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‘CHANGE IS COMING’

Duterte slated to be Philippines’ next president by christina

M. oriel

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mANILA—Davao City mayor rodrigo Duterte is set to become the 16th president of the Philippines, as unofficial vote counts show him in an insurmountable lead and as top rivals conceded defeat.

As of this writing on thursday, may 12, Duterte, who ran under the PDP-Laban party, clinched 15,915,687 million votes or 38.55 percent. trailing behind in second was Liberal Party (LP) bet manuel “mar” roxas with 9,681,829 million votes, followed by senator

Grace Poe with 8,929,899 million votes, Vice President Jejomar Binay of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) with 5,313,602 million votes, and senator miriam Defensor-santiago coming in fifth with 1,420,595 million votes.

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INCOMING PRESIDENT. Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte kept a convincing lead in the presidential race, breaching 15 million votes in unofficial count the day after the May 9 Philippine national elections. Duterte has parlayed decades at Davao City Hall into a successful, if controversial, run for Malacanang with millions seemingly endorsing his tough stance on crime and his self-described “gutter” language.

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Tax reforms, infra top Duterte agenda

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DATELINE Advocates rally to make overtime pay for domestic workers permanent

the economic agenda of presumptive President rodrigo Duterte will focus on tax reforms, rural development, ramping up infrastructure spending and attracting more foreign investments, among others, a member of his transition team disclosed on thursday, may 13.

Carlos Dominguez, former Agriculture secretary, bared the incoming administration’s eight-point economic agenda.

Duterte’s transition team includes Peter Laviña, Atty. Salvador Medialdea, Christopher Go, Inquirer.net he said Duterte will continue Leoncio Evasco (standing) and Carlos Dominguez. Not in photo and absent is Atty. Lorieto Ata. Inquirer.net photo by Nico Alconaba PAGE A4

from the AJPress NEWS TEAM AcroSS AMEricA

IN commemoration of mother’s Day, labor Vice Pres. Jejomar Binay organizations, domestic workers and their advocates demonstrated monday, may 9, at Los Angeles City hall’s south steps to support a bill that would make overtime pay permanent for domestic workers. members of the California Domestic Workers

by Marc Jayson cayabyab Coalition, which seeks to advance dignity and Inquirer.net respect for domestic workers and their families, VICe President Jejomar Binay on thursday, may 12 on monday gave testimonies supporting the conceded defeat and extended his congratulations to passage of the bill, sB1015. “[It’s] really important that we are creating a presumptive president rodrigo Duterte.

In a statement late thursday, Binay’s communications society that is really creating dignity and respect for all,” said Aquilina soriano Versoza, executive director Joey salgado said Binay has talked with Duterte director of Pilipino Workers Center, a non-profit to congratulate him for winning in the 2016 elections.

“We confirm that Vice President Binay has talked to organization dedicated to serving filipino workPresident-elect Duterte. he extended his congratulaers that is part of the coalition.

PAGE A3 tions and wished the president-elect all the best,” salgado said.

At last... Binay concedes, congratulates Duterte PH elects first transgender member of Congress by billy

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WhILe the Philippines has yet to reconsider its conservative stand on major issues such as same-sex marriage, divorce and death penalty, this predominantly Catholic nation is ready to welcome its very first transgender congresswoman in the incoming 17th Congress.

Filipino World War OAV votes may swing VP race results II vets can reunite with family under new parole program

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49-year-old Geraldine roman made history as the country’s first transgender congresswoman after winning the first legislative district seat of Bataan following the national elections held on monday, may 9. “the politics of bigotry, hatred and discrimination did not triumph. What triumphed was the politics of love, acceptance

and respect,” roman told AfP after being proclaimed the winner.

Partial and unofficial election results as of tuesday, may 10, showed that roman won with 104,287 votes (62 percent) compared to Danilo malana, who received 63,881 votes (38 percent).

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G. Visaya

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Applications begin June 8 After decades of waiting, filipino World War II veterans living in the United states can now be reunited with family members under a new policy announced by the Us Citizenship and Immigration services (UsCIs). the guidelines for the filipino World War II Veterans Parole (fWVP) Program were released on monday, may 9, outlining who are eligible to apply and what the process entails. the application comes nearly a year after the program was first announced last July in a White house report that provided recommendations on how to “modernize and streamline” the immigration system following President Barack obama’s executive actions on immiPAGE A4

NeW YorK—All eyes are now on overseas Absentee Voters and their votes which could very well decide who the next Vice President of the Philippines will be.

In a tightly-contested match, Liberal Party’s Leni robredo has taken the lead from independent candidate Bongbong marcos a few hours after the unofficial vote tally were made available online. As of press time, robredo has 13,841,197 votes against marcos who has 13,608,721.

It may take a while to see the final results though because of a last minute Comelec ruling that took into consideration the fact that there is no mail delivery on saturdays and sundays. Consulate officials were worried earlier that many ballots would arrive monday, may 9, after the initially agreed upon 5 am deadline in New York, or whatever the

Rep. Leni Robredo

Sen. Bongbong Marcos

time equivalent of 5 pm monday in the Philippines when all the voting centers closed. mailed ballots that arrived up to the extended deadline of 12 noon monday were still included in the counting. each ballot then had to be cross-referenced with the list of voters to identify as to which precinct it would belong to, before being fed to the vote counting machines.

In New York, 314 ballots were deliv-

The Special Board of Canvassers (SBOC) led by Minister Patrick Chuasoto (3rd from right) with Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia, Jr. after the closing of the Consolidation System (CCS) on Wednesday, May 11.

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ered on monday, bringing the post’s total to 10,267 votes cast. this figure represents a 39.5 percent turnout.

Presumptive president rodrigo Duterte won the votes in the states covered by the Philippine Consulate General New York, garnering 4,971 of the

total votes. mar roxas followed with 3,125 and Grace Poe with 991. In the Vice Presidential race, Leni robredo got 4,417 votes, followed by Duterte’s running-mate Allan Peter Cayetano with 2,594 and Bongbong marcos with PAGE A4

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PAGE A1 An estimated 54.5 million Filipinos were eligible to vote on Monday, May 9 for over 18,000 positions throughout the country. More than 92,000 precincts opened that morning at 6 am and closed at 5 pm; however, there had been reports of vote-counting machine (VCM) glitches in Metro Manila and beyond, so several precincts stayed open until 6 pm if voting was delayed.

At the end of the voting period, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Andres Bautista told reporters that voter turnout was at 81.62 percent, a historic number compared to the last three automated elections.

Binay was the first presidential candidate to head to the polls on Monday, filling out his ballot at San Antonio National High School in Makati City past 6 am.

An hour later, Santiago cast her ballot at La Vista Clubhouse in Quezon City. Roxas was in Roxas City, Capiz to place his votes at Rufina Andrada Santos Memorial School. Poe visited the grave of her late father Fernando Poe Jr. before heading to Sta. Lucia Elementary School in San Juan City.

Duterte, who was the last among the bets to cast his ballot, told reporters in Davao City in the afternoon that, “I don’t want to be presumptuous [about the results]‌ I ain’t there until I am there. This will be my 11th election in my life. I never experienced defeat. Maybe this time, if it’s God’s will. But If I win, I’ll do my job.â€?

Roxas, who came in second in the latest partial and unofficial results, held a press conference at the LP headquarters in Cubao, Quezon City, acknowledging Duterte as the winner. “According to the unofficial tally of Comelec, Mayor Digong is the clear winner. I wish you success, Mayor Duterte. Your success is the success of the Filipino people,� Roxas said, thanking his supporters.

Before midnight on Monday, Poe (who has three years left in her Senate term) conceded the presidential race to Duterte.

Early in the partial vote counts, Poe was placing second, but was ultimately overtaken by Roxas. “Ako si Grace Poe...ay nagbibigay-daan kay Rodrigo Duterte... na siyang napili ng nakararami

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Advocates rally to make overtime...

Supporters of incoming president Rodrigo Duterte are seen outside his house in Davao City on Wednesday, May 10. Duterte said there would be no lavish celebration once he is proclaimed the 16th president of the Philippines.

sa ating mga kababayan (I am Grace Poe, and I am giving way to Rodrigo Duterte, whom majority of our countrymen have chosen),� she said. Prior to talking to reporters, the senator reportedly called Duterte to congratulate him.

The presidential candidates marked the end of the 90-day campaign period on Saturday, May 7 with miting de avances (final rallies) across Metro Manila in last-minute attempts to garner support: Duterte and running mate Alan Peter Cayetano at the Quirino Grandstand in Rizal Park; Roxas and his running mate Rep. Leni Robredo held a star-studded event at Quezon City Circle, with the promise to continue “Daang Matuwid� (straight path); Poe and Sen. Chiz Escudero at Plaza Miranda in Quiapo; Binay and other UNA candidates at Lawton in Makati; and Santiago and running mate Bongbong Marcos held a “street party� in Quezon City’s West Triangle.

On the eve of election day, President Benigno S. Aquino III called for elections that are “peaceful, orderly, and truly mirror the spirit of democracy.� “Let me stress: In a democracy, everyone can decide. In the end, after the elections, hopefully, the bickering will end. Let us respect and understand any decision borne out of the collective voice of the majority,� Aquino’s statement in Filipino said.

The president had previously urged Roxas to forge an alliance with Poe to defeat Duterte. However, Poe rejected the proposal, saying she was not planning to withdraw from the race.

Replicating Davao City’s progress Davao City, where Duterte has

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served as mayor for over two decades, was once considered the murder capital of the Philippines, but has since transformed into a model of peace and order for its strict rules, like a no smoking ordinance in public places, liquor ban from 1 to 8 am, and 10 pm curfew for unaccompanied minors.

Leading up to Monday’s polls, the 71-year-old, who bears the nickname “The Punisher,� has consistently topped national surveys and gained popularity for being the anti-establishment candidate, whose no-nonsense platform promises to wipe out crime and corruption within six months of taking office. (He estimates 100,000 criminals would be gone by then or else he’d step down.)

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PAGE A1 Domestic workers are currently granted overtime pay under AB241, a measure signed by California Gov. Jerry Brown in 2013.

The law, however, is set to expire in 2017.

Filipino domestic worker Emiy Uy touted the passage of AB241 on Monday at City Hall, citing how the pay she received as a caregiver prior to that bill made it difficult for her to make ends meet. She also said employers have justified not paying domestic workers overtime because they sleep during their shifts. “There is no such thing as straight, uninterrupted sleep because during the night, our ears are open wide for us to hear the tiny sounds when our consumers wake up, or cry in the middle of the night because they have a nightmare. Or they call us out because they want their back scratched or they need to go to the bathroom or ... want to talk to us,� she said.

SB 1015, authored by state Sen. Connie Leyva (D-Chino), would eliminate the sunset provision of AB241 and make overtime pay for domestic workers permanent. “[As] caregivers, as home care workers, we are here to support SB1015 so that we will gain our dignity like every other worker who [is] being paid the minimum wage and the overtime wage,� Uy said.

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proved by the Senate and is now awaiting approval from the Assembly.

