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ANUEL V. Pangilinan, chairman of PLDT Inc., on Thursday denied the claim of President Rodrigo Duterte that the telecommunications company owed the government P8 billion.

Speaking to reporters, Pangilinan said he looked into Duterte’s claim and found that his company, which is controlled BY (ONG +ONG S &IRST 0ACIkC #O Ltd. of Indonesia’s Salim Group, owed no debts to the government. “I don’t know. I checked internally ano bang utang natin (if we owe the government). We don’t know,� Pangilinan said during a chance

interview at the sidelines of the opening of the NLEX Harbor Link Segment 10 road in Caloocan City. “As far as we know. As far as we know, wala kaming utang (we owe nothing). They pay taxes regularly on a quarter basis and in fact, in advance,� he added. Pangilinan made the statement after Duterte threatened to shut down PLDT if the telecommunica-

tion giant would not set up more trunk lines to accommodate calls to a citizens’ complaint line for reportING CORRUPT GOVERNMENT OFkCIALS “If you see corruption, tell me. Call 8888. Bong, add another trunk line. The present setup can’t accommodate all the calls. It’s always busy. Tell PLDT,� the President said, addressing

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OLICE have killed a total of 5,176 alleged drug personalities in 119,841 operations conducted ever since President Rodrigo Duterte stepped in as the country’s president, according to the latest update of Real Numbers PH, the OFkCIAL TALLY OF DRUG WAR CASUALTIES The latest data, which is reckoned from July 2016, showed that 72 people were killed in January 2019 alone, up from 54 in December 2018. The number of deaths recorded by the government was lower compared with that of various human rights groups, which had claimed that some 12,000 Filipinos were killed in the war against drugs. Government data also showed that 170,689 alleged drug personaliTIES WERE ARRESTED BY POLICE OFkCERS 4HE kGURE INCLUDES GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES ELECTED OFkcials and 69 uniformed personnel. Moreover, 2,016 minors ages nine to 17 were caught in illegal drug activities. The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) also reported

that more than 11,000 barangay (villages) out of 42,044 had been cleared of illegal drugs Two-hundred eighty-seven drug dens and 14 clandestine laboratories were dismantled by antinarcotics agents. A total of P25.94 billion worth of drugs and laboratory equipment WERE CONkSCATED BY THE 0HILIPPINE National Police (PNP) and PDEA, of which P19.14 billion were shabu. Real Numbers PH is a project of the Presidential CommunicaTIONS /PERATIONS /FkCE TO COUNTER supposed “fake news� about the Duterte administration’s campaign against illegal drugs.

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Weather Stations (SWS) reported that 4 out of 10 Filipinos were undecided on the truthfulness OF CLAIMS BY POLICE OFkCERS THAT suspects killed in the Duterte administration’s war on illegal drugs resisted arrest. An SWS poll, conducted from Dec. 16 to 19, 2018 among 1,440 respondents, showed that 44 percent were undecided over police claims that drug suspects died because of violent resistance. The poll also found 28 percent believed the police were not telling the truth, while 28 percent said the police were telling the truth. Broken down, 16 percent said the police were “definitely not telling the truth,� while 12 percent said the police were “probably not telling the truth.� Of the 28 percent who said the police were telling the truth, 10 PERCENT SAID THEY WERE gDEkNITELY telling the truth,� while 17 percent said they were “probably telling the truth.� “This brings the net opinion ABOUT TRUTHFULNESS PERCENT DEknitely/probably telling the truth MINUS PERCENT PROBABLY DEkNITELY not telling the truth) of the police to net zero in December 2018, similar to the zero in June 2018

AND THE WHEN kRST ASKED IN $Ecember 2016,â€? SWS said. The latest survey also showed that net opinion on police truthfulness was lowest in Metro Manila at -11, followed by Balance Luzon at -3, Visayas at +3 and Mindanao at +11. MalacaĂąang played down the latest survey results, noting that SWS, in the spirit of fairness, “should have ALSO kELDED A QUESTION REGARDING THE good deeds of our policemen in the war against drugs.â€? “After all, a total of 165 police OFkCERS WERE KILLED AND WERE wounded in the campaign against prohibited narcotics, based on the latest report of the PNP. These kGURES DISPEL ALLEGATIONS OF CRITICS and detractors on legitimate drug operations and show that drug pushers and addicts actually resort to violence when confronted with a threat of apprehension,â€? Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo said in a statement. “Indeed, illegal drugs, particularly methamphetamine or shabu, alter emotions and cause anger and fear on the part of the user so we are not dumbfounded when violent encounters ensue during police operations,â€? he added. Just like in any organization,

Panelo said the Palace was “aware that there are rotten eggs that tend to destroy the integrity of the great institution, that is the PNP.� “While there is no denying that there are erring policemen within their ranks, the PNP has done internal cleansing efforts such as the activation of the CounterIntelligence Task Force tasked to go after policemen involved in unlawful activities,� Panelo said. He added that zero tolerance AGAINST POLICE MISkTS WAS EXHIBITED when the policemen who killed 17-year-old Kian Loyd de los Santos were convicted and the entire Caloocan police force was relieved. “As PRRD (President Rodrigo Duterte) himself said, ‘There will be hell to pay if you become worse than criminals.’ Such actions show that we in the Administration are intolerant with any kind of abuse coming from those whose duty is to serve and protect the Filipino people,� Panelo said.

Harsher drug war Meanwhile, Duterte’s net satisfaction rating was at an “excellent� +78 for respondents who believed the police were telling the truth, while it was at a “very good� +61

NLEX-SLEX Connector breaks ground THE P23.3-billion North Luzon Expressway (NLEX)-South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) Connector Road started preliminary works on Thursday. /FkCIALS FROM THE $EPARTMENT of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Department of Transportation (DOTr), Department of Budget and Management (DBM), Department of Finance (DoF) and NLEX Corp. attended the groundbreaking rites in Caloocan City. Actual construction would begin in April, NLEX Corp. President Luigi Bautista told reporters. According to the DPWH, the project is “an eight-kilometer all

elevated 4-lane toll expressway extending the NLEX southward from the end of Segment 10 in C3 Road Caloocan City to PUP Sta. Mesa, Manila and connecting to the Skyway Stage 3, and mostly traversing the PNR rail track. The project includes two interchanges located at C3 Road, Caloocan and Espaùa, Manila.� Once completed, the project will cut travel time between NLEX and SLEX from two hours to 20 minutes. The elevated road is also expectED TO EASE TRAFkC WOES AND CATER TO about 35,000 motorists per day. The main line of NLEX Har-

for those undecided. The latest survey also showed that respondents who did not believe the police claims posted a lower net satisfaction rating for Duterte of a “goodâ€? +39. Majority also believed police were involved in illegal drug trade, extrajudicial killings and planting evidence against drug trade suspects. Sixty-eight percent of respondents believed policemen were involved in illegal drug trade, while 66 percent believed some authorities were involved in the extrajudicial killings of alleged suspects of the drug trade. Also, 58 percent also believed the police often planted evidence against suspects. The poll, conducted through face-to-face interviews of 1,440 adults aged 18 years old and above nationwide, had a sampling error margin of Âą2.6 percent for national percentages and a sampling error margin of Âą5 percent each for Balance Luzon, Metro Manila, Visayas, and Mindanao. For this year, Duterte has vowed to launch a “harsherâ€? war on the illegal drug trade, claiming the country was going “insane.â€? WITH CATHERINE S. VALENTE

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bor Link Segment 10 was also inaugurated on Thursday. It is an elevated expressway traversing the NLEX from MacArthur Highway in Karuhutan, Valenzuela City, passing through Malabon City and C3 Road in Caloocan City. “NLEX Harbor Link Segment 10 and NLEX Connector are just SOME OF -ETRO 0ACIkC S EXPANSION projects geared towards providing further convenience to motorists and bringing more opportunities in nearby cities and provinces,� SAID -ETRO 0ACIkC 4OLLWAYS #ORP President and Chief Executive OfkCER 2ODRIGO &RANCO LISBET K. ESMAEL

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo boards his plane at Nom Bar International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam on Thursday to travel to Manila for his meeting with President Rodrigo Duterte. AP PHOTO

Negros Occidental priest sacked for allegedly molesting 4-yr-old girl THE San Carlos diocese has removed a parish priest in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental charged with rape for purportedly molesting a four-year-old girl. In a statement, San Carlos Bishop Gerardo Alminaza said he had assigned another priest to temporarily head the St. Joseph Parish Church in Barangay Caduha-an to “give the accused time to spiritually prepare himself to face the allegations and to give way for an impartial investigation.� The accused, Fr. Aron Buenacosa, is facing a rape charge before THE #ADIZ #ITY 0ROSECUTOR S /FkCE He is accused of violating Republic Act 7610 or the “Special Protection of Children against Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination Act.� 4HE UNIDENTIkED GIRL IS SAID TO be the daughter of an executive assistant of the church. While admitting it was challenged to “walk the talk,� the diocese vowed to cooperate with the investigation to attain justice. “While we acknowledge the right of the accused to be presumed in-

nocent until proven otherwise, we are steadfast to assist the victim and cooperate in the process so the truth will come out and justice is served,� Alminaza said. “We are committed to search for truth and to make sure the process will be fair and just to both parties and whoever is responsible will have to face the consequences,� he added. Pope Francis ordered a shift in the Church’s focus — from protecting the Church as an institution to protecting abused children — in the recently concluded four-day historic summit on clergy sexual abuse at the Vatican.

The San Carlos prelate said the diocese had reached out to the alleged victim. “We are greatly saddened and shocked that a young child is alleged to have been molested by one of our clergy. This painful incident creates a deep wound

and hurt not only to the victim and the victim’s family but also to the communities and to the entire clergy of the Diocese of San Carlos,� Alminaza said. The bishop said that he had asked the Cadiz parish leaders to provide proper care, and offer help, to both the accused and the alleged victim and her family. (E ALSO CLARIkED THAT THE 3AN Carlos diocese was not “hiding� Buenacosa to “protect him from the charges.� “We are proceeding with our own canonical process as dictated by Church law by providing pastoral care to the accused while allowing the legal process to take its course,� he said. Alminaza also asked for prayers for a quick resolution to the case “for justice delayed is justice denied.� (E ALSO EXPRESSED CONkDENCE ON the capacity of the justice system “to protect the vulnerable and the innocent, and to guarantee that justice is served.� CATHERINE A. MODESTO

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or regulate apps like Facebook and WhatsApp. But the DICT is working with social media giant Facebook to remove the Momo challenge from the latter’s platforms. Allan Cabanlong, DICT assistant secretary for cybersecurity and enabling technologies, told The Manila Times that while the so-called suicide game was also present in other social media platforms, shutting it down in Facebook could lessen the impact. “Were now in talks with Facebook ... They can remove it,� he said in a phone interview also on Thursday. In a separate mobile message, Rio

explained: “Because of virtual peer pressure, children would accept the challenges because minors are still unABLE TO DIFFERENTIATE FACT FROM kCTION ! creepy face and threatening messages to a child may become reality, leading to tragedies.� He said the country’s security authorities have started their own investigation. Cabanlong said it was still too early to assume that that the Momo challenge came from Japan just because the image was believed to be inspired by a creation of Japanese doll artist Midori Hayashi. The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) also on Thursday issued a

Govt powerless beak-like mouth and animal legs encourages children to add a contact on Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp. It then hounds the user with violent images and dares. An 11-year-old boy this week died from drug overdose after allegedly joining the online challenge. Rio admitted that unlike in China where the state has strong regulatory powers, the Philippine government has no power under the law to block

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PLDT: We his former aide Christopher Lawrence “Bong� Go, now a candidate for senator. “If not, I’ll shut down their business. Yes, that’s true. I don’t want to brag, but they owe [the] government P8 billion. No President has ever asked for payment,� he added. Duterte did not say what the P8 billion was for, and there was no immediate comment from PLDT on the amount. In a statement, Palace spokes-

man Salvador Panelo said MalacaĂ„ANG WAS CONkDENT THAT TELECOMmunication giants would do their “very bestâ€? to ensure that Filipinos could easily report complaints to the “8888â€? hotline. “Given all this, it is clear why the President would be displeased when our countrymen’s efforts to access the 8888 Hotline are frustrated,â€? Panelo said. “Moving forward, we trust that telecommunications networks that act as crucial access points for the system shall endeavor their very best to improve the capacity and resiliency of the system because at

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warning against the Momo challenge after it was linked to the reported suicide of a 12-year-old girl from Argentina and sparked worldwide fears. Vic Lorenzo, chief of the NBI Cybercrime Division, said over radio station dzBB, addressing teenagers and their parents, “Para di ma-manipulate [For you to not be manipulated],delete and don’t entertain the Momo challenge when you come across it. Don’t satisfy your curiosity.� Lorenzo asked the parents to reach out to their children and understand where they are coming from. The NBI Cybercrime Division chief said although parents may

block certain applications in the digital devices of their kids through CONkGURATION THE ULTIMATE ANTIDOTE is for them to remind their children to not talk to strangers. Lorenzo added that parents may contact or go to the NBI to ask for help in navigating the cyberspace, if they already notice that a certain mobile application had changed the behavior of their child. Lorenzo said the Momo challenge, might have infiltrated Youtube after a concerned mother posted on her Facebook page, detailing how her daughter was targeted by the Momo challenge while watching children’s show “Peppa Pig.�

the end of the day, Hotline 8888 is meant to ensure the general welfare of the Filipino people,â€? he added. The 24-hour hotline was launched in 2016 to receive complaints from the public about red tape, corruption and other abuses IN GOVERNMENT OFkCES Established by the President through Executive Order 6, the hotline is operated under the supervision of the Civil Service Commission. Complaints are referred to the agencies concerned, and the complainants are apprised of the action taken until their grievances are resolved. the economy this year at The Manila Times Economic Outlook 2019. Reserve your seats now by calling the Marketing Communications & Services Group at 524-5664 local 113 or 109 or by emailing businessforum@manilatimes.net. A youth pastor has urged people to become more disciplined in the use of devices, in the wake of the Momo challenge. In a Viber message, Pastor Joseph Bonifacio said discipline starts at home. “This is just one more reason why itÂĄÂŻs not wise to give children unregulated, unsupervised access to the internet,â€? he said. “We must be disciplined in our use OF DEVICES 4HE kRST AND BEST LAYER OF placing that discipline is in the home,â€? he said.

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Go lauds extension of claims of Martial Law victims ASPIRING senator Christopher Lawrence “Bongâ€? Go on Thursday lauded President Rodrigo Duterte for extending the release of funds for victims of human rights violation during Martial Law years to Dec. 31, 2019. Go issued the comment after Duterte approved Senate Joint Resolution 13 and House Joint Resolution 26, which meant to ensure payment of compensation to qualified victims of human rights violation. “It’s only right that after a long time, human rights victims are given the apporpriate compensation. Many of them or those they have left behind have yet to claim or receive their comensation, so this is the opportunity for them to do so,â€? Go said in Filipino. The former top aide of President Duterte said this showed that the Chief Executive truly had the heart for victims of human rights violations. Republic Act (RA) 10368, or the “Human Rights Victims Reparation and Recognition Act of 2013â€? allocated P10 billion plus interest from the so-called Marcos ill-gotten wealth as compensation for human rights victims. The law gave the Human Rights Victims Claims Board (HRVCB) two years from the effectivity of the implementing rules and regulations to complete the distribution of the compensation. In April 2016, Congress extended the

deadline from May 12, 2014 to May 12, 2018 through RA 10766. HRVCB approved 11,103 legitimate claimants out of more than 75,000 applicants as of May 11, 2018 and resolved 6,737 appeals as of May 6, 2018. As of June 28, 2018, however, the HRVCB account with the Land Bank of the Philippines reported a balance of P792.628 million, which can only be maintained until Aug. 11, 2018, after which the balance will revert to the Bureau of Treasury. Congress adopted the joint resolutions after several relatives of claimants complained they were not able to encash the checks even with the issuance of Special Powers of Attorney. Many of the claimants were concerned they would not be able to get their money until Aug. 11, 2018. In running for the Senate, Go vowed to support the programs and policies of the Duterte administration, particularly those meant to help the unfortunate. His legislative agenda include programs for health, agriculture, anti-illegal drugs and criminality, education, housing, long-term sports development, anti-corruption, localized peace talks, fire protection and prevention, barangay (village) welfare, creation of a Department of overseas Filipino workers and increased benefits and support for senior citizens.

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ANET Lim Napoles’s children Jo Christine and James Christopher as well as her brothers Reynald and Ronald Francisco Lim, and another were arraigned Thursday morning on charges of graft and malversation THROUGH FALSIkCATION OVER THE 0 MILLION -ALAMPAYA FUNDS IN TO Jo and James Napoles, Reynald and Ronald Francisco Lim, and Winnie Villanueva refused to enter any plea so the court entered a notguilty plea on their behalf. Meanwhile, the court also on Thursday deferred anew the arraignment on January 24 of former Budget secretary Rolando Andaya Jr., now Camarines Sur 1st District representative, pending resolution of his omnibus

motion seeking to nullify the charge sheets. The court also deferred the arraignment of Napoles, as the Supreme Court’s express authority was needed for her to be brought out of the Correctional Institution for Women in Mandaluyong. Napoles was committed in the institution after the Sandiganbayan’s Special First Division convicted her of plunder in connection

with the Priority Development Assistance Fund scam. Chief Justice Lucas Bersamin said last week that the high court granted the Sandiganbayan’s request seeking to allow Napoles, who is facing other cases before the Sandiganbayan, to attend trial. The pretrial in the graft cases and the malversation through falsification cases filed over Malampaya funds is scheduled on April 22. In filing the cases against 25 individuals in 2017, the Office of the Ombudsman alleged that undue injury was caused to the government and/or unwarranted BENEkTS ADVANTAGE AND PREFERENCE was given to nongovernment organizations (NGOs) in the total amount of P900 million. The NGOs and amounts involved were the: Micro Agri

Business Citizens Initiative Foundation Inc. (P55 million); Tanglaw Para sa Magsasaka Foundation Inc. (P72.5 million); Abundant Harvest for People’s Foundation Inc. (P75 million); Bukirin Tanglaw Foundation Inc. (P75 million); Dalangpan Sang Amon Utod Kag Kasimanwa Foundation Inc. (P75 million); Kasaganahan Para sa Magsasaka Foundation Inc. (P75 million); Kaupdan Para Sa Mangunguma Foundation Inc. (P75 million); Masaganang Buhay Foundation Inc. (P75 million); Ginintuang Alay sa Magsasaka Foundation Inc. (P77.5 million); Saganang Buhay sa Atin Foundation Inc. (P80 million); Gintong Pangkabuhayan Foundation Inc. (P82.5 million); and Karangayan Para sa Magbubukid Foundation Inc. (P82.5 million).

5 envoys to China reappointed PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has REAPPOINTED kVE SPECIAL ENVOYS OF the President to China for a oneyear term. Duterte signed the appointment papers of Fernando Borja, William Lima, Cheng Yong, Carlos Chan and Wallie Lee on February 26, copies of which were given to members of the media two days later. Their term started last January 1 and will end on Dec. 31, 2019. They were iniatially appointed to their posts on January 3 last year. Duterte also reappointed Miguel Ayala as special envoy to the Commonwealth of Australia. His term will also run from Jan. 1, 2019 until the end of the year. The President also reappointed the father of Presidential Communi-

CATIONS /PERATIONS /FkCE 3ECRETARY Martin Andanar, Wencelito Andanar, as special envoy to Malaysia. His term will run from Feb. 10, 2019 to Feb. 9, 2020. Susan Pineda Mercado’s term as special envoy for global health initiative has also been extended until the end of the year. Meanwhile, Duterte appointed Jose Gaviola as undersecretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), replacing Emmanuel Leyco. Gaviola served as a Director 4 of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples. Vicente Gregorio Tomas was also appointed as Director 4 at the DSWD, replacing Felipe Ramiro Jr. RALPH EDWIN U. VILLANUEVA

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DRILON: MAKE BAM NO. 1 SENATOR IN ILOILO CITY SEN. Paolo Benigno “Bam� Aquino 4th’s reelection bid received a major boost as Senate Minority Floor Leader Franklin Drilon urged his fellow Ilonggos to make him number 1 in Iloilo City in the May elections. “Bam should be number 1 in the

city. This is what I ask of you, as he will serve the interest of Ilonngos,� Drilon in Filipino told the crowd taking part in a rally at the North Fundidor Gym in Molo, Iloilo City on Wednesday. “He’s one of the brightest senators

I’ve worked with. He’s sincere. He’s a man who is sincerely concerned for our welfare — especially in the future of the youth,� added Drilon. Aquino, Drilon said, WAS THE kRST 3ENATE CAN-

didate in the May elections that he had endorsed. Drilon described the lawmaker and the Aquino family as a dependable ally in the development of the province of Iloilo, citing

MINGLE WITH THE CROWD Otso Diretso Senate candidate Paolo Benigno ‘Bam’ Aquino 4th mingles with residents of Tondo, Manila during their sortie there. PHOTO BY RUSSELL PALMA

some projects that were funded during the previous administration. “I think our city still needs help. I need Bam. We are 24 [in the Senate]. It would be difficult if I am alone. I need someone reliable in the Senate. And Bam can be relied on,� Drilon emphasized. Drilon also laid down Aquino’s legislative accomplishments, saying he pushed for the passage of several important laws that focus on the welfare of the Filipino people, including the Free College Law being enjoyed by thousands of Ilonggo students. In a separate interview, Aquino thanked Drilon for his overwhelming support for his candidacy. “Senator Drilon’s endorsement here in Iloilo is a huge thing. Ilonggos love and respect him,� said Aquino, who has 40 laws to his name in his almost six years as senator.

FIRMS HIKE LPG PRICES ANEW OIL firms raised prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) products for this month, the second upward adjustment for the year. Petron hiked LPG prices by P2.90 per kilogram effective Friday at 12:01 a.m., and AutoLPG prices by P1.65 per liter around the same time. “These reflect the international contract price of LPG for the month of March,� the firm said. Solane, meanwhile, jacked up Solane-branded LPG price by P2.60 per kilogram, inclusive of value-added tax, also on Friday at 6 a.m. Last month, companies jacked up LPG prices products by more than P3 per kilogram. Petron imposed an increase of P3.88 per kilogram for LPG products and P2.17 per liter for AutoLPG. Solane also jacked up the cost of Solane-branded LPG products by P3.41 per kilogram. JORDEENE B. LAGARE

Benefits of Anti-Hospital Deposit Law to hospitals and medical clinics

Dear PAO, The Anti-Hospital Deposit Law prohibits hospitals and medical clinics from demanding deposits and advance payments for the confinement and treatment of patients, which is obviously advantageous to patients, especially FOR THOSE WHO ARE kNANCIALLY IN distress. I just want to know if the Anti-Hospital Deposit Law, LIKEWISE HAS BENEkTS IN FAVOR OF hospitals and medical clinics. Rodilla

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PERSIDA ACOSTA Dear Rodilla, Please be informed of Section 5 of Republic Act 109321, which further amended and inserted Sections 7 and 8, among others,

to Batas Pambansa 702, otherwise known as “An Act Prohibiting the Demand of Deposits or Advance Payments for the #ONkNEMENT OR 4REATMENT OF Patients in Hospitals and Medical Clinics in Certain Cases,� which provide: “SEC. 7. Philhealth Reimbursement of Basic Emergency Care. — Philhealth shall reimburse the cost of basic emergency care and transportation services incurred

by the hospital or medical c l i n i c f o r t he e m e r g e n c y medical services given to poor and indigent patients. Furthermore, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office shall provide medical assistance for the basic emergency care needs of the poor and marginalized groups. “SEC. 8. Tax Deductions. Other expenses incurred by the hospital or medical clinic in providing basic emergency care to

poor and indigent patients not reimbursed by PhilHealth shall be tax deductible.� (Emphasis supplied) Clearly, hospitals and med the cost of basic emergency care and transportation services they incurred in providing emergency medical services to poor and indigent patients. Further, those expenses that are not reimbursed by the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. shall be tax deductible.

We hope that we were able to answer your queries. Please be reminded that this advice is based solely on the facts you have narrated and our appreciation of the same. Our opinion may vary when other facts are changed or elaborated.

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HE public and the media should not jump quickly to conclusions regarding the implications of President Rodrigo Duterte’s brief meeting with Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) Chairman Nur Misuari and their opening of the door for talks. This does not reverse what has been achieved by the administration so far in its peace effort in the South, namely: 1. The passage by Congress of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL); 2. The successful conduct of a plebiscite in the areas covered by the autonomy law; and 3. The initial constitution of the transition authority for the Bangsamoro Autononous Region for Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). More important than that, we should view this in a different light, such as that the President is applying a necessary corrective to some shortcomings and distortions in the peace process, the autonomy law and the plebiscite. One such example is the conduct of the plebiscite on two separate dates in January and February, which had raised some confusion and uncertainty because not all Muslim groups were covered by the autonomous region. Misuari and the MNLF boycotted the plebiscite and opposed the creation of the BARMM. That uncertainty was exacerbated by several violent incidents and clashes between rebels and government forces in the South, almost simultaneously with the plebiscite. There is no instant solution to the violence and uncertainty. There is tough work ahead for the government and the proposed autonomous region. What we can quickly improve and must improve is government policy in Muslim Mindanao. We think that a lot can be achieved if government adopts an explicit inclusionary policy for forging peace and autonomy in the region. The Philippine government erred the first time in 1996, when it decided to forge a peace agreement with the MNLF and tried to create an autonomous region with the MNLF in charge. This initial stab at autonomy proved a failure, when the MILF seceded from the MNLF and waged a war against the government instead. The government could err a second time by forging a separate peace with the MILF and creating BARMM with MILF leaders in charge. Once again, the failure to adopt an inclusionary policy threatens to blindside the peace effort in the South. The move of President Duterte to exchange ideas with Chairman Misuari is indisputably right. It manifests a readiness by the Philippine government to repair the exclusion of the MNLF and the Tausug communities from the autonomy plan. Duterte’s initiative should be welcomed by the nation, the MILF and all Muslim communities. It will also please the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), which served as mediator in the first peace agreement and autonomy plan. During the OIC foreign ministers’ meeting in Conakry, Africa, the conference approved a resolution that proposed both government deals with the MNLF and MILF should be covered by one autonomy scheme. The idea is a sound one. It is the right approach if the goal is truly comprehensive peace and development in Mindanao. All Filipino Muslims are, in a sense, stakeholders in the BARMM. By bringing some into the picture and leaving others out, we would inflict a grave injustice on people who have been, historically, waging a decadeslong struggle for autonomy.

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SHOULD have written about EDSA ‘86 last week, decided not to, but the persistent revisionism compels me to say my piece now. "UT kRST AN EXCURSUS ON THE remarkable statement of the Prez that the Marcoses have not been proven to be kleptocrats: on July 15, 2003, a unanimous Supreme Court ordered their Swiss deposits “in the estimated aggregate amount of US$658,175,373.60 as of January 7, 2002, plus interest, forfeited in favor of petitioner Republic of the Philippines.� (Republic v. Sandiganbayan, 406 SCRA 190, 274-75.) That was not the only instance, as lawyers Bob Swift, Sherry Broder, Rod Domingo and Ruben Fruto will tell you. Countless human rights victims have received compensation sourced from the humongous ill-gotten wealth. Uncle Jovy Salonga praised the 2003 decision, but I have always wondered why the SC did not order the prosecution of the “ill-gotteners,� done in the case of lesser lights. On Edsa ‘86, I can argue that Marcos was then removed constitutionally. His own 1973 Constitution said one way a Prez may lose his post is by “removal from OFkCEu ‡ !RT 6) 3EC -ARCOS was removed, by the People, ours, not the Americans. Hence, People, not American, nor RAM, Power. Reagan was for Marcos up

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and educate them? Daunting, and cussing won’t help. After the Feb. 7, 1986 polls, described by our Catholic bishops as marked by “unparalleled fraudulence,� Reagan’s special envoy, Philip Habib, came and to the very end but when it be- proposed power-sharing to Prezcame obvious that entire families elect Cory. She said, no way, “I at EDSA, in the millions, were won and I’ll take power.� Did READY TO GIVE THEIR ALL ‡ GAVE UP Reagan help? That I doubt. on him. Realpolitik. She’d often say, “I work with all If some aliens helped, well, my might, I pray with all my heart, Lafayette did aid the Kanos. (In and the rest I leave to God.� The 1969-1970, while training with Ar- only, or the major and decisive nold & Porter in Washington, DC. foreign assistance, or intervention, I worked out of the townhouse if you will, we got was divine. MilLafayette once lived in there.) lions of grateful Filipinos marched And there was Kosciuszko, et al. from the Manila Cathedral to What was wrong in Congressman Manila Memorial in her day-long Stephen Solarz, Amnesty Interna- August 2009 funeral march, in the tional, Mark Brown and the inter- wind and rain, and elected her son national community supporting Prez the following year. Above, my humble view of our us and cheering us on in 1986? all too brief shining moment The end of the beginning WHEN THE WHOLE WORLD SAW ‡ IN SHOCK AWE AND ADMIRATION ‡ Did Edsa ‘86 solve our many on cable TV our People, entire ills? Of course not. Feb. 22, 1986 families, asking what they could marked the beginning of the end do for the country and not what for Marcos, but for us, Feb. 25, it could do for us, ready to give 1986 was just the end of the be- their all. Cory was at EDSA from ginning. Our major problem then, 1972 to 1986, with a few of us, AND TODAY REMAINS ‡ MASSIVE until Feb. 22-26, 1986, when the poverty, easing vote-buying, and military walked across from the distorting polls. In the early 1980s, wrong side of EDA and avoided a US senator supposedly described being barbecued by the Marcos us a nation of 40 million cowards loyalist generals. (On Feb. 24, and one SOB (I’d add, and one B). 1986, morning, over the vigorous Today, we are 105 million rabbits, objections of her security, Cory and counting. How do we feed spoke at EDSA, at the POEA Bldg.

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3HE HAD lOWN BACK FROM #EBU the day previous, abandoning the contingency of setting up another government in Davao.) Not every liberation inspires acceptance by all. Say, those bothered by the Feb. 7-8, 1974 *OLO CAUST WHEN OUR ARMED kGHT sent 20,000 Jolo inhabitants, mostly Muslims, to paradise. 5NDERSTANDABLY THEY kND IT HARD to join the mainstream. Mamasapano 44 incomprehensibly excludes the score of innocent civilian Muslim victims. More accurate would be the Mamasapano 68 and the Jolo 20,000. In February-March 1945 in Manila, it was said that the Japanese killed and destroyed us “wilfully� while the Americans also did “willy-nilly.� (J. Scott, Rampage, MacArthur, Yamashita and the Battle of Manila, 2018, page 511). Thus, we can contextualize the FOLLOWING g) SPAT ON THE VERY kRST American soldier I saw that unspeakable day in February 1945,� recalled journalist Carmen Guerrero Nakpil, who saw her husband shot, home burned and childhood friends raped. “Damn you,� she later wrote. “You did your best to kill us.� (Id. page 428.) She had been embittered by the loss of her husband, home and friends.

