, functionality, ergonomics and more. an indepen-dent jury of 50 experts from all over the world as-sesses products and selects winners.

MeMO Pad HD 7MeMO Pad HD 7 is a styl-ish and portable 7-inch val-ue tablet. Featuring a glossy cover design available in five colors — White, blue, Pink, green, and gray — it is an attractively sleek de-vice that is sure to match anyone’s sense of style. amazingly thin and weighing just 302g, MeMO Pad HD 7 is comfortable to hold in one hand and slides easily into a pocket, yet comes with a large, bril-liant HD iPS display that provides plenty of room and lets apps look their best. Dual speakers and aSuS SonicMaster tech-nology deliver rich, lively sound for captivating mu-sic, movie and game expe-riences. MeMO Pad HD 7 also comes with a front 1.2-megapixel and rear 5-megapixel camera for capturing life’s extraordi-nary moments.

Kids, get ready for your most exciting adventure this sum-mer as Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time takes over Abreeza Mall! With fun games and c h a l l e n g e s for Adventure Time fans, Ad-venture Time: Live On stage also features a rare appear-ance by Finn and Jake--don’t miss it! Catch Ad-venture Time: Live On stage from May 2 to 4, Friday to sunday at the Activity Center, with shows at 1 p.m., 3:30 p.m., and 6 p.m. For inquiries, please visit the Concierge at the ground floor.

A TEAM of young multi-national entrepreneurs who com-peted but failed in startup Weekend Cebu-2 in 2012 will carry the Philippine colors at the Echelon 2014 tech confer-ence in singapore this June. This was proudly revealed by TechTalks.ph founder Tina Amper during the joint press launch of startup Weekend Cebu (sWC)-4 and 1st startup Weekend Bohol last April 11 at the Golden Hub. Amper said the group, then known as Team Candy dur-ing sWC-2, earned the right to represent the country in sin-gapore when it ruled over the rest of the 11-team field in the Echelon 2014 Philippines satellite competition on April 4 at the Meridian international College in Taguig City. “i am very proud of these guys,” said Amper, mother of startup Weekend Cebu. “Their perseverance paid off. They did not land in the Top 3 at sWC-2, yet they never lose hope. They believe in their startup and now they’re earning from it.” Team Candy won the ticket to singapore for its novel mobile rewards platform, which the group initially pitched at the 2nd startup Weekend Cebu in November 2012 but failed to get the nods of the judges. Believing in the viability of its product, the team – cur-rently composed of Filipino, indian, and Japanese nationals -- went on to pursue its startup and launched Candy (can-dy.ph) a few months after sWC-2. At the time of sWC-2, Team Candy was basically just an all-Japanese tandem skippered by Yosuke Fukada until a number of fellow believers, including indian national Arn-ab Gupta, jumped in to form the group’s present lineup. Now officially registered as YOYO Holdings PTE Ltd., the group has already captured a nationwide market of 75,000 users within eight months upon launching the platform. Following the success of Candy in the country, YOYO ex-panded its services to Thailand and indonesia where it gained 30,000 users in a month. Candy is a platform that offers free mobile airtime or prepaid load credit for calls, text, and internet browsing in exchange for doing some micros tasks, such as filling out surveys, making reviews of a product or brand, or down-loading apps, among others. YOYO, on the other hand, gets its revenues from adver-tisers on Candy, which is a good avenue for ads since neti-zens will be frequently visiting the site to avail of the free load credits it’s offering. At the Echelon 2014 tech conference in singapore, Am-per said YOYO will have the rare opportunity to interact and receive valuable insights from the business leaders in the tech startup industry. The largest tech confab in Asia is also the best venue for YOYO to attract investors or forge partnerships with estab-lished companies for its expansion plans. Meanwhile, the fourth edition of startup Weekend Cebu is scheduled to take place on June 6-8 at the University of Cebu - Banilad campus, whereas the first-ever startup Weekend Bohol will be held on May 23-25 at the University of Bohol in Tagbilaran City.

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It’s time for Adventure Time at the Ayala Malls

SWC also-ran makes it to Echelon Singapore

ASUS breaks record with eleven wins at 2014

iF Design AwardsThe MeMO Pad HD 7 is a stylish and portable 7-inch value tablet with a glossy cover de-sign available in five colors.

The Transformer Book Trio is the world’s first three-in-one laptop, tab-let, desktop PC and the only Dual OS laptop.

The Zenbook UX302 is an Ultrabook that combines breath-taking style with in-credible durability, performance and innovative design.