In a statement, Leyva thanked the California Domestic Workers Coalition for its continued advocacy and commitment to the issue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am pleased that SB 1015 passed from the Senate since it reaffirms our commitment to improved dignity and respect for domestic workers. The work that do-

mestic workers perform every day in homes across California helps to improve the lives of countless individuals, families and communities,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Also in attendance at Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s demonstration were domestic worker employees, and individuals involved with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles and the UCLA labor center, among others.

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“The total margin is very slim, so I would say that this time, the overseas absentee votes may be a factor in determining who might be the next Vice President,” Consul General Mario L. de Leon said.

Swing vote There are 1,376,067 registered overseas voters (land-based and seafarers), according to data from the Department of Foreign AffairsOverseas Voting Secretariat (DFAOVS). Of this figure, 275,689 come from North and Latin America.

The Philippine Embassy in Washington, DC where all election results were tallied, confirmed that there were 179,242 registered voters, but only 49,671 votes cast.

Voter turnout was at 27.71 percent.

Leading for president is Duterte with 24,789 votes (50.7 percent), with Roxas in second place with 12,820 (26.2 percent), and Poe in third with 5,480 (11.2 percent).

Robredo is leading in the vice presidential race with 18,407 votes (37.8 percent), in second place is Marcos with 14,193 (29.1 percent), and Cayetano in third place with 11,980 votes (24.6 percent).

In 2013, there were only 737,759 voters and of that figure, only 113,209 cast their ballots for a low turnout of 15.35 percent. The turnout was higher in the 2010 presidential polls with 26 percent casting their votes.

The Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles leads the list of US posts with 55,000 voters, followed by San Francisco with 46,831 and Washington, DC with 28,000.

The Philippine Consulate General in New York, which covers the northeast states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont, has about 26,000 registered voters.

The consulates of Chicago and Honolulu round up the list with 13,000 and 9,000, respectively.

Middle East and Africa leads the list of overseas voters with 593,834, followed by Asia Pacific Region with 344,857. Europe has 161,687 registered voters.

The month-long voting for overseas voters began on Saturday, April 8.

San Francisco vote In San Francisco, the reported unofficial total of valid ballots casted by eligible Filipino voters in the consulate’s jurisdiction is 14,398.

This represents more than 31 per-

current macro-economic policies.

There will be reforms in the tax revenue collection by the Internal Revenue and Customs bureaus, however.

“This will fulfill the Presidentelect’s promise that there will be less corruption in the government,” Dominguez said in a televised news conference in southern Davao City, where Duterte is the mayor.

He added that infrastructure spending will be accelerated to create jobs.

This will be done, according to Dominguez, by addressing, among others, major bottlenecks in the Public-Private Partnership or PPP program.

The Duterte administration will set aside five percent of the country’s gross domestic product or GDP for infrastructure spending, Dominguez said.

The new administration will also “ensure attractiveness of the Philippines to foreign direct investments by addressing restrictive economic provisions in the Constitution and our laws and enhancing competitiveness of doing business in the Philippines.”

Dominguez said the government will speed up issuance of business licenses and reduce crime “to increase the security of businessmen and consumers.”

He added that the Duterte administration will pursue genuine agricultural development by providing support services to small

Washington DC’s Special Board of Canvassers (SBOC) shuts down the Canvassing and Consolidation System (CCS) for the United States and the Caribbean on Wednesday, May 11. PH Embassy photo

cent of the total 46,831 registered voters, surpassing the turnout in the last 2013 elections.

Consul General Henry Bensurto of the Philippine Consulate in San Francisco believes that this may be because voters are now allowed to just mail in their ballots, as opposed to having to appear personally at the consulate. This, he said, made voting easier for those who are far from the Philippine Consulate office, but live within the jurisdiction of the SF PH Consulate (Northern California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Alaska, Northern Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming).

Duterte came out as the winner in the presidential race, with 6,535 votes or 45.39 percent, following

by Roxas at 4,035 votes (28.02 percent). Third place went to Poe with 1,877 or 13.04 percent.

Robredo topped the vice presidential race with 5,588 votes (38.81 percent). Trailing behind her is Marcos with 4,316 votes (29.98 percent) and in third is Sen. Francis Escudero with 988 votes (6.93 percent).

Business community responds In a statement obtained by the Asian Journal, The Makati Business Club congratulated the nation for “another successful manifestation of a fully-functioning and vigorous democracy” despite a campaign that deeply divided the electorate.

“The Commission on Elections deserves much appreciation for its management of a process, seen by many as highly credible, clean, and honest. We note that last minute changes in procedures, delays in logistical preparations, glitches in the Vote Counting Machines during election day itself, and the usual controversies presented significant challenges, which we believe Comelec adequately ad-

dressed,” the statement read.

The 2016 national and local elections were passionately contested. The campaign was fierce and people were deeply divided among personalities, parties, and platforms. In the face of these tensions, the will of the Filipino electorate prevailed.

Indeed, automation is the way forward given the improvements since 2010, and the refreshing practice of losing candidates conceding early to the apparent winners, demonstrating dignity in the face of defeat, and the apparent winners showing humility in victory, should be commended.

We note that a record 81% of the electorate exercised their right to vote, once again highlighting the Filipinos’ resilience amidst discomforting conditions, as well as our rock-solid commitment to upholding democracy. We also commend our teachers, election volunteers, and poll watchers for their humble and selfless service.

The partial and unofficial results from the Comelec convincingly reflect the will of the electorate.

The Makati Business Club also echoed the calls of the candidates who have conceded and issues pleas for unity.

“Now the process of genuine healing must begin: Friendships must be restored, mutual trust must be reestablished, and wounds must begin to heal. We call on all Filipinos to come together, to support our new leaders,” MBC said. “It is our hope that the 2016 elections bring forth a country grounded on the principles of protecting and strengthening our democratic institutions, and on decency, integrity, justice, empathy, competence, peace and order especially in Mindanao, and respect for the rule of law.” (With reports from Malou LiwanagBledsoe)

farmers “to increase their productivity, improve their market access and develop the agricultural value chain by forging partnership with agribusiness firms.”

“It also means that we are going to encourage more agricultural processing in the agricultural areas,” Dominguez said, adding that tourism in rural areas will be promoted.

Next on the agenda is addressing bottlenecks in land administration and management system.

“Security of land tenure is very important because it encourages foreign investment in the rural areas,” Dominguez pointed out.

The new government, he said, will strengthen basic education and provide college scholarships.

There will be changes in the tax system to reduce the “tax bite” on ordinary workers.

Dominguez explained that the incoming administration will make the tax system more progressive by basing taxes on the inflation rate.

“These tax tables were made years ago when P500,000 was more than what P500,000 meant now. So now, if you earn P500,000, automatically you are taxed 32 percent. And if you spend say 80 percent of that, you are taxed another 12 percent from VAT [valued-added tax],” he said.

“The tax bite should be lower for those earning P500,000 today because that is less than what it was in real value to what the value was when the tax tables

were made,” Dominguez further explained.

Duterte will expand the antipoverty Conditional Cash Transfer Program initiated by the Arroyo administration that had been expanded during the Aquino administration.

“These are the broad outlines of the economic policies that the new administration will pursue,” Dominguez said.

Duterte also plans to expand the coverage of the Philippine Health Insurance System or PhilHealth, he added.

President Benigno Aquino 3rd on Thursday signed Administrative Order (AO) 49 establishing a Presidential Transition Committee to “ensure a peaceful, orderly and effective transition” of power to the incoming administration on June 30.

The committee will be headed

by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. Its members will be the director general of the National Economic and Development Authority; the secretaries of the Budget, Finance, Foreign Affairs and Public Works departments; and the head of the Presidential Communications Operations Office.

The Presidential Management Staff will provide secretariat support to the newly-formed committee.

Under AO 49, all government agencies shall create their respective Agency Transition Committees to be headed by the units’ chiefs.

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PAGE A1 said it was her family’s love and support, and her faith that helped her throughout this journey.

“I am Catholic and I just happen to be a transgender. You can reconcile the fact that you’re Catholic and you are true to yourself,” Roman said.

Roman, who admitted to have undergone gender reassignment 20 years ago, said she is looking forward to proving her critics wrong.

“I’m elated, very, very happy.

I’m also excited to work. I realize that the burden is bigger because the stereotype of people about the LGBT is we are frivolous, that we have nothing substantial to say, so I have to prove them wrong,” she said.

In an interview with ABSCBN’s “TV Patrol” aired on Tuesday, May 10, Roman said that public service has always been close to her heart because of her father, the late former Bataan Rep. Antonino Roman.

“Marami kaming natutulungan (we are able to help a lot of people), our family, ang parents ko (my parents) particularly.

And I said, ‘well somebody has to continue the tradition of service of the Roman family,’” she said.

Before politics, Roman worked as a senior editor for a news agency in Madrid, Spain. She decided to come back in 2012 to take care of her ailing father, who eventually passed away due to multiple organ failure in January 2014.

Roman will succeed her mother, outgoing Bataan Rep. Herminia Roman, who has already served the maximum three-year term for public officials.

Priority measures

Geraldine Roman

Roman vowed to pursue antidiscrimination measures that will promote equality for all people in every socio-economic status, and not just for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.

“Discrimination in the work place, discrimination in all spheres of society, in daily situations,” Roman said.

There have been various anti-LGBT discrimination bills filed during the 15th and 16th Congress, but none have been passed into law. The latest version is House Bill 5687, which aims to eliminate discriminatory practices based on sex, sexual orientation or gender identity by proscribing and penalizing discriminatory practices.

AAMBIS-OWA party-list Rep. Sharon Garin, one of the sponsors of House Bill 5687 or the proposed Anti-Sexual or Gender

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Identity Discrimination (SOGI) Act, will push for the immediate passage of the bill in plenary when Congress opens its third regular session on July 27.

In an earlier interview with Inquirer.net, Roman said that she also intends to file her own version of the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill to ensure that all documents required for public works projects were accessible to the people.

“This is one way of avoiding irregularities in public works projects [because] some government officials connive with unscrupulous contractors.

Public work projects should be done according to correct specifications and the right perspective to benefit the public, and not project contractors,” she said.

The 17th Philippine Congress will convene in July.

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Starting June 8, “certain beneficiaries of approved familybased immigrant visa petitions” can request a discretionary grant of parole to come to the United States while they wait for their immigrant visa to become available.

Estimates indicate that as many as 26,000 Filipino veterans (of the over 260,000 Filipino soldiers who fought in the war) became US citizens, after long being excluded from a law that granted citizenship to foreign soldiers serving in the US forces.

Some of the veterans have petitioned family members from the Philippines to join them in the U.S., but wait times can last years, often times exceeding 20 years, due to statutory visa caps.

With the population of the Filipino veterans rapidly aging — around 2,000 to 6,000 veterans are estimated to still be living in the US today — having family members by their sides would provide them with the necessary support and care.

