The Standard - 2016 May 13 - Friday

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Senate leadership still up in the air

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SENATE BETS JOIN ‘RIGGING’ PROTEST

By Christine F. Herrera and Sara Susanne D. Fabunan

SENATORIAL candidates raised a howl of protest Thursday over discrepancies between the tallied votes recorded by the poll watchdog Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting and the Commission on Elections, saying these suggested vote padding and shaving.

As the Comelec National Board of Canvassers convened, lawyers for independent senatorial candidate Francis Tolentino demanded a thorough investigation of discrepancies in the tallies of his votes from Davao del Sur, Laguna and Rizal.

Tolentino, who currently ranks 13th, objected to the canvassing of certificates of canvass from Davao

del Sur and questioned the “huge” discrepancies in the tallies.

Tolentino’s election returns from the PPCRV’s transparency server reflected 435,471 votes but the CoC tabulations transmitted to the Comelec recorded only 101,333 or a difference of 334,138 votes “shaved” from the Davao del Sur results.

Tolentino’s lawyers also noted that the Davao del Sur provincial

board of canvassers transmitted their CoCs four times.

In Misamis, some 100,000 votes were found missing from former senator Juan Miguel Zubiri’s tally in the PPCRV count. Zubiri now ranks 6th in the senatorial race.

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No rigging? Smartmatic general manager Elie Moreno listens as Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista fields questions about the alleged rigging of the results in the national elections held last Monday. LINO SANTOS

Palace dismisses ‘jail-PNoy’ proposal

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‘Duterte won’t be a vindictive president’

By John Paolo Bencito and Rio N. Araja THE presumptive president, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, will not follow in the footsteps of his predecessor in being vindictive against his political rivals, a trusted aide said Thursday.

“When the election is over, he would help the person who lost and is down. The

mayor is not vindictive,” Christopher Go, Duterte’s long-time executive assistant and campaign assistant manager, said.

After building up a commanding lead over his rivals in the unofficial quick count, Duterte offered to reconcile with his opponents, saying the time had come for healing.

This was in contrast to President Benigno Aquino III, who launched a

campaign to jail his predecessor, the President Gloria Arroyo and the Chief Justice and Ombudsman she had appointed.

In a press briefing Thursday, Duterte’s spokesman, Peter Laviña, said that the incoming president’s inauguration ceremony would be “simple and frugal.”

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Comelec blasted for late release of canvass reports Abono party-list secretary general Raul Casipit asked why the Comelec has not released any canvassed reports as it did in previous elections, saying this showed a lack of transparency.

In every other election, he said, the Comelec would release a series of reports summarizing and updating the votes that candidates obtained.

Journalists covering the elections also noted the lack of reports and had to buy copies of the CoCs instead.

Casipit said the canvassed reports are important because they provide all stakeholders an aggregate of official votes for specific periods.

“They should provide us with the canvassed reports that are signed by whoever is the authorized signatory,” Casipit said.

He added that this will also be their basis in proclaiming the winners.

The NBoC is currently canvassing a total of 165 certificates of canvass.

As of 9 p.m. Wednesday, the poll body has canvassed 68 CoCs of San Juan, Romblon, Cebu, Tarlac, Zambales, Baguio City, Batangas, Cebu, Biliran, Taguig-Pateros, Negros Occidental-Bacolod City, Camiguin, Sorsogon, Batanes, City of Malabon, City of Las Piñas, North Cotabato, Navotas, Siquijor, Laguna, Manila, Ilocos Sur, Malaysia, Guimaras, City of Pasig, Rizal, Mandaluyong, Oriental Mindoro, Albay, Muntinlupa, Dinagat Islands, Lanao del Norte, Camarines Norte, Benguet, Davao del Norte, Misamis Occidental, Antique, Compostela Valley, Occidental Mindoro, Bulacan, Misamis Oriental Catanduanes, Agusan del Norte, Quirino, Zamboanga del Sur, Bataan, Surigao del Sur, Masbate, Capiz, Ifugao, Cavite, City of Marikina, Kalinga, Davao del Sur, Davao Occidental, Tawi-Tawi and Pampanga.

Overseas votes already canvassed are those from Singapore, Spain, Bahrain, Lebanon, Korea, Qatar, Malaysia, Italy, Kuwait, Saudi, Japan, Prague, Buenos Aires, Vatican, Myanmar and Czech Republic.

The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) said it could not yet add the more than 400,000 overseas absentee votes to its ongoing unofficial tally, despite a report from the special board of canvassers in Bahrain that it has already transmitted to the Comelec the canvassed election returns.

Those returns showed Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte with 75.06 percent of the total votes cast, followed by administration candidate Manuel Roxas II with 9.87 percent.

In the vice presidential race, Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. received a high 44.97 percent of the total votes cast, followed by his closest rival, Senator Alan Peter Cayetano with 29.04 percent.

PPCRV media director Anna de Villa Singson told reporters that they have yet to receive the transmission of votes from abroad because the SBOC of the Philippine embassies abroad are still “consolidating” the results.

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by the PPCRV, who witnessed the tampering, told The Standard.

Marcos’ political campaign adviser Abakada Rep. Jonathan dela Cruz chided the Comelec for playing down the serious breach as mere “lapses.”

“We want to find out what alterations have been made beyond the names of the late presidential candidate Roy Señeres and reelectionist Senator Serge Osmeña,” Dela Cruz said.

A transcript of the video and audio recording of the “confrontation” between Smartmatic and PPCRVaccredited IT experts showed the admission of the Venezuelan Smartmatic IT expert that a “new script” had to be introduced to change the erroneous names of candidates.

The Venezuelan Smartmatic IT expert said the “ñ” was inadvertently replaced with a question mark.

“The issue here is no longer whether or not the results had been altered. The issue here is the integrity of the system and our quest for truth,” Dela Cruz said.

A few hours after the breach, the IT expert who requested anonymity, said a “clogging” in the system was observed and the one million vote lead of Marcos over his closest rival Camarines Sur Rep. Leni Robredo of the ruling Liberal Party started to narrow.

The source said the “major breach” would now compel Marcos and other senatorial candidates— Tolentino, Osmeña and Leyte Rep. Martin Romualdez—who ranked 13th, 14th and 15th, respectively, to question the integrity of the results and demand answers from the Comelec on how the violation of protocols could have possibly happened.

The source said all the PPCRV’s unofficial and Comelec’s official results would come only from a single source—the transparency server of the Comelec.

“The whole system has been

compromised. The integrity of the results is now under question. While everybody was busy doing the counting, the Venezuelan IT expert from Smartmatic inserted a new script or a new computer program into the system around 7:30 p.m. of Monday, May 9, 2016,” the IT expert told The Standard.

The IT expert said there was no Comelec official present when the tampering of the system took place.

When confronted, the source said the Venezuelan admitted that the order to introduce a new script came from Marlon Garcia, project director of Smartmatic.

The source said the “confrontation” had been recorded on video and audio.

“The Smartmatic IT expert’s job was only to ‘receive, decrypt and distribute’ the files. Since we are also IT experts and we have been doing this since the preparation for seven months already, we knew what the Venezuelan did was something irregular. He introduced a new script, a new computer program and commands that could alter everything and supersede the existing program,” he said.

He explained that the breach was confirmed when the “hash code” that was inside the transparency server was different from the hash code brought in by the Smartmatic.

“The hash code inside the transparency server should be the same as the one to be inserted. We saw they’re different so we started to be suspicious and confronted the guy,” the source said.

But Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista played down the new script and described it as “tweaking.”

“It is true that someone from Smartmatic corrected a script— from ‘?’ to ‘ñ’,” Bautista said, but assured the public the “tweaking” would not “affect the integrity of the numbers.”

Earlier, a lawyer for Marcos, Francesca Huang, said the transparency server had been

By Sara Susanne D. Fabunan

THE Commission on Elections sitting as the National Board of Canvassers has still not released any canvassed reports or official count for senators and partylists, three days after the start of canvassing.

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the allegations of a “serious breach” in which a technician of Smartmatic inserted a new program that may have altered the hash codes of the Comelec transparency server.

This was revealed yesterday by an IT expert monitoring the PPCRV server.

A Venezuelan Smartmatic technician admitted to installing the program when confronted.

“That a foreign national can simply make alterations to the AES programming raises questions on the credibility and integrity of the whole election process. The system is not secure from tampering from within,” Bayan secretary-general Renato Reyes Jr. said.

“There should be a thorough investigation as well on the transmission of votes that took place on May 9 and the alleged discrepancies between the figures that appeared in the Comelec’s official count and the transparency servers,” he said.

Both Comelec and Smartmatic, Reyes said, were to blame for any doubts in the results of the elections.

The camp of independent vice presidential candidate Senator Marcos on Thursday also demanded that Smartmatic and Comelec open up its “network operating system” based in Fort Bonifacio or Comelec command center to find out the extent of the tampering beyond the changing of names bearing the “letter ñ” after the hash code was “illegally” changed.

“Once you breached the security and changed the hash code of the transparency server that receives all the transmitted encrypted files, including the results and election returns, anything goes, everything is compromised, anything can be altered, even the results. They can do anything from afar without us even looking,” the IT expert accredited

fairs said only 7,269 voters cast their ballots at the Philippine Embassy in Bahrain, representing 39.3 percent of the 18,497 registered voters there.

Singson again denied there was any manipulation because they do not control the transmission of election returns from abroad.

The overseas votes are significant this year as they represent some 400,000 votes in a close vice presidential race with only 200,000 votes separating Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Camarines Sur Rep. Leni Robredo.

Singson said the PPCRV will continue to monitor OAV votes as well as those from areas where there would be special elections on Saturday for the sake of transparency in light of the tight contest in the vice presidential race.

“In a contest as tightly contested as this, every vote is important. So there is transparency and immediate transmission,” she said.

Edgardo Castro, chief of the Overseas Voting Secretariat of the Department of Foreign Affairs said that as of May 10, only 0.64 percent of OAV votes have been transmitted to the transparency server of the Commission on Elections. breached when a new script was introduced.

In a press conference, both the Comelec and its technical provider Smartmatic admitted that there were changes made on May 9 at 7:30 p.m.

Bautista said it was Smartmatic project manager Marlon Garcia who corrected all candidates with a “?” to “ñ”.

“He confirmed that the data has ‘?’

In the name of a candidate. He then made the necessary modification on the script and corrected the ‘?’ to an ‘ñ’ right away,” Bautista said.

Bautista denied that he was involved in the tweaking, or that he ordered Garcia to change the script.

Bautista added that the Smartmatic action was just a “cosmetic change” and that the public has nothing to worry about.

“Several candidates had names with ‘ñ’. So it would look funny for names such as Señeres and Napeñas have question marks. It was thought that it would be cleaner if changes were to be made,” the poll chief added.

Bautista also slammed accusations of cheating from the Marcos camp.

“There is no cheating whatsoever,” Bautista said while shaking his head, and maintained that the Comelec records are open to the public for scrutiny.

“If you wish to obtain records from us we will provide anything,” he said.

Comelec Commissioner Christian Robert Lim admitted that the correction by Smartmatic was a lapse in protocol. He added that there was no need to make changes if it was for “cosmetic purposes.”

“If you ask me, had I been informed ahead, I would have said no. Now, it just added more fuel to (the controversy over the elections),” he said.

Smartmatic project director Ellie Moreno said Garcia acted it in good faith. With Sandy Araneta, Vito Barcelo and John Paolo Bencito

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past that it will be simple [and] frugal. We have also to consider the prestige of the Office of the President so we will make the inaguration fitting for such institution,” Laviña said.

Duterte’s campaign finance chief Carlos Dominguez said the new administration would focus on removing opportunities for corruption and to ensure the Philippines is an attractive investment destination.

Duterte’s transition team also said outgoing Senator Pia Cayetano would take a Cabinet position to ensure greater representation of women in his government.

“Whether it is a man or a woman occupying that top-level position, we want to be sure that that person is gender-sensitive,” said Cayetano, who was also named as an adviser to the Duterte transition committee.

Laviña said some officials of the Aquino administration would be part of the new government, but he did not say who these were.

Laviña, meanwhile, said Duterte would attend a social gathering of Sultan Bolkiah in Brunei in August to strengthen diplomatic ties with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

“We were told that in August, the Sultan of Brunei will host a gathering [for]...heads of states….

This is purely a social gathering, not a state visit,” Laviña said.

The event will be a good opportunity to meet all the Asean leaders and to assure them that the administration is ready for and fully supports Asean integration, Laviña said.

Even before the May 9 elections, Duterte said he wanted to visit Pope Francis in Vatican City “win or lose not only to pay homage, but to ask for forgiveness” for cursing Pope Francis for causing traffic during his Manila visit in January 2015, Laviña said.

He said he was tasked to review the protocols on state visits.

The spokesman said Duterte also plans to see the exiled communist leader Jose Ma. Sison in the Netherlands.

“There was a discussion of a meeting last December,” he added.

In the Palace, a transition team met to prepare for the turnover of power at the end of June.

Aquino’s transition committee is headed by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. and will coordinate with Duterte’s transition team.

Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said, however, that no meeting between the two sides has been set yet.

Aquino earlier confirmed calling up Duterte’s executive assistant, Go, to inform them that an administrative order was being drafted to effect the “smoothest transition possible.”

Aquino, who will step down as president at noon of June 30, said he also offered to have his Cabinet brief Duterte’s team.

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Senate presidency a toss-up THE fight for the Senate presidency in the coming 17th Congress would likely be a three-way contest among two incumbent senators and a returning senator.

The highest position in the Senate will be a toss-up among Partido ng Demokratikong Pilipino-Laban ng Bayan president Aquilino Pimentel III, Senate Majority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano and former Senator Panfilo Lacson.

In a text message, Pimentel said he was open to leading the Senate but that he was not anxious about it.

“If called to serve in that capacity, it’s my duty as PDP-Laban president to push for the governance agenda not only of my party but also of my president,” Pimentel said.

“But ultimately, that will depend on the collective will of my colleagues in the Senate.”

Pimentel on Thursday also said they were now receiving feelers from those wanting to join the PDP-Laban after Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte clinched the presidency in the May 9 elections.

He described their number as “too many” that he could not keep track of all of them.

Pimentel, whose term ends in 2019, ran as an independent candidate in the last senatorial race after he severed ties with the United Nationalist Alliance when Vice President Jejomar Binay

opted to include incoming Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri in its senatorial slate.

The son and namesake of former Senate President Aquilino Pimentel II had accused Zubiri of cheating him in the 2010 elections and depriving him of his seat in the Senate.

Lacson also served as director of the Philippine National Police and was appointed

by President Benigno Aquino III as presidential assistant for Rehabilitation and Recovery in the aftermath of Super Typhoon “Yolanda” that ravaged eastern Visayas.

Lacson said he was not keen on leading the Senate.

“Count me out. I’m not interested,” said Lacson, an independent candidate who staged a comeback in the Senate under the wing of the ruling Liberal Party.

“It’s a compromised and a compromising position that I won’t fit in.”

Duterte had offered Cayetano the post of secretary of either the Department of Foreign Affairs or the Department of Justice, but he may assume the position only after a year after he ran for vice president in the recent elections. Macon Ramos-Araneta

Orderly and peaceful elections. International observers said the Philippine elections were generally orderly and peaceful during a press conference in Manila on Thursday. LINO SANTOS

Visayan Bloc to unite to pick a House speaker THE Visayan Bloc in the House of Representatives has consolidated its forces in a bid to unite behind a single candidate for speaker for the 17th Congress, a House official said Thursday.

Reelectionist Negros Occidental Rep. Alfredo Benitez,lead convener of the Visayan Bloc, said the group had yet to make any commitment to back any candidate for speaker of the House for the next Congress.

But the group composed of 46 congressmen would commit to support presumptive president Rodrigo Duterte’s push for his legislative advocacies on peace and order, pov-

erty reduction, public health and education, Benitez said.

Benitez, chairman of the House Committee on Housing and Urban Development, said the group will meet next week to discuss a common stand on the speakership and welcome its new members.

Expected to be at the center of the discussion is the race for the House leadership between incumbent Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. and returning Davao del Sur Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez, PDP-Laban’s secretary-general.

House sources said Belmonte, vice chairman of President Benigno Aquino III’s Liberal Party, would want to keep his post as speaker.

Belmonte has the support of at least 100 Liberal Party congressmen who will become members of the 17th Congress, while Alvarez claims Duterte is behind his speakership bid.

The sources floated Benitez’s name as a dark horse in the speakership contest.

One of them said the Visayan Bloc had at least 46 members that had been voting on key measures in the House, and that it could support any candidate for speaker.

Benitez said the Visayan Bloc had yet to pledge support for any candidate for speaker of the 17th Congress, although what its stand would be on the issue was high in its agenda.

“Right now, we can only commit to the next president our cooperation in acting on the measures that will help realize his programs for peace and order, poverty reduction, better public health and affordable education for our youth,” Benitez said.

The Visayan Bloc will reconvene on May 18, three days earlier than the original May 21 schedule.

“The resetting of the scheduled meeting to an earlier date underscores the urgency of addressing one of the most crucial tasks confronting us, which is choosing the next speaker,” Benitez said. Maricel V. Cruz

Special elections to be held Saturday ASIDE from 11 municipalities, three more towns are set to hold special elections on May 14 after they failed to hold elections on May 9, the Commission on Elections said Thursday.

The commission had declared a failure of elections in three clustered precincts in three towns in three provinces, paving the way for Saturday’s elections.

The three precincts are in Sultan Kudarat in Maguindanao, in Loreto in Agusan del Sur and in Hinigaran, Negros Occidental.

The military units deployed in the 52 clustered precincts where the special elections will be held will still be on red alert, acting Armed Forces chief-of-staff Glorious Miranda said on Thursday.

Chief Supt. Wilben Mayor, Philippine National Police spokesman, said the PNP was ready to ensure security in the places

set to hold special elections.

He said the police were ready to serve as Board of Election inspectors once they were deputized by the Comelec.

In the precinct in Sultan Kudarat, the Comelec said no elections were held after the ballot box containing the election materials were forcibly taken by unidentified men.

The Comelec said the printing of 703 official ballots had already been ordered as well as the allocation of the required election materials.

It said it had already ordered the military and the police to secure the special elections.

Meanwhile, the elections failed to take place in Loreto in Agusan del Sur and in Hinigaran in Negros Occidental after they encountered problems with their ballots.

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Wong Chu King Foundation in partnership with San Juan Lions Club. Pursuing its vision of a better quality of life for the less fortunate, the Wong Chu King Foundation (WCKF) and Lions Club International San Juan chapter organized a whole day medical/dental initiative for around 700 residents at the barangay hall covered court of Barangay San Pedro, San Juan City. The WCKF provided both children and adults with medicines, medical supplies and footwear.

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‘Duterte policies must be clarified’

International support. Chinese foreign ministry official Xu Hong, director general of the ministry’s department of treaty and law, insists during a media briefing on Thursday that Beijing enjoys international support on its position on the South China Sea. AGP PHOTO

Palace dismisses Joma taunt on Aquino, Abad

By Sandy Araneta THE Palace dismissed the suggestion of communist leader Jose Ma. Sison that the incoming Duterte administration arrest and jail outgoing President Benigno Aquino III and his Budget secretary Florencio Abad over their misuse of public funds via congressional pork barrel.

“Regarding the arrest, it is a prospective scenario. It is not feasible between now and June 30,” said Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr., referring to the end of Aquino’s term next month.

“There are many questions that pertains to prospective actions of the incoming administration and the incoming president... Maybe it would be better to wait for it to happen first,” Coloma said, adding that speculations do not help

create conducive business climate.

Coloma was reacting to the statement that Sison posted on his Facebook page suggesting Aquino and Abad’s arrest for plunder because they were “responsible for looting and unprecedented corruption” in the allocation of Priority Development Assistance Fund that was outlawed by the Supreme Court.

Sison posted the remarks on Wednesday, several days after Duterte announced that he would

consider releasing some detained communist rebels in a bid to jumpstart peace talks with the National Democratic Front which has been stalled since February 2011.

“It is the hope that we can meet before his oathtaking as he promised during my Skype conference with him on April 25. He said he would come soon after [he is elected President],” Sison said on his Facebook page.

Sison said representatives of the CPP and Duterte were holding preparatory talks for the visit, the date of which he did not disclose.

“I expect to meet President Duterte soon in Europe, whether the meeting is preceded by, concurrent with or followed by preliminary meetings of the [Government of the Philippines] and ]National Democratic Front of the Philippines] negotiating panels,” Sison said.

Sison hopes that the meeting would be held before Duterte’s oathtaking on June 30.

Sison showed a video recording of his internet video conversation with Duterte, where the Davao mayor mentioned his plan to visit the CPP leader based in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Duterte, in the video recording, said his meeting with Sison was aimed at preparing the agenda for the resumption of peace talks and threshing out related issues.

Sison also welcomed the declaration of Duterte’s spokesperson, Peter Laviña, that the incoming president may release jailed communist rebels.

Laviña also disclosed that Duterte would allow Sison and other exiled communist leaders to return to the country for the resumption of the peace talks and to review the status of political prisoners.

THE announced policies of presumptive president Rodrigo Duterte, particularly the planned implementation of curfew and a liquor ban, should be clarified so that people know its details, particularly its impact on the economy, the Palace said on Thursday.

“It would be best and reasonable that we await the presentation of his total national program to understand thoroughly the various parts of it, such as those pertaining to the youth,” said Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. when asked about the matter.

Duterte spokesperson Peter Laviña had earlier announced that the incoming administration may impose a 10 p.m. curfew on unaccompanied children and a liquor ban in public places after 1 a.m.

Although the measures may be enacted via executive order, Laviña said it would be best if the policies are implemented via the regular legislative process.

But questions arose amid fears that the liquor ban plan may have a negative impact on employment, particularly in the burgeoning restaurant and liquor manufacturing industries, as well as the government’s collections from sin taxes.

Already, the stocks of liquor makers fell on Thursday with the shares of the Lucio Tan Group, which includes Asia Brewery and Tanduay, and Emperador Inc., sustaining significant drops in prices.

The spokesman for Duterte on Tuesday clarified some details about his planned implementation of a curfew and a liquor ban for the next administration.

Peter Laviña explained why Duterte put up the measures, which he said will be implemented nationwide when the mayor becomes president.

Jinggoy, Napoles bail denied

United coalition. Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community gathered at the National Church of Christ in the Philippines building in Quezon City to support the call of president-apparent Rodrigo Duterte for unity after a divisive election. MANNY PALMERO

THE Sandiganbayan dismissed with finality on Thursday the motions for bail of Senator Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada and Janet Lim Napoles for lack of merit.

Estrada is being detained for the “nonbailable” offense of plunder for allegedly getting P183-million “kickbacks” from his Priority Development Assistance Fund in 2004 to 2012 channeled through a bogus non-government organization of Napoles.

Napoles is the alleged “brains” behind the P10billion pork barrel and the

P900-million Malampaya Fund scams.

“After this Court has scrutinized every detail of the evidence presented, there is no need to impose on it again the same duty prescribed on the same arguments,” the Sandiganbayan Fifth Division said.

“There being no new matter sufficiently persuasive to induce a modification of the questioned Resolution, the denial of the pending Motion for Reconsideration is only inevitable,” it added.