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UTDOOR advertisers are major visual pollutants in the Metro Manila area and probably elsewhere, as our country is drowning from excessive commercial messages even while driving to work or school, going on a leisure trip or just plain going about one’s business. There seems to be no space that is sacred from outdoor advertisers. If they can close down the sky as they have managed to shut us away from the rivers, mountains and greenery, they would do it. The passion for lucre no matter how it inconveniences the rest of the population is predominant and permanent for outdoor advertisers who exercise no restraint. Last November, we had the case of San Lorenzo Village suddenly being enclosed by a wall parallel to its wall along EDSA. The explanation was that a certain One Touchpoint Media Convergence Inc. whose letterhead bore no street address or electronic address had proposed to the San Lorenzo Village Association to reinforce their wall in line with the National Disaster Preparedness Plan in an effort and I quote “to serve the needs of our fellow Filipinos.� This altruistic act was not what it pretended to be. The real message was the request to use the wall for advertising purposes, LED or otherwise. When the San

the guise of altruistic assistance for disaster preparedness. Yet all these villages have the funds to reinforce their own walls if need be. Despite the cold reception, One Touchpoint continues to try and get its way. It has since written to Lorenzo Village Association turned the DPWH requesting reconsideradown the proposal despite the of- tion of the latter’s order to cease fer of millions after they showed AND DESIST AND kNALLY DEMOLISH reluctance, One Touchpoint said the wall. Some engineers have it had all the permits anyway and actually pointed out that ironically began to build a parallel wall to FOR A PROPONENT OF kXING WALLS FOR the San Lorenzo Village wall eat- disaster preparedness, this paraling up the sidewalk along EDSA lel wall that this so-called disaster in the process. It was meant to be preparedness philanthropists a fait accompli with a claim of per- have built is unsafe and a clear mits allowing it from DPWH and candidate for disaster once any --$! 3OME $07( OFkCIALS EVEN earthquake comes its way. attested to the claim upon inquiry But the real issue is the fundafrom the village association, say- mental question of using public ing it was a done deal. DPWH is property (which the sidewalk is) the responsible party for national for private gain. At the expense of roads and sidewalks. The embattled the public that needs a sidewalk on San Lorenzo Village Association EDSA not only to traverse on foot requested clarification from the but to wait for public transportaDPWH Secretary and suddenly tion, One Touchpoint will reap there was a cease and desist order. PROkTS FOR ITSELF ALONE BY USING IT But the wall remained. It showed to the detriment of pedestrians. no signs of being demolished. This mysterious company It obviously had been a major which originally claimed or put investment, a risk with much to in the forefront one employee, return if it was a done deal. Also, a certain Anna Kathrina Arceo, other villages along EDSA had who signs letters and claims to been given the same proposal us- BE BOTH kNANCE AND OPERATIONS ing the ploy of reinforcing walls director, with no reference to a for disaster preparedness. Some certain Chito Arceo who is said barangay captains of the locations to own the company and whose even endorsed the proposal under touted board of directors of

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persons in the business for 20 years are nameless. Suddenly one showed up as you will see below. Despite all of the above, the DPWH has given One Touchpoint the time of day by telling San Lorenzo Village that it has asked for reconsideration and they are reconsidering and therefore a geodetic survey was taken to decide on the issue. Here is where a person called Mr. Rodriguez claiming to be president of Touchpoint showed up. Whatever the survey, it will be of public property. If any accommodation will be given to One Touchpoint, it will be at the expense of the public interest. So, watch the denouement as it seems there are patrons on the DPWH side for One Touchpoint. One cannot help but recall the Aladdin story of “new lamps for oldâ€? which fooled the victim to give what was infinitely more valuable for a mundane new lamp. This is the classic con game that this outdoor advertising outfit seems to be playing. It is ambitioning for all the walls of EDSA as shown by the offers already made to DasmariĂąas Village and Bel-Air. In this matter, what you see is not what you get. If it does happen thanks to One Touchpoint and the benevolence shown it by the DPWH, it will certainly be clearly at the expense of the public.

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DU30’s assurance must go beyond words These reports have long been whispered about among clerics, but they finally hit the press when Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, the Archbishop of Manila, texted President Rodrigo Duterte from Rome, where he was attending a Vatican summit on clerical sexual abuse, and the President read out his message during a campaign speech in Cebu City last weekend.

not targets in the war on drugs, which has already killed an estimated 20,000 drug suspects. “The religious have nothing to do with the vagaries of life,� DU30 said. “Once you touch a nun or a priest or imam, then we will HAVE TO kGHT u HE ADDED SOUNDing like he was quoting from the Psalms (105:15), “not to touch my (God’s) anointed ones.�`

Two questions The cardinal’s message “Good day, po — (sir),â€? said the purported text message from the cardinal. “Greetings from Rome! I was informed by Bishop David (Bishop of Caloocan and vice president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, or CBCP, that some priests got death threats from someone claiming to be working for the President’s family. Just to let you know. Baka may naninira (Someone might be spreading false and derogatory news)‌â€? The cardinal was neither accusatory nor confrontational. He even provided the President an easy way out — baka may naninira! So the President assured him that priests and nuns were

These are very reassuring words. But at least two sets of questions have to be asked. One, does this statement completely supersede and erase the President’s previous “call� to “kill useless bishops�? Can the priests who may have gone into hiding because of these threats now come out, and resume their normal pastoral work, without having to worry about getting bumped off inside the church or outside by some thugs? Can DU30 personally assure Bishop David that he can continue ministering to the EJK victims and their families without being treated as an enemy of government? Can Cardinal Tagle, Bishop David and the priests and religious directly affected by the

reported threats now say they HAVE BEEN SUFkCIENTLY REASSURED by the President’s statement? Two, if the President can guarantee that no harm will come to priests and men and women in the consecrated life who oppose his extrajudicial drug killings, can he similarly assure his lay critics in the press that they will not be harmed for performing their constitutional duty of exposing secrets being hidden from the public? I ask this question in my own behalf, after being threatened with physical violence by the President, who also threatened to violate my wife, for a story I wrote which has not been denied, but which has been used to attribute to me a subject I did not write about. I understand the “owners� of The Manila Times are now under certain pressure to “terminate� this column without prior notice. If this happens, it should allow me to devote more time to writing my memoirs and my books. "UT THIS IS THE kRST TIME IN MY years of journalism and public life that I have been threatened with brute force by the highest authority of the land for writing something that could be eas-

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EDSA ‘86 revisited/revised? those of Warsaw and Leningrad. Born 1939, I spent the war years as a bakwit in the hills of Mauban. Idyllic. Positive memories of the courteous disciplined Japanese who would go up the hills and later of the Americans who occupied the town’s mercado (market). The homesick Kanos sang “You Are My Sunshine,â€? with feeling, to the piano accompaniment of my cousins, Ate Emma and Ate Ninfa. They looked 10 feet tall and gave me more choclits than I could use. Moving to Makati in 1945, I was given a lot of books by the Kanos which helped me IN kNISHING GRADE SCHOOL AT AT -AKATI %LEMENTARY IN kVE YEARS (accelerated). From Makati to Rizal High in Pasig, where teachers from preWW2, schooled by the Thomasites, validated that teachers affect eternity. Then to San Beda, where lifelong friendships were also formed. Now, we have just lost two Bobbys. Gone is National Artist and fellow Bedan Bobby MaĂąosa, who I came to know of only from afar. Not as prominent is my longtime and valued friend, Bobby Honrado, my Mendiola pre-law chum, who passed away last week in the US. I learned about the loss last Monday from ManileĂąo Louie Onrubia who so impressed this Pasig promdi with his accent in speaking English. BSP Guv Nestor Espenilla is the elder brother of our Bedan alums Ruth and her hubby, Gonzalo Duque. He succumbed to cancer. Succumbing to the hangman was Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita on Feb. 23, 1946. The Battle of Manila should be seen together with the Rape of Nanking in China, the Prez’s new fave. Digong, in taking his oath on June 30, 2016, vowed to “execute its [our] lawsâ€? but apparently not when it comes to the Chinese. Let the SCOFlAW #HINESE ILLEGALLY ENTERing and staying here stay, which invites more illegal Chinese to come on the hospitality of a SCOFlAW 0REZ (E HAS HAD TO WALK back to comply with his oath.

Marcos’ ‘Siopao’ Constitution February is so memorable. On Feb. 24, 1986, evening, I rushed the oath to be taken by Cory and Doy who couldn’t vow to “preserve and defend [the 1973 [Siopao] Constitution.� Siopao, per 1986 ConCom Delegate Pepe

Nolledo, who reminded us that on Jan. 17, 1973, the barangay assembly attendees were asked who among them wanted siopao, and raised hands were counted as “Yes� to the 1973 Constitution. Comes now one Adam Garrie saying: a Dark Day in Philippine history, alluding to Edsa ‘86. Why? Because a sorely missed Jolo-Caust was no longer possible? Apart from the gross human rights violations, there had been unparalleled kleptocracy. Garrie wrote: “If Marcos’ own shortsightedness led him to call an election due to external pressures [what about the local clamor for years, pray tell?], it WAS !MERICA S CONkDENCE IN THE fact that it could control Corazon Aquino and those around her more effectively than a strongminded but ageing Marcos, that ultimately led the US to turn their back on Marcos.� Cory lost on the bases issue on Sept. 16, 1991 because of a stubborn Senate. Look at the thriving base lands today. But, in very short order, Cory had formed a respected Supreme Court, had a new Constitution within a year, and elections followed in May 1987. She was the wife of a politician, descended from politicians from both sides and had a brother also as a politician. Dilettante she wasn’t, beating back Marcos, Laurel, Enrile, Danding, RAM, et al. Her temporary stay in the US didn’t interrupt her Philippine residence any more than my stay there from 1967 to 1970. Garrie continued: “. . . the fact that the 1987 Constitution of Cory Aquino has deprived the Philippines of strong parliamentary governance, is a continued testament to how on this day in 1986, the Philippines took a big step backwards, even though the path forward actually existed based on the very 1973 Constitution that Marcos should have done a better job to support.� The Siopao Constitution? Tell me another. I would not be so apodictic or dogmatic in a country where Murphy’s Law seems to prevail: if anything can go wrong, it will. See what we, the Japanese and the South Koreans have done with the US jeep. Had we gone parliamentary in 1973-1986, we might have become Somalia or Venezuela by now. But, we do need for the Prez to make certain mid-course adjustments and corrections, to succeed, which we all should want.

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ILY VERIkED AND REFUTED IF FALSE there are, he should do his best to without the language of violence. convince them that these critics are not his personal enemies or Uneven ground those of the State, but patriotic citizens of deep religious faith and Earlier, I wrote an extensive moral convictions, who should be column to explain my part in engaged in non-violent argumenthis unfortunate incident, and I tation and debate. thought I had put an end to it. But I am made to understand that Missed opportunity the President continues to attack me personally in his campaign DU30’s reply to Cardinal Tagle speeches, as though I were run- could have been an auspicious NING FOR PUBLIC OFkCE IN THE -AY beginning. But this appears to election. I am not, and I do not have been instantly complieven wish I were. cated by his other statements We are not on even ground, on Church matters, which lie far the President and I, and this beyond his competence. For one, does not allow me to honor he has predicted that the Church him with a reply. But I wish the will disappear in 25 years. The President were more tolerant Church is now in crisis, because and receptive of ideas and opin- of fundamental questions of ions other than his own. This is orthodoxy and the sexual crimes an indispensable requirement committed by gay priests and of governing the smallest com- bishops. And many are not only munity of rational citizens. This calling for, but rather predicting needs no further elucidation. the end of the present papacy. With all the goodwill in the No one, however, is predicting world, the President has to de- the demise of the Church within termine whether there are indeed their lifetime; only DU30 has lawless elements determined to predicted its end in 25 years. harm priests, religious and laymen In the meantime, DU30 said in his name, simply because they priests should marry, without speciare opposed to or critical of his fying whether they should “marry� policies and pronouncements. If persons of the same or opposite sex.

Bishops’ reply Bishop Honesto Ongtioco of Cubao and Bishop Emeritus Teodoro Bacani of Novaliches were among the first to say the Church will outlast a hundred, nay a thousand, DU30s. This is guaranteed by God’s word in Scripture, and borne by the facts of history for at least the last YEARS "UT FOR THE kRST TIME IN history, the hierarchs of the Church have had to respond to accusations no longer simply of having “sinned� against God but rather of having committed unpunished “crimes� against their fellowmen. So, while DU30 may be completely wrong in saying the Church will not survive beyond the next 25 years, his ability to say these things without anything happening to him could lead some of his followers to believe they could do anything to priests, religious and laity, in order to please the President. DU30 has to do something more concrete than simply respond to Cardinal Tagle’s text message, to assure the nation that the lives and liberties of Catholics are not at risk if and when they oppose any of his policies and pronouncements.

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Skills for 21st century learners

HAT is 21st century learning? I searched the web for what experts say. One website says: “A 21st century education is about giving students the skills they need to succeed in this new world and helping them GROW THE CONkDENCE TO PRACTICE THOSE skills.� The skills needed are identikED AS THOSE THAT gGENERALLY REFER to certain core competencies such as collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem-solving that education advocates believe schools need to teach to help students thrive in today’s world.�< https://www.edweek. org/tsb/articles/2010/10/12/01panel. h0 4.html> To the above list of skills, another source adds the following that 21st century skills learners need to “succeed in their careers during the Information Age�: 1) creativity; 2) communication; 3) information literacy; 4) media literacy; 5) flexibility; 6) leadership; 7) initiative; 8) productivity; and 9) social skills.� “The lightning-pace of today’s modern markets� calls for such skills to have learners not left behind. While each skill has its own value, all these skills have one quality in common, and that is ‘They’re essential in the age of the Internet.’� <https://www. aeseducation.com/careercenter21/ what-are-21st-century-skills> 21st century learning “skills for today.� In identifying the skills needed by our learners today, the Partnership for 21st Century Learning similarly lists: creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration.� <https://thinkstrategicforschools. com/education-21st-century-/>. At the risk of being repetitious, a web source likewise reiterates similar skills: 1) ability to collaborate, working in teams; 2) critical thinking skills; 3) oral presentation skills; 4) written communication skills; 5) ability to use technology; 6) willingness to examine

less useful details to guide problemsolving and decision-making.<https:// www.thebalancecareers.bcom/critical-thinking-definition-with-examples-206-3745>. Obviously, critical thinking calls for thinking clearly amid a host of muddled concepts or bits and pieces to arrive at a logical civic and global issues; 7) ability to meaning. Such a situation or condiconduct research to learn about issues tion demands that the mind engages and concepts; and 8) learn about new IN gRElECTIVE AND INDEPENDENT THINKcareer opportunities. <http://www. ing� to “understand the logical conteachercertification.org/a /role-of- nections between ideas.� <https:// education-in-the-21st-century. html > philosophy.hku.hk/think/critical / Critical thinking skills—a 21st ct.php> In so doing, one should have century “must.� Common to this an objective distance. set of thinking skills involves basic Drivers of change. What are the cognition. This consists of the basic FACTORS THAT INlUENCE CHANGE IN OUR thinking skills and which compose times today? It is not only the startling active and skillful “conceptualizing, technology that affects all aspects of applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and life—not only education or the labor evaluating information to reach an market or new laws of public goveranswer or conclusion.�<https://www. nance, or commerce and trade, or the merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crit- natural or social environment (and ical/ct.php> Teachers conversant with all other aspects of living). Discoveries Krathwohl and Anderson’s revision of in medicine that prolong life, what a Bloom’s taxonomy would understand source says results in “extreme longevwhy there is need to hone students to ity�, “the rise of smart machines and the basic thinking processes (lower systems, our computational world, order thinking skills or LOTS) and new media ecology, superstructures which lead to critical thinking. organizations and the globally conToday’s communications technol- nected world.� And so, our source ogy presents one with a deluge of poses these questions and we do ask information that comes in different ourselves too, that “with all of these contexts and perspectives. Unable to massive issues in play, what will the have the mind go through the basic WORKING LANDSCAPE LOOK LIKE IN kVE thinking process does not make for years? What skills will employees need “disciplined thinking that is clear, to succeed?� <https://www.inc.com/ rational, open-minded, and informed larry-kim/10-critical-skills-you-ll-needby evidence.� <https://www.diction- to-succeed-at-work-in-2020.html> ary.com/browse/ critical-thinking> How is this century’s labor marThe common explanation from the ket? With technology “accelerating web of what involves critical thinking automation and digitization of rouis “the evaluation of sources such as tine work,� we would expect a steady data, facts, observable phenomena, decline in the labor market of tasks AND RESEARCH kNDINGS u 'OOD CRITICAL that are routine, basic cognitive skills thinkers can draw reasonable con- such as remembering, understanding, clusions from a set of information applying. The web will have all this and discriminate between useful and needed information — quoting stud-

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ies or advice from experts, providing case studies, demonstrating processes or methods, etc. What may not be understood, the internet’s thousands OF HYPERLINKS IN ALL kELDS IN ALL DISCIplines can provide the needed enlightenment. There is media to show how such a concept is applicable. And it is this deluge of information which at the same time poses a problem to us, much more to our learners who, unripened with experience, need guidance to perceive what is right and proper. The labor market will demand skills that are “non-routine, analytical and interpersonal.� Economies of countries around the world “run on creativity, innovation and collaboration. Skilled jobs are more and more centered on solving unstructured problems and effectively analyzing information.� “Curiosity and initiative serve as starting points for discovering new concepts and ideas.� <https://widgets.weforum.org/nve2015/chapter1.html> Along with the skills of the mind and hands, the 21stcentury labor market demands too, AND SIGNIkCANTLY A kNE CHARACTER‡A quality that every jobseeker must possess. “Character qualities describe how students approach their changing environment.� Cultural awareness, cultural understanding and cultural competence help develop soft skills of interrelating with people of varied cultures and which help jobseekers to succeed in their respective organizations whether they are staff and much more, as leaders. “Amid rapidly changing markets, character qualities such as persistence and adaptability ensure greater resilience and success in the face of obstacles. <https://widgets.weforum.org/nve-2015/chapter1.html>.

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Trump, at NKorea summit, distracted by Cohen HANOI, Vietnam: The moment was meant to be a grand diplomatic triumph, a headlinedominating spectacle that could lead to the disarmament of a dangerous nation while delivering a vital political victory. Instead, President Donald Trump’s high-stakes summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in Vietnam on Wednesday was in danger of being upstaged by a monumental betrayal unfolding half a world away in Washington. Hours after Trump sat face-toface with Kim in Vietnam, his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, sat before Congress and testified that his longtime boss was a “conman� and a “racist� who lied about having advanced knowledge of Wikileaks plans to release an opponent’s stolen emails. The spectacle was proof the Trump presidency has not yet exhausted its ability to surprise. As the president staged a historic summit abroad, a former confidante delivered

testimony, both detailed and taunting, that threatened to humiliate the president and undermine his foreign policy goals. The drama drew Trump’s attention even amid sensitive denuclearization talks. Even before the hearing began, the president unleashed an attack on his former fixer, who has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress and campaign finance violations and has been sentenced to three years. In a tweet, Trump downplayed Cohen’s influence and claimed he was “lying in order to reduce his prison time.� Later, as he sat for a photo with Kim, Trump bristled at reporters’ questions about Cohen. After the event, the White House took the extraordinary step of barring four US reporters, including one from The Associated Press, from Trump’s dinner with Kim, citing the “sensitivities� of the meeting. Democrats consider Cohen their star witness as they kick off investigations into

Trump’s business practices, presidential campaign and embattled charitable foundation, including any payments relating to efforts to influence the 2016 election. He was initially due on Capitol Hill earlier this month, but his appearance was delayed. The president’s son Donald Jr. accused Democrats of timing the hearing to interfere with Trump’s trip abroad. Cohen’s testimony appeared designed to get under Trump’s skin. Reading from his prepared remarks, Cohen said Trump instructed him to threaten schools that Trump attended to prevent release of his grades or SAT scores. Cohen also described discussing the Vietnam War with his former boss, who didn’t serve because he received a medical deferment for bone spurs. But Cohen says Trump could not provide any medical records and said: “You think I’m stupid, I wasn’t going to Vietnam.� Added Cohen, addressing the

president thousands of miles away: “I find it ironic, President Trump, that you are in Vietnam right now.� The hearing began just before midnight in Hanoi. It was not clear whether Trump stayed up late to watch. The president did spend some of the downtime at his hotel before his dinner with Kim watching the coverage of Cohen’s prepared testimony, which was released the evening before his Capitol Hill appearance. In the written testimony released in advance of the appearance, the president’s former lawyer and fixer acknowledged he organized a cover up of potentially damaging allegations of infidelity, which Trump denies, and listened to Trump’s racist remarks. Cohen claimed Trump was told by an associate, Roger Stone, that WikiLeaks had emails damaging to his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s campaign and planned to release them. Trump has

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Opinion

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Q TIGLAO FROM A1

Priestly celibacy was about power )F YOU WERE SHOCKED THAT A PRESIDENT IN A #ATHOLIC COUNTRY COULD SAY THAT READ WHAT A GREAT #HRISTIAN REFORMER -ARTIN ,UTHER SAID in the 16th century, an era during WHICH THE #HURCH SO CONTROLLED states and minds that it could ORDER THE BURNING AT THE STAKE OF suspected witches and heretics: “Nature never lets up, we are all driven to the secret sin. To say it CRUDELY BUT HONESTLY IF IT DOESN T GO into a woman, it goes into your shirt.� What is astonishing in Luther’s insight is that it would take 400 YEARS LATER FOR SCIENCE TO CONCLUDE JUST WHAT HE SAID THAT ONE OF MANKIND S TWO PRIMAL URGES IS SEX without which our species would HAVE BEEN EXTINCT AS SOON AS IT emerged 200,000 years ago. (The SECOND OF COURSE IS THE INSTINCT FOR SURVIVAL AND THE URGES FOR THIS TO EAT FOOD AND THE AUTOMATIC kGHT OR lEE RESPONSE 3IGMUND &REUD THE FOUNDER OF PSYCHOANALYSIS WOULD EVEN claim in the 19th century that THE SUPPRESSION OF SEX RESULTS IN depraved minds, which indeed the NUMEROUS CASES OF SEXUAL ABUSES BY #ATHOLIC PRIESTS ARE PROVING incontrovertibly.

“essence� to mystic powers, such as clairvoyance and telekinesis. These religions that espouse celibacy have one practice, disGUISED AS REVERENCE FOR LIFE WHICH WEAKENS THE SEXUAL URGE VEGETARIanism, which usually goes with THE AVOIDANCE OF SPICY FOODS mushrooms and alcohol. I’m not SURE IF THE SCIENCE BEHIND THAT IS solid, but these sects openly claim IT DOES SUPPRESS THE SEXUAL URGES #ATHOLIC PRIESTS FONDNESS FOR GOOD FOOD ‡ AND THEIR DOSE OF WINE AT -ASS ‡ INDEED TENDS TO PROVE THE yogis’ and Buddhists’ claim. Among the three religions that EMERGED FROM WHAT IS NOW CALLED )SRAEL OR 0ALESTINE ‡ *UDAISM #HRISTIANITY AND )SLAM YES )SLAM ‡ ONLY THE 2OMAN #ATHOLIC #HURCH THE BIGGEST FACTION OF #HRISTIANITY REQUIRES ITS CLERGY NOT TO ENGAGE IN SEX %VEN THE OTHER HALF OF #HRISTIANITY ‡ THE 'REEK /RTHODOX #HURCH ‡ ALLOWS PRIESTS TO MARRY WHO OFTEN have more than three children. (Several scholars have argued THAT )SLAM WAS AN OFFSHOOT OF 3YRIAN #HRISTIANITY TRANSFORMED INTO A WAR RELIGION BY THE !RABS

Anomaly Not equipped #ATHOLIC PRIESTS HAVEN T BEEN equipped to resist the hard-wiring IN THE HUMAN BRAIN FOR SEX !FTER all, this instinct developed in a SPAN OF BILLION YEARS WHEN SEXUAL PRODUCTION THE FERTILIZATION OF A FEMALE EGG WITH A MALE SPERM AS AGAINST ASEXUAL PRODUCtion (which still happens in some RARE SPECIES SUCH AS JELLYkSH AND BLACKWORMS EMERGED There are religions which espouse CELIBACY‡FOREMOST ARE SECTS OF (INDU ASCETICISM YOGIS 4AOISM and Buddhism, principally Zen—as NECESSARY FOR SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT HOWEVER THAT IS DEkNED But very importantly, these religions have practices that supPRESS THE SEXUAL INSTINCT 9OGIS and Taoists even claim that they have esoteric mental and physical PRACTICES THAT TRANSFORM THE SEXUAL

Why the anomaly? Why ban such a primordial instinct that its prohibition will just be violated? 4HE #HURCH S OFkCIAL EXPLANAtions doesn’t hold water at all. g)T IS TO EMULATE *ESUS #HRIST who didn’t marry.� But the easy reply by any commonsensical priest to that would be: “But I am not 'OD AND -AN ONLY MAN WITHOUT DIVINE POWERS TO RESIST SEX u 4HAT EXPLANATION IS INCREASINGLY BEING DISBELIEVED -ORE AND MORE scholars are concluding that it was impossible that Yeshua was a bachelor. What was normal, and THEREFORE NEED NOT BE MENTIONED IN )SRAEL AT THAT TIME WAS FOR A 30-year-old man to be married, and not be a bachelor. (In traditional 0HILIPPINE SETTINGS IF YOU RE NOT married at that age, people will auTOMATICALLY CONCLUDE YOU ARE GAY Sacerdotalis caelibatus THE TITLE OF

Pope Paul 6th encyclical issued in THAT MADE CELIBACY A #HURCH dogma, had such shallow arguments FOR CELIBACY SUCH AS THAT WHICH EXplained that this would give priests MORE TIME TO TEND TO THEIR lOCK A clue to why celibacy became REQUIRED OF #ATHOLIC PRIESTS IS IN THE FACT THAT IT WAS ONLY AFTER A THOUSAND YEARS OF THE #HURCH S EXISTENCE OR HALF OF ITS LIFE THAT IT WAS REQUIRED OF ITS CLERGY BY THE 3ECOND ,ATERAN #OUNCIL OF

Power in Europe 4HIS WAS WHEN THE #HURCH BEcame such a power in Europe it RIVALLED THE NOBILITY AS RULERS OF MEN /NE EXPLANATION THEN IS THAT THE #HURCH WANTED TO PORTRAY ITS PRIESTS AS OF A HIGHER ORDER OF MEN than their rivals, the nobility, and THEIR POWER TO GIVE UP SEX WAS PROOF OF THIS ! BOOK BY A FORMER PRIEST 3EX Priests and Power: The Anatomy OF #RISIS CLAIMS THAT THE “question at the time was who IS THE FINAL POWER‡THE KING OR THE CHURCH )F ;THE CHURCH= COULD CONTROL A PERSON S SEX LIFE IT COULD control their money, their employMENT THEIR BENEkCE u !NOTHER THEsis in the book Under God points out that the ban on marriage was ADOPTED TO LIFT THE STATUS OF PRIESTS at a time when their authority was being challenged by nobles. !NOTHER EXPLANATION FOR THE REQUIREMENT OF CELIBACY WOULD BE WHAT ) WOULD CALL THE g%DDIE 6ILlanueva� phenomenon, by which his son Joel got to be a senator as a RESULT OF HIS FATHER S INlUENCE AND TAX FREE WEALTH ‡ BECAUSE OF HIS ACTIVITIES THAT IS REALLY THE PROFESSION OF PRIESTS OR BISHOPS Imagine what would have hapPENED IF #ARDINAL 3IN WAS ALLOWED TO HAVE A FAMILY AND CHILDREN AND YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND WHY THE #HURCH BANNED ITS PEOPLE FROM MARRYING #HURCH HISTORIANS IN FACT HAVE POINTED OUT THAT BEFORE THE BAN ON marriage issued in 1139 and still MANY DECADES AFTER THAT PRIESTS and bishops had children which THEY FAST PROMOTED TO THE HIGHER

ECHELONS OF THE CHURCH /NE OF MY FAVORITE 46 SERIES g4HE "ORGIAS u was historically accurate in its DEPICTION OF 0OPE !LEXANDER TH AS GROOMING HIS SON TO BE THE NEXT 0OPE AND HAD HIM MADE #ARDINAL

Sexual predators /NE ARGUMENT FOR CLERICS CELIBACY is that there are many people who ARE CELIBATE BY FORCE OR CHOICE OR ARE BACHELORS ALL OF THEIR LIVES AND YET ARE NOT SEXUAL PREDATORS "UT THEN THESE ORDINARY FOLKS do not have the really awesome POWER OF A #ATHOLIC PRIEST AND ON A LARGER SCALE OF A BISHOP WITH PEOPLE BRAINWASHED FOR CENTURIES that these are God’s representatives on earth, who can do no evil. With such power, there have BEEN HUNDREDS OF PRIESTS BISHops, or cardinals giving in to their SEXUAL URGES AND WHO THINK THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH SEXUAL ABUSE BECAUSE OF THEIR POWER 4HEY EVEN JUSTIFY IT IN THEIR MINDS AS RESULTING FROM THEIR DEVOTION TO THEIR work as God’s representatives. &OR EXAMPLE FORMER -INNEAPOLIS PRIEST 'ILBERT 'USTAFSON WHO WAS CONVICTED OF SEXUALLY ABUSING A boy said in an interview: “I was dePLETING MYSELF BUT LOVING THE WORK I loved preaching; I loved presiding AT %UCHARIST ) DEVELOPED A SENSE OF entitlement. I work so hard. I need SOMETHING FOR ME 3O ) AM GOING TO TAKE SOMETHING FOR ME 7HAT I took was acting out: I enacted IN REAL LIFE THE FANTASIES THAT HAD BEEN IN ME FOR YEARS ABOUT SEX WITH young teenage boys.� )RONIC ISN T IT 4HE BAN ON SEX FOR #ATHOLIC PRIESTS WAS ABOUT THE #HURCH THINKING THAT THAT WOULD strengthen its power in society. Their priests’ power over the minds OF BOYS AND WOMEN PRODDED THEM to violate that ban, and the reports ON THESE HAVE HAD THE EFFECT OF WEAKENING THE #HURCH S POWER

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Cohen hearing stokes touchy topic of impeachment WASHINGTON: -ICHAEL #OHEN S TESTImony is just the beginning. The House oversight hearing with President Donald Trump’s FORMER ATTORNEY COMING IN ADVANCE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL 2OBERT -UELLER S REPORT HERALDS WHAT $EMOCRATS IN #ONGRESS VIEW AS THE long days ahead providing checks AND BALANCES ON THE /VAL /FkCE &OR SOME THE OUTCOME MAY ‡ OR MAY NOT ‡ LEAD TO GROUNDS FOR IMPEACHMENT &OR OTHERS IMPEACHMENT CANNOT COME FAST ENOUGH What is certain, though, is the mounting tension. As the hearINGS AND INVESTIGATIONS UNFOLD Democrats, particularly those RUNNING FOR THE 7HITE (OUSE MAY be speeding toward a moment when they have no choice but to consider the I-word. Newly elected Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib, among the most outspoken lawmakers on impeachment, says that as the 2020 presidential candidates visit her Detroit-area district, “most residents are going to ask where they stand on this issue.� 6OTERS ARE LESS CONCERNED WITH -UELLER S 2USSIA INVESTIGATION Tlaib said, than the day-to-day White House operations and “whether or not there’s a crooked #%/ IN THE /VAL /FkCE u (OURS INTO #OHEN S TESTIMONY Wednesday, New Hampshire’s STATEHOUSE 3PEAKER 3TEVE 3HURTLEFF a Democrat, said that impeaching the president was becoming a realistic option. g4HEY RE PUTTING A LOT OF MEAT ON THE BONE u 3HURTLEFF SAID IN AN interview. “It could be a one-two PUNCH u HE SAID OF THE #OHEN HEARING AND -UELLER REPORT g) THINK IT LL CONNECT A LOT OF DOTS u Trump allies have tried to use THE PROSPECT OF IMPEACHMENT AS A political weapon. The president’s FORMER CHIEF COUNSELOR 3TEVE "AN-