One of the country’s most successful bands, itchy-worms, joins the sM City davao 3 day sale on May 2, Friday. Formed in 1996, itchy-worms performed at vari-ous school-based events and competitions with original songs and covers of the Beatles. in 1998, the band put together Revenge of the Unsigned, their first official Cd, intended for it

to be their independently-released debut album. The band’s first major-label al-bum, Little Monsters, was released in 2001. in 2005, the itchyworms released Noontime show, which gave them modest national success and indus-try recognition. The album became Album of the Year at the 2006 NU Rock Awards. Join Jugs Jugueta, Kelvin Yu, Chino singson and Jazz

Nicolas in an evening of great music and a whole lot of fun on May 2, 8PM at the Annex Event Center! Admis-sion is free. Enjoy up to 70% off on great selections mall-wide at the sM davao 3 day sale. sM Advantage, Prestige/BdO Rewards card hold-ers may avail of additional discounts when using their cards at The sM store, sur-plus, ACE Hardware, sM Ap-

pliance Center, Watsons, Toy Kingdom and Levi’s during the much anticipated sMAC sale special happening be-tween 9AM-12NN on May 2. Plus, catch the Red Light sale at the participating tenants. Enjoy freebies and more discounts when your favorite store is on red light. More surprises await every-one at the sM 3 day sale. sale runs May 2-4 with ex-tended mall hours up to 12

GMA Network’s newest Koreanovela My Love from the star proves to be a big hit not only in China, Ma-laysia, and singapore as it also won the hearts of the Filipino viewers during its Philippine TV premiere on Monday (April 21). Kapuso viewers warmly welcomed My Love from the star’s unique story and engaging characters as its pilot episode posted high ratings as well as positive feedback from viewers around the country. during its premiere, the phenomenal Koreanovela series also conquered the social networking site Twit-ter as it trended worldwide with the hashtag Matteodo played by Kim soo Hyun, while the hashtags MLFT-sTheinvasion and steffi

played by Jeon Ji Hyun trended nationwide. The My Love from the star fe-ver further continues as the hashtags steffiMeetsPro-fessordo and Matteodo landed on the list of top worldwide trends on Tues-

VHONG Navarro’s da Pos-sessed raked in an astound-ing Php40 Million in the box-office three days after its mainstream theatrical release which kicked off last 19. da Possessed is Vhong’s grand comeback vehicle to the big screen and based on the tremendous success on its recent opening day, the film has surpassed the open-ing day box-office returns of his previous successful films with director Bb. Joyce Ber-nal namely Mr. suave (2003), d’ Anothers (2005), and Agent X44 (2007). “The support of my fans is one of the most beauti-ful things that happened to me after everything that i’ve been through these past months,” says a jubi-lant Vhong. “i am humbled by the solid support that they gave to da Possessed. i can really feel their love. Thanking them may not be enough. i will forever be grateful. i wish to thank all those who watched the movie and i know that a lot

more are planning to watch it in the coming days.” da Possessed is also a per-fect date movie this summer that features Vhong and solenn as the newest and hottest love team tandem to hit the entire nation. Now dubbed by fans and sup-porters as the Vholenn tan-dem, moviegoers can look forward to non-stop laugh-ter and romance. solenn openly admitted that she had a crush on Vhong as she is very attracted to funny guys. “We were able to bond with each other during the

shooting of this film,” says solenn. Vhong shares his success to his leading lady solenn Heussaff. solenn expresses her gratitude to everyone who gave support on her first team up with Vhong “i’m so happy and thrilled. The story is perfectly writ-ten and was easy laugh-ing just reading it. With the execution of direk Joyce, Vhong cast and the entire team, it became even more magical. so happy, blessed, honored to be part of this film and thankful to every-

thing i learned from my di-rector and co-stars shooting this movie. Congratulations Vhong, ikaw ang da One!” Loved for the highly iden-tifiable “zero to hero” char-acters that he has portrayed through the years, Vhong has endeared himself to the entire nation as the Pinoy equivalent of “everyman” whom every Filipino can relate with. Vhong’s potent mass-appeal was further bolstered in 2009 when he joined ABs-CBN’s ground-breaking daily variety show it’s showtime as one of its pioneering hosts. Also starring in da Pos-sessed are John Lapus , smokey Manaloto, Empoy, Beverly salviejo, Lito Pimen-tel, Joy Viado, Aaliyah Bel-moro, Matet de Leon, and Joey Marquez. da Possessed is showing in cinemas nationwide. For more updates about “Da Possessed” simply visit w w w. S t a r C i n e m a . c o m .ph,http://facebook.com/StarCinema and http://twit-ter.com/StarCinema.