“Otherwise, as held in PCIB v. Escolin, a rep-

etition of arguments or grounds already discussed in prior incidents may properly be categorized as merely for purposes of delay which this Court should never tolerate,” the Sandiganbayan said.

“Wherefore the Motion for Reconsideration filed by accused Senator Jose “Jinggoy” P. Ejercito Estrada is denied for lack of merit,” it added.

“In the same manner, the Motion for Reconsideration filed by accused Janet Lim Napoles is denied for lack of merit,” the Sandiganbayan said.

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17 draft laws need House action

By Maricel V. Cruz The house of Representatives will tackle several measures of national and local importance starting on May 23 before the current 16th Congress closes in June.

Based on data of the house of Representatives as of May 5, 2016, there are 17 measures of national concern and eight local bills pending for action by the bicameral conference committee.

The measures, after approval by their respective conference panels, shall be ratified by both chambers during the remaining days of the 16th Congress before giving way to its constitutional mandate of jointly conducting the presidential and vice presidential canvass of votes.

The measures pending in conference deal with issues like anti-graft and corruption, housing, retirement benefits, agrarian reform, foreign trade, public transport safety, investments and judicial concerns, among others.

Both the house and the Senate will resume session on May 23 after more than three week break to give way for May 9 general elections.

Upon resumption, the two chambers of Congress will convene as the National Board of Canvassers for presidential and vice presidential votes.

After fulfilling their canvassing tasks, the house is expected to attend to its legislative functions and attend to several measures that are up for approval.

These include: hB 772-An Act amending Presidential Decree No. 1638, otherwise known as the AFP Military Personnel Retirement and Separation Decree of 1979, by amending a new Section 25-A granting children/survivors who are mentally retarded exemption from termination of benefits upon reaching 21 years of age, appropriating funds therefor; hB 3785An Act strengthening and institutionalizing direct credit support of the Land Bank of the Philippines to Agrarian Reform beneficiaries, small farmers and fisherfolk, further amending R.A. 3844, otherwise known as the Agricultural Land Reform Code, as amended; hB 4116-An Act strengthening the balanced housing Development Program, amending for the purpose R.A 7279, entitled ‘An Act to provide for a Comprehensive and Continuing Urban Development and housing Program, establishing the mechanism for its implementation and for other purposes; hB 4146-An Act increasing the prescriptive period from 15 years to 30 years for the violation of R.A. 3019, otherwise known as the Anti-graft and Corrupt Practices Act, amending Section 11 therefor; hB 4730-An Act requiring business establishments to give exact change to consumers; hB 5076-An Act creating the Philippine Trade Representative Office and appropriating funds therefor; hB 5417-And Act regulating the Philippine Credit Card Industry; hB 5617-An Act establishing the regulatory framework for the safe operation of the liquefied petroleum gas industry and penalizing certain prohibited acts; hB 5855-An Act reorganizing and modernizing the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and providing funds therefor; hB 5911-An Act requiring the mandatory installation of speed limiter in public utility and certain types of vehicles; hB 6040-An Act banning the reappointment of a regular member of the Judicial and Bar Council who has already served the full term; hB 6268-An Act modifying the Compensation and Position Classification System of the civilian government personnel and the base pay schedule of Military and Uniformed personnel in the Government, and for other purposes; and hB 6395-An Act removing/amending investment restrictions in specific laws governing adjustment companies, lending companies, financing companies and investment houses cited in the Foreign Investment Negative List, except those in the Constitution.

The others in the list are bills granting or extending franchises to telecommunications and broadcast companies in the country.

Celebration. Army officers and men join a boodle fight at Camp Aguinaldo on Thursday to celebrate their successful handling of the May 9 election as one of the Comelec-deputized security agencies. MANNY PALMERO

Justice taps realtors in anti-fraud campaign

By Rey Requejo

The housing and Land Use Regulatory Board can compel subdivision and condominium project owners and developers to regularly submit information on their financial condition and reports for their projects in a bid to address issue of “shadow banking.”

In a four-page legal opinion, Justice Secretary emmanuel Caparas upheld the position of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas that hLURB can impose such a requirement.

“The authority of the hLURB to require from project owners and developers the regular submission of financial reports for a given project can be implied from the express grant of power to regulate the real estate trade and business,” the legal opinion stated.

BSP Deputy Governor Vicente Aquino sought DoJ’s legal opinion on whether the hLURB, under its existing powers and authority, can require project owners and developers to submit on a regular basis, cer-

tain information relating to their financial condition and reports for their projects.

The request was sought following the directive of the BSP, the government agency which has been monitoring the proliferation of shadow banking, to ensure a safe financial system by identifying and mitigating risks related to such illegal activity. earlier, Aquino informed the DoJ that the BSP had discussions with hLURB on the possibility of requiring subdivision or condominium project owners and developers to regularly submit their financial statements for a given project.

Based on the proposal, a data or report template will have to be accomplished by owners and developers in order to capture their shadow banking activities.

The report will require details of the subdivision and condominium project owners’ or developers’ financial condition, borrowings from non-bank sources, and installment sales.

The Justice department noted that Presidential Decree (PD) No. 957, otherwise known as the Subdivision and Con-

dominium Buyers Protective Decree, granted the National housing Authority the exclusive jurisdiction to regulate the real estate business.

On the other hand, under executive Order No. 648, the NhA’s regulatory functions were transferred to the human Settlements Regulatory Commission, now renamed as the hLURB. The DoJ also explained that PD 957 grants to NhA the power to suspend or revoke licenses, when the registration statement has become misleading, incorrect, inadequate or incomplete, carries the power to require regular submission of financial statements.

In addition, PD 957 requires financial statements consisting of capitalization, balance sheet showing the amount and general character of its assets and liabilities and a copy of articles of incorporation, partnership or association.

The Implementing Rules and Regulations of PD 957 also requires the submission of semestral reports on operations showing the sales status.

Poll discards: 87 tons so far

By Joel E. Zurbano

Observers. International election observers declare the recent national election as generally peaceful and orderly despite glitches and irregularities during a press conference held at Ilustrado restaurant in Manila on Thursday, May 12, 2016.

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The Metro Manila Development Authority has begun removing campaign posters and other election paraphernalia used by candidates in the May 9 polls.

So far, according to MMDA Metro Parkway Cleaning Group chief Francis Martinez, his team composed of 350 personnel already collected 313 cubic meters of election materials equivalent to 87 tons. he said the agency expected 100 truckloads of election materials at the end of MMDA’s operation on May 30.

Martinez also noted that the number of removed election materials has increased this year compared to 2013.

“In 2013, we were able to collect 83 tons only until the end of May 28, but now, we already have 87 tons and we are not done roving Metro Manila” he said.

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By Eric Apolonio STRESSING that the use of illegal drugs will not be tolerated among employees of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, Director General William K. Hotchkiss III has ordered the immediate removal of seven contractual workers at the Zamboanga International Airport.

The seven CAAP employees tested positive for the use of methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu) in random drug testing conducted on May 10 by the agency’s Office of the Flight Surgeon and Aviation Medicine.

Hotchkiss directed the termination of their contracts and ordered an investigation by CAAP’s Hearing and Adjudication Board on the regular employee who was also found to be using illegal drugs.

Hotchkiss previously ordered disciplinary action on 12 agency workers who tested positive for the use of shabu and of marijuana in random drug testing conducted by the OFSAM from January to April in all 19 of the 41 commercial airports managed by the CAAP. He added that a memorandum he issued on March 7, 2013 encapsulates the provisions of the two laws pertaining to the campaign against illegal drugs.

Hotchkiss cited the Philippine Civil Aviation Regulation on Psychoactive Testing and Reporting to ensure that all CAAP employees do not use narcotics.

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El Niño weakens; La Niña watch begins AREAS in the country’s eastern portion face the grim prospects of bearing the brunt of the rain-inducing La Niña phenomenon which experts increasingly forecast as possibly developing later this year.

“If La Niña develops then as predicted, its big impact will be felt during 2017’s first quarter in eastern parts of the country,” said Climate Monitoring and Prediction Section OIC Anthony Lucero from Staterun Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration.

Lucero noted that the first quarter of the year is also when the rainy season generally peaks in the country’s eastern portion so communities there

must prepare accordingly.

“La Niña aggravates the rainy season,” he continued.

Lucero said Isabela, Quezon, Leyte and Samar as well as Regions V (Bicol) and XIII (Caraga) are among eastern Philippine areas at risk of La Niña’s fury.

Such areas border the Pacific Ocean where La Niña and the drought-driving El Niño phenomenon develop.

According to experts, La Nina and El Nino are the corresponding

cool and warm phases of a recurring natural climate pattern called El NinoSouthern Oscillation (ENSO) across tropical Pacific.

An ENSO-neutral state is one in which conditions are near long-term average, they said.

Above-normal rainfall is a mark of La Niña while shortage of precipitation is a manifestation of El Niño, experts said.

Landslides and flooding are among consequences of abovenormal rainfall during La Nina, they noted.

This week, Pagasa said the prevailing El Niño continues to weaken and will likely be ENSO-neutral already by mid-2016.

“The possibility of a developing La Niña is favored during the second half of 2016,” Pagasa also said.

Such forecast prompted government to reactivate its La Niña watch.

Data indicate La Niña and El Niño generally occur alternately.

The last La Niña episode occurred from August-September-October 2011 to February-March-April 2012, data also show.

Citing as basis latest available climate models and historical data, Lucero estimated an 80 percent chance for La Niña’s development during the second semester of 2016.

“Historical records show three out of four La Niña episodes occurred after strong El Niño events,” he said. PNA

Traffic snarl. Enforcers direct traffic along P. Burgos St. near the Manila City Hall after fallen cable and electric wires caused a snarl on May 12, 2016.

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PAO steps into tanim-bala case

By Rey E. Requejo

Late protest. Supporters of Makati’s mayoral bet Romulo ‘Kid’ Peña hold a protest

rally at the City Hall grounds on Thursday, May 12, 2016. The protesters are demanding a recount of votes although Comelec has proclaimed Abigail Binay as winner. LINO SANTOS

THE Public Attorney’s Office has sought the transfer of the case involving an elderly couple from the Department of Justice to the Pasay City Prosecutor’s Office.

The couple claimed to be the latest victims of the alleged bullet-planting scheme at the airport and countered with charges of extortion against three personnel of the Office of Transport Security.

In a letter to Prosecutor General Claro A. Arellano, PAO Chief Persida RuedaAcosta stressed that it is only necessary to transfer the case against Salvacion Cortabi-

sta, 75, and husband Esteban Cortabista, 78, before the Pasay City Prosecutor’s Office because the city prosecutor is the vice chairman of the Special Task Force created by the DoJ. Acosta also argued that the Regional Trial Court of Pasay City also has jurisdiction over the case in the event that a criminal action will be filed against the couple.

The Cortabistas were supposed to go to the United States to seek medical treatment for their severe arthritis when they were stopped at the airport after an ammunition was discovered in the handbag of Salvacion.

They already filed a criminal case against the wheelchair attendant Niño Namba and x-ray screeners Ferdinand Morales and Fatti Dame Go of the OTS before the Pasay Prosecutors’ Office.

The couple insisted that Namba, Morales and Go conspired to plant a bullet inside Salvacion’s handbag to extort money from her.

After the bullet was discovered, the couple said Morales told them, “‘Mahina ang P50,000 dyan [P50,000 would be a small amount for that],’ clearly intimating that they should pay in order for Salvacion to be able to board the aircraft.”

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Wash and bathe. Women from Barangay Sibulan in Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur, wash their clothes by the bank of the Sibulan River while their children play in the water. OMAR MANGORSI

Duterte children named Davao mayor, vice mayor DAVAO CITY—The daughter of presumptive president Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, Sara DuterteCarpio, and son Paolo Duterte, were proclaimed mayor and vice mayor of Davao City, respectively.

Both, however, were absent during the proclamation by the Board of Canvassers on Wednesday afternoon.

Sara’s husband, lawyer Manases Carpio, and Paolo’s lawyer Charmalou Aldevera represented the siblings and received the Certificate of Canvas of Votes from the Board.

The BoC declared that Sara obtained 576,677 votes while Paolo has 522,519 total votes from 1,280 precincts.

Davao City has 873,670 total registered voters and 6,449 total precincts.

The BoC earlier proclaimed the winners for the three congressional dis-

tricts and the city council.

Proclaimed were unopposed first district congressional candidate Karlo Alexie Nograles with total votes of 198,304; second district congressional candidate Mylene Garcia with 148,509 votes; and the brother of incumbent Rep. Isidro Ungab, engineer Alberto Ungab, for the third district with 114,389 votes.

For the first district city council, Comelec proclaimed Maria Belen Acosta (154,648 votes), Melchor Quitain Jr. (146,789), Edgar Ibuyan Jr. (143,883), Leah Librado (139,078), Bonifacio Militar (127,357), Nilo Abellera Jr. (126,918), Joanne Bonguyan

(117,782), and Pilar Braga (107,082). Quitain and Ibuyan are newcomers in this district.

For the second district are Marissa Abella (122,331), Cherry Bonguyan (118,248), Al Ryan Alejandre (117,112), Danny Dayanghirang (115,060), Dante Apostol (112,019), April Marie Dayap (108,539), Jimmy Dureza (105,578), and Diosdado Mahipus (104,413).

For the third district are Bernard Al-ag (117,120), Abegail Ortiz (103,423), Victorio Advincula Jr. (99,427), Jesus Zozobrado III (98,896), Antoinette Principe (97,358), Joselle Villafuerte (95,567), Conrado Baluran (89,057), and Rene Elias Lopez (88,460).

The total votes counted in Davao City represent 80 percent of the 873,670 total voters. The 2016 results had faster turnout and transmission of votes compared to the 2013 and 2010 elections.

Former appellate justice passes away

By Orlan Mauricio MALOLOS CITY—Former Court of Appeals associate Justice Jose dela Rama Sr. who founded and served as the first dean of the Bulacan State University College of Law died in his sleep last Monday evening. He was 89.

He is survived by his wife Dolores Ignacio and their children Rebecca, Josefina, Cynthia, Jose Jr. and Ruth, as well as 12 grandchildren and a great granddaughter. His son and namesake Jose Jr. (Peng) is currently the governor of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines-Central Luzon chapter.

Students of law at the BulSU here mourned his death especially at a time when a graduate of the school landed in the top 10 spot in the recently released result of the 2015

Bar exams. This was nine years after the college was established.

Dela Rama was a sought-after trial lawyer during his prime. He became a judge and later moved up to become a justice of the appellate court. He retired with an unblemished record in the judiciary and public service.

One of his former students, now Malolos trial lawyer Julius Victor Degala, recalled that even at an old age when he was dean of the college, Dela Rama was sharp in the citation of legal jurisprudence.

“He was deeply passionate about his love for country. He would always fight for the rights of the Filipinos and spearhead groundbreaking activities such as the use of Filipino language in courts. He will be surely missed,” Degala said.

3 motor riders die in N. Ecija mishap

By Ferdie G. Domingo CABANATUAN CITY—Three motorcycle riders died while another civilian was injured when two motorcycles collided head-on along the national highway in Gabaldon, Nueva Ecija Wednesday night.

Senior Supt. Manuel Cornel, provincial police director, identified the fatalities as Alex de Leon, 35, of Barangay Bagong Sikat; Christian Gutay, 19, and John Billy Lubao, both of Barangay South Poblacion, all of Gabaldon town.

The three died from severe head injuries.

Injured was Ariston Santiago, 36, also of South Poblacion.

Police said the accident occurred at Purok Magsaysay, Barangay Ligaya, Gabaldon at around 9 p.m. Wednesday. De Leon was driving a black Kawasaki with license plate 4891-HT back-rided by Santiago bound for the town proper from Cabanatuan City when it collided head-on with an unlicensed black Suzuki driven

by Gutay and with Lubao seated at the back seat traveling in the opposite

direction to Cabanatuan.

Santiago told police that the Suzuki motorcycle was traveling at full speed and the driver lost control of the steering wheel at a road curve.

De Leon, Gutay and Lubao were rushed to Gabaldon Medicare Community Hospital but were declared dead-on-arrival by the attending physician.

Santiago sustained injuries to his right leg and his body and was rushed to the Paulino J. Garcia Memorial Research and Medical Center for treatment.

Terminal. Guiuan, Eastern Samar—badly hit by Typhoon ‘Yolanda’ in 2013—now has a new transport terminal. MEL CASPE

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WHAT WE EXPECT OF DUTERTE THE Aquino administration has highlighted the solid economic growth of the Philippines during the recent campaign period.

Many in the business circle and the academe agreed with the record, but for many of the Filipinos who trooped to the polls, the economic gains did little to improve their lot.

The millions of voters who elected Rodrigo Duterte to the presidency ignored the statistical gains posted by the Philippine economy during the term of President Benigno Aquino III. Poverty rates remain high, with majority of the Filipinos still unable to get jobs. Duterte exploited the rising discontent among the voters, who felt they did not benefit from the economic growth in the last six years.

Aquino’s economic growth record simply did not resonate with many Filipinos, as shown by the results of the presidential elections. The economic expansion failed to create a trickle-down effect on majority of the Filipinos, who have also to contend with the nightmarish traffic in metropolitan areas, inefficient mass transportation system and rising crime incidents.

Many Filipinos were disenchanted and did not want the status quo to continue.

They called for a more substantive and inclusive economic growth, which Duterte hopefully would deliver.

With a mandate, Duterte must now draw up an economic plan that can produce faster results and ease the dissatisfaction of the population. He can start with the construction of long-delayed infrastructure projects, especially roads, that will provide access to the countryside and rural folks.

The rural sector, or the areas hardly reached by decent roads, has contributed little to the gross domestic product. Farmers and fishermen, for one, do not have clear access to the market of their produce due to bad roads and poor port facilities. They easily succumb to the middlemen or traders, who purchase their goods at cheap prices.

Economic growth will become inclusive once those in the countryside improve their income and purchasing power. It is the challenge that Duterte must address to avoid the failures of past administrations.

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MORE QUESTIONS LOWDOWN JOJO A. ROBLES

COMMISSION on Elections Chairman Andres Bautista tried his best to answer allegations of cheating in the vice presidential race yesterday.

But I think all Bautista succeeded in doing was to raise more questions about what happened when elections contractor Smartmatic fiddled around with the computer code of the transparency server used by media and poll watchdog groups to come up with their controversial “quick count.”

The revelation by this paper that a Smartmatic employee, on the night of May 9, election day, changed the hash code of the transparency server used by the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting and the media is disturbing. The circumstances surrounding the change are alarming, as well.

According to the unidentified IT expert who made the disclosure, Smartmatic project director Marlon Garcia, a Venezuelan, inserted a new script to the program being used by Comelec to tally the results at around 7:30 p.m. on Monday, without proper authorization from the poll agency. According to both Smartmatic and Comelec, Garcia made the change because the automated election system provider wanted to show the “enye” symbol, which they said was turning up as a question mark in the names of candidates in the election.

If that was the objective, then it certainly is laudable. But there were other questions that Garcia’s action raised that were not answered by Comelec and its systems provider.

Here are some of them: How did the offending symbol escape the notice of Comelec when it tested the program—thoroughly, according to its claims?

Why did Garcia not ask formal and competent

The rigging controversy could call into question the accuracy of the entire election.

permission from Comelec, which already owns the AES that Smartmatic created for it and which had already placed the source code in escrow, to prevent further, unauthorized changes on it?

What was the reason for making the change so late on election day—coincidentally, shortly before the alleged inexplicable rise in the votes of vice

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presidential candidate Leni Robredo started?

And finally—and this question is really important—if a Smartmatic employee successfully changed the program to fix a typographical glitch, what guarantee do we have that nothing else was changed? *** That said, I think the pro-administration and pro-Leni Robredo crowd have got it all wrong when they say that questions about the alleged rigging of the vote are intended solely to boost the chances of Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the vice presidential contest.

There is that, of course— but there’s more.

The rigging controversy, while it was first raised

by Marcos after his camp noted the strange statistical phenomena surrounding his decline and Robredo’s rise the night after the polls closed, will not only have an impact on that race. It could actually call into question the accuracy of the entire election.

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NOW FADES ALL EARTHLY SPLENDOR PENSEES FR. RANHILIO CALLANGAN AQUINO THE last prayer of the day in the Divine Office is known as “Compline,” night prayers— “cumpletas” in Spanish. And one hymn there has lyrics that provide a sobering reminder that life’s day knows its own dusk: “Now fades all earthly splendor, the shades of night descend. The falling of the daylight foretells creation’s end.” Time was that popes were crowned in splendor, carried on thrones to the clamor of adulating crowds. Robed in gilded vestments and receiving a triple crown, it was useful for them to be reminded that glory is transient. So a monk, garbed and hooded as monks are, interrupted the glorious procession, burned a handful of flax before the pope and uttered the admonition: “Sic transit gloriam mundi…Thus does passes the glory of the world.” Thankfully, the popes of our times have shorn the inauguration of their pontificates of this pomp and circumstance. We should have a similar rite at the inauguration of newly elected governments!

Only six years ago, Benigno Simeon Aquino rode the crest of a wave of public sympathy and triumphantly assumed the presidency. Six years later, it is clear that his endorsement was the undoing of an otherwise highly qualified candidate, Mar Roxas.

That Digong Duterte, against whom PNoy had urged a coalition, emerged triumphant by a very convincing margin, underscores the repudiation of Daang Matuwid. Even if the vice presidency remains excitingly, if hotly, contested the fact alone that Bongbong Marcos has mustered enough votes to come within striking distance of the second highest office of the land—and far away from the third placer provides yet more evidence that so many Filipinos went for the bearer of the name against which the Aquino Dynasty built its political capital. The people, it seems, have had enough.

We have sent Manny Pacquiao to the Senate, for having won his last boxing match, even if he hardly ever warmed his seat at the House of Representatives and in local elections, dynasties were hardly undone, and votes were available if the price was right—and most of the time, the price was indeed right.

It was good of the CBCP to have spoken after the elections, calling for the healing and the

reconciliation that we so badly need. Many, of course, delight in protracted animosity. Patrons look forward to the returns on their investment, and hangers-on eagerly await their appointments. I pray that our new leaders may have the wisdom to turn even to their political opponents for advice, and even to place them in responsible positions of government, for only in this way can the vicious divisiveness that has characterized the past elections start to mend!

The prodigious amounts contenders for local positions shelled out leaves no doubt that there will be corruption, because no one assumes office with the purpose of losing.

And, if by sheer application of the multiplication table, an official’s monthly salary for his term of office will never make up for the sums paid voters, it should not be too challenging to figure out how the shortfall will be dealt with!

One day, the adulating fans, the shrieking mobs, the adoring crowds will not be there.