“The Filipino World War II Veterans Parole Program honors the thousands of Filipinos who bravely enlisted to fight for the United States during World War II,” USCIS Director León Rodríguez said in a statement on Monday. “This policy will allow certain Filipino-American family members awaiting immigrantvisa issuance to come to the United States and be with their

loved ones. For many, it will also allow them to provide support and care for elderly veterans or their surviving spouses.”

Among the requirements for the application include: individuals must be “beneficiaries of Forms I-130, Petition for Alien Relative” who were approved on or before the filing date of the parole and must be related to those who have “established they are either Filipino World War II veterans or are the surviving spouses of such individuals.”

If cases where the petitioning relative is now deceased, family members may be able to seek reinstatement of their immigration petitions and then self-petition for parole.

Granting parole will be determined on a case-by-case basis after interviews by the USCIS or Department of State consular offices.

Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) praised the announcement as a “victory” for Filipino-American communities across the U.S. “After facing decades of injustice and separation from their loved ones, courageous Filipino veterans in Nevada and throughout the country finally have the opportunity to reunite with their families,” Reid said.

“These brave veterans have made incredible sacrifices for our country, and I have spent years fighting to ensure that the United States does everything possible to repay that great debt.

Today’s victory is the culmination of years of hard work and

advocacy on behalf of a group of people who have endured decades of false promises and denied benefits.”

The American Coalition for Filipino Veterans, a Washingtonbased advocacy organization, thanked Congress members, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA) and “allies for their kind-hearted and dedicated lobbying for the Filipino elderly heroes, their widows and children.”

JT Mallonga, national chair of NaFFAA, called the announcement “heartening.”

“Our courageous heroes, who have waited for up to 20 years, deserve the opportunity to be with their children,” he said.

“They must not suffer the pain of separation in the twilight of their years.”

The United States has set up similar parole programs in the past, such as the Cuban Family Reunification Parole Program and the Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program. Under those parole programs, the beneficiaries were allowed to come to the US and were eligible to apply for work authorization while waiting to apply for lawful permanent resident status.

In a statement, USCIS added that eligible individuals who are interested in requesting parole under the FWVP Program are encouraged to do so within five years from June of this year.

(Christina M. Oriel / AJPress)

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Most of the VcMs that had to be transported to the stadium came from the so-called “lim territory,” such as Tondo, he noted.

Proclaimed on Tuesday, May 10 after a canvassing that took 17 hours to finish, Estrada garnered 283,149 votes to top lim’s 280,464.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Estrada, who said he didn’t expect Monday’s poll to be that close, had a simple advice for lim: “Retire.”

In Makati, incumbent Mayor Peña, who has yet to concede defeat to Rep. abigail Binay, issued a brief statement addressed to his supporters: “I understand that you are all emotional but I hope we all set this aside first to avoid any trouble. We are continuously studying everything to shed light on this issue.”

Peña was referring to allegations of vote manipulation in the city’s District 2, Binay’s turf. Poll watchers for the mayor claimed there were four precincts at Pembo Elementary School where he received zero votes, prompting

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HIGH SPIRITS. Philippine Army servicemen and non uniformed personnel join in a boodle fight at Camp Aguinaldo to celebrate the peaceful and orderly elections last Monday, May 9.

ManilaTimes.net photo by Mike De Juan

Palace: Talk about Aquino arrest not good for unity of nation

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Malacañang has said it is premature to speculate on whether Davao city Mayor Rodrigo Duterte will listen to communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria “Joma” Sison’s request to have outgoing President Benigno aquino III arrested.

“Baka naman po mas mainam na iyang mga prospective na scenario na iyan ay hintayin na lang natin na maganap sa halip na tayo ngayon ay mag-e-engage sa espekulasyon dahil baka hindi ‘yan masyadong nakakatulong sa paglikha ng isang kaaya-ayang sitwasyon na kung saan ay pwedeng magkaisa tayo at tumugon tayo doon sa lumalawak na

Thursday, May 12.

He said arrests, for example, could not be made until after June 30 when aquino’s term officially ends.

Sison, who was a former professor of Duterte, on Facebook urged the presumptive president to have aquino and Budget Secretary Florencio abad arrested in connection with the anomalous and now defunct Priority Development assistance Fund (PDaF).

Duterte earlier promised to visit Sison in the netherlands where the latter is seeking politiSecretary Herminio Coloma Jr. cal asylum. panawagan for unity and healing conflict is one of the issues that in the nation,” communications Duterte has promised to resolve Secretary Herminio coloma Jr. by seeking dialogue with the cPP said during a Palace briefing on and other rebel groups.

Court rejects Jinggoy, Napoles’ bid to reverse denied bail

by MArc JAyson

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need to impose on it again the same duty premised on the same THE Sandiganbayan has de- arguments.”

Division chair associate Jusnied the appeal of detained Senator Jinggoy Estrada and accused tice Roland Jurado said in his mastermind Janet lim-napoles separate opinion that the denial to reverse the court’s denial of of bail is not a “judgement” on the “final outcome of the case.” their bail in the plunder case.

The court denied Estrada’s In its resolution, the anti-graft court’s Fifth Division said it did appeal even though the denot find any evidence that would tained senator cited the Supreme reverse its earlier resolution de- court’s decision allowing Senator nying the bail plea of Estrada and Juan Ponce Enrile to post bail in his plunder case due to humaninapoles.

“There is nothing in said mo- tarian considerations.

In denying Estrada’s bail, the tions which would warrant the reconsideration or reversal of the court earlier said it found evident questioned resolution dated Jan- guilt with Estrada’s alleged use uary 7, 2016 that has not been of conduits according to the bank exhaustively discussed and de- inquiry report by the anti-Money laundering council (aMlc). liberated upon,” the court said.

The court noted the aMlc’s The court added that it has “scrutinized every detail of the findings that Estrada’s handwritevidence” and that “there is no ing in the bank checks was simiInquirer.net

lar to that of businessman Juan ng, whose bank account allegedly holds millions of kickbacks from napoles. The court said Estrada and ng could possibly be one and the same.

Estrada’s alleged use of conduits is reminiscent of the Jose Velarde account, which was supposedly owned by Jinggoy’s father former President Joseph Estrada to stow away jueteng kickbacks. Joseph Estrada was later convicted but pardoned for the crime of plunder over jueteng kickbacks during his short-lived term as president.

Estrada is accused of receiving P183 million kickbacks from napoles, the alleged mastermind of the pork barrel scam. He is detained at the Philippine national Police custodial center with coaccused Sen. Ramon Revilla Jr.

Drilon mum on leadership change or looming opposition in Senate

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WIll there be a change of leadership in the Senate or a looming opposition Senate under the incoming administration of presumptive President Rodrigo Duterte?

This was the question that incumbent Senate President Franklin Drilon, vice chairman of administration’s liberal Party (lP), was not yet ready to answer when asked in an interview at the Senate on Wednesday, May 11.

“I don’t want to talk about that at this point. I think it’s premature,” Drilon said when asked if there will be a change in leadership when the 17th congress opens in July. asked again if he was ready to be with the new minority group, the Senate leader said, “I think it’s premature to talk about that. let’s

first do our duty to proclaim the newly-elected president and vicepresident. That’s the first order of business, so that we can provide stability and a smooth transition of power into the next administration.”

However, in the Senate, Drilon explained that present leadership will continue to perform until there’s an election of new officers in the chamber.

“In the Senate there is continuity, and whoever are the leaders of the 16th congress will continue to function as such until the elections take place at the opening of congress,” he said.

“We have gone through this before. Senator Villar was the Senate President, and he continue to be Senate President until the elections for the new officers of the Senate took place, consistent with the constitution, and that is at the

Sen. Franklin Drilon

opening,” Drilon said, referring to former Senate President Manuel “Manny” Villar Jr. at least seven administration candidates are in the “Magic 12” of the Senate based on partial and unofficial counts of the commission on Elections (comelec) Transparency Server.

The seven are Drilon, who is topping the senatorial race, former Secretary Joel Villanueva, returning Senators Panfilo lacson PAGE A7

Duterte slated to be...

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Before a crowd of thousands of supporters in Rizal Park on Saturday night, May 7, Duterte delivered a 90-minute speech, wherein he reiterated his anticrime policy, which involves mass killings.

“If I make it to the presidential palace, I will do just what I did as mayor. You drug pushers, hold-up men and do-nothings, you better go out,” he said.

“Because as the mayor, I’d kill you.”

In response to the criticism from human rights groups, he simply added, ”I will butcher him in front of them if they want.”

Even the controversies that arose during Duterte’s campaign — the rape comment about an australian missionary, questions about his wealth and hidden bank accounts, and the

alleged human rights violations for the Davao Death Squad’s extrajudicial killings, among others — were not enough to detract Filipinos who are tired of the rampant crime throughout the country. after voting on Monday, May 9, young Filipinos expressed why Duterte is fit to be the country’s chief executive.

“I voted for Duterte because I support Federalism and he qualifies my requirements for a president. I want the next administration to address the problem in education and income tax,” Ericka cayton, 20, a marketing associate from las Piñas, said.

“Duterte kasi kelangan na nang bansa ang pagbabago, yung kamay na bakal para sumunod lahat (Duterte because we need a changed country [and] that hand of steel so everyone will follow), “ said chris Talon,

25, from caloocan.

22-year-old allen T. from San Pedro, laguna added, ”Duterte, sawa na ko sa puro salita, kailangan na may gumawa (I’m tired of all talk, there needs to be action).”

The strictness that voters seek and now expect was reiterated

by Duterte on Tuesday morning.

“I will be strict. I will be a dictator, no doubt it. But only against forces of evil — criminality, drugs and corruption in government,” he said in Davao city. once officially declared the winner, Duterte will assume the presidency on June 30. outgoing President aquino has yet to reveal plans on what he will do after leaving office. (With reports from Mary May Portez, Godwin Gasacao and Ian Jamotillo / AJPress)

cause that is an election offense.

It is also a sign of desperation. It seems that they do not want to respect the results and even want to do a manual count.”

Her camp could not be accused of election fraud since they were not the ones in power, said Binay, who led Peña by about 16,000 votes.

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Progress report

THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) proudly announced on Monday, May 9, that of the 54.4 million registered Filipino voters, about 40 million or 81.62 percent exercised their right of suffrage.

This year has seen the fastest transmission of election returns since the automated poll was introduced in 2010. At 10:50pm on Monday, the transmission rate for 2016 elections was already at 74 percent. In 2010 and 2013, the electronic transmission was only at 17 and 23 percent during the same time, respectively.

More Filipinos abroad also cast their votes during the 30-day voting period in 85 Philippine posts worldwide. Comelec reported a total of 376,586 out of the 1,376,067 registered overseas Filipinos worldwide or 29.56 percent voter turnout. It was 285 percent higher compared to the 2013 polls.

Garry Martines of Migrante International said that this year has seen a higher turnout of overseas absentee voting (OAV) because FIlipinos abroad want accountability and new leaders who will nurture overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and migrant workers, and their families back home.

“Our OFWs have remained vigilant,” he said.