NON HAD WARNED BEFORE THE elections that Democrats would IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT IF THEY WON CONTROL OF #ONGRESS Republicans are taking up that MANTLE !T THE START OF THE #OHEN hearing, the top Republican on the PANEL 2EP *IM *ORDAN OF /HIO SAID THE ONLY REASON FOR THE SESSION was so Democrats could pursue impeachment. Another committee 2EPUBLICAN 2EP #HIP 2OY OF 4EXAS called the hearing a “circus� not worth Americans’ time. And newly ELECTED 2EPUBLICAN 2EP #AROL -ILLER OF 7EST 6IRGINIA SAID THE SOLE PURPOSE was “discrediting the president.� g)F IT WAS NOT ALREADY OBVIOUS u -ILLER SAID gTHERE ARE MEMBERS HERE WITH A SINGULAR GOAL IN #ONGRESS TO impeach President Trump.� House Speaker Nancy Pelosi HAS KEPT CALLS FOR IMPEACHMENT AT BAY BY INSISTING THAT -UELLER kRST MUST BE ALLOWED TO kNISH HIS WORK which reports suggest could happen in the coming weeks, and presENT HIS kNDINGS PUBLICLY ‡ THOUGH it’s unclear whether the White (OUSE WILL ALLOW ITS FULL RELEASE Pelosi says the House shouldn’t PURSUE IMPEACHMENT FOR POLITICAL REASONS NOR SHOULD IT HOLD BACK FOR political reasons. Instead, she says lawmakers need to do their jobs as a CO EQUAL BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT AND GO WHEREVER THE FACTS LEAD g4HE !MERICAN PEOPLE EXPECT US to hold the administration accountABLE u SAID 2EP $AVID #ICILLINE $ 2 ) A MEMBER OF (OUSE LEADERSHIP g!ND IF DURING THE COURSE OF THAT WE COME UPON SUFkCIENT EVIDENCE THAT warrants his removal, I think they EXPECT US TO DO THAT u But Democrats are not there yet, at all. 3O FAR THE $EMOCRATIC 0ARTY S potential 2020 class has tried to avoid the impeachment question ALTOGETHER FEARFUL THAT CALLING FOR IMPEACHMENT BEFORE THE -UELLER

report is out could undermine the process and trigger a voter backlash. !MONG THEM ONLY FORMER 4EXAS 2EP "ETO / 2OURKE HAS DIRECTLY CALLED FOR 4RUMP S IMpeachment. Others approached THE #OHEN HEARING IN MORE CAUtious and creative ways. 3EN +AMALA (ARRIS OF #ALIFORNIA USED THE HEARINGS AS A FUNDRAISING OPPORTUNITY g!RE YOU WATCHING -ICHAEL #OHEN TESTIFY BEFORE #ONGRESS TODAY u CAMPAIGN manager Juan Rodriguez wrote. “There’s a lot to unpack, but it’s ABUNDANTLY CLEAR IF WE ARE kNALLY GOING TO GET TO THE TRUTH #ONGRESS MUST ACT TO PROTECT 2OBERT -UELLER FROM BEING kRED BEFORE HIS kNDings in the Russia investigation are MADE PUBLIC u (E ASKED FOR DONATIONS OF BETWEEN AND 3EN %LIZABETH 7ARREN OF -ASsachusetts sent an email during the HEARING PROMISING IF SHE BECOMES president, not to pardon anyone implicated in the Trump investigaTIONS 3HE SET DOWN A CHALLENGE FOR others running to do same. 3EN !MY +LOBUCHAR OF -INNESOTA TWEETED THAT #OHEN S TESTIMONY gIS A BIG DEAL u 3EN #ORY "OOKER OF .EW *ERSEY SAID IN A BRIEF CHAT THAT he wasn’t watching the hearing but was “looking to digest it.� !ND (OWARD 3CHULTZ THE FORMER 3TARBUCKS #%/ CONSIDERING AN independent bid, said the testiMONY IS gANOTHER STARK REMINDER OF President Trump’s utter disregard FOR HONESTY AND DECENCY u The liberal base is restive, though. A new group, By the People, launched a pledge drive urging MEMBERS OF BOTH PARTIES IN #ONGRESS TO SHOW LEADERSHIP BY EXTENDing the legislative branch’s oversight TO THE NEXT STEP OF IMPEACHMENT “We already know Donald Trump has committed impeachABLE OFFENSES u SAID !LEXANDRA &LORES 1UILTY A SPOKESMAN FOR THE

group. “We can’t wait any longer and want our representatives to MOVE FORWARD NOW u 3O FAR ONLY 4LAIB AND FELLOW NEWLY ELECTED 2EP )LHAN /MAR OF -INNESOTA HAVE SIGNED ON Another new Democrat, Rep. *OE #UNNINGHAM OF 3OUTH #AROlina, said impeachment was not CENTRAL TO HIS CAMPAIGN FOR OFkCE “Our constitutents back home sent me up here to do a job and FOCUS ON CERTAIN ISSUES AND THAT S NOT SOMETHING ) M FOCUSED ON right now,� he said. Surveys show impeachment has MERIT FOR SOME VOTERS )N A *ANUARY 7ASHINGTON 0OST !"# .EWS POLL about as many Americans said #ONGRESS SHOULD BEGIN IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS PERCENT AS SAID THEY APPROVED OF THE JOB 4RUMP IS DOING AS PRESIDENT PERCENT Billionaire liberal activist Tom Steyer, who has poured millions OF DOLLARS INTO A CAMPAIGN CALLING FOR 4RUMP S IMPEACHMENT SAID #OHEN S TESTIMONY MARKED A TURNing point in the debate because it’s clear Trump broke the law. His GROUP IS LAUNCHING A 46 AD OVER THE NEXT WEEK TO HIGHLIGHT THAT POINT “It ended the argument. It DIDN T END THE kGHT u 3TEYER SAID in an interview. Steyer says Democrats can only WAIT ON THE -UELLER REPORT FOR SO LONG BEFORE THEY HAVE TO MAKE their own decisions. His group is hosting town halls in the homeTOWN DISTRICTS OF KEY (OUSE CHAIRMEN ‡ INCLUDING 2EP %LIJAH #UMMINGS OF -ARYLAND WHO PRESIDED over the Wednesday’s hearing. "UT AS THE /VERSIGHT #OMMITTEE CHAIRMAN EXITED THE HOURSLONG SESSIONS #UMMINGS TOLD REPORTERS the only people using the I-word were the Republicans. “Not one person on our side mentioned the word impeachment,� the chairman said. AP

VIEWPOINT FROM CHINA

EU countries stuck between China and US BY GUNTER SCHOECH

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UAWEI is the world’s top telecommunications network provider. Knowing many Huawei employees, the company’s ascension is well-deserved based on their hard work. 5G added technological edge to cost leadership. !S A RESULT (UAWEI kLED FOR MORE patents in Europe than any company, including Bosch, Siemens and Philips. Huawei handsets are now the third highest selling in Germany. This brings us to an interesting crossroads — do Western countries WANT TO DEVELOP AS FAST AS POSSIBLE by adopting what is best, no matter THE SOURCE EVEN AT THE RISK OF NOT mastering the technology involved? /R DO THEY WANT TO FEND OFF FOREIGN technology and rely on domestic DEVELOPMENTS EVEN IF IT COSTS MORE AND OR TAKES LONGER AFFECTING DEVELOPMENTS LIKE SELF DRIVING CARS and maintain domestic capability? )T S A QUESTION OF TRUSTING #HINA the US, and their capabilities. 5NFORTUNATELY PUBLIC OPINION is easy to manipulate. The US tried hard with the highly publicized ARREST OF (UAWEI #HIEF &INANCIAL /FFICER -ENG 7ANZHOU 7HEN Deutsche Bank was charged in 2015 FOR VIOLATING )RAN SANCTIONS AND kNED MILLION NOT ONE EXECUtive was arrested or indicted. The US will not depend on Huawei but rather on European suppliers. They would call upon their allies to do the same. Australia, New :EALAND AND *APAN HAVE FOLLOWED Europe is in a tricky place and under intense US pressure to ban Huawei outright. -OBILE PHONE AND INTERNET NETworks are converging. Germany in #ENTRAL %UROPE HAS BY FAR THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF BACKBONES AND NODES AND IS THEREFORE OF GREAT INTEREST Germany appreciated the protecTION DURING THE #OLD 7AR BUT TODAY WE CARRY THE BRUNT OF THE REFUGEE CRISIS caused not in the least by US belligerENT FOREIGN POLICIES IN THE !RAB WORLD Now, the EU is threatening a trade WAR !FTER STEEL TARIFFS WE NOW FACE PERCENT TAXES ON CAR EXPORTS TO the US, since they were labeled as “a risk to national security.â€? This SURPRISING CLASSIkCATION LETS US REASsess claims made against Huawei. There is no clear, united European attitude toward Huawei. Private telecommunication companies have assured they test their COMPONENTS IN LABS FOR VULNERABILIties, just as they have always done. Germany has three carriers, Deutsche Telekom, O2 (owned by 3PANISH 4ÂźLÂźFONICA AND 6ODAFONE with similar market shares. $EUTSCHE 4ELEKOM #%/ 4IM H?ttges said his company keeps the NORMAL SUPPLIERS (UAWEI #ISCO %RICSSON AND .OKIA ALSO FOR ' "UT while they can guarantee security, they would bow to politics. This could include US politics. 4 -OBILE 53 WANTS TO MERGE WITH Sprint, but needs anti-trust approval.

In a separate issue, the US doesn’t hesitate to rely on blackmail tactics as witnessed in Poland where they tied a new military base to the 5G decision. Right now, Telekom and O2 use Huawei. Eliminating those components would cost billions and slow network deployment by two years, according to a recent company memo. 6ODAFONE 'ERMANY BELONGS TO 6ODAFONE 5+ WHICH ALSO OPERATES IN &RANCE )RELAND 3PAIN 0ORTUGAL Italy and Greece. 4HE 5+ AS A MEMBER OF THE &IVE Eyes intelligence alliance with the US, #ANADA !USTRALIA AND .EW :EALAND seemed to comply with US demands, BUT BACK PEDDLED WHEN #IARAN -ARTIN HEAD OF THE .ATIONAL #YBER 3ECURITY #ENTER SAID IN A RECENT SPEECH IN Brussels the risks were covered. 6ODAFONE 'ERMANY ANNOUNCED IT WOULD EXCHANGE THE REMAINING Huawei components with Nokia in its core network through 2020, BUT WOULD RETAIN PERCENT OF Huawei in the less sensitive radio access networks, citing economic REASONS FROM 4HE PRESIDENT OF THE 'ERMAN INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION "$) $IETER +EMPF EXPRESSED CLEAR OPPOSITION OVER TREATING (UAWEI DIFFERENTLY FEARING RETRIBUTION AGAINST 'ERMAN MANUFACTURERS Governments that deal with US PRESSURE USE DIFFERENT LANGUAGE 4HEY mention national sovereignty, and THE IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING CITIZENS AND COMPANIES SAFE SHOWING THEY take the situation seriously. However, they must consider speedy and cost EFkCIENT NETWORK COVERAGE AND EACH carrier’s economic condition. Opposition parties across the poLITICAL SPECTRUM IN SEARCH OF POLITIcal gain, have become increasingly aggressive toward Huawei. Yet most governments will GIVE THEMSELVES FURTHER OPTIONS to go either way. The German government decided to amend its telecommunications law, requiring guarantees by suppliers that NO INFORMATION IS SHARED WITH OTHER GOVERNMENTS gNO SPY AGREEMENTu -ORE IMPORTANTLY SUPPLIERS MUST share source codes, which allows CERTIkCATION AFTER A SEARCH FOR VULNERabilities and backdoors. However, this recent “no-spy agreement� could be interpreted as A FORM OF (UAWEI EXCLUSION SINCE #HINA S .ATIONAL )NTELLIGENCE Law requires its companies to cooperate with national intelligence EFFORTS WHEREVER THEY OPERATE &INALLY GIVING 'ERMAN AUthorities the source code requires SIGNIkCANT TRUST ON BEHALF OF THE suppliers as their trade secrets are embodied within the code. Thus, European politicians make their decisions based on compromisES FROM THEIR ALLIES VOTER SENTIMENT economic imperatives, tendentious NEWS AND RESPECT FOR SELDOM UNDERstood technology. GLOBAL TIMES

4HE AUTHOR IS FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR OF MARKET RESEARCH AND consulting company DĂŠbrouillage Ltd. opinion@globaltimes.com.cn

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Trump previously denied knowing anything about Stone’s communications with WikiLeaks. Cohen’s testimony on the very day Trump met with Kim is a particularly acute moment of domestic humiliation for a president engaged in foreign diplomacy, but it wasn’t the first, said Princeton University history professor Julian Zelizer. Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan, all endured trouble at home that hampered their foreign policy aims. Zelizer noted that Clinton ordered air strikes on Iraq in 1998 as an impeachment vote loomed in the House of Representatives. In that case, critics accused Clinton of staging a distraction — a concern that has been raised regarding Trump’s moves with North Korea. “The presidency doesn’t stop, even when scandal hits,� said Zelizer. “The one thing that’s different is that he’s tweeting. In ‘98 the president said, ‘I’m focused on foreign policy,’ and he tried to act presidential.� Added Zelizer of Trump: “I think he is

going to connect the stories himself.� The president’s two-day summit with Kim in Hanoi began with a highly choreographed greeting and photo-op, followed by a dinner, while the serious negotiating was set for Thursday. But Cohen shadow’s reached across the Pacific, as Trump was asked at the summit by an Associated Press reporter if he had any response to Cohen’s testimony. The president shook his head and scowled. And a short time later, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders approached the press and said that no reporters would be allowed into the dinner. That was an abrupt change from the initial plan issued by the White House, which had said that access would be granted to the usual 13-person group of reporters, known as the traveling press pool, who follow the president to every event. Hours after Trump’s day ended, Cohen remained present. Several White House staffers, including chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, retired to the hotel lobby for a drink. But on the TVs behind them, Cohen’s testimony beamed in from thousands of miles away. AP

Regions 3 nabbed, minor rescued in Cebu busts

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NTI-NARCOTICS police operatives arrested three drug suspects and rescued a minor who yielded more than P2 million worth of shabu in two separate buy-busts in Cebu City on Wednesday. 0OLICE IDENTIkED THE SUSPECTS AS Buhisan; Arnel Abella and his liveAllan Torrefranca, 20, of Barangay in partner Michelle Mahinay, of

Barangay Inayawan; and a 17-yearold boy from Barangay Tisa, all in Cebu City. In Barangay Labangon, Chief Insp. Ricardo Tero, head of the Regional Special Operations Group in Central Visayas, said a poseur buyer bought three packs of shabu from Torrefranca for P450,000 in a supermarket parking area at past 5 p.m. The seized contraband, weighing about 300 grams, was placed in

a paper bag and estimated by the Dangerous Drugs Board to value P2.040 million. Tero said Torrefranca’s mother was earlier arrested and is now detained at the Cebu City Jail for illegal drugs case. Torrefranca, who is unemployed, admitted to authorities that he was involved in the illegaldrugs trade, but refused to reveal his source of the drugs. “He (Torrefranca) has been in

the illegal-drugs trade for a long time and his market is in Cebu City,� Tero added. Similarly, Abella and Mahinay were arrested in a buy-bust at Sitio Mohon 1 in Barangay Tisa after selling a pack of shabu for P150,000 to an undercover poLICE OFkCER 4HE COUPLE WAS WITH the 17-year-old boy who served as their “runner� in their illegal drugs transaction. The seized substance, about 100

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grams, was valued at P680,000. Both Abella and Mahinay had been in the illegal drugs trade for a long time and are known as notorious pushers in Barangay Inayawan. Tero added that the minor has an uncle who was detained at the New Bilibid Prisons in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila for illegal drugs case. The minor will be turned over to the local Department of Social Welfare and Development.

More funds for better Bangsamoro education seen COTABATO CIT Y: T h e e d u c a t i o n program under the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), which is one of the priorities of Interim Chief Minister Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim, will be allocated with additional funding, according to the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) on Thursday. CHEd Commissioner Amor Pendaliday stressed that education would be one of the priori-

FIGHT CONTINUES

The Rainbow Warrior, Greenpeace’s flagship vessel, is coming back to Manila and Cebu for the Ship the Plastic Back tour to join millions of Filipinos in campaigning against plastic pollution. GREENPEACE CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Greenpeace ship campaigns vs plastics THE Rainbow Warrior, Greenpeace’s flagship vessel, will arrive this Friday in Manila for the “Ship the Plastic Back� tour and will join millions of Filipinos rallying against plastic pollution. Angelica Carballo Pago, Greenpeace Southeast Asia-Philippines media campaigner, said the Rainbow Warrior would put a spotlight on how the inaction and irresponsibility of fast-moving consumer goods companies quash the prospects of a healthful and plastic pollution-free future for Filipinos. “It is coming back to the Philippines for the Ship the Plastic Back tour to campaign against plastic pollution and rally the Filipinos as we move to break free from plastic,� Pago said. Greenpeace Philippines said the tour was part of a global campaign that targeted companies producing massive amounts of single-use plastic that pollutes the world’s oceans. The first stop of the iconic ship is the Manila Bay. On March 2 and 3, it will be opened to the public for a chance to see Manila Bay after the government-led clean-ups, which reportedly were for its planned rehabilitation. Greenpeace said it was inviting the public to see Manila Bay from the point of view of the world’s first purpose-built environmental campaigning ship. The open boat events are free to all visitors, but interested parties must pre-register on the organization’s Eventbrite page: shipitback.event-

brite.com. Details were also posted at Greenpeace Philippines Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. The Rainbow Warrior will sail to Cebu for another round of open boat on March 15 and 16 at the Port of Cebu, as the province highlights its initiatives towards becoming a leader in fighting plastic pollution. Abigail Aguilar, Greenpeace Southeast Asia-Philippines campaigner, said the plastic campaign also aimed to contribute to minimizing the proliferation of plastics in the country as it was constantly named one of the top polluters of plastics in the ocean, among other Asian countries. She said Greenpeace aimed to highlight the responsibility of corporations whose production of plastic packaging had contributed greatly to the pollution of Manila Bay and other water bodies in the Philippines and to demand that they reduce their singleuse plastic packaging production and explore alternative systems of delivering their products to consumers. “The ongoing Manila Bay rehabilitation had put a spotlight on how we Filipinos were doing our part to clean our country. The clean-up had produced picture-perfect results, as we have seen on social media, but we have to remember that trash would always find its way to Manila Bay if we don’t address plastic pollution at source,� Aguilar added. LEANDER C. DOMINGO

Go bats for grassroots sports development APAYAO: $URING HIS kRST TIME IN THE highlands province here, Senate aspirant Christopher Lawrence “Bong� Go bared his plans on Wednesday to push for sports development in the country, starting from the grassroots. “In the next three years, we will focus on sports development as one of the ways to develop the youth into productive citizens especially in the grassroots,� Go said. Go visited Apayao to attend the opening program of the Cordillera Region Athletic Association held at the Apayao Eco-Tourism and Sports Complex in Luna Town where he was warmly received by OFkCIALS AND RESIDENTS A sports advocate, Go explained that nationwide sports development could not only lead to the discovery and development of world-class athletes who could represent the country in international competitions, but could also help instill discipline, sportsmanship and hard work to the youth.

“Sports development is important in our country,� he said, adding that “it could help the youth become disciplined and productive members of the society who could be capable of representing the country in various competitions and sporting events.� Go added that encouraging the youth to participate in sports would LEAD THEM AWAY FROM NEGATIVE INlUences, including illegal drugs, and focus their energy towards useful service-oriented activities. He vowed that if elected to the Senate, he would support programs for continuous sports development. For his senatorial bid, Go prepared a legislative agenda that include programs for agriculture, housing, improved health service delivery, education, localized peace talks, anti-drug and crime drive, anticorruption drive, barangay (village) welfare, creation of a Department of overseas Filipino workers, as well as increased government support for senior citizens.

ties of BARMM on the transition period led by Murad. “There would be additional funding from block grant in the organic law to be utilized for education program that supports the education of the Bangsamoro people,� Pendaliday said. Murad has appointed Mohagher Iqbal as the interim m i n i s t e r o f b a s i c , h i g h e r, technical and Madaris educa-

tion. He was the chairman of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front Peace Implementing Panel and member of the Bangsamoro Parliament. Before the January 21 and February 6 plebiscites on the Bangsamoro Organic Law, Task Force 121 headed by Esmail Ebrahim initiated efforts to strengthen campaigns through organizing several fora including a forum on the future of

the education sector in the Bangsamoro region. The fora were also aimed to determine and design programs for the future of education in the Bangsamoro and shed light to different educators who attended the fora on the future direction of BARMM on education as part of the priorities of the new leadership and as a basic right of the Bangsamoro people. JULMUNIR I. JANNARAL

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DOCTOR of the Department of Health (DoH) and six other persons were arrested in a drug raid in Mandaluyong City, police said on Thursday. Dr. Vanjoe Rufo de Guzman of the DoH-National Capital Region; Keanu Andrea Flores, a lawn tennis varsity player at the

Colegio de San Juan de Letran; Francis Gerald Pabunan Fajardo, an events organizer who coordinated frequently with the Philip-

pine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA); Michael Melegrito Tan, Mohammad Arafa Morsy alias Rafa Mohammad Abdullah Duga alias Shenin, and Mark Adrianne Echau were arrested inside Unit 4 of JK Tower, Burbank California Garden Square in Barangay Highway Hills. PDEA seized 50 grams of shabu in six pieces of heat-sealed plastic with an estimated value of 0 kVE BOTTLES CONTAINING

suspected ecstasy weighing about 200 milliliters and worth about P30,000; cellular phones; and marked money, Senior Supt. Moises Villaceran Jr., city police chief, told The Manila Times. PDEA Senior Agent Derrick Carreon said he could not say who owned THE CONDOMINIUM BUT CONkRMED that it was being used as a drug den. The DoH-Metro Manila Center for Health Development (MMCHD) said

Otso Diretso asks Comelec to hold debate THE opposition senatorial slate Otso Diretso has formalized its challenge to the pro-administration Hugpong ng Pagbabago team as it asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to set THE GROUND RULES AND OFkCIATE THE DEBATE between the two parties. The eight-man opposition team on Thursday submitted its formal request to Comelec Chairman Sheriff Abas in response to Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio’s statement that her team was willing to face their opponents provided that it would not be a “palengke (market)-typeâ€? debate. “May we request the Honorable CommisSION ON %LECTIONS #OMELEC TO OFkCIATE OR facilitate the debate between the candidates of the opposition coalition, now known as Otso Diresto, and the candidates of the Hugpong ng Pagbabago,â€? the letter said. g7E kLED A REQUEST BECAUSE 3ARA SAID that she did not want a market-type debate which has no rules,â€? opposition bet Samira Gutoc told The Manila Times. In a separate interview, opposition senatorial candidate Lorenzo “Erinâ€? Ta Ăą a d a

RD SAID THEY HAVE FULL TRUST AND CONkDENCE in Comelec as an independent body that would follow its debate ground rules. “It should be the Comelec that should set the ground rules so that there will be no disagreement. And because Inday Sara accepted our challenge, we asked the Comelec to do it so that the debate will push through,â€? TaĂąada told The Times. TaĂąada pointed out that the debate would provide the voting public a window of opportunity to scrutinize the candidates from both sides and their stand on various issues, as well as their solutions to the problems affecting the people. He added: “It’s freedom of information. Let the people see the true colors of the candidate, if they are real or not. Every candidate has a track record, has a platform. Is what you read about a particular candidate enough basis or do you want him to be in the debate for a deeper scrutiny on his stand on vital issues?â€? Asked for his comment on administration senatorial candidate Ronald dela Rosa’s comment that “improving the country is done through

action and not words,â€? TaĂąada said the former police chief did not understand the work of a lawmaker. “I for one is against his (dela Rosa) position to legalize the illegal Chinese workers in the country. Clearly, he does not know anything about the law. Any job that can be done by a Filipino should be given to a Filipino, not to a foreigner. So if a Chinese is working here without a permit, he should be deported,â€? he added. In its proposal, the opposition senatorial team said the issues in the debate might include, without prejudice to other issues, foreign incursion in Philippines waters and THE INlUX OF FOREIGN LABOR IN THE FACE OF massive unemployment of Filipinos, the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Law and other “anti-poorâ€? policies, the alarming degree of unsolved murders in the country, the lowering of the minimum age of criminal RESPONSIBILITY AND OFkCIAL CORRUPTION AND cronyism such as in reclamation projects and telecommunications company contracts. WILLIAM B. DEPASUPIL

that de Guzman has been on absence without leave since Nov. 28, 2018. The Health department said that despite written directives to report IMMEDIATELY TO OFkCE DE 'UZMAN has failed to comply, prompting the DoH-MMCHD to issue an order of separation and commence disciplinary proceedings, in consultation with the Civil Service Commission, for his eventual dismissal from the service.

Malaysia PM Mahathir to visit Manila next week MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Mahathir MohaMAD WILL ARRIVE FOR AN OFkCIAL VISIT TO THE 0HILIPpines from March 6 to 7 upon the invitation of President Rodrigo Duterte, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday. The President will welcome Mahathir in MalacaĂąan Palace on 7, after which they will hold a bilateral meeting to discuss cooperation in the political, economic and people-topeople areas. The two leaders will also “exchange views on the topics of mutual importance,â€? said Foreign

Affairs Assistant Secretary Elmer Cato. During his visit, Mahathir is also scheduled to meet Senate President Vicente Sotto 3rd and House Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. 4HIS IS -AHATHIR S kRST VISIT TO THE 0HILIPPINES since he returned to power as prime minister of Malaysia in 2018. -AHATHIR UNDERTOOK OFkCIAL VISITS TO THE Philippines in 1987 and 1994. His official visit next week reciprocates Duterte’s visit to Malaysia in July 2018. BERNADETTE E. TAMAYO

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North Korea, at one point saying there was “AWESOME� potential. From the outset, he had appeared to downplay expectations of an immediate breakthrough in nuclear talks, saying he was in “no rush� to clinch a rapid deal and was content if a pause in missile testing continued. But Harry Kazianis, Director of Korean Studies at the Centre for the National Interest, said that no agreement was better than a bad one. “The challenge is North Korea’s nuclear weapons are already a reality,� he said. “Getting a deal that does little to nothing to remove that threat would BE FAR WORSE THAN A lAWED DEAL u Soon after the meeting ended, South Korea said the outcome was “regrettable� but that meaningful progress had been made.

Trump ‘walks’ “Basically they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn’t do that,� Trump said before leaving Vietnam aboard Air Force One to head back to Washington. But Trump insisted he was “optimistic that the progress we made� before and during the summit left them “in position to have a really good outcome� in the future. “I’d much rather do it right than do it fast,� he added. He noted Kim had vowed not to resume nuclear or ballistic missile testing — something he previOUSLY IDENTIkED AS A YARDSTICK FOR SUCCESS ‡ AND reiterated their “close relationship.� “We just like each other... there’s a warmth that we have and I hope that stays, I think it will,� he said.

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Ocho Diretso senatorial Candidates Gary Alejano, Samira Gutoc, Pilo Hilbay and Romulo Macalintal present the letter of request that they filed with the Comission of Elections, asking the poll body to facilitate a public debate among candidates who are running for the Senate in the 2019 midterm elections. PHOTO BY RUSSELL PALMA

The DoH said it fully supported the war against illegal drugs as all its employees, regardless of status, were subjected to annual mandatory random drug testing. The DoH-MMCHD also said that it was appalled to learn that one of its doctors was linked to anti-illegal activities. The suspects are facing charges for violating the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

The outcome in Hanoi fell far short of the premeeting expectations and hopes, after critics said their initial historic meeting in Singapore was more style over substance. The leaders walked away with no set plans for a third meeting, though Trump said he hopes to see Kim again soon. Ankit Panda, from the Federation of American Scientists, warned on Twitter that the White House’s expectation of further talks “does not have to be a perception shared in North Korea.� “Kim may have left irate, for all we know. He may have no intention of continuing this,� added Panda. In the original White House program, a “Joint Agreement Signing Ceremony� had been scheduled in Hanoi and a working lunch for the leaders. Instead both men left the summit venue without signing anything and Trump moved up his news conference by two hours. “This is a major failure,� tweeted Joe Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund peace foundation, saying it showed the limit of summitry, with “not enough time or staff� to work out a deal. 4RUMP lEW AROUND THE WORLD FOR THE MEETING AND Kim undertook a mammoth two-and-a-half-day trek through China in his olive green train, travelling 4,000 kilometeRs (2,500 miles). Kim will stay on in Vietnam for a state visit, which will include a wreath-laying ceremony at the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, before his expected departure Saturday. The US President, who touted his “special relationship� with Kim, frequently dangled the prospect of a brighter economic future for a nuclear-free

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Bill vs corporal In his message dated February 23, Duterte said that while he agreed that children should be protected from humiliating forms of punishments, he did not share the view that the scope of the measure should include the households. “I believe as much as Congress does that every children should be protected from humiliating forms of punishment. To the extent that this bill would enable the State to put a stop to such forms of punishment, it is a salutary piece of legislation,� Duterte said. “However, I am gravely concerned that the bill goes much further than this as it would proscribe all forms of corporal punishment, humiliating or not, including THOSE DONE WITHIN THE CONkNES OF THE FAMILY HOME ) do not share such an overly sweeping condemnation of the practice,� he added. The President said he believed that responsible parents could administer corporal punishment in a self-restrained manner that the child would remember it as a form of love and discipline, not as hatred and abuse. “Such manner of undertaking corporal punishMENT HAS GIVEN RISE TO BENEkCIAL RESULTS FOR SOCIETY WITH countless children having been raised up to become law-abiding citizens with a healthy respect for author-

‘Rocket man’ In Singapore Kim and Trump signed a vague document in which Kim pledged to “work toward complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula�. Progress subsequently stalled, with the two sides disagreeing on what that means, as the north sought relief from sanctions and Washington pressed for concrete steps towards it giving up its weapons. As in Singapore, the two men put on a show of bonhomie in Vietnam, appearing to share jokes in front of reporters. Looking relaxed but appearing to say little, they indulged in a poolside stroll Thursday around the gardens of the luxury Metropole Hotel. It was a far cry from the height of missile-testing tensions in 2017 when Trump slammed Kim as “rocket man� and the younger man branded the American president a “mentally deranged US dotard.� In apparently unprecedented scenes, Kim answered unscripted questions from foreign reporters, saying he would welcome the establishment of a US LIAISON OFkCE IN 0YONGYANG WHICH WOULD BE A STEP on the way to diplomatic normalization. Before the summit, there was talk that there could be a political declaration ending the 1950 to 1953 +OREAN 7AR WHICH kNISHED TECHNICALLY WITH AN ARmistice rather than a peace treaty. There were also hopes Kim could pledge to destroy North Korea’s decades-old Yongbyon nuclear complex, which has long been at the heart of Pyongyang’s atomic development but remains shrouded in secrecy. A patent distraction from the summit was a scandal back home in Washington with Trump’s FORMER PERSONAL LAWYER AND kXER -ICHAEL #OHEN calling him a “racist� and a “conman� during a congressional hearing. “He lied a lot,� the president said simply in reAFP sponse on Thursday. ity structures in the wider community,� Duterte said. “Regrettably, this bill places such responsible disciplining of children in the same category as humiliating and degrading forms of punishment, and condemns them all in one broad stroke,� he added. Duterte also said that the measure would have allowed the government to breach a family’s privacy. “In so doing, the bill transgresses the proper boundaries of State intervention in the life of the family, the sanctity and autonomy of which is recognized by the Constitution,� he said. The President then mentioned that the Philippines should resist Western views on corporal punishment. “The cultural trends of other countries are not necessarily healthy for our own nation. Indeed, in MANY INSTANCES SUCH TRENDS ARE OF DOUBTFUL BENEkT even for the very countries which originated and popularized them. To uncritically follow the lead of THESE COUNTRIES ESPECIALLY IN MATTERS AS SIGNIkCANT AS the family, would be a great disservice to the succeeding generations,� he added. In a statement, former special assistant to the President Christopher Lawrence Go backed Duterte for vetoing the proposed law, saying the President had “valid reasons� for doing so. A 2011 survey of Pulse Asia showed that two in three Filipino parents resorted to corporal punishment to discipline children 16 years old and below. CATHERINE S. VALENTE

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PH fiscal condition still stable – Moody’s THE Philippines continues to enjoy fiscal stability despite last year’s wider-than-programmed budget DEkCIT A CREDIT RATINGS AGENCY SAID ON Wednesday. In a report, Moody’s Investors Service took note of the national GOVERNMENT S FULL YEAR kSCAL PERformance, which, at 3.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), was higher than the programmed 3.0 percent and also an improvement from the previous year’s 2.2 percent. 4HE BUDGET DEkCIT HIT 0 BILlion last year, well above the P526.8billion cap and also higher than the 2017 result of P350.6 billion. Revenue collections reached P2.85 trillion, exceeding the P2.82-trillion

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Philstocks Financial Inc. research associate Japhet Louis Tantiangco attributed the selloffs to worries over US-China trade negotiations after US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer cautioned legislators on Wednesday that much still needed to be done to settle the US-China trade dispute. Tantiangco said investors also sold after data indicated that China’s factory output fell to a three-year low in February. Timson Securities Inc. trader Jervin de Celis agreed, adding that the Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) report renewed worries about a slowdown in China, which is

one of the Philippines’ top trading partners. Trade talk worries and China PMI data, along with renewed geopolitical tensions IN +ASHMIR GENERATED MARKET lUCTUATIONS earlier in the day in Asia but things headed south after a an expected lunch and signing ceremony between the US and North Korean leaders was called off at the last minute. The shock news came just hours after Kim raised the prospect of a permanent US diplomatic presence in Pyongyang and Trump said he was in “no rush� for

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Lighthizer: ‘Much still needs to be done’ on US-China trade WASHINGTON, D.C.: Washington’s chief trade negotiator said on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) there remained much to do before reaching a new trade agreement with China, even as both sides signal their talks are nearing the finish line. After months of negotiating with Beijing, “now we are making real progress,â€? US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said in congressional testimony. However, “much still needs to be done both before an agreement is reached and more importantly after it is reached if one is reached.â€? Lighthizer’s remarks to a House committee underscored the remaining hurdles facing negotiators despite the apparent eagerness on both sides to bring their eight-month trade war to an end. Citing “substantial progress,â€? Presi-

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dent Donald Trump on Sunday said he would postpone a sharp increase in US duties on $200 billion in Chinese imports while the two sides worked to reach an agreement. He said the final details would be hashed out before a “signing summit� with Chinese President Xi Jinping at an unspecified future date. Along with Japanese and European officials, the United States accuses China of entrenched unfair trade practices, including massive state intervention in markets, subsidies and the theft of foreign technology. Chinese officials have offered to increase purchases of American farm goods and energy exports but it remains unclear whether Beijing will give in to US demands for fundamental changes in industrial policy, which analysts say could weaken the communist party’s power. Lighthizer’s testimony coincided with other headline-grabbing appearances on Capitol Hill, with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome

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BSP projects M3, lending growth eases in January Metrobank ups ACS via stock dividend Feb inflation M at 3.7-4.5% INFLATION is likely to have slowed to as low as 3.7 percent or marginally risen to 4.5 percent last month, according to the latest forecast of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). In a statement on Thursday, the central bank said its Department of Economic Research projected the rate of the increase in the prices of goods and services in February “to settle within the 3.7-to-4.5-percent range.� 4HE COUNTRY S HEADLINE INlATION eased to a 10-month low of 4.4 percent in January from 5.1 percent in December.