Now fades all earthly splendor…now, the purveyors of a vengeful, arrogant, unrepentant Daang Matuwid realize this, as will all of us in respect to something far more important than politics: life itself. And that is probably the context within which the new officials of government assume the awesome powers of office: the day is not forever and whether one likes it or not, dusk does fall, and soon, darkness. Sic transit gloriam mundi. One day, the adulating fans, the shrieking mobs, the adoring crowds will not be there. And in the deafening silence of conscience, one must ask how well one spent life’s day, so that the falling of the night brings no fear or terror, but the repose of the just and the rest of the God-fearing. rannie_aquino@sanbeda.edu.ph rannie_aquino@csu.edu.ph rannie_aquino@yahoo.com

APPROVED, MR. PRESIDENT MAYOR! WE HAVE always believed that Mayor Digong Duterte was presidential material, and he showed this immediately after casting his vote in late Monday afternoon by reaching out his hand in friendship to his opponents, and inviting them to “forget about the travails of elections” and to begin the healing of wounds.

He was only hopeful then of winning the presidency, still humbly downplaying his likely wide winning margin that the last surveys had predicted.

He said once again, “I ain’t there until I am there.”

For all the vicious insults and black propaganda that he had to injure throughout the campaign period—especially on its last hours—he is indeed a forgiving man, tough against criminals, but soft on the people.

He could never be the despotic strongman and dictator president that his rivals and their fanatical supporters had been warning us about.

PNoy—the country’s official president until June 30—even equated Mayor Digong to Germany’s Adolf Hitler because they both had a phenomenal and meteoric rise to be their country’s most popular public official.

A madman calling his successor Hitler is how my senior citizen friends and I would remember PNoy doing in his last hours as president.

He did it while campaigning for his partymate Mar Roxas at the memorial circle where the remains of the great Manuel Quezon are resting, desperately sowing fear in our hearts about the mayor while imploring us that— “I need your help to stop the return of terror in our land. I cannot do it alone.”

That was Saturday. We let Sunday pass quietly, and as early as 4 a.m. on Monday, we started trekking to our voting precincts.

We patiently searched for our names and lined up in long snake-like queues while we waited under the hot summer sun.

But these difficulties and the malfunctioning vote-counting

More... From A8 That is certainly something that Comelec and its automation provider cannot allow.

And these two entities cannot simply issue blanket denials that any rigging has taken place and expect people to take their word for it.

Of course, Comelec, Smartmatic and Robredo’s camp have at various times called on Marcos and everyone else questioning the veracity of the count to produce evidence and file charges before Congress, instead of going to the media.

But when has it been prohibited to question the actions of

machines did not make us surrender our right to vote.

By 5 p.m., about 44.4-million or 81.62 percent of us 54.4-million registered voters have cast our ballots.

And to the surprise of many doubters of the automated voting system, the ballots were quickly counted despite earlier fears, doubts and warnings about intentional power and data transmission failures.

Once the electronic counting started, it became very clear that a consistent 38 percent of us preferred the mayor to be our next president by July 1.

We didn’t believe that he would be another Adolf Hitler.

Mayor Digong took the lead immediately and never gave it up. By midnight, he already had a lead of six million insurmountable votes over Senator Grace Poe, who had conceded and congratulated him hours earlier.

When she offered him an “electoral agenda,” the soonto-be president courteously responded that he would study her proposal and promised to support her advocacies.

Beyond doubt, he had won.

And what came immediately into his mind?

Before daybreak of Tuesday at 3 a.m., he drove to the cemetery, wept at his parents’ graves, and asked for his mother’s help in running the country— “Tabangi ko, Ma.” A Hitler or terror he wouldn’t be.

But we are hopeful that he would be a strong-willed president in pushing for the realization of the programs that he had committed to deliver to us.

We agree with his complaint that “Manila gets everything so regions are forced to beg.”

Thus, we support his federal system of government, which

his amiable spokesman Peter Tiu Laviña announced “will require a wide national consensus beginning with asking Congress to call for a constitutional convention.”

We hope we could federalize soon.

We adopted the mayor’s campaign symbol of a fist as a friendly way of greeting one another.

We expect, though, that as president he would use it to achieve peace and order and eliminate criminality, drugs and corruption in government.

We are for implementing nationwide Davao City’s practical and simple ordinances of banning late-night drinking and loud karaoke and imposing curfew for unescorted minors after 10 p.m.

We are concerned, however, with the spokesman’s remarks that although a president could impose them via executive order, they are best done through legislation.

We fear that this would prevent our president from achieving the most basic peace and order at the community level within the first six months of his administration.

We also expect a speedy grant of the P2,000 increase in social security pensions which he once declared he would achieve by reversing PNoy’s veto of it.

A lawyer, he must have known that a simple executive order is enough to increase both social security pensions and contributions but not to merge the two pension institutions of public and private sector workers.

And by the way, a brave Mar Roxas eventually conceded defeat publicly but only after 24 hours from the closing of elections— “Digong, I wish you success.

Ang iyong tagumpay ay tagumpay ng ating sambayanan at ng ating bansa.”

He should have done it earlier. That way, our now prim and proper de facto president could have acknowledged it appropriately in the press conference that he called to declare his victory.

the overseers of the elections and its pricey automation provider as soon as the problems arise?

Even people who have a clear anti-Marcos bias—but who are known for their highly-developed sense of fairness overall— are asking that the very serious questions about the accuracy of the count not be waved off with quick denials and instead be given due course. One of these is prominent social media commentator Inday Espina-Varona, who posted this on Facebook yesterday: “It’s like this. Let Marcos exhaust all the processes that the law allows him to ensure a clean election.

We don’t want to copy what his dictator-father did, do we? Let’s give him what the dictatorship denied us. Let’s show him that a democracy is different. As for those calling on Marcos to concede even if the count is not yet finished and the margin is still very small, this is my question: If it was Robredo who was in Marcos’ situation, would you concede?”

What’s sauce for the Bicolana goose should be sauce for the Ilocano gander, after all.

And if we wait until Congress or the courts decide on matters that require urgent explanation and action, we might as well not question anything at all.

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BACK CHANNEL ALEJANDRO DEL ROSARIO A FAILURE of elections was declared in 11 municipalities. The Commission on Elections will now have to hold special elections in these areas even as the official canvassing of votes is continuing. Whatever the outcome of these special polls, it’s not going to affect anymore the final result of the presidential race showing Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte as the country’s next president.

Outgoing President Benigno Aquino III and his team are preparing for their departure and an orderly transition for the next government. For all the foul-ups—vote counting machines that didn’t work and election related violence—the May 9 polls were considered generally orderly by international observers. But many voters who were left stranded outside the polling places after they had closed at 5 p.m. are still fuming because

VIRTUAL REALITY TONY LOPEZ SIXTEEN million Filipinos elected Rodrigo Roa Duterte to be their leader in the next six years, in a giant leap of fate never experienced since the Philippines began electoral democracy at the beginning of the 20th century.

The 16 million is six million more votes than Duterte’s nearest rival, the elitist Wharton-educated hacendero-class Manuel Araneta Roxas II of Daang Matuwid. Mar promised a continuation of Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III’s six years of governance. BS Aquino is also a hacendero, being part owner of the largest tract of hacienda in the land, the 6,400-hectare Hacienda Luisita, in Central Luzon, the traditional hotbed of agrarian-based communist rebellion.

Duterte’s 16 million is the biggest number of votes ever garnered by a winning president.

It eclipses the 15.2-million vote chalked up by Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III in 2010.

Duterte thus comes to power with more political capital than any other Filipino president.

Duterte is the 16th president of the Philippines. Digong is the first president from Mindanao, the first Cebuano since 1957, the first leftist, the first socialist, and the first local government official (mayor of 23 years) to become president. He is perhaps the first genuinely pro-poor and truly nationalist president.

He has promised to deliver on his promises in three to six months. Or he will resign or give up power to his vice president (at this writing, a tossup between lawyer-congressman Leni

A FAILURE OF ELECTIONS they were not able to cast their ballots.

Portents of things to come were identified as early as last year. But the Comelec under Chairman Andres Bautista failed to address these problems, foremost of which were vote counting machines that jammed. The malfunctioning VCMs could have been solved earlier. But it seems our Comelec officials have a different take on the axiom “if it ain’t broke, why fix it?” Not only were the VCMs broke; the whole electoral system was broke.

Electoral reforms and fixing the whole defective election process then should be the priority of the next administration. Legislative action to eliminate political dynasties and a ceiling on election campaign spending are two other reforms that must be given the highest priority. Otherwise, this country can never move forward. We will have the same political families perpetuating themselves in power to the

detriment of improving the lives of the poor common people.

President-elect Duterte can leave a lasting legacy if he can demolish political dynasties starting with his own family in Davao. Never mind eliminating the criminals—a return to capital punishment is the better legal solution that should put the fear of God again on the lawless elements.

Meanwhile, the separation of Church and State must also be given meaning.We have had enough of the Iglesia ni Cristo endorsing candidates. Candidates must also make public their bank accounts and real estate properties without having to be forced to issue a waiver to allow banks to do so. This matter is supposed to be declared by every government official in their Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth whether they are seeking higher elective office or not. But the true declaration of SALNs has been made a hide-and-seek game by the

politicians.

Another flaw in the political system is the unregulated contribution by big business to the campaign funds of candidates.

Too often, these campaign contributions have strings attached.

Some political candidates do not spend them all and pocket the rest. As they say, some are in for the fun of it while politicians are in for the funds of it. Even losing candidates are in a win-win situation with the leftover campaign contribution.

For transparency, the Comelec should require political candidates to list down all campaign contributions. We don’t expect them to reveal shady fund sources like those coming from drug lords and smuggling syndicates. Still, funds from big business should be bared so the public will know that elected politicians do not return the favor with special treatment.

Favorable government policy is suspected when congressmen and senators either fast-track

or suppress legislation affecting campaign contributors. This often happens in legislation that has to do with the granting or suspension of franchises and additional tax on products or services.

A shift to federal and parliamentary form of government as suggested by incoming president Duterte might be the solution.

This would of course involve an amendment to the Constitution. Our nearby neighbors like Indonesia, Japan, Thailand and Malaysia are doing better than us with their parliamentary system. After three decades of the failed presidential form of government, the people should be ready to try something else .

A federal form of government could also be an alternative to the proposed but constitutionally flawed Bangsamoro Basic Law. As the first president from Mindanao, Duterte can make further history by forging a lasting and enduring peace in the rebellion-rocked region.

DUTERTE’S MANDATE Robredo and outgoing Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr.). Or more extremely, declare a revolutionary government.

On paper, Duterte’s priorities look simple. In execution, the probability of failure is high.

The damning evidence of that failure is persistent poverty, which has straddled between 25 percent and 27 percent of the population, in the last 30 years.

And massive unemployment, 7 percent of the labor force (or more than four million jobless), and even more massive underemployment (20 percent of those employed or more than 12 million people). Sixteen million Filipinos either have no jobs or are employed only half of the time.

Are those the 16 million who voted for Duterte?

The Philippines is the only country in Asia which failed to halve its poverty, in 25 years.

From 34 percent in 1990, poverty should have been 17 percent by today. Instead, we have mangled poverty statistics showing 25 percent to 27 percent poverty incidence, an obvious sign of failure.

With such astronomical poverty and unemployment numbers, no wonder the Philippines is host to the longest communist insurgency in the world, the New People’s Army, and the longest Muslim separatist insurgency in the world, that of the Moro National Liberation Front and later, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

Confronted daily by poverty, a quarter of 105 million Filipinos have to resort to crime and drugs to survive. Add the communist and separatist insurgencies and you have El Niño-dry tinder that

could explode into a full-scale revolution.

In that scenario comes Duterte. He promises a stop to crime and corruption. In so doing, he hopes to end poverty and the insurgencies so that there will be what he calls “comfortable life” for most Filipinos, the 85 percent who he says are poor.

Duterte comes to the presidency preceded by someone who had so much humbug and braggadocio. BS Aquino III fed his people a fancy slogan, Daang Matuwid, and started to believe it himself.

Indeed, being the son of a slain opposition senator, Benigno S. Aquino Jr. and of a president who was considered the Mother of Democracy, Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, BS Aquino III mesmerized the world—the United States, Japan and Europe, in particular, and the credit ratings agencies. All the major credit ratings agencies were unanimous—the Philippines is investment grade.

But even before Aquino III, the Philippines was actually and intrinsically, investment grade.

The agencies refused to extend the rating to the country under previous presidents.

Why? Because it was good business for the foreign banks and creditors who were charging Manila a much higher rate than the country deserved.

But then the Philippines showed later it had no need for investment grade rating. It had surplus funds—the so-called foreign reserves which hit record highs. At the latest, reserves were at $84 billion—more than a year’s worth of imports, at a time when crude oil is half its

previous price and the world is awash with commodities it didn’t need, because it was in perpetual economic slowdown.

In fact, three years ago, the Philippines lent money to the agency which was supposed to lend money to poor countries but ended up needing the same money itself—the International Monetary Fund. Manila lent IMF $1 billion, at giveaway rate of 2 percent per year, money that could have enabled 7 million Filipinos to eat three full meals a day for one year.

And how many millions of small businesses could have been helped by that P45 billion (the peso value of $1 billion then) lent to them at 2 percent per year?

The going rate for small business loans is between 9 percent and 12 percent, probably higher, if you tack in all kinds of fees slapped by the banks—credit investigation fee, property assessment fee, notarial fee, even photocopying fees for documents, assuming the applicant gets approval. Most of the time, SMEs are denied these loans.

A President Duterte should be able to rectify such an injustice to the small businessman. He has a natural aversion to Big Businesses and their monopolistic tendencies and attempts to bankroll presidential candidacies.

In this country, he said in his speech recently, April 23, 2016, at Lyceum of the Philippines University, “there are only a few guys, the billionaires here in Manila, the imperial Manila, who could choose the president for us.”

Government, he notes, is the country’s biggest employer. Because it is the biggest employer,

government officials tend to be corrupt. People approach them for money, for medicines, for jobs, for housing. Where do government officials get the money for such doles? From the government, of course. From direct stealing of taxpayers’ money.

From cuts or commissions on government contracts to private contractors. From overpricing of government projects. From being in cahoots with criminals and drug lords.

“For all their needs actually, the poor, which constitute about 85 percent of this country, are really dependent on government people, so that people who are in government are forced to steal,” Duterte said at Lyceum.

“And those elected really take care of the elite. And this elite chart the history of this country!” he protested.

Duterte is unique that he is the first president of the 20th and 21st century who won without being bankrolled by Big Business. Initially, he shunned their donations. So he is not beholden to them. This should enable him to undertake political and economic reforms without being hamstrung by a debt of gratitude to donors, the big businessmen.

His first order of business is to expand the middle class, which is very thin in this country, if it exists at all. “The middle class is the fulcrum of society,” Duterte pontificates. Yet, in the Philippines, the fulcrum has been the government and its politicians backed by the elite of society.

“That’s why our politics has been so messy,” he winces. biznewsasia@gmail.com

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La Salle retains overall title

By Peter Atencio

LA SALLE may have lost the women’s football crown, but DLSU still retained the general championship at the close of the 78th University Athletic Association of the Philippines season.

Their runner-up finish to the University of the Philippines Lady Maroons, who beat the Lady Archers, 2-1,

last week, still gave them enough points to overtake multi-titled University of Santo Tomas for the overall title.

Earning 12 points in their campaign in women’s football, plus another 10 for placing third in men’s football, La Salle overtook UST by two points.

La Salle collected 282 points, while UST trailed at 280 after settling for fourth and fifth in women’s football.

So far, La Salle has won six championships this season, taking the titles in women’s volleyball, women’s beach volleyball, women’s chess and men’s table tennis.

Rio Olympics-bound Yan Lariba contributed to La

Salle’s effort when she led the Lady Green Paddlers to the women’s table tennis honors.

La Salle also asserted itself in men’s baseball.

UST has so far gotten the crowns in women’s athletics, men’s taekwondo and women’s judo.

Their bid for the overall honors got snagged after they took a loss to University of the Philippines in the men’s football semifinals last month.

Ateneo is third with 238, getting a big chunk of points for winning titles in men’s volleyball, men’s and women’s swimming, and men’s judo.

UP’s efforts in men’s and women’s football put them in fourth with 236 points.

Republic of the Philippines CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY (CvSU) Don Severino de alas Campus Indang, cavite (046) 415010/415-0011 415-0012 www.cvsu.educ.ph

Jerome Jaucian of UPHSD tries to shoot against Hope in Hoops’ Daniel Hiba (3), Rey Domingo (35) and Jericho Barres (10) in the 22nd Fr. Martin Cup Summer Basketball Tournament at the St. Placid gymnasium of the San Beda CollegeManila campus in Mendiola.

Jaucian’s teammate Vincent Rocero (10) is also in the fray.

INVITATION TO APPLY FOR ELIGIBILITY AND TO BID The CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY, through its Bids and Awards Committee (BAC), invites suppliers/manufacturers/ distributors/contractors to apply for eligibility and to bid for the hereunder project: Name of Project Location

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ONE YEAR CONTRACT FOR SECURITY SERVICES CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY, INDANG, CAVITE

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SECURITY SERVICES FOR MAIN AND SATELLITE CAMPUSES

Approved Budget For the Contract

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P 19,340,181.00

Prospective bidders should have experience in undertaking a similar project within the last two (2) years with an amount of at least 50% of the proposed project for bidding. The Eligibility Check/Screening as well as the Preliminary Examination of Bids shall use non-discretionary “pass/fail” criteria. Post-qualification of the lowest calculated bid shall be conducted.

All particulars relative to Eligibility Statement and Screening, Bid Security, Performance Security, Pre-Bidding Conference(s), Evaluation of Bids, Post-Qualification and Award of Contract shall be governed by the pertinent provisions of R.A. 9184 and its Implementing Rules and Regulation (IRR).

The complete schedule of activities is listed, as follows: Activities

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1. Issuance of Bid Documents

May 10, 2016 to May 31, 2016; 8:00AM – 5:00PM

2. Pre-bid Conference

May 17, 2016; 1:00 PM; S.L. Lasap Hall, Administration Building, Cavite State University, Indang, Cavite

3. Opening of Bids

May 31, 2016; 1:00 PM; S.L. Lasap Hall, Administration Building, Cavite State University, Indang, Cavite

Bid Documents will be available only to prospective bidders upon payment of a non-refundable amount of Twenty Five Thousand Pesos Only (P 25,000.00) to the CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY Cashier.

The CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY assumes no responsibility whatsoever to compensate or indemnify bidders for any expenses incurred in the preparation of the bid.

The CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to annul the bidding process, to reject all bids at any time prior to Contract Award without incurring any liability to the affected bidder/s, waive any required formality therein, and to award the Contract to the bidder whose bid proposal as evaluated is most advantageous to the University.

Approved by: (sgd) GILCHOR P. CUBILLO, PhD BAC Chairman

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Request for Expression of Interest for CONSULTING SERVICES for an INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATOR FOR THE PHILIPPINE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE (PH-EITI) for 2016 1. The Department of Finance (DOF), through the General Appropriations Act for CY 2016, intends to apply the sum of Three Million Five Hundred Thousand Pesos (PhP3,500,000.00), being the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC), to payments under the contract for Consulting Services for an Independent Administrator for the Philippine Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (PH-EITI) for 2016. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at the opening of the financial proposals.

2. The DOF now calls for the submission of eligibility documents for the procurement of consulting services of a consulting firm/company affiliated with an internationally recognized audit firm with extensive experience in large scale auditing and accounting projects in extractive and financial sectors.

Interested consultants must submit their eligibility documents on or before May 20, 2016, 09:45 a.m. at the SBAC Secretariat, c/o General Services Division, 7th Floor EDPC Building, Roxas Blvd., Malate, Manila. Applications for eligibility will be evaluated based on a non-discretionary “pass/fail” criterion.

3. The BAC shall draw up the short list of consultants from those who have submitted eligibility documents and have been determined as eligible in accordance with the provisions of Republic Act No. 9184 (RA No. 9184), otherwise known as the “Government Procurement Reform Act”, and its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR). The short list shall consist of at least one (1) prospective bidder who will be entitled to submit bids. The criteria and rating system for short listing are: I. Applicable Experience II. Quality of Personnel to be Assigned III. Capacity to Execute the Project Total

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The minimum passing score is 70%.

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NOTICE OF E X TR A- JUD ICIAL SALE OF RE AL PROPERT Y/ IES UNDER ACT 313 5 (AS AMENDED ) UPON ex tra-judicial petition under ACT 3135, as amended by ACT 4118 and pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Deed of Real Estate Mor tgage executed on Januar y 3, 2014 by SPOUSES PAUL JERICHO R . DE LEON AND NOENA VIRG IN IA E . DE LEON, mor tgagor / s with residence and postal address at Unit 115 Kauia / Kauai Tower Ohana Place, Almanza Dos, Alabang Zapote Road, Las Piñas Cit y and Unit No. 26 & 27 2 / F Pine Crest Building 2, Aurora Blvd., cor. Balete Drive, Quezon Cit y in favor of BPI FAM ILY SAVINGS BANK , INC., mor tgagee / s to satisf y the mor tgage debt in the amount of P4,678,4 61.6 6 as of March 31, 2016, inclusive /exclusive of interest, penalties, at torney ’s fees and other charges together with all the law ful fees and expenses of foreclosure sale, the Ex- Of ficio Sherif f of the Regional Trial Cour t of Quezon Cit y and / or his duly authorized Deput y Sherif f, hereby announces that on June 1, 2016 bet ween the hours of 9 : 0 0 A .M. to 4: 0 0 P.M., at the Of fice of the Clerk of Cour t & Ex- Of ficio Sherif f, Regional Trial Cour t, Hall of Justice Bldg., (beside, Quezon Cit y Hall) Elliptical Road, Diliman, Quezon Cit y, will SELL through public auction to the highest bidder and for cash, in Philippine currency, the following described real proper t y / ies with all the improvement / s existing thereon, to wit :

CONDOM IN IUM CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. 0 0 4 -2014 01418 5 Registr y of D eeds, Quezon Cit y “ PINE CREST BUILDING 2 FLOOR UNIT NO. UNIT AREA UNIT T YPE BALCONY AREA DRYING AREA CAGE TOTAL 2/F 26 20.81 STUDIO 4.13 4.0 0 28.94 SQ.M in the diagrammatic floor plan appended to the enabling or master deed of the condominium project annotated on Transfer Cer tificate of Title No. N -324780 ; N -324781 which embraces and described the land located Aurora Blvd., cor. Balete Drive, Quezon Cit y, with an area of Seven Thousand Six Hundred Sevent y-Seven and Fif t y-Two (7,677.52) Square Meters.”

CONDOM IN IUM CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. 0 0 4 -2014 014187 Registr y of D eeds, Quezon Cit y

4. Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using non-discretionary “pass/fail” criterion as specified in the IRR of RA No. 9184.

“ PINE CREST BUILDING 2 FLOOR UNIT NO. UNIT AREA UNIT T YPE BALCONY AREA DRYING AREA CAGE TOTAL 2/F 27 21.0 0 STUDIO 0.0 0 4.0 0 25.0 0 SQ.M

Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizens/sole proprietorships, partnerships, or organizations with at least sixty percent (60%) interest or outstanding capital stock belonging to citizens of the Philippines.

in the diagrammatic floor plan appended to the enabling or master deed of the condominium project annotated on Transfer Cer tificate of Title No. N -324780 ; N -324781 which embraces and described the land located Aurora Blvd., cor. Balete Drive, Quezon Cit y, with an area of Seven Thousand Six Hundred Sevent y-Seven and Fif t y-Two (7,677.52) Square Meters.”