“We have once again proven how resilient and significant our OFWs are. We have disproved all claims that there had been a growing apathy among our OAVs.” For their part, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) reported that the 2016 elections may still

be considered generally peaceful despite some isolated reports of Election Related Violent Incidents (ERVIs) and delays due to glitches in the vote counting machines (VCMs).

There were 164 recorded ERVIs since January, the beginning of election season.

Despite the 140,000 police personnel deployed across the 36,000 polling precincts across the country on Monday, the AFP still recorded 22 ERVIs, which resulted to 10 fatalities and three wounded.

Both security agencies vowed to remain vigilant until the last winner is proclaimed.

Meanwhile, voting had to be extended until 6pm on Monday in some precincts due to some delays caused by malfunctioning VCMs. Comelec said that out of the 77,829 VCMs, 171 needed replacement, which is equivalent to 0.2 percent.

All in all, Monday’s polls are gearing towards a satisfactory conclusion, which is more than what is expected. Even international observers agree.

These positive reports reflect how Filipinos may have finally realized the power that belongs to them, which is to choose the leaders they think are adequate to represent their best interests. It strengthened their participation in this democratic process and trust in the system that is election.

(AJPress)

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Historic Halalan 2016 busts apathy among Filipino voters

The Fil-Am Perspective Gel sanTos-relos EIGHTY ONE PERCENT turnout among registered voters in the Philippines is a reason enough to celebrate in a country that has complained about apathy among Filipino people, who have much to complain about lacking in the will and push to do something to do something about the problems that beset the nation.

After more than a year of passionate, contentious and even nasty debates and campaigns, kababayans in the Philippines and around the world passionately made their voices heard by

casting their votes on who they want to lead the Philippines as president, vice president, senators, representatives and other local officials.

Fueled by discontent of the status quo and buoyed by the power of social media, ordinary Filipinos have been empowered to choose the leaders who they think will stir the nation to the Philippines of the future—their vision of a better, more peaceful, orderly, safer, and progressive Philippines.

The most number of Filipinos decided to traverse a path different from “Daang Matuwid” offered by President Benigno Aquino III in the past six years.

The torch was supposed to be handed over to the administration’s bet—Former DILG Sec.

Mar Roxas—moving forward.

But most Filipinos clamored for real change, and they discerned a Roxas presidency would be more of the same.

And so they chose instead to trust Rodrigo Duterte, the maverick but tried and tested mayor who has made the City of Davao the peaceful, safe, clean, orderly and progressive city it is now.

They believe what Duterte did in Davao, he could also do in all parts of the Philippines.

But a clean, honest government remains what Pinoys continue to aspire for, which could be the reason why as of press time, Congresswoman Leni Robredo—the widow of Former DILG Sec. Jesse Robredo—has been leading the race for vice president. Leni Robredo has ded-

icated her life to being a lawyer for the poor, before she entered politics when her husband died in a plane crash. The most number of kababayans saw in her the genuine desire to serve the people, devoid of the hunger for power and greed for money that push many politicians to be embroiled in graft and corruption.

The results of the elections in the Philippines (based on partial, unofficial tallies of votes) mirrors the decision of Filipinos in America. The Overseas Absentee voters here also chose Duterte for President, and Robredo for VicePresident for the same reasons.

In the days leading up to the May 9 elections, social media was inundated with prayer requests for clean, honest, peaceful and orderly elections. For the

most part of the election process, such prayers were answered.

The result: record breaking turnout of Filipinos who decided to use their right of suffrage to effect change in the status quo through a peaceful and responsible way.

Kababayans were amazed at how fast the results of the election were reported, thanks to the use of voting machines.

Filipinos were in awe by the grace (no pun intended) and class of candidates who conceded early knowing they have lost the election by a big margin. Sen. Grace Poe, Sec. Mar Roxas and Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano have shown the other candidates that the election is not about them.

It is about the will of the people that must prevail, and that its is

the moral responsibility of those who were not chosen by the people to make sure there is a smooth and orderly transition to the next administration. Through their example, they began the healing process that will lead to the unity of the citizens in looking forward to and doing their part for the success of the next administration.

After all, the success of Duterte, Robredo, and the newly elected public officials will be the success of the Filipino people. *** Gel Santos Relos is the anchor of TFC’s “Balitang America.” Views and opinions expressed by the author in this column are are solely those of the author and not of Asian Journal and ABS-CBN-TFC. For comments, go to www.TheFil-AmPerspective.com, https://www. facebook.com/Gel.Santos.Relos

The fight is now between Aquino and the Filipino people

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Francisco TaTad AMID the clear violations of the automated election law, and widespread fear of massive electoral fraud, the May 9 presidential polls reported an incredible turnout of 81 percent, and gave PDP presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte a roaring landslide, which President B.S. Aquino 3rd and the other presidential candidates will be hard put to challenge, even if they should want to.

But they obviously do not want to. Contrary to our earlier fears that none of the losing presidential candidates would recognize the winner, none of them have questioned the apparent landslide of Mayor Duterte. Sen. Grace Poe Llamanzares, whose doubtful natural-born Filipino citizenship has sown doubts and confusion upon the entire presidential process, was the first to concede defeat after Duterte posted 14.4 million votes out of 41 million votes reportedly cast and 37 million counted.

Roxas followed suit on Tuesday afternoon, after the unofficial quick count gave Duterte 15,245,930 votes, Liberal Party standard-bearer Mar Roxas 9,183,938 votes, and Mrs. Llamanzares 8,542,159 votes.

But trouble could be brewing in the vice-presidential race.

Saved from Grace Many found Duterte the most dangerous man to put in high of-

fice. For this reason, they hoped UNA’s Vice President Jejomar C. Binay would perform a miracle, or that the LP standard-bearer Mar Roxas could catch up. But even those who did not vote for him are now genuinely grateful that he made sure that a former American citizen with a naturalborn American husband and of no known biological parentage would be sitting as our President just because nine Supreme Court Justices had decided, against the clear language and spirit of the Constitution, that Mrs. Llamanzares was “qualified” to run for President.

That Supreme Court ruling destroyed the Constitution, the Court itself and the presidential system, which requires a president to be, among other things, a natural-born citizen who has lived in the country for at least 10 years immediately preceding the elections. I didn’t think I could, as lead petitioner before the Commission on Elections and the Supreme Court against the Llamanzares candidacy, live with that. I worried more about having someone of questionable citizenship in the presidency than having someone who had killed criminals in his war against crime.

My young daughter had warned me, “If Grace Poe wins, you’ll have to look for another country, Dad.” And she may not even want to join me. The trouble is, I am too old and too set in my ways to think of joining so many disgruntled American migrants to Canada. But while I thought I had every reason to be concerned

about the kind of language I was hearing from the macho candidate, I could not help but suspect he was doing it all or effect. He knew the crowd loved it and the media lapped it up, and he played to the media and the crowd. And he didn’t have to burn hundreds of millions of pesos on TV ads.

But I had very little doubt that should he win the presidency, he would quickly discover that the office has its own rules, norms and discourse, which he would be compelled to recognize and accept, regardless of his own unique style of leadership. We shall see what happens when Duterte takes power after June 30.

Meanwhile, the electoral battle has shifted to the vice presidency.

In that race, Independent vice presidential candidate Sen. Ferdinand (Bongbong) Marcos, Jr. had been leading LP’s Leni Robredo all day of Monday by as much as close to a million votes.

All internal exit polls showed the same results; even the notorious Social Weather Stations, which managed to fudge the exit poll in 2004, showed Marcos ahead with 34.9 percent against Robredo’s 32.5 percent.

But by 4 a.m. of Tuesday, with some 4 million votes of the reported turnout unaccounted for, Robredo suddenly overtook Marcos. At press time Tuesday, she had 13,740,668 votes against Marcos’s 13,551,082 votes.

The tally is unofficial, and does not identify the specific sources of the votes. The Marcos camp has called for a stop to the unofficial quick count, and

asked those reporting the votes to specifically identify the places they are coming from. This is a valid request since the Official Count has already begun, but someone at the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting insists on continuing with the unofficial count. Sounds fishy to a lot of people.

Sources at the Duterte camp suggest that Robredo’s votes have been padded to a significant extent at this point, and that Sen. Francis Escudero, who has been trailing Bongbong and Leni from the very start, may have agreed to transfer some of his votes to Robredo. This speculation appears to find support in one so-called “honest mistake” where 36,422 votes were removed from Escudero and 35,668 votes added to Robredo in the unofficial count.

This was reported by GMA-7 and CNN. GMA said it committed a mistake, but the fact that another network carried the same “mistake” meant that the “error” occurred at the source—the Comelec—rather than at the reporting outlets.

Rear-guard action What is happening in this race appears to confirm everything that has been reported about Aquino’s plan to prevent Marcos from becoming the Vice President. In a meeting before the election, LP top dogs and Aquino’s principal advisers were reported to have agreed that Roxas had lost the fight, and that their best shot would be to fight rear guard action in the vice presidential race.

Everything had to be done to

make Robredo the Vice President so she could succeed Duterte after he is removed by impeachment.

This meant that some 3 million “floating ballots” allegedly reserved for Roxas’ special operations, if Duterte’s edge was smaller than 3 million, should be diverted to Robredo so she could prevail over Bongbong as a first step in ousting Duterte after June 30. This was the same plan the Roxas camp had in 2010 when Mar Roxas slid down to the position of vice presidential candidate. His advisers were confident that the LP could impeach and remove PNoy after a few months, and put his VP in office, but some of PNoy’s relatives got wind of it, and supported Jojo Binay instead.

This also explains the reported unprecedented turnout of 81 percent. The usual average is 65 percent. By inflating the “number of voters who voted,” it becomes easier to play around with the votes of the candidates. This is an old malpractice, which some operatives tried to inflict on the 1995 midterm elections, purposely to shut me out and a few others from the senatorial race. Luckily, I got wind of it and was able to stop it.

Unstoppable A few days before the election, I met PNoy’s political secretary by chance and he admitted that Sen. Antonio Trilllanes IV’s demolition effort against Duterte had failed, and that the tough-talking mayor had become unstoppable. Aquino needed to adopt a different approach.

PNoy had thrown almost ev-

ery resource into the campaign to make sure that the next president would protect him from any legal harm. He even mobilized his youngest sister Kris, the country’s No. 1 product TV endorser, to appear in Roxas’s and Robredo’s TV commercials to boost their propaganda ratings. This apparently did not help much.

INC humiliation Most embarrassing of all, PNoy tried to bamboozle the politically influential Iglesia ni Cristo, whose more than 2 million members normally vote as a bloc, into supporting Roxas and Robredo, only to be spurned by the sect that had supported him enthusiastically in 2010. At one point, the INC leadership reportedly even considered supporting UNA’s Vice President Jejomar Binay, but never Aquino’s recommendees.

He also warned voters openly about the dangers of having a “dictator Duterte.” But more than that, he threatened to lead a “people power revolt” should the son and namesake of the late former President Ferdinand Marcos win. That carried the risk of a lameduck president calling for a march against a popular vicepresident-elect, without anyone heeding his call. So he apparently decided to do everything to try to prevent Bongbong from winning.