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Itchyworms to perform at SM Davao 3 Day Sale, May 2!

GMA 7’s My Love from the Star trends worldwide

Vhong and Solenn score a home run in ‘Da Possessed’

day (April 22). Netizens shouted their hearts out via Twitter on how My Love from the star’s extraordinary love story about two people lit-erally coming from differ-ent worlds captured their

interest. They were also moved by the fashion style of steffi and the handsome face and personality of the alien heartthrob Matteo. The pilot episode of this Koreanovela series showed the history on how Matteo was accidentally left be-hind 400 years ago. Three months before he gets back to the star where he lives, he meets steffi, a self-cen-tered but loveable actress who will create a big impact on his remaining months on Earth. Will it be possible for true love to be developed between an alien and a hu-man superstar? Don’t miss the exciting epi-sodes of the hit Koreanovela series My Love from the Star before 24 Oras only on GMA 7.

MN on Friday and saturday, and until 10PM on sunday. For inquiries, call 297-6998 local 126. Like SM City Davao

on Facebook or follow @smcitydavao on Twitter and @smdavao on Instagram for event and promo updates.

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MX3 the Philippines’ most trusted herbal dietary food supplement continued to sustain its “legacy of excel-lence” in the field of herbal food supplement with a successful promotional tour in Los angeles and San Francisco in the uSa. The MX3 and abS-Cbn caravan of the hottest stars on Philippine Television boosted the excitement and made the most awaited Star Magic all-Star basket-ball game MXtraordinary. The Star Magic all-star Team comprising of ger-ald anderson, Enrique gil, Jason abalos, reyver Cruz, Ejay Falcon, JV Kapunan, JC De Vera, arron Villa-flor and gerard acao went head-to-head with The St. Jude Team on april 11 at the Chabot College gym-nasium in San Francisco. a dinner was set an evening before the game with MX3 and abS-Cbn stars at El-ephant bar, Los angeles. The Star Magic all-star Team then went up against Hardwood ballers on april 12 at Pasadena City College gymnasium in Los ange-les. Half-time performances filled with music and danc-ing came from Enchong Dee, Xian Lim and Kim Chiu which brought smiles of excitement and ap-preciation from everyone around; MX3 also took the opportunity to hand-

out bags of MX3 products and MX3 items for all the participating players of the MX3 game Quiz. MX3 also gave its full blast support to ensure that Filipinos and ameri-can friends who joined the celebration treasured the momentous events by also offering MX3 products with an affordable pro-motional price just for the

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event. MX3 openhandedly commits to share all sales proceeds to be donated to Calamity Victims of Ty-phoon Yolanda through the DMiriE Foundation making the affair a joyful reunion among families and friends of hundred Filipinos and number of foreigners attending the event. it was a moment of sharing laughter’s, shout-ing, and enjoyment. up next on MX3’s Tour will be the “Kapamilya Fiesta World” in Vienna, austria sometime in May 2014.

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THE Commission on Higher Education (CHED) recently ap-

proved two new college degree programs at the Ateneo de Davao Univer-sity: AB Interdisciplinary Studies (AB IDS) and AB Islamic Studies.

“AB IDS is unique in that it combines different disciplines in new ways to respond to the needs of the

global work environment,” said Dr Renante D. Pilapil, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences.

It trains students in the interrelated fields of media, technology, and business, and philosophy, and man-agement. It solidifies skills in English and in Asian or European languages as well as share knowledge in modern cultures and arts.

“AB IDS is designed to give graduates multi-ple career opportunities,” added Pilapil. Graduates are equipped to occupy creative and analytical po-sitions in education, gov-ernment, and business, including telecommunica-tions, public relations, mul-timedia design, and infor-mation technology.

“It is enriched educa-tional experience at its best,” concluded Pilapil. Its cross-disciplinary con-centrations are: Language and Literature; Media and Business; Media and Phi-losophy; Media and Tech-nology; and Philosophy and Theology.

AB IDS aims to devel-op individuals with con-fidence, competence, and courage to take on the chal-

lenges of the 21st century.Further, to contrib-

ute more meaningfully to peace and development ef-forts in Mindanao, Ateneo de Davao also offers AB Islamic Studies, major in Political Economy, for the first time.

