Manila Standard - 2016 September 9 - Friday

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VOL. XXX • NO. 209 • 4 SECTIONS 20 PAGES • P18 • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2016 • www.thestandard.com.ph • editorial@thestandard.com.ph

CHEEK BY JOWL. President Rodrigo Duterte (right) and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (left) attend the 11th East Asia Summit in Vientiane, Laos on Thursday, a day after Duterte skipped a photo session with the UN chief and failed to read the Philippine statement during the Asean-UN Summit. AFP

Obama warns China Tensions rise over world tribunal’s maritime ruling Du30 power ‘Lessons to learn about diplomacy’ By Sara Susanne D. to suspend Fabunan and Macon habeas writ Ramos-Araneta proposed By Macon Araneta SENATOR Richard Gordon on Thursday said he would file a bill to grant President Rodrigo Duterte emergency powers, including the authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus because he believes the provisions for warrantless arrest under a state of emergency are not enough. “We will ask him [Duterte] to certify it. If he doesn’t want to certify it, it’s nothing. But I will fight for it,” said Gordon, while insisting that he is trying to protect the public. He added that there will be measures in place to curb any abuses. Gordon acknowledged it would be difficult to pass his bill

VETERAN diplomats said President Rodrigo Duterte has valuable lessons to learn about the complex world of diplomacy from his attendance at the Asean Summit in Laos. Although “nothing extraordinary” happened, Lauro Baja Jr., former permanent representative

to the United Nations said the experience can be used to improve the summit next year, which will be hosted by the Philippines. “We can improve as chair next year if we prepare and prepare well as soon as possible on issues which will be taken up then,” Baja said. Former journalist and China expert Chito Sta. Romana said the Asean summit this year is a valuable learning experience for

Duterte and will help his administration when the country chairs the summit next year. Baja played down the kerfuffle over Duterte’s rude remarks about US President Barack Obama before the summit which caused the American leader to cancel a scheduled one-on-one meeting. He said nothing extraordinary happened at the summit, except for Asean and China agreeing to Next page

DAVAO CITY—Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio said Thursday she lost two of the three babies in her womb following a miscarriage on Monday. Speaking at the change of command of Task Force Davao, Duterte said she felt “a little different” after visiting the wake of the victims of the Sept. 2 bombing in her city, which killed 15 people and injured 70 more, and immediately consulted her doctor. “When I went for a checkup Next page

By Francisco Tuyay and Funny Pearl A. Gajunera

CHECKPOINTS BOOSTED. Police reinforce checkpoints in strategic areas of the metropolis Thursday as they brace for any untoward incident, only six days after a nightmarish explosion in Davao City which killed 15 people and wounded 70 others in the city’s night market area. Danny Pata

Underground shabu lab unearthed in Pampanga AGENTS of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency have discovered an underground shabu laboratory in an isolated hog farm in Magalang, Pampanga, being managed by Chinese nationals, an official said Thursday. Wilkins Villanueva, head of the PDEA in Central Luzon, said

Eyebrows raised over SC pay A LAWMAKER on Thursday questioned the millions of pesos that he said the Supreme Court’s justices were receiving as compensation while failing to speed up the resolution of cases including the Malampaya fund. During the hearing by the House committee on appropriations on the Judiciary’s proposed budget, Kabayan party-list Rep. Harry Roque said all 15 magistrates were included in the list of highest paid public officials, with one of them receiving P7.8 million last year. “I believe the justices of the

The dispute has raised fears of military confrontation between the world’s superpowers, with China determined to cement control of the strategically vital waters despite a July verdict that its claims have no legal basis. “The landmark arbitration ruling in July, which is binding, helped to clarify maritime rights in the region,” Obama told Southeast Asian leaders at a summit in Laos. “I recognize this raises tensions but I also look forward to discussing how we can constructively move forward together to lower tensions and promote diplomacy

and stability.” The verdict by an international tribunal in The Hague said China’s claims to most of the waters—through which $5 trillion in global shipping trade passes annually—had no legal basis. It also said that a massive burst of artificial island-building activity undertaken by China in recent years in a bid to bolster its claims was illegal. China angrily vowed to ignore the ruling, describing it as “waste paper,” even though it had legal force through the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Next page Sea.

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IENTIANE—US President Barack Obama warned Beijing Thursday it could not ignore a tribunal’s ruling rejecting its sweeping claims to the South China Sea, driving tensions higher in a territorial row that threatens regional security.

Supreme Court have the same salary grade as congressmen. I receive P90,000 a month so it should be P1.1 million under the revised government salary standardization scheme,” Roque said. “The figures of CoA [Commission on Audit] are disturbing.” Each congressman gets a net pay of about P97,000 a month excluding allowances and other perks. But Deputy Court Administrator Raul Villanueva said the high court’s justices were only getting what they deserved. Next page twitter.com/ MlaStandard

the agents arrested seven Chinese nationals at the laboratory called the Jay Wong Hog Farm, which is near the Regional Training Center of the Philippine National Police and the Central Luzon Drug Rehabilitation Center. “The shabu lab is a research

Tale of tape belies denial on narco-list By John Paolo Bencito VIENTIANE—Peace Process Adviser Jesus Dureza on Thursday claimed that media reports linking former President Fidel

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THE terrorist group that bombed the Davao City night market plans to launch similar attacks in Metro Manila to create havoc and to insult President Rodrigo Duterte, who is waging a war on terrorism and illegal drugs, a former police intelligence chief said Thursday. The Daulat-ul Islamiya, a unit

of the Maute group in Mindanao that has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, was identified Wednesday as the group behind the Davao blast that killed 15 people and wounded 70 others. “They have indeed plans in Metro Manila. I can categorically tell you now, but I don’t know the targets,” former police intelligence director Rodolfo Mendoza Next page said.

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INSALUTARY GRIDLOCK. Motorists and commuters in Metro Manila get a mid morning jarring jab with the unpleasant traffic jam affecting a whole network of intersecting streets along the Estrella section of the capital’s major avenue Edsa. Ey Acasio

Health staff cuts bucked SENATE Minority Leader Ralph Recto on Thursday said he will question Health Department officials on their plan to pull out a battalion of doctors and a division of nurses from the war against diseases and from the campaign for wellness. “I will ask Health officials to explain the personnel cuts when they appear before the Senate this month to justify their proposed P141.6-billion budget for 2017,” Recto said. He said he also wanted to know if local governments were paying the doctors and nurses assigned to them. “Is there a hiring binge in lo-

cal government units using local funds? Or could it be due to an across-the-board decline in the number of sick people, that diseases are down?” Recto said. “Are there few applicants that they want to bring it down to a more realistic level?” Or is it simply a case of not having enough funds to bankroll the assignment of these people?” Recto said he believed the department “has been forced to cut the number of ‘untenured’ personnel due to the need to provide budget space for the second round of Next page

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