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MONEY supply growth moderated in January as bank lending decelerated for the third straight month, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported on Thursday. Domestic liquidity or M3 expanded by 7.6 percent year-onyear to P11.40 trillion, slower than December’s 9.2 percent. Month-on-month and seasonally adjusted, M3 grew by 0.6 percent. “The BSP will continue to closely monitor domestic liquidity dynamics to ensure that overall monetary conditions remain in line with maintaining price and financial stability,� the central bank said in a statement. The expansion in domestic claims also decelerated to 12.2 percent in January from December’s

14.6 percent, “due mainly to the sustained growth in credit to the private sector.“ Net claims on the central government grew at a slower 4.7 percent from the previous month’s 16.4 percent. Net foreign assets in peso terms contracted by 0.9 percent, a reversal from the previous month’s 1.3-percent expansion. Bank lending growth, meanwhile, slowed to 15.3 percent in January from December’s revised 15.7 percent, sustaining a deceleration since November. Including reverse repurchase placements (RRPs) with the BSP, lending growth also moderated to 14.4 percent from the previous month’s revised 14.8 percent. On a month-on-month and

seasonally-adjusted basis, commercial bank loans net of RRPs and inclusive of RRPs both increased by 0.9 percent. Lending for production activities, which accounted for 88.6 percent of the aggregate loan portfolio, grew at a slower 15.5 percent from 15.8 percent in December. Household consumption loan growth also eased to 12.7 percent from the previous month’s revised 13.6 percent. “The deceleration in credit card loans and motor vehicle loans as well as the contraction in salary-based general purpose consumption loans offset the expansion in other types of household loans during the month,� the BSP said. MAYVELIN U. CARABALLO

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ed. It’s also important to determine a MONEYMAX.PH DEkNITIVE PERCENTAGE THAT YOU LL SAVE from your income. Saving 20 percent of your gross income is a good start, as what Investment Adviser Eric Roberge suggests. This practice will greatly BENEkT YOU AS YOU EARN MORE IN THE ABOUT HOW DIFkCULT IT IS TO SAVE MONEY future, giving you the opportunity to you’ll never get to fund your ideal life- save more. style. You don’t want to live paycheck TO PAYCHECK )F YOU WANT kNANCIAL Make adjustments STABILITY YOU NEED TO kND A BALANCE depending on your between saving and spending. The financial situation following ways can help you: "E FULLY AWARE OF YOUR kNANCIAL SITUAStart saving early tion. This will help you prepare when you need to make adjustments on Saving money at a young age allows your budget. Be ready for the times you to develop good spending habits. when you don’t make enough money It helps you focus on your budget and (if you have an unstable income). avoid necessary expenses when need- Occasions like this may prevent you

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from saving money thus hurting your kNANCIAL PLAN Evaluate your financial actions and determine what works and what doesn’t. Simply adjust how much you spend versus how much you can save. Make sure it equates to how much you earn in general. &OLLOW A HOLISTIC kNANCIAL PLAN ! HOLISTIC kNANCIAL PLAN WILL HELP you achieve a balanced and secured kNANCIAL FUTURE 0REPARE RESPONSIBLY because you’ll need money to fund and afford the lifestyle you want to attain. You may splurge on your wants today, but always keep tomorrow’s needs in mind. This mantra will help YOU FOLLOW AN EFFECTIVE kNANCIAL PLAN that offers the best of the present and

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ETROPOLITAN Bank and Trust Co. (MBT) will hold its stockholders’ meeting on April 24, 2019 to ratify, among other items in the agenda, the declaration of a 13-percent stock dividend. Said stock dividend, according to the BANK S kLING REQUIRES THE ISSUANCE OF 517,401,955 MBT common shares to all stockholders. Valued at P10,348,039,094, the issuance of 517,401,955 MBT common shares will meet the increase in the bank’s authorized capital to P140 billion, or 7 billion common shares, from P100 billion, or 5 billion common shares. The value translates to P20 (P19.9999999884036) for each of 517,401,955 MBT common shares. At present, Metrobank has 3,980,015,036 outstanding common shares, which carry par value of P20 per share, and are all listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE). It would have 4,497,416,991 outstanding common shares with the addition of 517,401,955 MBT common shares. )N A kLING -ETROBANK SAID THE INcrease will be sourced from unissued COMMON SHARES /F !#3 OF kVE BILlion common shares, 1,019,984,964 common shares remain available for additional issuance. The bank would still have 502,583,009 common shares available for, say distribution of dividends. On Feb. 13, 2019, Metrobank’s 13-person board approved the increase in the bank’s authorized capital stock (ACS) to 7 billion common shares from 5 billion common shares. The increase in the bank’s ACS is subject to the approval of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the Securities and Exchange

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P1-cash dividend Metrobank said its board also approved on Feb. 13, 2019 the distribution of regular P1 dividend to stockholders which needs regulatory approval. The cash dividend, which IS EQUIVALENT TO kVE PERCENT OF 0 par value, will be paid on March 14, 2019 to all stockholders as of March 1, 2019. A public ownership report (POR) as of Dec. 31, 2019 and posted on Jan. 10, 2019 on PSE website listed GT Capital Holdings Inc. as direct holder of 1.447 billion MBT common shares, which represent 36.36 percent of 3.980 billion outstanding common shares. Of 3.980 billion MBT common shares, Metrobank listed 12 directors as holders of 26.676 million MBT common shares, or 0.75 perCENT 4HE BANK S OFkCERS OWNED 416,256 MBT common shares while AFkLIATES WHO ARE NOT NECESSARILY corporate stockholders, held 555,010 million MBT common shares, or 13.93 percent. Century Savings Bank held 404,390 MBT common shares, or 0.01 percent. The public stockholders, according to the POR, held 1,947,492,163 MBT common shares, or 48.93 percent. Incidentally, their holdings

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Investment pledges up; Train ‘not a turnoff’ Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA) leaped by 322 percent to P91.2 billion from P21.6 billion the previous year. For full-year 2018, PSA said total investment pledges likewise climbed by 69.3 percent to P179 billion from P105.7 billion in 2017. PSA said China topped the prospective investing countries in the fourth quarter, with commitments amounting to P48 billion. Singapore was second with pledges amounting to P15.3 billion, followed by Japan with P4.8 billion. “Manufacturing would receive the largest amount of foreign investments approved in the last quarter of 2018 with P58.8 billion or 64.5 percent share,� said PSA. Investments in the electricity, gas, steam, and air conditioning supply sector was second with investment pledges valued

at P13.3 billion. Administrative and support service activities followed with P6.9 billion. PSA said that by region, majority of the approved investments in the fourth quarter would be for projects in Northern Mindanao, amounting to P47.5 billion or 52.1 percent. Calabarzon was second at P20.3 billion, followed by the National Capital Region at P13.1 billion. Approved investments of foreign and Filipino citizens reached P605.1 billion in the last quarter, up by 114.2 percent from P282.5 billion the previous year. PSA said Filipinos continued to dominate the investments approved during the quarter, sharing 84.9 percent or P513.9 billion worth of pledges. Total projects of foreign and Filipino investors approved during the quarter are expected to generate 72,630 jobs.

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affordability, in contrast with Baa2rated peers. The debt watcher also stressed that the debt-to-GDP ratio remained stable despite the Philippine peso’s 5-percent depreciation against the US dollar last year. It noted that 33 percent of government debt was denominated in foreign currency as of end-2018. Interest payments as a share of revenue, meanwhile, fell to 12.3 percent in 2018 from 12.6 percent in 2017. “Improved revenue more than offset higher coupon rates on newly issued domestic debt, primarily RElECTING HIGHER INlATION AS WELL as increased foreign debt servicing amid peso weakness,� it said. Because of a stable debt burden, stabilizing market interest rates and improving revenue, the credit rater expects the Philippines’ debt affordability to continue to converge toward the Baa2 peer median. It also forecast a continued increase in revenue generation this year

because of a scheduled increase in excise tax rates under the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion law. Moody’s, however, warned that the government could be challenged to fully execute this year’s spending budget of 19.3 percent of GDP, partly because of delays in the passage of the 2019 budget law. “Although the government operated on a re-enacted 2018 budget in the interim, spending on new appropriations was prohibited, while the budget law passage was delayed,� it said. “Moreover, electoral rules prohibit disbursements related to public works, hiring or moving government workers in the 45-day period ahead of mid-May midterm elections.� !FTER MONTHS OF DELAYS #ONGRESS kNALLY RATIkED THE NATIONAL BUDGET last month but the measure has yet to be signed into law by President Rodrigo Duterte. MAYVELIN U. CARABALLO

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OTAL foreign investment pledges approved by the seven investment promotion agencies (IPAs) soared in the fourth quarter of 2018, prompting the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) to reiterate the government tax reforms are not scaring investors away. Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia said the high growth in investment pledges means that the government’s second package of the tax reforms which seeks to rationalize incentives, is “not a turnoff.� g3OME kRMS ARE ALSO SHIFTING [to the Philippines] from China, United States, and UK. Philippines has been touted in international media as among top investment destinations, given [the] string [of] fundamentals

and growth, decisive leadership, Build Build Build program, and many reforms in place,� he added. The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said total foreign investment pledges approved by the Board of Investments (BOI) , Clark Development Corp. (CDC), Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA), Bureau of InvestmentsAutonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BOI-ARMM), and the

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OU’VE probably encountered a small chat box at the lower corner of your service provider’s website with the image of a good-looking man or woman, saying “Hi, I’m Danny, how may I help you?�; and you probably know by now that the “person� chatting with you is not a real person, but a chatbot. A chatbot is a computer program or an artificial intelligence which conducts a conversation via auditory or textual methods, according to Techtarget.com. It is powered by rules and SOMETIMES ARTIkCIAL INTELLIGENCE THAT you interact with via a chat interface. Some chatbots use sophisticated natural language processing systems, but many simpler ones scan for keywords within the input, then pull a reply with the most matching keywords, or the most similar wording patter, from a database. The term “ChatterBot� was originally coined in 1994 by Michael Mauldin, a computer scientist, inventor of the Lycos web search engine, AND CREATOR OF THE kRST 6ERBOT *ULIA to describe these conversational programs. Today, most chatbots are accessed via virtual assistants such as Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, via messaging apps such as Facebook Messenger or WeChat, or via individ-

companies will grow its use in interFINEX FILES nal employee support activities such as policy inquiries and HR-related REYNALDO concerns. The adoption of chatbots is priLUGTU, JR. marily driven by millennials, and even so the coming generation Z into ual organizations’ apps and websites. the workforce. According to a study #HATBOTS CAN BE CLASSIkED INTO US- conducted by CARAVAN, about 2 age categories such as conversational of 5 millennials think that chatbots commerce (e-commerce via chat), provide better service than humans. analytics, communication, customer About 70 percent of the millennials support, design, developer tools, edu- who have used chatbots have reported CATION ENTERTAINMENT kNANCE FOOD it to be a positive experience. games, health, HR, marketing, news, Because millennials value speed personal, productivity, shopping, so- AND EFkCIENCY MORE THAN THEIR PREVIcial, sports, travel and utilities. ous generations do, they are gravitatCustomer service is a use case where ing towards using self-service options chatbots can make a strong impact. like chatbots, instead of engaging with We have seen how chatbots are ca- PEOPLE "EING THE kRST GENERATION TO PABLE OF HANDLING kRST CUSTOMER CON- experience the smartphone era, miltact or even handling complete cases. lennials want instant solutions and According to Gartner, the customer are not used to waiting. A chatbot engagement domain will continue to caters very well to this need by interactdominate in the coming years, with ing with multiple people at the same 34 percent of the cases using chatbots. time which wasn’t possible in the While many consumers still prefer traditional method, human agents to chatbots for their Increasingly, chatbots are now customer service engagements, its use being used by the human resource will only continue to grow. In fact, a department to provide faster service to global Oracle research revealed that EMPLOYEES SUCH AS kLING AND INQUIRIES 80 percent of businesses want chat- ON LEAVES BENEkTS ADMINISTRATIONS bots by 2020. As they become more and others. With companies having inexpensive to create and deploy, more than 50 precent millennials

now in their stable, there is more pressure and business case to use chatbots internally. "UT THE RISE OF CHATBOTS WILL DEkNITEly affect the call center industry which employs close to one million agents. We are already seeing the growing use OF ARTIkCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CHATBOTS in the business process outsourcing industry, affecting employees through job reassignments or at worse, lay-offs. Hence, there is an urgent need to retrain customer service agents to handle more complex problems and issues of customers, and leave chatbots to do the menial tasks; because in the coming decade, we’re sure that chatbots will evolve to a more ADVANCED ARTIkCIAL INTELLIGENCE We have to take advantage of chatbots now while preparing our workforce for the future. The author is President & CEO of Hungry Workhorse Consulting, a digital and culture transformation kRM (E IS THE #HAIRMAN OF THE )NFORmation and Communications Technology Committee of the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines. He teaches strategic management in the MBA Program of De La Salle University. The author may be emailed at rey.lugtu@hungryworkhorse.com

Environmental threats from the chemicals CEOs’ standpoint I N recent months, we have seen the growing awareness about adverse effects on the environment brought about by the use of plastics. Plastic pollution and climate change have been high on the agenda of governments and world organizations. It is interesting to note that chemicals company CEOs’ concerns about a number of wider ‘sustainability trends’ surpass nervousness about economic conditions. This is an unusual back story behind their longer-term caution, as we’ve found out in PwC’s 22nd Annual Global CEO Survey. Out of 1,300 plus CEOs around the world, 48 survey respondents are from the chemicals sector.

sectors, improving the sustainability of downstream energy chains. In the energy sector, for example, chemical products are commonly used in solar generation, and in new lighter and longer thermoplastic blades that offer the promise of greater wind power STABILITY AND EFkCIENCY )N TRANSportation, lightweight materials could be critical for improvements IN VEHICLE FUEL EFkCIENCY AND IN the development of electric cars CEOs’ optimism shrinks and trucks. Reducing the average on longer-term growth weight of passenger cars from 1,380kg currently to 1,000kg by outlook 2050 could lower emissions by Just a short time ago, there was a 40 percent, according to a 2017 notable dose of optimism evident study by the International Transin the chemicals sector. Having port Forum. And although strides are beconfronted extraordinary pressures FOR MORE THAN A DECADE ‡ CHIElY ing made in industrial materials, from product commoditization, packaging remains a conundrum RAW MATERIALS VOLATILITY lUCTUAT- for chemicals companies — and ing markets and rapidly expand- another potential revenue chaning competition — 2018 initially nel if addressed correctly. Pressure delivered some strong results. is growing in many of the world’s 0ROkTS WERE UP CAPACITY WAS TIGHT largest markets to replace plastic in and global demand was on a packaging with alternative materipositive trajectory. It isn’t surpris- als and move closer to so-called ing, then, that in the latest survey, cradle-to-cradle manufacturing, more than 90 percent of chemicals in which every ingredient in the companies’ CEOs said they were process is recyclable. As products bullish about their organization’s emerge to satisfy recycling re12-month revenue growth pros- quirements, chemicals companies PECTS THE HIGHEST LEVEL IN kVE YEARS engaged in traditional plastic But when CEOs were asked to PACKAGING VALUE CHAINS COULD kND consider their company’s posi- THAT A BIG PART OF THEIR CASH lOW IS tion over a longer period of time, affected. In fact, nearly one in three their enthusiasm markedly waned. chemicals company CEOs expects According to the survey, the CEO cradle-to-cradle developments to three-year growth outlook is actu- have a high or very high impact ALLY AT ITS LOWEST POINT IN kVE YEARS on their business within the next Indeed, it would seem that it is kVE YEARS 4O AVOID HEMORRHAGING hard to maintain an upbeat atti- revenue in the plastic packaging tude when economies around the side of their business, chemicals world are signaling a slowdown companies should begin to rethink and trade tensions are worsening. the types of plastics that they are According to the Financial Times, using and the production prothe Organisation for Economic cesses employed to manufacture Cooperation and Development packaging. New additives, such as antioxiHAS lAGGED THE RISK THAT THE INTERaction of a sharp deceleration in dants, can produce higher yields China’s economy, volatility in oil of plastics from less material with prices, Brexit uncertainties, and less waste and fewer carbon emisthe fragility of some eurozone sions. Although much research is banks could lead to “a harder than still needed to develop and perfect expected landing.â€? And already these new additives, companies some chemicals companies are that can pioneer improvements in cutting earnings outlooks in the THE kNANCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL face of retreats in key markets, such costs of plastics manufacturing WILL kND THEMSELVES IN A STRONG as automotive. position in the coming years. Also leading the industry will Sustainability be companies that take an active impacts outweigh role in expanding the reach of remacroeconomic cycling, in part by helping develop concerns new methods for mechanical and Strikingly, these global headwinds chemical recycling programs that are not the primary reason for the at their zenith reprocess plastic longer-term wariness of chemicals items back to raw material, or company CEOs –sustainability is. feedstock. More than 25 global Among these worries: the impact companies, including four of the of resource and materials substitu- kVE LARGEST CHEMICALS MAKERS HAVE tion, decarbonization, renewable pooled US$1bn in the Alliance to energy and waste elimination. End Plastic Waste to reduce the These are serious issues, particu- amount of plastic that ends up as larly for the chemicals industry, garbage in the environment. which is at the tip of the spear of questions surrounding the role An innovation path that fossil fuels and new forms of energy will play in the future, Chemicals companies have long including in the mitigation of accepted the need to shift from climate change and pollution. being ‘product sellers’ to being ‘soHow chemicals companies address lution providers’ in the customerthese concerns will ultimately af- facing aspect of their business. fect their license to operate, their But this is easier said than done. marketplace status, their relation- To drive sustainability initiatives, ships with customers and, as the chemicals companies will have CEOs seem to be keenly aware, to collaborate with their customtheir ability to grow over the com- ers. Purchasers will increasingly demand bespoke and innovative ing years. answers that transform their prodUCTS TO MEET SPECIkC WEIGHT WASTE Sustainability trends and functionality metrics. present growth Our survey indicates that chemiopportunities cals executives have not yet fully The greater focus on sustainability embraced the idea of open innotrends presents new growth oppor- vation. We found that although tunities for chemicals companies chemicals CEOs are slightly more that were not possible before. focused on new products than 4HE INDUSTRY CAN BE A SIGNIkCANT CEOs globally, they are less likely player in developing materials that to be collaborating with startups CONTRIBUTE TO ENERGY EFkCIENCY AND and entrepreneurs. And they are greenhouse gas reduction in other ÂłNeedles B5

Corporate News Phoenix Petroleum to issue $300-M bonds SM Group’s income up 13% to P37.1B in 2018 ˜ The Manila Times

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PHOENIX Petroleum Philippines Inc. said on Thursday that it would issue dollardenominated perpetual bonds worth up to $300 million. In a disclosure, the listed independent oil company reported that its board of directors had approved the issuance of these bonds, which shall be listed on the Singapore Exchange Ltd. Proceeds would be used to refinance its working capital and for general corporate purposes, it added. The board also approved the appointment of Australia New Zealand Ltd. (ANZ) as the issuance’s sole global coordinator; and as lead manager and bookrunner, along with ING N.V. Bank and UBS Group AG, as well as any local entity that may be determined for the bonds’ on the Singaporean bourse. In a separate disclosure, the Dennis Uy-led firm said these banks shall arrange a series of fixed-income investor meetings in Manila, Hong Kong and Singapore starting on Friday.

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The board’s approval follows that given by Phoenix Petroleum’s stockholders in January on its issuance of 5 million perpetual preferred shares — priced at P1,000 each for a total of P5 billion — through a public offering. The company first announced its plan to issue these shares last November. The independent oil company has been holding on a series of fundraising activities to finance its working capital requirements and refinance its short-term loans. Established in Davao City in 2005 and listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange in July 2007, Phoenix Petroleum is into trading and marketing refined oil products, including liquefied petroleum gas and lubricants; operating oil depots and storage facilities; and offering hauling and into-plane services. Phoenix Petroleum’s shares dropped by 8 centavos or 0.67 percent to close at P11.80 apiece on Thursday. JORDEENE B. LAGARE

Businessinbriefs HOLCIM’S Q4 EARNINGS DOUBLE, BUT FULL-2018 INCOME STILL DOWN HOLCIM Philippines Inc. saw a 107-percent jump in its net profit during the fourth quarter of 2018, but its full-year net income remained in the red. In a disclosure on Thursday, the listed cement manufacturer said its net profit hit P804 million from P389 million in the same period last year, but its full-year income dipped by 7.4 percent to P2.5 billion in October to December from P2.7 billion .Revenues climbed by 3.09 percent to P8.35 billion in the last three months of 2018 from P8.1 billion, and by 2.6 percent to P35.6 billion last year from P34.7 billion in 2017. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization jumped by 47.5 percent to P1.49 billion in the quarter from P1.01 billion, but slipped by 9.4 percent to P4.89 billion in 2018 from P5.4 billion. Holcim shares shed 12 centavos or 1.27 percent to P9.32 apiece on Thursday. ANGELICA BALLESTEROS

PCC OKS WIPRO’S TAKEOVER OF SPLASH THE Philippine Competition Commission approved on Thursday India’s Wipro Enterprise Private Ltd.’s acquisition of Splash Corp. In a statement, the state-run competition watchdog said that “no competition concern was found, since there is sufficient competitive constraint from other firms involved in whitening products market even after the transaction.� It also said that, while there was an overlap in the manufacturing and distribution of whitening lotions, it was not enough to lessen competition. Splash is a Filipino firm involved in producing, marketing and distributing personal-care products, including Maxi-Peel, SkinWhite lotion and Flawlessly U soap. Wipro manufactures personal care items, such as Enchanteur lotion, Santoor soap and Chandrika soap. TYRONE JASPER C. PIAD

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REDUCED investments and trading income caused Security Bank Corp.’s net income to fall to P8.6 billion in 2018. In a disclosure on Thursday, Security Bank said the amount was a 16-percent drop from the P10.3 billion posted in 2017. The bank blamed the decrease on lower trading gains of P0.376 billion, an 83 percent-drop from P2.376 billion a year earlier; and on lower financial investments, which fell by 10.9 percent to P9.8 billion last from P11 billion in 2017. Total loans grew by 12 percent to P416 billion last year, with wholesale and consumer loans up by 25 percent and 47 percent, respectively. Low-cost deposits, meanwhile, grew by 15 percent.

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from P299.2 billion. The SM Store opened four branches this year, bringing its gross selling areas to 797,740 square meters, while the unit’s food group, which includes SM Supermarket, SM Hypermarket, Savemore, Alfamart and WalterMart, added 210 new stores in 2018. “Our very good results in 2018 were driven by all three core businesses ‌ each of which delivered strong revenue growth and also strong earnings growth,â€? SM President Frederic Dybuncio said in the disclosure. “We remain optimistic about the economic environment and growth opportunities for the group in 2019,â€? he added. SM shares dropped by P26 or PERCENT TO kNISH AT 0 EACH on Thursday.

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17 percent to P32.2 billion from P27.6 billion in 2017 on the back of higher revenues. The real-estate developer’s consolidated revenues climbed by 14 percent to P104.1 billion from P90.9 billion two years ago, with its mall segment accounting for P59.3 billion of the total. The latter amount was an 11-percent increase from P53.2 billion in 2017, driven by the rising contriBUTION OF RENTALS FROM THE kRM S

new and expanded malls, which were launched mostly in developing areas in 2017 and 2018. BDO’s net income grew by 16.3 percent to P32.7 billion in 2018 from P28.1 billion a year earlier on the back of strong recurring earnings from its core lending and deposit-taking businesses. China Banking Corp. reported that its net income jumped by 7 percent to P8.1 billion from P7.1 billion year-on-year, while net interest income surged by 17 percent to P22.9 billion on the back of a 13-percent rise in gross loans to P513 billion. SM Retail, which consists of The SM Store and other specialty stores, saw its net earnings increase by 8 percent to P11.3 billion from P10.4 billion, while revenues rose by 12 percent to P335.6 billion

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Service charges, fees and commissions rose by 26 percent to P 2.9 billion, driven by credit card, bancassurance, loan fee and deposit charges. Security Bank said interest margins continued to improve in 2018, adding that “net interest spread on loans and deposits further increased to 4.72 percent in Q4 2018, up by 29 basis points quarter-onquarter and up by 48 basis points year-on-year.â€? The lender’s asset quality remained healthy, with its net nonperforming loan (NPL) ratio at 0.07 percent at end-2018. Provisions for credit losses stood at P714 million, while the bank’s NPL reserve cover was 112 percent. Cost-to-income ratio reached 53.9

percent, while operating expense growth, excluding provisions for credit and impairment losses, stood at 10 percent. Total assets grew by 10 percent to P767 billion. Capital adequacy also rose, with its common equity ratio and total capital adequacy ratio at 16.4 percent and 18.7 percent, respectively. Shareholders’ capital inched up by 4 percent to P109 billion. Established in 1951, Security Bank is the country’s sixth largest bank in terms of assets. It ended 2018 with 305 branches and 760 automated teller machines. Security Bank shares shed P6 or 3.49 percent to close at P165.80 each on Thursday. EIREENE JAIREE GOMEZ

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Open 7,920 7,962 7,996 7,940 7,947 7,849 7,923 7,925 7,965 7,960 8,040 8,077 8,088 8,092 8,093 8,091 8,132 8,039 7,999 8,039 8,087 8,071 8,076 8,001 7,941 8,024 8,055 7,932 7,866 7,983

High 7,920 7,973 7,996 7,962 7,947 7,945 7,939 7,964 8,000 7,996 8,040 8,084 8,106 8,096 8,127 8,214 8,149 8,166 8,099 8,047 8,087 8,144 8,116 8,068 7,990 8,030 8,067 8,058 7,938 7,991

Low 7,705 7,878 7,945 7,895 7,893 7,848 7,831 7,911 7,909 7,921 7,889 7,984 8,062 8,036 8,088 8,058 8,069 8,039 7,999 7,912 8,015 8,042 8,039 8,001 7,902 7,979 7,964 7,920 7,865 7,849

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Security Name Philippine Racing Club, Inc. Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation The Philodrill Corporation Zeus Holdings, Inc. Philippine Trust Company Seafront Resources Corporation United Paragon Mining Corporation Mabuhay Vinyl Corporation Arthaland Corporation San Miguel Food and Beverage, Inc. Wilcon Depot, Inc. First Abacus Financial Holdings corp. Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation Abacore Capital Holdings, Inc. Xurpas Inc. Macay Holdings, Inc. Vulcan Industrial & Mining Cityland Development Corporation PAL Holdings, Inc. Marcventures Holdings, Inc.

Volume Value 400.00 3,400.00 15,356,000.00 10,017,720.00 191,000,000.00 2,387,100.00 32,360,000.00 11,651,150.00 210.00 24,760.00 1,000.00 2,490.00 18,000,000.00 153,000.00 192,000.00 744,830.00 2,606,000.00 2,271,790.00 2,790,330.00 288,616,847.00 2,746,800.00 40,148,586.00 103,000.00 62,700.00 448,800.00 21,804,360.00 9,985,000.00 7,083,510.00 9,990,000.00 14,768,900.00 63,000.00 681,862.00 2,545,000.00 3,337,270.00 11,000.00 9,960.00 109,300.00 1,223,532.00 75,000.00 82,730.00

Last Price 8.5 0.64 0.013 0.36 121 2.49 0.0085 3.83 0.89 104 14.76 0.65 48.95 0.72 1.48 10.96 1.31 0.92 11.24 1.11

Chg 1.03 0.05 0.001 0.02 6.4 0.13 0.0004 0.14 0.03 3.5 0.46 0.02 1.45 0.02 0.04 0.28 0.03 0.02 0.24 0.02

%Chg 13.79% 8.47% 8.33% 5.88% 5.58% 5.51% 4.94% 3.79% 3.49% 3.48% 3.22% 3.17% 3.05% 2.86% 2.78% 2.62% 2.34% 2.22% 2.18% 1.83%

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TOP LOSERS

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Security Name Golden Bria Holdings, Inc. Grand Plaza Hotel Corporation Bloomberry Resorts Corporation Republic Glass Holdings Corporation Universal Robina Corporation Manila Mining Corporation “Aâ€? DMCI Holdings, Inc. Suntrust Home Developers, Inc. Atok-Big Wedge Company, Inc. “Aâ€? BDO Unibank, Inc. &HQWXU\ 3DFLÂżF )RRG ,QF Benguet Corporation “Aâ€? Prime Media Holdings, Inc. Nickel Asia corporation Bright Kindle Resources & Investments Inc. LT Group, Inc. Asiabest Group International Inc. Anglo Philippine Holdings Corporation Solid Group, Inc. Cebu Air, Inc.

