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SECURITY ALERTAUTHORITIES are on heightened security alert city

despite the assurance of Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) that they won’t create untoward in-

cidents amidst the Monday attack of rogue MNLF men in Zamboanga City.

The directive was issued by the Davao City Police Office after a faction of MNLF chairman Nur Misu-a r i of the Muslim separat- i s t

insurgent movement attacked Zamboanga City and held hostage 20 more civilians, bringing to 180 the number of hostages. At least six people have been reported dead as of Tuesday.

City police director Ronald dela Rosa said that they are monitoring the movements of members of the MNLF in the city as a preemptive measure while there is an ongo- ing encounter

Davao City placed on heightened alertBy EMILORD P. CASTROMAYOR

WINNING THE HEARTS OF DABAWENYOS. American music icon Patti Austin electrifies the crowd with her performance in her concert Monday night in Davao at SM Lanang Premier’s SMX Convention Center. Ms. Aus-ton braved the recent skirmishes in Zamboanga City to honor her concert engagement organized by Ovation Productions in Davao City where she said, “I want to relocate here.” Lean Daval Jr.

DAVAO PRIDE. Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte pumps his fist in approval as he congratulates the Davao City delegates for the 2013 Batang Pinoy Mindanao Qualifying Leg after bagging the overall championship at Quezon Park along San Pedro Street Monday afternoon. Lean Daval Jr.

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THE BIG NEWS

FPROPOSED,10

FQUITAIN,10

RESIGNED Davao City Councilor J. Melchor V. Quit-

ain yesterday assumed as city administrator while his predeces-sor, lawyer Jhopee Av a n c e ñ a - A g u s t i n , who vacated the post last Monday, took over as officer-in-charge of the City Assessor’s Of-fice, also effective yes-terday.

Davao City May-or Rodrigo R. Duterte

relieved from his post effective September 9, 2013 City Assessor Cesar Dataya and in-structed him to report directly to the mayor “in discharging your official duties and functions and for spe-cial assignments.”

Last July, Duterte relieved Jose Elmar-io P. Guintadcan from his post as chief of the Davao City Econom-

THE proposed Davao Interna-tional Airport Au-

thority (DIAA) is gaining support after the Davao City Council passed on first reading yesterday a resolution supporting the bill which seeks the creation of a DIAA.

The council was furnished with a copy of a resolution earlier passed by the board of trustees of the Davao City Chamber of Com-merce and Industry Inc. (DCCCII) which also supports the proposed House Bill 6993- An Act Creating the DIAA which will directly manage, control and supervise the Francisco Bangoy International

Airport (FBIA).DCCCII’s resolution

was referred to the city council committees on tourism and transpor-tation.

In a privileged speech, transportation committee chair Leon-ardo Avila stressed the importance of the air-port in the promotion of Davao City as the country’s prime tourist destination and in at-tracting foreign and lo-cal investors.

Pres. Benigno C. Aquino III has desig-nated the FBIA as a re-gional hub for tourism covered by the “open sky policy” with direct foreign flights. FBIA

A member of the New People’s Army has been identified as

the gunman in the killing of a barangay kagawad of Tugbok district, accord-ing to the police.

Maj. Ariel Acala, sta-tion commander of Tug-bok distric, said on Tues-day that it was an alleged member of the New Peo-ple’s Army who shot dead Barangay Kagawad Ruel Paque last Thursday in Purok Crossing, Barangay Tugbok.

A certain Roberto Castillote, alias Marvin Marquez, will be facing a murder charge for kill-ing Paque. Castillote was identified as the cross-eyed suspect based on the description of two wit-nesses to the crime.

“We will ask Pague’s wife to file a criminal

charge against Castil-lote suspect, otherwise the PNP can be the com-plainant,” Acala said.

Castillote is a mem-ber of Front Committee 54 of the NPA under the leadership of a certain Kumander Bobby. Two other suspects remain to be identified.

The police earlier said they found a piece of pa-per at the crime scene on which was written in the vernacular the reason for Pague’s execution: “Font 54 NPA, gisilutan siya sa sala nga mooltipol mor-der, ikaduha delir ug cya-bo, ikatulo huldaper, ika upat ug uban pa na mga kaso. MRKES.”

“We will only consid-er this case closed after we shall have filed a case against the suspects,” Acala added.

THE Muslim vommu-nity in Davao City deplores the attack

by rogue members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) on Zambo-anga City Monday morn-ing.

Davao City Office on Muslim Affairs offi-cer-in-charge Nurhaida Lumaan told Edge Davao yesterday that they the incident saddened them and that they are pushing for a dialogue to resolve by peaceful means wbat-evcr triggered the attack.

According to the lat-est Yahoo news reports, six persons died and 24 were wounded in clash-es between government

forces and the attackers and 1,747 evacuees have sought shelter away from the scene of fighting.while 170 civilians were taken hostage by the MNLF.

Lumaan said, “let us help each other in achiev-ing peace, and let’s not say we are Muslims, Chris-tians or Lumads anymore, let’s get together for the greater good.”

She pointed to pow-er struggle within the rbel group as “perhaps” among the main reasons why MNLF attacked Zam-boanga City.

“In Davao we have no problems, because it is peaceful here, especial-ly with the leadership of

Mayor Rodrigo Duterte,” she said.

At the city hall Mon-day, Duterte said he had earlier warned the Phil-ippine National Govern-ment to make sure they talk to the MNLF as well, and not just the Moro Is-lamic Liberation Front (MILF) regarding Zambo-anga City .

The national govern-ment is “really stupid (bogo gyud),” Duterte said, adding that the na-tional government should talk to both these sectors when engaging in dia-logues and agreements.

“It is better to have a thousand years of dia-logues than to have one

day at war,” said the may-or who invited Monday afternoon members of the MNLF Davao City chapter for a talk regarding the Zamboanga City incident.

Meanwhile, Lumaan said, 111 Muslims from Davao are set to fly from Manila September 21 to Saudi Arabia for the an-nual Hajj pilgrimage, 28 of whose travel are spon-sored by the local govern-ment.

She said that those in the pilgrimage will definitely be praying for a peaceful resolution to the issues of Mindanao, as well as internation-al peace, because that’s what Muslims want.

RELOCATING. Newly-installed city administrator Atty. Melchor Quitain shows his collection of rare paintings which relocated with him at his new office at the Davao City Hall yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

EXTRA SERVICE. A security personnel of SM City Davao extends a helping hand to an elderly woman t at the Annex of SM City Davao yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

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By GREGORIO G. DELIGERO

Quitain assumes post; Agustin is new assessor

NPA hitman killed kagawad—AlcalaBy EMILORD P. CASTROMAYOR

Davao Muslim community saddened by Zambo attack

Proposed DIAA gains support

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EDGEDAVAO THE BIG NEWS

GOOD news for fam-ilies of senior citi-zens.

The Davao City Council yesterday passed on first reading a resolution seek-ing the allocation of funds from the national govern-ment for death benefit as-sistance of P2,000 for the surviving heirs of senior citizens.

Introduced by council-ors Danilo C. Dayanghirang and Victorio U. Advincula Jr., the resolution asked for the intercession of third

fistrict Rep. Isidro T. Ungab, chair of the committee on appropriations, ways and means of the House of Rep-resentatives, in the alloca-tion of funds “for the effec-tive implementation of the death benefit assistance.”

Dayanghirang cited a provision in Republic Act No. 9994 or the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010 which grants a minimum of P2,000 to the nearest surviving relatives of de-ceased senior citizens. He said the amount is subject

to adjustments due to in-flation in accordance with guidelines to be issued by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

Davao City has 86,703 inhabitants aged 60 years old and over based on the last census conducted in 2010. More than half or 53.90 percent of the senior citizens are female.

Last year, the number of deaths involving senior citizens reached 5,194, ac-cording to records released

by the Office of the City Civ-il Registrar.

With that number of deaths, Dayanghirang said the city government has to shell out P10.38 million for the death benefit assis-tance to the surviving heirs of the senior citizens.

“If we could have enough funds, maybe we could adjust the amount taking into consideration the level of inflation since the enactment of the (R.A. 9994) law until now,” he said.

THE Office of the P r e s i d e n t i a l Adviser on the

Peace Process (OPAPP) bares real deal of the GPH-MNLF peace pro-cess status

Oppap also con-demns the armed ag-gression lead by some leaders of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and also its malicious campaign to mislead the public and their members into thinking that the Phill-ippine Government has terminated the Final Peace Agreement (FPA)

that the MNLF led by Nur Misuari signed with the GPH in 1996.

In a statement dated September 10, OPAPP Secretary Teresita Quintos Deles bared facts on the real status of the GPH-MNLF peace process, disproving the allegations of the MN-LF-Misuari group.

First is tha The Phil-ippine Government did not terminate the 1996 GPH-MNLF Fi-nal Peace Agreemen, instead, what the gov-ernment intended was

TWO men were killed on the spot in separate inci-

dents by gunmen rid-ing in tandem on mo-torcycle last Monday.

The first victim, identified as WIller-man Selgas, 29, res-ident of Brgy. 22-A , Piapi ,Boulevard, sus-tained two gunshots wounds in the head and another on the right arm.

According to a po-lice report, Selgas was being chased by the gunmen on a motorcy-cle along Quezon Bou-

levard when he stum-bled and was finished off where he fell.

In the other inci-dent, Rey Eviota, 25, a construction work-er, was also shot dead in Brgy. Hizon, Sasa by gunmen aboard a motorcycle at about 7:00 p.m. while he was walking on the street on his way to buy food for dinner.

Officers of the Sta Ana and Sasa police stations are still trying to identify the suspects and determine the mo-tive foe the killing.