5. The Procuring Entity shall evaluate bids using the Quality Cost Based Evaluation (QCBE) procedure. The Procuring Entity shall indicate the weights to be allocated for the Technical and Financial Proposals. The criteria and rating system for the evaluation of bids shall be provided in the Instructions to Bidders.

All sealed bids must be submit ted to the undersigned on the aforesaid Of fice on the above stated date and time.

6. The contract shall be completed within a period of seven (7) months from issuance of Notice to Proceed.

7. The DOF reserves the right to reject any and all bids, annul the bidding process, or not award the contract at any time prior to contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder or bidders.

(TS-MAY 13, 2016)

In the event that public auction should not take place on said date due to for tuitous event or if the same be declared a non-working holiday, it shall be held on June 8, 2016 at the same time and place without fur ther notice.

Quezon Cit y, Metro - Manila, May 2, 2016

( Sgd. ) FRUCTOSO L . LO JA Sheriff IV ( Sgd.) GREGORIO C. TALLUD Clerk of Court VI and Acting Clerk of Court & Ex-Officio Sheriff WARNING It is absolutely prohibited to remove, deface or destroy this Notice of Sherif f ’s Sale on or before the date of the auction sale under penalt y of the law.

8. For further information, please refer to: Ms. Mary Ann Rodolfo PH-EITI Tel. No. 400-6882

Interested par ties are hereby enjoined to investigate for themselves the title / s to the said proper t y / ies and the encumbrances thereon, if there be any.

Copy furnished :

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Letran-A claims 5th straight win in Fr. Martin Cup CHRISTIAN dela Pena struck in the last nine seconds, sending Letran-A to a 70-68 triumph over the Centro Escolar University-B Scorpions, 70-68, Sunday in the 22nd Fr. Martin Cup Summer Basketball Tournament at the St. Placid gymnasium of the San Beda College-Manila campus in Mendiola.

This gave the reigning NCAA champions their fifth straight win in Group B of the men’s division.

The 6’4” Dela Pena led with 14 points for the Knights, who are now a win away from sweeping their bracket and clinching a quarterfinal slot.

Rey Nambatac contributed 11 points for the Knights, while Kier Quinto and JP Calvo hit 10 apiece.

In other games, the CEU-A Scorpions drew 18 points from Memet Ascano in their 78-73 stopping of Letran-B. This gave CEU-A their second win in five matches in Group A. Daphne Esplana and Antonia Wong made 17 and 16, respectively, as the University of the Philippines Lady Maroons drubbed the College of St. Benilde Lady Blazers, 74-59, for their second straight triumph.

In the junior action, the Adamson Baby Falcons got 13 points from Jason Celis and won over San Beda-Alabang, 95-51, to move ahead in Group B with their 4-1 card.

Jelo Razon and Erol Bongay shot 21 and 13 points, respectively, for the University of Perpetual Help Junior Altas, who held off Hope in Hoops, 63-56, and improved with their 3-1 slate in Group B. Chiang Kai Shek College prevailed over PACE, 104-31, to notch win no. 3 in Group A.

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Federer advances

Dueling sticks. Jamie Benn (14) of the Dallas Stars uses his stick to control the puck against Alexander Steen (20) of the St. Louis Blues in the third period in Game Seven of the Western Conference Second Round during the 2016 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at American Airlines Center on May 11, in Dallas, Texas. AFP

Tokyo says 2020 bid is ‘clean’ TOKYO—Japan insisted its successful bid for the 2020 Olympics was “clean” on Thursday after a new report alleged clandestine payments surrounding the campaign for the Tokyo Games.

Britain’s Guardian newspaper reported on Wednesday that French authorities are probing payments totalling about 1.3 million euros ($1.4 million) made to an account linked to Papa Massata Diack -- the son of Lamine Diack, the disgraced former president of world athletics governing body IAAF. The Guardian said that it is “now understood that among transactions under suspicion are payments totaling about 1.3 million euros apparently sent from the Tokyo 2020 bid, or those acting on their behalf ” to a secret bank account in Singapore. AFP

minute whether he can take to the court on Thursday against 13th seed Dominic Thiem, a 6-3, 6-2 winner over Joao Sousa.

“I don’t know how I’m going to feel tomorrow. I hope (I can play). I’m literally going practice after practices. It’s baby steps right now.”

Rome marks only the fourth tournament of the season for Federer, who underwent knee surgery in early February, the first operation of his career.

Federer broke for 4-2 on his way to collecting the opening set in 28 minutes.

The Swiss then earned a break in the third game of the second set but then lost serve for 2-all.

The veteran broke back on his fourth opportunity in the 11th game for a 6-5 lead and finished off the welcome win a game later, a drop shot setting up two match points with Zverev driving wide on the first. AFP

Hamilton will recover BARCELONA—Lewis Hamilton will recover from his current second place in the championship and mount a strong challenge to win his fourth world title this year, starting with this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix.

That is the view of both his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg, who leads him by 34 points after four races, and their champion team who are determined to put Hamilton’s problem-hit start to the season behind them.

“We feel badly for Lewis because we’ve let him down, in terms of his competition with Nico,” said Mercedes technical chief Paddy Lowe.

“But I am sure we will get though it and I think Lewis will get through it too.

“It’s still very early in the season. In this business, we just take one race at a time and keep on doing our best, but we do feel it for Lewis “Funnily enough, in 2014, we didn’t have many engine prob-

lems, but of those we did have, most seemed to land up with Lewis. Again this year, we’ve got eight engines and the problems are landing his way!”

The three-time champion is without a win this year and has suffered a string of disappointments with a series of engine problems and first lap incidents in races.

He is without a victory since winning in the United States last year. In that time, Rosberg has been triumphant and has reeled off four straight wins this season to lift him clear at the top of the title race.

But even after seven wins in succession, the German has admitted to knowing that Hamilton’s ferocious competitive spirit and raw speed is sure to return

Nyquist prepares for Preakness WASHINGTON—Undefeated Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist took his first steps at Pimlico on Wednesday ahead of the Preakness Stakes on May 21, when he will try to extend his Triple Crown bid.

The bay colt, the class of three-year-olds last Saturday in his victory at Churchill Downs, jogged a mile on his first trip over the dirt track at Baltimore and will jog at Pimlico again on Thursday.

“We just wanted to see him move efficiently, and he did everything and more that we wanted to see this morning,” said Jack Sisterson, the assistant trainer who oversaw Nyquist’s travel from Kentucky.

“He was fantastic.”

Doug O’Neill, Nyquist’s

ROME - Roger Federer joined Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray in reaching the third round of the Rome Masters on Wednesday with the Swiss admitting that he was fully expecting to lose against Alexander Zverev.

“I’m cautious but extremely happy – I was expecting to lose in straight sets today,” admitted the 17-time Grand Slam champion, who withdrew last week from Madrid with back pain.

“That was the mindset going in. To win in straights is actually a really big surprise to me. I only decided after the warm-up that I was actually going to play. For me it was a big match on many levels.”

The 89-minute match was the first for the 34-year-old Swiss since losing a Monte Carlo quarter-final to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga nearly a month ago.

Even in victory Federer said that he would decide at the last

trainer, went home to California after the Kentucky Derby triumph but is expected to arrive Thursday at Pimlico.

In 2012, O’Neill used the same plan to have a Derby winner arrive early to adjust to the track and barn and won with I’ll Have Another, although the horse was scratched from the Belmont Stakes the morning of the race with a tendon injury.

“It’s great having the experience of having the success with I’ll Have Another. It just makes you wake up every morning wanting it that much more,” Sisterson said.

The latest O’Neill-guided horse, named after Detroit Red Wings center Gustav Nyquist of Sweden, held off fast-closing Ex-

aggerator at the wire to win the Derby in 2:01.31.

Nyquist, a son of Uncle Mo who has won all eight of his career starts, will likely be favored in the shortest of the Triple Crown races at 1 3/16ths of a mile (1,900m).

The horse hopes to follow American Pharoah, who last year ended a 37-year drought of sweeping the US flat racing treble.

Nyquist could match Seattle Slew in 1977 as the only unbeaten Triple Crown winners.

The only time horses swept the triple in consecutive years came when Affirmed followed Seattle Slew in 1978.

Post positions for a maximum field of 14 will be drawn next Wednesday. AFP

and make him a winner again.

“Lewis will bounce back, of that I am sure,” said Rosberg. “All the other drivers who won the first four races – and went to take the title – did not have him as a team-mate.

“I know what to expect. He doesn’t have an issue with fighting back in his head. He has always shown that. There will be battles ahead and it is going to be tough.”

Rosberg won last year’s race at the Circuit de Catalunya from pole position as Hamilton did the season before, a sequence that is expected to continue for Mercedes on a track that tends to deliver somewhat soporific contests.

The teams know the circuit well from winter testing and there are few surprises other than updates that fail, or work well, as the European part of the 21-race season is launched in earnest.

For many, the chief topic of interest will be to see how Dutch teenager Max Verstappen copes with the pressure of expectation after his sudden promotion from Toro Rosso to replace Russian Daniil Kvyat in the senior Red Bull team.

Battle for the ball.

Facundo Erpen (right) of Morelia vies for the ball with Mauro Boselli (left) of Leon, during their Mexican Clausura tournament quarterfinals football match at the Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon stadium on May 11, in Morelia City.

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Kvyat paid the price for his collisions with former Red Bull favourite and four-time world champion German Sebastian Vettel in China and Russia, incidents that incensed both Ferrari and Red Bull. A demotion to Toro Rosso followed.

Verstappen, 18, has the potential to follow in Vettel’s tracks, but will first have to learn his way with a new team.

“To be honest, I don’t think I have slept for three nights,” he said on Dutch TV. “I have felt so motivated to go directly and spend time with the team.

“I know they are a top team and I have a better chance to reach the podium – and when I was there, I just couldn’t stop working – lots of effort in the simulator and time with the mechanics.

Vestappen’s switch to the Milton Keynes-based former champions signalled Red Bull’s intent to fend off any approach from Ferrari whose president Sergio Marchionne has made clear he is expecting to see his teamstart winning again. AFP

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Elasto Painters shoot for title

By Jeric Lopez WILL Rain or Shine finally be able to quench its championship thirst?

Game Today (Finals, Game 4 - Smart Araneta Coliseum): 7 p.m. - Alaska vs. Rain or Shine

With a golden opportunity in their hands, the Elasto Painters certainly want to end their fouryear title drought as they aim for a sweep the best-of-seven finale of the 2016 Philippine Basketball Association Commissioner’s Cup, with an eye on their second championship as a franchise.

Comfortably ahead, 3-0, over Alaska in the titular showdown and playing like a well-oiled machine, Rain or Shine is in a

good position to win it all when it meets the Aces for Game 4 today at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in what could be the conference’s last game.

Rain or Shine coach Yeng Guiao, who is looking for his seventh overall PBA title in his coaching career, laid out all the positives for his team heading to its first opportunity to cop the crown.

“We have one foot ahead now.

It’s about mental focus for us now,” said Guiao. “We have all the materials to beat their press and we’ve been generally playing good defense throughout the series. We need to continue executing.”

The fiery mentor added some more factors that his team needs to focus on to clinch the series.

“Keeping the game fast and our consistent defense will be the

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keys for us this Friday,” he said.

Contrary to a thrilling Game 2, where it needed a buzzer-beating game-winner, Rain or Shine decisively hammered Alaska in the third game Wednesday night and led by over 20 points for most part, before the Aces trimmed down the final tally to 108-112, and the Elasto Painters still the victor.

A 3-0 series lead is definitely a huge advantage, but Guiao and his team are well aware of the fate that Alaska suffered in the last Philippine Cup finals, where it led 3-0, only to bow to San Miguel after a phenomenal and historic fightback.

“San Miguel was down 0-3 in the Philippine Cup finals but still won the championship. That’s what’s on our minds. We can’t have any letdowns.”

While most expected this series to at least be tightly contested, it is not exactly turning out like that as the Aces are nowhere near their efficient selves.

Alaska has been struggling to halt Rain or Shine’s running game and its execution on offense isn’t exactly the most fluid thus far in the series.

The Aces are now staring at a huge hole and must do everything to avoid being swept.

Meanwhile, the Best Player of the Conference and the Best Import of the Conference awards will be handed out prior to Game 4 tonight.

Alaska’s Calvin Abueva is the frontrunner and favorite for the BPC award, while Arinze Onuaku of semifinalist Meralco is the one expected to take the Best Import honor.

Zambo bet steals show in Cebuana net tourney

CLOSE to 400 young tennis players from all over Southern and Central Luzon and different National Capital Region cities converged at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex for the first time at the recently concluded NCR leg of the nationwide Cebuana Lhuillier Age Group Tennis Championship Series, now on its first decade of producing tennis champions.

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POC sees good relationship with Duterte administration

By Peter Atencio A GOOD working relationship among regional sports associations, athletes and the local government unit in Davao is seen by officials of the Philippine Olympic Committee as a good sign of things to come in Philippine sports.

POC first vice president and spokesman Joey Romasanta said this as he gets ready to fly to Bangkok this weekend to attend the delegation registration meeting of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

Romasanta said they are optimistic that the POC will also have good working relationship with the new administration of leading presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte.

“We have an optimistic anticipation that there will be better understanding and working arrangement between the POC and the coming Duterte administration,” said Romasanta, who observed that the needs of sports associations and athletes have been handled well for years in Davao City.

Duterte, according to Romasanta, has successfully established the Davao Sports Development Division, which is headed by his long time adviser, former Philippine Sports Commission chairman William “Butch” Ramirez.

On the other hand, the Davao City Sports Council, has also been conducting its activities at the regional level through Dexter So. So, according to Romasanta, has a good working relationship with Ramirez, who is not keen on accepting any post which Duterte is giving him at the national level, including reported plans to bring him back as PSC Chairman.

Thai Chatprapa Siriprakob hits her drive on No. 10.

Thai Siriprakob catches Saso at helm with a 69 GEN. TRIAS, Cavite – Thai Chatprapa Siriprakob charged back with a three-under 69 then pounced on Yuka Saso’s late bogey to grab a share of the lead after two rounds of the P500,000 ICTSI Eagle Ridge Ladies Invitational at Eagle Ridge’s Aoki course here yesterday.

Three behind Saso and three other amateurs after 18 holes, Siriprakob ran off three birdies in the first seven holes in second-to-last flight then went on to finish with a 34-35 card to put herself in contention for the championship on her very first try on the Ladies Philippine Golf Tour at 139.

“I needed to have a good round today (yesterday) to have a chance at the title,” said Siriprakob, the latest of a slew of Thais who have made the local circuit their base the last two

years. “I’m happy to have a nice score despite humid condition.”

Saso, who led the siege of the amateurs with an impressive opening 67, also looked headed for a another good round despite fumbling with a doublebogey on No. 5 and a 37 at the front as the 14-year-old reigning national junior match play champion bucked tough pin placements and gunned down birdies on Nos. 12 and 15. But the 14-year-old shotmaker and national team mainstay hit an errant drive on the par-4 17th

and holed out with bogey for a 72. She stayed at five-under overall to drop to a share of the lead with Siriprakob.

“I had a hard time targeting the pins at the back, most of which were strategically placed on the sides,” said Saso, who nevertheless stayed on course for her first victory in the circuit sponsored by International Container Terminal Services, Inc. Another Thai pro Supakchaya Pattaranakrueang gained one stroke on Saso with a one-under 71 to gain the other spot in the championship flight just two strokes adrift at 141.

Princess Superal, who with The Country Club teammate Princess Superal and Korean Hwang Min-jeong opened with identical 69s Wednesday, reeled back early with back-toback bogeys, dropped another

stroke on No. 6 but fought back with birdies on Nos. 13 and 15 to save a 72. She pooled a 142, three shots adrift.

“I had a bad start but somehow recovered at the back,” said Superal, seeking her fourth victory on the pro circuit backed

by Custom Clubmakers, adidas, KZG, Sharp, Summit Mineral Water, Srixon, Champion, TaylorMade and Pacsports.

Korean Kang Ji-won also carded a 73 and tied Hwang, winner at Mt. Malarayat last year who faltered with a 74, at 143.

Sarah Ababa, who scored a breakthrough at Sherwood last year, took the cudgels for the local pros but stood five strokes off the joint leaders at 14 after a 73 while Lovelyn Guioguio turned in a second 73 for solo eighth at 146.

Alvarez-Golovkin a classic fight

By Ronnie Nathanielsz WORLD Boxing Council president Mauricio Sulaiman said the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin middleweight showdown is “a classic fight, three years in the making.”

However, should the two-week period of free negotiations between the camps of Alvarez and Golovkin fail to result in an agreement, Sulaiman announced it would lead to a purse offer for them at the World Boxing Council Offices in Mexico City on May 24.

At the World Boxing Council weekly press, WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman said: “You never know what can happen. But it has all the elements to be an absolute and an instant classic.”

Concerning the notion of fear, Mauri-

cio dismisses it, because “ both men are seasoned fighters, champions and power punchers in their own right. People love to talk and that hurts. Social media can get to an awful lot of people. Canelo was very clear saying he wants the fight and right away, so it’s a matter of the promoters making it.”

And Sulaiman feels it won’t be “losers weepers,” if the fight is competitively close.

He explained: “If it’s a really good fight, even the loser will win, with opportunities for the future.”

But could a fight like this go the distance?

Sulaiman agrees: “It’s unlikely. I’ve seen both of them fight and they are of the highest quality. It’s ready, it’s time.

It’s cooking!”

Saul Canelo Alvarez (R) of Mexico connects a right against Amir Khan (L) of Great Britain during their WBC Middleweight Championship fight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.AFP

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Warriors close out Blazers in 5 games Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors runs down court during the finals seconds of their win over the Portland Trail Blazers in Game Five of the Western Conference Semifinals at Oracle Arena in Oakland, California. AFP

SAN FRANCISCO—Stephen Curry was honored with his second-consecutive league MVP award before leading Golden State to a 125-121 victory over Portland as the Warriors advanced to backto-back conference finals.

The night started with Curry’s award for the first unanimous MVP trophy and ended with the superstar capping his 29-point performance with four free throws in the final 18 seconds to give the Warriors a 4-1 series victory over the Trail Blazers.

Asked if he ever dreamed he would be the NBA’s first unanimous MVP selection Curry said, “never in my wildest dreams. I grew up watching the game and a lot of legends.”

“I am proud to be part of that group and to have that honor is

unbelievable,” he added.

The Warriors advanced to their first back-to-back NBA semi-finals since the 1974-75 and 1975-76 seasons by winning their eighth consecutive series clinching game at home.

Golden State now awaits the winner of the Oklahoma City Thunder-San Antonio Spurs series.

If Oklahoma City eliminate the Spurs in game six on Thursday, the best-of-seven Western Conference finals would begin Monday in Oakland.

“We knew it would be a dog

fight every game,” Curry said.

“We had to grind it out.”

“Last year we came out for the ceremony and then lost on home floor,” he added. “It wasn’t easy, but we found a way to get it done.”

The fifth-seeded Trail Blazers made the Warriors work for their win on Wednesday.

Portland led by as many as 11 early and got to 118-115 in the final minute of the contest.

Warriors Klay Thompson forced Portland star Damian Lillard to miss a shot from 17 feet. Curry then busted loose and nailed a 25-footer for the clutch basket that put Golden State up 121-116.

Thompson led the Warriors with 33 points, hitting 13 of 17 from the field and six of nine three-point attempts.

Curry’s 29 points were a result

of 10-for-20 shooting, including five-for-11 on three-pointers.

In his first start since spraining a ligament in his right knee during the first-round series against the Houston Rockets, he went 36 minutes and tallied a game-high 11 assists.

Curry admitted Wednesday he is feeling mentally and physically tired.

“It has been a wild three days,” Curry said. “From the first game I came back when I gave everything I had that night. Then I came home and with the festivities yesterday.

But in the playoffs there are no excuses.”

In the earlier game Wednesday, DeMar DeRozan tallied 34 points as the Toronto Raptors seized a 3-2 lead in their Eastern Conference series with a 9991 win over the Miami Heat.

Toronto guard Kyle Lowry scored 25 points, including five in the final minute as the Raptors fended off a late Miami surge.

The Raptors started quickly and led by as many as 16 points in the first quarter and were ahead by 20 in the second quarter before the Heat mounted their attack.

The Raptors took a 13-point lead into the fourth quarter, but the Heat cut it to five with just under five minutes remaining at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre arena.

The margin was down to one after Dwyane Wade converted two free throws with just under two minutes to play. Wade finished with a team high 20 points for the Heat.

DeRozan made two free throws with 1:33 left, and Toronto led by three points.

Vea: NCAA continues to be innovative MAPUA Institute of Technology handed over to San Beda College the hosting of the 92nd season of the National Collegiate Athletics Association through a ceremonial flag turnover.

Former NCAA Management Committee Chairman and head of Mapúa’s athletics department Melchor Divina said it was an honor to host the previous season.

Mapúa was the host of the 91st season of the NCAA, wherein the Cardinals were able to enter the Final Four of the seniors’ basketball tournament.

The season also marked Mapúa’s first championship trophy for

beach volleyball.

Mapúa President and Chief Executive Officer Dr. Reynaldo B. Vea congratulated the 10 schools, which participated in the games, adding that the NCAA continues to get stronger through the years.

“The NCAA continues to be innovative. We increased from eight to 10 members, which is quite a bold move for NCAA to improve the league. We are also improving the character of the games and the overall strength of the league,” said Dr. Vea. Meanwhile, the Atoy Co-led Cardinals are preparing for a more rigorous season.

According to CJ Isit, one of the key players of the Cardinals, the team aims for the championship for Season 92, making sure that they will perform well on and off the court.

“We are embracing the challenge to step up our game. The team has definitely been given a bigger opportunity,” said Isit, adding that he sees the Cardinals to be more cohesive come Season 92.

The Mapúa Cardinals will be participating in the Filoil Flying V Preseason tournament this month.

In March, the team participated in several exhibition games in Taiwan.

NCAA incoming Management Committee Chairman Jose Mari Lacson (left); San Beda’s Rector and NCAA incoming president Rev. Fr. Aloysius Ma. A. Maranan, OSB (second from left); Mapúa president and CEO Dr. Reynaldo Vea (third from left); and outgoing NCAA ManCom Chairman Melchor Divina are shown after the ceremonial turnover of the NCAA flag.

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RAY S. EÑANO EDITOR

RODERICK T. DELA CRUZ ASSISTANT EDITOR

business@thestandard.com.ph extrastory2000@gmail.com

BUSINESS

SMC, Ayala book robust profits

By Jenniffer B. Austria

SAN Miguel Corp. and Ayala Corp., two of the country’s largest conglomerates, reported strong earnings in the first quarter, on the strong performance of core businesses.

Food-to-power conglomerate San Miguel Corp. said Thursday net income surged 122 percent in the first three months to P13.53 billion from P6.01 billion posted in the same period last year, bolstered by higher income from op-

erations.

San Miguel said first-quarter revenues rose 1 percent to P159.6 billion, while income from operations climbed 38 percent to P22.82 billion.