“AB Islamic Studies seeks to develop Islamic experts who will work to-wards education and gov-ernance in the autonomous Bangsamoro areas and be-yond,” said Islamic Studies Coordinator Ustadz Janor C. Balo said.

Graduates of AB Islam-ic Studies will find work in foreign service, business and technology companies, government and develop-ment agencies, as well as in Islamic education and research institutions.

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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- Top-ranked Rafael Nadal’s clay-

court struggles worsened Friday as his 41-match win-ning streak at the Barcelona Open ended with a three-set loss to Nicolas Almagro in the quarterfinals.

Nadal was looking for his ninth title in Barcelona but lost 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4, a week after going out in the quarterfinals of the Monte Carlo Masters to David Fer-rer. Nadal, widely consid-ered the greatest clay-court player of all time, hadn’t lost in Barcelona since his debut as a 15-year-old in 2003, al-though he missed the tour-nament in 2010. He had not dropped a set here since the 2008 final.

The 20th-ranked Alma-gro converted his second match point, smashing a forehand down the line for his first career victory over his fellow Spaniard on the 11th try.

‘’I had a lot of oppor-tunities in the second set,’’ Nadal said. ‘’I didn’t take ad-vantage of break points, so credit goes to him.’’

After failing to convert any of his five break points in the second set, Nadal

missed a return in the tie-breaker to give Almagro a 6-5 lead. Almagro followed up with a crosscourt fore-hand winner to level the match and end Nadal’s streak of 44 straight sets at the tournament.

Both players were steady on serve until an exchange of breaks made it 4-4 in the third, and Nadal then sent a shot long to be

broken again and give Al-magro a chance to serve for the match.

Nadal set up two straight chances to break back, but hit a forehand long and then sent a smash into the net with Almagro out of position.

Nadal then saved the first match point when Almagro’s backhand flew wide. But Almagro used a

serve-and-volley to save a third break point of the game before Nadal’s long return set up the second match point.

Nadal hadn’t been elim-inated this early in back-to-back clay-court tourna-ments since 2004, when as an 18-year-old he also failed to get past the quar-terfinals in Stuttgart and Bastad.

14 SPORTSFC Barcelona’s coach Tito Vilanova attends a press conference at the Sports Center FC Barcelona Joan Gamper in San Joan Despi, Spain. FC Barcelona announced on their web page on Friday that Vilanova has died after a long battle against cancer. He previously stepped down as coach when he became seriously ill and was unable to continue. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

MESA - Michael Phelps finished sec-ond on Thursday in

his first final in 20 months, and the swimming super-star famous for his will to win said even a runner-up finish is fun now.

Phelps, whose record 22 Olympic medals include an astonishing 18 golds, was beaten in the 100m butterfly final at the Mesa Grand Prix by his old foe Ryan Lochte.

But Phelps said he’d done what he set out to do in his first competition since the London Games.

Lochte led at the 50m

mark and held on to win in 51.93sec -- second-fast-est in the world this year -- while Phelps was sec-ond in 52.13, matching the fourth-fastest time of 2014.

“I did what I wanted to do,” said Phelps, adding he’d targeted a time of 52 seconds.

“The race was fun,” he added. “The stroke was a little rushed tonight, it was way more relaxed this morning. But I swam a final again.”

Lochte, not known as a 100m fly swimmer, said Phelps, as always, made him better.

“I probably wouldn’t have gone that time if Phelps wasn’t in there,” Lochte said. “I’m glad he’s back.”

Phelps insists he isn’t yet sure if his comeback will take him to a fifth Games at Rio in 2016.

“This is one meet, it’s one race,” Phelps said. “It’s a long way whether I decide to continue or not. I’m do-ing this because I’m having fun, I’m just enjoying myself on this road, this process, this journey.”

But news of his come-back sparked a sell-out at every session of this week’s

meet at the 1,200-capacity Skyline Aquatic Center in suburban Phoenix, Arizona.

Phelps’s fellow swim-mers were as thrilled as fans to see him back on the blocks.

That was particular-ly true of Lochte, who has had some memorable duels with his Olympic teammate.

“Racing against Michael is probably the hardest thing to do,” Lochte said. “I love it.

“Him leaving, it kind of broke my heart a little. Rac-ing against him is so much fun.”

Phelps had made it look

easy in posting the fastest time of the heats, although he said his pre-race butter-flies recalled his age-group days.