ANOTHER AWARD FOR DAVAO. Assistant city administrator Atty. Tristan Dwight Domingo presents to Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte the 2013 National Literacy Conference Hall of Fame award for being Outstanding Local Gov-

ernment Unit in Highly Urbanized City category won by the city, at Quezon Park along San Pedro Street Monday afternoon. Lean Daval Jr.

HE SLEEPS, SHE SPEAKS. Councilor Mabel Sunga Acosta expresses her dismay over the conviction of two Davao City journalists for a criminal case of libel during her privilege speech in yesterday’s regular session of the City

Council at the Sangguniang Panlungsod. Her strong message however did not help to keep colleague Boni Militar (left) from napping. Lean Daval Jr.

OPAPP bares GPH-MNLF peace process status

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Fund allocation sought for heirs of Sr. citizens

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By GREGORIO G. DELIGERO

2 men shot deadBy EMILORD P. CASTROMAYOR

SHOULD Malacanang approve it, Digos City will have a 30-hect-

are export processing zone (EPZ) near the Nakayama Corporation area, an indus-trial area set aside by the city for export and large in-dustries.

Mayor Joseph R. Penas of Digos City told Edge Davao that the city government, after careful study, has sub-mitted to the President the proposal “because we want our city to prepare itself for large investors”.

The growth of Digos City is inevitable, Penas told the Edge Davao, as he under-scored the great potentials of the city in terms of natural resources and tourism, cit-ing among others the areas of Kapatagan for tourism.

Right now he said cementing the Digos City-Kapatagan road is on-going and “under my watch, more roads will be constructed to prepare the city for more investors.

Penas lauded the efforts of Yamaha and Motorjoy Depot for believing in Di-gos City as he welcomed the most modern Yamaha motorcycle store along the main streets of Aurora and Rizal Avenue near the San Isidro Catholic church.

The mayor also cited the coming of Puregold and Gaisano Grand Mall, adding that he had already talked to investors who plan to put up their business in Digos City.

“We welcome them, he said, “as long as they con-form to the rules we have set for investments. The city has also set investment incentives for businesses to be established in the city.

Area manager Randy Balolong of the Motortrde Depot in this part of Davao said the full support of the mayor is a big factor in en-suring that business will thrive in Digos City and in this part of Davao del Sur. EDF

Digos to have 30 hectare export processing zone


SUBURBIANABUNTURAN, COMPOSTELA VALLEY

DAVAO DEL NORTEGEN. SANTOS CITY

KIDAPAWAN CITY

THE Shared Service Facility (SSF) proj-ect of the Depart-

ment of Trade and Indus-try (DTI) here is expected to boost a group’s jewelry

production, not just in volume but also in quality.

The SSF is a common service facility or pro-duction center for certain processes to give micro,

small and medium enter-prises (MSMEs) access to a better technology and more sophisticated equipment to accelerate their bid for competitive-

ness and help them grad-uate to a next level where they could tap a better and wider market and be integrated in the global supply chain.

The almost half a million worth of jewel-ry-making equipment and tools will benefit the ComVal Gold and Silver Jewellery Producers, In-corporated, an associa-tion of jewelry-makers and traders in the prov-ince.

Among the equipment and tools awarded to them recently are casting machine, wax injector, chain maker machine, magnetic tumbler, ultra-sonic cleaner machine, air compressor, and engrav-ing machine.

DTI-ComVal program manager Lucky Siegfred M. Balleque said that al-though the provincial government has provided these small jewelry mak-ers with a Jewelry Making Skills Training cum En-terprise Center located in Monkayo, the basic tools and equipment housed in the said hub are not

enough.“Since everything is

done manually, the pro-duction volume is really very low and they also lack the capacity to pro-duce fine jewelry pieces,” he said adding that the casting machine, for in-stance, is only capable of producing one ring per day.

With the SSF project, the casting machine pro-vided to them can pro-duce 200 rings on a daily production.

“We hope that this project can really help our local jewelry makers,” he said.

Apart from this par-ticular SSF, DTI has also awarded other SSF proj-ects for the province’s coconut industry devel-opment.

The DTI has allocated P34 million for the SSF projects in the region this year. [DTI 11]

SSF project to improve jewelry production

TUNAFEST JETSKI. Children enjoy a dip in the water while watching one of the competitors pass towards the finish line during the 1st Tunafest Jetski Invitational Challenge at the Queen Tuna Park in General Santos City September 7, 2013.[ MindaNews photo by Erwin Mascarinas]

GLOBE Telecom said the local in-terconnection in

Davao del Norte between its landline service, Glo-belines, and the Philip-pine Long Distance Co. has been commercially activated, allowing sub-scribers of both service providers to call each other without additional charges.

The development will allow landline customers of both Globe and PLDT to realize substantial savings as they no longer have to pay for long dis-tance charges when call-ing one another.

Prior to the commer-cial activation of the inter-connection, landline cus-

tomers of both Globelines and PLDT were charged with long distance rate amounting to P5.00 per minute.

With the commercial availability of the inter-connection, Globe sub-scribers can simply dial the seven-digit telephone number to connect with PLDT and vice-versa.

“We are delighted to announce that through collaboration and coop-eration with competi-tion, the company’s sub-scribers will have greater access to telecommuni-cations and vice-versa. We are hoping that we will able to establish the same kind of collabo-ration in other areas of

the country,” said Atty. Froilan Castelo, Head of Globe Corporate and Le-gal Services Group.

Such cooperation be-tween the two compa-nies is in line with the compulsory interconnec-tion of authorized public telecommunications car-riers under Republic Act 7925 which aims to cre-ate a universally accessi-ble and fully integrated nationwide telecommu-nications network to en-courage more infrastruc-ture investments from the private sector that would benefit the con-sumers.

Globe and PLDT are also working on similar arrangements in Pan-

gasinan, Zambales and Davao del Sur, Misamis Occidental and Ilocos Norte.

So far, the two compa-nies have existing inter-connection in Metro Ma-nila, Cavite, Iloilo, Capiz, Batangas, Cebu, Negros Occidental, Negros Ori-ental, Bohol, Leyte, Davao City, Pampanga, Bulacan, Zamboanga, Laguna, Quezon, La Union, Nueva Ecija, and Benguet, Gen-San/South Cotabato and Tarlac.

Castelo added that the company is open for dis-cussions with other local exchange carriers as part of its goal of providing cost-effective services to its customers.

Globe, PLDT activate landline interconnectionRegion 12 eyed as leading producer of native banana

N. Cot traders, LGUs decry long brownouts Sectional brown-

outs currently carried out in

North Cotabato prov-ince have caused big losses to commerce and operations of lo-cal government units.

For one, Mayor Joseph Evangelista here said daily pow-er outages lasting for six hours have caused delays in transactions of various offices of

the city government, especially the finance division.

Evangelista ear-lier wrote a letter to the Sangguniang Pan-lungsod (SP), through the Committee on En-ergy, requesting that he be given authority to purchase four gen-erator sets for the city government.

The council ap-proved the request

with the procurement set to take place early next year.

Prior to the ap-proval, the SP has in-vited Cotelco general manager Godofredo Homez to shed light on the power situa-tion of North Cotaba-to.

Homez told the council the load cur-tailment is being im-posed by the National

Grid Corporation of the Philippines, based on the available ca-pacity of the existing hydroelectric, geo-thermal, coal-fired, and diesel-fed power plants located in sev-eral areas in Mindan-ao.

Homez said the Cotelco has no choice but to abide by the schedule to avoid penalty. [PNA]

BANANA Industry stakeholders in Region 12 yester-

day vowed to maintain the region as Mindanao’s leading producer of laka-tan banana sold mostly in local markets.

These products are sold mostly in Metro Ma-nila and Cebu, according to Department of Agri-culture 12 Regional Ex-ecutive Director Amalia Jayag-Datukan.

In a recent banana Congress in Gen. Santos City, some 300 banana growers in Mindanao vowed to push for the advancement of banana industry in the region.

The business sec-tor-led event aimed to bolster massive support from partners and other stakeholders as well as present various issues and concerns currently faced by the industry.

They all come from SOCCSKSARGEN region which is composed of the provinces of North and South Cotabato, Sarang-gani, Sultan Kudarat and the cities of Cotabato, Kidapawan, Koronadal, Tacurong and Gen. San-tos.

Datukan lauded the efforts of the banana in-dustry sector for stand-ing united to beat the odds that affect them.

Datukan described banana as one of the pri-ority commercial crops of the department’s high val-ue crop development pro-gram (HVCDP) poised to help “support countryside development and achieve inclusive growth.”

SOCCSKSARGEN is the third largest producer of banana in the country accounting for some 15 percent of the entire Min-danao’s banana produce, according to the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS).

North Cotabato prov-ince has the highest num-ber of hectares planted to banana with 15,367 hect-ares and 644 metric tons production.

South Cotabato comes next with 8,680 hectares and 261,972 MT while Sarangani and Sultan Kudarat settled for third and fourth with 3,670 ha and 219,067 MT and 2,234 hectares and 29,521 MT, respectively.

“Presently, Soccsksar-gen produces substan-tial volumes for other banana varieties such as cardaba which is being processed into banana chips and exported to major foreign markets,” DA-12 corn program co-ordinator Zaldy Boloron, said speaking for Datu-kan. [PNA]

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THE country’s canned tuna exports to the European Union

(EU) are seen to increase by about 64 percent by next year once it gains du-ty-free access to the 28-na-tion trade bloc under the enhanced Generalized Scheme of Preferences or GSP Plus program.

Francisco Buencamino, executive director of the Tuna Canners Association of the Philippines (TCAP), said the projected increase in canned tuna’s export volume to the EU is equiv-alent to around 2 million cases based on last year’s total shipments of 3.202 million cases.

In 2012, he said the country generated around US$ 123.3 million in total receipts from the canned tuna exports to the EU markets despite being slapped with a 24-percent tariff.

The EU is presently the country’s biggest export market for canned tuna, which is mainly produced by six canneries based in this city.