*amounts in peso except for volume, %chg

Volume 51,790.00 300.00 16,738,600.00 3,000.00 1,975,430.00 5,000,000.00 13,125,900.00 178,000.00 15,900.00 3,342,030.00 158,000.00 1,000.00 341,000.00 2,395,000.00 191,000.00 1,242,900.00 100,300.00 141,000.00 1,298,000.00 81,160.00

Value 19,221,606.00 2,856.00 195,376,556.00 7,790.00 273,485,016.00 45,500.00 153,888,414.00 135,280.00 210,056.00 430,128,931.00 2,430,592.00 1,350.00 394,540.00 6,656,030.00 267,430.00 18,501,192.00 2,121,925.00 110,010.00 1,727,410.00 6,817,056.00

Last Price 361 9.52 11.4 2.59 136.1 0.0091 11.4 0.76 13.1 127.6 15.3 1.35 1.13 2.75 1.39 14.8 21.05 0.78 1.34 84.05

Chg -39 -0.88 -0.94 -0.18 -9 -0.0006 -0.7 -0.04 -0.68 -5.9 -0.7 -0.06 -0.05 -0.12 -0.06 -0.6 -0.85 -0.03 -0.05 -3.05

%Chg -9.75% -8.46% -7.62% -6.50% -6.20% -6.19% -5.79% -5.00% -4.93% -4.42% -4.38% -4.26% -4.24% -4.18% -4.14% -3.90% -3.88% -3.70% -3.60% -3.50%

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FRIDAY March 1, 2019

Republic of the Philippines COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS Manila AMENDED GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE SPECIAL BOARD OF CANVASSERS IN THE CONDUCT OF MANUAL CANVASSING OF VOTES UNDER REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9189, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS “THE OVERSEAS ABSENTEE VOTING ACT OF 2003�, AS AMENDED BY REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10590, FOR PURPOSES OF THE MAY 13, 2019 NATIONAL AND LOCAL ELECTIONS x--------------------------------------------------x

ABAS, Sheriff M., PARREĂ‘O, Al A., GUIA, Luie Tito F., GUANZON, Ma. Rowena Amelia V. INTING, Socorro B., CASQUEJO, Marlon S., KHO, Antonio T. Jr.

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RESOLUTION NO. 10489-A The Commission on Elections, pursuant to the authority vested in it by the Constitution, Batas Pambansa Blg. 881 (Omnibus Election Code), Republic Act No. 9189 (The Overseas Absentee Voting Act of 2003), as amended by Republic Act No. 10590, Republic Act No. 9369 and other election laws, RESOLVED, as it hereby RESOLVES, to promulgate the following General Instructions for the Special Board of Canvassers (SBOC), in the Conduct of Manual Canvassing of Votes under Republic Act No. 9189, otherwise known as “The Overseas Absentee Voting Act of 2003â€?, as amended by Republic Act No. 10590, for Purposes of the May 13, 2019 National and Local Elections. ARTICLE I DEFINITION OF TERMS 6HFWLRQ 'HÂżQLWLRQ RI WHUPV - As used in this General Instructions, the following terms are GHÂżQHG DV IROORZV a. Commission refers to the Commission on Elections; b. Day of Elections refers to the actual date of elections in the Philippines which is May 13, 2019; c. 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There shall be no pre-proclamation cases on issues/ controversies relating to the generation/ printing, transmission, receipt and custody and appreciation of ERs or the COCs.

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(DFK WLPH DOO WKH FROXPQV RI D VHW RI 6293 DUH ÂżOOHG the Vice-Chairperson and the Member Secretary shall submit to the Chairperson their copies of the SOVP. The Chairperson shall submit the accomplished SOVP to the tabulator ZKR VKDOO WKHQ FRPSXWH WKH VXE WRWDO RI WKH QXPEHU RI registered voters; (2) number of voters who actually voted; and (3) votes obtained by each candidate. Thereafter, the tabulator shall initially record the sub-totals in a separate sheet of paper and compare whether the sub-totals are the same.

Sec. 14. Temporary absence of a regular member of the SBOC. - In case a regular PHPEHU RI WKH 6%2& LV WHPSRUDULO\ DEVHQW WKH PHPEHUV SUHVHQW VKDOO ÂżUVW YHULI\ ZKHWKHU QRWLFH has been served on the absent member. In case no such notice was sent, one shall be immediately VHUYHG RQ WKH DEVHQW PHPEHU ,I WKH ODWWHU FDQQRW EH ORFDWHG RU KLV ZKHUHDERXWV DUH XQNQRZQ KH shall be substituted in accordance with these Rules. These facts shall be recorded in the Minutes of Canvassing. As soon as the absent member appears, the substitute member shall relinquish his seat to the regular member.

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Exhibit to the counsel/watchers present the envelope containing the ERs copy for the SBOC; %UHDN WKH VHDO RSHQ WKH HQYHORSH UHWULHYH WKH (5V DQG H[KLELW WKH VDPH WR WKH FRXQVHO watchers present; Examine the condition of the paper seal of the ERs, and record in the Minutes of Canvassing its condition and serial number; %UHDN RSHQ WKH VHDO RI WKH (5 XQIROG LW DQG H[KLELW WKH VDPH WR WKH FRXQVHO ZDWFKHUV present. Record in the Minutes of Canvassing the condition and serial number of the ERs; &DQYDVV WKH (5V E\ a. The Chairperson reading the votes obtained by each candidate; and The Vice-Chairperson and Member-Secretary entering in their respective copies of the SOVP the votes obtained by each candidate simultaneously as they read by the Chairperson.

The Head of Post is hereby deputized by the Commission to appoint the support staff and tabulator. The Post shall inform the OFOV within two (2) days after the date of appointment of the support staff and the tabulator.

The OFOV may, whenever practicable, use other means of disseminating such notice.

Note the serial number of the SOVP to be used in the canvass. After the Secretary has recorded its serial number in the Minutes of Canvassing, the copies shall be equitably distributed between the Vice-Chairperson and the Secretary; Receive from the SBEI the envelopes containing the Election Returns (ERs) (copy for the SBOC, and the Commission); Record in the Minutes of Canvassing WKH IROORZLQJ GDWD a. Time and date of receipt of ERs; b. The precinct number of the ERs; c. Serial number of the envelope and paper seal; and d. Condition of the envelope and paper seal. The copy intended for the Commission shall be delivered or transmitted by the Chairperson or any member of the SBOC after the canvassing of votes in the Posts;

Sec. 6. Support staff and tabulator. - The SBOC shall be assisted by one (1) support staff and one (1) tabulator only. The support staff shall receive and record the ERs, the serial number of the envelope for ERs as well as the condition of the envelope for ERs and forward the same to the SBOC for canvass. The tabulator shall compute the sub-total of the SOVP.

If notice is given in open session, such fact shall be recorded in the Minutes of Canvassing. Notice of the canvassing shall also be posted in three (3) conspicuous places in the building where the canvass shall be held.

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7KH 6%2& VKDOO a. Canvass the ERs submitted by the SBEI; b. Accomplish the Statement of Votes by Precinct (SOVP) and the Summary of Statement of Votes (SSOV); c. Prepare seven (7) copies, upon completion of the canvass, the COC for Senators and PartyList representatives (OVF No. 21); d. Transmit immediately after the completion of the canvass, a copy of the COC and the SOVP/SSOV to the OFOV, through the DFA-OVS, via facsimile or other electronic mail facilities of the Philippine embassies/consulates; H )XUQLVK WKH DFFUHGLWHG PDMRU SROLWLFDO SDUWLHV DQG DFFUHGLWHG FLWL]HQV DUPV WKURXJK WKH OFOV, with copies via facsimile, or any other means of transmission equally safe, secure and reliable; f. Deliver or transmit, through its Chairperson, the COCs together with the SOVPs, SSOVs and the ERs intended for the Commission. Watchers of candidates, political parties and other interested parties may accompany the delivery or witness the transmission; and g. Perform such other duties as may be required by the Commission.

Sec. 10. Notice of meetings of the SBOC. - Not later than May 4, 2019, Philippine time, the Chairperson of the SBOC shall issue a written notice (OVF No. 11-C) to the other members of the SBOC, and, through the OFOV, issue a similar notice to each candidate for Senator and political parties, organizations or coalitions thereof participating under the party-list system of representation. The notice shall include the date, time and place of the canvassing, which shall be held in the Philippine Embassy/Consulate, unless otherwise ordered by the Commission.

Before the start of canvass, the following procedures shall be observed:

Before the start of canvass, and upon entering the canvassing center, the counsel/watchers shall present and deliver to the Chairperson of the SBOC their appointments and their names shall be recorded in the Minutes of Canvassing with a notation under their signatures that they are not GLVTXDOLÂżHG WR VHUYH 7KH DSSRLQWPHQWV RI WKH FRXQVHO ZDWFKHUV VKDOO EHDU WKH SHUVRQDO RU IDFVLPLOH signature of the candidate or the duly authorized representative of the political party, organization, or coalition who appointed them or of organizations authorized by the Commission.

Sec. 5. Powers and function of the SBOC. 7KH 6%2& VKDOO KDYH IXOO DXWKRULW\ WR NHHS RUGHU within the canvassing room or hall including its premises and enforce obedience to its lawful orders. If any person refuses to obey any lawful order of the SBOC or conducts himself in such disorderly PDQQHU DV WR GLVWXUE RU LQWHUUXSW LWV SURFHHGLQJV WKH 6%2& PD\ E\ D PDMRULW\ YRWH RUGHU LQ ZULWLQJ DQ\ SHDFH RIÂżFHU JXDUG RI WKH HPEDVV\ RU FRQVXODWH WR WDNH VXFK SHUVRQ LQWR FXVWRG\ XQWLO DGMRXUQPHQW RI WKH PHHWLQJ ,Q WKH DEVHQFH RI DQ\ SHDFH RIÂżFHU JXDUG DQ\ RWKHU FRPSHWHQW DQG DEOH SHUVRQ deputized by the SBOC in writing, shall execute such order. Such fact shall be noted in the Minutes of Canvassing.

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Announce the results of the election, and the posting of a copy of the COC on a wall with VXIÂżFLHQW OLJKWLQJ ZLWKLQ WKH SUHPLVHV RI WKH FDQYDVVLQJ FHQWHU Proceed to Post the COC, in the presence of other members of the SBOC, the watchers and those present in the canvassing center; Attach a copy of the SOVP /SSOVs to each of the COC, copy for the NBOC, the Commission, and copy for the Chairperson of the SBOC. Fold each set together and seal with a paper seal; Place them in the envelopes provided for the purpose and close with paper seal, except the copy for the SBOC which will be used for transmission to the Commission as provided below; Transmit to the Commission, through the DFA-OVS, via facsimile or any other electronic mail facilities of the Philippine embassies/consulates, and other authorized canvassing centers an advance copy of the COC and SOVP /SSOV, using the copy for the SBOC; Return the COC and SOVP /SSOV, copy for the SBOC, inside its envelope, seal the same DQG VXEPLW WR WKH 6%5&* IRU VDIHNHHSLQJ Distribute the other copies of the COC, together with the corresponding SOVP, as prescribed under Art. 11, Rule 16 hereof. Copies which are not claimed by the concerned parties shall be turned over by the Chairperson of the SBOC to the SBRCG of the Post where canvassing was held; and Return the canvassed ERs in its envelope and seal and submit to the SBRCG for VDIHNHHSLQJ

The following procedures shall be observed each time the SBOC adjourns:

Each time the SBOC DGMRXUQV LW VKDOO PDNH D WRWDO RI DOO YRWHV FDQYDVVHG IRU HDFK FDQGLGDWH DSSO\LQJ WKH IROORZLQJ SURFHGXUH a. When all the columns of the SOVP DUH ÂżOOHG WKH tabulator shall indicate the sub-total; E 7KH SDJH SDUWLDO WRWDO RU VXE WRWDO ZKLFKHYHU LV DYDLODEOH DW WKH WLPH RI WKH DGMRXUQPHQW RI the SBOC is the provisional total which shall be made available to mass media and other interested parties. The OFOV shall also be furnished with the provisional total through the fastest means of communication; c. The remaining unopened envelopes and SOVP containing the page partial total shall be SODFHG LQ WKH EDOORW ER[ SURYLGHG IRU WKH SXUSRVH ZKLFK VKDOO EH VHDOHG DQG NHSW LQ D VHFXUHG room by the members of the SBOC; and d. The serial number and the quantity of the remaining unopened envelopes shall be recorded in the Minutes of Canvassing. Upon resumption of the canvass: The Secretary of the SBOC shall retrieve the ballot box containing the uncanvassed ERs, verify and enter in the Minutes of Canvassing the condition of the ballot box; and The SBOC shall then, in the presence of the watchers, open the ballot box, retrieve the partiallyÂżOOHG SOVP and continue the canvass of the remaining ERs until all ERs have been canvassed.

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Lighthizer Powell and former Trump attorney Michael Cohen also appearing. But Lighthizer’s remark about the remaining work needed in the China negotiations helped send Wall Street lower. Stock prices recovered some of those losses but major indices finished the day mostly lower. “I don’t think the market is really taking that seriously,â€? Adam Sarhan of 50 Park Investments told AFP, adding that investors were not unduly worried. Appearing before the House Ways and Means Committee — which writes

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Metrobank even topped the number of MBT common shares owned by GT Capital Holdings, the principal stockholder, which held only 36.36 percent of outstanding MBT common shares.

Due Diligencer’s take The distribution of stock dividend is rare among listed companies. The list shows only a few led by Metrobank is distributing common shares to meet the requirement in increasing its authorized common shares to seven billion. Metrobank makes itself a rare kind of listed company by paying its stockholders in stocks on top of P1 cash dividend. The public should be thankful to the bank’s board for approving it. How would this affect the trading on the bank’s listed common shares?

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Environmental much less likely to be pursuing new strategic alliances and joint ventures. Indeed, only 27 percent of chemicals CEOs are planning such initiatives within the next 12 months as a route to growth, compared with 40 percent of CEOs globally. Making the move from ‘solution providers’ to ‘transformation deliverers’ requires CEOs to be sure their company has a clear and realistic lens through which to assess which markets offer the greatest potential for transformation. A disciplined portfolio approach is needed by which expansion into new areas can be weighed against returns from current activities. In turn, this will help companies articulate coherent portfolio strategies that can be readily explained to investors and that can drive merger, acquisitions and divestments, research and development, and other growth strategies. Many companies already use portfolio management to inform investment, but they don’t necessarily incorporate all the external forces, including sustainability trends, that will drive future transformation of target markets. Such transformation may be key to determining priorities for investment and divestment. Delivering transformation also entails that chemicals companies become materials-agnostic. This is particularly the case in the specialty segment of the market, where companies don’t necessarily have to own

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tax laws — Lighthizer faced queries during the lengthy hearing from about three dozen lawmakers from across the United States on broad array of matters under negotiation. Lighthizer said he appreciated the hardships US firms – exporters and importers -- have suffered in the trade war, and praised Trump for withstanding the political fallout to pursue a difficult trade policy. “Because of his insight and grit, we are in a position to deal with this problem for the first time after decades of government inaction,â€? he said. Unlike US trade skirmishes with Canada, Mexico, the European Union and others, the hearing showed there was support for the China confrontation among Democrats and Republicans. AFP On Feb. 22, 2019, trading on MBT common shares opened at P82.50, peaked at P82.45, dropped to a low of P81.05 and closed the session at P81.40. Compare this with previous day’s trading when on Feb. 21, 2019, MBT common shares opened trading at P81.80, hit a high of P82.50, fell to a low of P81.65 and closed the session at P82.50. On Feb. 13, 2019, MBT common shares opened at P82.35, hit a high of P82.45, dropped to a low of P81 and ended trading at P81. Metrobank’s common shares recorded a 30-day high of P84.45 on Feb. 1, 2019 on volume of 2,745,750. However, on Jan. 31, 2019, the number of MBT common shares was even higher at 3,795,400 against the previous day’s 1,125,680. On Jan. 24, 2019, the volume was even higher at 3,928,940, topping that of Jan. 31, 2019. Does this tell the public about the stock market’s unpredictability? Just asking.

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the plastics they put together and assemble into composites. Instead, the focus should be on having the capabilities, insight, and relationships to PROVIDE A BEST kT FOR THE CUSTOMER S needs. In the agrochemicals arena, materials-agnostic partnerships are developing around the use of a mixture of fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides from different chemicals providers to more precisely address each farmer’s unique growing needs. The strategic direction for the chemicals industry is clear but the roadmap to navigate it is uncertain. The coming decade is likely to see the sector come under increasing pressure on a range of sustainability measures. The good news for CEOs is that the window of opportunity will remain open for some time for companies to show they are part of the solution, rather than the problem. As many companies are beginning to demonstrate, there is considerable opportunity for innovation — rather than regulation — dictating the pace, and the future. (Download the free report at www.pwc.com/chemicals-trendsceo-survey.) *** Catherine H. Santos is an Assurance Partner, Shared Services 0ARTNER AND 'ENERAL /FkCE 3ERvices Lead Partner of Isla Lipana #O A MEMBER kRM OF THE 0W# network. For more information, please email markets@ph.pwc. com. This content is for general information purposes only, and should not be used as a substitute for consultation with professional advisors.

partly offset by lower prices of rice and other agricultural commodities, given the appreciation of the peso and ample supply, particularly of rice, following the recent harvest and arrival of The Philippine Statistics Author- rice imports,� the Bangko Sentral said. ITY IS SET TO RELEASE OFkCIAL &EBRUARY “Looking ahead, the BSP will INlATION DATA ON -ARCH continue to be watchful of evolving “Higher domestic oil prices and price trends to ensure that the monthe upward adjustment in elec- etary policy stance remains approtricity rates provided upside price priate to maintaining price stability pressures to inflation during the that is conducive to a balanced and month,� the BSP said. sustainable growth of the economy According to the Energy depart- and employment,� it added. ment, most of the oil companies 2ISING INlATION PROMPTED THE CENimplemented a price increase of tral bank’s policy-making Monetary P1.45 per liter for gasoline and "OARD TO RAISE KEY INTEREST RATES kVE diesel, effective on February 26. For consecutive times beginning last May. kerosene, the price rose increased by Monetary authorities expect conP1.35 per liter. sumer price growth to return to the Manila Electric Co.’s per kilowatt- 2.0-4.0 percent target range this year, hour (kWh) rate for households and analysts have said policy rates consuming 200 kWh monthly was could be kept unchanged for now, raised by P0.5682. even possibly for the rest of the year. MAYVELIN U. CARABALLO These upward pressures “may be

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TRUMP-KIM SUMMIT:

ANOI: Donald Trump summoned the world’s media to Hanoi for a meeting with Kim Jong Un, travelled the long way around the world to get there, and dangled an “AWESOME� future before the North Korean leader. And they did not agree anything.

4HAT MAY NOT BE SUCH A BAD thing, analysts say. 4 H E I R 3 I N G A P O R E S U M M I T — t h e f i r s t - e ve r e n c o u n t e r BETWEEN THE LEADERS OF TWO countries on opposite sides of the technically still unfinished +OREAN 7AR MADE GLOBAL headlines last year. But the agreement they signed was short on specifics, with Kim committing only to a vague promise to “work toward complete denuclearization of THE +OREAN PENINSULAu 3UBSEQUENT PROGRESS STALLED with the two sides disagreeing over what that means, and ahead of the Hanoi meeting analysts expected them to put MEAT ON THE BONES OF THE TEXT In the event, there was more BONHOMIE IN THE 6IETNAMESE capital — a venue chosen partLY TO SYMBOLIZE THE POSSIBILITY of a good post-war relationSHIP WITH THE 53 ‡ BUT EVEN LESS IN THE WAY OF TANGIBLE OUTcomes, with no communique emerging from the summit. Trump told reporters Kim wanted all sanctions imposed on the North over its weapons PROGRAMS LIFTED BEFORE IT MADE a ny f u r t h e r m ove s ove r i t s 9ONGBYON NUCLEAR PLANT AND other covert sites, and he had decided to walk away. “I’d much rather do it right THAN DO IT FAST u HE ADDED Analysts pointed to the

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meeting as part of a long process, and potentially a necessary one. “These talks were not a failURE u SAID $AVID +IM OF THE 3TIMSON #ENTER “Think of the Trump-Kim relationship like a Korean draMA u HE WENT ON g7E ARE JUST BEGINNING TO WATCH THE LONG LOVE STORY UNFOLD u )T WOULD BE FILLED WITH gEXcitement, disappointment A N D U T T E R H E A R T A C H E u B U T gTHE BOND BETWEEN +IM AND Trump will remain steadfast to the end. g!S LONG AS BOTH @LOVERS remain committed to their relationship, we can expect more positive outcomes in the FUTURE u

Third date? Trump has previously said he AND +IM gFELL IN LOVEu OVER AN exchange of letters, and while no third summit with Kim had BEEN AGREED THE 7HITE (OUSE said working-level talks would continue. But in his New Year speech, a key political set-piece in the North, Kim said Pyongyang WOULD SEEK A gNEW WAYu TO defend its interests if Washington did not offer concessions in return for the steps it has already taken — a missile and nuclear test moratorium, and

Worldinbriefs AIR TRAFFIC SNARLED BY CLOSURE OF PAKISTANI AIR SPACE BANGKOK: A temporary closure of air space over Pakistan snarled air traffic Thursday, especially between Asia and Europe, though some airlines adjusted by rerouting their flights. In Bangkok, an important and busy hub for transcontinental flights, thousands of travelers were stranded. Bangkok airport officials said over 4,000 travelers were affected. Those needing help were getting access to accommodations and alternative travel arrangements, they said, though some of those stranded complained they were getting no help at all. The terminal was so crowded that the chief of Thailand’s immigration police, Surachate Hakparn, tweeted a warning to “Please spare your time for your trip!� The disruptions marked an unhappy end to a month-long tropical holiday for a group of 25 Danish students unable to board a connecting flight in Bangkok. AP

UN TO VOTE ON US, RUSSIA RESOLUTIONS ON VENEZUELA UNITED NATIONS, United States: The UN Security Council will vote Thursday (Friday in Manila) on two rival draft resolutions from the United States and Russia aimed at confronting the crisis in Venezuela, but both are expected to fail, according to diplomats. Battered by an economic meltdown, Venezuela descended into a major political crisis when opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president in January and asserted that President Nicolas Maduro was no longer legitimate. On Wednesday, the United States put forward a measure that would call for presidential elections to end the political standoff and unimpeded deliveries of aid to ease shortages of food and medicine in Venezuela. A competing Russian text urges a peaceful settlement of the crisis and recalls that aid deliveries to Venezuela require the consent of Maduro’s government. AFP

FLOODS ISOLATE 2 CA TOWNS GUERNEVILLE, California: Two communities in Northern California’s wine country were accessible only by boat Wednesday after a rain-swollen river overflowed its banks following a relentless downpour across an already waterlogged region. The small city of Guerneville north of San Francisco “is officially an island,� with the overflowing Russian River forecast to hit its highest level in about 25 years, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. “Nobody is coming or going from the Guerneville area at this time,� said sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Crum. The nearby town of Monte Rio was also isolated by floodwaters. The still rising Russian River was engorged by days of rain from western US storms that have also dumped heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada and into Montana, where Gov. Steve Bullock signed an emergency order to help keep up the supply of heating fuel. AP

what it says is the destruction of facilities it no longer needs. That raises the prospect of +IM TURNING TO NEIGHBOUR AND ally China for succour. )N AND BEFORE (ANOI 4RUMP repeatedly said the North COULD BECOME AN gECONOMIC POWERHOUSEu IF IT GAVE UP ITS weapons. The two discussed liaison offices — a vital initial step in normalizing relations —and Ankit Panda of the Federation OF !MERICAN 3CIENTISTS SAID THERE WERE gMULTIPLE CREDIBLE

&ORMER #)! ANALYST 3OO +IM noted that Trump had insisted several times he was in no rush to complete a deal and that with the North not yet prePARED TO TAKE THE STEPS THE 53 wanted, Trump “so far looks at EASE WITH THIS DECISIONu But, she told AFP: “This outcome is likely not what the +IM REGIME HAD BANKED ON 3O IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHETHER AFTER THE RUG HAS BEEN PULLED from underneath, North Korea WILL BITE AGAIN AT ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY u

India, Pakistan slay each others’ warplanes ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India said Wednesday they had shot down each other’s warplanes in a dramatically escalating confrontation that has fuelled concerns OF AN ALL OUT CONlICT BETWEEN THE nuclear-armed rivals. Calling for talks with India to defuse the situation, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan warned of the potentially catastrophic consequences should gBETTER SENSEu NOT PREVAIL “Can we afford any miscalculation with the kind of weapons that WE HAVE AND YOU HAVE u HE SAID IN a televised statement. 7HILE BOTH SIDES HAVE SOUGHT to play down the threat of war, the rare aerial engagement over the divided and disputed territory OF +ASHMIR SIGNIkCANTLY RAISES THE STAKES IN A STANDOFF SPARKED BY A suicide attack on the Indian-controlled side earlier this month. Pakistan initially said it downed two Indian jets in its airspace and CAPTURED TWO PILOTS BUT LATER ITS military spokesman tweeted that THERE WAS gONLY ONE PILOTu IN 0Akistani custody. India’s foreign ministry demanded the “immediate and safe RETURNu OF THE PILOT CALLING ON Pakistan to ensure no harm comes to him. 4HE PILOT gGIVES )SLAMABAD A KEY BARGAINING CHIP THAT MAY affect just how muscular Delhi’s NEXT MOVE COULD BE u TWEETED 53 analyst Michael Kugelman. New Delhi also confirmed the loss of one of its planes and said it HAD SHOT DOWN A 0AKISTANI kGHTER JET

CHINA CRACKS DOWN ON ILLEGAL ENGLISH TEACHERS FOUR suspects were prosecuted in Southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality for helping foreigners illegally come to China and fabricating work permits, which allow them teach in schools. An education consulting company called Bokelai is suspected of illegally recruiting foreign people as English teachers to teach in kindergartens, primary and secondary schools in Chongqing and Chengdu, capital of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, the Xinhua News Agency reported. The 18 foreign teachers involved were all from non-native English-speaking countries including South Africa, Brazil, Mexico and France. Most of them only had high school or junior high school education, and some of them were also foreign students who did not have any work experience. Major cities such as Beijing require foreign people to have bachelor degrees or above and a minimum of two years’ work experience to obtain work permits, the Beijing government said in 2014. GLOBAL TIMES

reports an end-of-war declaraTION WAS ON THE TABLE u But those were “never the @ C O R R E S P O N D I N G M E A S U R E S .ORTH +OREA SOUGHTu HE ADDed. Pyongyang will once again H AVE B E E N A B L E T O P O R T R AY itself as Washington’s equal, a n d K i m a s Tr u m p ’s - - t h e S T A T E R U N 2O D O N G 3 I N M U N newspaper carried a front-page picture Thursday that showed THE 53 PRESIDENT APPEARING TO BOW SLIGHTLY AS THE PAIR SHOOK hands.

The no-result from Hanoi LEAVES 3OUTH +OREAN 0RESIDENT Moon Jae-in — who seized on last year’s Winter Olympics IN HIS COUNTRY TO BROKER TALKS BETWEEN 0YONGYANG AND 7ASHINGTON ‡ IN A BIND Moon had intended to unveil an inter-Korean economic co-operation plan on Friday, said former CIA staffer Kim, the 100th anniversary of a movement against Japanese colonial rule — one issue on WHICH .ORTH AND 3OUTH +Oreans are in total agreement. Now suggestions of a Kim *ONG 5N TRIP TO 3EOUL ARE LIKELY TO GO ON THE BACK BURNER AND analyst Kim said it “remained TO BE SEENu WHETHER -OON WOULD BE ABLE TO PURSUE HIS inter-Korean rapprochement so aggressively. $ANIEL $AVIS 3ENIOR &ELLOW at Defense Priorities, said that as Kim had asked for “someTHING REALLY BIGu THE PRICE HE WOULD BE ASKED TO PAY NEXT TIME WOULD BE HIGHER AND Trump was holding “all the CARDSu g) DON T THINK IT WILL BE LONG UNTIL THE NEXT DISCUSSION BECAUSE +IM *ONG 5N CAN T AFFORD TO TAKE A LONG TIME u But while Trump has his eye ON NEXT YEAR S 53 PRESIDENTIAL election — and is said to want A .OBEL 0EACE 0RIZE ‡ +IM is the third generation of his family to rule the North AND UNDOUBTEDLY EXPECTS TO remain in power for decades. “These talks will take a long time and will far outlive this PRESIDENCY u SAID $AVID +IM g0ATIENCE IS A VIRTUE u AFP

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Pakistani supporters of Sunni Tehreek torch a poster of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an anti-Indian protest in Karachi, Pakistan on Wednesday. Pakistan and India said on Wednesday they had shot down each other’s warplanes in a dramatically escalating confrontation that has fuelled concerns of an all-out conflict between the nuclear-armed rivals. AFP PHOTO In a sign of the deepening crisis, Pakistan closed its airspace “until FURTHER NOTICEu !T LEAST SIX AIRPORTS were shuttered in India, and a vast area north of New Delhi was CLOSED TO CIVILIAN lIGHTS “We do not want to go towards WAR u 0AKISTAN S MILITARY SPOKESman Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor told a press conference. 'HAFOOR SAID THE JETS HAD BEEN shot down after Pakistani planes EARLIER lEW ACROSS THE ,INE OF #ONtrol, the de facto BORDER IN +ASHmir, to the Indian side in a show of strength, hitting open space after

locking on to military targets. Afterwards, he said, the two InDIAN PLANES CROSSED THE ,O# INTO Pakistani airspace. One fell into Pakistani-held Kashmir, while the second crashed on the other side, he said. He denied initial reports that A 0AKISTAN PLANE HAD BEEN SHOT down, saying accounts an F-16 had BEEN LOST WERE INCORRECT ,ATER )NDIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY spokesman Rajeesh Kumar said a Pakistani jet was hit as it took part in an operation “to target military INSTALLATIONS ON THE )NDIAN SIDEu

(E SAID THE )NDIAN PLANE lOWN BY THE CAPTURED PILOT ‡ A -IG — was lost in that operation. 0AKISTAN STATE MEDIA PUBLISHED a video purportedly showing the CAPTURED PILOT BEING INTERROGATED )T SHOWS A BLINDFOLDED MAN IN an Indian Air Force uniform, his FACE BLOODIED WITH HIS HANDS TIED BEHIND HIM GIVING HIS NAME RANK AND SERIAL NUMBER AS A SOLDIER interrogates him. The military later released a second video showing the man WITHOUT A BLINDFOLD AND DRINKING a cup of tea. AFP

22 miners die in China, 5 officials probed BEIJING: &IVE OFkCIALS ARE UNDER INvestigation in northern China after 22 miners were killed when their transport crashed into the side of a mine tunnel, local authorities said. The accident, which left another 28 miners injured, happened last 3ATURDAY IN THE REGION OF )NNER Mongolia after the vehicle experiENCED BRAKE FAILURE

! PHOTO PUBLISHED BY STATE RUN MEDIA SHOWS A BUS LIKE VEHICLE WITH heavy damage to its front resting against the side of a tunnel wall. Five officials “are suspected of serious violations of the law and are currently undergoing disciplinary reVIEW AND SUPERVISION INVESTIGATION u a local government disciplinary commission said in a statement.