Leni Robredo may not even be aware of what Malacañang is doing to use her for its plans.

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GETTING READY. Workers arrange documents at the session hall as the House of Representatives prepares to canvass votes for the presidential and vice presidential candidates.

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Duterte siblings claim Davao City top posts

by Patricia Lourdes Philstar.com

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MANILA—The children of presumptive president Rodrigo “Rody” Duterte have been proclaimed as mayor and vice mayor of their hometown Davao City, Davao del Sur. On Tuesday, May 10, Sara Duterte-Carpio was proclaimed as mayor while her brother Paolo “Pulong” Duterte was re-elected

as vice mayor.

Sara won by a landslide with 576,230 votes while her opponents Teodoro Mantilla and Kilat Tocante only garnered 2,012 and 591 votes, respectively. She served as Davao City mayor from 2010 to 2013, becoming the first woman local executive chief of the city.

Paolo, who ran unopposed in the vice mayoralty race, registered 522,119. Both Sara and

Drilon mum on leadership change...

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and Francis Pangilinan, incumbent Senator Ralph Recto, former JusticeSecretary Leila de Lima and former Congresswoman Risa Hontiveros.

Drilon, Pangilinan, Recto and De Lima are with LP; Villanueva and Lacson are independent while Hontiveros is with Akbayan party-list. All seven ran under the administration’s party with former Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas II as its standard-bearer and Camarines Sur Representative Ma. Leonor “Leni” Robredo as vice president.

However, instead of discussing the composition of the next Senate, Drilon said there should be smooth transition of power first from the incumbent President Beningo Aquino III’s administration to the incoming administration of

presumptive President Rodrigo Duterte.

“In 1992, I was the Executive Secretary, and my mandate as Executive Secretary of the late President [Corazon ‘Cory’] Aquino was to ensure the smooth transition of power between from the Aquino administration into the [Fidel] Ramos administration. You must remember that the 1992 elections was the first after the People Power Revolt, so it was a very delicate process,” he said.

“We do not see such a difficulty today, due to the fact that we have had a number of elections, but we will still be vigilant in our efforts to make sure that there will be no interruptions in the smooth transition of power to the Duterte administration,” the Senate leader added.

Paolo ran under Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod, a political party which their father Rody founded.

The presidential front-runner earlier said that he opposes the provisions of the proposed AntiDynasty Bill as he finds it undemocratic.

The elder Duterte said that the proposed measure hinders rights of first degree family members of public officials to run for office.

PAGE A6 ing President decide to treat him in the same manner as he had treated his immediate predecessor Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and the three opposition senators who had helped him to convict Corona at his Senate impeachment trial.

He has jailed Arroyo, and Senators Jinggoy Estrada, Ramon Revilla, Jr. and Juan Ponce Enrile on non-bailable offenses, except that the court has recently allowed Enrile to post bail for reasons of health and age.

His treatment of Arroyo is in utter contrast to the humanitarian treatment his father, the late former Senator “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr., got from Marcos during his imprisonment. Although Ninoy had been sentenced to death by a military tribunal for his crimes, Marcos gave him a medical furlough so he could undergo a heart surgery in Boston, Massachusetts, where he stayed for three years.

As for the opposition senators, they remain under prosecution while Janet Lim Napoles, the alleged mastermind of the so-called “P10-billion pork barrel scam,” remains virtually untouched; she had been detained for “serious illegal detention” of a former employee and whistleblower, but she was recently allowed to post bail. And not a single big fish is in jail for the misuse of the P150-billion Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) funds, which the Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional, and its manipula-

tion and misuse, criminal.

Killing all criminals Duterte has captured the voters’ popular imagination for his promise to end corruption and crime by “killing all criminals.” This obviously compelled Malacañang and his rivals not to fool around with him. They were also put on notice that aside from retired military officers in his camp, some leftist groups had threatened to march with Duterte if he was cheated in this election.

But Aquino probably believes

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that in a fight with the Marcoses, the population will side with him, and that he could easily take down Bongbong. This could be a terrible miscalculation. Wherever one went, and whoever one asked before the election, one was told they were voting for Bongbong.

Now everyone is asking, what happened to their votes? This is no longer a fight between the Aquinos and the Marcoses. This is now a fight between Aquino and the Filipino people. (ManilaTimes.net)

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Celebrating diversity and inclusiveness

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THrOUgHOUT the month of May, Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in the US celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. representatives Norman Mineta of California and Frank Horton of New York introduced a House resolution that called upon the president to proclaim the first 10 days of May as Asian/Pacific Heritage Week in June of 1977. By 1978, President Carter signed a resolution making it an annual celebration.

It was then expanded to a month-long commemoration in 1990 by President george H.W. Bush. The month of May was chosen for two main reasons: The first is the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. A majority of the workers who laid the tracks on the western half of the construction were Chinese immigrants; while the second reason is that May marks the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States.

In the 1980s, the San gabriel Valley in Southern California did not have a thriving Asian demographic. Monterey Park was the only city whose Asian household made up one-third of the city’s overall demographic.

However, this began changing in the 1990s and continues through to today. Now, cities such as San gabriel City, San Marino, rosemead, Arcadia, and Temple City not only have thriving Asian households and businesses, but they are also the majority of residents there.

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are the fastest growing racial group in our

Kick-off presentation for the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at Los Angeles City Hall on Friday, April 22.

Photo from LAAPHM Facebook page.

Rep. Frank Horton

Rep. Norman Mineta

country, growing over four times as rapidly as the population of the United States. As one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse groups in America, the AAPI community reminds us that though we all have distinct backgrounds and origins, we are bound in common purpose by our shared hopes and dreams for ourselves and our children.

Our nation’s story would be incomplete without the voices of countless Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders who have called the land we all love home. This month, we honor the irreplaceable roles they have played in our past, and we recommit to ensuring opportunities exist for generations of AAPIs to come.

The AAPI community’s long and deeply-rooted legacy in the United States reminds us of both proud and painful chapters of our history. Confronted with grueling and perilous working conditions, thousands of Chinese laborers on the transcontinental railroad pushed the wheels of progress forward in the West. Japanese-

American troops fought for freedom from tyranny abroad in World War II while their families here at home were interned simply on the basis of their origin.

And many South Asian Americans in particular face discrimination, harassment, and senseless violence often in the communities in which they live and work.

Today, AAPIs lend their rich heritage to enhancing our communities and our culture. As artists and activists, educators and elected officials, service men and women and business owners, AAPIs help drive our country forward. Yet despite hard-won achievements, AAPIs continue to face obstacles to realizing their full potential. One in three AAPIs do not speak English fluently, and certain subgroups experience low levels of educational attainment and high levels of unemployment. AAPIs also often experience heightened health risks, and millions of AAPI men, women, and children in the United States live in poverty.

“Our nation’s story would be incomplete without the voices of

Is Kris Aquino migrating to the US?

Kris Aquino

SEVErAL hours after she voted last Monday, May 9, Kris Aquino packed her things and left for an undisclosed destination in the US with sons Joshua and Bimby.

As in the first time she went abroad, Kris said that it’s also her doctor’s advice to relax so that her blood pressure will remain stabilized. During their threeweek vacation in Hawaii, Kris said she enjoyed being an ordinary mom to her sons, cooking for them and simply taking it easy.

She came back purposely to campaign for her Kuya Noynoy’s

candidates.

This time, she will be away for two months and will be back end of July.

‘Our new home isn’t finished,’ Kris texted Funfare before she left. ‘Bimb’s school calendar was adjusted to open in August.’

Asked about rumors that she might migrate to the US, Kris said, ‘No, I’m not.’

Advised that she refrain from posting her comings and goings on social media (to avoid being bashed), Kris promised, ‘I won’t. I will enjoy my sabbatical.’ (Philstar. com)

Is Mariel Rodriguez pregnant again?

MArIEL rodriguez is pregnant again, reports said.

This news was posted by columnist-radio host-actor Ogie Diaz on his Twitter account on Thursday, May 12.

“Wow! Buntis pala uli si @ marieltpadilla! Congrats, mare!

Yan na yun!” he said in his post.

The Kapamilya host and her husband robin Padilla have yet to confirm this report.

This is the third time that Mariel has conceived. Last year, she had two miscarriages. The first was in the first quarter of the year, while the other was when she had triplets. (Philstar.com)

Mariel Rodriguez

Daniel Padilla forgives his bashers

DANIEL Padilla has already forgiven his and Kathryn Bernardo’s bashers.

This was after they were criticized for campaigning for former Department of the Interior and Local government Sec. Manuel roxas II who ran for presidenct in the recent national elections.

Add to that the photo of him and Kathryn holding a ballot inside the precinct which went viral on election day held last Monday, May 9.

“Kahapon pa lang napatawad ko na. Kahapon pa lang, pagkatapos kong bumoto, parang, ‘Okay, next na,’” said Daniel in an interview with Philippine Entertainment Portal.

He added that this experience has become an “eye-opener” for him, as it helped him know who are the people who will stay or leave him during the hard times of his life.

After his presidential

The Kariktan Dance Company doing the opening performance during San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee proudly led a culturally diverse the 2016 Asian Pacific American Heritage Awards Ceremony in San city in last year’s Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.

Photo courtesy of APASF.org.

Francisco on Monday, May 2.

Photo courtesy of APASF.org.

countless Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders who have called the land we all love home,” President Barack Obama shares.

People across the country honor Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month with community festivals, government gatherings, and educational activities for students.

How the US celebrates AsianPacific American Heritage Month Asian Americans research

on the geographic locations.

Ethnicity goes from across Far East Asia (Korea, Japan, China), India, the Philippines, and it’s subcontinent (Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal), and the Pacific regions (Samoa, Micronesia).

Another way they celebrate is looking up Asian cities or states to find out how many Asian Pacific Americans reside there. Multi-cultural generations have grown tremendously over hundreds of decades broadening

So Cal Edison celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

by Agnes ConstAnte / AJPress IN celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM), utilities company Southern California Edison (SCE) on Friday, May 6, awarded business and community partners for their contributions to energy efficiency and the greater Asian American community.

“Having this celebration helps us recognize the importance of this community’s contributions to Southern California, to the nation,” said Pedro Pizarro, president of SCE. “In today’s economy, we really believe that workforce diversity and inclusion is critical to being able to succeed and serve our customers.”

Three awards presented honored Brighton Management, a Chinese owned company based in Irvine that owns or operates 45 major hotels, with the energy efficiency participation award; the Center for Asian Americans United for Self Empowerment (CAUSE), a non-profit organization, with the community partnership award; and LTL Attorneys, one of the largest certified minority and women-owned litigation boutiques, with the diverse business enterprise award.

Through its participation in SCE’s Energy Efficiency Express Solutions, Brighton Management was able to reduce about 265,000 kWh on an annual basis, equating to a savings of $42,400.