“Once we get into the GSP Plus program, our export prices (for canned tuna) will become more

competitive, mainly be-cause of the removal of the 24 percent duty. So it is imperative that we get into the GSP Plus by all means,” he said at the 15th National Tuna Congress in General Santos City.

The national govern-ment, through the De-partment of Trade and In-dustry (DTI), is presently finalizing its application to the EU’s GSP Plus Program, an incentive scheme that grants the full removal of tariffs for a range of export products, including tuna.

A program briefer said EU-GSP Plus is an enhanced preferences scheme that took off from the standard GSP, which offers to developing coun-tries a partial or entire removal of tariffs on two thirds of qualified product categories that are export-ed to the EU.

Under the EU-GSP Plus program, product catego-ries covered by the stan-dard GSP are granted the “full removal of tariffs.”

These are granted to countries which ratify and implement international conventions relating to human and labor rights, environment and good

governance.Under the standard

GSP, Buencamino said a duty of 20.5 percent is levied on all local canned tuna exports to the EU.

“EU importers, there-fore, discount their buying prices from the Philip-pines by this cost of duty to make our canned tuna competitive in the EU mar-

ket with all other imports from other tuna sources,” he said.

Citing TCAP’s esti-mates, he said the coun-try’s canned tuna export receipts would improve “at the very least” by 24 percent once it is included in the GSP Plus scheme.

By then, he said export-ers “will not need to adjust

prices, as we have been compelled to do to remain globally competitive, to accommodate the burden-some duty imposed on EU imports of canned tuna from the Philippines.”

With the improved competitive stance under the GSP Plus program, Buencamino said they expect tuna factory em-

ployment to increase by an industry average of 70 percent while manning in fishing fleets will like-ly increase by around 50 percent.

He added that such scenario was seen to trig-ger a projected increase in the volume of raw materi-al catch by an average of 64 percent. [MindaNews]

64% rise in PHL tuna exports seen next year

STATE-OF-THE-ART. Exhibitors operate a state-of-the-art embroidery machine for demonstration during the final day of the Philconstruct Mindanao 2013 and the 7th Manufacturing Technology Davao at the exhibit area of SM Lanang Premier’s SMX Convention Center. Lean Daval Jr.

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WITH two weeks before the start of the Interim Mindanao Electricity

Market (IMEM), the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) is fast-tracking the de-velopment of a website to help grid customers in the energy market’s operation.

Cynthia Perez-Alabanza, NGCP spokesperson, said the website, http://imem.ngcp.ph, will be used to upload and download generators’ and load customers’ capacity nomina-tion data and schedules for the use of all players in the electric-ity market in Mindanao.

She said the website de-velopment is in support of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) efforts to deliver sustainable solutions to stabilize the Mind-anao power situation.

In its Department Circular No. DC2013-01-0001 dated January 9, 2013, the DOE or-dered the Philippine Electricity Market Corporation (PEMC) to develop and implement an in-terim electricity market specifi-cally designed for the Mindanao grid, which has been experienc-ing brownouts due to a power supply deficit.

The commercial operation of the IMEM is scheduled to commence on September 26. Trial operation has been ongo-ing since August 26.

“NGCP remains supportive of the initiatives of DOE and PEMC and is very much willing to assist in finding solutions to the electric power concerns in Mindanao. IMEM is the first step to ensure free and fair competi-tion and public accountability,”

Alabanza said in a statement.Ermelindo Bugaoisan Jr.,

NGCP’s Systems and Standards Head of the Technical Services Department, said the electricity market in Mindanao will focus on filling-up the power defi-ciency in the grid.

“NGCP will be in a better po-sition to balance the available capacities with the demand and manage constraints if the rel-evant data from all generators and load customers are submit-ted and accounted for. This is how crucial the infrastructure of the web-based program is to the operation of the IMEM,” he said.

DOE is said to be in talks with embedded generators for the installation of Remote Ter-minal Unit (RTU) devices that are compliant with the require-

ments of the IMEM. Embedded generators are

end-users or entities whose generating units are indirectly connected to the grid through the distribution utility’s lines and may also refer to genera-tion facilities of large industrial customers, within the distribu-tion utility’s network, that are synchronized to the grid.

For its part, aside from de-veloping the online program for the submission and man-agement of generators-load customers’ capacity nomina-tion, generation scheduling and data provision, NGCP is also expediting the installation of WESM-compliant revenue metering facilities among its directly connected grid custom-ers.

Among its 15 grid-connect-ed generator customers with 36 metering points, NGCP already installed 26 IMEM-ready meter-ing facilities.

“The biggest challenge is in Agus 6 complex where five me-tering facilities still need to be installed,” said Emmanuel Soto-mil, NGCP’s Metering Services Head.

He explained that in this case, large instrument trans-formers will have to be hauled, mounted on pedestals, then tapped to high-voltage over-head lines. NGCP has been co-ordinating with the power plant owner-operator, National Power Corporation (NPC), because the lines should be de-energized and some of the plant generating units should be shut down for the installation to be completed.

Among its 53 grid-connect-ed load customers, which in-clude distribution utilities and non-distribution utilities, with 184 metering points, NGCP al-ready installed 180 IMEM-ready metering facilities. [PNA]

It figures

59th 7%28million 62.6billion pesos

Rank of the Philippines, out of 148 coun-tries, in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report. This was an improvement from the country’s 65th place last year. The Philippines’ best improvements were in “innovation”—up 25 places to 69th—and in “institutions,” rising 15 places to 79th.

Economic growth forecast of Sin-gapore-based bank DBS for the Philippines, up from its initial fore-cast of 6.4%. DBS has raised their full-year growth forecast for the Philippine economy this year fol-lowing the “better-than-expected” second quarter expansion.

Foreign tourist arrivals in the first seven months of 2013, which is 11% higher than the same period in the previous year. Tourism Secre-tary Ramon Jimenez Jr. noted that international tourists who visited the country last July alone reached a record 418,000, from 377,000 a year ago.

Proposed budget of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) for the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) for 2014, a significant increase from the 2013 4Ps budget of P44 billion. This is in support of the Aquino adminis-tration’s bid to expand the 4Ps program and lower the dropout rate among the country’s poorest high school students.

THE ECONOMY

MONTHLY AVERAGE EXCHANGE RATE (January 2012-April 2013)

Month 2013 2012 2011

Average 42.23 43.31December 41.01 43.64November 41.12 43.27October 41.45 43.45

September 41.75 43.02August 42.04 42.42

July 41.91 42.81June 42.78 43.37May 42.85 43.13April 42.70 43.24

March 42.86 43.52February 40.67 42.66 43.70January 40.73 43.62 44.17

Stat Watch7.1

1st Qtr 2013

7.8 1st Qtr 2013

USD 3,741 million

Feb 2013USD 4,708

million Feb 2013USD -967

million Feb 2013USD -640

millionDec 2012

P 4,964,560 million

Feb 2013

2.4 % Mar 2013P113,609

million Mar 2013

P 5,281 billion

Mar 2013

P 41.14 Apr 2013

6,847.5 Mar 2013

132.8 Apr 2013

2.6 Apr 2013

3.1 Apr 2013

418,108 Feb 2013

20.9% Jan 2013

7.1% Jan 2013

1. Gross National IncomeGrowth Rate(At Constant 2000 Prices)

2. Gross Domestic ProductGrowth Rate(At Constant 2000 Prices)

3. Exports 1/

4. Imports 1/

5. Trade Balance

6. Balance of Payments 2/

7. Broad Money Liabilities

8. Interest Rates 4/

9. National Government Revenues

10. National government outstanding debt

11. Peso per US $ 5/

12. Stocks Composite Index 6/

13. Consumer Price Index 2006=100

14. Headline Inflation Rate 2006=100

15. Core Inflation Rate 2006=100

16. Visitor Arrivals

17. Underemployment Rate 7/

18. Unemployment Rate 7/

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DAILY GRIND. For this employee, the daily grind at work means delivering water more than what a container cart can take at the Annex of SM City Davao yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

NGCP developing website for Mindanao market players

THE Department of Ag-riculture (DA) 11 has finalized the roadmap

for 2014 with a total proposed budget of P84.635 million.

During the Saba Roadmap Workshop conducted recently at DA regional office, the pro-posed fund will prioritized; production, research and devel-opment amounting to P74.320 million; postharvest and mar-keting amounting to P2.350 million and regional banana ex-tension and institutional devel-opment amounting to P5.965 million.

According to Bureau of Ag-ricultural Statistics (BAS), 41

percent of the total area planted with saba in national level is lo-cated in Mindanao. In terms of volume production, 61 percent of saba is produced in Mindan-ao and based on Medium and Small Scale Industries Coordi-nated Action Program (MASI-CAP) report, 35 percent of the total saba produce in Mindanao is processed into banana chips.

Agriculture Assistant Re-gional Director (ARD) for Op-erations, Bernadette San Juan who headed the activity said although export quantity of saba shows a rather decreas-ing trend, its Freight on Board (FOB) value is suggesting and

increasing from 2009 to 2011.“Export value has continu-

ously expanded by 15 percent per year from 2009 to US dol-lars 50 million in 2011. This im-plies a competitive price for our saba exports and an indicator of opportunity for our saba in the export market and consequent-ly indicates an opportunity for our local farmers to plant and produce more saba intended for export”, ARD San Juan added.

San Juan said that to con-stantly support the export milestone of Saba banana, Davao region in terms of pro-duction, will be targeting about 1.86 million hectares in 2014

which would develop 11, 155 hectares in expansion of which DavOr needs to expand its ar-eas to 6,000 hectares, DavSur to 2,000 hectares, DavNor to 1, 280 hectares, ComVal to 1,000 hectares and Davao City to about 875 hectares to be devel-oped.