4EN SUSPECTS HAD BEEN DETAINED IN THE INCIDENT THE OFkCIAL 8INHUA news agency reported. It is unclear immediately whether these INCLUDE THE OFkCIALS UNDER PROBE Investigators said the vehicle was overloaded — carrying 50 people instead of 30 — and had BEEN ILLEGALLY BOUGHT ONLINE 8INHUA REPORTED

It added that the vehicle was meant for overground transport, BUT HAD INSTEAD BEEN USED IN A TUNnel at the lead, zinc and silver mine of the Yinman Mining Company. Deadly mining accidents remain common in China despite efforts to improve conditions and crack down on illegal mines, particularly those that produce coal. AFP

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More abuse victims may sue Pell over redress SYDNEY: Cardinal George Pell’s sex crime conviction is expected to unLEASH A lOOD OF LAWSUITS BY ABUSE victims who fear they were cheated BY A COMPENSATION SCHEME SET UP BY THE DISGRACED CLERIC HIMSELF lawyers said. The most senior Catholic clergyman found guilty of child sex ABUSE 0ELL IS BEHIND BARS AWAITing sentencing for assaulting two CHOIRBOYS IN TO SHORTLY AFTER HE WAS APPOINTED !RCHBISHOP OF -ELBOURNE Around the same time, Pell set UP THE g-ELBOURNE 2ESPONSEu A redress plan to compensate vicTIMS OF CLERICAL ABUSE IN !USTRALIA S 6ICTORIA STATE 4HE PLAN REQUIRED SEX ABUSE victims to waive their right to future claims and capped compensation payments at Aus$50,000 53 A kGURE LATER RAISED TO !US 53 4HE SCHEME HAS LONG BEEN criticised for helping the Church LIMIT ITS kNANCIAL LIABILITY AND THE announcement this week that its ARCHITECT HAD HIMSELF BEEN CONVICTED OF CHILD SEX ABUSE HEIGHTened the mistrust. “Anything that Pell designs loses CREDIBILITYu WITH HIS CONVICTION lawyer Ingrid Irwin from Pell’s HOMETOWN OF "ALLARAT IN 6ICTORIA told AFP. Irwin has represented clients WHO ALLEGED THEY WERE ABUSED BY 0ELL “At a time when he is sexually ASSAULTING YOUNG BOYS IN -ELBOURNE HE IS DESIGNING A COMpensation scheme to get out of it. 3O IT IS COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE u she said. Irwin predicted victims could receive more than Aus$500,000 in compensation if they challenged their earlier awards through the justice system. “Now, in terms of compensation, the sky’s the limit if they WERE TO SUE IN THE #OUNTY #OURT u she said. We s t e r n A u s t r a l i a a n d Queensland states already allow courts to set aside victims’ settlements with the Church if THEY WERE FOUND TO BE UNJUST OR UNREASONABLE 6ICTORIA SAID Thursday it was exploring similar legislation. “We are looking at a range of options to ensure survivors of institutional child sex ABUSE ARE NOT LEFT WORSE OFF AS a result of their participation in institutional forums such AS THE -ELBOURNE 2ESPONSE u 6ICTORIAN !TTORNEY 'ENERAL *ILL Hennessy said. Action on the issue would come soon, she added. ,AWYERS IN 6ICTORIA CONkRMED they planned to challenge victims’ settlements with the Catholic !RCHDIOCESE OF -ELBOURNE g7E BELIEVE THERE IS A STRONG argument that settlements orCHESTRATED BY 0ELL S -ELBOURNE 2ESPONSE ARE VOID ON THE BASIS they were not negotiated in good FAITH u LAWYER +IM 0RICE TOLD -ELBOURNE S The Age newspaper. g7E URGE THE 6ICTORIAN GOVERNment to grant powers to the courts, as other states have, to set aside SETTLEMENTS MADEu THROUGH SUCH schemes, he said. 4HE CURRENT !RCHBISHOP OF -ELBOURNE 0ETER #OMENSOLI said Wednesday he was reviewING THE -ELBOURNE 2ESPONSE BUT DEFENDED IT ADDING THAT not everyone who sought compensation with the Church had BEEN DISAPPOINTED .EWS OF 0ELL S $ECEMBER CONviction, which was kept secret BY A GAG ORDER UNTIL 4UESDAY IS expected to encourage more sex ABUSE VICTIMS TO COME FORWARD Comensoli said several people in his archdiocese reported ALLEGED ABUSE BY CLERGY WITHIN HOURS OF 0ELL S CONVICTION BEING announced. )N THE 5NITED 3TATES ARCHDIOCESes have paid millions of dollars to SETTLE CHILD SEX ABUSE CLAIMS AFP

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ASHINGTON, D.C.: In a damning depiction of Donald Trump, the President’s former lawyer cast him as a racist and a con man, who used his inner circle to cover up politically damaging allegations about sex, and who lied throughout the 2016 election campaign about his business interests in Russia. The House oversight hearing with Trump’s former lawyer, coming in ADVANCE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL 2OBERT Mueller’s report, heralds what Democrats in Congress view as the long days ahead providing checks and BALANCES ON THE /VAL /FkCE For some, the outcome may — or may not — lead to grounds for impeachment. For others, impeachment cannot come fast enough. ! DAY AFTER PUBLICLY TESTIFYING BEFORE THE (OUSE S OVERSIGHT COMmittee, Michael Cohen is expected TO CONTINUE TESTIFYING ABOUT HIS work with Trump and knowledge OF THE 4RUMP BUSINESS EMPIRE WHEN HE APPEARS 4HURSDAY BEFORE the House intelligence committee, ALBEIT BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Cohen, who previously pleaded guilty to lying to Congress, told lawmakers Wednesday that Trump had ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE AND EMBRACED the news that emails damaging to (ILLARY #LINTON WOULD BE RELEASED during the campaign. But he also SAID HE HAD NO gDIRECT EVIDENCEu that Trump or his aides colluded with Russia to get him elected, the primary question of special counsel 2OBERT -UELLER S INVESTIGATION Cohen, shaking off incessant critICISM FROM 2EPUBLICANS anxious to PAINT HIM AS A FELON AND LIAR BECAME THE kRST 4RUMP INSIDER TO PULL BACK THE curtain on a version of the inner workINGS OF 4RUMP S POLITICAL AND BUSINESS operations. He likened the president TO A gMOBSTERu WHO DEMANDED BLIND loyalty from underlings and expected THEM TO LIE ON HIS BEHALF TO CONCEAL information and protect him — even IF IT MEANT BREAKING THE LAW

“I am not protecting Mr. Trump ANYMORE u #OHEN DECLARED “My loyalty to Mr. Trump has cost me everything: MY family’s happiness, friendships, my law license, my company, my livelihood, my honor, my reputation, and soon my FREEDOM u #OHEN SAID g) WILL NOT SIT BACK SAY NOTHING AND ALLOW HIM TO DO THE SAME TO THE COUNTRY u Cohen’s matter-of-fact testimony ABOUT SECRET PAYMENTS AND LIES UNFOLDed as Trump met with North Korean LEADER +IM *ONG 5N !T A 6IETNAM HOTEL AND UNABLE TO IGNORE THE DRAMA thousands of miles away, Trump lashed OUT ON 4WITTER SAYING #OHEN gDID BAD THINGS UNRELATED TO 4RUMPu AND gIS LYING IN ORDER TO REDUCE HIS PRISON TIME u In testimony that cut to the heart of federal investigations encircling the White House, Cohen said he arranged a hush money payment to a porn actress AT THE PRESIDENT S BEHEST AND AGREED TO LIE ABOUT IT TO THE PUBLIC AND THE kRST LADY (E SAID HE HAD LIED BY CLAIMING THAT 4RUMP WAS gNOT KNOWLEDGEABLEu ABOUT THE TRANSACTION EVEN THOUGH THE president had directly arranged for his REIMBURSEMENT !ND HE SAID HE WAS LEFT WITH THE UNMISTAKABLE IMPRESSION Trump wanted him to lie to Congress ABOUT A -OSCOW REAL ESTATE PROJECT though the president never directly told him so. In one revelation, Cohen said prosecutors in New York were investigating conversations Trump or his advisers had with him after h i s office

Q Michael Cohen. AFP PHOTO AND HOTEL ROOM WERE RAIDED BY THE Federal Bureau of Investigation last April. Cohen said he could not discuss that conversation, the last contact he said he has had with the president or ANYONE ACTING ON HIS BEHALF BECAUSE it remains under investigation. The appearance marked the latest step in Cohen’s evolution from legal fixer for the President — he once BOASTED HE D gTAKE A BULLETu FOR 4RUMP — to a foe who has implicated him in FEDERAL CAMPAIGN kNANCE VIOLATIONS The hearing proceeded along parallel tracks, with Democrats focusing on alLEGATIONS AGAINST 4RUMP WHILE 2EPUBlicans sought to undermine Cohen’s CREDIBILITY AND THE PROCEEDING ITSELF !S 2EPUBLICANS BLASTED HIM AS A convicted liar, a mostly unrattled CoHEN SOUGHT TO BLUNT THE ATTACKS BY repeatedly acknowledging his own FAILINGS (E CALLED HIMSELF A gFOOL u WARNED LAWMAKERS OF THE PERILS OF BLIND loyalty to a leader undeserving of it and pronounced himself ashamed of what he’d done to protect Trump. #OHEN IS DUE TO BEGIN A THREE YEAR PRISON SENTENCE IN -AY AND DESCRIBED himself as cooperative with multiple investigations in hopes

OF REDUCING HIS TIME BEHIND BARS (E IS seen as a vital witness for federal prosECUTORS BECAUSE OF HIS PROXIMITY TO THE president during key episodes under investigation and their decade-long professional relationship. 4HE kRST OF SIX 4RUMP AIDES CHARGED in the Trump-Russia investigation to TESTIFY PUBLICLY ABOUT CRIMES COMmitted during the 2016 campaign and in the months that followed, #OHEN ALSO DELIVERED BITING PERSONAL commentary on a president he said NEVER EXPECTED TO WIN IN THE kRST PLACE “He never expected to win the primary. He never expected to win THE GENERAL ELECTION u #OHEN SAID “The campaign — for him — was ALWAYS A MARKETING OPPORTUNITY u He recounted how Trump made him threaten schools he attended to not release his grades and scholastic assessment test scores and denigratED BLACKS AS gTOO STUPIDu TO VOTE FOR HIM (E SAID 4RUMP ONCE CONkDED TO HIM THAT DESPITE HIS PUBLIC EXPLAnation of a medical deferment from THE 6IETNAM 7AR BECAUSE OF BONE spurs, he never had any intention OF kGHTING THERE g) kND IT IRONIC 0RESIDENT

4RUMP THAT YOU ARE IN 6IETNAM RIGHT NOW u #OHEN SAID #OHEN GAVE LAWMAKERS HIS kRST PERson account of how he arranged to BUY THE SILENCE OF A PORN ACTRESS AND A 0LAYBOY model who said they had sex WITH 4RUMP (E DESCRIBED A &EBRUARY CONVERSATION WITH 4RUMP IN THE Oval Office in which the president REASSURED HIM THAT REIMBURSEMENT checks sent through Federal Express WERE COMING BUT WOULD TAKE SOME TIME to get through the White House system. He said the President spoke to HIM A YEAR LATER TO DISCUSS THE PUBlic messaging around the transaction, and had even once put his wife, Melania, on the phone so that Cohen could lie to her. g,YING TO THE kRST LADY IS ONE OF MY BIGGEST REGRETS u #OHEN SAID g3HE is a kind, good person. I respect her GREATLY AND SHE DID NOT DESERVE THAT u In an allegation relating to MuelLER S PROBE #OHEN SAID HE OVERHEARD 4RUMP CONkDANT 2OGER 3TONE TELLING the candidate in the summer of 2016 THAT 7IKI,EAKS WOULD DUMP DAMAGING INFORMATION ABOUT #LINTON 4RUMP PUT 3TONE ON SPEAKERPHONE AS 3TONE RELAYED THAT HE HAD COMMUNICATED WITH 7IKI,EAKS FOUNDER Julian Assange and that “within a couPLE OF DAYS THERE WOULD BE A MASSIVE dump of emails that would damage (ILLARY #LINTON S CAMPAIGN u #OHEN SAID $AMAGING EMAILS 53 OFkCIALS SAY WERE HACKED BY 2USSIA WERE LATER RELEASED BY 7IKI,EAKS 4RUMP RESPONDED BY SAYING gWOULDN T THAT BE GREAT u #OHEN SAID 3TONE DISPUTED THAT ACCOUNT Wednesday, and Barry Pollack, a LAWYER FOR !SSANGE SAID 3TONE AND Assange did not have the telephone CALL THAT #OHEN DESCRIBED Cohen’s claims that Trump had advance knowledge of the emails contradict the president’s assertions that he was in the dark, and it is not clear HOW LEGALLY PROBLEMATIC THAT COULD BE FOR 4RUMP ANYWAY -UELLER HAS not suggested that mere awareness of 7IKI,EAKS PLANS AS 3TONE IS PURPORTED TO HAVE HAD IS BY ITSELF A CRIME AP

France tackles antiSemitism

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UN: Israel committed crimes vs humanity GENEVA: There was evidence that Israel committed crimes against humanity in responding to 2018 protests in Gaza, as snipers targeted people CLEARLY IDENTIkABLE AS CHILDREN HEALTH WORKERS AND JOURNALISTS A 5NITED .ATIONS 5. PROBE SAID 4HURSDAY “Israeli soldiers committed violations of international human rights AND HUMANITARIAN LAW 3OME OF THOSE VIOLATIONS MAY CONSTITUTE WAR CRIMES OR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY u THE CHAIR OF THE 5. )NDEPENDENT Commission of Inquiry on the protests in the Occupied Palestinian 4ERRITORY 3ANTIAGO #ANTON SAID IN A STATEMENT 4HE INQUIRY SET UP BY THE 5. (UMAN 2IGHTS #OUNCIL INVESTIGATED POSSIBLE VIOLATIONS FROM THE START OF THE PROTESTS ON -ARCH THROUGH TO $ECEMBER g-ORE THAN UNARMED DEMONSTRATORS WERE SHOT BY MILITARY SNIPERS WEEK AFTER WEEK AT THE PROTEST SITES u IT SAID g4HE #OMMISSION FOUND REASONABLE GROUNDS TO BELIEVE THAT )SRAELI snipers shot at journalists, health workers, children and persons with DISABILITIES KNOWING THEY WERE CLEARLY RECOGNISABLE AS SUCH u IT SAID

4HE INVESTIGATORS SPECIkED THAT THERE WERE REASONABLE GROUNDS TO BElieve that Israeli troops killed and injured Palestinians “who were neither DIRECTLY PARTICIPATING IN HOSTILITIES NOR POSING AN IMMINENT THREAT u 4HE 5. TEAM ALSO DISMISSED CLAIMS BY )SRAEL THAT THE PROTESTS WERE aimed to conceal acts of terrorism. “The demonstrations were civilian in nature, with clearly stated poLITICAL AIMS u THE STATEMENT SAID “Despite some acts of significant violence, the Commission FOUND THAT THE DEMONSTRATIONS DID NOT CONSTITUTE COMBAT OR MILITARY CAMPAIGNS u The commission said it conducted 325 interviews with victims, witnesses and other sources, while reviewing more than 8,000 documents. Investigators looked at drone footage and other audiovisual material, the commission said. g4HE )SRAELI AUTHORITIES DID NOT RESPOND TO REPEATED REQUESTS BY THE Commission for information and access to Israel and to the Occupied 0ALESTINIAN 4ERRITORY u THE REPORT SAID AFP

Australia suffers hottest summer on record SYDNEY: Australia suffered its hottest SUMMER ON RECORD FROM $ECEMBER THROUGH &EBRUARY AND FORECASTS SHOW the southern autumn would continue TO BE DRIER AND WARMER THAN AVERAGE the government said Thursday. g!FTER A RECORD HOT $ECEMBER AND January, it won’t come as a surprise

THAT THIS SUMMER WILL BE OUR WARMEST ON RECORD u SAID !NDREW 7ATKINS manager of long-range forecasting at the Bureau of Meteorology. !LTHOUGH THE kNAL kGURES WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE UNTIL &RIDAY THE BUREAU said it was already clear the average maximum and mean temperature for

the three months of summer would FOR THE FIRST TIME BE MORE THAN degrees Celsius higher (3.6 degrees &AHRENHEIT THAN LONG TERM AVERAGES 2AINFALL WAS ALSO BELOW NORMAL AND THE BUREAU SAID IT SAW NO LET up in a severe drought that had gripped vast areas of the country’s

agricultural heartland in the east and southeast for many months. g5NFORTUNATELY THE OUTLOOK isn’t giving a strong indication that we’ll see a return to average OR ABOVE AVERAGE RAINFALL IN MANY AREAS OVER THE AUTUMN PERIOD u Watkins said. AFP

PARIS: A surge in anti-Semitic violence and hate speech has prompted soul-searching for many in France, which has long wrestled with its history of discrimination and prejudice against Jews. “Anti-Semitism has very deep roots in French society,� Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said this month after a prominent writer was accosted in the street and warned that “France belongs to us.� The number of anti-Jewish offences reported to police rose to 541 last year from 311 in 2017, after falling for two years. Dozens of Jewish cemeteries have been desecrated and swastikas have been found scrawled on the doors of people’s homes. One elderly Holocaust survivor was even murdered in a grisly attack thought to be motivated in part by anti-Semitism. France, home to Europe’s biggest Jewish community, hopes that curbing incendiary hate speech online and an increased focus on anti-racism education will help cut down on the vandalism and threats. But the problem goes back centuries in a country with a long history of anti-Semitism, at times endorsed by the state. In the 13th Century in largely Catholic Medieval France, Louis 9th issued a decree forcing Jews to wear the “rouelle,� a piece of yellow cloth hung on their coats to mark them as outsiders. Sovereign authorised attacks on the Jewish faith became more prominent under Philip 4th who, in 1306, seized the property of Jews and expelled them from the country unless they converted. Almost 90 years later Charles 6th announced a ban on all Jews living in his kingdom. The constant harassment and scapegoating of the Jewish population was about money, according to historian Marie-Anne Matard-Bonucci. AFP

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DVISING rice farmers to shift to planting high-value crops is a not a wise move amid the liberalization of rice imports, according to a local agronomist. Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno recently said putting pressure on the country’s agriculture sector could make local farmers more competitive, claiming that there could be a more sustainable growth trajectory in the sector if farmers would abandon rice cultivating and shift to growing

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high-value crops. University of the Philippines Los BaĂąos Agriculture Economist Teodoro Mendoza, however, said that while Diokno’s proposal had a “good intentionâ€? to help farmers in the face of cheaper imported rice, shifting to high-value crops “will not be helpful to majorityâ€? of Filipino farmers.

“Only those who are near the road with farms not severely lOODED DURING THE RAINY SEASON and near the market could easily diversify. Why rice is grown in many areas and rice became our staple food is because of the waterlogged/high rainfall situation in the Philippines,� he explained. High-value crops have higher market values than traditional grains and export crops. Some of these include abaca, banana, cacao, calamansi, cassava, coconut, coffee, corn, mango, palm oil, onion, pineapple, rice, rubber, seaweeds, sugar and

temperate vegetables. Citing data, Mendoza said 9 out of 10 farmers grow rice in the Philippines. He noted the expected decrease in the retail prices of rice from liberalized imports would not discourage farmers to exert more efforts to increase palay (unmilled rice) yield, fearing this might lead to reduced local production of the staple. This eventually will make the country dependent on imported rice. Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel PiĂąol earlier said the Philippines could not solely rely on imported rice shipped from neighboring

countries like Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia, whose farmers also face challenges from climate change that can affect world rice supply. At current production level, the Philippines still needs to import about 600,000 to 800,000 metric tons (MT) of rice to satisfy domesTIC CONSUMPTION AS SELF SUFkCIENCY rate was placed at 93 percent. Rice production, Mendoza pointed out, was a “typical human endeavor� because “it is done not purely on technical/ scientific considerations.� “Rice Farming is a typical enterprise or business. Perception of high

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Common service facilities and the export market One good way government can assist smallholders and organized farmers is providing them with common service facilities (CSFs) for value-adding or post-harvest activities like drying or milling grains. CSFs can also be PROVIDED FOR PACKAGING kNISHED PRODucts, allowing cooperatives or farmbased small and medium enterprises to export their products. Besides the Department of Agriculture, the other agencies that can push for the provision of common facilities include the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Science and Technology, which surely have mature technologies for food processing and packaging. Local government units can provide the lands and buildings to host the CSFs. For the export market, I believe the Philippines has untapped potential to ship abroad more agricultural products other than coconut (mostly in oil form) and bananas, both of which rake in at least $1 billion

WAYS OF THE OASIS DR. WILLIAM DAR annually. According to the United Nations Trademap, Thailand has 13 types of farm exports earning $1 billion yearly, Vietnam has seven, and )NDONESIA HAS kVE The major agricultural exports of our three Southeast Asian neighbors are not even new or can be produced right here, like palm oil, natural rubber, dried cassava and shrimp preparations, among others. Unless our agriculture sector becomes market-oriented, farmERS AND kSHERS CAN ALSO END UP PROducing commodities at high prices and, in rare occasions, in excess of what the domestic market needs, leading to low market prices to the detriment of producers.

Benefits of organizing farmers One of the benefits of organizING FARMERS AND kSHERS INTO COOPERAtives or small and medium enterprises is they become a more formal part of the economy, much like corporations registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. From what I have witnessed, most smallholder farmers are still fragmented or disorganized, making it harder for government to include them in program and projects. Thus, many of them end up part of the informal ECONOMY WHERE gSURVIVAL OF THE kTtest� is the norm. If we sum up the discussion in this column, it also boils down to making agripreneurship take root in the country, as agriculture should be treated as an industry and not just an activity to produce food for the country. And with that, the reinvention of the farmING AND kSHERIES SECTORS CAN HAPPEN Of course, that will also need policy and structural reforms. As for the agri-industrialization strategy, it must also tap the potential of import substitution. Unfortunately, import substitution has not yet been pursued by the country’s agricultural sector since we still import a lot of processed food or raw products like oranges, which countries like Jordan and Israel produce in abundance for the world market. And both countries host deserts! Among the commodities that we can produce, but still import in large quantities, include coffee, cacao, palm oil, black pepper and tamarind. Yes, we import tamarind products from countries like Thailand when decades ago, almost all sari-sari stores offered locally-made tamarind products. Locally-sourced paminta or black pepper was also found in abundance in public markets decades back. Today, most of the black pepper we buy are imported from countries like Thailand and Vietnam. In the second installment of this column-series, I will discuss the “crosscutting strategies� to make agriculture competitive and make us stop buying tamarind and paminta products abroad. The crosscutting strategies could be the basis for programs and projects, and policies to truly make the country’s agriculture sector globally competitive.

or low return affects production as money, time, efforts and dedication are involved,� he added. !S A RESULT OF THE TARIFkCATION OF rice imports in place of quantitative restrictions as provided by Republic !CT 2! OR THE g2ICE 4ARIFkCAtion Law,� the government expects to generate P10 billion annually that will be used to make the country’s rice industry competitive. Under the Act, P5 billion would be spent for farm mechanization, P3 billion for propagating high-yielding seeds, P1 billion for training farmers, and P1 billion for credit support.

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Time for collective action and crosscutting strategies (First of two parts) HE signing into law of the Rice 4ARIFkCATION "ILL HAS GENERATED A SIGNIkCANT DEGREE OF PESSIMISM among stakeholders in the rice industry and the bureaucracy. It is as if the fate of the country’s agriculture sector rests only on the rice industry. Well, that should not be the case, although I would say that the rice industry going into downturn would severely dent the output of the country’s farming industry. The future of the country’s agriculture sectors can rest more on the vast untapped potential presented by agri-industrialization. And if we take collective action, we can make the COUNTRY S FARMING AND kSHERY INDUStries globally competitive. Collective action should also start at the grassroots, or from farmING AND kSHING COMMUNITIES WITH THE aim of organizing them sustainably into viable blocks or units of production to achieve higher efficiencies in their operations and, ultimately, BETTER PROkTS In the bureaucracy, collective acTION SHOULD kRST BE GUIDED BY GOOD governance, otherwise precious government resources and efforts by the brightest minds in public service would go to waste. Within the agri-industrial industry, linkages between organized farmers and major players in the food industry must be established, allowing smallholders to have a steady market for their raw produce. The “big brothersmall brother� arrangement between MAJOR AGRIBUSINESS kRMS AND ORGAnized smallholders in the agriculture sector can also facilitate the transfer of technologies to the latter. However, government must still take the lead in technology generation and innovaTION THROUGH A UNIkED AGRICULTURAL research and development agenda, with the private sector or entities pitching in terms of funding, and assisting in research and development and technology transfer. Besides the private sector, governMENT AND FARMERS AND kSHERS NONGOVernment organizations can be part of the collective action to take the country’s agriculture sector to the next level.

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Foundation pushes nipa palm processing THE Foundation for Rural Enterprise and Ecology Development of Mindanao Inc. (Freedom) has set a series of trainings in select parts of the country to promote nipa palm-based processing. Freedom already held a training in Vinzons, Camarines Norte, on Tuesday, with the Department of Trade and Industry-Camarines Norte Provincial /FkCE THROUGH THE .EGOSYO #ENTER 4HE procedure to make nipa syrup and sugar highlighted the training at Vinzons. The next training sessions are scheduled in Quezon province, Sorogon, Bohol and Occidental Mindoro. “The ongoing project aimed to establish nipa-based products enterprises providing employment, generating income, and contributing to the local economy,� said Antonio Peralta, executive director of Freedom. The Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) is backing the promotion of nipa palm-based processing under its the national technology

commercialization program titled, “Strengthening Nipa Sugar Processing and Enterprises in Selected Coastal Communities.� It was in 2014, when Freedom proposed a project to BAR seeking to improve nipa palm sugar products in Lanuza, Surigao Del Sur; contribute to mangrove rehabilitation and protection; and strengthen the people’s organizations in the community. In 2017, the upscaling of nipa palm sugar processing took off in the provinces of Surigao del Sur, Agusan del Norte and Oriental Mindoro. Commonly used in the Philippines as ROOkNG MATERIAL FOR bahay kubo (nipa hut) or made into sukang paombong (vinegar) or laksoy (wine), nipa palm (Nypa fruticans) can be processed into a natural sweetener. It has lower glycemic index and looks almost like coco sap sugar in appearance. Currently, nipa palm sugar is being marketed in selected outlets in Davao City and in other urban areas in Mindanao. THE TIMES

FILIPINO companies can pursue trade certifications for coconut products to raise export earnings, especially from organic food whose demand is seen to grow by 30 to 40 percent in five years from nations pursuing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations (UN). Organic food products continue to grow with $3.5 billion in new sales in 2017 from the previous year. It now accounts for more than 5 percent of total food sales in the United States. â€?Consumption of organic food in the US grew by 6.4 percent. That’s 30 to 40-percent increase in consumption in five years. That’s not too far from now. And imagine the increase in demand in terms of volume. And somebody has to supply,â€? said Sanjaya Pathirage, Control Union regional manager. The Organic Trade Association reported that even sales of non-organic food products increased by 7.4 percent in 2017. Agreement on SDGs signed by the UN’s 193 member-states is one of the major factors that will drive future market growth. Giant companies like Procter & Gamble, BASF, and Cargill have already collaborated on the production of sustainable certified coconut oil in the Philippines and Indonesia. Under a German government-initiated program, companies are involving more than 10,000 farmers into their entire supply chain to help uplift farmers’ lives. “They implement actions the world will agree on. It’s not just 193 (UN) member-states, but the private sector committed to it,â€? said Pathirage. For one, Unilever already integrated 15 SDGs into their entire overall strategic plan. It will bring health benefits to more than one billion people, reducing its products’ adverse environmental impact while tapping the talent of 160,000 people. “Global warming is real, glaciers are melting — Europe is hitting 40 degrees. People are complaining. These changes are interesting. It will change the way we do business,â€? he said. Control Union, a global network of independent service companies, noted trade certifications will create important income from value added for coconut products. “If you can meet requirements of your customers, you may also add value to your product, A certification program as ISO 9001 is used to implement quality system,â€? said Pathirage. “Nobody will pay you a high price because you have ISO 9001. But having a quality management system will enable you to optimize capacity to improve efficiency,â€? he added. THE TIMES

‘Edible landscaping’ gains ground THE University of the Philippines Los BaĂąos (UPLB) is pushing the concept of edible landscaping (EL) to also help foster the development of agritourism sites. The state university in January and February held a series of trainings on EL, as requested by the Department of 4OURISM #ORDILLERA OFkCE $EPARTMENT OF Agriculture (DOT)-Zamboanga Peninsula 2EGION /FkCE !URORA 3TATE #OLLEGE of Agriculture and Technology, and The Valley Cathedral Christian Church based in Capangdan, Claver, Surigao del Norte. The UPLB EL team is Bureau of Agricultural Research’s active partner in its initiatives on EL since 2010. The EL team was able to provide assistance to communities through implementing and establishing their own edible landscape gardens in their backyards. EL is a new approach that merges science and creativity together to form a revolutionary crop production technology. It gives a twist to the conventional crop production as the basic tenets of landscape designing become its guiding principle. “Thus, increasing promotion and exposure of EL technology in the local, as

Q Participants of the edible landscaping training conducted by the University of the Philippines Los Baùos in the Cordillera region. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO well as in the international scene, has economic value for agritourism. It also OFFERS POTENTIAL COMMERCIAL PROkTABILITY and livelihood opportunity. These help to empower the farming communities as well as its private partners that are striving to produce enough and affordable food for all Filipinos,� said Jovita Ganongan, OFkCER IN CHARGE AND CHIEF TOURISM OPERA-

TIONS OFkCER $O4 #ORDILLERA The training covers EL concepts, principles, element and processes; implementation and maintenance; and hands-on activities, among others. Compared with conventional landscaping, EL utilizes vegetables, fruits, medicinal plants and herbs as major planting materials. CONRAD CARIĂ‘O

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Rodolfo C. Balmater PRESIDENT DIRECTOR, PT BALMATER CONSULTING COMPANY

“NUMERO UNO� Lack of family funds pushed the young Balmater to enter accountancy instead of engineering. But since he was good in numbers, the switch didn’t present a problem.

Counting opportunities in a land of plenty A PIONEER OF THE “FILIPINO WAVE� TO INDONESIA LOOKS BACK

ADDED BLESSING Balmater’s children were very young– just three and five–when they arrived in Jakarta. A third was born to the businessman and his wife Letty in their adopted land.

NEW HORIZONS Balmater retired from SGV (SGV & Co Philippines/Ernst & Young) in 2005, setting up his own consultancy. He is also Vice-Chair of Philippine Business Council, Indonesia.

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Good SGV soldier Actually, the Cabanatuan-born “Rudy,� as everyone calls him, didn’t have much room to maneuver then. He recalls: “I was with SGV [Founded by the late, iconic industry titan

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Washington Sycip, it is the country’s largest professional services firm, specializing in assurance, tax transaction and advisory services. It became a member of Ernst&Young in 2002.], and Managing Partner Bobby Ongpin landed consultancy projects in Indonesia with the Ministry of Agriculture. I was told to go and help out a team of experts to establish an AIM-type (Asian Institute of Management) school for sugar planters in Yogyakarta. Like a good soldier, I did.� Balmater has always proven a cheerful follower. He first wanted to be an engineer, but since family funds were short, he gave in readily to his father’s suggestion to enter Accounting. “I was good in numbers anyway so there was no problem.� He graduated

from Araullo University (now PHINMA Araullo University), Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija in 1969 with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Commerce, majoring in Accountancy with honors. He applied and was accepted at SGV, fulfilling his office tasks for a salary of 200 pesos, which prompted him to handle night classes in Accounting and Auditing at the Philippine College of Commerce [now Polytechnic University of the Philippines]. While the streets outside the campus rang with the raucous din of anti-Martial Law rallies and strident speeches of youth activists, Balmater did his best to drum into his students the basics of balancing the books and producing sound financial state-

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Counting opportunities in a land of plenty ments. One of his charges was Thelma Victorio, who, despite showing up late several times for classes and countless admonitions from him, proved to be one of the region’s savviest business brains in later years. “We ended up meeting in Indonesia. Magaling si Thelma [Thelma was a whiz.],” her former lecturer chuckles. “She was connected with Indonesia’s biggest companies and travelled to Europe, bringing back big funding.” Victorio left the corporate world some years back, parlaying her money knack into an enterprise whose product is as soft as the number she once crunched were hard. With partner Freddy C. Mercado, Jr. she entered the fashion industry with Barong Batik, fusing the traditional Filipino jusi fabric with popular batik motifs so associated with Indonesia.

ADVICE FROM AN ADVISER After over 45 years of dealing with a culture not his own, Rudy C. Balmater, you could safely say, is an an expert in the art of diplomacy and tact. Both, an outsider will need in plenty, navigating the Indonesian business setting. Q Never be aggressive or abrasive in your business approach. Take the respectful approach.

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Pinoy diaspora The country, somehow, beckoned to Balmater even then. He was invited to teach Accountancy and Auditing in some institutions in Jakarta, which he did from 1975 to 1976. To improve himself, he enrolled in AIM for a Master of Management, a scholar of SGV. Moving to Indonesia in 1979 was a way of working out his debt to the firm. “Why not do it overseas, I thought,” he says. Thanks to Bobby Ongpin’s vision and foresight, Filipino financial expertise became a byword in the archipelago, starting in the early 1980s. During this period, the Indonesian government was beginning to open the capital markets and deregulate its banking sector, attracting a flood of foreign investments. There was need of professionals to iron out legal and accounting issues of companies, positions that Filipino executives–many products of U.S. Ivy League universities–were equipped to fill. And Ongpin, once President Marcos’ Minister of Trade and Indus-

outright commands, work better in convincing local partners to accept your solution to a problem.

