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Make-or-break move on FOI bill

Aquino dumps major ally ahead of crucial vote today
By Christine F. Herrera
fists in Maguindanao to coincide with the tentative peace-signing agreement between the government and the MILF in Malacaang on Monday. AP

Show of force. Members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front clench their

AHEAD of todays vote on the freedom of information bill, Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casio on Monday accused President Benigno Aquino III of dumping House Deputy Speaker Lorenzo Taada III as a senatorial candidate for the 2013 elections because of his support for the measure.
It is an open secret among us that one reason the bills main proponent was bumped off the Liberal Partys senatorial slate was because of his insistence on the bill, said Casino, referring to Tanada, an original Liberal Party member and party spokesman. Casino urged his colleagues to have the courage to do a Tanada even if it meant angering the President, who has been lukewarm toward freedom of information legislation after he came to power. I challenge my colleagues in the Public Information Committee to show some balls and approve the bill even if it means earning the ire of the President. The members of the committee led by (Eastern Samar) Rep. (Ben) Evardone should not fear such a Presidential junking in the 2013 elections, Casino dared. I trust that Representative Evardone will muster the courage to make this his legacy to the Filipino people. Tanada, principal author of the freedom of information bill, had complained about the House leaderships lack of support and Evardones excuses that there was no available room for his panel to hold public hearings. Today, the Evardone panel is set to discuss and vote on the bill and submit the committee report for plenary debate. Tanada warned that if the bill is not passed by December, it is doomed and would have to be reled in the 16th Congress. Civil society groups on Monday held rallies near Malacanang on Monday to urge Congress and the Palace to pass the bill. The Freedom from Debt Coalition, The FoI Youth Initiative (FYI) and the
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Back to Manila. Filipino Kevin Balot, a 21-year-old

PNP accuses MILF of eecing recruits

By Francisco Tuyay and Florante Solmerin
THE Philippine National Police on Monday accused elements of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front of recruiting members who are supposed to be integrated into the PNP force ahead of an agreement between the government and the MILF as provided in the new Bangsamoro accord. PNP spokesman Csupt Generoso Cerbo said that applicants were asked to pay P2,500 as fees for recruitment and subsequent training in a camp in Darapanan, Maguindanao, a known MILF lair. Cerbo added that the training was supposed to be supervised by MILF ofcials, who will in turn, recommend the successful trainees for integration into the regular PNP force in the region. The PNP ofcials said that the PNP has yet to establish a system that will facilitate the absorption
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transgender, who won the Miss International Queen 2012 in Thailand on Nov. 2, arrived in Manila Sunday evening. Kevin, an only son, said he hoped his family would now accept him as a daughter. ERIC B. APOLONIO

Police blasted for questioning 7 online critics

By Ronald O. Reyes
MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte AN advocate of online rights on Monday blasted the law enforcement ofcials in this city for inviting for questioning seven Facebook users who posted comments critical of the police for their handling of recent robberies. It is not only erroneous for the police to invite the supposed online offenders for questioning, but the PNP personnel could be administratively charged for harassment, said Argee Guevarra, a lawyer and member of the Philippine Internet Freedom Alliance. The group was among those that questioned the Cybercrime Prevention Act before the Supreme Court, saying that criticism by citizens of public and ofcial acts of government are constitutionally protected free speech. The online efforts of the seven should be the spirit with which all Filipino citizens should react to government misdeeds. The police shouldve merely replied to the messages, Guevarra said. Users of social media networks posted messages of support for the Facebook seven. What a frightening invitation. Reminds me of the bad old days when some of the invited never returned alive, Jose Pilapil posted online. Corporateslave said: The police are an arm of the government meaning that they are bound to be criticized. It would be more productive if they focused on their duties rather than running after critics. Nega Starr: Invite the robbery suspects, not the Facebook critics! ryq24: If getting invited after you have criticized the police is not intimidation I dont know what is. One commenter said that the local police should issue a public apology. None of the seven invited Facebook users showed up at the police station on Nov. 7, as friends and supporters Next page advised them to lie low.