The roadmap workshop was attended by industry stakeholders that include Local Government Unit (LGU) rep-resentatives in the region, De-partment of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Science and Technology (DOST), pri-vate sectors and saba growers. [llbocado-Aggie Media Service]

DA proposes P84.6M for “Saba” bananas in Davao Region


SCIENTISTS say that they have discov-ered the single larg-

est volcano in the world, a dead colossus deep be-neath the Pacific waves.

A team writing in the journal Nature Geosci-ence says the 310,000 sq km (119,000 sq mi) Tamu Massif is comparable in size to Mars’ vast Olym-pus Mons volcano - the largest in the Solar Sys-tem.

The structure topples the previous largest on Earth, Mauna Loa in Ha-waii.

The massif lies some 2km below the sea.

It is located on an un-derwater plateau known as the Shatsky Rise, about 1,600km east of Japan.

It was formed about 145 million years ago when massive lava flows erupted from the centre of the volcano to form a broad, shield-like feature.

The researchers

doubted the submerged volcano’s peak ever rose above sea level during its lifetime and say it is un-likely to erupt again.

“The bottom line is that we think that Tamu Massif was built in a short (geologically speaking) time of one to several mil-lion years and it has been extinct since,” co-author William Sager, from the University of Houston, US, told the AFP news agency.

“One interesting angle is that there were lots of oceanic plateaus (that) erupted during the Cre-taceous Period (145-65 million years ago) but we don’t see them since. Scientists would like to know why.”

Prof Sager began studying the structure two decades ago, but it had been unclear whether the massif was one single volcano or many - a kind that exists in dozens of lo-cations around the planet.

While Olympus Mons on Mars has relatively shallow roots, the Tamu Massif extends some 30 km (18 miles) into the Earth’s crust.

And other volcanic behemoths could be lurk-

ing among the dozen or so large oceanic plateaux around the world, he thought.

“We don’t have the data to see inside them and know their structure, but it would not surprise

me to find out that there are more like Tamu out there,” said Dr Sager.

“Indeed, the biggest oceanic plateau is Ontong Java plateau, near the equator in the Pacific, east of the Solomon Islands. It

is much bigger than Tamu - it’s the size of France.”

The name Tamu comes from Texas A&M University, where Prof Sager previously taught before moving to the Uni-versity of Houston.

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The Tamu massif is comparable in size to Olympus Mons on Mars

World’s largest volcano discovered beneath Pacific

THERE could be at least 320,000 viruses awaiting discovery

that are circulating in ani-mals, a study suggests.

Researchers say that identifying these viral dis-eases, especially those that can spread to humans, could help to prevent future pandemics.

The team estimates that this could cost more than £4bn ($6bn), but says this is a fraction of the cost of deal-ing with a major pandemic.

The research is pub-lished in the journal mBio.

Prof Ian Lipkin, director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Colum-bia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in the US, said: “What we’re really talking about is de-fining the full range of di-versity of viruses within mammals, and our intent is that as we get more infor-mation we will be able to understand the principles that underlie determinants of risks.”

Flying foxNearly 70% of viruses

that infect humans, such

as HIV, Ebola and the new Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers), originate in wildlife.

But until now, the scale of the problem has been dif-ficult to assess.

o investigate, research-ers in the US and Bangla-desh looked at a species of bat called the flying fox.

This animal carries the Nipah virus, which if it spreads to humans can kill.

By studying 1,897 sam-ples collected from the bats, scientists were able to assess how many other

pathogens the animal car-ried.

They found nearly 60 different types of viruses, most of which had never been seen before.

The team then extrap-olated this figure to all known mammals, and con-cluded there were at least 320,000 viruses that have not yet been detected.

The researchers said that identifying all of these would be crucial to keeping one step ahead of diseases that could become a threat to human health. [BBC]

The flying fox is one of many mammals that carry viruses that spread to humans

Animals harbor at least 320,000 new viruses

EN V I RO N M E N TA L Management Bureau set spearheading this

month, in Cebu province and Metro Manila, seminars on registering dealers of ozone-depleting substanc-es which damage the ozone layer that protects Earth from the sun’s harmful ul-tra-violet rays.

Philippine Ozone Desk noted the move aims to ori-ent unregistered ODS deal-ers on enlisting with EMB regional offices where their operations are, enabling the agency to better track, con-trol and phase out the ma-terials they’re trading.

“Government is grad-ually phasing out ODS and will allow these in the coun-try until 2040 only,” said POD planing and monitor-ing officer Bellrose Buraga.

Government created POD through EMB to facil-itate and coordinate ODS phase-out projects and pol-icies nationwide.

The Philippines and other countries continue phasing out ODS follow-ing the Montreal Protocol which commits countries to undertake measures for protecting the ozone layer through freezing, reducing or ending production and consumption of controlled substances.

According POD, the seminars are among ac-tivities for this year’s cele-

bration marking the Phil-ippines’ 25th anniversary on signing the Montreal Protocol.

The country became a signatory to the Protocol on Sept. 14, 1988.

Government also desig-nated September as Philip-pine Ozone Month.

Every year on Sept. 16, the world likewise observes International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer.

In Cebu, the seminar scheduled from Sept. 9 to 11 covers Chemical Control Order and government’s hydroclourofluorocarbon (HCFC) phase-out manage-ment plan.

Both topics will be cov-ered also during the semi-nar scheduled on Sept. 20 in Metro Manila.

POD said the CCO for ODS was established in 2000.

HCFCs are among ODS that are controlled under the Montreal Protocol.

POD said government already freezed, starting Jan. 1, 2013 and at 2009-2010 importation levels, Philippine inbound ship-ments of HCFCs nation-wide.

Government will begin implementing two years later a 10 percent reduc-tion in the country’s HCFC importation, POD noted. [PNA]

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EDITORIALEven Patti Austin feels safe in Davao

AMERICAN singing legend Patti Austin blew into town for her Monday night concert in Davao City.

Ms. Austin’s arrival came at the height of the attack by rogue Moro National Liberation Front Group (MNLF) in Zamboanga. For an American icon like her, the visit to Davao City is a testa-ment of confidence in the city’s state of securi-ty and peace and order.

Remember that the American Embassy had issued a travel advisory for their diplomatic of-ficials to refrain from travelling to Mindanao, including Davao City due to threats of terror-ism. There is practically no one in the Ameri-can diplomatic corps as huge as Patti Austin. The reference may be exaggerated but for what it’s worth, Ms. Austin’s arrival here should be

a statement. She did mention she wants to relocate here to the delight of the Dabawen-yo crowd who gave Ms. Austin a welcome she would refer to as “warmest ever.”

The 2008 Grammy Award winner may have regaled the crowed with her powerful and gor-geous voice. At 63, she still has that rare talent of singing various genre. But what is endearing is her faith that she is safe in Davao.

Patti was in Manila when news of the attack in Zamboanga broke out. We are pretty sure the embassy did not miss the news and so is the rest of the world. Ms. Austin had all the time in the world to back out and not risk it.

Amidst all that, Patti Austin—the global mu-sic icon and American treasure--came, saw, and yes, conquered us.


OBAMA has also contradicted himself on executive power. After steadily expanding the power of the pres-

idency for the last six years, he abruptly decided to seek Congressional support for an attack on Syria.

Again, Obama’s position is inconsis-tent. He is requesting congressional sup-port for a Tomahawk missile strike in Syria but continues to argue he has the authority to maintain a “kill list” of people — Americans included — whom the pres-ident can target in drone missile strikes worldwide. There is no public review of the “kill list,” the legal rational behind it or standards of evidence used to determine who will die.

While Obama kept his promise to pull US troops out of Iraq, he has disappointed his liberal base in Afghanistan. Instead of withdrawing American troops from the country in his first term, he carried out a surge of U.S. troops. In his second term, he

continues to promise a pullout but talk of maintaining as many as 15,000 soldiers in Afghanistan as a “residual force” continues to circulate.

Lastly, Obama’s response to the wide-spread NSA eavesdropping revealed by Edward J. Snowden has also disappointed many liberals. Obama said he “welcomed a debate” on surveillance — but then de-clined to reveal the extent of the programs or open them to public review.

A similar disappointment exists over-seas. Europeans who expected sweeping reforms of American anti-terror efforts are disappointed. The Snowden leaks have

been even more devastating abroad than they have been at home. From Germany to Mexico, the NSA has been secretly eaves-dropping on foreign leaders while insist-ing it was doing nothing of the sort.

There is a chance that Obama will somehow win support from Congress. As I’ve written before, lawmakers should ap-prove his request if it is part of a broader strategy to work toward a political settle-ment in Syria.

The draft Senate resolution bars American ground troops from deploying in Syria and places a ninety day limit on how long any attack can last. And Obama himself has repeatedly said that he will not allow the US to be drawn into a prolonged conflict.

In short, Obama is asking the Ameri-can public to trust him. In a rare moment of unity, Americans on the right and left are saying they do not. The president has engaged in one contradiction too many.

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His reply betrayed a sense of helplessness: traders

have a right to do business even if smuggling charges

are filed against them

THE LACK OF PUBLIC ACCOUNT-ABILITY – Having recently ex-perienced political disorder

sparked by the multi-billion pork bar-rel fund controversy, I think govern-ment really cannot afford to institute meaningful reforms while the country is under such a tumultuous situation. Political infighting is not the best strat-egy for long-term development. Re-form as I’ve stated previously must be a continuing, endless process. It must constantly present a spectrum of peo-ple’s interests to the urgent attention of government.

The Constitution as many of our people know defines public office as a public trust, and demands that offi-cials be accountable, at all times, to the people. But this idealist concept sel-dom materializes in real life – a glaring example is the PDAF fund scandal en-meshing some members of Congress. The way people look at it there are no teeth to this constitutional provision. Furthermore, Cabinet secretaries and other high officials appointed by the President owe allegiance only to the appointing authority – and to no one else.