Q Building up trust with your business counterparts must start from Day 1. This will not happen overnight and may take a long time. But once this occurs, things may move quicker than expected.

Q Always show that you are interested in growing the business or adding value to it.

My tactic is to give two or three options with their implications. I never impose. I am never abrasive. It’s up to my Indonesian counterpart to decide try, saw a ripening opportunity to expand SGV’s business in Asean. Says Balmater: “Bobby is a strategic thinker, who has vision. He knows how to connect the dots to create the Big Picture. He is always thinking about how to grow the revenue model. He wanted to grow the practice by extending the consultancy business, which is what he did by landing projects with government agencies in Indonesia. “From him, I learned the value of growing the practice.” Following SGV example, others offered their services, and that “first wave” into Indonesia saw Filipinos join the managerial ranks of fields such as mining, coal, advertising, public relations and now, more than ever, education. Filipinos are to be found in many top international schools in Jakarta, their facility with English and their natural affinity

with youngsters make them attractive hires. Romy Herlembang, who directs the marketing communications activities of the posh Hotel Mulia Senayan in Jakarta, told Boardroom Watch over lunch in October last year that she occasionally finds her son sounding like a Filipino when he pronounces some English words. She says, laughing: “He once said: ‘I need blaaaack shoes, Mommy.’ We, Indonesians, would say: ‘blek shoes, Mommy.’’’

Learning experience Through the years, Balmater grew in responsibility in SGV’s Indonesia operations. Assigned to Surabaya– one of the country’s most important commercial hubs–he was responsible for acquiring clients, a job that required him to network and travel to emerging areas like Palu, Balikpapan and Kalimantan. This episode pro-

vided a precious learning experience that was to help him tremendously when he had to go on his own. In 2005, after 35 years with SGVAndersen-Ernst&Young, Balmater became his own boss in his eponymous PT Balmater Consultancy Company, offering services in Family and Corporate Governance. His current CV reads: Advisory Facilitator, Indonesian Institute of Corporate Governance; Trainer, IFC Governance Team; Speaker, Family Business Governance; and Member, Singapore Institute of Directors, Corporate Governance. Besides being Vice Chair of the Philippine Busness Council in Indonesia, he is also District Governor, Rotary International Indonesia and Auditor, Yayasan Rotary Indonesia. Balmater and his wife Letty, whom he asked to join him early on in his secondment to Jakarta, have raised three children, two sons and

a daughter, in an expatriate atmosphere, which included nice perks such as having the rent, transport and schooling handled by the company. Eldest son Joey, 44, has two kids and resides in Ontario; Donna Marie, 41 has three kids and lives in California, while Rudy, Jr, 27, who was born in Jakarta, is an investment banker in Singapore. “I was able to save, thanks to my expat status,” Balmater says, grateful for the chance to improve his life status and afford his brood the best education possible as well as a cosmopolitan upbringing.

Respectful resident Despite his many years in Indonesia, Balmater remains respectful of his hosts’ culture and manner of doing things. “Basically, I always see myself as an adviser.” That means dispensing advice to clients in measured tones, without

any hint of aggression as is common in Western scenarios. “Filipinos, being Western oriented,” he says, “are sometimes prone to that. We tend to be too forceful. “It doesn’t work that way in Indonesia. People here are not as forthcoming. Decision making is a long process, and sometimes comes when you least expect it. Then, you have to scramble to get the project going. That’s because building up trust with your local partner also takes a long time, but once that happens, then things can move quickly. “My tactic is to usually give two or three options with their implications or impact. I never impose. I am never abrasive. After all, it is really up to my Indonesian counterpart to decide at the end of the day.” Balmater further adds: “Indonesians tend to be very focused, and some of them are not able to see the big picture, which is what Filipinos are good at.” To speed up discussions, he often creates the framework of the challenge at hand, which acts as a guide for future considerations. “My aim is always to help my clients grow the business. This was how I was trained at SGV,” he says. “That is always my blueprint.” This year marks the 70th Anniversary of diplomatic ties between the Philippines and Indonesia. Certainly, the best gifts we have given our brothers and sisters in this teeming, rambunctious archipelago are our Filipino talents. Rudy Balmater is, without doubt, one of them.

Rudy and Letty Balmater (leftmost) raised three children, Joey, 44, Donna Marie, 41 and Rudy, Jr. 27 in an expat environment that exposed them to the best international education and a rich culture. The couple’s five grandchildren join their elders in this group shot; Balmater enjoys a day on the greens at Jakarta’s Pantai Indah Kapuk Photos courtesy of R. C. Balmater

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THE FIRST COFFEE Nespresso Paying homage to the historical roots of coffee houses are Nespresso’s newest limited edition variants. Cafe Istanbul, made of Arabian Mocha coffee from Yemen, has strongly roasted and black pepper spicy notes. Caffe Venezia, an Ethiopian coffee mixed with Indian Arabica, possesses wild and floral notes. These coffees’ packaging, illustrated by artist Young Rascal, channels the Old World vibe, transporting modern day Nespresso drinkers to the 1500s and 1700s.

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Nespresso limited edition variants will be available for a limited time only at the Nespresso Boutique at R1 Level Power Plant Mall and Rockwell Makati. Orders can be made at Nespresso Customer Care Hotline (+63 2 477 7870) and online at nespresso.ph.

DELECTABLE DISHES Bench Cafe

This retail brand celebrates all things Filipino with the opening of its restaurant’s second branch in Greenbelt 3. In a partnership between multi-brand food group FOODEE Global Concepts and Ben Chan’s Suyen Corporation, Bench Cafe brings to the table traditions from all over the country, coming up with flavors that are uniquely Filipino and distinctively Bench. The dishes are casual yet sophisticated, simple yet substantial and local yet global. The prices won’t hurt one’s wallet either. Promoting their campaign #LiveLifeWithFlavor, Bench Cafe proudly offers Filipino dishes reinvented with a global twist, all the while committing itself to using only high-quality local ingredients. The place is great for office lunches, family bonding meals and just about any occasion shared with friends and loved ones. The restaurant’s popularity rests on its unique dining concept, which delivers a sensory experience through its inviting interiors and mouth-watering menu. Must-tries include Sisig Lettuce Cups with Calamansi Foam, Crispy Lumpia Cones with Tinapa Mousse and Salsa, Tsoknut Ice Cream Sandwich (toasted ensaymada with tsoknut ice cream) and Flan B (leche flan with macapuno). Bench Cafe also features Bench/To, a variety of dishes inspired by the bento meals in Japan reimagined Pinoy style. Combos include B6, consisting of dancing fish, caldereta, crispy dilis and Bench salsa; B8, made up of lechon kawali, laing, atsara and Bench salsa; and B12, with pork BBQ, gising-gising, green mango salad and Bench salsa. All these are served with rice.

VINTAGE KICKS Dr. Martens This footwear brand stays strong with its Original Icon collection, which features the Doc’s signature styles. The 1460 boot features smooth leather, grooved sides, heel-loop, yellow stitching and air-cushioned sole while the 1461 is three-eyed and possesses a Goodyear welt. The 3989 brogue combines wingtip style and Air Wair Bouncing Soles, which is a type of oil and fat resistant air-cushioned sole with good abrasion and slip resistance. The 2976 Chelsea boot gives the wearer a sure fit and easy-on-easy-off elastic ankle gusset. Dr. Martens is located at Two Parkade BGC, Trinoma, SM Mall of Asia, Megamall and Marquee Mall among others.

Bench Cafe is located at the second floor of newly opened Bench flagship store at 9th Ave., cor. Lane O, Bonifacio High Street, BGC and on the second floor of Greenbelt 3. To learn more, follow Bench Cafe on Facebook and @benchcafeph on Instagram.

JEANS FOR EVERY SCENE Uniqlo Committed to perfecting jeans as a wardrobe must-have, Uniqlo offers a selection of jeans for this summer. The women’s collection features Ultra Stretch jeans, perfect for those who prefer middle rise and tapered silhouettes. Those whose style is more high rise and straight cut, the High Rise Cigarette jeans and High Rise Straight jeans would be ideal. Those who value comfort will love the EZY jeans: soft as sweats, tapered silhouettes, waist stretch and high rise. Uniqlo also offers a collection for men with features similar to the women’s collection. For more information, visit uniqlo.com. ph and follow them on Facebook at facebook. com/uniqlo.ph, on Twitter at twitter.com/ uniqloph and on Instagram @uniqlophofficial.

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Angelo Olondriz PRESIDENT, HEADSAIL, INC.

This nautical expert believes in developing the Philippines’ potential as a leisure sailing hub and a pastime for all sectors, not just the affluent. He sees the economy benefiting once government and private sector join to create the infrastructure to help the industry grow

Riding the pleasure wave BY LEAH C. SALTERIO HE GREW UP WITH BOATS IN Tali Beach, Batangas. At 22, he became a certified dive master. No wonder, Angelo Olondriz’s love affair with the high seas endures. “Water is really where I’ve been,” says Angelo, President of Headsail, Inc. “I don’t know much of anything else.” Headsail, Inc. is the company behind Sea-Ex Philippine Boat Show and Nautical Lifestyle Expo, tagged as the biggest maritime expo in the country. The annual event brings together brands involved in the manufacture and distribution of yachts, sailboats, boating accessories, water sports equipment, summer apparel and even resort get-aways. This will be the 11th year that Angelo’s company will organize the activity. “Expos like Sea-Ex attracts more of the industry players,” notes Angelo. “You can’t also have this type of maritime tourism industry without the backbone, which is the industry offering the products and support.” Angelo keeps a positive and inclusive vision for the Philippine boating industry. He refuses to identify it as only a pastime for the affluent. In fact, he can’t wait for the day to come when average Filipinos can enjoy boats and cruise their archipelago. “A country with 7,100 islands, aside from being a pleasure industry, a boat is actually a necessity,” Angelo points out. “We need to build this type of industry. We have the islands and we have the resorts. Our boats can be used for commercial use.” He remains optimistic that the

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We have what cruisers want–islands, English-speaking people. We just have to make the country more accessible business-wise. That sells, not just beautiful destinations

ABOUT ME FIRST PAYING JOB That was 22 years ago when I became a dive master in Batangas. I was just fresh out of college.

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Maritime tourism is practised in many countries, including landlocked Switzerland, because of its rich returns (this photo), the annual Sea-Ex Philippine Boat Show and Nautical Lifestyle Expo

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Philippine boating industry will one day become a major contributor to economic growth. In fact, Angelo is working with local governments to get the leisure boating industry legitimized and increase boat registrations. “Just as in other countries, this will pave the way for significant growth in the years to come,” he says. “We’re strengthening that institution at the same time it’s all of us getting together and becoming one voice, lobbying for our industry. It’s an industry that will benefit everybody. “My wife and I went to Europe a few years ago. We couldn’t afford to buy a yacht, but we were able to rent a speedboat and went around Italy. We still enjoyed it. That is a very mature and sound industry—people who can’t afford a boat, can rent one and still have fun. That’s what we’re trying to say.” Angelo believes the boating industry has the potential to generate handsome revenues. In fact, if properly developed, it can serve as a catalyst for the advancement of other

Playing with my kids. My eldest is six and she is in grade school. She is named “Willow.” I liked that name since I was small. Mikel is 11 months old.

SPECIAL SKILLS I don’t know. I’m not sure!

TIME YOU SPEND ON SOCIAL MEDIA Not much. I do only Instagram, which I like because I’m a frustrated amateur photographer

LIFE FACT I try to be as healthy as I can, but I fail regularly. I love Filipino food. My wife is Ilongga and she cooks too well. I don’t gain weight though. Carrying the baby is good exercise–he’s mabigat (heavy).

industries, including local and international tourism, recreational activities and even the development of port facilities. “The location of the Philippines near the equator is an asset,” Angelo maintains. “At some part of the year, we have a beautiful boating somewhere in the Philippines. “If you look at our neighbors, the activity of pleasure boats in Hong Kong and Taiwan, for example, is dependent on four seasons. We are not. We have a rainy season and a dry season. When they have their winter, why can’t we attract them to come and enjoy their boats in our country?” He firmly believes it’s about opening up the industry and for the government to start announcing that we welcome this type of business. “If you get their support and get them to focus on it, then maybe the investors will feel a little more confident to invest in marinas and this type of infrastructure. Once you have the natural infrastructure in place, we just need the structures like marinas. Once you build those, they’ll come anyway.” The needed big push, Angelo explains, is to get government to come in and promote specific legislation and certain administrative rules to create a more conducive commercial environment. “Once we do that, boating enthusiasts will come. We have everything they want to see. We have the islands, the English-speaking people. We just have to make the country more accessible business-wise. That should be an important part of what we are selling, not just boats in beautiful destinations.” Angelo aims to help strengthen the foothold of the local boating industry. “If you have a strong industry, it becomes more accessible to more players,” he reasons. “There are more things to offer. There are boats for everybody. “At the right price, there are companies that will charter their boats. You can’t afford a yacht? You can charter one for a holiday. Those are options we don’t have at the moment.” In the years to come, Angelo envisions more people traversing the country in boats. “It’s already happening. Our rules though have to be changed. In any country, you’ll get disappointed trying to get government support, but you have to keep on going. Not everybody understands certain things. But you keep on plugging away. “The country has to promote it as well. We’ve been trying to go on the road with a conference where we invite LGUs [local government units] to come and listen. We have speakers who try and explain how little things they can do in their areas can attract and secure this type of tourism and keep them safe.” The Philippine boating industry, Angelo notes, is slowly getting there. “Maritime tourism is a tried and tested formula all over the world. It works in every country in the world, even in places like Switzerland, which is landlocked. “For our Asean neighbours–Vietnam, Singapore and even Burma [Myanmar]–you will see all the steps their governments are doing. They do all moves to try and attract this type of tourism because they realize its potential. It’s their governments who are taking control of doing it. There are many rules that have to be changed. We have to work hand in hand with the government to get somewhere. Slowly but surely.”

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MID the criticisms news anchor Karen Davila is receiving for allegedly putting boxing champion Manny Pacquiao between a rock and a hard place with questions about the latter’s educational background, or lack thereof, two responses from the Pacman stood out in his appearance in the ANC program “Headstart.� Pacquiao agreed that senators and presidents should have college degrees. When told by Davila that he might not qualify for the said posts if a college degree would be required, Pacquiao disclosed that he is working on getting one. Pacquiaoarguably understands the value of a good education. Pacquiao was a high school dropout who took up boxing as a ticket out of poverty. While he had bankrolled millions of dollars as a champion boxer, Pacquiao is still bent on getting a college degree. In February 2007, he passed the Accreditation and Equivalency Test for high school and subsequently enrolled in a business program at the Notre Dame of Dadiangas University in General Santos City. Pacquiao is still without a college degree, but he has apparently not given up on his dream of securing one. Pacquiao may have won a record eight division crowns, but he still wants to be part of a very exclusive group in pro boxing: champions with college degrees. Former world welterweight champion Carlos Palomino of Mexico is in THE RECORD BOOKS FOR BEING THE kRST degree holder to win a world boxing crown. He accomplished the feat in June 1976, when he stopped John Stracey in 12 rounds to win the World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight title. Before becoming a champion, Palomino had earned a degree in Recreation Administration from Long Beach State. Palomino thus became THE kRST COLLEGE GRADUATE TO BECOME A world boxing champion. On January 21, 1977, Palomino defended the WBC title opposite !RMANDO -UNIZ 4HIS kGHT MARKED THE kRST TIME IN BOXING HISTORY WHERE two college graduates fought for the world title. Before challenging for the title, Muniz had graduated from Cal State Los Angeles, where he majored in Spanish and minored in Math. Los Angeles Times columnist Jim Murray APTLY DESCRIBED THE kGHT AS gBOXING S kNEST INTELLECTUAL HOUR u )N A PULSATING kGHT 0ALOMINO STOPPED -UNIZ in 15 rounds to retain the WBC title. Palomino heads a very scarce group in boxing. Dig this: The sport has produced many great heavyweight champions, but it was not until 1986 when a college graduate was crowned heavyweight king. American James “Bonecrusher� 3MITH BECAME THE kRST COLLEGE GRADUate to win the world heavyweight title when he knocked out Tim Witherspoon in December 1986 for the World Boxing Association (WBA) crown. Thirteen years before he became champion, Smith earned an associate’s degree in Business Administration from James Sprunt Community College. In 1975, Smith also earned a Business Administration bachelor’s degree from Shaw University. Oh, he told Jet magazine that he graduated “cum laude.� Smith was already 28 years old when he decided to enter pro boxing. To this day, Smith credits his educational background for helping him understand fight contracts and other intricate transactions in boxing. Palomino and Smith have become a source of inspiration for many boxers. Ukrainian brothers Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko, the most famous brothers to hold the heavyweight crown, were known intellectuals before they became champions. Vitali Klitschko retired from boxing in 2013 after giving up the WBC heavyweight crown and eventually became a member of the Ukrainian parliament. Vitali is on record for BEING THE kRST PRO BOXING CHAMPION with a doctorate degree (PhD in Sports Science), a milestone subsequently duplicated by his younger brother Wladimir. Both brothers speak at least four languages. Former world lightweight champ Juan “Baby Bull� Diaz owns a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science; Mexican legend Juan Manuel Marquez is an accounting graduate while our VERY OWN 'ERRY 0ENALOSA kNISHED "3 Criminology at the University of Cebu. Boxers may be known more for their brawns, but it is never too late to HIT THE BOOKS )N THE kNAL ANALYSIS THE pen remains mightier than the glove.

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OS ANGELES: Miami icon Dwyane Wade banked in a buzzer-beating three-pointer to lift the Heat to a 126125 victory over the reigning NBA champion Golden State Warriors on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila). Wade, who announced before the season that he would retire after this campaign, added another sublime moment to his career highlight reel as the Heat snapped a six-game home losing streak by salvaging a victory that appeared to have gotten away. Miami led by as many as 24 points and were ahead by eight going into the fourth quarter. Kevin Durant’s jump shot TIED IT AT WITH kVE MINutes remaining, and Durant’s three-pointer with 67 seconds left—plus a free throw after he was fouled on the play, gave the Warriors a 122-118 lead. Golden State were still up by four when Wade drained a three-pointer with 15 seconds left and after Durant made one of two free-throws to put the Warriors lead at two, Wade delivered from the top of the arc— HANGING ON WHEN HIS kRST ATTEMPT was blocked and draining a second effort for the victory. “I’ve been in this position so many times and so many times you don’t make the shot,� Wade, a threetime NBA champion, said. “And the ONE ) MAKE IS A ONE LEGGED lICK FROM GG

my chest. It’s crazy.� Warriors coach Steve Kerr called it an “unbelievable shot� from the 37-year-old. “I knew it was going in as soon as it left his hand,� Kerr said. “I GUESS IT S kTTING (IS LAST SEASON THIS KIND OF GAME‡FOR HIM TO kNish it the way he did, incredible.� Miami had taken control of the contest early, led by 27 points from Goran Dragic. Klay Thompson led the Warriors with 36 points and Kevin Durant added 29, but Kerr said the slow start was too much to overcome for the Warriors, who maintained a half-game lead over the Denver Nuggets atop the Western Conference.

Bucks edge Kings East leaders Milwaukee improved their league-best record to 47-14 as they downed the Kings 141140 in overtime in Sacramento. Eric Bledsoe starred, scoring kVE OF HIS POINTS IN OVERTIME and adding 13 assists and 12 rebounds for the Bucks. Malcolm Brogdon chipped g pp in 25

points—including a three-pointer and two free-throws in the waning seconds of overtime --—sixth straight victory. Elsewhere in the East, there was no respite for the Boston Celtics, whose 97-92 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers was their fourth straight defeat. Houston star James Harden endured a tough shooting night but still managed to crank out 30 points as the Rockets defeated the Hornets 118-113 in Charlotte. Charlotte guard Kemba Walker scored 35 points, but missed TWO THREE POINTERS IN THE kNAL minutes as the Hornets dropped their third straight. Harden, who saw his streak of consecutive 30-point games end at 32 on Monday, struggled from THE lOOR MAKING OF SHOTS including just one of 11 from three-point range. But Harden made nine of nine free throws, including four late foul shots that helped the Rockets pull through. In Los Angeles, LeBron James scored 33 points as the Lakers held on for a 125-119 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans. Brandon Ingram added 23 points for Los Angeles, who led by 12 early in the fourth quarter but saw the cushion trimmed to 118-117 with 1:38 remaining. James drained a three-pointer with 31 seconds left that stretched the lead to 123-117, following up after teammate Reggie Bullock forced a turnover byy Jrue J Holiday. y AFP

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Fajardo upbeat for FIBA World Cup

Q Calvin Abueva of Phoenix (No. 8) attempts a lay-up against Moala Tautuaa of Northport on Wednesday as Northport’s Garvo Lanete (No. 13) and Bradwyn Guinto (No. 30) look on during a Season 44 PBA Philippine Cup game at the Araneta Coliseum. PBA MEDIA BUREAU PHOTO

PHOENIX EYES SHARE OF LEAD VS ALASKA TONIGHT PHOENIX Pulse guns for a share of the top stop with current solo leader Rain or Shine when it clashes against Alaska today in Season 44 Philippine Basketball Association Philippine Cup at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City. After surviving Northport, 9896, on Wednesday, the No. 2 Fuel Masters seek their seventh victory after eight games, as they take on the injury-plagued Aces in the 7 p.m. second game. “We haven’t beat them (Alaska)

since I took over this job. Hopefully, we sustain our energy and do what we must,� said Phoenix coach Louie Alas, who drew 19 points and nine rebounds from Justin Chua in their win against Northport. Rain or Shine (7-1 win-loss record) and Phoenix are already ASSURED OF SLOTS IN THE QUARTERkNALS “We are matched with Alaska with the way we play. We’re just tired though heading to that game, but we have a chance. At the same time, we should be prepared against Alaska’s full court defense all the time.�

Alaska, at 2-1, is targeting its third consecutive victory and a firmer hold of the third spot. But injury sidelined some of its players among them Vic Manuel (back), G-Boy Babilonia (foot), Davon Potts (foot), Kevin Racal (back) and Jayvee Casio (ankle). “I hope we play at least as good as Northport tonight,� Alaska coach Alex Compton told The Manila Times after watching the game between Phoenix and Northport at the Araneta Coliseum. “We got a bunch of injuries.

So it’s a challenge and Phoenix is playing very well.� Meanwhile, Columbian Dyip eyes back-to-back wins when it faces Blackwater in the 4:30 P M kRST GAME Columbian Dyip, No. 7 with 3-4, escaped Meralco, 86-85, behind Rashawn McCarthy’s 30 points snapping a three-game losing run. They are hoping to ride the winning momentum against the Elite (1-6). “Another important game if we EXPECT TO MOVE ON TO THE QUARTERkNALS I think it’s a winnable game. We’re in a good position to move into the QUARTERkNALS SO ) LOOK FORWARD TO THE game on Friday. It’s not going to be an easy game,� said McCarthy. The Elite are on a four-game losing streak. JOSEF T. RAMOS

FIVE-time Philippine Basketball Association Most Valuable Player June Mar Fajardo believes it is not impossible for Team Pilipinas to score wins in the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) World Cup on August 31 to September 15 in China. “It will be a very tough competition because all the teams there are strong but it is not impossible to at least post a win there as long as we prepare very well,� Fajardo of San Miguel Beer told The Manila Times in Filipino on Thursday. “I will be ready.� Fajardo added that playing in the Asian qualifiers has improved his skills. Fajardo played for mere three minutes and 30 seconds in their 84-46 victory against host Qatar because of flu. The Cebuano big man contributed nine points and seven rebounds in the Philippines’ 93-75 win over Kazakhstan on Sunday. That win gained the Philippines entry to the World Cup along with host China, Australia, South Korea, New Zealand, Japan, Iran and Jordan. “This is very big for my career," said Fajardo. Meanwhile, Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas President Al Panlilio wants Team Pilipinas to improve its last World Cup finish. “Last World Cup, we won one game. It’s a group of four teams. If we win two games, that will get you to the next round. Our objective is to do better than the last World Cup which means if we can double the wins from the last World Cup, that gives us a chance to go to the next round,� Panlilio said in a news conference on Thursday at the Meralco office. The Philippines, under head coach Chot Reyes, beat Senegal in the 2014 World Cup in Spain. “I support coach Yeng. Who wouldn’t want to have a US team in the bracket. But I want to progress more in the tournament. I’d rather advance and show the world that Philippine basketball has improved, and because of that, we would continue to improve,� he said. JOSEF T. RAMOS

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LOILO CITY: Dumaguete City’s archery prodigy Naina Dominique Tagle won her seventh gold medal—the most so far by an individual athlete in the Batang Pinoy 2019 Visayas Qualifying Leg— after ruling the Olympic round on Thursday at the Western Visayas State University Field here. Tagle, 10, beat Cebu City’s Densil Shane Dinopol, 7-1, in the gold medal match of the Olympic round for a sweet sweep of all her seven events in the cub girls category. The fifth grader from Silliman University dominated the 20-meter, 30m, 40m and 50m events on Tuesday before prevailing in the FITA round and mixed event with Matt Charrid Bajado on Wednesday. “I feel very proud of myself and I feel very thankful that I have been blessed to win these many medals,� said the younger sister of national team standout Nicole Marie. Tagle, who is competing in the 13-14 years old bracket, is eyeing to join her sister in the national team. “As an archer, I want to be part of the Philippine team and travel out of the country with my sister to make my parents and coaches proud,� said the apprentice of Q Naina Dominique Tagle of Dumaguete City takes her aim during the Olympic round of the archery competitions of the Batang Pinoy 2019 Visayas Qualifying Leg on Thursday at the Western Visayas State University Field. PHOTO BY JEREMIAH SEVILLA

Batangas-EAC batters McDavid in PBA D-League BATANGAS-EAC easily dispatched McDavid in a wire-to-wire 79-57 triumph in the 2019 PBA D-League on Thursday at Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig. The Generals went on a 12-0 start and rode the hot hands of Earvin Mendoza, who buried three triples to fire 25 points, three assists, and two rebounds and guided the Generals to their first win of the tourney.

Clark Derige contributed 16 points and four rebounds, while Allan Martin added 11 points, four dimes, and three boards in the win, giving coach Oliver Bunyi his first win at the helm. “Maybe we’re just lucky that McDavid didn’t play well. But I’m happy for the guys especially those last five who made a good impact,� he said. With McDavid closing in, 54-48, in the

last nine minutes, Mendoza and Derige teamed up in leading Batangas-EAC’s 25-9 closer to take the 22-point rout and seal off its breakthrough victory. The Generals improved to 1-1 in the Aspirants Group and left McDavid in the cellar at 0-2. Rev Diputado carried the newcomers with 16 points and five rebounds, while Michole Sorela chipped in nine and six for McDavid.

former Olympian archer and two-time Southeast Asian Games champion Jennifer Chan. Tagle’s fellow DumagueteĂąo Prisa Herren Lofranco and Mandaue City’s Godwell Maloloy-on also completed a sweep of all their six events in the cadet girls and cadet boys, respectively. Likewise, Cebu City’s cub archer Aldremer Igot Jr. bagged six gold medals, but fell short of a seventh after losing the mixed event against the duo of Tagle and Bajado. In swimming at the Iloilo Sports Complex, Negros Occidental tanker Alexi Kouzenye Cabayaran snagged a total of six gold medals. Cabayaran, a 12-year old Batang Pinoy debutant, topped the girls 13-15 200m freestyle (2:17.65) and M FREESTYLE IN THE kNAL day of swimming competitions on Wednesday. She won four gold in THE kRST THREE DAYS The Mambulac Elementary School stalwart, who was part of a relay team that broke a Palarong Pambansa record in Vigan and nabbed nine gold medals in the Milo Little Olympics Visayas in Bacolod last year, said that she wants to become a swimmer par excellence. “I want to be a history-maker in swimming,â€? she declared. Other winning tankers were Antique’s Gulliver Clive Clemente and Ormoc City’s Coby Marcus

2IVILLA WITH kVE GOLD APIECE In sepak takraw boys at the Central Philippines University (CPU) Gym, Cebu Province pulled off a 21-16, 21-19 victory over Mina, )LOILO FOR A GOLDEN kNISH On the third day of karatedo contests at the SM City Iloilo, Bacolod city, Cebu City and Cebu Province each captured three gold medals in the girls kumite category. Joy Tubongbanua (14-15 +54 kg) and Pauline Kalaw (8-9 130 cm) netted gold for Bacolod; Jowin May Nudalo (12-13 150 cm and up) and Jisha Zyra Azur (10-11 140 cm) did the same for Cebu City; as well as Christine Jhane Tautho (14-15 years old 54 kg) and Precious Avegail Belicario (14-15 47 kg) for Cebu Province. In futsal at the Western Visayas State University Covered Court, Cebu Province remained unscathed in three matches in the Under-15 boys four-team Group A that includes Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo City and Cebu City. In volleyball girls at CPU, Cebu Province crushed Bayawan City, 256, 25-12 even as Iloilo City routed Dumaguete City, 25-11, 25-17. As of 2 p.m. on Thursday (February 28), host Iloilo City is continuing to pull away in the medal tally with a 35-27-29 gold-silver-bronze haul. Negros Occidental climbed to No. 2 with 29-16-16, Cebu City stayed at No. 3 with 26-36-33 while Cebu Province dropped to No. 4 with 25-17-28.