Another show of force. Members of the media and other workers, left, call for the passage of the Freedom of Information Bill in Mendiola, Manila, while members of the group Bawal Magshoot Dito-Only in the Philippines do the same at the Rizal Park. DANNY PATA

SC gets flak for no-live-coverage ruling

By Joyce Pangco Paares
VARIOUS quarters on Monday criticized the Supreme Courts decision disallowing live coverage of the Mindanao Massacre trial, even as Malacaang asked the high court to revisit or reconsider it. Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said the ruling, which stemmed from a motion for reconsideration led by prime suspect Andal Ampatuan Jr., was a little restrictive. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima and several members of the House of Representatives, including the wife of one of the victims, also criticized the ruling. Ampatuan has claimed that a public trial will deprive him of his right to equal protection and presumption of innocence and subject him to psychological punishment. Lacierda said President Benigno Aquino III would have preferred live coverage of the trial. I hope that [the Supreme Court] can revisit their decision. I
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Drilon says sin tax good for farmers

By Macon R. Araneta
TOBACCO farmers will recieve a total of P6 billion a year in benets under a substitute sin tax bill that the Senate was expected to pass in the second week of November, Sen. Franklin Drilon said on Monday. He said the new bill raised the allocation for farmers by P6 billion and stressed that raising raxes on the cigarettes would not hurt the tobacco farmers because manufacturers import 85 percent of their materials and buy only 15 percent from local sources. Drilon, acting chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, said raising taxes on cigarettes would also lower prevalence of smoking in the Philippines and generate up to P45 billion annual revenues on sin products. We have the highest smoking prevalence in Asia and the lowest priced cigarettes. A pack of Marlboro is $8 abroad and
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Erap heads Comelecs party-list purge new group: a witch huntIBP exec The X-Men By Joyce Pangco Paares
By Macon R. Araneta
FORMER President Joseph Estrada on Monday described himself as the head of the XMen for being an ex-movie actor, an ex-mayor, an exsenator and an ex-convict. Speaking before the National Bureau of Investigation and JC International Manilas Honorable, Outstanding, Patriotic, and Exemplary Awards
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Tax matters. Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Henares and

AN ofcial of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines on Monday likened the Commission on Elections campaign to weed out questionable party-list groups to a witch hunt that violated their right to due process. While the Comelecs perseverance is to be admired and commended, it should not be remiss in upholding the basic tenets of due process and equal protection, said Vincent Pepito Yambao Jr., the chairman of the IBPs electoral reforms committee.

Yambao, a consultant to the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, said the poll body should also have adopted separate standards and procedures in assessing the tness of new organizations applying for party-list registration as opposed to those whose groups had already been accredited. He said new applicants should be subjected to more rigid scrutiny than the registered party-list groups that have previously undergone the process that have been found to comply with the 8-point Next page

Senator Franklin Drilon compare notes during Mondays plenary session in the Senate tackling the sin tax bill. EY ACASIO

PCG: No waste dumping

By Joel E. Zurbano and Macon R. Araneta
THE Coast Guard on Monday denied that there was dumping of toxic waste on Subic Bay even as the issue continued to draw condemnation from lawmakers. Coast Guard ofcer-in-charge Luis Tuason said that, as the entity issuing the permits for dumping, the Coast Guard had assured the public that it would not allow the dumping of toxic waste in Philippine waters including Subic Bay. We would not allow dumping in the Philippine waters, most especially in Subic, Tuason said. He also denied receiving any reports on dumping. On the issue of alleged dumping of waste in Subic, we were surprised because actually there was no dumping. When you say dumping, you discharge
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We urge our legislators, especially the members of the Committee on Public Information, to rally behind this measure to show that they truly represent the Filipino people in our desire for a government that is open and honest, the FYI said in a statement. The FDC said it believes that an FoI law is a key to freedom from debt and to economic and social justice. An FoI Law is a landmark measure that will ensure our constitutional right to information and an effective tool to ght corruption, and will ingrain the culture of transparency and accountability in government, the FDC said. An enlightened citizenry is an empowered one. A people fully aware of their rights and the issues, policies and programs that affect them will

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CUSTOMS Commissioner Ruffy Biazon said Monday he had formed an alliance with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency to curb drug smuggling and arrest drug couriers. He and PDEA Director General Arturo Cacdac Jr. agreed to strengthen their cooperation on Nov. 8, and after his men arrested two foreigners on two occasions at Terminal 1 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport for carrying drugs hidden in their luggage. We will craft a road map aimed at enhancing our bilateral cooperation to conduct an intensive campaign against drug smuggling, Biazon said. He said Customs and PDEA would also share information to help them detect drug shipments and identify the drug couriers entering the country. The two agencies would also collaborate to help speed up the disposition of drug cases against arrested drug couriers to ensure their conviction, Biazon said.