And this is the reason people per-haps recognize the concern about the rising threat of nepotism and cronyism that eventually lead to widespread cor-ruption and the urgency of involving both the elderly and the young among our countrymen to assert their rights and constitutional duty. In a word, it is an agenda serious and determine in its intent and wide-ranging in its concept. People have to work on it to divulge corruption in its worst form. Today’s question therefore is no longer wheth-er people should cooperate and unite with one another but how far cooper-ation and unity among them should go.

This lack of public accountability is

made worse by the way h i g h - l e v e l officials are chosen and the way vot-ers elect po-litical leaders. Most of our g ove r n m e n t m a n a g e r s come from the back-grounds in big businesses or the elite professions. They are educated in a small number of elite schools. Like the mandarinates of the Chinese empire, they are socially distant from the mass-es of Filipinos. And, naturally, they tend to serve and protect not the masses of their countrymen but their own kind. The same goes true with elective offi-cials. They don’t want to give up their prerogatives, perks and absolute pow-er despite being embroiled in enor-mous financial scandals and ultimately will be facing appropriate charges.

This kind of elitist rule and the vot-ers’ method of electing people who cannot give good government promote the needs and wants of the vast mi-nority over the broad and larger com-plicated concerns of the larger society. Interest-groups like the professionals, academe, farmers, workers and stu-dent groups not to mention militant and left-leaning organizations have no other resort except mass protest action which oftentimes ended up in trouble with authorities to express their grievances and demands. Clearly, government must find a mechanism to institutionalize and civilize these often violent and destructive schemes for ex-pressing sectoral gripes and requests.

There is much to be said for the constitutional wisdom that reminds

us the Constitution seems to recognize the need when it prescribes that Con-gress should respect the role of inde-pendent people’s organizations; and the rights of these groups to effective and reasonable participation at all lev-els of social, political and economic de-cision-making. While officials notably legislators do hold every now and then “consultations with the people,” these conferences actually are more form than substance. Unless people’s orga-nizations are on the verge of disrupting the social order, public officials elective or otherwise pay them no attention.

The P10 billion pork barrel fund scam proved to be a test case for the Aquino administration. One answer to this problem of imposing public accountability on both elective and appointive officials lies in the setting up of, say, people’s commission or oversight committee appointed by the President which can act like directors of government departments – set-ting policies, performance target and operating guidelines. For example, a commission for agriculture – which is representing federation of rice, corn and coconut farmers, fishermen’s and agribusiness organizations – can set agricultural policies, review and monitor budget in agriculture to avoid misuse and abuse of funds.

Most importantly, it can demand from the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture (DA) a program of ac-tion that would eliminate the need to import rice and corn; a program that would increase agriculture incomes, diversify crops and increase farm yields without relying on the high-ly-anomalous PDAF funds, which are of course, directly channeled stealth-ily into the big pockets of corrupt of-ficials and their equally crooked cro-nies.

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AQUILES Z. ZONIOCorrespondent

Conviction rate of smuggling cases a

crying shame

More form than substance

For Obama, a contradiction too many

BY DAVID ROHDECOMMENTARY

BY JORGE B. OSITSPECIAL FEATURE

THE conviction rate of smug-gling cases filed by the Bu-reau of Customs (BOC) with

the Department of Justice stands out in sharp relief compared to our neighboring Indonesia’s 100 percent conviction rate of graft and bribery cases involving gov-ernment funds.

For its highly successful de-cade-long campaign against sys-temic corruption in post-Suharto Indonesia, the anti-graft agency Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi ( KPK or Corruption Eradication Commission) was recently hon-ored by the Ramon Magsaysay Awards 2013 for “its fiercely inde-pendent and successful campaign against corruption in Indonesia.”

Established in 2003, KPK has locked up top government offi-cials and prominent politicians and continues to draw support from a public that has grown dis-illusioned with a corrupt judicia-ry, the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) and the national police.

Zeroing in on the 142 smug-gling cases filed by the BOC under the watch of Commissioner Ruffy Biazon since his appointment in September 2011 as customs chief, the rate of conviction is a crying shame: ZERO as in nothing.

Almost twice a month the cus-toms legal officers file appropriate charges against persons caught violating various provisions of the country’s Customs and Tariff Code.

Invariably, all of the accused share a common motive which is nothing short of defrauding the government of lawful tax pay-ments in millions of pesos -- sub-stantial enough to help bankroll basic services such as education, health and housing.

Viewed against this backdrop, Commissioner Biazon was once asked if it was possible to simply blacklist traders and brokers who often figure in smuggling cases.

His reply betrayed a sense of helplessness: traders have a right to do business even if smuggling charges are filed against them and, more importantly, they cannot do anything about the zero convic-tion rate of smuggling cases be-cause the judiciary is outside their jurisdiction and mandate.

Overall, for an anti-corruption campaign to succeed like what they did in Indonesia, the whole picture must be taken into account and the pivotal role of the judicia-ry must not be ignored. [PNA]

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between Philippine military and the MNLF continues in Barangay Sta. Barbara, Zamboan-ga City.

“We urge the pub-lic to be more vigilant against people who might exploit the sit-uation. Please report to the police at once,” Dela Rosa said, “We are prepared to protect the city, just relax and don’t panic. We got as-surance from the MNLF leadership that they won’t create trouble in Davao City.”

A television report on Tuesday said that Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte had a closed-door meeting with MNLF leader Abdul Aziz “Monk” Olamit in his office on Monday afternoon at the height of the Zamboanga at-tack. The same report also said that Duterte talked with Nur Misu-ari on the phone and got assurance that no MNLF members will make any trouble in the region.

Major Jake Obligado, spokesperson of the Ar-my’s 10th Infantry Divi-sion, said in a text mes-sage to Edge Davao that based on their monitor-ing in the Davao region and some areas in the

province of Sarangani no untoward incidents done by the MNLF as of this moment.

“There is no immi-nent threat or danger monitored. Everybody wants peace in the re-gion,” Obligado said.

The Army spokes-person also reported that provincial gov-ernors Arturo Uy of Compostela Valley and Corazon Malayaon of Davao Oriental were in close coordination with MNLF leaders in their areas.

“The situation is normal,” Obligado de-scribed the situation in the two provinces.

As of yesterday, some 7,000 persons have been displaced from 10 barangays in Zamboanga City, while 44 others were injured in the encounter. Six hostages from Baran-gay Talon-Talon have been released.

“They have affinity with the place and they are peace loving,” she added.

In the province of Sarangani, a dialogue between MNLF leaders, local chief executives, the military and PNP is scheduled today at 9:00 am to tackle the same agenda.

ic Enterprises office which runs city-owned income generating op-erations like public markets, cemeteries, slaughterhouse and the overland transport terminal.

Agustin, whose po-sition is Legal Officer IV at the City Legal Office, now heads the two offices in concur-rent capacity.

For his part, Quita-in said he would meet the chiefs of offices

and department heads at City Hall to get up-dates on, and status of, their operations.

“I will ask them to tell me their problems and we will take off from there,” He said.

Quitain said he would review the ex-isting work flow to improve and hasten the processing of vo-luminous documents passing through his office daily, including vouchers and other

financial transactions.“There will be no

total overhaul. We will just improve the

system whatever re-sults we may come up after the review,” he said.

is currently under the control of the Civil Avi-ation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP).

DCCCII said that being in the forefront and as a “site of first impression” for the rest of the world, FBIA is ex-pected to live up to the standards of a world-class international air-port with the facilities, equipment, personnel and management “that such standards re-quire.”

“Sadly, it would ap-pear that the airport has failed to live up to its name and designa-tion as a world-class international airport,” it said.

Avila reiterated the observation of the DC-CCII that the airport has sufficient reve-nues from operations through terminal fees, concessionaire rentals for its operations re-quirements.

“From the terminal fees alone the airport earned P227 million in 2010 which increased to P284 million in 2012,” he said.

In her explanatory

note, second district Rep. Mylene J. Gar-cia-Albano said the pro-posed centralized body clothed with corporate personality will focus on adopting policies to exploit the potential of the FBIA to be a first class airport.

She said the pro-posed DIAA will also im-plement new technolo-gies and efficient meth-odologies to improve its competitiveness to provide a safe and more efficient air transport service “which is an es-sential element of any growing economy.”

“The creation of DIAA will have a posi-tive effect on the eco-nomic development of Davao City and Davao region. It will substan-tially contribute to the quest of the region to emerge as the premier socio-economic tour-ism center not only in the Philippines but also in the Asia-Pacif-ic region. It will also spur further econom-ic growth of the sur-rounding provinces in Mindanao,” Albano said. GGD

the completion of the almost six-year Tripar-tite Review Process on the implementation of the 1996 FPA, to pave the way for the Agree-ment’s full implemen-tation.

Second, the Aqui-no Administration has continuously engaged the MNLF through the GPH-MNLF-Office of Is-lamic Conference (OIC) Tripartite Review Pro-cess, since the Adminis-tration’s start last July, 2010.

In the statement, the process has been mov-ing with one formal Tri-partite meeting, two Ad Hoc High-Level Group meetings, several in-formal technical meet-ings and consultations since the start of this Administration and in all these meetings, Nur Misuari personally at-tended and participat-ed in the process that led to the GPH-MNLF’s 42 consensus points on amendmends to RA 9054.

Third, Organiza-tion of Islamic Confer-ence-Peace Committee for Southern Philip-pines (OIC-PCSP) has

already scheduled the convening of the 5th Meeting of the GPH-MNLF-OIC Tripartite Review on the Imple-mentation of the 1996 FPA on Monday, 16 Sep-tember 2013 in Yogya-karta, Indonesia.

In Deles’ statement, she said, it is for this that the Chair of the OIC-PCSP, Indonesian Ambassador Has-san Kleib visited the country last week for top-level consultations with the GPH in Manila on 5 September 2013, and the MNLF groups in Davao City on 6 Sep-tember 2013, in prepa-ration for the meeting.