Beer and food manufacturing

units posted double-digit growth in net income. San Miguel Brewery Inc.’s profit rose 23 percent to P4 billion while San Miguel Pure Foods Co. Inc.’s income jumped 34 percent to P1.21 billion.

Ginebra San Miguel Inc. registered a P54-million net income in the first quarter, a reversal from P29-million net loss a year ago as net sales rose 7 percent to P3.93 billion.

The group’s infrastructure unit booked net sales of P4.69 billion, up by 16 percent from a year ago, on high traffic volume at South Luzon Expressway, Tarlac-Pangasinan-La

Union Expressway, Star Tollway and Skyway Stage 1 and 2.

San Miguel Global Holdings Corp., the company’s power generation unit, reported a 1-percent hike in net sales to P19.93 billion, while income from operations jumped 25 percent to P597 million.

Meanwhile, Ayala Corp. said net income grew 15 percent in the first quarter to P5.8 billion, as most businesses performed well with largest growth coming from real estate, power generation and automotive businesses.

“As we conclude our medium-

term plan this year and embark on a new five-year growth strategy, we are encouraged by the upbeat first-quarter results of our businesses. We believe the Philippines continues to be fundamentally strong, and we expect most of our businesses to continue growing at a healthy pace,” Ayala president and chief operating officer Fernando Zobel de Ayala said.

The conglomerate said the firstquarter results were driven by equity earnings contribution from business units, which reached P7.2 billion, up by 11 percent from 2015.

Greatness campaign.

Universal Robina Corp. launches a new campaign for Great Taste Coffee brand to reflect greatness among Filipinos. Shown during a media briefing at Crown Plaza Hotel in Quezon City are (from left) URC senior vice president and business unit general manager Edwin Canta, executive vice president and managing director Cornelio Mapa, Great Taste brand endorser John Lloyd Cruz and URC president and chief executive Lance Gokongwei. MANNY PALMERO

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index

Closing May 12, 2016

8300 7840 7380 6920 6460 6000

7,325.04 71.48

PeSo-dollar rate

Closing May 12, 2016 48.00 46.00 45.00

P46.640

44.00

CLOSE

43.00

HIGH P46.450 LOW P46.710 AVERAGE P46.584 VOLUME 730.250M

BSP keeps borrowing and lending rates steady

By Julito G. Rada THE Monetary Board, the policymaking body of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, on Thursday kept the benchmark interest rates steady amid low inflation and robust economic growth.

The board maintained the rates on overnight borrowing at 4 percent and overnight lending at 6 percent for the 13th consecutive meeting. The last time the board tweaked the policy stance was in September 2014.

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Amando Tetangco Jr. said latest forecasts continued to indicate that average inflation would likely settle within the target range of 2 percent to 4 percent

for 2016 to 2017.

“The Monetary Board observed that inflation continues to be driven mainly by supply-side factors. Meanwhile, inflation expectations for 2016 have declined slightly due to low inflation readings in recent months but remain firmly within the inflation target band over the policy horizon,” Tetangco said.

He said the board also recognized that while global economic conditions turned weaker since the previous meeting, prospects for domestic economic activity remained robust, backed by solid private household consumption and investment, buoyant business sentiment and adequate credit and domestic liquidity.

“At the same time, the overall balance of risks surrounding the inflation outlook remains tilted to the downside, with potential downward price pressures associated with slower-than-expected global economic activity and possible second-round effects from lower international oil prices,” he said.

He said upside risks to the inflation outlook could come from the impact of El Niño dry weather conditions on food prices and utility rates as well as pending petitions for power rate adjustments.

Given the manageable inflation environment, the Monetary Board kept the average inflation forecast at 2.1 percent for this year

and 3.1 percent for 2017. Inflation in the first four months averaged 1.1 percent, below the government’s official target range.

Bangko Sentral Deputy Governor Diwa Guinigundo said the decision to keep the policy rates steady was not affected by the scheduled implementation of interest rate corridor in the second quarter.

“The implementation of IRC is an independent decision and different from the policy decision,” Guinigundo said.

The details of the interest rate corridor will be announced on Monday. “The governor will provide the actual date of implementation of the IRC,” Guinigundo said.

P426.00-P637.00 LPG/11-kg tank P35.40-P42.60 Unleaded Gasoline

o

il P PriceS today

P23.49-P27.07 Diesel P34.55-P39.15 Kerosene Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Thursday, May 12, 2016

F oreign e xchange r ate Currency

Unit

US Dollar

Peso

United States

Dollar

1.000000

46.6380

Japan

Yen

0.009224

0.4302

UK

Pound

1.445000

67.3919

Hong Kong

Dollar

0.128866

6.0101

Switzerland

Franc

1.030291

48.0507

Canada

Dollar

0.778331

36.2998

Singapore

Dollar

0.732547

34.1645

Australia

Dollar

0.737500

34.3955

Bahrain

Dinar

2.653928

123.7739

Saudi Arabia

Rial

0.266660

12.4365

Brunei

Dollar

0.729874

34.0399

Indonesia

Rupiah

0.000075

0.0035

Thailand

Baht

0.028353

1.3223

UAE

Dirham

0.272257

12.6975

Euro

Euro

1.142900

53.3026

Korea

Won

0.000859

0.0401

China

Yuan

0.154036

7.1839

India

Rupee

0.015026

0.7008

Malaysia

Ringgit

0.247954

11.5641

New Zealand

Dollar

0.681700

31.7931

Taiwan

Dollar

0.030766

1.4349 Source: PDS Bridge

FRIDAY: MAY 13, 2016

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The STandard BuSineSS daily STockS review Thursday, May 12, 2016

52 Weeks

Previous

High Low 7.88 75.3 124.4 107 56.5 2.49 4.2 17 30.45 2.6 890 1.01 100 1.46 30.5 91.5 137 361.2 57 180 1700 124 3.26

2.5 66 88.05 88.1 45.45 1.97 1.68 12.02 19.6 1.02 625 0.225 78 0.9 17.8 62 88.35 276 41 118.2 1200 59 2.65

47 5 1.46 2.36 15.3 148 20.6 125 85 36 65.8 2.97 4.14 21.5 21.6 11.96 9.13 11.8 31.8 109 20.75 15.3 9.4 0.98 241 79 3.95 4 74 33.9 90 13.26 293 0.62 5 5.25 12.98 15 7.03 3.4 4.5 6.3 7.86 7.34 1450 5.5 3.28 0.315 2.18 2.65 234 5.28 1.3 26 2.17

35.9 1.11 1.01 1.86 7.92 32 15.32 62.5 20.2 10.08 29.15 1.5 1.5 10.72 9.55 9.04 6.02 8.86 20.2 71.5 13.86 13.24 5.34 0.395 173 34.1 2.3 1.63 33 23.35 17.3 5.88 250.2 0.335 3.37 3.87 8.45 10.04 3.03 1.95 1 4.02 1.65 5.9 801 4.1 1.55 0.138 1.02 2.09 152 4.28 0.640 10.02 1.2

0.59 59.2 30.05 2.16 7.39 3.4 3.35 823.5 10.2 84 4.92 0.66 1455 7.5 76 6.5 5.29 6.66 9.25 0.85 17.3 0.71 5.53 0.0670 2.31 1.61 84.9 3.5 974 1.66 1.39 156 0.710 0.435 0.510

0.44 48.1 20.85 1.6 6.62 0.23 0.23 634.5 7.390 12.8 2.26 0.152 837 5.3 49.55 3.43 3 3.52 4.84 0.59 12 0.580 4.2 0.030 1.23 0.550 59.3 1.5 751 1.13 0.93 80 0.211 0.179 0.310

10.5 1.99 1.75 0.375 41.4

6.74 0.65 1.2 0.192 30.05

STOCKS

High

Low

FINANCIAL 3.59 3.15 45.9 45.75 103.10 101.50 94.75 93.00 40.1 39.8 2.90 2.90 1.61 1.57 14.2 14 16.28 15.98 1.77 1.7 600.00 600.00 0.590 0.570 83.2 81.5 0.97 0.95 15.10 15.00 51.80 51.10 105 105 275 273.4 31.5 30.6 186.9 179.4 1351.00 1351.00 58.80 58.20 1.55 1.52 INDUSTRIAL Aboitiz Power Corp.

45.4 45.4 44.9 Agrinurture Inc. 3.85 3.87 3.6 Alliance Tuna Intl Inc. 0.77 0.87 0.79 Alsons Cons.

1.65 1.87 1.65 Asiabest Group 14.2 14.4 13.7 C. Azuc De Tarlac 230.00 230.00 230.00 Century Food 20.1 20.1 19.9 Chemphil 120 120 120 Conc. Aggr. ‘A’ 209 209 198 Cirtek Holdings (Chips) 18.1 18.14 17.54 Concepcion 46.5 46.5 46 Crown Asia 2.31 2.32 2.26 Da Vinci Capital 5.12 5.4 5 Del Monte 10.72 10.9 10.6 DNL Industries Inc. 9.290 9.370 9.230 Emperador 7.88 7.86 7.75 Energy Devt. Corp. (EDC) 5.98 6.03 5.84 EEI 7.42 7.42 7.34 First Gen Corp.

21.15 21.2 20.95 First Holdings ‘A’ 66 67 65.6 Ginebra San Miguel Inc. 14.00 14.78 13.50 Holcim Philippines Inc. 14.32 14.50 14.32 Integ. Micro-Electronics 5.45 5.6 5.55 Ionics Inc 2.550 2.570 2.450 Jollibee Foods Corp.

233.80 233.00 229.20 Liberty Flour 35.00 35.00 35.00 LMG Chemicals 1.89 2 1.99 Mabuhay Vinyl 3.8 3.84 3.65 Macay Holdings 36.90 36.90 34.00 Manila Water Co. Inc. 28.25 28.4 27.6 Maxs Group 22.8 23 22.4 Megawide 6.5 6.55 6.4 Mla. Elect. Co `A’ 349.00 349.00 344.00 MG Holdings 0.285 0.290 0.285 Panasonic Mfg Phil. Corp. 4.25 4.67 4.40 Pepsi-Cola Products Phil. 3.44 3.59 3.4 Petron Corporation 10.98 11.00 10.80 Phinma Corporation 11.60 11.50 11.50 Phoenix Petroleum Phils. 5.48 5.48 5.25 Phoenix Semiconductor 1.56 1.62 1.53 Pryce Corp. `A’ 2.78 2.79 2.7 RFM Corporation 4.29 4.21 4.16 Roxas and Co. 2.23 2.54 2.54 Roxas Holdings 4.4 4.4 4.4 San Miguel ‘Pure Foods `A’ 220 220 201.4 SPC Power Corp.

4 4.1 4.09 Splash Corporation 2.58 2.56 2.49 Swift Foods, Inc. 0.153 0.154 0.153 TKC Steel Corp.

1.21 1.25 1.11 Trans-Asia Oil 2.60 2.61 2.55 Universal Robina 210.8 210.6 203 Victorias Milling 4.89 4.87 4.63 Vitarich Corp.

0.94 0.98 0.92 Vivant Corp.

33.00 33.50 31.00 Vulcan Ind’l.

1.30 1.46 1.30 HOLDING FIRMS Abacus Cons. `A’ 0.400 0.410 0.390 Aboitiz Equity 70.00 71.40 70.50 Alliance Global Inc. 14.46 14.68 14.40 Anglo Holdings A 1.12 1.62 1.09 Anscor `A’ 5.95 6.00 6.00 ATN Holdings A 0.495 0.550 0.485 ATN Holdings B 0.495 0.540 0.470 Ayala Corp `A’ 789.5 790 780 Cosco Capital 7.94 7.98 7.87 DMCI Holdings 12.66 12.66 12.48 Filinvest Dev. Corp.

5.80 5.87 5.80 Forum Pacific 0.290 0.295 0.280 GT Capital 1415 1420 1386 House of Inv. 6.38 6.21 6.21 JG Summit Holdings 88.00 88.00 86.65 Jolliville Holdings 4 4.5 4.5 Keppel Holdings `A’ 5.88 5.88 5.32 Keppel Holdings `B’ 6.1 6 5.43 Lopez Holdings Corp.

7.38 7.42 7.2 Lodestar Invt. Holdg.Corp. 0.69 0.71 0.68 LT Group 13.82 13.98 13.18 Mabuhay Holdings `A’ 0.460 0.485 0.465 Metro Pacific Inv. Corp. 5.95 5.95 5.83 Pacifica `A’ 0.0320 0.0340 0.0320 Prime Media Hldg 1.400 1.400 1.310 Prime Orion 1.830 1.840 1.820 San Miguel Corp `A’ 69.95 70.50 69.75 Seafront `A’ 2.14 2.14 2.14 SM Investments Inc. 964.00 968.00 945.00 Solid Group Inc. 1.15 1.21 1.15 South China Res. Inc. 0.80 0.78 0.77 Top Frontier 154.000 152.000 150.500 Unioil Res. & Hldgs 0.3150 0.3300 0.3150 Wellex Industries 0.2300 0.2600 0.2310 Zeus Holdings 0.310 0.345 0.310 PROPERTY 8990 HLDG 7.600 7.700 7.530 A. Brown Co., Inc. 1.19 1.32 1.14 Araneta Prop `A’ 2.140 2.190 2.060 Arthaland Corp.

0.275 0.275 0.270 Ayala Land `B’ 35.250 35.400 34.800 AG Finance Asia United Bank Banco de Oro Unibank Inc. Bank of PI China Bank BDO Leasing & Fin. INc. Bright Kindle Resources COL Financial Eastwest Bank I-Remit Inc. Manulife Fin. Corp.

MEDCO Holdings Metrobank Natl. Reinsurance Corp.

PB Bank Phil. National Bank Phil. Savings Bank PSE Inc. RCBC `A’ Security Bank Sun Life Financial Union Bank Vantage Equities

Trading Summary FINANCIAL INDUSTRIAL HOLDING FIRMS PROPERTY SERVICES MINING & OIL GRAND TOTAL

Close

SHARES 13,874,334 101,349,463 269,356,199 220,956,474 211,556,912 830,862,004 1,653,626,036

3.15 46 103.00 94.70 39.8 3.00 1.59 14.2 16.18 1.7 600.00 0.590 83 0.97 15.10 51.50 106 273.4 31 187 1348.00 59.00 1.52

Close

%

Net Foreign

Change Volume

Trade/Buying

3.3 45.9 102.40 93.00 39.8 2.90 1.61 14.2 16 1.7 600.00 0.590 82.7 0.97 15.00 51.40 105 273.4 30.6 180 1351.00 58.50 1.52

4.76 -0.22 -0.58 -1.80 0.00 -3.33 1.26 0.00 -1.11 0.00 0.00 0.00 -0.36 0.00 -0.66 -0.19 -0.94 0.00 -1.29 -3.74 0.22 -0.85 0.00

534,000 6,300 1,022,670 672,500 106,200 2,000 48,000 4,043,500 99,400 20,000 580 67,000 3,342,220 23,000 30,000 32,490 300 1,100 49,600 1,211,960 155 41,530 3,000

45.35 3.78 0.84 1.76 14.1 230.00 19.98 120 198 17.96 46.5 2.28 5.03 10.6 9.300 7.75 5.94 7.34 21 67 14.78 14.40 5.55 2.450 229.80 35.00 2 3.65 36.90 27.6 22.55 6.5 344.40 0.285 4.67 3.42 10.96 11.50 5.43 1.59 2.7 4.21 2.54 4.4 220 4.1 2.54 0.154 1.20 2.56 204.4 4.87 0.95 31.00 1.37

-0.11 -1.82 9.09 6.67 -0.70 0.00 -0.60 0.00 -5.26 -0.77 0.00 -1.30 -1.76 -1.12 0.11 -1.65 -0.67 -1.08 -0.71 1.52 5.57 0.56 1.83 -3.92 -1.71 0.00 5.82 -3.95 0.00 -2.30 -1.10 0.00 -1.32 0.00 9.88 -0.58 -0.18 -0.86 -0.91 1.92 -2.88 -1.86 13.90 0.00 0.00 2.50 -1.55 0.65 -0.83 -1.54 -3.04 -0.41 1.06 -6.06 5.38

2,499,900 592,000 4,098,000 32,276,000 5,200 30 1,807,200 30 150 97,900 853,600 490,000 273,600 224,500 37,179,504 873,400 10,623,000 44,300 2,575,300 255,030 4,300 313,700 79,300 3,048,000 617,660 200 31,000 38,000 2,700 1,272,500 449,100 243,000 212,230 500,000 18,000 1,546,000 4,672,500 900 1,083,700 167,000 126,000 207,000 5,000 1,000 39,290 14,000 150,000 1,130,000 606,000 656,000 4,323,450 3,000 12,822,000 2,100 5,270,000

0.405 70.50 14.46 1.41 6.00 0.500 0.500 786.5 7.89 12.60 5.84 0.290 1410 6.21 86.80 4.5 5.88 6 7.42 0.69 13.36 0.485 5.86 0.0340 1.400 1.840 70.00 2.14 947.50 1.15 0.77 151.000 0.3200 0.2350 0.310

1.25 0.71 0.00 25.89 0.84 1.01 1.01 -0.38 -0.63 -0.47 0.69 0.00 -0.35 -2.66 -1.36 12.50 0.00 -1.64 0.54 0.00 -3.33 5.43 -1.51 6.25 0.00 0.55 0.07 0.00 -1.71 0.00 -3.75 -1.95 1.59 2.17 0.00

1,820,000 1,967,980 5,211,900 2,913,000 110,000 117,080,000 18,660,000 405,430 1,184,100 5,778,300 255,600 1,610,000 95,790 3,600 2,981,020 3,000 700 20,600 4,024,700 919,000 10,558,700 30,000 11,505,600 32,100,000 80,000 91,000 101,490 24,000 157,780 1,018,000 28,000 1,690 5,600,000 27,010,000 13,780,000

7.530 1.27 2.100 0.270 35.250

-0.92 6.72 -1.87 -1.82 0.00

200,500 12,514,000 1,149,000 1,450,000 13,353,600

50,435.00 27,562,352 23,485,823.00 627,760.00

556,518.00 -20,500.00 300,000.00 1,496,750.00 -247,949.50 -21,000.00 136,700.00 -411,855 -45,299,977.00 -470,400.00 57,400,405.00 1,640.00 440,760.00 3,220,824.00

-116,300 15,360.00 -456,296.00 -491,045.00 -256,903.00 -95,951.00 -6,668,795.00 -7,981,639.00 290,512.00 -300,230.00 1,782,852.00

-1,085,235.00 2,135,130.00 1,406,200.00 -6,208,490.00 101,290.00 -432,184.00

-264,560.00 -5,678,060.00

-112,200.00 -180,711,390.00 70,080.00 -16,950.00 59,983,642.50 -25,492,386.00

464,100.00 -27,911,310.00 -7,168,671.00 6,994,068.00 907,794.00 70,857,520.00 101,162,108.00 -13,500.00 28,960,176.00 28,960,176.00 30,779,863.00

4,783,039.00 -49,967,145.00 38,870.00 -15,400.00 -39,260.00

52 Weeks

Previous

High Low

STOCKS

-21,600.00 858,585.00

High

%

Net Foreign

Change Volume

Trade/Buying

Belle Corp. `A’ 3.14 Cebu Holdings 5.22 Century Property 0.530 City & Land Dev. 0.99 Cityland Dev. `A’ 0.980 Crown Equities Inc. 0.136 Cyber Bay Corp.

0.480 Double Dragon 39.8 Empire East Land 0.850 Global-Estate 1.01 Filinvest Land,Inc. 1.90 Interport `A’ 1.33 Keppel Properties 4.30 Megaworld 4.05 MRC Allied Ind. 0.087 Phil. Estates Corp.

0.2750 Phil. Realty `A’ 0.550 Phil. Tob. Flue Cur & Redry 31.30 Primex Corp.

8.6 Robinson’s Land `B’ 29.20 Rockwell 1.54 Shang Properties Inc. 3.1 SM Prime Holdings 25.25 Sta. Lucia Land Inc. 0.93 Suntrust Home Dev. Inc. 1.080 Vista Land & Lifescapes 4.870

-2.87 0.38 0.00 0.00 -8.16 1.47 -1.04 8.54 -1.18 -0.99 0.53 -5.26 20.93 1.73 -4.60 5.45 -1.82 9.42 -0.93 -1.37 1.95 0.65 -1.39 -2.15 -0.93 -2.67

537,000 40,100 2,505,000 11,000 38,000 7,480,000 1,340,000 5,325,200 1,519,000 3,354,000 13,274,000 16,000 15,000 91,536,000 1,770,000 4,080,000 1,501,000 8,100 20,000 1,861,400 106,000 7,000 30,080,000 1,573,000 382,000 4,803,000

10.5 66 1.44 1.09 14.88 15.82 0.1430 5.06 99.1 12.3 2.6 7.67 2720 8.41 119.5 7 5.8

1.97 35.2 1 0.63 10.5 8.6 0.0770 2.95 56.1 10.14 1.6 4.8 1600 5.95 102.6 3.01 4

0.8200 2.2800 5.93 12.28 3.32 1 2.46 15.2

0.041 1.200 2.34 6.5 1.91 0.650 1.8 6

1.040 22.8 6.41 185 22.9 3486 0.760 2.28 46.05 90.1

0.37 14.54 3 79 4.39 2748 0.435 1.2 31.45 60.55

11.6 0.85 2.95 10 0.490 1.9

7.59 0.63 1.71 5 0.315 1.14

2GO Group’ ABS-CBN Acesite Hotel APC Group, Inc. Asian Terminals Inc. Bloomberry Boulevard Holdings Calata Corp.

Cebu Air Inc. (5J) Centro Esc. Univ.

Discovery World DFNN Inc. Globe Telecom GMA Network Inc. I.C.T.S.I. Imperial Res. `A’ Imperial Res. `B’ IPM Holdings Island Info ISM Communications Jackstones Leisure & Resorts Liberty Telecom Manila Bulletin Manila Jockey Melco Crown Metro Retail NOW Corp.

Pacific Online Sys. Corp.

PAL Holdings Inc. Phil. Seven Corp.

Philweb.Com Inc. PLDT Common PremiereHorizon Premium Leisure Puregold Robinsons RTL SBS Phil. Corp.

SSI Group STI Holdings Transpacific Broadcast Travellers Waterfront Phils.