Right to Know, Right Now! held rallies and demanded no more excuses and denounced the delaying tactics from those who fear transparency and accountability. The FYI, spearheaded by the UP Diliman CSSP Student Council, also launched the Bantay Batasan para sa FoI to

monitor the legislators actions or inaction on the bill. The FYI is a growing national network of 46 youth and student organizations that are committed to campaigning for the passage of the FoI bill. At least 46 student leaders from the UP System, De La Salle University and Adamson University signed a manifesto urging the immediate passage of the FoI bill.

be easily galvanized to take action against abuse of power, corruption and bad policies and programs, the FDC said. Evardone on Monday said he expects a healthy and spirited debate at todays public hearing. The chairman of the public information committee has vowed to endorse the bill for plenary approval before the 15th Congress ends in June 2013. With Maricel Cruz

Erap...
in Manila, Estrada joked that the bureaus director, Nonnatus Caesar Rojas, failed to mention that he headed the X-Men when he introduced him. He forgot to tell you, and all of you know that I am the head of the X-Men, Estrada said. But I would say I am in good company because the late senator Ninoy Aquino was also convicted in the military court. President [Nelson] Mandela, who served 27 years, was also convicted. Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Aung Suu Kyi were also convicted. Estrada said the country was in dire need of super heroes as a result of the super villains in its midst. We need them to ght the super villains that have sprouted all over society, Estrada said. We need law enforcers to help us purge the ranks of the police and law enforcement units like the NBI of bad elements that discredit the honor and integrity not only of our country...but of our society. The country should recognize the authorities serving faithfully and putting criminals in jail. Our law enforcement and criminal justice system is faced

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Police here said they were not planning to send follow-up invitations and said they were working hard to solve the robberies. In the House, the Anakbayan party-list group lambasted President Benigno Aquino III for signing the Cybercrime Prevention Act, which they said resulted in a spate of persecution against Filipinos for their Facebook activities. Noynoy Aquinos passage of the Cybercrime Law has put an awesome weapon against freedom and civil liberties into the hands of abusive authorities, said the groups chairman, Vencer Crisostomo. Despite a temporary restraining order imposed against the implementation of the law, the police, employers and school administrators have been inspired by the Aquino administrations actions to crackdown on Internet freedom and liberties, Crisostomo said. Another example of this witch hunt was the ring of 46 nurses in a public hospital in Taguig, the suspension of four high school students in Manila, and the arrest of an anti-mining activist in Cagayan province. Crisostomo urged the youth, students, bloggers, and netizens to prepare for bigger protests, warning that unless the Cybercrime Law is junked, more similar cases of harassment would occur. With Christine F. Herrera
Appreciation. NBI Drector Nonatus Rojas hands over a caricature of ex-President Joseph Estrada after Estradas speech during the bureaus awarding ceremonies for outstanding people. DANNY PATA

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tal Mindoro, Oriental Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan will have cloudy skies with where ash oods and land- occasional light to moderate rain. slides are possible. The trajectory of the [lowCavite, Laguna, Batangas, pressure area] is going up, showRizal and Quezon and Occiden- ing an indication that it is likely

to dissipate or to exit the country toward the West Philippine Sea, Loiz told the Manila Standard. But he said the weather system was not likely to develop into a tropical depression because it has already crossed the land. Rio N. Araja

with so many lords--drug lords, gambling lords, warlords and various other lords, he said. I see it in the slogan: Theres more fun in the Philippines especially in Manila, where there are indeed many funkidnapping, holdup and [carjacking], among others, said Estrada who will slug it out with Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim in next years elections. He said peace and order was his priority when he was President, and that under his watch the National Police achieved a 53-percent positive rating after years of suffering a bad image. He said the citizens condence and trust was crucial in the ght against crime. But to do this, we must cleanse the ranks of our police forces and law enforcement agencies of scalawags, Estrada said. With the support of his police chief Panlo Lacson, Estrada said, he was able to eradicate kidnapping, carjacking and extortionate policemen. I believe...that a society cannot prosper no matter how competent and motivated its people are if there is no peace and order, Estrada said. Investors will always be afraid to do business in our country if we do not ensure [that] their businesses are safe.