“Winning this award as an Asian American-owned business means so much to us because as we’re seen as the underdog,” Ariel Fan, energy operations manager at Brighton Management, told the Asian Journal. “It really puts us in the spotlight to be able to make change and also influence other

Emmy Award-winning NBC4 reporter Hetty Chang hosted the 11th annual Southern California Edison Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month celebration.

SCE President Pedro Pizarro said the company’s celebration helps it recognize the community’s contributions to Southern California and the United States.

AJPress photos by Ding Carreon

Asian American biz owners to do the same.

For CAUSE, which seeks to empower the Asian American community through leadership development, has long been supported by Southern California Edison. The organization’s board chair, Charlie Woo, said Friday’s recognition by SCE was an honor.

“We are really glad that our work is being recognized,” Woo said. “And I think more importantly, [this award is] encouragement for us to do even more.”

LTL was noted for donating time to leadership positions in multiple non-profit organizations.

Some of its attorneys have also worked on pro bono cases and traveled to refugee camps in Southeast Asia to offer legal advice.

In addition to the honorees, a keynote address was delivered

by Nanxi Liu, CEO and co-founder of open digital display software Enplug. Liu, who was named one of Forbes 30 under 30 and one of

Fortune Magazine’s Top 10 Most Promising Women Entrepreneurs, shared that growing up, she had to learn how to work with limited resources. She learned she could make money by winning piano competitions and participating in pageants.

In college, she said she maximized her time by not always attending classes unless she absolutely had to. Throughout her college career, Liu spent much of her time applying for scholarships to obtain money to pay for school.

She also built devices, including a chip that allowed lights on campus to go on and off based on light settings. Liu received $10,000 from the university for the chip, which took her 24 hours to make.

During Liu’s sophomore year of college, she and some friends developed a biomedical device for glaucoma patients that converted eyedrops into a puff of air for elderly patients; In her junior year, she made a website for male video gamers to play with female video gamers. Liu monetized both these ventures.

Today, Enplug is the leading open digital display software, and is used by Fortune 500 companies and small businesses.

“I’m so thankful for the Asian American community [in Koreatown] who supported us, because ... our first customers were the Asian community in Koreatown,” Liu said.

The Southern California Edison event was held at its Energy Education Center in Irwindale. It was the company’s 11th annual celebration of AAPI Heritage Month.

Daniel Padilla

bet roxas conceded Daniel said he will support Davao City Mayor rodrigo Duterte who is leading the unofficial tally of votes.

All he hopes for is that “sana hindi mawala ang tiwala namin sa

mga binoto namin. At sa lahat ng binoto namin, sana huwag nilang sirain ang tiwala at gawin ang lahat ng pangako nila. Kasi kaya nga sila ibinoto dahil sa mga ipinangako nila.”

their knowledge about their surroundings and giving insight on it.

Furthermore, visiting a local Asian places like a city’s Chinatown or Los Angeles’ Historic Filipinotown when celebrating Asian Pacific Heritage Month.

Citizens explore a A lot of places have revolved around America’s modern culture, so discovering hidden spots where Asian traditions are still maintained is quite an interest to Americans.

Brighton Management receives the energy efficiency participation award

Chynna Ortaleza on pregnancy: It’s a role of a lifetime

by Joyce Jimenez Philstar.com

ChYnnA Ortaleza revealed for the first time her baby bump after being mum about it for months.

On Instagram, the Kapuso actress posted a photo of her all dolled up, proudly showing off her baby bump.

“I am blessed to be celebrating my first Mother’s Day with my ever supportive and loving husband and family,” she said in the caption. she also described her pregnancy as “a role of a lifetime” and “a rewarding experience.”

The soon-to-be-mom is also excited for the coming of her baby with the singer-actor Kean Cipriano, that’s why she makes sure that she is “savoring every single day, recording each moment, making sure that everything is ingrained in memory.”

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A big step up for LizQuen tandem

by Boy

ABundA Philstar.com

There’s no doubt that the love team of enrique Gil and Liza soberano just keeps getting better and better. From Forevermore to their current show “Dolce Amore,” they have been constantly proving themselves not just in terms of acting, but with their growing number of loyal followers.

It is a big challenge for young Cyhnna Ortaleza showed her baby bump for the first time and actors like them—Liza just turned described her pregnancy as a “rewarding experience.”

18, while enrique, or Quen is 24—to do the things they have done in “Dolce Amore;” Liza had to learn how to speak in Italian and hold her own in scenes with by mArge c. enriquez veteran kontrabida and character their chaperone, Barroso, for their contemporary, jazz and hip-hop.

Inquirer.net not to be outdone, BM’s talents formidable technique and versatility actress Cherie Gil, while enrique plays a character with a speech in the contemporary and classical BALLeT Manila’s (BM) four junior nicole Barroso, Marinette Franco, impediment. This is actually not vocabularies. members made the Philippines Alvin Dictado and Joshua enciso During the master classes, BM’s the first time they have done proud at the recent Dance Open performed Gerardo Francisco’s this. In Princess and I, enrique dancers felt at home because the International Ballet Festival.

“Tara Let’s,” a fun and frisky had to spend hours with a held in st. Petersburg, russia, contemporary work that showed off teachers taught the same russian dialogue coach, learning how to Vaganova technique imparted by the event invited top ballet schools the company’s characteristic highspeak Dzongkha, which is what BM’s faculty. to a week of master classes, octane energy and strong classical they call the Bhutanese dialect.

Teachers from other countries concerts and professional ballet lines. he isn’t making fun of the were impressed at the high performances.

BM’s co-artistic director Osias way his character speaks, but standards of the Filipino dancers.

At the Young stars Gala at Barroso said he chose a piece that enrique feels like with this role Barroso said that since January hermitage Theatre, the best was age-appropriate to show off as Tenten in “Dolce Amore,” he is these dancers had been training dancers from various dance schools the dancers’ natural exuberance. starting to make a real impact as for the Asian Grand Prix (AGP) this presented a diverse repertoire After the show, the audience an actor. That’s because of the August in hong Kong. hence, they that covered classical variations, congratulated the dancers and audience reaction he has been were in top shape for the Dance getting from people who follow Open. the show. “Itong Dolce, sobrang These dancers were selected grabe rin ‘yung feedback, at saka not only for their talent but also ‘yung pagmamahal nila… kahit for their discipline and speed in sa mga jeepney ginagaya nila ang picking up and remembering pagkabulol ni Tenten; ‘yun ang choreography. mga kuwento nung mga nakikita nicole, 14, had won the silver ko,‘Alam mo dun sa school namin, medal in her age group at the AGP 2015. In that same competition, the pati teacher namin niloloko kami sa classroom, nagbubulul-bululan.” lyrical Marinette, 16, was a finalist.

For Liza, being challenged, Alvin and Joshua, both 15, exuded acting-wise, was personally a big powerful stage presence and made step up from her previous work. she good partners. is grateful for the help and guidance A highlight of their russian of her director and co-stars because trip was a visit to the Vaganova the demands of the role are not that Academy and an exclusive tour easy.“Kasi po more mature ‘yung role ko of the museum led by Tatiana dito (in Dolce Amore) so I felt, medyo I Alexandrovna Udalenkova, 81. she mentored BM’s artistic director Lisa should relate what serena is going through. At saka sa tingin din ni Macuja-elizalde in her youth. she visited Manila several times to teach Direk Mae (Cruz), kailangan talaga, kasi tinutukan niya yung mga and coach BM. mabibigat na scenes, ‘yung special Barroso said the festival scenes. Siyempre nakakatulong affirmed that BM’s faculty was At the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet with Tatiana Alexandrovna Udalenkova with din po yung mga coteaching the right things to its (clockwise from left) Marinette Franco, Osias Barroso, Joshua Enciso, Alvin Dictado, Nicole actors ko. Imagine, nakaka-eksena dancers.

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ko po si Tita Cherie (Gil), she’s one of the best, marami kang matututunan sa kanya. And it’s easier to act kapag sobrang galing ng ka-eksena mo, parang huhugot ka rin ng energy or emotions from them,” she says.

The reaction to “Dolce Amore” came as a surprise for both of them. The fact that it has been extended—the show is going into a second season— was also a big surprise. “Dolce Amore” is registering well in the ratings, making it to the second spot overall after FPJ’s “Ang Probinsyano” with Coco Martin and Maja salvador.

“It’s amazing siyempre,” says enrique. “Wala naman kaming ineexpect eh. Nung ginagawa namin itong ‘Dolce Amore,’ walang expectations talaga. Pati ‘yung pagka-bulol ng character ko, sabi ko, ‘Sige try ko,’ hindi naman namin alam na matutuwa yung mga tao. At saka parang medyo naging comedy ‘yung show na, pati ako nagu-good vibes eh.

At least naiiba rin, hindi naging puro drama, na-try ko rin maging komedyante; it’s fun, sobrang nagenjoy ako.”

It goes without saying that working side by side on “Dolce Amore” made Liza and Quen even closer as a love

team. enrique reveals that after “Forevermore,” and movies like “Just the Way You Are” and “everyday I Love You,” their working relationship deepened.

This, despite rumors that Liza “friend-zoned” enrique with a recent statement she made to the media. As far as the two of them are concerned, their relationship as co-workers is better. “Siyempre din ngayon, dito sa ‘Dolce Amore,’ iba na yung dynamics namin ‘pag may eksena kami. For some reason, mas madali (ngayon),” he says. he would like to be acknowledged as “more than a friend” but in the end, says enrique — who has been very vocal about his feelings for Liza — it’s all about respect. “Gusto ko sana, more than (friends),” he says, “pero siyempre respetuhin natin yung family niya.

Kahit 18 na, respetuhin mo yung family nila. Di naman pinipigil si Liza, pero siyempre may pagka‘loveteam lang yan.’ Nakikita nila na lahat ito, it’s all good.

OK naman sila, boto naman sila.” right now, enrique can only be grateful. “I’m very thankful, very grateful,” he says. “We love our work. Mahal ko yung ka-partner ko, kahit yun binibigyan pa ng award, kahit nage-enjoy lang kami. so, I’m happy, that’s it.”

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102 win at 99 Ranch Mother’s Day drawing contest In celebration of Mother’s Day, 99 Ranch Market held a drawing contest to allow children to express their love and gratefulness toward their mothers. With no exception this year, the contest drew in thousands of entries from all across Southern California, Texas and nevada.

This year, 99 Ranch Market created something a little more special other than the traditional pencil-to-paper drawing contest: younger artists were invited to participate in the coloring contest to show off their coloring talent.

After entry submissions were professionally judged by a panel of artists, 99 Ranch Market celebrated with participants and shoppers with a lavish Mother’s Day awards ceremony on Saturday, May 7, from 2 to 4pm at its Rowland Heights store.

The Mother’s Day drawing contest marks another year in the efforts of 99 Ranch Market to create an interactive and loving way of marking Mother’s Day from child to mother. Contestants were divided into two groups: Group A participants, ages 3 to 6 years old, were provided with pre-drawn “Super Mom” artwork, so younger artists could express their artistic talent through coloring.

Group B, with participants aged 7 to 12 years old, were provided with construction paper that allowed them to maximize their creativity and imagination.