Yehey

-0.39 0.93 14.17 1.69 0.00 -1.29 1.75 -0.64 -1.75 3.26 0.00 0.00 -1.83 0.15 -0.55 0.00 2.78 -1.34 2.70 -6.90 -0.95 0.66 0.93 0.00 -0.99 0.42 -0.25 -4.33 0.11 -1.77 4.91 0.43 -0.11 2.44 2.20 -1.86 -1.40 -1.75 -0.62 0.00 -0.50 0.00 0.00 -1.73

56,900 236,770 783,000 401,000 13,800 5,869,000 23,540,000 1,374,000 299,630 900 26,000 60,500 47,825 104,400 748,440 43,200 150 141,000 62,430,000 16,014,000 119,000 185,600 622,000 100,000 10,000 8,460,000 903,000 33,537,000 600 72,700 510 86,900 94,645 320,000 21,331,000 7,653,500 3,787,750 243,300 12,673,000 642,000 21,000 1,042,000 290,000 55,000

0.0098 5.45 17.24 25 12.7 12.8 1.19 1.62 9.5 4.2 0.48 0.420 0.440 0.022 0.023 8.2 49.2 4.27 1.030 3.06 0.020 0.021 7.67 12.88 10.42 0.040 420 9 0.016

0.0043 1.72 6.47 9.43 6.5 5.11 0.85 0.77 5.99 1.17 0.305 0.2130 0.2160 0.013 0.014 3.240 18.96 2.11 0.365 1.54 0.012 0.013 5.4 7.26 2.27 0.015 115.9 3.67 0.0100

Abra Mining Apex `A’ Atlas Cons. `A’ Atok-Big Wedge `A’ Benguet Corp `A’ Benguet Corp `B’ Century Peak Metals Hldgs Coal Asia Dizon Ferronickel Geograce Res. Phil. Inc. Lepanto `A’ Lepanto `B’ Manila Mining `A’ Manila Mining `B’ Marcventures Hldgs., Inc. Nickelasia Nihao Mineral Resources Omico Oriental Peninsula Res. Oriental Pet. `A’ Oriental Pet. `B’ Petroenergy Res. Corp.

Philex `A’ PhilexPetroleum Philodrill Corp. `A’ Semirara Corp.

TA Petroleum United Paragon

0.00 -3.33 1.90 6.73 0.00 0.13 1.47 -1.89 3.71 1.14 6.78 -3.85 0.00 0.00 0.00 -2.45 -3.42 -3.77 3.45 0.75 0.00 1.06 0.27 0.48 13.45 0.00 -1.92 6.63 50.00

236,000,000 6,000 86,000 -94,210.00 26,300 18,090.00 5,400 22,100 -169,730.00 369,000 1,880,000 45,300 18,744,000 6,989,460.00 2,960,000 41,470,000 660,000 89,000,000 200,000 356,000 2,208,300 -3,030,010.00 962,000 100,000 951,000 25,000,000 3,000,000 -19,000.00 1,000 960,700 97,281.00 16,943,000 796,880.00 58,500,000 680,060 22,707,745.00 1,305,000 -95,680.00 328,000,000 10,500.00

70 525

33 500

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ABS-CBN’s profit rises 34% Meralco defends wheeling charges

By Alena Mae S. Flores MANILA Electric Co. on Thursday said it implemented the distribution wheeling charges approved by the Energy Regulatory Commission as provided in the contract signed with Millenium Energy Inc., operator of the 100-megawatt Navotas gas turbine power plant.

“The distribution wheeling charges billed by Meralco to MEI have been agreed to by both parties and approved by the regulators, so I do not see any reason why they would suddenly stop paying. There is clearly no—ispute to speak of in this case, only a refusal to pay rightful charges,” Meralco public information head Joe Zaldarriaga said when sought for comment.

Zaldarriaga said Millenium’s petition to waive the unpaid bills from Meralco covered charges for distribution wheeling, or for its use of Meralco’s distribution grid as an embedded generator.

Millennium has unpaid billings of P34.501 million to Meralco.

“Waiving the payment of distribution wheeling service charges would be tantamount to letting MEI use the distribution grid of Meralco for free. Should this be the case, it would mean that the said charges, which are rightfully the responsibility of MEI, may have to be borne by electricity customers,” said Zaldarriaga.

The short list MONDAY this week, a record 81.6% of voters trooped to polling stations to elect new national and local leaders.

With about 95.75% of votes already in as of Thursday, Duterte leads with over 6 million votes, a lead equivalent to a little over 13.5% of those who voted (about 44 million). Poe conceded victory to Duterte around midnight of Monday, and Roxas conceded Tuesday afternoon. While the victory does not become official until a declaration from Comelec, it seems clear who the next president is going to be.

The next six months are going to be critical. The new team must be formed and clear directions set.

Whose priorities?

What should the next president prioritize? There are many ways to approach this question.

We could start with the job of government. The basic job of government is to provide security, maintain order, and provide basic services. In the matter of security, most individuals would think of

By Darwin G. Amojelar

ABS-CBN Corp. said Thursday net income rose 34 percent in the first quarter of the year, boosted by higher advertising revenues from the 2016 national election and regular advertisers.

The country’s leading media and entertainment company posted a net profit of P761 million in the January-to-March period from P569 million in the same period last year.

The growth was driven by strong performance in the corporation’s television and studio business, where advertising revenues grew 30 percent year-on-year.

“As expected, we saw a big jump in advertising revenues driven by

a combination of an improvement in our ratings and an increase in airtime placements from regular advertisers and from candidates running for office in the May elections,” ABS-CBN chief financial officer Aldrin Cerrado said.

The company posted a consolidated revenue of P9.79 billion, up 18 percent from last year’s P8.33 billion.

Advertising revenues reached P5.58 billion in the first quarter,

up 31 percent from P4.26 billion last year, wile consumer sales rose 3 percent to P4.21 billion from P4.07 billion last year.

ABS-CBN, meanwhile, booked P781 million in revenues from election-related spending in the first quarter of the year. Revenues from election campaign amounted to P2.9 billion as of May 8.

“We are still very confident to meet our profit guidance of P3.2 billion to P3.5 billion this year,” Cerrado said.

Cerrado said the company planned to further boost its audience share with the better reception of Channel 2 in the Mega Manila area and Central Luzon through the distribution of its ABS-CBN TV Plus boxes.

Data from Kantar Media showed ABS-CBN audience share

nationwide during the period reached 44 percent, higher than GMA Network’s 35 percent and TV5’s 7 precent.

ABS-CBN posted a 31 percent audience share in Mega Manila and 35 percent in Metro Manila.

The company has sold over 1.2 million ABS-CBN TV Plus boxes to date. ABS-CBN’s digital TV coverage includes Benguet, Pangasinan, Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Bulacan, Metro Manila, Rizal, Cavite, Laguna, Metro Cebu and Bacolod.

“We are confident that this will be a banner year in terms of revenues and earnings. Furthermore, we have undertaken various initiatives to diversify our revenue base beyond advertising,” ABSCBN Group chief finance officer Ron Valdueza said.

Mapfre office.

Leading global insurance company Mapfre, and its Philippine arm Mapfre Insular, mark a milestone with the inauguration of the first Mapfre delegado office in the Philippines and Asia Pacific region.

Leading the ceremony are (from left) Hyun Soon Ventura, Mapfre Insular business partner; Tirso Abad, president and chief executive of Mapfre Insular;p and Leire Jimenez, CEO of Mapfre Asia Pacific. Mapfre awards the delegado recognition to a Mapfre business partner that has successfully attained the highest level of business performance in terms of booked insurance premium volume and demonstrated loyalty and commitment to Mapfre.

physical security and identify national security and citizen security.

This, however, is an incomplete list. High up in this category are the matters of economic security; security in the face of disasters, and security in the case of illness or accidental injury. With respect to maintaining order, there are the matters of managing criminality, corruption and active conflict. In addition, there are the other governance matters required to maintain effectiveness and efficiency. To the question of basic services, clear priorities are transportation, education, health care, poverty alleviation, and communication.

That is how you begin the long list. The real task and challenge for the first few days, however, is to sharpen direction – to identify the short list, the priorities.

We know what business wants government to prioritize: a clear economic plan, good governance – essentially stamping out corruption and red tape, and a clear solution to nagging infrastructure concerns. This is unsurprising. And whether it is a hangover from the APEC theme for 2015 or simply an enlightened understanding of the need for a better business environment, most businessmen will point to an economic plan that effectively

addresses inclusive growth.

But what do the citizens want?

In a quick presidential priority survey, OLX reports managing criminality and increasing job opportunities at the top of the list – both over 60% of 1966 responses. Corruption rounds out the top three at 50%. Next on the list are poverty alleviation, transportation and infrastructure, and efficiency of government services.

What gets measured gets managed So everyone has a list. Now, I’m not an economist but I would point very quickly to the factors underlying two indices. First, the human development index because people must be at the heart of every government’s priorities.

This includes access to education, health care and such basics as clean water and power. Second, I would point to the ease of doing business index. This is because business is still the most effective engine for economic development. In this list, infrastructure and good governance will jump out as requiring attention.

To this list, I would add one very important thing: freedom of information. Aquino promised this when he was on the campaign trail but he failed to designate it as a priority.

The reason I choose to go with indices is that creating a simple list fails to provide any manager with a clear sense of goals. The reality, as all managers know, is that one of the most important levers for effective management is performance measures. The other reality is that, without transparency, we can never tell whether the metrics that we have are real.

Basics Finally, I would ask the government to examine their development platform against what is needed in order to address inequity. We need look no farther than the nagging inability of the Philippine economy to trickle the fruits of economic growth down to the rest of the population to understand the vote against the Aquino administration.

In addressing inequity, it is important to understand basic drivers. Many are clear – infrastructure, education, jobs. One of the most important drivers of inequity is inequity in terms of opportunity – limitations on upward mobility. In order to address this, government must have a clear economic program, down to which industries will become the cornerstone of growth, and a plan for opening opportunities for both jobs, and business cre-

ation and ownership to a wider population.

However, it is not that easy. A newly published book by Branko Milanovic points to five forces driving inequity in the USA. They are worth examining. First, we remember that individuals generally earn income two ways: wages from working, or capital income from investing money.

Milanovic points out that more and more of the national income is going to owners of capital. Further, that income generally belongs to only a small proportion of the population. To compound this, individuals with high-paying jobs end up with more capital and high-income individuals tend to marry each other, creating a pattern and cycle of income concentration. And, finally, the final lever – the rising political power of the rich.

This final lever is important because it explains why freedom of information is so important.

There can be no good governance without true transparency.

So there’s my list. Onward.

Readers can email Maya at integrations_manila@yahoo. com. Or visit her site at http:// integrations.tumblr.com.

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IN BRIEF DBS sees 6% growth

DBS Bank of Singapore expects the Philippine economy to grow 6 percent in 2016, faster than the 5.8-percent expansion last year on robust domestic demand and investments.

DBS Group Research economist Gundy Cahyadi said in a statement Thursday there was nothing to worry about the Philippine economy, despite the sluggish exports.

“Export growth number out this week was bleak. That export growth is weak shouldn’t be surprising though. The global economy is not growing as fast as many had thought earlier—look at how the growth numbers are down for the key export destinations,” Cahyadi said.

“Yet, as far as GDP growth momentum is concerned, we are not worried at all. Most of what’s driving the economy comes from domestic demand. As long as consumption and investment growth stays strong, we remain optimistic that GDP growth will return to 6 percent this year,” Cahyadi said.

He said the strong growth of 6.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015 could be sustained in the first quarter this year. A 6.3-percent growth in the first quarter could be higher than 5 percent a year ago, which was driven by anemic fiscal expenditures, he said. Julito G. Rada

CebuPac sells 4 planes

THE operator of Cebu Pacific said Thursday it signed a deal to sell four Airbus A319 aircraft to an American budget airline.

Cebu Air Inc. said the delivery of the four aircraft to Allegiant Travel Company was scheduled from 2017 to 2018. Allegiant is the parent company of Las Vegas-based low-cost airline Allegiant Air. Cebu Pacific president and chief executive Lance Gokongwei said the agreement was line with the airline’s efforts to expand its operations both in the Philippines and abroad.

“We remain invested in upgrading our fleet with fuel efficient, versatile aircraft. Between 2016 and 2021, we are anticipating the delivery of 30 Airbus A321neos, for long-range capability, and 16 ATR 72-600 turboprop planes, for better interisland connectivity,” Gokongwei said.

Cebu Pacific currently operates one of the youngest fleets in the world, with an average age of 4.82 years. Its 57-strong fleet is comprised of 7 Airbus A319, 36 Airbus A320, 6 Airbus A330 and 8 ATR 72-500 aircraft.

Cebu Pacific said it was set to take delivery of 30 brand-new Airbus A321neo aircraft, the largest model in the A320neo series. Darwin G. Amojelar

Megaworld’s profit rises 12% to P2.63b

By Jenniffer B. Austria

PROPERTY developer Megaworld Corp. said Thursday net income climbed 12 percent in the first quarter to P2.63 billion from P2.35 billion a year ago, boosted by strong rental and residential sales.

Megaworld said in a disclosure to the stock exchange consolidated revenues, including those of subsidiaries Global-Estate Resorts Inc., Empire East Land Holdings Inc. and Suntrust Properties Inc., hit P11.46 billion in the January-March period, up by 9.5 percent from 10.47 billion in

the same period last year.

“We have sustained our expansion plans for our office and mall businesses, which bolstered our rental revenues. In the next five years, we see our rental businesses become the key driver of our growth as we expect a continuing momentum in consumer spending and a remarkable growth in BPO revenues,” Megaworld treasurer Francis Canuto said.

The group’s rental business soared to a record P2.29 billion in the first quarter, an increase of 15.2 percent from P1.97 billion registered a year earlier.

The company earlier said it expected rental revenues to hit the P11-billion mark by the end of the year.

Meanwhile, residential sales rose 10 percent to P6.86 billion from P6.24-billion in the same period last year.

“We continue to innovate our residen-

Accenture’s award.

Business process outsourcing company Accenture receives the Outstanding Community Project award from the Philippine Economic Zone Authority, marking the third time it has been recognized for corporate citizenship programs in the Philippines. Shown is President Benigno Aquino III (third from left) presenting the award to Accenture country managing Director Lito Tayag (right) during Peza’s 21st anniversary and investors’ recognition night 2016. With them are Trade Secretary Adrian Cristobal Jr. (left) and Peza director-general Lilia de Lima (second from left).

PLDT transmits votes

PLDT Inc. said Thursday it quickly transmitted election returns to the Commission on Elections and citizen’s arm Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting within 18 hours from the close of the polls.

The country’s leading telecom and digital services provider said the just-concluded national elections were “largely uneventful.”

“Amid all the excitement, election day was quiet for us. Our fixed and wireless networks were fully functional,” PLDT and Smart Communications chairman and chief executive Manuel Pangilinan said.

Pangilinan said the readiness of the group’s network helped transmit elections results rapidly.

Comelec chairman Andres Bautista said election returns from over 91 percent of the country’s 92,509 clustered precincts were successfully transmitted to Comelec and PPCRV. Timely transmission to the PPCRV transparency server in turn enabled media organizations to quickly report the results, helping dispel fears that political tensions would flare up in the aftermath of the heated political campaign. Darwin G. Amojelar

Geothermal FiT pushed

RENEWABLE energy producer Energy Development Corp., a subsidiary of First Gen Corp., asked the government to provide a feed-in-tariff for geothermal power projects.

EDC president and chief operating officer Richard Tantoco said future geothermal projects would require a modest feed-in tariff, “nowhere near where wind and solar are today but in reality is significantly cheaper when the costs of intermittency are factored in.”

“The whole Epira [Electric Power Industry Reform Act] is geared toward competition to reduce cost.

But we have to get people to accept and acknowledge that fact that there are other costs not factored there, intermittency, carbon costs,” Tantoco said.

EDC is the country’s biggest geothermal power producer with a total capacity 1,169 megawatts.

The company expects net income to be flat this year at P8.8 billion because of the maintenance shutdowns of some geothermal plants. Alena Mae S. Flores

IFC backs SEC project

INTERNATIONAL Finance Corp., the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, on Thursday signed a deal with the Securities and Exchange Commission to strengthen the country’s regulatory framework and corporate governance practices.

IFC and SEC signed a memorandum of agreement to raise market awareness on good governance in a bid to entice more foreign investments.

IFC and SEC agreed to work together to revise the country’s Corporate Governance Code and set best practices for Philippine companies to follow.

IFC will facilitate the exchange of information on regulatory reforms between SEC officials and international corporate governance experts.

“We will work together with IFC to improve our regulations and encourage Philippine corporates to adopt best corporate governance practices so that they can reap the benefits,” said SEC chairperson Teresita Herbosa “These efforts are crucial to the development of a strong and sustainable capital market in the Philippines,” she said. Gabrielle H. Binaday

tial offerings that adapt to the diverse characteristics of each township that we build. That is why we are able to sustain the growth in our residential business,” said Canuto.

“Megaworld has laid out its groundwork of growth by making sound decisions and thorough planning of the vast land bank that we have. This year, we will continue to strengthen, if not expand, our township footprint, where we can build more residential, office and mall developments.

Our healthy first quarter results is indicative of another positive outlook for 2016,” he said.

Megaworld now has 20 integrated urban township developments across the Philippines, including Eastwood City in Quezon City, Newport City in Pasay City, Mactan Newtown in Cebu and Iloilo Business Park

Federal government to boost property developers PROPERTY developers will likely benefit from president-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s plan to adopt a federal system of government, an executive of Vista Land & Lifescapes Inc. said Thursday.

Vista Land president and chief executive Manuel Paolo Villar said property developers were expected to benefit from federalism, as this would spur developments of key cities outside Metro Manila.

“I think it benefits everybody and it benefits us because even before he [Duterte] decided to run [as president], we have already pursued developments outside Metro Manila. It benefits us just because federalism means that there will be developments outside Metro Manila,” Villar said.

Duterte earlier announced a plan to push for a federal form of government in a bid to empower the provinces and develop

Mindanao.

Vista Land has presence in 95 cities and municipalities and plans to venture in five more area within the year to hit its target of 100, according to Villar.

Vista Land said net income grew 17 percent in the first quarter to P2.1 billion from P1.8 billion a year ago as consolidated revenues improved 6 percent to P7.9 billion from P7.1 billion. Reservation sales increased 2 percent to P14.5 billion.

Villar said the single-digit growth in the company’s revenues and reservation sales in the first quarter was due to slowdown in sales to OFW market.

Villar said OFW sales, which accounted for 60 percent of the company’s total residential sales, were affected by the slump in oil prices in the world market.

He said for the rest of the year, he expected the growth of real estate revenues

to remain in a single-digit level.

Meanwhile, recurring revenue in the first quarter jumped 89 percent to P944 million from P498 million a year ago, as the company added 221,748 square meters of gross floor area by opening four malls and one BPO commercial center.

“2016 promises to be another record year for Vista Land. We are pleased to have been able to achieve solid growth over the past years and should have no problem continuing the trend this year,” said Vista Land chairman Manuel Villar, Jr. “Our positive outlook for the year is due to the expansion of our commercial assets in addition to our core housing business on the back of a sound Philippine macroeconomic fundamentals and hopefully with the new government’s push to accelerate infrastructure development,” he said.

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Photocall. French director Alain Guiraudie (C) poses on May 12, 2016 with French actress India Hair and French actor Damien Bonnard during a photocall for the film ‘Rester Vertical (Staying Vertical)’ at the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. AFP

Bad air strangles world’s cities 94 killed in triple car bombings in Baghdad BAGHDAD—Three car bombs in Baghdad, including a huge blast at a market in a Shiite area, killed at least 94 people Wednesday, the bloodiest day in the Iraqi capital this year.

The attacks, all claimed by the Islamic State group, came with the government locked in a political crisis that some have warned could undermine the fight against the jihadists.

The worst bombing struck the frequently targeted Sadr City area of northern Baghdad at about 10 am (0700 GMT), killing at least 64 people, officials said.

The blast set nearby shops on fire and left debris including the charred, twisted remains of a vehicle in the street.

Dozens of angry people gath-

ered at the scene of the bombing, blaming the government for the carnage.

“The state is in a conflict over [government positions] and the people are the victims,” said a man named Abu Ali. “The politicians are behind the explosion.”

Abu Muntadhar echoed his anger.

“The state is responsible for the bombings that hit civilians,” the local resident said. The politicians “should all get out”.

Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who spearheaded a protest movement demanding a cabinet reshuffle and other reforms, has a huge following in the workingclass neighborhood of Sadr City, which was named after his father. Afp

GENEVA—Over 80 percent of the world’s city dwellers breathe poor-quality air, increasing their risk of lung cancer and other life-threatening diseases, a new World Health Organization report warned Thursday.

Urban residents in poor countries are by far the worst affected, WHO said, noting that nearly every city (98 percent) in the low- and middleincome countries has air that fails to meet the UN body’s standards.

That number falls to 56 percent of the cities in the wealthier countries.

“Urban air pollution continues to rise at an alarming rate, wreaking havoc on human health,” Maria Neira, the head of WHO’s department of public health and environment, said in a statement.

The UN agency’s latest air pollution database reveals an overall deterioration of air in the planet’s cities, and highlights the growing risk of serious health conditions that also include stroke and asthma.

The report, which focused on outdoor rather than household air, compared data collected from 795

cities in 67 countries between 2008 and 2013.

Tracking the prevalence of harmful pollutants like sulfate and black carbon, WHO found that air quality was generally improving in richer regions like Europe and North America, but worsening in developing regions, notably the Middle East and southeast Asia.

Overall, the contaminants in outdoor air caused more than 3 million premature deaths a year, the UN body said.

The quality of air pollution data provided by individual countries varies considerably, and WHO does not compile a ranking of the world’s most polluted cities.

But, in a sample of selected mega-cities with a population above 14 million, New Delhi was the most polluted, followed by Cairo

and Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka.

Crucially, key African centers like Nigeria’s mega-city Lagos were excluded from the list because of the sparse availability of air quality data in many parts of the continent, WHO said.

A sample of European data showed that Rome had slightly worse air than Berlin, followed by London and Madrid.

Carlos Dora, coordinator at WHO’s public health and environment department, pointed to several key factors that determine the quality of a city’s air.

First was transportation, Dora said, noting that cities which succeed in reducing vehicle traffic while promoting walking, cycling and mass public transport inevitably see their air quality improve.

Energy inefficiency—especially with respect to heating and cooling buildings—is a major cause of dirty air, along with the widespread use of diesel generators as a replacement for cleaner electricity sources, Dora added. AFP

US praises Romania’s missile system BUCHAREST—A US missile defense system in Romania will become operational Thursday in a move welcomed by US officials as an “important step” but also one likely to infuriate Moscow.

The missile interceptor station in Deveselu, southern Romania, will help defend Nato members against the threat of short and medium-range ballistic missiles—particularly from the Middle East, US assistant secretary of state Frank Rose told a news conference in Bucharest Wednesday.

But Russia has taken a dim view of the project, seeing it as a security

threat on its doorstep.

“Both the US and Nato have made it clear the system is not designed for or capable of undermining Russia’s strategic deterrence capability,” Rose said.

“Russia has repeatedly raised concerns that the US and Nato defense are directed against Russia and represents a threat to its strategic nuclear deterrent. Nothing could be further from the truth.”

The Deveselu site will host a battery of SM-2 missile interceptors and will officially be integrated into the Nato missile shield at the bloc’s summit meeting to be held in Warsaw in July.

Work on the Deveselu site began in October 2013 and is thought to have cost $800 million (700 million euros).

US ambassador to Nato Douglas Lute described the activation of the missile system as a gesture of his country’s commitment to Article Five by which all 28 Nato members pledge a one-for-all, all-for-one response to any military threat if a member invokes the treaty clause in the face of an attack.

“Tomorrow is a demonstration that the US, Romania and the other allies contributing to the defense system mean what Article Five says,” he said. AFP

Meeting. Pope Francis exchanges gifts with Prince Akishino of Japan during a meeting at the Vatican on May 12, 2016. AFP

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Rousseff impeachment backed BRASILIA—Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff prepared Thursday to cede power to her vice president-turned-enemy, Michel Temer, after a majority of the Senate backed suspending her and opening an impeachment trial.