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of MILF ghters into the regular police force. He denied that the PNP has started recruiting of applicants in the region for the Bangsamoro police, other than the regular recruitment process, but added that the PNP leadership will investigate the report. According to the report, hundreds of recruits backed out after nding out that there was no training whatsoever and that they were just being scammed by their recruiters. There has been reports of recruitment of PNP applicants wherein they are issued forms for P2,500, Cerbo said. The Moro National Liberation Front conrmed the PNP report. The recruitment of MILF into the PNP is true, said MNLF Political Director Gapul Hadjkirul. the rights of the accused should be given more weight than those of non-direct parties such as the media. The high court reversed its June 2011 ruling allowing the live broadcast of the trial. For Mary Grace Morales, wife of Rosell Morales, one of the journalists killed during the Nov. 23, 2009 massacre, the high courts decision was disheartening. If the Supreme Court favors the people who were responsible for the deaths of our loved ones, where should we turn to for justice, Morales said in a statement released

Hadjirul said they received reports that the MILF was recruiting members coming from as far as Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, Basilan and Maguindanao. He added that an applicant is asked to pay P500 for the application form, and P2,000 for recruitment and training. The payments were received by an unidentied ofcial of the MILF. Hadjirul added that the victims were brought to an area in Camp Darapanan for the supposed training exercise, but after days of waiting and suffering hunger inside the area, decided to leave in dismay. Several applicants bolted out from the training camp when they conrmed that there was no any enlistment or integration of the MILF to the PNP, Hadjirul said. The MNLF actually faced the same situation in 1987, when it entered into a reintegration process with the Armed Forces of the Philippines. through the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines. De Lima said she was saddened by the Supreme Courts decision. With due respect to the Supreme Court, I personally feel that its not a good move, not a good development because the trial needs to be closely monitored by the people, De Lima said. Remember: the Maguindanao massacre is supposed to be the trial of the century insofar as the Philippine justice system is concerned. Were not just the ones interested in it but also the interna-

But the process eventually failed, as several MNLF soldiers and commanders reportedly sold their rearms instead of surrendering the same to the government. Other applicants also bought slots to be integrated to the AFP, while others simply did not opt for integration and instead turned to farming. Meanwhile, an MILF panel said the decommissioning of combatants would be a tough issue to discuss with the government as the peace panels resume their meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Joining him in the panel were Atty. Michael Mastura, Roberto Maulana Alonto, and Muhajirin Ali. The group is also part of the MILF delegation to the Foreign Ministers Conference of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation which will be held in Djibouti starting November 15. Nur Misuari of the defunct tional community--especially now when many are asking when this trial will end. Maguindanao Rep. Simeon Datumanong said the high courts order would serve to protect the suspects right to presumption of innocence. And House Assistant Majority Leader Sherwin Tugna said the presumption of innocence is a constitutional right of every accused. But Bayan Muna party-list Rep. Neri Colmenarez and Gabriela Womens Group party-list Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan said the

Moro National Liberation Front, is also expected to attend the Djibouti meeting. On October 15, the Aquino government and the MILF signed the Framework Agreement, a document that guides both parties to nally end the decades-old armed rebellion in Mindanao. The meeting would be very tough especially on the matters of policing, decommissioning, and gradual redeployment of government forces, Camlian said. The issues will be thoroughly studied b the three technical working groups, which will thresh out the minutest detail for subsequent implementation. Camlian added that the meeting would also tackle the so-called MILF political detainees, intergovernmental relationship, transitional arrangements and modalities of the political road map, and other things. high courts decision would only help the accused cover up their participation in the crime. The Ampatuans hope that the public interest will wane as the years go by, Colmenares said in a text message. That [the high courts decision] does not bode well in terms of transparency of the hearings, Ilagan said. Its a controversial case involving notorious personalities, and the media were the victims. With Rey E. Requejo and Maricel V. Cruz