The artwork was judged and evaluated by a panel of professional artists with the following criteria breakdown: 25 percent creativity, 25 percent skill and 50 percent subject relevance.

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As in previous years, the entries received for 2016 demonstrated the immense creativity from children across various age groups in the name of Mother’s Day. After much deliberation, the judges selected a total of 102 winners from both groups.

This year, the Tawa Foundation awarded $300 checks to six winners, three from each group: Joshua W. from Artesia, Felix H. from Irvine and Anna H. from Arcadia in Group A; Matthew Tan M. from Cerritos, Iris L. from Diamond Bar and Ryan G. from Irvine in Group B. Ten Grand Prize winners, five from each group, took home a $100 gift card from 99 Ranch, as well as a trophy. The winners from Group A were Ariel C. from Irvine, Yalan Z. from Temple City, Athena S. from Claremont, Viviana C. from Diamond Bar and Jade X. from Loma Linda. From Group B, winners were James W. from Diamond Bar, Allison L. from San Gabriel, Jaden T. from Tustin, Lynette H. from Temple City and

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A total of 20 first prize winners, 10 from each group, won a trophy and $50 gift card to 99 Ranch Market: Joanne L. and XinRan Y. from San Gabriel, Yolanda W. from Pasadena, Eric D. from Alta Loma, Annie H. from Irvine, Andrea L. from Arcadia, Grace W. from Hacienda Heights, Kayley n. from The Colony, Wincent L. from Grapevine, and Zi Chao Z. from Alhambra in Group A; Chloe T. and Madison L. from San Gabriel, Lorena T. from Oak Park, Ella T. and Sung L. from Arcadia, Angelica C. and Kristina L. from Rancho Cucamonga, Jessica H. from Rosemead, Megan L. from San Marino and Hanwen X. from Rowland Heights in Group B. Finally, 66 Outstanding Prize Group winners were awarded with a trophy and a $25 gift card to 99 Ranch Market.

All winning entries from this year’s contest will be displayed at the 99 Ranch Market Rowland Heights branch through May 31.

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Immigrant Living: 101 and Beyond Monette AdevA MAglAyA PREPARE to be amazed. A truly busy woman, who is both efficient and effective, has mastered by trial and error, over a period of time, that fine blend of mixing the art and science of planning her work and working her plan. Mix in the powerful emotion of love and she can produce stupendous results in every area of her life.

Nowhere is this life skill more put to the test than here in America where a person’s worth, whether we like it or not, is measured, not only by her productivity and her creativity but also, by her results.

With apologies to men, note that I refer to the multitasker as frequencies on routes within a woman.

For with the liberated, Southeast Asia, boosting emancipated status of women the number of easy onward in some parts of the world, connections from the current 84 multitasking, as a socio-cultural flights a week to 124 this year as phenomenon, has become the area well. The added flights, adjusted schedules and new Chicago route of expertise of womanhood.

Some studies confirm that will equip EVA to offer business travelers from throughout North America greater convenience, more choices and easier access to markets, financial centers and manufacturing hubs throughout The Kite Asia.

Runner EVA Air EVA Air, a Star Alliance member recognized worldwide for its exceptionally high Prof.

EnriquE M. Soriano service and safety standards, was established in 1989 as Taiwan’s first privately owned “IT’S not the first “prominent/ international airline. It is part wealthy family” inheritance battle of the respected Evergreen waged nor will it certainly be Group and a sister company the last, but the on-going estate to global container-shipping litigation of Potenciano ‘Nanoy’ leader Evergreen Line. It flies a Ilusorio’s heirs has emerged as fleet of close to 70 Boeing and one of the longest, nastiest, most Airbus aircraft to more than public, no-holds-barred litigious 60 international destinations family feuds in Philippine history or throughout Asia, Oceania, in the annals of jurisprudence.”

Europe and North America.

That is how the Ilusorio Family With just one easy stop in Taipei, Conflict was described by the travelers can connect onward media and the Philippine courts to most major cities throughout after close to 300 civil and criminal Asia, including 29 destinations in cases were filed between two China. Travelers can learn more warring factions. about EVA and book and buy There are six Ilusorio children tickets at www.evaair.com. involved in the feud: sons Ramon (Advertising Supplement) (chair emeritus of Multinational

EVA launching Chicago services November 3 Operating four flights a week to start TAIPEI, TAIWAN – EVA Air will launch nonstop flights from Chicago to Taipei on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016. To start, the airline will operate four flights a week, using one of its latest-model, WiFi equipped Boeing 777-300ERs comfortably configured for 333 passengers in Royal Laurel business, Elite premium economy and Economy Classes. EVA is also giving passengers more itinerary flexibility by adjusting schedules to offer more daytime flights and increasing frequencies on existing routes. Passengers can learn more about EVA and its services and book, buy and reserve seats now through travel agents, EVA offices, by calling 800-695-1188 and online at www.evaair.com.

Convenient early morning departures and arrivals westbound and nighttime departures and arrivals eastbound will enable business travelers to use their workdays for appointments and meetings instead of running to or from an airport. EVA flight BR55 will leave Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport at 00:20 (12:20 am) on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday and land at Taipei’s Taoyuan International Airport at 06:00 (6:00 am) the next day.

North America-bound flight BR56 will depart Taoyuan on

Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday at 19:50 (7:50 pm) and arrive in Chicago at 19:40 (7:40 pm) the same day.

Adding to current Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver services, Chicago is EVA’s eighth gateway in North America. As the airline continue to grow its services in this important market, it is adding three weekly daytime flights to existing daily New York service on July 7 and further expanding operations to two trips a day on October 3.

EVA will start adjusting its Los Angeles schedule on August 4, offering travelers two early morning departures and one noon time flight to choose from.

The changes on all of these routes will give North America passengers more departure and arrival options and make onward connections to destinations throughout Asia easier and more convenient than ever.

EVA already has more flights and seat capacity between North America and Taiwan with more easy, one-stop connections to more destinations throughout Asia and Mainland China than any other airline. By year end, it will be offering 76 flights a week between North America and Taipei. And it is increasing

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Three cheers for the multitasking woman “In this life, we cannot do great things.

We can only do small things with great love.”

— Mother Teresa women’s wiring or DNA structure equips them to multitask at incredible levels.

Multitasking is a skill needed to navigate a person’s day-to-day life. The major strides in technology have further enhanced our capability to produce results. No matter how much we want to buck the system, there is no way we can get around the fact that in order to thrive, let alone survive at this time and in this place, the life skills we need to acquire and develop some level of competence in, are in the areas of planning our work and working our plan.

You know what a delight it is to work on a project that has been well conceived planned and executed so that everything comes together in seamless fashion. On the flip

side of the coin, we also know how aggravating it is to be involved in one that is a mess from the beginning.

Men have always been great planners and women have learned a lot from men. For some reason that may be attributed to the demands of modern life, women are somehow doing it better as they switch to the multifaceted roles they play as wife or significant other, mother, daughter, sister, worker, crusader … the list can go on and on.

History bears out that most of the great leaders of all time, whether in politics, in industry and in business are supreme planners. And contrary to common knowledge, such leaders not only Continued on Page 6

Family feuds and shattered families Investment Bancorporation) and Maxie, and daughters Lin, Sylvia (president and vice president of Philcomsat, respectively), Honi and Shereen.

Ramon and Shereen were allied with mother Erlinda against the rest. Honi was allied with Ramon in the beginning, but has since shifted her allegiance to the other “team.”

Most of the rancor, however, now seems to be between Ramon on one side and three sisters—Lin, Sylvia and Honi—on the other.

According to the source, Ramon and Shereen tried to keep the news of their mother’s passing from the three sisters in Manila. The sisters found out about it only four days later from a relative of Erlinda’s attending physician in New York.

It was tit for tat, says another source, also close to the family.

It seems that when Potenciano died, some of the sisters also kept the news from Ramon. A

memorial service for Erlinda was held at Sanctuario de San Antonio in Forbes Park, organized by the Manila faction.

Strangely enough, the funeral urn held Potenciano’s ashes, since Erlinda’s ashes were still in the keeping of Ramon and Shereen. A separate memorial, organized

by Ramon, was held March 4 in Legazpi Village, Makati.

The three sisters were pointedly excluded from the service, according to the source.

Security was even given detailed instructions to bar them from the premises.

This article is not meant to add fuel to the fire. We are simply re-stating the chronicle of events for a better understanding of those who are not familiar with the case and to drive home the point how important is the foresight to prepare for any such eventuality long before the heirs Continued on Page 6

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4th Historic Filipinotown Philippine Independence Day parade slated on June 4

Los AngeLes — Mabuhay ang ika-118 Araw ng Kalayaan ng Pilipinas!

The 4th Historic Filipinotown PH Independence Parade Committee (4HFTIDC) cordially invite all FilAm organizations to the 4th Historic FIlipinotown Kalayaan Parade, saturday, June 4, 2016, at 9 am.

Assembly time is 8 am at the assembly area in front of the silver lake Medical Center (sLMC. The parade will start promptly at 9 am around the Historic Filipinotown.

The 4HFTIDC planning meeting will be held on May 12,

2016 at 6 pm at the Kapistahan grill. sponsoring organizations The following organizations composed the 4HFT Independence Day Committee: Historic Filinotown neighborhood Council (HFnC), southern California Filipino Dental society (sCFDs), Knights of Rizal (KoR)Historic Filipinotown Chapter ,Pangasinan Brotherhood-UsA Inc, Justice for FIlipino American Veterans(JFAV).

Filipino American service group Inc (FAsgI), Philippine Institute of Language Arts and

Culture Inc. (PILAC) and the Filipino-American Community of Los Angeles (FACLA).

Binibining Pilipinas 2016, Queen of Asia and Pacific (QAP),Cordillera Association of Los Angeles , saphire Media Regency(sMR),Cordillera Association of Los Angeles, Pens and Lens Club, and many more. other organizations have been invited to join the Planning meeting, the 4HFTIDC and actively take part on the 4th Historic Filipinotown PH Independence Day Parade on saturday, June 4, 2016.

types to accompany him on a trip to Mindoro and Romblon. she is grateful to him for his enthusiasm for life, culture, and for Philippine Literature.

In the fall of 1998, Allan g.

Aquino was nVM gonzalez’s very last student in the United states. As a poet and Asian American studies scholar, Allan credits nVM with profoundly influencing his ways of seeing and writing about the world.

As per nVM’s ideals, Allan continues to contemplate the “rhizomatous” nature of Filipino genius by way of pedagogy, community organizing, and the arts. Visit Allan’s site at: https://allanaquino.wordpress. com/.

Cecile ochoa is a Fil-Am journalist and creative writer who started her career in the Philippines as a full time reporter for the Philippines news Agency in the 70s, a camera reporter for Channel 4 news of national Media Production Center and contributing writer for various publications. she is a graduate of Journalism from the UP College of Mass Communications and holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the University of southern California.