Fourth, the pro-posed completion of the Tripartite Review Process was thorough-ly discussed and clear-ly understood by the OIC-PCSP as shown by the letter to the OIC Secretary General of Indonesian Foreign Minister Dr. Marty Na-talegawa, which the Indonesian Ministry shared with us, which states that “the GPH conveyed its assur-ances that in the case of the closure of the

Tripartite Implemen-tation Review Process, GPH will continue to engage relevant parties of the MNLF, through existing mechanism, to find a just and compre-hensive political solu-tion for the issue of the Southern Philippines.”

Fifth, on the devel-opment aspect, the Philippine Govern-ment has been engag-ing the MNLF under the PAMANA program that covered former MNLF bases that were trans-formed into Peace and Development Commu-nities as beneficiaries, and provided assis-tance for community infrastructure needs.

Sisth, the Autono-mous Region in Mus-lim Mindanao (ARMM) Regional Government on the other hand, has likewise signed an agreement with the MNLF through ARMM-MNLF Coop-eration for Peace and Development on 8 No-vember 2012, which was personally wit-nessed by Nur Misuari.

The MOA provides for delivery of devel-opment projects and

programs to benefit their communities. More than 50 senior MNLF leaders signed a resolution of commit-ment on 1 September 2013, as partner of the regional government of the ARMM to help alleviate the economic status and welfare of the MNLF communi-ties through socio-eco-nomic projects in Min-danao and affirming their continued sup-port to the 1996 FPA.

In Deles’ statement, she said, “clearly, the armed group that staged these violent attacks in Zamboanga City had genuine peace farthest from their minds.”

“We call on Chair-man Misuari to reign in his followers, and lis-ten to the clamor of the Bangsamoro people for the advancement of a comprehensive peace agreement and the implementation of the 1996 Final Peace Agreement, to which the Philippine govern-ment remains commit-ted to achieve just and lasting peace in Mind-anao,” she said.

DABAWENYA SINGER. Crizelle Valdez (right), a Dabawenya talent, duets with Joe Pizzulo in the curtain-raiser of the Patti Austin concert at the SMX Convention Center on Monday night. Lean Daval Jr.


IMMIGRATION agents arrested a 71-year-old American wanted

for murdering a woman in the United States 21 years ago in what author-ities there described as a crime of passion.

BI Officer-in-Charge Siegfred Mison said San-tiago Pedroso is now de-tained at the BI Deten-tion Center in Bicutan, Taguig following his ar-rest last Sept. 9 in front of the US Embassy along Roxas Blvd., Manila.

He had just gone to the embassy to renew his expired US passport when he was collared by operatives from the bureau’s Fugitive Search Unit (FSU).

“He will be deport-ed for being an undocu-mented and undesirable alien,” Mison said, add-ing that the fugitive will be blacklisted to prevent him from re-entering the country.

“Good guys in, bad guys out. That is our ral-lying cry,” the immigra-tion chief declared as he vowed that there will be no let-up in the BI’s cam-paign against foreign fu-

gitives.Atty. Jose Carlitos Li-

cas, BI Acting Intelligence Chief, said that Pedroso was captured after hiding in the country for more than 16 years to evade prosecution and punish-ment for his crime.

Licas said the fugitive admitted he entered the country via the backdoor sometime in December 1996 when he abscond-ed from a cruise ship that arrived in Mindan-ao.

US Embassy officials said Pedroso is wanted for the June 21, 1992 killing of Delores Alva-rez, who was shot while dining in a crowded restaurant in Philadel-phia, Pennsylvania.

Alvarez was allegedly shot five times by Pedro-so who approached the victim while the latter was dining with his for-mer wife.

Police alleged that the suspect commit-ted the crime in a fit of jealous rage because his estranged wife, from whom he had bitterly separated, was living with the victim. [PNA]

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THE CHILD’S BEST MEDITATION. An unidentified child, comfortable in an improvised net hammock, gets his dose of needed sleep and winds softly blowing from Manila’s shoreline, while his elders go about their daily chores

Tuesday near Del Pan Bridge in Manila, with a Catholic church belfry serving as backdrop. [PNA photo Avito C. Dalan]

MANILA

MANILA MANILA

MANILA

BI agents nab American wanted for murder

MERCHANDISE ex-ports grew for the second consecu-

tive month, after electronics posted a turnaround due to increased demand, accord-ing to the National Econom-ic and Development Author-ity (NEDA).

This statement came after the National Statistics Office reported that total ex-port earnings reached $4.8 billion in July 2013, high-er by 2.3 percent than last year’s level.

Socioeconomic Plan-ning Secretary Arsenio M. Balisacan said the increase is attributed to robust elec-

tronics demand from trad-ing partners, coupled with expansion in exports of min-erals, petroleum, total agro-based products, and forest products.

“Exports of electronic products posted its first pos-itive growth for this year due to increased demand from major trading partners such as China, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, and the US,” he said.

Electronics exports went up by 11.2 percent to $1.9 billion in July 2013, a rever-sal from last year’s decline of almost 25 percent. This growth moderated the

5.4-percent contraction in manufactured exports, as electronics comprised al-most half of the total value of exported manufactured goods worth US$3.8 billion.

The growth in electron-ics is supported by higher exports of mineral prod-ucts (68.6%), petroleum (3,356.8%), total agro-based products (4.0%), and forest products (2.4%).

“The lackluster perfor-mance of manufactured exports mirrored the slug-gish growth in global man-ufacturing, specifically in the Asian region. Fortunately, demands for other com-

modities buoyed merchan-dise exports in July,” said Balisacan, who is also NEDA Director-General.

For the first seven months of 2013, export earnings were down by 3.4 percent to $30.4 billion from $31.5 billion in the same pe-riod in 2012.

Japan remained as the top exports destination of the Philippines in July 2013, accounting for 19.8 percent of the country’s total ex-port receipts. This was fol-lowed by China (13.2%), US (12.6%), Hong Kong (8.5%), and Singapore (6.8%). [Neda]

July 2013 exports up on electronics recovery We need to get OFWs out of Syria – Recto

PHL mulls removal Chinese concrete blocks in Panatag PHILIPPINE Navy

f l a g - o f f i c e r - i n -charge Vice Adm.

Jose Luis Alano Tuesday said the government is studying plans to remove the 75 concrete blocks China has placed on Pana-tag Shoal (Scarborough) which lies 137 miles from Zambales.

Discovery of these

was only made public last week but aerial recon-naissance flights which spotted these suggest they were placed last Aug. 31 and Sept. 2.

The concrete blocks were placed in a 2-sq-km area in the northern por-tion of Panatag Shoal.

“That’s being dis-cussed as to how to…but

I do not like to preempt what will (be) the deci-sion,” Alano stressed.

He said that this mat-ter was also discussed by the National Security Council.

The PN chief said that there is no new develop-ment in Panatag Shoal but stressed that the area is under close surveillance.

“The situation is still being monitored there, but this is now under the National Security Coun-cil,” Alano emphasized.

With the discovery of the concrete blocks last week, the Philippine gov-ernment announced it is planning to file a diplo-matic protest against Chi-na. [PNA]

AMID United States prepara-tions for strikes

against Syria, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said that although the Philip-pines is an ally, it was best to concentrate on pulling out Filipinos from Syria and not to intervene.

“Think your size. Hindi tayo dapat ma-kialam diyan, kahit kaalyado natin (sila),” Recto said, in an inter-view. “We have to first think how to get our citizens out from there, let’s not think of any-thing to add to that.”

“We need to know how many OFWs (over-seas Filipino workers) are in jail because they are among those who cannot return home,” he added.

Recto said that, as early as now, it was a good move for the gov-ernment to address im-

plications on the coun-try and its citizens.

“The situation there is very big. I think that if the US will eventu-ally target Syria, there will be a wider region-al conflict,” he further said.

“The implication is that oil prices will go up, consumers will get affected. It will affect the balance of pay-ments and when that is affected then the peso will depreciate,” he added.

He also said that at an appropriate time, the senate will eventu-ally seek briefings with involved agencies.

“There are sched-ules with departments, if the appropriate de-partment is on deck, we will ask questions later on,” he said, adding that he will also wel-come resolutions filed by senators if there are any. [PNA]

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Dennis Rodman is going back to North

Korea, and plans to bring a team of former NBA play-ers with him.

Days after returning from his second trip to vis-it Kim Jong Un - in which he said he became the first foreigner to hold the leader’s newborn daugh-ter - Rodman announced plans Monday to stage two exhibition games in North Korea in January.

The first will be Jan. 8 - Kim’s birthday - with an-other to follow two days later.

Rodman’s friendship with the autocratic leader has been criticized - and led to a couple of testy ex-changes during his Man-hattan news conference. But Rodman insists Kim is a good person, wants to have better relations with the United States and that he’s the one who can help make it happen with his plan for ‘’basketball diplo-macy.’’

‘’Why North Korea? It’ll open doors,’’ Rodman said.

Touting his friendship with Kim and taunting President Barack Obama for not talking to him, Rod-man said he will go back to North Korea for a week in December to help select lo-cal players for the game. He hopes to have stars such as former Chicago teammate Scottie Pippen and Karl Malone.

‘’Michael Jordan, he won’t do it, because he’s Michael Jordan,’’ Rodman said.

Rodman, holding a ci-gar and wearing the shirt of a vodka company and a

hat of a betting company that is funding the event, said Kim has asked him to train his players to com-pete in the 2016 Olympics and offered to allow the Hall of Famer to write a book about him.

Though looking like a billboard, Rodman said he’s not doing the event for money. He said the Irish betting company Paddy Power would put up $3.5 million. Power later said finances hadn’t been deter-mined.