PCG...
the waste directly from the ship into the water. There was no such dumping, he said. But at the Senate, Senators Loren Legarda. Miriam Defensor-Santiago and Aquino Koko Pimentel III filed separate resolutions calling for an investigation on the reported dumping, which was allegedly committed by a ship owned by Glenn Defense Marine Asia, a US Navy contractor. A major daily [not the Manila Standard] broke the story on the dumping, which was allegedly traced to M/T Glenn Guardian. The Coast Guard is also closely coordinating with retired Vice Admiral Mateo Mayuga, chairman and chief executive of Glenn Defense Marine Asia Philippines Inc. In a statement, Mayuga denied that its ship dumped the toxic waste, and questioned the supposed tests done by the SBMA Ecology Center. We welcome full-dressed investigations into the allegations that our ship dumped into the Subic Bay the wastes we collected from US naval ship USS Emory S. Land during the recent Visiting Forces Agreement exercise in the Philippines, Mayuga said. Macon Ramos-Araneta

SC...
dont know what prompted them to change their minds on the live coverage of the Maguindanao massacre, Lacierda said. This is the litmus test of the judiciary, and it is important for us-both the public and media--to be able to know whats going on in the Maguindanao massacre trial. The high court said in its rulingwhich it promulgated on Oct. 23 but released only on Nov. 12that the rights of the accused should not be forgotten, and that

Mallari, 70
CORAZON Umlas Mallari, mother of Manila Standard Sports editor Riera U. Mallari, died at dawn on Monday after a lingering illness. She was 70. Mrs. Mallari left behind her children Riera, Palmer, head of the National Bureau of Investigations Technical Intelligence Division, schoolteacher Lailani, pediatrician Maricris and her grandchildren. Her body now lies at the Santo Domingo Church on Quezon Avenue, Quezon City, and will stay there until Thursday before it is transferred to her hometown in Sasmuan, Pampanga, where she will be buried on Saturday.

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here its less than a dollar, Drilon said. We hope with higher rate of taxes, the young doesnt get into the habit of smoking. The House of Representatives passed its sin tax version last month with a target of P31 billion in revenues. The Senate was expected to pass its Sin Tax bill in the second week of November. The Senate Sin Tax Bill hit a snag when Sen. Ralph Recto resigned as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and withdrew his draft bill with a target of only P20 billion. Drilon submitted a substitute bill when he took over as acting chairman. Hilario Punzalan, head of the National Federation of Labor Unions said the Drilons bill would lead to massive job losses in the cigarette manufacturing sector because it would lead to early phase out of the low, medium and highpriced locally produced brands. He said local annual production of 4.6 billion sticks would be reduced to 2.6 billion sticks as a result of the tax hikes based on

studies made by the Department of Finance. Punzalan said the tax increase should be moderate and reasonable so that employees in the tobacco and alcohol industries would not have to join the growing ranks of the unemployed. Rodelito Atienza of the Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco Labor Union said big rms would also downsize operations in order to survive the high tax regime under Drilons substitute bill. But Sen. Miriam Santiago, Senate sponsor of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control , said raising the six taxes would reduce government spending on health care costs from tobacco-related diseases. The framework, negotiated under the auspices of the World Health Organization, was developed in response to the global tobacco epidemic. The Philippines ratied it in 2005. Santiago said the Philippines must raise sin taxes and reduce smoking, consistent with the countrys commitments under the framework, and objections by industry leaders should have been done before the Philippines ratied the treaty in 2005.

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guidelines set by the Supreme Court in the case Ang Bagong Bayani versus Comelec. [Registered party-list groups] enjoy reasonable expectation that their manifestation of intention to participate for the 2013 elections would be granted. It can even be argued that they enjoy the presumption of compliance with respect to the nature and status of their organizations, Yambao said. At least four party-list groups whose accreditation were earlier upheld by either the Comelec or the Supreme Court have been disqualied in the poll agencys ongoing purge. Two of the groups, Ako Bicol and 1-CARE, have separately petitioned the Supreme Court to reverse the Comelec decision against them. On Monday, Ako Bikol called on the justices to act immediately on its petition, saying it was at risk of being deprived of the opportunity to prepare for the 2013 elections. The groups lawyer, retired Supreme