By the time the final rolled around Phelps had his familiar game face on, seemingly oblivious to the cheers of the crowd.

“I was more serious to-night than I was this morn-ing,” Phelps said. “I knew what I wanted to do.”

He wasn’t too quick off the blocks, and said his turn was “probably the worst” of his career.

Coach Bob Bowman -- who agreed about the turn

-- said the technical glitches could be fixed.

“I think that’s a really good time to start with,” Bowman said of Phelps’s performance in an event in which he is the world re-cord-holder and three-time reigning Olympic champi-on.

“It’s totally expected,” Bowman said of the mis-takes. “He hadn’t been in a race in two years until this morning... his timing was a little off at the start, then he scrambled to catch up, then he missed a stroke. By the time he got going it was kind of over.”

Phelps falls to Lochte in first final of comeback

Rafael Nadal returns the ball to Nicolas Almagro during the Barcelona open tennis in Barcelona, Spain on Friday. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Rafa’s struggles continue with Barcelona loss

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- Tito Vilanova, the soccer coach who

succeeded Pep Guardiola at Barcelona and won the Spanish league title in his only season in charge, died Friday of throat cancer. He was 45.

Vilanova had a re-curring tumor in a saliva gland and was admitted to a hospital in Barcelona last week. The team an-nounced his death on its website.

As Guardiola’s assis-tant, Vilanova provided the tactical know-how that helped the coach build one of the best teams in the his-tory of the sport, winning two Champions League titles.

Barcelona star Lionel Messi called the death a ‘’moment of profound pain for Vilanova’s family, and also for Barcelona and its fans.’’

‘’All of us who shared Barcelona’s locker room with Tito are deeply affect-ed, considering what he gave us as a person and as

a professional,’’ Messi said in a statement. ‘’I, person-ally, will always hold dear the things he shared and went through with me, which I will never forget.’’

Former Barcelona de-fender Eric Abidal, who recovered from liver can-cer and a liver transplant to help hoist the 2012-13 league trophy with Vila-nova, wrote on Twitter: ‘’For everything we went through together, I will al-ways remember you, my friend. Thanks for fighting.’’

Spain’s royal fami-ly and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy also sent telegrams to Vilanova’s family and Barcelona, ac-cording to Europa Press news agency.

Vilanova first became ill in November 2011 while an assistant to Guar-diola and took a leave of absence after surgery. Vilanova returned and re-placed Guardiola the next season, leading Barcelona to the Spanish league title with a record-tying 100 points.

Former Barcelona coach Vilanova dies at 45

VOL. 7 ISSUE 30 • SUNDAY-MONDAY, APRIL 27-28, 2014 15SPORTSEDGEDAVAO SPORTS

BOxING coach Freddie Roach admitted that a fight between Manny

Pacquiao and undefeated American boxer Floyd May-weather Jr. is not likely to happen even after the Fili-pino took back his crown from Timothy Bradley.

Roach said that aside from Mayweather’s refusal to get in the ring with the Filipino superstar, they will also have to deal with net-work and promotional con-flicts that are in the way of the mega-bout.

“We’d love to fight Floyd Mayweather next, but at this point it seems next to impossible, with the pro-moters and the networks further apart,” the boxing trainer said in ESPN.

Pacquiao fights under Top Rank Inc., which is as-sociated with HBO Sports, while Mayweather is locked

in a deal with Showtime.The fighting congress-

man pulled off a unanimous verdict against Bradley last April 12, his second straight win since losing by knock-out to Juan Manuel Mar-quez.

The victory not only vindicated his 2012 loss to the American, it also made him the WBO welterweight king again.

The Filipino boxer is ex-pected to hold discussions with boxing promoter Bob Arum next month regard-ing his next fight.

Roach said Pacquiao’s next foe may be known next month.

“There’s a fight in L.A., at the Forum, between Juan Manuel Marquez and Mike Alvarado on May 17, and the winner is a natural op-ponent next for Manny,” he said.

Barangay Una boxing trainer and coach Lelios Siodina is flanked by boxers during a break from a rigid training in preparation for the 2014 Palarong Pambansa to be held on May 4-10, 2014 in Sta.Cruz, Laguna. Region XI boxers who are set to compete in the DepEd-sanctioned tourney are Panabo City’s Ven Joshua Vanguardia (46 kgs.), Kent Jade Cedrick Solomon (38 kgs.), Jochebed Arellano (42 kgs.),and Paul Julyfer Bascon (49 kgs.)as well as Nicole Jhon Ligas (40 kgs.) of Mati City. The boxers are all training in Panabo City with the support of Brgy. Una founder businessman and philanthropist Tonyboy Floirendo, Davao del Norte 2nd District Rep. Antonio F. Lagdameo, Jr. and Schools Division superintendent Maria Ines C. Asuncion of DepEd Panabo City.

