Manila Standard - 2016 August 21 - Sunday

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VOL. XXX • NO. 190 • 4 SECTIONS 20 PAGES • P18 • SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2016 • WWW.THESTANDARD.COM.PH • EDITORIAL@THESTANDARD.COM.PH

FEEL THE BEAT. Davao City residents dance on the streets during the Indak Indak sa Kadalalan competition during the penultimate day of the week-long Kadayawan sa Dabaw 2016 Festival. Roland Jumawan

Davao marks new era By Funny Pearl Gajunera DAVAO CITY—The ongoing Kadayawan sa Dabaw appears to be one of the more successful editions of the harvest festival even if the city government decided to hold back on the grandiosity this year. Perhaps it is because one of the city’s favorite sons, former mayor Rodrigo Duterte, is now President and has brought on his coat tails a slew of officials from all sectors of government, including the favor-seekers who follow in their wake. Palace officials said more than half of Duterte’s Cabinet has been here since Thursday to attend the Social Development Summit organized by Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco, who is in charge of 12 key social service agencies. Next page

Pregnant Inday Sara feisty again By John Paolo Bencito PRESIDENTIAL daughter and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte took to social media on Saturday to slam a forensic pathologist who claimed that her pregnancy was meant to draw media mileage for her father, President Rodrigo Duterte. “The problem with you is you don’t like the grandfather that’s why you attack even my three unborn children,” Mayor Duterte said on her Instagram Next page

Govt declares ceasefire anew By Joel Zurbano and John Paolo Bencito

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HE Duterte administration again declared an indefinite ceasefire with the communist insurgent movement on Saturday, a day after the Communist Party of the Philippines and its New People’s Army declared a seven-day truce on Friday.

AGREE TO PEACE. Young supporters of the communist movement marched on Claro M. Recto Avenue in Manila on Saturday to express support to the peace talks that will start in Oslo, Norway Tuesday. Danny Pata

Palace hits UN official’s meddling By John Paolo Bencito MALACAÑANG on Saturday scored United Nations special rapporteur on summary executions Agnes Callamard for her incomprehension of Philippine realities and imposing liberal Western values on an Asian nation. “The President [Rodrigo Duterte] finds the pronouncements from cer-

DFA: Indonesians had authentic PH passports By Sara Susanne D. Fabunan THE Department of Foreign Affairs on Saturday said that it will conduct its own investigation on how 177 Indonesians got hold of authentic Philippine passports which they tried to use in going to Saudi Arabia. “The DFA will conduct an investigation on the passport issue, just waiting for passports to be turned over by [the Bureau of Immigration] so they can be examined first hand,” DFA spokesman Charles Jose said. Jose issued the statement after an official of the government printing office APO Production

Unit said the Philippine passports carried by the 177 Indonesians are the handiwork of a syndicate. The BI intercepted 177 Indonesians carrying Philippine passport at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport before they boarded the plane bound to Saudi Arabia. Aside from the Indonesians, five Filipinos were escorting the Indonesians who were purportedly undertaking a pilgrimage, said BI commissioner Jaime Morente said. Jose, who had just announced on Thursday that the DFA would start issuing “untamperable” passports on Monday, confirmed that the passports were authentike, but were illegally issued to the Indonesians. Next page twitter.com/ MlaStandard

tain bodies as unwelcome meddling in national matters,” Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said in a statement on Saturday. “The liberal Western values being imposed [on] an Asian nation that places premium on common good is both insensitive and displays a lack of appreciation for the diversity of global culture,” he added. Abella said the Philippines has

not extended any invitation to any international body to meddle into its national affairs. “We are capable of [conducting] our own internal dialogue,” he said. Abella also clarified that there was nothing official in the remark of Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo that Callamard should visit the country to see for herself. Next page

“The duration of the ceasefire will last for as long as necessary to bring peace in the land and also in order to provide an enabling environment for the success of the peace negotiations that will start in Oslo, Norway on July 22,” said Peace Process Secretary Jesus Dureza. Dureza announced the ceasefire, which took effect midnight Saturday, at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport where he called a press briefing before departing for the Oslo peace talks with the communist National

Democratic Front. The NDF, for its part, also announced on Saturday the NPA would release more “prisoners of war” as another goodwill measure after five NPA captives were freed in Surigao del Norte and Surigao del Sur. “We congratulate the custodial forces of the New People’s Army’s Front Operational Command 30 and 16 who continue to successfully ensure the safety of the POW’s,” the NDF said in a statement Saturday. Next page

Leila’s silence points to guilt, Panelo claims By John Paolo Bencito and Maricel V. Cruz A SENIOR Cabinet official said Saturday the continued silence of Senator Leila de Lima regarding her affair with her married driver suggested an admission of complicity as an accessory to adultery.

Chief Presidential Legal Adviser Salvador Panelo, in an interview over government radio dzRB, said: “In law, there is a provision under the Rules of Court that when a statement or a remark is made that requires a person being referred to [should]

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Dumaguete beauty bags Asian tiara

De Lima willing to resign

By Cathrine Mae V. Gonzales

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FILIPINA charm and intelligence once more gained international acclaim as Dumaguete beauty Trixia Maria Marana bagged the Miss Asia 2016 crown on Thursday night in Kerala, India. The 23-year-old Marana bested 18 other contestants from countries across the region. Yauheniya Vasilyeva of Belarus and Ankita Kharat of India were her runners-up. Last year, the Philippines’ Alfe Marie Nathaniel Dagle Uy

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MISS ASIA 2016. Twenty-three-year-old Trixie Marie Marana of Dumaguete City in Negros Oriental is bussed by the court after she was crowned Miss Asia title at rites in Kerala, India.

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SENATOR Leila de Lima protested her innocence Saturday, declaring she is willing to resign from her post and even get shot in front of President Rodrigo Duterte if there is “real evidence” against her alleged involvement in the drug trade. In a press briefing, De Lima also accused the Duterte administration of trying to fabricate evidence to implicate her and her driver-bodyguard, Ronnie Palisoc Dayan, in the exchange of drug money in the New BiliNext page bid Prison.

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