And Rodman, who joked that he hadn’t drawn such a crowd in New York since he wore a wedding dress to a book signing, was adamant that this ven-ture was serious - ‘’ground-breaking,’’ in Rodman’s words.

‘’People think this is a gimmick. I would love to make this a gimmick ... but it’s not about the money,’’ he said.

He rarely referred to Kim by name, frequently calling him ‘’the marshal.’’ Rodman first met Kim, a basketball fan, when trav-eling to North Korea in February for a film project.

Though saying he didn’t want to discuss pol-itics, Rodman raised his voice when answering a questioner about Kim’s human rights record and portrayed himself as the person who could make outsiders see the young leader as different than his father and grandfather.

‘’He has to do his job but he’s a very good guy,’’ Rodman said.

‘’If he wanted to bomb anybody in the world, he would have done it.’’

PINOY bets competing in the World 9-Ball Championship in

Doha, Qatar held sway as Dennis Orcullo, Antonio Gabica, and virtual un-known Marlon Villamor crashed the last-64 while a bunch of big names, including former world champions Efren “Bata” Reyes and Francisco “Django” Bustamante, had to fight to stay in the hunt.

WPA Player of the Year Orcullo ripped Tomasz Ka-plan of Poland, 9-4.

Gabica, a gold medalist in the 2006 Asian Games who is now based in Doha, kept his composure in out-lasting German counter-part Dominic Jentsch, 9-7.

Villamor also made it to the next stage as he swept Nick Ekonomopou-los of Greece.

But the bulk of Filipino campaigners will have to earn it the hard way going into the next round as they

battle for survival in their next games.

Reyes, Bustamante, and several others are now in a must-win situa-tion after falling into the loser’s bracket following defeats in their previous matches.

Reyes, a two-time world champion and Hall of Famer, faces Joeng Young of Korea.

Bustamante, who won the World 9-Ball champi-onship in 2010, faces an acid test in meeting anoth-er former world champion in Germany’s Thorsten Hohmann.

Also in the loser’s bracket are Lee Van Cor-teza, Marlon Manalo, Carlo Biado, Jeff de Luna, Ramil Gallego, Mark Antony, and Raymond Faraon.

Corteza, the runner-up in the World Ten Ball Championship in Manila in 2009, meets Salah Al Rimawi in Kuwait.

Orcullo survives as PHL bets crash

Rodman plans to bring NBA players to N. Korea

SURVIVOR. Dennis Orcullo of the Philippines survived the siege of the ranks of Pinoys in the World 9-Ball Championship.

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High contrastPORTRAIT photography is quite different from other types of pho-tography. Its objective is to capture the natural side and character of your subject. While portraiture is made more convenient and easier with the advent of digital cameras and Pho-toshop, no amount of one-touch devices will make your photos look good unless you pay close atten-tion to the details and fac-tors around you during the actual shoot itself. Some-times it only takes a small object to ruin a perfect pic-ture. It can be wisps of hair, a chair in the background, or an inconsiderate “pho-tobomber”. It helps if your eyes are quick to spot any spec that’s out of place and your imagination wild enough to make wonder-ful possibilities happen in each frame. Any literature on pho-tography can teach you the basics of capturing images, but the best way to learn the ropes of photography is to get some hands on training. You have to get

out in the field and put those theories and tech-niques into practice. Some would find themselves bending rules, playing with filters, and defying trends --- eventually find-ing and creating their own style and identity. While some prefer to exercise their skills on their own, there are also those who enjoy learning the craft through work-shops and group activi-ties. Collabortive efforts not only create camara-derie among each learner

/ photographer, but also spring up ideas and tech-niques which you do not always find in books. It is this sharing of “trade secrets” that in-spired photographers Paul Borromeo and Marlon Advincula to introduce their Lyrical Light work-shop series just a few years back. They believe ideas are also best learned when shared. This cycle of learning and sharing is what keeps the imagina-tion alive. As Albert Ein-stein once said, “Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.” The highly successful Lyrical Light series gath-ered both the learned and the newbies in outdoor shoots organized by the 2 dedicated shutterbugs. For all these shoots, Paul and Marlon partnered with seasoned professionals in the local fashion and beau-ty industry to help them put together themes they had in mind. More than a year has passed since the last Lyri-cal Light. Paul and Marlon, who are always in search of creative ways to use whatever idle time they have, tossed ideas to each other with the intention of adding a twist to their group workshops. This time around, they decided to make their activity more comprehensive in terms of imagery and visuals. Dubbed as “High Con-trast,” this new work-shop series focuses on both photography and post processing. From the

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title itself, it aims to nur-ture and develop individu-ality among participants, and, at the same time, ap-preciate art in many differ-ent ways. The whole out-door venue becomes each photographer’s own stu-dio, with models and set-up styled by generous tal-ents such as designer Junnie Artajo, makeup art-

ists Tiny Pinili and Melody Ross Tinoy, fashion styl-ist Ayie Hernandez, plus a few more collaborators from LeadFoto Studios. The 2-day workshop is set to happen on Sep-tember 21 and 22 (Sat-urday and Sunday) at Casa Munda in Juna Sub-division. The photo shoot takes place on the first day,

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TO celebrate Ateneo de Davao High School batch ‘88’s (AMDG’88) silver jubilee, AMDG’88 together with Globe, HP and SM City Davao, will be holding a photo exhibit at the SM City Davao Annex Event Center this coming September 13 to 22. Entitled “Ateneo Snap-shots” the exhibit features a rare glimpse of events, personalities and places from Ateneo de Davao through the years. A trib-ute to the Ateneo de Davao high school batch of 1963 who will be celebrating their golden jubilee in this year’s grand homecoming, Ateneo Snapshots shall pave the way for Ateneans to walk through memory lane, creating for them-selves their own flashbacks while creating a need to reconnect with Ateneo de Davao and with old friends and classmates. AMDG’88 hopes the project will invoke positive emotional responses from the viewing public and all Ateneo de Davao alumni while enticing fellow At-eneans to take a more ac-tive role in organizing re-unions and gatherings of their respective high school batches. “We want the photo ex-hibit to extract emotions of longing and create their personal flashbacks of the times they spent at the At-eneo de Davao, as well as establish a venue for people

to reconnect.” says home-coming Chairman, Mr. Bobby Antepuesto , “This will be the start of many more activities leading up to the Ateneo de Davao Grand Alumni Home-coming where the Ateneo alumni community can

come together and recon-nect with friends and class-mates.” The Ateneo Snapshots photo exhibit will serve as the launch of a series of events leading up to Ateneo Flashback 2013, the up-coming Ateneo de Davao

Grand Alumni Homecom-ing to be held on December 30, 2013 at the SMX Con-vention Center in SM La-nang Premier. Alumni may also stay updated on Facebook on https://www.facebook.com/ateneoflashback2013.

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GLOBE TELECOM expands its Long Term Evolu-tion (LTE) footprint as Tattoo Home Broadband, its home broadband brand, brings the latest internet technology to households, allowing subscribers to surf the internet at ultrafast speeds within the comfort of their homes, effectively bringing the telco’s LTE coverage of close to 1,000 sites nation-wide, matching the LTE coverage of competition. With home broadband LTE, households will now have access to high-speed inter-net ideal for watching high-definition videos, download-ing and uploading large files, seamless video and music streaming, and voice-over-internet-protocol or VOIP call-ing with clear quality. This LTE service is backed by the larg-est 4G network in the country deployed by Globe. Head of Tattoo Home Broadband Jurist Gamban said that, “Tattoo Home Broadband once again leads the industry as the first to offer the most advanced wireless broadband technology that is LTE for the home broadband market. With this latest offering, we are able to reach more households around the country who initially did not have access to high-speed broadband. Now with the power of our largest 4G network, we can bring great value broadband services pow-ered by the latest technologies to more people.” Using the fastest broadband technologies, Filipino fami-lies now have access to blazing internet speeds that are easy on the pocket. Unlimited broadband bundles with free calls to Globe and TM may be availed of starting at Plan 1099 at 1 Mbps, Plan 1299 at 2 Mbps, Plan 1599 at 3 Mbps, Plan 2299 at 5 Mbps, Plan 3999 at 10 Mbps and Plan 4999 at 15 Mbps. Meanwhile, internet-only plans that connect at 3 and 5 Mbps are available at Plan 999 and 1999 respectively, both with unlimited web access. This development comes at the heels of Tattoo’s enhanced Home Broadband bundles early this year. All bundles come with high-speed internet, free landline, and free unlimited landline to mobile (Globe and TM) calls. Touted as the “big-gest deal in home broadband,” the unlimited calls feature is also available on the Tattoo Home Broadband LTE Plans. Tattoo Home Broadband powered by Globe 4G LTE is available in key areas in Metro Manila and select cities in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. For more information, log on to tattoo.globe.com.ph, call (02) 730-1010, visit the near-est Globe store or get in touch with authorized Globe Sales Agents.