PhilSOC seeks solutions for slashed budget THE Philippine SEA Games Organizing Committee (PhilSOC) has, for the past week, started putting into place measures to lessen the impact of the Senate’s decision reducing its P7.5 billion budget requirements to P5 billion. The PhilSOC, according to its executive director Tom Carrasco, president of the Triathlon Association of the Philippines, has as of late, closed a deal with the Laus Business Center based in San Fernando, Pampanga, which offered to host at least two sports that had to be relocated to cut down the cost of hosting. These are Olympic discipline judo and kurash, a Middle East martial arts, which were originally assigned to be contested at the Asean Convention Center inside the Old Clark City, one of the Game’s main hubs, including the New Clark inside the former US Military Air Base. “We went to San Fernando with members of the venue department, headed by judo president Dave Carter, to personally talk to Laus officials, led by Mr. Levi Laus, and San Fernando Mayor Edwin Santiago,� Carrasco told The Manila Times on Wednesday. “Fortunately, Mr. Laus, with the help of Mayor Santiago, gladly honored his company’s offer,�Carrasco said.“Proof that for as long as what’s at take is the country’s reputation, many are willing to help. � Another issue that is believed to have been resolved, Carrasco added, was that regarding the World Trade Center, which originally would house fencing and wushu, but will now be accommodating karatedo as well as the International Broadcasting Center and the accreditation and uniforms distribution. Karatedo was originally to be disputed at Subic, while the IBC was supposed to be located at the too expensive Solaire’s The Tent. The PhilSOC has, likewise, reduced the meetings scheduled among Games delegates from three to only one. “Hindi naman siguro ito makababawas sa ating world-renowned hospitality. Ang Asian Games nga isa din ang local activity ng mga delegasyon,� Carrasco sad. The PhilSOC, headed by former Foreign Affairs secretary Allan Peter Cayetano, Carrasco assured, has been moving heaven and earth to save the situation after the Senate slashed their budget by 33 percent. “Allan has told us he’s asked President Duterte P1 billion to make up for the lost amount and according to him, hindi siya mahihirapan kunin ‘yun,� he said. The slashing of the P7.5 billion budget for the country’s hosting of the 30th edition of the SEA Games somewhat caused a snag in the preparation the biennial meet among the finest athletes representing the11-nation conclave. EDDIEG. ALINEA

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PINOY FIGHTERS DEFEND TITLES IN ONE: A NEW ERA PHILIPPINE pride is at stake as Filipino fighters Eduard “The Landslide� Folayang and Kevin “The Silencer� Belingon of Team Lakay defend their titles against respective rivals in ONE: A New Era on March 31 in Tokyo, Japan. The main event will be the battle between ONE lightweight world champion Folayang and Japanese Shinya “Tobikan Judan� Aoki. Folayang snatched the crown from Aoki via third-round technical knockout in ONE: Defending Honor in November 2016. Folayang though lost the title to Martin Nguyen by way of knockout in November 2017. “The Landslide� regained his rhythm last November in Manila beating Amir Khan by unanimous decision. “The only difference right now is that I’m the one defending the world title, so as much as possible, my mind is set on preparing to the best of my abilities to guarantee a favorable result,� Folayang said during a news conference on Thursday at the Gloria Maris restaurant in Quezon City. Folayang, who currently holds a record

of 21 wins and six losses, said he would be extremely cautious of Aoki’s submission game. “I think he’s still the best at what he does, which is grappling, and that’s where I need to be more careful now more than ever,� said the 35-year old Folayang. Aoki is holding a 42-8 slate. Meanwhile, ONE bantamweight world champion Belingon will face former champion Brazilian Bibiano “The Flash� Fernandes for the third time. “I am excited for our upcoming fight. It will be our third encounter and it will settle the score since we are both holding 1-1 records. This would be an exciting match,� said Belingon. Both fighters are looking to boost Team Lakay’s morale after two of their fighters Joshua “The Passion� Pacio and Geje “The Gravity� Eustaquio lost their titles. “There’s a lot of pressure on the team in 2019. We just lost belts so it is up to us to relieve that pressure,� added Belingon, who holds a 20-5 record. Folayang stressed that they are not

just representing their team but the Philippines in their upcoming bouts. “We will be representing our country on March 31 in the biggest fight card of the promotion yet. We will retain and keep our belts going out of the arena on that night,� said Folayang. Team Lakay coach Mark Sangiao said the goal is to score a resounding win rather than leaving the result to the judges’ scorecards. “That’s the lesson during the past fights – that we should never give the decision to the hands of the judges. The camp really prepared for this. We should finish strong and have a clear sight of victory in the end,� said Sangiao. Besides Folayang and Belingon, another Team Lakay fighter Danny “The King� Kingad will see action against fellow former ONE world title contender Andrew Leone of United States in the quarterfinal of ONE flyweight grand prix. Also present during the news conference were former world champions Pacio and Eustaquio of Team Lakay. JEAN RUSSEL V. DAVID

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PLAGUE THE FORMER WORLD NUMBER kVE Wie, the 2014 US Women’s Open champion, was making only her second LPGA Tour start since undergoing surgery in October to alleviate pain in her arthritic right wrist that had caused her to withdraw in pain during last year’s British Open. The 29-year-old South Korean Yang won her eighth

LUISITA LEADS CANLUBANG BY 7 ORDER was restored at the 33rd Philippine Airlines Seniors Interclub golf team championships Thursday with Luisita taking a seven-point lead over long-time rival Canlubang following an impressive outing at the Club Filipino de Cebu in Cebu City. The Tarlac-based squad collected 147 points, a huge improvement from its opening day 138 to reach the halfway mark with 285 points. Benjie Sumulong carded three birdies against three bogeys and a double bogey to lead Luisita with 52 points. Reigning national seniors champion Rodel Mangulabnan added 50 and former pro Demy Saclot rounded out scoring with 45. Rafael Garcia did not count with 43. Defending champion Canlubang struggled for the second straight day, scoring 140 behind a pair of 48s from Abe Rosal and Damasus Wong and a 44 from Zaldy Villa. “We played better today and fortunate that we are leading by seven,� said Luisita non-playing captain Jeric Hechanova. “The course was just playing tough.� Abe Rosal, last year’s individual champion

in Bacolod City, failed to break 50 following a round of one birdie against seven bogeys. No Canlubang player has scored more than 48 points after two rounds. A day after taking the lead on opening day, Cebu Country Club unravelled with 131 points and fell 12 points behind Luisita. Newcomer Jufil Sato was CCC’s top scorer with 46 with Nelson Yuvallos adding 43. The 42 of either Montito Garcia or Lorenzo Alaan rounded out scoring. Del Monte Golf Club brought up the rear in the championship bracket with 129 and 267 total. Arsenio Mondilla led Del Monte with 44 followed by Erning Apas 43 and Antonio Arancon 42. In the second-tier Founders division also played at the Club Filipino de Cebu, Orchard hung on to a five-point lead over Negros Occidental. Orchard, led by Dong Jin Tak’s 48 points, finished the day with 125 points to boost its total to 266. Negros Occidental got a big lift from Francis Gaston’s 50 points to tally 136 and 261 overall. Valley took third spot with 255 following a 123.

professional title five days ago at the LPGA Thailand but she made a bogey five on her second hole and doublebogey six on the third before withdrawing through illness, with the LPGA Tour confirming later she had been suffering with flu. AFP

Alveo 70.3 Davao kicks off IRONMAN season

Kaya vs Lao Toyota match ends in draw */6). "%$)# delivered as Kaya FC-Iloilo elicited a 1-1 draw against Lao Toyota FC in the 2019 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Cup on Wednesday night at the New Laos .ATIONAL 3TADIUM IN 6IENTIANE Philippine Azkals forward Bedic converted an early strike that was cancelled out by the hosts’ controversial late goal. Kaya-Iloilo head coach Noel Marcaida rued the missed chance to take home maximum points in the club’s kRST !&# #UP GAME SINCE “We were unlucky not to get all three points. We played well in the kRST HALF 7E WERE ABLE TO CONTROL things. But we didn’t play so well in the second,� said Marcaida. “There were two moments late in each half where we switched off. The last one cost us a goal. Moving forward, we need to learn to be switched on for the full 90,� he added. Despite the result, the Lions remained even with their Group H foes as the match between defending Asean zone champion Home United FC of Singapore and PSM Makassar of Indonesia also settled to a 1-1 stalemate.

In its much-awaited return to Asia’s second-tier club competition, Kaya immediately made its presence felt with Jordan Mintah and Yannick Tuason attempting to score. The visiting Ilonggo club’s aggression paid off when an unmarked CAPTAIN "EDIC RIlED HOME 4UASON S cross from the right wing. Kaya, however, lost the rhythm OF ITS lUID PASSING AND ITS DEFENSE faltered in the second half, as Lao 4OYOTA SEEK TO SCORE AN EQUALIZER The home side put the match on a deadlock at the 87th minute with a contentious goal. Kazuo Honma hit a cross on a ball that seemed out of the baseline before Sayfa Aphideth headed it home against Kaya’s stunned defense. Kaya had a last chance to steal a victory but its corner kick play in the stoppage time got denied. The Lions, who sealed an AFC Cup berth by winning the Copa Paulino Alcantara last year, will battle next Home United in a home game on March 13 at the Panaad Park and Stadium in Bacolod City.

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Novis, Saldivar target PPS Digos crowns MA. ANGELICA NOVIS and Reyman Saldivar Jr. shoot for two titles each as they lead the chase for top honors in the PPS-PEPP Digos City national age-group tennis tournament which reels off today (Friday) at the Digos City Tennis Club in Davao del Sur. Novis hopes to live up to her top seeding in the girls’ 16- and 18-and-under singles with the Malita, Davao bet upbeat but wary of her chances against the likes of Coleen Carvajal, Juliana Carvajal, Mae Torrecareon and Zkyla Cervantes in the Group 2 tournament presented by Dunlop. Saldivar, on the other hand, also faces an uphill battle in the boys’ 14- and 16-U sides with the rising Kabacan, North Cotabato star going up against Charles Jumawan, Yassan Al Anazi and Ben Flores along with Kurt Haro and Herald Aton in the five-day event serving as the penultimate stop of the six-leg Mind-

anao swing of the circuit put up by Palawan Pawnshop-Palawan Express Pera Padala. “While we expect the local bets to shine, we also see a number of players from other towns and cities to emerge from this tournament as we continue to help discover future stars, especially from the countryside,� said Palawan Pawnshop president/CEO Bobby Castro. Brent Magno, Justin Ito, Haro and Aton, meanwhile, are tipped to dispute the boys’ 18-U crown in the tournament sanctioned by the Unified Tennis Philippines made up of PPS-PEPP, Cebuana Lhuillier, Wilson, Toby’s, Dunlop, Slazenger and B-Meg. Other titles to be disputed are the 12-U and 10-unisex with five more up for grabs in the doubles 10-U, 14- and 18-U sides. Meanwhile, Tagum City will host the last stop on March 7 to 11. For details and listup, call 09154046464.

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INSPIRED by its successful inaugural staging last year, the Alveo IRONMAN 70.3 Davao presented by Petron braces for a bigger, tougher edition next month, kicking off another busy season for the intrepid triathletes in a duel of power, endurance and mental toughness. The roster has swelled to close to 2,200 as of last week, underscoring the event’s tremendous pull both from the local and international campaigners gearing up for another explosive finish the way it was when Mexican Mauricio Mendez and Czech Radka Kahlefeldt capped the day of the underdogs when they ruled the premier elite division at the scenic Azuela Cove. The organizing Sunrise Events, Inc. and the country’s durian capital have guaranteed another thrilling, enjoyable race through the city’s mix of nature and urban infrastructure when the 1.9K swim, 90K bike, 21K run event powered BY 0ETRON IS kRED OFF -ARCH SEI founder Wilfred Uytengsu has acknowledged Davao as the new triathlon destination following its successful HOSTING LAST YEAR AND IT S JUST kTTING TO STAGE ANOTHER top-notch triathlon event in Davao through the allOUT SUPPORT OF THE CITY OFkCIALS “We are encouraged by the success of last year’s staging and the enthusiasm Davao has shown in hosting us and I expect we will see this race steadily grow in terms of prestige and participation,� said Uytengsu. The upcoming event, featuring individual and relay competitions, has lured 16 pro triathletes and bets from 38 countries, including United Arab Emirates, Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Mexico, Ukraine, Australia, Germany, India, Malaysia, Qatar, the Q Czech Radka Kahlefeldt US, Belgium, Spain, Italy, New Caledonia, Singapore; CONTRIBUTED South Africa, Bahrain, France, Japan, the Netherlands, PHOTOS Sweden, Bahrain, Great Britain, Korean, Norway, Thailand, Switzerland, Greece, Kuwait, New Zealand, Turkey, China, Guam, Mexico, Panama and Taiwan. For details, visit the event’s website at www.ironman.com/davao703. Other SEI-organized and produced events this year are the Sun Life 5150 Cebu on April 28, the Century Ironman 70.3 Subic on June 2, the Penong’s 5150 Davao on July 7, the Regent Aguila IRONMAN 70.3 Philippines on Aug. 11, the Black Arrow Express 5150 Subic on Oct. 27 and the Sun Life Cycle PH in November. ! SERIES OF ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN kRMED UP FROM -ARCH UNTIL RACE DAY including the Sun Life Bike Course Ride Out, the IronKids, the IronGirl, and the Ironman 70.3 Davao Expo at the Tent. Backers of the event are title sponsor Alveo, an AyalaLand company, presentor Petron, venue hosts Lungsod ng Dabaw, Azuela Cove and the Enderun Tent, bike course partners $AVAO DEL .ORTE 0ANABO 4AGUM AND #ARMEN OFkCIAL COURIER AND LOGISTICS PARTNER 'O %XPRESS OFkCIAL SWIM CAP 492 OFkCIAL ENERGY GEL '5 OFkCIAL NUTRITION 6ITARGO OFkCIAL EYEWEAR 2UDY 0ROJECT and Aboitiz Power, Davao Light, David’s Salon, Davao Metro Shuttle, Prudential Guarantee, and media partners ONE Sports on Cignal, the Philippine Star, Trilife, AsiaTri.com and Finisher Pix.

Kyrgios topples Nadal to reach Acapulco quarters ACAPULCO, Mexico: Australia’s Nick Kyrgios survived three match points to beat top-seeded Rafael Nadal 3-6, 7-6 (7/2), 7-6 (8/6) on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) and reach the QUARTERkNALS OF THE -EXICO /PEN )T WAS A BRAVURA kNISH TO A DRAMA kLLED MATCH IN WHICH .ADAL PLAYING HIS kRST TOURNAMENT SINCE FALLING TO Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open final, had three chances to close it out after taking a 6-3 lead in the third-set tiebreaker. +YRGIOS SAVED THE kRST WITH A LEAPing drop shot, and the second with a net-skimming volley. Nadal was just wide with a passing shot to make it 6-6, double-faulted

to give Kyrgios a chance and sailed a backhand long to end the match after three hours and three minutes. Kyrgios screamed and dropped to the court in celebration -- a conclusion that seemed unlikely when he complained to a trainer after the opening set that he was feeling ill but feared the fallout should he retire. Kyrgios steeled himself to continue, and distractions seemed forgotten as he became absorbed in the battle against the 17-time Grand Slam champion. Down 0-40 in the ninth game of the second set, Kyrgios saved four break points to keep the set on serve and raced to a 5-0 lead in the

tiebreaker. Kyrgios, who received treatment on his lower back before the start of the third, was in trouble again in the SIXTH GAME BUT FOUGHT OFF kVE BREAK points to stay on terms and push it to the decisive tiebreaker. Kyrgios leveled his head-to-head record with Nadal at 3-3 and will play three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka for a place in THE SEMI kNALS Switzerland’s Wawrinka, seeded third, belted 32 winners in a 7-6 (7/5), 6-4 victory over American Steve Johnson. Women’s top seed Sloane Stephens also bowed out Wednesday, stunned BY "RAZILIAN QUALIkER "EATRIZ (ADDAD

Maia 6-3, 6-3. Haddad Maia’s victory over the fourth-ranked American was her kRST OVER A TOP PLAYER IN SEVEN opportunities. “It was just a tough match, obviously she played well,� said Stephens, who is playing in Acapulco FOR THE kRST TIME SINCE WINNING THE 2016 title. “A tough day. But I’m not too sad about it. “I’m just going to go back and work some more, practice some more and get ready for Indian Wells.� Haddad Maia, 22, next faces China’s Want Yafan, who was leading Monica Puig 4-1 when the Puerto Rican retired with an injury. &ORMER WORLD NUMBER ONE 6ICTOria Azarenka of Belarus sailed into THE QUARTER kNALS DOWNING 4ATJANA Maria 6-2, 6-1. !ZARENKA kRED WINNERS TO -Aria’s 10, and took full advantage of the German’s 28 unforced errors. AFP

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For an ultimate holiday in the world’s best island V BY IZA IGLESIAS

OTED several times by travel and tourism sites around the globe as the most delightful island destination in the world, Boracay has long been famous for its sugary, powdery white sand and turquoise blue waters. This tropical paradise in Aklan province also boasts one of the most magical views of the sunset on the planet. Open anew after President Rodrigo Duterte orders for a sixmonth closure for environmental rehabilitation, the rejuvinated Boracay is now more beautiful and breathtaking than ever before. Happily, hotels in Boracay are also back in business with The Manila Times Destinations visiting a top pick among local and foreign tourists alike.

a sanctuary that practices holistic therapies based on traditions shared by various cultures — a perfect place to slow down, de-stress, and unwind. The hotel likewise has a state-of-the-art gym available which has the latest cardiovascular equipment.

Q Set amid lush green landscape, MĂśvenpick Resort & Spa Boracay has a private and exceptional beachfront at Punta Bunga Cove.

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Meanwhile, a diverse collection of food and beverage (F&B) outlets create outstanding dining experiences – from romantic couples’ MEALS TO FUN kLLED FAMILY FEASTS and bountiful banquets. Seven AccorHotels property diverse restaurants and bars offer Ready to welcome visitors with international, Korean, Japanese, warm Filipino hospitality and un- Italian and pub food. Brezza promises authentic Italsurpassed facilities is MĂśvenpick ian cuisine, including the fastest Resort & Spa Boracay, a property handmade pizzas on the island, managed by multinational hospiBAKED IN A WOOD kRED OVEN WHICH tality company, AccorHotels. Set on a lush green landscape, was imported from Napoli and MĂśvenpick has an exceptional has been nicknamed “The Beast,â€? private beach set nestled on the accompanied by a wide selection northern tip of Boracay in Punta of Italian aperitivo AND kNE WINES Bunga Cove, which is only 30 On the other hand, Sol Marina Beach Club is the perfect place to minutes from Caticlan Airport. The resort takes pride of its 312 chill out and soak up the natural rooms and suites which feature bright, beauty of Boracay during the day contemporary design and views of or after dark as it also feature DJs the tropical gardens or the sea. Guests and live music acts. Alternatively, The Market is a can also enjoy the 3,300-square meter bright and vibrant international multi-level pool — the largest to-date restaurant that serves delectable in the entire island. daily buffet breakfasts, plus global At its own serene wellness center Ă la carte dishes for lunch and dinand spa, the Sagay Spa, profesner, and Ssäm combines innovasional therapists give best mastive Korean, Chinese and Japanese sages in the island with the use of native Visayan seashells. It is cuisine with a sense of culinary theater, including dramatic table top grills that allow diners to create their own Korean barbecues (gogiguy), plus a fresh sushi and sashimi bar. Guests can cool off at the tropical Pool Bar, which has a choice of shady private cabanas and a sunken swim-up bar, or take a relaxing break at The CafĂŠ, a cosy retreat for irresistible cakes, signature sandwiches, teas, coffees and MĂśvenpick’s famous daily Chocolate Hour. For sports fans, Fun Q Authentic Italian cuisine at Brezza restaurant Pub is the perfect place headed by Chef Francesco Leone. Q MĂśvenpick's dedicated venues await wedding and special events.

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to hang out as this Sports bar offers excellent food and beverage choices, comfortable seating areas surrounded by multi-screens, pool tables, darts as well as board and card games.

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For kids, family and corporate events For younger guests, there is the Little Birds Club and playground available. Weddings, meetings and special events can also be hosted in MÜvenpick’s dedicated venues whether for a romantic getaway, outdoor family fun or relaxation by the beach. The resort has six meeting rooms which feature state-ofthe-art audio-visual technology and complimentary WiFi, backed by the expertise and attention to detail of their dedicated event

planners and banquet service professionals. “Our biggest pride here is the location and the product itself. The destination is really perfect, that

if you come here, you don’t want to be anywhere else,� MÜvenpick Resort & Spa Boracay General Manager AndrÊ Brulhart told The

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As what its tagline says, “We make moments,â€? MĂśvenpick Boracay indeed is the best place to create unsurpassed experiences ideal for the ultimate island holiday.

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“Technically, I’ve taped some scenes for the show before I left for Japan before Valentine’s Day though not with the cast, but as a member of a dragon boat team. I had immersion for a day and then taped the second day,� he shared. Rowing with actual dragon boat athletes was an unforgettable experience for Tom who immensely enjoyed the challenge. “I still have the souvenirs from our taping,� he chuckled as he held out his hands. “Ayan o, nag-

babalat pa. Tapos may kasama ring sakit ng katawan the day after taping — as in I couldn’t stand up! Nakahilata lang ako, but I tell you — I really enjoyed it, sobra.� According to Tom, it was training with a group that appealed to him in dragon boat since he’s now back to boxing and training one-on-one with an instructor. “Sa dragon boat, there’s camaraderie. Iba pala ‘yung group kayo, and I really learned a lot about how each member of the team has a responsibility to win the race. The ones in front are the pacers; those in the middle form the engine so to speak that dictates the pace of the speed; the captain is on the drums and the ones at the back, yung malalaki katawan, they’re the ones responsible for what is called the last kick,� he narrated.

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once he has time since he has already talked to the team and asked if it is possible for him to train with them. Meanwhile, Tom also excitedly talked about the Japanese vacation he took with girlfriend Carla Abellana, which was very precious to him. “The best part of that vacation was spending time her. We particularly liked the Bamboo forest in Kyoto. It was very peaceful there and the weather was just perfect.

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gave Carla a copy. “She liked it,� he smiled lovingly. NNN The characters Cheska and Parekoy made ripples during GMA’s highly successful primetime series “Kambal Karibal� last year, portrayed by Kyline Alcantara and Jeric Gonzales. It was this very pairing that gave birth to the KyRic fan club, which unfortunately has not happened, with Kyline paired up with Manolo Pedrosa in her current soap “Inagaw Na Bituin.� But since KyRic fans are unstoppable, deluging the Kapuso Network with emails and phone calls requesting to see their favorite love team again, the management of course listened and are about to grant their wish.

Towards the end of the holiday, he heard Carla heave a sigh and turned around to see her looking sad. “I asked her what’s wrong and she said it was because the time While it’s almost relaxing to went by so fast and sana watch the synchronized move- pwede pang mag -stay ments of paddlers in dragon boat- and continue with the Q The actor on ing, Tom swears it’s not easy to vacation. I told her we his getaway with do. “It requires physical strength should use the beautigirlfriend Carla and endurance. Not only that, you ful memories we made Abellana in Japan. need to have rhythm. Kailangan there as fuel for us to kasabay ka sa pagsagwan ng mga work harder,� the ever kasama mo. Pagdating sa tina- poetic Tom related. tawag na last kick, halos lumipad Wa t c h i n g h i s na ang bangka sa bilis. Nahihiya lady love in a pennga ako kasi ‘yung sagwan ko, sive mood on that tumatama sa sagwan ng iba so I train, an inspirahad to stop.� tion came to Tom Hopefully, he can pick to write a song. up the sport The words and melody just started coming to him. Yes, make sure to catch “I was humming it without Carla knowing it was Kyline and Jeric in a month-long a song I was trying to special of “Daig Kayo Ng Lola compose for her, and by Ko,� entitled “My Vampire Love,� the time we were on the which will start airing this coming plane, I was already Sunday. trying to find the “I’m so happy to work with chords to the keys Kyline again. At least we have using my phone.� this project na one month ding Sharing the lyrics tatakbo on air. Ilang months with Showbuzz (see din kaming hindi nagkatrabaho sidebar), Tom said he together although nagkikita naalready recorded the man kami sa ibang events like Q Jeric Gonzales and Kyline Alcantara song in his garage studio and yung mga out of town shows or

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A song for Carla Where we can make believe Keep on pretending Like we’d never leave Behind anything

pag nag-ge-guest ako sa musical shows niya,� Jeric enthused. “Nothing has changed with my friendship with Jeric,� replied Kyline. “It’s always a pleasure to work with him. He is one of the actors na talagang comfortable akong makipagtrabaho. Ganu’n pa rin kami sa art, kwentuhan, kulitin. During the scene, saluhan din, lalo na medyo light ang ginagawa namin.�

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Broadcasters aren’t succumbing to Netflix era

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PASADENA, CALIFORNIA: If there is a high point to Netflix’s status as the “cool kids� taking over television, it may be remembered as an emotional Chuck Lorre accepting a best comedy Golden Globe last month for “The Kominsky Method,� his show on the streaming service. Lorre is one of the most successful comedy producers in TV history, with an estimated net worth of more than $600 million after producing shows including “The Big Bang Theory,�‘’Two and a Half Men� and “Mom� for CBS. Yet he’d never won an Emmy or Golden Globe, and odds are he still wouldn’t if “The Kominsky Method� had been on broadcast TV and with a more mundane actor than Michael Douglas. Despite the humbling moment, leaders of traditional TV networks insist they’re fighting back, and may even sense an opening. Their very survival may depend upon it. Many experts would see that as whistling into the wind, because isn’t streaming the place to be? Netflix, Amazon, Hulu have seemingly bottomless wallets and a stranglehold on how a new generation wants to consume television. For the first time ever, streaming services made more scripted shows than either broadcast or cable networks last year. Big-name producers Shonda Rhimes and Ryan Murphy, and even Barack and Michelle Obama, have agreed to make shows for Netflix. Streaming feels like the future, while CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox evoke a time when you needed to get off the couch to switch channels, and maybe adjust the rabbit ears for better reception. Even with ratings a fraction of what they were in the glory days of monopoly, the broadcast networks say their chief advantage is the opportunity to offer creators a large audience. Networks are still the only distribution system capable of delivering a perfect picture to virtually every home in America, said John Landgraf, FX Networks chief. While network execs are jealous when streamed shows scoop up awards,

“my family has never heard of them,� NBC’s Cheeks said. Networks are arguing to creators lured by a less restrictive environment at Netflix that they risk getting lost in an ocean of content. The streaming service offered a staggering 500-plus original shows last year, according to estimates. The most extreme example of that advantage was when CBS debuted its new talent show, “The World’s Best,� directly after the Super Bowl and it was seen by 22 million people. TV executives point out that Netflix rarely releases verifiable tallies of how many people watch their shows. Netflix did not respond to a request for comment. The broadcasters’ underlying message: the streaming giant has plenty of failures, too. “If you want a large communal experience, if you ... have a passion project that you hope pierces popular culture, where do you think that can be done best?� asked Charlie Collier, Fox entertainment chief. Unlike the streamers, broadcast shows are “there week in and week out and a lot of producers like that feedback, they like being in front of the audience every weekend,� said Kelly Kahl, CBS entertainment president. “And they like that manner of storytelling where they bring you something new every week. I’m not just going to drop in your lap in one weekend.� Networks are becoming more flexible in response to producers’ expectations as shaped by streaming services, whose seasons are shorter than the 22 or so episodes on network TV. Producers may sing Netflix’s praises but the smart ones — Lorre included — aren’t ready to write the networks off. “The idea of having a weekly appointment where you’re having a community with your friends while you’re tweeting and texting while you’re watching something together and you’re talking about it the next day, that’s still the provenance of network television,� said Karey Burke, ABC’s new entertainment president. AP

SAYING that they just wanted to make people smile during campaign rallies, former Special Assistant to the President (SAP) and senatorial aspirant Christopher Lawrence “Bong� Go said that there was no harm intended in the jokes both he and his close friend actor Phillip “Ipe� Salvador usually deliver in campaign sorties. Go also said that he and Salvador only throw in some humor in their sorties because they are concerned that audiences may be tired of the promises the candidates keep givin them. “Ma’am Kris Aquino, paumanhin po talaga,� the former SAP humbly apologized, as he faced hundreds of supporters in a cam-

Cause when it’s time And then you sigh In shades of blue On that train Along the rail I gain track with you

7HEN BLURRY LANES lY ON BY Past at a thousands miles They leave behind crystallized Memories of paradise.

Well on that train Along the rail I gain track with you. By the way, Showbuzz would like to congratulate Kyline and the entire team of Inagaw Na Bituin for the soaring ratings of the afternoon series. “We are just so thankful to our viewers for the big support that they have been giving us. When I saw the ratings, parang napaluha

pa ako. Salamat po talaga sa inyong lahat!� she ended.

paign rally of the Hugpong ng Pagbabago (HNP) political party in Manila on Wednesday. After receiving word of Aquino’s response towards the jokes, both Go and Salvador avoided mentioning the actress’ name in their introductory comedic skits.

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“Gusto lang po namin kayong pasayahin. Ngayon, medyo mayroon po akong nasaktan, kaya eto po, humihingi po ako ng paumanhin po,�

Go said to Manila audience members, stressing that the banter is merely part of their comedic performance. “Part ng script lang po ‘yung intro joke namin ni Ipe. Hindi na namin gagamitin ang joke na ‘yun,� he assured. Go continued, “Ang importante

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po ay mapatawa namin kayo at mapangiti, hindi po ‘yung puro pulitika na lang po ang naririnig ninyo.� In saying that Salvador became an adopted son of Davao, Go joked the actor sired four children in his hometown, which Salvador’s ex live-in partner Aquino did not know about.

Before letting Salvador sing the song, “Nandito Ako,� Go, a selfconfessed movie fan, quipped, “Diyan ko po siya (Salvador)

napanood noon kasama si Kris. Ngayon, ito po ang totoo.� “At oo, minahal niya po si Kris,� he stated.

Who is ‘Sahaya’? SOON to hit primetime television is a novel and inspiring story of a young Badjao woman in the much awaited launch of GMA Network’s “Sahaya.â€? Headlining this extraordinary and unique masterpiece is one of the country’s most popular screen tandems in Bianca Umali and Miguel Tanfelix, whose winning chemistry had captured the hearts of televiewers in such series as “Mga Basang Sisiw,â€? “NiĂąo,â€? “Once Upon A Kiss,â€? “Wish I May,â€? “Ismol Family,â€? “Daig Kayo Ng Lola Koâ€? and “Kambal, Karibal.â€? Umali plays the titular character who

embraces her own identity and heritage as a Badjao, even defying the power of love. Her positive outlook in life will inspire her family and her people as she becomes the tribe’s role model. Miguel, in turn, portrays the role of Ahmad, a simple Badjao who will fall in love with Sahaya and will do everything in order to win her heart. For this primetime spectacle, the pair of actors underwent diving lessons, and dance workshops and learned the cultures and traditions of the Badjaos. Sought-after leading man and “StarStruck Season 6â€? Ultimate Male Survivor Migo Adecer completes the love triangle as he plays the role of Jordan, a ManileĂąo who will become Ahmad’s rival. The studios will soon announce the premiere date of Sayaha, which is directed by Zig Dulay.

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»HOROSCOPE Today’s Birthday (03/01/19). Your professional influence is on the rise this year. Disciplined teamwork is your winning formula. Summer romance blossoms beautifully before team changes present new directions. Your crew wins this winter, leading to a shift with romantic and family relationships. Prioritize love. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) -- Today is an 8 -- You’re especially popular for the next month, with Venus in Aquarius. Group activities go well. Get out in public. Social gatherings benefit your career. TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) -- Today is a 9 -- Watch for career advances. Take on more responsibility, with Venus in Aquarius for a month. Assume authority. It’s easier to advance your agenda. GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Set study goals. Travel looks good this month. It’s easier to venture forth now that Venus is in Aquarius. Explore and discover uncharted terrain. CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Focus on financial planning. Review numbers, with Venus in Aquarius. The next month is good for saving money. Organize and strategize to increase your assets. LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Collaboration and partnership flower naturally for the next month, with Venus in Aquarius. Compromise comes easier. Share beauty, love and support. Things could get romantic. VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Your health, vitality and fitness are on the rise, with Venus in Aquarius. You’re growing stronger and more beautiful. Follow a creative passion for fresh energy.

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BY NANCY BLACK LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Give in to romance. You’re especially lucky in love this month, with Venus in Aquarius. Create it from nothing. Artistic efforts sparkle. Play a fun game. SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Focus on home and family. Make improvements to your castle. Enjoy domestic comforts over the next month, with Venus in Aquarius. Beautify your space. SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Express what’s in your heart. Arts and writing flower, with Venus in Aquarius. You’re especially clever and creative with communications. Share your story. CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Get into a profitable phase. Gather new income this month, with Venus in Aquarius. You find your professional performance zone. Money comes more easily. AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) -- Today is a 9 -- Your charm and charisma shine with Venus in your sign this month. Take advantage, and spruce up with a new style. Step onstage and smile. PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Rest and recharge with peace and natural beauty this month, with Venus in Aquarius. Allow yourself more quiet time to consider fantasies, dreams and plans.

(Astrologer Nancy Black continues her mother Linda Black’s legacy horoscopes column. She welcomes comments and questions on Twitter, @lindablack. For more astrological interpretations visit Linda Black Horoscopes and www.nancyblack.com) NANCY BLACK. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC BY ROGER SEVILLA

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ENTREPRENEURS OF THE YEAR:

American Association of the Philippines Honors RS Francisco and Sam Verzosa of FRONTROW International The American Association of the Philippines (AAP) celebrated their 71st anniversary, the George Washington Charity Ball, last February 16 at Makati Shangri-La Manila. The event featured rock-star Arnel Pineda, international singer Keith Martin and Prince Ronnie Love of The Temptations. The Arnel Pineda Foundation Incorporated co-presented the event. This year, seven global leaders were honored:

Q Resorts World Manila COO Steven Reilly, Mrs. Rory Hinchliffe, Tag Media Group COO Engr. Grace Bondad Nicolas, Frontrow CEO Sam Verzosa and American Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Ebb Hinchliffe

Q Arnel Pineda, Sam Verzosa and US Ambassador Sung Kim

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Q AAP Chairman Rick SobreviĂąas and Sam Verzosa

Q Malaysian Ambassador Rizany Irwan, US Ambassador Sung Kim and Frontrow CEO Sam Verzosa

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