With a marathon 17-hour debate continuing through the night ahead of a vote, the writing was already on the wall for Brazil’s first female president.

Only a simple majority of the 81-member Senate is required to suspend Rousseff for six months pending judgment on charges that she broke budget-accounting laws. And shortly after 3:15 am in Brasilia (0615 GMT), the 41st senator declared his intention to back impeachment ahead of the vote.

A trial could take months, with a two-thirds majority vote eventually needed to force Rousseff, 68, from office altogether.

In the meantime, starting Thursday, Temer was to take over as interim president of Latin America’s biggest country -- ending 13 years of rule by Rousseff ’s leftist Workers’ Party.

Temer, from the center-right PMDB party, was preparing to announce a new government and says his priority is to address Brazil’s worst recession in decades and end the paralysis gripping Congress during the battle over Rousseff.

A onetime Marxist guerrilla tortured under the country’s military dictatorship in the 1970s, Rousseff has

denounced the impeachment drive as a coup and vows to fight on during the trial.

Brazilian media reported she would be officially notified of the vote’s result at 10:00 am (1300 GMT) Thursday and would make a statement to the nation. A crowd of supporters would gather outside to salute her as she drove off, a spokesman for her Workers’ Party told AFP. - Battered by multiple crises -Due to host the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in less than three months, Brazil is struggling to stem economic disarray and handle the fallout from a corruption scandal reaching deep into the political and business elite.

The latest target of a sprawling probe into the graft scandal was Senator Aecio Neves, who narrowly lost to Rousseff in the 2014 presidential elections. The Supreme Court authorized a probe into his alleged bribe taking and money laundering overnight.

The multiple crises have left the country divided between those blaming Rousseff and those loyal to the Workers’ Party, whose transformative social programs have lifted tens of millions of people from poverty. AFP

China paper blasts British media

Republic of the Philippines QUIRINO STATE UNIVERSITY Diffun, Quirino ITB No.: QSU – BAC-E-01-2016

INVITATION TO BID “CONSTRUCTION OF UNIVERSITY LIBRARY” The QUIRINO STATE UNIVERSITY (QSU) at Andres Bonifacio, Diffun, Quirino, through its Trust Fund intends to apply the sum of Pesos: Fourteen Million Seven Hundred Thousand (Php 14,700,000.00) being the Approved Budget for the Contract(ABC)to payment under the contract for the hereunder project. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at Bid Opening: CONTRACT PACKAGE

Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) PhP

Duration of Contract (Calendar Days)

“CONSTRUCTION OF UNIVERSITY LIBRARY”

P 14,700,000.00

200

The QSU now invites bids for “CONSTRUCTION OF UNIVERSITY LIBRARY”. Completion of the works is required within two hundred (200) calendar days after receipt of Notice to Proceed.

Bidders should have completed within the last five (5) years from the date of submission and receipt of bids, a contract similar to the Project with an amount of at least 50% of the ABC. The description of an eligible bidder is contained in the Bidding Documents, particularly, in Section II. Instructions to Bidders.

Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using a nondiscretionary “pass/fail” criterion as specified in the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act (RA) 9184, otherwise known as the “Government Procurement Reform Act”.

Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizens/sole proprietorships, partnerships, or organizations with at least sixty percent (60%) interest or outstanding capital stock belonging to citizens of the Philippines, and to citizens or organizations of a country the laws or regulations of which grant similar rights or privileges to Filipino citizens, pursuant to RA 5183 and subject to Commonwealth Act 138.

A complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested Bidders from the address below and upon payment of a non-refundable fee of PESOS: Twenty Five Thousand (P25, 000.00).

Bidding Documents maybe downloaded and reprinted from the website of the QSU and website of Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS). However, prospective bidder/s who obtained the bid documents online, shall only be allowed to participate in the bidding upon payment of the nonrefundable bidding fee.

The complete schedule of activities is listed, as follows: ACTIVITIES

SCHEDULE

TIME/PLACE

May 12-June 1, 2016

8:00AM TO 5:00PM/ QSU,Diffun, Quirino

2 Pre-Bid Conference

May 20, 2016

9:00AM/Diffun, Quirino

3 Submission and Opening of Bids

June 1, 2016

9:00AM/Diffun, Quirino

4 Post Evaluation

June 1, 2016

1:00 AM-5:00 PM

5 Award of Contract

June 3, 2015

9:00AM/Diffun, Quirino

1 Issuance of Bid Documents

All Bids will be opened in the presence of the bidder or his/her duly authorized representatives who choose to attend at the address below. Late bids shall not be accepted.

The QSU reserves the right to accept or reject any or all Bids, declare a failure of bidding, waive any defects or informalities therein and/or accept the offer/s most advantageous and beneficial to the government. Further, QSU has no responsibility whatsoever to compensate or indemnify the prospective bidders for any expenses incurred in the processing of their eligibility to bid and/or in the preparation of the bid, if the fund/allotment for said program/project/activity has been withheld or reduced through no fault of its own (GPPB Circular No. 01-2009, dated January 20, 2009).

For further information, please refer to: DR. ANGELINA D. AMBONON QSU BAC Chairperson Andres Bonifacio, Diffun, Quirino E-mail Address: quirinostateuniversity@yahoo.com.ph

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Song contest. Rykka of Switzerland rehearses the song ‘The Last Of Our Kind’ during the jury show at the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, on May 11, 2016, on the eve of the second semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016. AFP

(SGD)ANGELINA D. AMBONON, DPA BAC Chairperson

BEIJING—The British media is riddled with “barbarians” who would benefit from a lesson in manners from China’s ancient civilization, a state-run newspaper said Thursday after Queen Elizabeth II

called some Chinese officials “very rude”.

In a rare diplomatic gaffe, the British monarch was caught on camera at a Buckingham Palace garden party making unguarded comments

Republic of the Philippines Regional Trial Court National Capital Judicial Region Branch 140, Makati City IN RE: PETITION FOR THE ADOPTION OF THERESE CLAIRE ANCHETA REAMBONANZA

BY SPOUSES ALLAN V. DEL MUNDO AND FLORDIVINA A. DEL MUNDO WITH APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF THE ADOPTEE FROM “THERESE CLAIRE A. REAMBONANZA” TO “THERESE CLAIRE ANCHETA DEL MUNDO”.

S P. PRO C N O. M -793 3

SPOUSES ALLAN V. DEL MUNDO AND FLORDIVINA A. DEL MUNDO Petitioners x---------------------------------------------------------x

ORDER This is a petition for adoption filed by petitioners ALLAN V. DEL MUNDO and FLORDIVINA A. DEL MUNDO, praying that after due notice, hearing and publication, judgment is to be rendered declaring Therese Claire A. Reambonanza as the legitimate child of the petitioners and that her name be changed to Therese Clarie Ancheta del Mundo.

Petitioners allege that they are of legal age and residing at Block 37 Lot 02 WalingWaling Street, Zone 7, Pembo, Makati City. They were married on December 18, 2010 in Makati City.

The adoptee Therese Claire A. Reambonanza was born on May 18, 2005 at St. Luke’s Medical Center, Quezon City. She is the illegitimate child of petitioner Flordivina with Jay-R Benedicto Reambonanza. The minor’s biological father is fully aware of the petitioners’ intention to adopt the minor and executed his Affidavit of Consent dated December 28, 2015.

The minor, who is now ten (10) years old, executed an Affidavit of Consent dated January 20, 2016 for her adoption by the petitioners.

They also allege that prior to the petitioners’ marriage, petitioner Allan has a good relationship with the adoptee Therese Claire since he would look after adoptee whenever petitioner Flordivina would go to work. Petitioner Allan became close to the adoptee and treated the latter as his own daughter. The adoptee began to call him “Daddy” since then.

After the petitioners got married, they continued to shower the minor with love and attention and provided for her needs.

They further allege that they have all the qualifications and none of the disqualifications to adopt under the law.

Finding the verified petition to be sufficient in form and substance, the same is set for hearing on June 2, 2016 at 8:30 in the morning at the Session Hall of Regional Trial Court, Branch 140, 10th Floor, Makati City Hall, at which place, date and time, any or all persons opposed thereto may file their petition.

The Court Social Worker is hereby ordered to prepare and submit a report on the adoptee, her biological father and the adopters within sixty (60) days from receipt of the Order pursuant to Section 12, paragraph 5 of A. M. No. 02-6-02-SC. The petitioners are directed to coordinate with the assigned Court Social Worker for the conduct of the required home and study reports. The petitioners are also directed to furnish the Office of the Solicitor General with a copy of the petition and its annexes.

Let copies of this Order be furnished the Office of the Solicitor General, Philippines Statistics Authority, The Local Civil Registrars of Makati City and Quezon City and the Social Worker of the Regional Trial Court, Office of the Clerk of Court, Makati City.

The petitioners are also directed to publish this Order in a newspaper of general circulation once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks to be chosen by raffle, all at their expense.

SO ORDERED Makati City, January 25, 2016 (SGD) CRISTINA F. JAVALLERA-SULIT Judge Copy furnished SR. ACP ALLENE TORRES-PENA LCR OF QUEZON CITY Office of the City Prosecutor Ground Floor, Annex Building 17th Floor Makati City Hall, Makati City Quezon City Hall Compound, Q.C. ATTY. ARLENE D. BANOCNOC (Counsel for the Petitioners) No. 1807 Tramo Street, Pasay City

LCR OF MAKATI CITY 3RD Floor, Makati City Hall Makati City

OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR GENERAL 134 Amorsolo Street, Legaspi Village, Makati City

COURT SOCIAL WORKER RTC-OCC Makati City

PHILIPPINE STATISTICS AUTHORITY –CRD 3rd floor, Vibal Building Times Street cor EDSA West Triangle, Quezon City

RTC-OCC-PUBLICATION RTC, Makati City ( TS - M AY 13, 20 & 27, 2016)

about a state visit last year by President Xi Jinping that drummed up billions in Chinese investment.

The remarks made headlines worldwide on Wednesday but initially they were largely censored in China, blacked out of BBC World transmissions, according to the British broadcaster.

The Global Times newspaper, which is close to China’s ruling Communist Party, blamed the British media for blowing the incident out of proportion and fawning over the footage as if it was “the most precious treasure”.

“The West in modern times has risen to the top and created a brilliant civilization, but their media is full of reckless ‘gossip fiends’ who bare their fangs and brandish their claws and are very narcissistic, retaining the bad manners of ‘barbarians’,” it said in an editorial.

“As they experience constant exposure to the 5,000 years of continuous Eastern civilization, we believe they will make progress” when it comes to manners, it added in the Chineselanguage piece, which was not published in English.

London and Beijing have both proclaimed a

new “golden era” of relations between the former imperial power— whose forces repeatedly invaded China in the 19th century—and the rising Asian giant, now the world’s second-largest economy.

Xi’s trip in October saw a clutch of contracts announced, which Cameron said were worth almost $58 billion.

At the time the overseas edition of the People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s official mouthpiece, breathlessly portraying the visit as the start of a beautiful friendship.

But in her recorded comments the Queen commiserated with a police commander for her “bad luck” in having to oversee security for Xi and his wife.

Members of the Chinese delegation “were very rude to the ambassador”, the monarch said, exclaiming: “Extraordinary!”

A columnist at Chinese website “Today’s Headlines” recalled visible mutual discomfort during the three-day sojourn, describing it as “thoughtprovoking awkwardness” and adding it “primarily arose out of cultural and political differences”. AFP

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RAMON L. TOMELDAN EDITOR

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ISUZU POSTS RECORD SALES THE continued uptick in demand locally for motor vehicles has helped push Isuzu Philippines Corporation (IPC) to log its best monthly tally in the company’s 19-year history.

Citing combined data from the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines, Inc. (CAMPI) and the Truck Manufacturers Association (TMA), IPC said its sales in March reached 2,437 units. The total sees a solid 27.1% jump from the 1,917 units the company had sold in March 2015.

IPC’s first quarter tally in 2016 is also a remarkable 32.7% spike compared to its performance during the same period last year.

Deliveries of Isuzu vehicles in the first three months of this year totaled 6,579 units while those made in the comparable period of 2015 reached 4,957 units.

The company’s sales in March are also a 12.9% increase over the previous month’s result.

“The robust performance of Isuzu Philippines in the first quarter of 2016, and specifically in March, is a reflection of the local automotive industry’s continued growth, which in turn is boosted by a buoyant economy that definitely encourages consumer spending. Still, we are pleasantly surprised that our growth has actually outpaced that of the industry, and we credit in part our sustained

promotional efforts and relevant lineup of vehicles for the rise,” said IPC President Hajime Koso.

Lifting IPC’s tally is the Isuzu mu-X SUV model, whose sales in the first three months of the year never dipped below 1,000 units. In March the SUV’s deliveries reached 1,198, and a total of 3,236 during the first three months of the year.

“Without question, consumer demand for the mu-X has allowed IPC to record its highest-ever monthly tally,” Koso noted.

Helping in the company’s March result are the steady sales of the Isuzu Crosswind utility model (395 units) and D-MAX pickup (358).

Together with the mu-X, Isuzu’s light commercial vehicle lineup has posted a 32.3% rise in the first quarter of 2016, or a total of 5.275 units sold versus the 3,986 units moved during the same months last year.

Sales of Isuzu truck models in the first quarter of 2016 leaped 34.3% to 1,304 units, 333 more than the total delivered during 2015’s comparable period. The brand’s light-duty N-Series trucks comprised the bulk of the total with 776 units moved, 268 of which accounted for March’s result.

FASTLANE

EV revolution spreads

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THE Electric Vehicle Association of the Philippines has gone through a lot during its six year of existence but it has also achieved a lot.

EVAP president Rommel Juan says that through the years, the group through its annual EV Summit has attracted foreign investors into the Philippines from the US, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China. “In the recently-concluded EV Summit, new members from Canada, Australia and Kuwait displayed versions of their electric vehicles”.

“In some cases, these foreign investors have tied up with local EV players through either technical licensing agreements or joint ventures. It has been a slow burn but through the efforts of our association, its members and the government, this has enabled us to successfully roll out various EV projects around the country”.

EJeepneys have been fielded in various areas like Makati, Filinvest City in Alabang, Bonifacio Global City, Las Pinas, Iloilo, Bacolod, Muntinlupa and even in university campuses like La Salle and Ateneo.

Etrikes have been prospering in Boracay, Manila, Naga, Coron and Mandaluying where a single larg-

est deployment of 100 units in a single community was done.

“Indeed slowly but surely, the EV advocacy is growing in the Philippines”, Juan adds. “And people are doing it not just for the environment but also for economic viability.

EV operators and drivers in the public transport sector have reported a growth in income when they went electric. Commuters prefer the quiet, smoke free, comfortable ride that they enjoy with EVs. As a result, drivers post higher rider numbers and more income”.

Juan concludes that through the years, EVAP has promoted the use of EVs around the country through its members. “We are happy that many local government units have adopted the EV transport systems. We hope that with the proof of concept already evident, even more LGUs will follow suit as we now offer not just EVs but a complete mass transport solution package.

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MOTORING

A centuries-old Spanish Fort is a contrast to the modern-day Toyota fleet.

ROAD TREK LIKE NO OTHER Text and photos by Dino Ray V. Directo III

If you’re the country’s dominant auto maker and you want to highlight the overall performance of your vehicle lineup, how will you do it? Toyota Motors Philippines did one for the books by flying in a select group of motoring journalists to the island of Palawan.

“This ride and drive will enable you to test the cars while enjoying the good roads and the natural beauty of this famous island,” says Satoru Suzuki, president of Toyota Motors Philippines .

After spending the night in Puerto Princesa, our intrepid group of pen pushers geared up for the 53-kilometer ride to Astoria, Palawan.

Toyota prepared brand new units of the Innova, Hi-Lux and the Fortuner SUV as the participating media men were divided into groups of four per vehicle. For the first leg of the ‘Road Trek”, my group composed of Brent Co of Autoindustriya; Ira Panganiban of Inquirer Radio, Al Mendoza of the Business Mirror and this writer representing The Standard/

Interaksyon rode in a Hi-Lux G 4x2 automatic. The fuel efficiency rating which we had to beat in our category was 10.7 kilometers per liter.

Apart from the fuel efficiency contest, the organizers prepared a series of mental and physical games to make the experience a more memorable one. I drove for the first leg, while Panganiban drove the latter part of the driving experience, this time on board an Innova.

At the end of the day, our team managed to rack up an impressive fuel efficiency rating of 16.8 kilometers per liter, with the A/C on full blast and me driving like there’s an egg at the back of the accelerator pedal. The Innova was able to get a thrifty 20 km per liter

while the Fortuner V was able to hit the 17km per liter mark.

After the “working” part of this year’s Road Trek, the Toyota convoy drove for another four hours to the Lio airport, where a 45 minutes boat ride awaited us for our final destination in island paradise of Lagen Resort.

For the “leisure” part of the Road Trek, Toyota billeted us at the Lagen Island resort in El Nido. Nestled between a lush four-hectare forest and a calm, shallow lagoon, Lahen Island is one of El Nido’s Eco-Sanctuary island resort. Luxurious bungalows strategically placed along the shoreline with a dense forest and a limerock face surrounding us, we all felt that we were in for some serious fun and play for the

next couple of days.

Now on its 12th year, the Toyota Roadtrek is an annual road trip organized by TMPI. This four-day event requires its participants to engage in a friendly competition and stock up some precious points.

It also has fun competitions, with this year’s theme requiring all media participants to compete for top honors for social media and fuel efficiency drive contests.

A major component of the Roadtrek is the driving part. Participants traversed the roads of Puerto Princesa and drove for six hours to the Lio Airport. We doff our autoracing cap to the marketing team of Ariel Arias and Jade Sison for their buckets of blood, sweat and tears in pulling off another successful Road Trek event.

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ow time flies! It seems like 2016 had just begun and all of a sudden we’re in the tail end of a scorching summer. But even though the middle of the year is just around the corner, plenty of us are still taking advantage of all this warm weather by taking last-minute pop-up beauty trips to the beach. This has been one of the By jIgS mAyugA hottest summers in the country to date and the sweltering heat can take its toll on one’s beauty regimen. Skin gets oilier, sweat glands are on overdrive and makeup never seems to stay put in the humidity. Well, not to worry. Pop-up Beauty has you covered with these beauty picks that ensure that your skin is fresh and well protected until the rainy season finally comes.

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m.A.C. Pro Longwear Waterproof Colour Stick, Glorietta

Makeup for summer 2016 has been a refreshing change from the past seasons with bright colored eyeliners making a comeback. Long wearing, vibrant and impactful, Pro Longwear Waterproof Colour Stick glides onto eyes, delivering highdefinition color and medium-to-full coverage in a single swipe. The sleek jumbo pencil is absolutely effortless, providing ultimate versatility, whether you’re going for a thick, chunky statement liner, or all-over color from lash to lid. My favorite is Madly Sunny, a bright acid green perfect to use as an all over lid color or even as eyeliner.

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INgLOT hD Lip Tint matte, SM Megamall

Liquid matte lipsticks are all the rage these days, and these HD lip tints from Inglot are perfect for ladies who prefer the look of a beautiful matte lip without the heavy feel. This newest addition to their lip product collection is the perfect travel companion this summer. It has a long-lasting formula so you can always be on-the-go without worry. It provides full coverage with a silky matte finish. Smudge-proof and transfer resistant, too! A handy little sponge makes the lip tint easy to apply, while intense colors will compliment any makeup or skin tone. It's available in 10 colors, ranging from subtle nudes to classic reds and darker statement shades.

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From the brand’s iconic POREfessional face primer range, which I am a huge fan of, comes this super mattifying gel that also minimizes the appearance of pores. The lightweight, water-based gel overpowers shine and absorbs excess surface oil, leaving a natural-looking matte finish. Blended with diamond powder known for its soft focus blurring effects, so skin looks smooth and fresh.

Apply a thin layer over freshly cleansed face or use on the t-zone on top of makeup for an instant mid-day touch-up.

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small sizes and, sometimes, in full sizes that they could sample first before they actually purchase them.

In the Philippines, we have beauty and lifestyle sampling website Sample Room which, since 2012, has been offering free products to try along with real details and honest reviews about each item courtesy of its huge online community of beauty experts, beauty junkies and loyal patrons.

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Bridal makeup for morning, afternoon and night weddings Choosing the date for your dream wedding is one of the hardest decisions to make during the bridal planning, much more so when choosing the time of day.

Picking the time to say your vows can be tricky, as you may have to consider other aspects like the reception, the kids attending during the wedding and the guests, among many other factors. We’ve seen weddings commence at the break of dawn as some brides want to start a brand new day with a brand new life; others choose the afternoon for fast and intimate weddings; while some choose the evening to say their vows under starry skies.

The bridal makeup, just like the wedding dress, plays an important factor for the woman of the hour. And whatever time of day the bride chooses to say her “I dos,” there’s a certain look that will play perfectly on the particular hour she chooses to say her vows.

“Wearing the right hairstyle with appropriate accessories and proper makeup are vital for a dazzling walk to the altar,” shares hair and makeup guru Ricky Reyes. “Of course, choices should vary depending on the time of the day and brides should take that into consideration.

Remember that the drama is created by a masterful stroke of makeup color that matches a fabulous hairstyle,” he adds.

THE MORNING BRIDE

Bridal preparations can be really tedious, and for the bride, this usually means endless sleepless nights, more so on the night before her wedding. “Rising from an almost sleepless night and the tedious pre-nuptial protocols, the morning bride is a challenge for makeup artists. Concealers should come in handy for dark circles around the eye area and moisturizer to fix dry skin,” says Ricky.

According to Ricky, morning makeup

Morning bride

should be light, and shades of pink, lilac and lavender eye shadows, blush and lipstick are best to use for this time of day. “Eyeliner however should be darker to accentuate the eye with a well-defined arched eyebrow,” he adds.

The bride’s skin type is also very important to consider, as it will affect the choice of foundation to use. Ricky suggests cake foundation for oily skin, cream type for dry skin and water-based foundation for normal skin condition. “I would like to see a fresh-looking morning bride, that’s why I recommend that hair should be styled loose with a pony on one side and locks cascading freely on the other side,” he shares.

THE AFTERNOON BRIDE

Afternoon is usually the most preferred time as the sunlight casts a dramatic shade on the bride’s face. The natural lighting

Afternoon bride

should be considered in choosing the kind of makeup for the skin. For Ricky’s afternoon bride, he recommends blusher and lipstick in mauve, eye shadow on a dramatic play of earth tones like a mix of light brown, bronze and copper to create the perfect balance between the makeup and the natural shade of light. For the hair, he suggests an intricate braided hairstyle that can be led up to a ponytail finish, added with a tiny flower accent.

THE NOCTURNAL BRIDE

Nighttime makeup should dazzle and accentuate the face of the bride even on low lighting conditions. Makeup during this time need not be conservative, and a bolder and more dramatic look is best for the bride.

Ricky acknowledges that evening weddings are sensational due to the dramatic lighting effects of the venue,

Nocturnal bride

and it affects the overall look of the bride.