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EVEN BEFORE the telecast of the high-ly-anticipated and heart-rending con-clusion of GMA Tele-babad’s top-rating series Mundo Mo’y Akin bannered by Alden Richards and Louise de los Reyes, the Kagay-anons be-came first-hand wit-nesses to the love team’s undeniable charm a week prior to the said beautiful finale in this year’s Kagay-An Festival. Fans from the City of Golden Friendship made their way to the Atrium of Limketkai Center in Cagayan de Oro (CdeO) City on August 27 where Alden and Louise reig-nited their on-screen chemistry in a Kapuso Mall Show. They were also joined by Sunday All Stars regular Jonalyn Viray who belted out her hit single “Help Me Get Over,” theme music of phenomenal series My Husband’s Lover. Alden could not help but be amazed by the warm welcome extend-ed to them by the Kagay-anons and shared, “It was an overwhelming recep-tion that we received from the crowd during our mall show where we truly felt how strongly they support Mundo Mo’y Akin. With that, I can say that I definitely would love to be back in Cagay-an de Oro.” His leading lady, Lou-ise, also expressed her heartfelt thanks and said “Sobrang masaya po ako at nakakataba po ng puso na hindi pa rin po

nagbabago ang init ng pagtanggap ng mga Ka-puso nating taga-CDeO tuwing pumupunta kami roon. Nagpapasalamat po ako sa patuloy nilang pagsuporta sa akin at siyempre sa Mundo Mo’y Akin.” It was a celebration the Kagay-anons will surely remember as a num-ber of Kapuso stars and personalities also joined in the festivities. Maghi-hintay Pa Rin’s JC Tiuse-co participated in the Kagay-an float parade on the morning of August 27. The same parade was carried over a live cover-age made possible by GMA TV CdeO’s News and Public Affairs. Yet another crowd-drawer was the Kapuso Mall Show featuring the stars of morning series With A Smile which took place on August 28 at SM City CdeO. Triumvirate Christian Bautista, An-drea Torres, and Mikael Daez made a lot of faces

break into smiles with their performances. Earli-er that day, Christian, Mi-kael, and Andrea visited Brgy. Balulang Covered Court for a Kapuso Baran-gayan. “Kagay-an was fun. Ilang beses na akong nakabisita dun and ev-erytime I do, I can say that all my experiences in CDeO were memorable because of the place and the people of course,” re-called Mikael. Meanwhile, Gabby Ei-genmann and host Anna Maris Igpit were present during the Miss Cagayan de Oro Coronation Night which commenced in the Atrium of Limketkai Cen-ter on August 24. The PE Rhythmic Dance Festival at the Pelaez Sports Center was also enjoyed by the Kagay-anons as they were joined by sexy ac-tress Michelle Madrigal and Pyra Babaeng Apoy’s Jeric Gonzales on August 26.

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KIRAY STARS IN “MMK,” MEETS HER MATCH IN ARJO. Young comedienne Kiray Celis will make TV viewers cry this Saturday (September 14) in “Maalaala Mo Kaya” as she portrays the role of Brenda, an insecure but talented lady who wants to prove to everyone that her short stature is not a hindrance to success. In the upcoming episode, Kiray Celis will be paired with “Dugong Buhay” lead actor Arjo Atayde. How hard is it to earn other’s love and respect when you, yourself, are questioning your self-worth? Together with Kiray and Arjo in the upcoming “MMK” episode are Tetchie Agbayani, Ronnie Lazaro, Aaliyah Belmoro, Gilleth Sandico, Marnie Lapuz, Raquel Villavicencio, Young JV, Bianca Casado, EJ Jallorina, Marie Joy Dalo and Alec Dungo. It was researched by Akeem Jordan Del Rosario, written by Mary Rose Colindres, and directed by Garry Fernando. Don’t miss “Maalaala Mo Kaya” (MMK), Saturday nighs, after “Wansapanataym” on ABS-CBN. For more updates, log on to www.mmk.abs-cbn.com, follow MMKOfficial on Twitter, and “like” www.facebook.com/MMKOfficial.

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THE perfect pretzel brand founded by Ann Beiler in 1971 in Maryland, Pennsylvania is now serving the same delightful pretzels in SM City Davao. The famous pret-zel house redefines pretzels by offering fresh, sweet taste coupled with a light bread-like texture snack which comes in a variety of flavors. Classic products are original, cinna-mon sugar, almond, sour cream and on-ion, and garlic pret-zels along with the pretzel dog. One can elevate the experi-ence with the choice of caramel, choco-late, cheddar and cream cheese dips. Complementing its classic line is its much-adored old-fashioned, freshly squeezed lemon-ade. Auntie Anne’s continues to bring to everyone its world-class snacks according to its three-fold philosophy of producing “fresh, hot, golden-brown soft pretzels,” with a friendly and courteous service crew trained in food prepara-tion, customer service and store maintenance. Don’t miss out on this gastronomic delight! Grab your perfect pretzels at Auntie Anne’s located at the Ground Floor of SM City Davao Main Mall and SM Lanang Premier.

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NEW YORK – Rafael Nadal claimed his second US Open

title and 13th Grand Slam crown on Monday when he defeated world num-ber one Novak Djokov-ic, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 in a lung-busting final.

Nadal, 27, added the 2013 trophy to his 2010 triumph, when he com-pleted a career Grand Slam, and capped a year that has seen him claim 10 titles and stretch his season record to 60 wins and just three losses.

Monday’s win also earned him a total of $3.6 million, which takes his career earnings through the $60 million mark, and also edged him closer to Roger Federer’s record of 17 majors and put him one behind Pete Sampras.

In the pair’s re-cord-setting 37th meet-ing, world number two Nadal, who only returned to the tour in February following a seven-month injury layoff, took his lead over Djokovic to 22-15 as he added the US Open crown to the eighth

French Open he claimed in June.

“It’s very emotional. All my team knows what this means to me,” said Nadal, who now has 60 career titles and only re-turned to the sport in Feb-ruary after a seven-month injury absence.

“Novak always brings my game to the limit. He is an amazing player. He will go down as one of the greatest in the sport.”

For Djokovic, playing in a fourth successive fi-nal in New York, it was a devastating defeat in a year which started with a fourth Australian Open title but was followed by a semi-final loss at the French Open to Nadal and a Wimbledon final maul-ing by Andy Murray.

For the neutrals, it was a memorable con-test which showcased thrilling athleticism, del-icate touch and exhaust-ing, brutal rallies, one of which was fought out over 54 strokes.

Djokovic lost 11 of the last 13 games with his challenge fatally un-

1. (1) Serena Williams (United States) 12,2602. (2) Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) 9,5053. (3) Maria Sharapova (Russia) 7,8664. (4) Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) 6,3355. (6) Li Na (China) 5,5656. (5) Sara Errani (Italy) 4,3257. (7) Marion Bartoli (France) 3,7468. (8) Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) 3,6459. (9) Angelique Kerber (Germany) 3,42010. (12) Jelena Jankovic (Serbia) 3,245

11. (10) Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) 3,17012 (13) Roberta Vinci (Italy) 3,06513. (16) Sloane Stephens (United States) 3,04514. (14) Kirsten Flipkens (Belgium) 2,80615. (20) Carla Suarez Navarro (Spain) 2,77516. (18) Sabine Lisicki (Germany) 2,77017. (15) Ana Ivanovic (Serbia) 2,72018. (11) Samantha Stosur (Australia) 2,71519. (19) Simona Halep (Romania) 2,63020. (17) Maria Kirilenko (Russia) 2,620

RAFA RULESNadal wins lung-busting duel with Djokovic

WOMEN’S TENNIS WTA rankings on Monday (Last week’s positions in brackets):

ANOTHER TITLE. Rafael Nadal celebrates his US

Open win over rival Novak Djokovic in a lung-busting

duel.

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THE PACMAN PLANGEN. SANTOS CITY--

Boxing superstar and lawmaker

Manny Pacquiao does not see himself fighting in the ring by 2016.

For the first time, the 34-year old global boxing icon has set a definite timeline for what he calls the end of a colorful boxing career—perhaps the most storied sports era in the history of Philippine sports and maybe even that of world boxing.

Interviewed by this writer at his home in Gen. Santos City, Pacquiao said he will be doing different things by 2016, one of which is possibly running for a seat in the Philippine Con-gress’ upper chamber—the Senate, considered by political experts as the last block to the Presidency.

The Presidency could be what Pacquiao’s camp may re-fer to as “The Plan.”

Pacquiao did not hide his plans to go up the political ladder. He was once quoted to be eyeing the Presiden-cy but

when a deluge of remarks rained on “The Plan” es-pecially from the bat-tle-scarred old warriors in politics, the eight-time world champion backpedalled.

Now he is more realistic of “The Plan.”

“Kung may pla-no man ako, baka Senador,” Pacquiao said as his guests around him, bas-ketball players from Cebu and Davao City, nodded in approval.

“Pwede rin tapu-sin ko muna ang term ko bilang congressman dahil may isang term pa naman ako,” he added.

When asked if he will still be boxing by 2016, he had a definite answer. “Hindi na. Sa panahon na yan tapos na ako sa boxing.”

That was about the first time Pacquiao set a timeline for his boxing career. He has a

fight coming up in Macau this Novem-

ber against American Brandon R i o s —his first a f t e r g o i n g d o w n to a crush-i n g defeat to rival J u a n

Manuel M a r -

quez last year.

P a c -q u i a o

has began a week of

training in his Wildcard Gym

here although he revealed he

is just doing light workouts for now

just to keep him in shape.

He said he will be

training in his home city with trainer Freddie Roach before leaving for Macau a week be-fore the fight.

“Dito lang ako magtrain-ing, hanggang isang lingo bago ang laban,” he said.

Pacquiao has a profession-al record of 54 wins (38 knock-outs, 16 decisions), 5 losses (3 knockouts, 2 decisions) and 2 draws. He has had a string of two straight losses to Timothy Bradley and Juan Manuel Mar-quez last year.

Against Rios, Pacquiao said he knows how to beat the 27-year old former world light-weight champion.

“Napag-aralan ko na ang style niya, Mas mabilis tayo at mas may experience at yan ang gagamitin natin. Magbabalik ang dati kong speed, yan ang pinaghahandaan ko,” said Pac-quiao who vowed to come out in the same form as he was when he fought Oscar dela Hoya on December 6, 2008.

“Hindi pa namin napag-us-apan ang strategy naming pero alam ko na kung ano ang dapat kong gawin,” said Pacquiao who plays basketball as part of his conditioning regimen.

No more boxing by 2016, next step up is the [email protected]

By NEILWIN JOSEPH L. BRAVO


MANNY PACQUIAO. “I’m done with boxing by 2016.” Lean Daval Jr.

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