Next to impossible at this point: Roach

Superstar boxers Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant shoots during practice on Friday in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Kevin Durant in-sists he and Russell

Westbrook aren’t turning their first-round series into a two-man show, even if the NBA scoring champ says they may be shooting too much.

Saturday night in Game 4 would be a good time to start, or the Thunder could find themselves on the brink of playoff elimination in the opening round for the first time since 2010.

‘’I just didn’t make shots,’’ Durant said Friday after practice. ‘’That’s the name of the game. But I liked the way I cut, I liked the way I was aggressive. But I have to do a better job of maybe passing the ball a little bit more and also mak-ing shots. I’ve got to stay confident in myself.’’

Durant and Westbrook each scored 30 points in Thursday night’s 98-95 overtime loss to the Mem-phis Grizzlies, combining

to go 19 of 53 or a majority of the 87 shots the Thunder took. Worse, they were a chilling 4 of 21 beyond the arc with Durant missing all eight of his attempts.

Thunder center Kend-rick Perkins said that won’t happen again.

‘’KD is obviously the league MVP and we expect him to be the MVP down the stretch,’’ Perkins said.

Memphis has been making Durant and West-brook work hard for shots by crowding the paint while holding the Thunder be-low 40 percent shooting in back-to-back games. Now the Grizzlies have the same 2-1 lead they had a year ago in the semifinals against Oklahoma City after con-secutive overtime wins.

Grizzlies coach Dave Jo-erger said they want to lim-it the easy shots and hope Durant and Westbrook miss some.

‘’They’re going to get them up,’’ Joerger said.

Durant and Westbrook weren’t alone. Oklahoma City went 5 of 28 for a chill-ing 17.9 percent. That was just the seventh time in the playoffs the Thunder have shot 20 percent or less from 3 since moving to Oklahoma City, and three came against the Grizzlies.

Thunder coach Scott Brooks said the Grizzlies have been forcing them to take some of the 3s by crowding three and four players around the paint. Oklahoma City can loos-en up Memphis by hitting some of those

‘’The ones we’re trying to eliminate and hopefully we do that next game, are the ones that are off the dribble with the no passes. Those are the tough ones. Those are the ones that we don’t want. The ones we like, and we’re going to have to be able to step up and make, are the ones when they’re packing the paint.’’

Thunder optomistic KD will get hotMIAMI (AP) -- LeB-

ron James insisted on Friday that the

prospect of being fouled hard won’t change his at-tack mindset, though he and the Miami Heat are increasingly frustrated with how aggressive op-ponents are permitted to be against him.

James was leveled late in Miami’s game on Wednesday by Charlotte’s Josh McRoberts, who was originally issued a com-mon foul before the NBA upgraded the penalty a day later to a flagrant-2 and fined him $20,000. That wasn’t enough to fully appease the Heat, who were unhappy that referees didn’t see a need to review the play imme-diately.

‘’We’ve had dialogue

with the league,’’ Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. ‘’They made their deci-sion. At least half of it we agree upon - that it should have been a flagrant and it should have been re-viewed during the course of the game.’’

McRoberts’ foul against the four-time MVP came in what at the time was a three-point game, the outcome very much in doubt. Miami wound up winning, but if McRob-erts was given a flagrant-2 when the play occurred he would have been eject-ed.

Either way, the Heat said they aren’t planning any sort of retribution on Saturday night in Game 3 of the teams’ Eastern Conference first-round series, other than con-

tinuing to attack. James, though, wondered why he has seen several hard fouls get reviewed in oth-er recent playoff games and why his didn’t merit the same treatment.

‘’I already know it’s going to be a headline to-morrow: ‘LeBron is cry-ing for fouls,’’’ James said. ‘’That’s not me. I don’t want that. I don’t want that at all.’’

Heat forward Udonis Haslem said he thought McRoberts’ hit - replays didn’t suggest that the Bobcats’ forward was making any sort of play on the ball, and it was clear that his elbow struck James around the throat and chin - looked ‘’pretty bad.’’

‘’It looked intention-al,’’ Haslem said.

LeBron taking a beating, and Heat not happy

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