Pursuing her creative writing career, she participated in various writing workshops at UP, including its notable UP Writing Workshop, the galian sa Arte at Tula (gAT) where she interacted with national Artist nick Joaquin, Palanca awardees Bienvenido Lumbera, Pete Lacaba, Butch Dalisay, among others. In the Us she participated in three writing workshops curated by the nVM gonzales Writing Project. she co-published two Anthologies on Philippine and Asian folklore.

A recipient of two Plaridel Award excellence in Journalism from the Philippine American Press Club, UsA (PAPC) in 2014 and 2015, she is editor of TheFILAMLA.com and writes for the Inquirer.net.

When not writing, her daytime job calls her to manage the awardwinning LA County’s Mediation Program now a distinct part of the Department of Human Resources, which she helped create in 2001.

Dr. Michael gonzalez, Director/Founder of nVM gonzalez Writers’ Workshop will show a short film on his dad, “A story Yet To Be Told,” which is an excerpt from a film by Jerome Academia & Russell Leung. since 2005, he has been conducting the nVM gonzalez Writers’ Workshop at various campuses which include UC-santa Barbara, sonoma state, University of Washington and recently at the University of the Philippines Diliman. These workshops are attended by published and novice writers under the guidance of master teachers Peter Bacho and evelina galang. He is with the faculty of both City College san Francisco, Philippine studies Department and University of san Francisco.

At City College, he has been teaching courses in The Filipino Family, Philippine Anthropology, and Philippine History and society Thru Film. He also teaches a course on The Filipino experience Thru Film at the University of san Francisco. An anthropologist and

From Page 5 see the nebulous big picture, but are also able to roll up their sleeves and work on the nittygritty — those thousand and one details very few people want to be bothered with.

In everyday life, we can perhaps single out a few names at work, in our church, in our club or association who can plan the work and work the plan. Like thoroughbreds, these account for a small percentage of the general population — a select breed of individuals who can shepherd a project sometimes with less than adequate time and resources from start to finish.

Here is how it’s generally done.

Break it down to bite sizes. As you

flesh out the details of a project, the number of sub-tasks and the sequence with which these smaller tasks need to be done becomes clearer. Assigning who does what further breaks down the job to smaller and manageable bite sizes. As you look ahead, you are able to anticipate problems even before these happen. With good planning, things can be monitored much more closely to measure progress. since projects almost always cost money, planning helps us stay within budgetary constraints. Ultimately, planning brings us full circle helping us stay focused on the goal.

But here’s a caveat. Lest we think that planning is foolproof, there is still a chance that no matter

by Joyce Jimenez Philstar.com

JessY Mendiola denied that there’s a brewing romance between her and Luis Manzano.

The two were romantically linked with each other after the actress posted a photo of them on Instagram during the TV host’s birthday. “’Yan picture talaga niya na ‘yan, e, sinusumpa ko, e,” joked Jessy when asked about her status with Luis, in an interview.

“Nakakatawa, pero sanay na kami,” she added. “Siguro ‘yon ang first time na makita kami ng tao na magkasama, kaya nagulat sila.”

The picture that the Kapamilya actress was referring to was the one she posted on her Instagram account for Luis’s historian, Michael will embark on a birthday.

The Kapamilya actress noted research next spring on Philippine that not everyone are aware indigenous weavers on a Fulbright scholarship. As part of the program, about their friendship, but after Michael will also play classical guitar everything she went through it only got deeper. compositions of his Dad’s favorites “Hindi rin naman biro ang as well as talk about his Dad’s nangyari sa amin sa London. so books.

The works of nVM are rich in imagery of nature, and his stories are set in natural scenes of rural Philippines and the islands.

From Page 5 They were written long before we become very aware of the are confronted by the business enviroment and climate changes, founder’s mortality. and the fact that he described the Agreements offers hope, natural settings vividly showed clarity and sustainability his own personal awareness of Pursuing doggedly a the enviroment way ahead of our family agreement is critical as time. Michael will speak about the it paves the way for family and stories of his dad set in Mindoro business governance but it is and the homesteaders of Mindoro. eMPTY if there is no owner’s The Province of Mindoro is nVM’s agreement. adopted province where nVM’s Documenting owner’s father moved his family from agreement is key while the family Romblon. His writings raised the members are still young. often awareness of people towards called the shareholder’s agreement, swidden farming (kaingin) which, it is meant to protect the rights if done correctly like what the of owners. It specifies the legal indigenous Mangyan did, was sustainable farming (as against cash and contractual understandings among shareholder on ownership crop and fertilizer use). His stories of shares and governance issues. tell about the struggle of farmers during famine, floods, and other The agreement is important disastrous events that are both because it is the blueprint for the manmade and caused by nature. transfer of ownership. Without such This Cenntennial Celebration an agreement in place, transfers will support echo Park Library’s can become mired in differences of program to create more awareness opinion. for sustainabilty and the climate As wills and estates lawyers change. authors Les Kotzer, Barry Fish The books written by nVM are enumerated herewith, including their original dates of publication. novels: “The Winds of April,” 1941; “A season of grace,” 1956; “The Bamboo Dancers,” 1988; “The Land and the Rain;” and “The Happiest Boy in the World.” short Fiction: “seven Hills Away,” 1947; “Children of the Ash-Covered Loam and other stories,” 1954; “Look, stranger, on This Island now,” 1964; “selected stories,” 1964; “Mindoro and Beyond: Twenty-one stories,” 1981; “The Bread of salt and other stories,” 1993; “A grammar of Dreams and other stories,” 1997 and “The Tomato game,” 1993. essays: “A novel of Justice: selected essays,” 1968-1994 and “Work on the Mountain,” 1996.

The event is sponsored

by Philippine expressions Bookshop, https:// philippineexpressionsbookshop. wordpress.com/; Friends of the echo Park Branch Library and UCLA Asian American studies Center. Community Partners include FilAmArts; FilAm Library; Filipino American service group (FAsgI) and the Filipino American Press Club of Los Angeles (est.

1978). open and free to the public, RsVP is requested. send email to: linda@philbooks.us or call 310514-9139. The program is part of the ongoing outreach efforts of Philippine expressions Bookshop https://www.facebook.com/ Friends-of-Philippine-expressionsBookshop-117114331642340/ and a tribute to nVM and his wife, narita Manuel gonzalez who passed away recently at age 94. Both have been mentors to Linda nietes, owner of the bookshop.

Centennial celebration for NVM Gonzalez

RAnCHo Palos Verdes, CA – Friends, colleagues and former students of nestor Vicente Madali gonzalez, better known as nVM gonzalez will remember him at a Centennial Celebration on saturday, May 21, 2016. The event will be held at the echo Park Branch Library located at 1410 W Temple street, Los Angeles from 2 pm – 5 pm. nVM was born in Romblon, Philippines on september 8, 1915 and he grew up in Mindoro. He passed away on november 28, 1999 at the age of 84 in Manila. He was a novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet. He wrote five novels, eight short fiction and two essays. His books have been published in english and Filipino, as well as in Chinese, german, Russian and Indonesian. In 1997, he was declared as one of the Philippines’ national Artists for Literature.

He was on the Board of Advisers of Likhaan, the University of the Philippines (UP) Creative Writing Center, Founding editor of “The Diliman Review” and first president of the Philippine Writers’ Association. He attended creative writing classes under Wallace stegner and Katherine Anne Porter at stanford University. While in the Philippines, he taught at UsT, PWU and UP. He also taught in the Us at UC-santa Barbara, CsU-Hayward, the University of Washington, UCLA and UC-Berkeley. Many well-known Filipino and Filipino American writers today have been mentored by nVM. The following will share their memories of nVM: Dr Paulino Lim, Jr., Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, Dr Barbara gaerlan, Mr. Allan g. Aquino and Cecilia ochoa.

Dr Paulino Lim, Jr. is a Professor emeritus of english at California state, Long Beach. He is the author of a quartet of political novels set during the Marcos Dictatorship, and three short story collections.

His latest sabong, etc. includes the Twitter story “Deus ex Vulcanus.” on March 3, 2016, the University of santo Tomas in Manila conferred on him a Lifetime Literary Award for his contributions to Philippine Literature. Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is the author and editor of 19 books. she has been the recipient of a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California state senate, 21st District. she also received the prestigious Filipinas Magazine Arts Award, and the outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu. Visit her sites: http://www.ceciliabrainard. com and http://cbrainard.blogspot. com Barbara gaerlan is the Assistant Director of the UCLA Center for southeast Asian studies. she first met nVM gonzalez as a new graduate student at UCLA in 1991 when she took his Philippine Literature course in Asian American studies. In 1995 she was lucky to be in the Philippines on a Fulbright fellowship working on her dissertation research when nVM invited a large group of Filipino and American academic and literary

Jessy Mendiola denies brewing romance with Luis Manzano

Jessy Mendiola denied that there’s a brewing romance between her and Luis Manzano, and insisted that they’re just friends.

Philstar.com photo by Joyce Jimenez

from that nagsimula mas maging magkaibigan kami,” she said.

Although there’s nothing romantic going on between them, Jessy said any girl would be lucky to have him as a boyfriend.

“Luis is a very responsible man, a sweet guy. Any girl would be lucky to be with him,” she said.

For now, Jessy can say that she’s still enjoying being single and in no rush to be in

a relationship again after her breakup with JM de guzman.

“Hindi ako sa nagpipigil, hindi rin ako sa nagmamadali,” she explained. “I’m somewhere in between. I’m enjoying my single life, and if that someone comes along we’ll see.”

Jessy stars with JC de Vera in the “Wansapanataym” episode titled “Just got Laki,” which started airing on sunday, May 8.

Family feuds and shattered... and Jordan Atin explain in their book, “The Family War,” how a will is worded can pit family members against each other, as well. “For many children, a parent’s will is interpreted as reflecting something deeper about their lifelong relationship.

Those words in black and white are an expression of a parent’s confidence or distrust, pride or disappointment in the child. A large gift, or a smaller one, is seen as a reward or a reprimand.”

There is now a vogue among the famous, including Anita Roddick, Bill gates and nigella Lawson, to declare that they will not spoil their children with ludicrous fortunes but leave the money to charity. Hong Kong superstar Jacky Chan once said: “I’ve made my money myself — my son should make his own way in the world.” even the popular singer sting, who recently staged a concert here has time and again

declared that he will not leave any inheritance to his six children.

He was quoted as saying “ I have told my children not to expect to inherit my money (estimated to be worth more than $255 M or close to P12 B) as I don’t believe in Trust funds. I fear that my wealth will be albatrosses round there necks”.

In short, sting was very clear…his children will have to fend for themselves and find their own way in the world as well. *** Prof. Soriano is an ASEAN Family Business Advisor, Book Author and Executive Director of ASEAN-based Consulting group, Wong + Bernstein Advisory. He is slated to deliver a series of talks in the US this May. Grab Prof Soriano’s book as he shares his insights and offer solutions to Family Businesses through his second book entitled “Ensuring The Family Business Legacy.” For those interested, please call Marianne at +639255224713 or email her at mrevilla@wongadvisory.com. Prof Soriano’s business articles can also be accessed at www.Faminbusiness.com.

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