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w w w. a s i a n Volume 24 - No. 19 • 2 Sections - 16 Pages

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PH rejects $278.7-M EU grants ‘with conditions’ Palace: Refusal of aid attests PH independence by DANA

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THE Philippine government has stopped accepting aid “with conditions” from the European Union (EU) to attest to the independence of the Philippines as a nation, Malacañang said on Thursday, May 18. According to Philippine Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea, the Duterte administra-

tion has decided to reject new EU grants to “prevent” the latter from “interfering” with the internal affairs of the Philippines. “To enable them not to interfere with our internal affairs. We’re supposed to be an independent nation,” Medialdea told reporters. This could mean a loss of about €250 million or $278.73 million worth of grants, which are mostly allocated to peace

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DATELINE Fil-Am teen killed in car crash after prom FROM THE AJPRESS NEWS TEAM ACROSS AMERICA

Mother sustains non-life threatening injuries

A FILIPINOAmerican teenage girl was killed in a car crash in the Bay Area on Sunday morning, May 14, as she and her mother were on their way home from senior prom. At around 2:30 a.m., 18-year-old Shane Alexis Marcelino of Fremont, California was riding in the passenger’s Filipino-American Shane Alexis seat of black Toyota Marcelino, 18, of Fremont, California Yaris driven by her was killed in a car crash on Sunday mother, Maria. Just a morning, May 14, on her way home few blocks from the from senior prom. Marcelinos’ home, Photo from Marcelino’s GoFundMe page created by Noah Dela Rosa

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Outside Washington, a more powerful immigrant rights movement emerges SAN FRANCISCO – Immigrant rights advocates say that despite the cloud of fear hanging over communities in the first 100 days of the Trump administration, there is also a growing and increasingly organized resistance. “We are seeing an increase in the number of people apprehended for removal,” Melissa Chua, immigration director of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), told reporters on a national press call organized by New America Media and Ready California. “It’s not just growing infrastructure [for future deportations]…we’re seeing it in reality.” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement made 21,362 arrests from January 20 to March 13 of this year, a third more than during the same period in 2016, according to numbers requested by The Washington Post. PAGE A2

processes in Mindanao, according to EU Ambassador Franz Jessen. “The amount possibly concerned by the new decision is 250 million euro plus. For this year the amount affected could be 100 million euro,” the ambassador said. Spokesperson Ernesto Abella, however, clarified that the Philippine government would PAGE A2

Alex Tizon, the author behind ‘My Family’s Slave’ ON TUESDAY night, May 16, in the Philippines, American magazine The Atlantic shared the story “My Family’s Slave”. Less than 24 hours later, the story received thousands of shares on Facebook alone. Alex Tizon, a Filipino-American award-winning journalist, beautifully wove the stoAuthor and investigative journalist ry of a harrowing Alex Tizon. Image: Website/University of Oregon, reality: his family School of Journalism and Communication had kept a slave their entire lives. He tells the tale of Eudocia Tomas Pulido called “Lola” by his family, her life intertwined with his mother’s who inherited Lola from her father. She was the family’s dark, dirty secret, a modern-day slave in the land of the free. The article drew mixed reactions, with some labeling him complicit to the abuse of Lola—how was it allowed to go on for so long? Others acknowledged that the story was neither about glorification nor justification, but to give Lola the voice she was made to feel she never deserved. Tizon was only 57 when he died of natural causes March this year. In an editor’s note on Tizon, The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg shared that his death was all the more made painful by the irony that on the same day, March 24, they intended to tell him that Lola’s story would be the magazine’s PAGE A3

SENATE BILLIONAIRES. Senator Manny Pacquiao, chair of the Senate Committee on Public Works, greets resource persons before the start of the Senate inquiry, Tuesday, May 16, 2017, on the April 18, 2017 Carranglan, Nueva Ecija bus crash. Based on their recent statements of assets, liabilities and networth (SALN), Pacquiao and Sen. Cynthia Villar (inset, left) are the richest members of the Senate while Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV (inset, right) is the poorest.

SALN BARES SENATE’S BILLIONAIRES, MILLIONAIRES

Villar, Pacquiao are wealthiest; Trillanes poorest by DANA

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THERE are now two billionaires in the Philippine Senate, with boxer-Senator Manny Pacquiao joining Senator Cynthia Villar in the top spot. Based on the 24 senators’ 2016 statements of assets, liabilities and networth (SALN), Villar is richest member, with

a net worth sans liabilities of P3.6 billion as of December 31, 2016. Villar’s wealth increased from P3.5 billion as of June last year. She is the wife of former senator Manuel Villar, who is included in Forbes’ 2017 list of wealthiest Filipinos. Coming in as the second wealthiest member of the Sen-

ate is Pacquiao, who declared a total of P3 billion net worth, with P350.6 million in liabilities and P3.4 billion in assets. In his SALN, Pacquiao declared that most of his earnings came from his international boxing matches and endorsements. Among his biggest registered assets include “cash, jewelry, PAGE A2

Ombudsman to block moves to make Napoles state witness by AJPRESS

THE Office of the Ombudsman will block any moves to turn Janet Lim Napoles into a state witness in the planned reinvestigation of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), according to Ombudsman Conchita CarpioMorales. “As far as the prosecution is concerned, [Napoles] is one of the principal alleged malefactors. Certainly the OSP (Office of the Special Prosecutor) will block any attempt to make her

state witness,” Morales told reporters on Tuesday, May 16. Last week, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II revealed that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will conduct a new investigation into the PDAF, also referred to as the pork barrel scam. Napoles, the supposed mastermind of the operation, is being considered as a state witness. While the DOJ has discretion to conduct a new probe into the PAGE A2 Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales

CA approves Cayetano appointment as new Dept. of Foreign Affairs chief by DANA

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Senator Alan Peter Cayetano (right) is congratulated by Acting Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo after a Commission on Appointments panel approved his nomination as DFA secretary on Wednesday, May 17. Inquirer.net photo by Maila Ager

THE Commission on Appointments (CA) has approved the nomination of Senator Alan Peter Cayetano as the new chief of the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Cayetano’s appointment met no opposition from the members of the CA committee on foreign affairs led by Senator Panfilo Lacson. His nomination was approved in less than five minutes before he could even deliver his opening

statement on Wednesday morning, May 17 — which, according to Lacson, is likely the “shortest confirmation hearing of a Cabinet Secretary.” The CA committee referred Cayetano’s confirmation to the plenary in the afternoon. It also approved the motion to confirm his nomination without objection. Cayetano’s approval came a week after President Rodrigo Duterte announced his nomination on May 10, after the oneyear appointment ban on losing

candidates in the May 2016 elections ended. Thanking the CA for the “swift and painless” confirmation, Cayetano reiterated that he will do his best as the new DFA chief. “I will make a commitment to you today that I will do my best na hindi po kayo mapahiya (to not embarrass you),” Cayetano said, who is now deemed resigned as a senator. Even as the chief diplomat, Cayetano, who was also Duterte’s vice-presidential running mate in PAGE A2


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