“Her lipstick is of shimmering pink and mauve, eye shadow in light gray, gray or black with silver accent highlight and eyebrow properly done. This is after all an evening wedding party, so to dazzle is the key. Evening hairstyle is upswept, middle partition pulled at the back creating a beehive chignon,” he recommends.

Gandang Ricky Reyes Salon suggests that the bride takes care of her skin months before the actual wedding day to avoid blemishes and unwanted skin problems. The salon can assist in hair coloring session prior to the wedding to give the bride a luxuriant and vibrant crowning glory prior to her special day. “More importantly, relax and enjoy your most precious moment. Choose a timeless style that will register well in photos, a style that does not fade away together with the faded photographs,” ends Ricky.

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hether you need a hair trim, a treatment, foot spa, or any hair and makeup need, Creations Salon in Somerset Olympia – which has just relaunched its newly renovated salon – is now ready to cater to your beauty pampering needs.

Known for its no-fuss service, Creations Salon has had a following of men and women including celebrities and known personalities in the fashion industry for years. It’s the signature and vibrant personality of celebrity beauty expert, current Hair Care Expert for TRESemme and Creations proprietor Lourd Ramos that makes the salon popular among its customer.

Opened last May 2015, Creations Somerset Olympia is one of the many branches of the growing Creations family. This newly renovated branch is under new franchise owner CDK Group – a privately owned global enterprise founded by Tita Morales in 1990 with over 25 years of experience operating a wide range of businesses, including international human resources, international trading, real estate development, food and beverage, and fashion and retail. Sharing the same drive in business and great customer service, the partnership with the Creations proprietor is touted to create great service for the salon’s growing list of clientele.

According to Lourd, the newly renovated salon has a homey New York and European

The salon also boasts of two head creative stylists personally trained by Lourd himself – in-house stylist Leonard Dulza, who has six years of experience in the industry with work that have graced numerous publications; and Elvis Rebanal who has more than nine years of experience in makeup and hairstyling.

For the month of May, catch the salon’s summer promo Happy Hour that runs from 3:00 p.m. till 6:00 p.m. that offers haircut

Somerset Olympia's in-house creative stylists Leonard Dulza and Elvis Rebanal

vibe that evokes a relaxed atmosphere, making the salon experience more enjoyable for the clients. The 60 square-meter salon caters to 10 private chairs and uses innovative brand Davines Italia for its treatments. Lourd also visits the salon twice a month to serve and check quality standards. Since the relaunch however, the beauty expert and creative director has been at the salon almost every week.

Who knows, you may even see him on his next visit, so make sure you book ahead so you don’t miss his magic touch.

The newly renovated salon has a homey vibe that evokes a relaxed atmosphere for the clients

with Vegetarian Miracle Hair Treatment for only P650, and Hair Treatment for only P1,500.

Regular haircut is at P350 for women and P300 for men if done by its in-house stylist. The price range if done by Lourd Ramos is P950 for women and P650 for men. Free valet service can also be provided for fuss-free parking.

For Creations Somerset booking, please call landline number (02) 551-7491 or mobile number (0908) 8977360.

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The commitment aims to support The Body Shop in its bid to be the world’s most ethical and sustainable global business

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nrich Not Exploit. This is The Body Shop’s commitment as it celebrates its 40th year in the business, commemorating this milestone by setting new targets to achieve its vision of becoming The World’s Most Ethical and Sustainable Global Business.

In 1987, it launched Trade not Aid – the beauty industry’s first Community Trade Programme. In 1992, it invented the first Body Butter, and since then, The Body Shop has been at the forefront of making change happen. It has been known as a relentless campaigner against animal testing in the last two decades, and in 2012, it celebrated a ban preventing the import and sale of animal tested cosmetic products and ingredients in the EU. To this day, the company continues its campaign locally.

The Body Shop is set to launch BioBridges, a new initiative to protect and regenerate 75 million square meters of damaged habitats and help communities live more sustainably. The company will also introduce new innovative sustainable packaging known as AirCarbon that converts greenhouse gases to produce an alternative to plastic.

“We’ve always done things differently, broken the mold, been bold, been brave,” says The Body Shop chief executive Jeremy Schwartz.

“We’ve used our stores and products to communicate environmental and human rights issues; inspiring and mobilizing employees and customers to take action that has resulted in significant change. As we look to the next 40 years, our commitment to positive change is as strong as ever.”

During The Body Shop’s Manila launch of its new commitment Enrich Not Exploit at Le Petit Souffle, the guest speaker was SALt (Sustainable Alternative Lighting) CEO and founder Aisa Mijeno who spoke about the SALt lamp and why she invented it.

Mijeno, who was one of the Young Visionary awardees of The Standard in 2015, shared her vision of bringing sustainable lighting to remote areas and communities through her lamp that is environment friendly – much like the goals of The Body Shop to help enrich communities.

“Our new global commitment, Enrich not Exploit, provides an opportunity for The Body Shop Philippines to be the most ethical and sustainable beauty brand in the country,” says The Body Shop Philippines general manager Cecille Marie Chua-Uy.

“Mindfulness should not be internal, it should be external, “ says SALt founder and CEO Aisa Mijeno

The event hosted by Issa Litton also saw the launch of new skincare collections that support community trade. These include the Drops of Light Pure Healthy Brightening range, a daily

regime enriched with red algae and Vitamin C to help skin appear brighter and more luminous; and the Oils of Life Intensely Revitalising Sleeping Cream, a night time cream that deeply nourishes, visibly revitalizes and intensely firm while you sleep.

The Body Shop now accepts SM Advantage Card for points earning and redemption, SM and Sodexo premium pass in all The Body Shop stores nationwide.

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3. It provides real reviews and honest ratings Because Sample Room is committed to helping you find your match when it comes to skin care, cosmetics and other beauty and wellness domains, it takes product reviews seriously. Honest ratings and reviews from experts and members – all with varying skin types, ages and concerns – who have tried the site’s featured products, will help customers navigate through the selection available and find what could work for their skin type and answer their skin concern.

4. It uses points as currency New members instantly get 100 points upon registration on Sample Room. These points can be used as cash to purchase sample products off the website. One hundred points could get first time users as many as three items, as points required for acquiring items range from as low as 15 points to 1,000 points, depending on the brand and the item itself. Bar soaps could be for 15 points, a sample size moisturizer could go for 50 points, a good-for-a-week sample of a luxury perfume requires 60 points, and a full-size tube of lipstick could be yours for 100 points.

Honest ratings and reviews from experts and members help customers navigate through the selection and find what could work for them

5. It serves as your ticket to exclusive beauty events Members get the chance to attend beauty events such as summer getaways, makeup sessions, spa parties, beauty blogger get-togethers, and other lifestyle activities that help in making every woman

knowledgeable and empowered in every beauty aspect.

Meanwhile, those who opt to become a VIP member only need to purchase 1,000 points for P649. The VIP membership, which is renewable every two months, also serves as a ticket to exclusive events, parties and

workshops. VIPs also get earlier notifications for new product uploads, as well as occasional bonus gifts from its brand partners.

Curious now? Log on to www.sampleroom.ph to know more about the service and get the products that you’ve been wanting to try.

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Twenty years after the original “Independence Day” hit, most of the cast has reunited for a sequel that brings new alien invasion to the big screen

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American actor Jeff Goldblum plays a pivotal role in the “Independence Day” sequel

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he aliens are back with a vengeance for Independence Day: Resurgence, which represents director Roland Emmerich’s huge return to the genre that made him famous. A sequel to Independence Day, the 1996 original scifi groundbreaking film that captured the public imagination with its vistas of destruction, its memorable characters and huge impact on both science fiction and disaster movies. With giant alien spaceships unleashing incredibly devastating power upon the world, it took brain, brawn and heroics to figure out a way to fight back.

In Independence Day: Resurgence now, 20 years later, humanity has united to rebuild the world’s major cities, while salvaged alien technology has been utilized to work on solving many big problems such as climate change. But the lingering threat of the extraterrestrials’ return still hangs over our heads and the Earth Space Defence programme has formed to be ready for when that day comes.

Ominously, it appears that our greatest enemy is indeed back.

Emmerich assembles an all-star powerful cast starring returning actors Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum with new characters played by Liam Hemsworth, Maika Monroe and Sela Ward. Liam Hemsworth plays Jake Morrison, a hotshot fighter pilot whose family was killed in the original alien attack.

The daughter of former President Whitmore (Bill Pullman), Patricia (played by Monroe), is a tough cookie from a young age when she lost her mother in the original attack. Patricia now works in the White House for the current president played by Sela Ward, but also takes care of her ailing father as he’s haunted by the psychic connection to the aliens established during the last invasion.

From the original blockbuster film, Jeff Goldblum was cast as MIT-trained satellite expert David Levinson, who intercepts and decodes the message coming from massive alien ships hovering over the world’s major cities, figuring out that they’re broadcasting a countdown. Levinson escapes the ensu-

ing attack along with his father Julius (Judd Hirsch), US President Whitmore (Bill Pullman) and a handful of others. Levinson, now the head of the Earth Space Defence initiative, is in the front line of figuring out how to tackle this vast new challenge as even bigger spaceships arrive to threaten us with destruction.

Independence Day: Resurgence director Roland Emmerich has established himself as one of the most creative and successful directors in film. Emmerich has proven himself in a variety of genres and has enjoyed blockbuster success with films such as Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow, 10,000 BC and 2012.

Yet it was in 1996 that Emmerich and Dean Devlin would make the film for which they are still best known: Independence Day. Electrifying audiences from the moment its teaser trailer blew the White House apart, the blend of science fiction adventure and grand disaster movie became an influential moment in cinema, relighting the desire for such films and

triggering any number of attempts to replicate its formula of huge effects and memorable characters. In the original, huge alien spaceships arrive and begin to lay waste to the world’s cities. Eventually, thanks to some chance discoveries and a lot of heroics, a small group is able to defeat the mothership and save the human race.

Now, 20 years later, Emmerich is back for the follow-up, Independence Day: Resurgence, which moves the story on 20 years.

Earth in the wake of the infamous “battle of ‘96” is a much more unified place, and humanity has learned to use some of the salvaged alien technology for the good of the planet and its people. And yet they live with the knowledge that the aliens will one day return, and in force; and that day has now arrived.

Independence Day: Resurgence opens June 22 in cinemas from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.

Also available in IMAX and 3D screens.

Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=2O50t3JskH4.

Get intensely close It’s that time of the year again: to get intensely close at Closeup Forever Summer, the music festival that brings you and your friends your favorite performers.

From EDM kings Martin Garrix to Alesso, to Aussie indie pop duo Julia & Angus Stone, Closeup Forever Summer has hosted a choice selection of iconic electric dance music artists to celebrate life, friendship, summer, and those unforgettable nights that make life worth living.

This year, Closeup is doing it one last time, transforming the SM MOA concert grounds into a Tropical Desert Oasis for a night to outshine the rest.

Ending the trilogy with a bang, Closeup Forever Summer will be headlined by no other than the current number one DJ’s in the world, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike. Sought after produc-

ers, remixers to the A-list elite, award winners and #1 hit makers, Belgian brothers DVLM’s Forever Summer stint will be their first ever performance in the Philippines. Having toured internationally, they are one of the hottest tickets in dance music, gracing the biggest venues and festivals with their explosive brand of EDM. The pair who have created the official Tomorrowland anthems since 2010, will now be Closeup’s.

Joining DVLM will be MATTN, one of the hottest female artists in the electric circuit known for her blend of underground and main stage appeal; Dutch DJ and Producer Julian Jordan whose hold over the country’s new generation of dance music hotshots has rocked the Electric Daisy Carnival and Tomorrowland dancefloors; and Malaysian DJ duo Goldfish & Blink.

Completing the lineup are the Philippines’ resident party starters Ace Ramos, Martin Pulgar, Marc Naval, Kat DJ and MC Pao. It’s now or never. Here’s to celebrating Closeup Forever Summer one last time.

Buy your early bird tickets now for only P2,000 each until March 15 at SMtickets.com to get the intensely close, in a way that only Closeup Forever Summer can do.

Closeup Forever Summer will be on May 21at the SM MOA Concert Grounds. Regular VIP ticket prices will be 4,000 pesos after March 15. For SVIP table reservations contact 09176898888.

For the latest updates like us on Facebook and follow us @CloseupPH on Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Tell us how you plan to make this #CloseupForeverSummer the best. One last time. It’s now or never.

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While everyone was hooked on their TV sets and mobile devices waiting for the next update on the Comelec partial and unffocial count, the phenomenal onscreen duo was aboard a plane en route to Italy. Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza are currently in the European country for their first (actually second) film together. As expected, the couple caused pandemonium starting from the airport of their departure to the location of the shoot. All these are documented on a daily basis on Twitter (where else?) where fans patiently look out for anything and everything AlDub and the loveteam’s Italian escapade.

In a very short period of time, a lot of things had happened to the celebrity a lot of people love to hate - she vowed to take a break from showbiz, then suddenly came back, campaigned for Mar Roxas and Leni Robredo, was criticized for using the presidential chopper, and revealed there was an Abu Sayyaf threat to kidnap her. Now, she’s signing off again. This is probably the nth time she vowed to take a break from showbiz (like , do we still care?). Mark our word, she’ll be back sooner than we expect.

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James Reid His album Reid Alert initially hit retailers on Valentine’s Day last year and quietly moved some critics to give it positive feedback. Since its release, the album has seen a consistent ascension of sales, prompting a nationwide mall tour and concerts. A few days before James’s birthday on Wednesday, the album had been certified platinum. What great birthday present, indeed.

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He and his onscreen partner are already clear on any violation on election rules. But a lot of people can’t still forgive the young star for his rude behavior towards other voters and how he and his mother were given special treatment when they cast their votes.

Not only that we feel sorry for the millions of young people who look up to him, we also feel sorry for the actor who obviously still acts as if he’s still the big star that he was a few years ago.

She is not just a superb screen actress, she’s good at making surprises, too. Ate Guy, whom we’ve just seen on GMA network, surprised a lot of viewers when she appeared on the tearjerking and Twitter-trending episode of Maalaala Mo Kaya on Saturday. As usual, she gave another memorable performance, which reminded people why she’s called the only superstar of local showbiz.

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We’ve proven many times over that no amount of smear campaign can deeply hurt someone’s political ambition unless the person running for public office is not competent enough to be a government leader.

Apparently, this does not apply to our man who ran against a fellow actor in the vice gubernatorial race in Bulacan. Phillip asserts that he lost because his rivals disseminated false information that he was already disqualified. It happened on the election day itself. Very logical, Phillip.

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he leading premium postpaid plan in the country lays out its plan to spoil the most important women in every Filipino’s life.

On May 4, Smart Infinity, Smart Communications’ premium postpaid brand, held a swanky celebration at the Central Square Mall, Bonifacio High Street, as a tribute to the most important women in our lives - our mothers. Smart Infinity members, the media, and special guests were treated to wine, champagne, and scrumptious hors-d’oeuvres. The event had a luxurious and glamorous ambiance - a harpist filled the entire Central Square Atrium with subtle and elegant music, and the white and purple theme of the setup lent a decidedly grand atmosphere to the entire affair.

With the slogan “Mom Deserves only the Best”, Smart Infinity announced at the event a slew of special offers and experiences that would make our Mother’s Day celebration extra special. “This entire program was particularly and carefully developed with our mothers in mind. We zeroed-in on experiences that appeal to the discerning taste of our mothers. This entire celebration is as an ex-

pression of our gratitude to one of the most irreplaceable people in our lives,” says Julie Carceller, head of Smart’s Multi-segment Marketing Group.

“With Infinity’s tradition to provide top-of-the-line offers, we made sure that what we have this season are products that will truly make this one memorable Mother’s Day celebration,” Carceller adds.

Aside from pampering guests with fantastic food, good music, and wonderful raffle prizes, the event was also a kick off for the special Mother’s Day Sale on May 6 to 8.

Smart Infinity members were given the opportunity to enjoy unique perks and exclusive offers from partner retailer SSI Group, Hackett, Cortefiel, Lacoste, Charriol, Kate Spade New York, Pottery Barn, Marks & Spencer and Oliviersv & Co among the premium brands that went on sale at the Central Square Mall. Plenty of treats awaited mothers and the general public during the three day sale event. New PAL Mabuhay Miles members who signed up at the May 4 event were also gifted with complimentary miles in light of Philippine Airlines’ 75th anniversary.

Power-moms Joanna Preysler Francisco and Crickette Tantoco expressed their support for Smart Infinity’s Mother’s Day events. They shared the importance of experiencing life’s greatest rewards and privileges all while appreciating the truly important things in life.

“Enjoying privileges and perks from Infinity makes me feel special and cared for. On top of that, it’s such a huge plus that Infinity celebrates occasions like Mother’s Day. Being both a fulltime mom and a full-time entrepreneur is challenging,” said Preysler Francisco. “But it is all worth it when one gets to enjoy and experience the greatest gifts and privileges that the world has to offer — like a happy family, a business I am passionate about, and Smart Infinity’s outstanding and top of the line offers.”

“As a mom, we want to be pampered and treated the best way possible from time to time. Receiving these ‘tribute to Mom’ offers inspire us to live out our passions while keeping our families as our top priority,” added Tantoco.

Visit the Smart Infinity website to see the latest plans, updates and offers at www.smart. com.ph/infinity.

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Smart’s Julie Carceller with “power-moms” Joanna Preysler (left photo) and Crickette tantoco (right)

Anne Curtis remains a Kapamilya Anne Curtis signed an exclusive two-year contract with ABS-CBN on May 5. Ergo, she remains a Kapamilya.

Curtis’ projects include a new TV series and two more hosting jobs: for the noontime show It’s Showtime and for the second season of the reality music show I Love OPM. When asked how she feels as a Kapamilya, Anne

replied, “It’s just great, ABSCBN is my home and I’m very, very happy.”

Present at the signing were ABS-CBN’s CFO Aldrin Cerrado, ABS-CBN President and CEO Carlo Katigbak, ABSCBN’s COO for Broadcast Cory Vidanes, Anne Curtis’ manager Veronique Corpus, and TV Production Head Laurenti Dyogi.

Exclusive Kapamilya. Anne Curtis (third from left) flanked by Kapamilya topgun sAldrin Cerrado, Carlo Katigbak, Cory Vidanes, Veronique Del Rosario, and laurenti Dyogi

Cnn International expands U.S. election coverage

Cnn International anchor Kate Bolduan

As one of the most keenly anticipated U.S. elections in decades draws closer, CNN International is launching a new show to give the inside track on the campaign. State of the Race will be a destination for international audiences looking for an in-depth lowdown on the race to the White House.

Anchored from CNN’s New York bureau by Kate Bolduan, State of the Race will provide 30 minutes of insight and analysis into a story that the world is watching with intense interest.

Kate Bolduan said, “This has already been a race like no other, and it is clear there is a lot more to come. Every night we’re going to bring our international audiences along for the ride – offering the very latest developments from the campaign trail and giving them the inside scoop of what is really going on within the campaigns and in the minds of American voters.”

Bolduan will draw on her extensive experience covering the U.S. House and Senate as a CNN Congressional correspondent, giving her unique insights into the complexities and char-

acteristics of the U.S. political system.

She will be joined by a roster of experts from around the country to analyze, debate and decipher the key issues.

Tony Maddox, EVP and Managing Director of CNN International, said, “Around the world everyone is talking about this U.S. election. As we get into the decisive campaign stages and open up key election battlegrounds, State of the Race will bring an insiders’ view from one of CNN’s most skilled political journalists. We’ll be delivering international audiences all they need to fully understand this vitally important story with intelligence, passion and a little humor, too.”

State of the Race joins CNN International’s line up of election coverage, which includes the weekly Political Mann program alongside continuing coverage across the network’s shows and platforms.

Beginning on May 17, State of the Race will air daily at 2:30 p.m. on CNN International.

The launch of State of the Race also comes as independent research re-

veals CNN to be the no.1 international source of U.S. election news.

CNN commissioned independent research company Toluna to assess the viewing habits and opinions of vewers in 23 countries across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia Pacific, as well as in Canada.

Asked which international news provider is the leading source of news about the U.S. election, 51 percent of respondents select CNN as no. 1 - a figure higher than all other news organizations combined and dwarfing others such as BBC (19 percent), Reuters (5 percent) and Sky News (4 percent). The study also found huge international interest in the election.

85 percent view it as important for the world, with 73 percent saying they are personally interested in U.S. election news.

Maddox added, “We’ve already seen that CNN U.S.’s coverage is dominating election viewership in the United States, with record-breaking ratings, but this survey proves it is the same around the world.”

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megastar Sharon Cuneta with “The Voice Kids” season 1 and season 2 grand champions Lyca Gairanod and Elha Nympha

Exclusive contract. Sharon Cuneta signs a two-year network contract with aBS-CBN

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he Voice Kids, the biggest and top-rating singing reality competition for kids in the country, is bound to get even more exciting as the one and only Megastar Sharon Cuneta joins the show as its newest mentor.

This summer, Sharon will be working with diva Lea Salonga and rock superstar Bamboo as they screen and mentor kids who will showcase their singing talent and live out their dreams.

“I’m so honored because I’ll be working with Lea, Bamboo, and the most talented children here in the country,” said Sharon.

One of the country’s most popular music icons, the Megastar has thrived as a singer and performer with a career spanning 35 years.

At age 12, she shot to fame for with songs “Tawag ng Pag-ibig” and “Mr. DJ.” Since then, she has churned out one hit song after another, popularizing more than 30 singles and recording more than 40 albums, some of which have achieved multi-platinum and diamond record certification.

An actress who has starred in more than 50 films, she was named box-office queen several times for her blockbuster films from the 1980s until the 2000s and even hit a grand-slam in the Philippine movies for her performance in Madrasta.

Aside from acting recognitions, Sharon has also been honored for her success as a singer and recording artist. She has received several lifetime achievement awards at a relatively young age, including the Dangal ng Musikang Pilipino Award or Lifetime Achievement Award from the Philippine Association of the Record Industry, Inc. in 2002 when she was just 36 years old.

And aside from her phenomenal success as a television and film actress, Sharon has also made a name for herself as a performer whose shows in and out of the country have sold out.

Her popularity has definitely made her one of the most sought-after and trusted endorsers in the country, with countless products and services entrusting their brands to her.

The Voice Kids is just one of the many things lined up for Sharon after she recently signed a two-year exclusive network contract with ABS-CBN. “My happiness is immeasurable. Home is home. I’ve been with ABS-CBN for 25 years now. I grew up here, everyone I knew and grew up with is here. What else can I ask for?” said Sharon.

Don’t miss the third season of The Voice Kids soon on ABS-CBN. For updates on the program, visit thevoice. abs-cbn.com, like www.facebook.com/ thevoiceabscbn, or follow @thevoiceabscbn on Twitter and @abscbnthevoice on Instagram.

“The Voice Kids” behind the scene host robi domingo

The megastar in an interview with the members of the entertainmnet press

Sharon Cuneta with young singers Lyca Gairanod and Elha Nympha

Sharon Cuneta (third from left) with aBS-CBN bigwigs (from left) aldrin Cerrado, Cory Vidanes, Carlo Katigbak, Sandra Chavez, malou Santos and Laurenti dyogi