Court justice Vicente Mendoza, said Ako Bicols advocacy programs and its beneciaries including 1,149 bills and resolutions led in the House, hundreds of infrastructure projects and scholarships for 1,108 students would be jeopardized by the Comelecs order disqualifying it from the 2013 elections. Mendoza added that the Comelec decision also violated the right to representation of the more than 1.5 million people who voted for Ako Bicol in the 2010 polls. Yambao echoed this argument, saying that when the party-list groups joined previous elections, they had done so with the approval of the Comelec and had won a mandate from those who voted for them. He added that the 15 minutes that the Comelec allotted to qualify each party-list group did not satisfy the requirements of due process. Earlier, the dean of the UP National College of Public Administration and Governance criticized the Comelec review as aribrary and chaotic.With Rey E. Requejo and Ronald O. Reyes

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Voters biometrics okayed

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P1-m reward on radiomans killers
A FORMER town executive in Nueva Ecija had offered a P1million reward for the arrest of the killers of Cabanatuan City broadcaster Juluis Causo, the fth mediaman to be killed during the watch of President Aquino. Former Cabanatuan City Mayor Cesar Vergara through the Vergara Foundation put up the reward money, said Cabanatuan City Police chief Supt. Ely Depra. Depra expressed hope the reward could attract informants to shed light on the slaying of Causo, who was gunned down by assassins riding in tandem last Nov. 7. The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in Cabanatuan City said it was trying to establish the identity of the killers. One of them shot pointblank Causo last Thursday, several meters from the radio station, police said. Police formed a special task group hours after the slaying of the radio anchorman. Ferdie Domingo

THE Senate on Monday passed the measure mandating biometrics registration of voters even as a party-list group sought the creation of more polling precincts for migrant workers.
Senator Aquilino Pimentel III, chairman of the committee on electoral reforms and peoples participation, said Senate Bill 1030, authored by Senator Lito Lapid, is designed to allow a thorough cleansing of the national voters registry and reduce, if not eliminate, cheating. Approved on third and nal reading, the measure requires voters to appear before the election ofcer in their places of registration to have their photographs, ngerprints, signatures and other identiable features processed through biometrics. We can ensure that the automated ngerprint identication system may be utilized to rid the national voters registration of double or multiple registrants, Pimentel said in his sponsor-

ship speech. Data on voters are stored in the automated election system of the Commission on Elections. Rep. Teddy Casio on Monday said enough precincts for overseas absentee voting should be opened to allow full exercise of the right to suffrage. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Comelec have to put up more satellite voting centers, he said in Filipino. This is to prevent massive disenfranchisement like what happened in the last elections when many were not able to vote. Casio made the call at the 13th Congress of the United Filipinos in Hong Kong where he was invited as guest speaker by Migrante. Overseas absentee voters are very

important in the decision-making of the country, he said. Aside for the economic contributions they bring to the Philippines, they are inuential in the voting preference of their dependents. Casio said the overseas vote could even be a very decisive sector, especially for tight races in the last slots for the Senate. He also wants the OAV law amended to drop Section 5d that required voters abroad to execute an afdavit stating that they would come home within three years from approval of their registration as Philippine voters. This provision has prevented many Filipinos in the United States and Canada from registering and voting in the past Philippine national elections since 2003, Casio said.

Three state rms Petron-led oil rms set rollback boards overhauled
By Alena Flores By Joyce Pangco Paares
PRESIDENT Aquino has replaced the entire boards of three state corporations namely Philippine National Oil Company-Renewables Corporation, Philippine Export-Import Credit Agency and the Land Bank of the Philippines Insurance Brokerage Inc. The President appointed Carlos Jose Gatmaitan as PNOC-RC chief executive ofcer. Gatmaitan, who headed the Creative Graphics Studios prior to his appointment, replaced Victorino Bala. Appointed as PNOC-RC board members with terms ending on June 30, 2013 are Glenda Martinez, Carina Matutina, Antonio Cailao, Mario Taguines, Gaudencio Goco, and Carlo Cruz. Mr. Aquino appointed Tomas de Leon Jr. as chairman of the LBP-IBI chairman, replacing Gilda Pico. De Leon used to head the LBP Resources and Development Corp. and was a program director for corporate governance of the Ateneo Graduate School of Business. Mr. Aquino retained Jesus Diaz, Yolanda Velasco, Alan Bornas, and Reynauld Villafuerte as LBP-IBI directors and appointed six new board members, namely German Caccam, David Corpin, Leonora Resolis, Daisy Macalino, Filipina Monje and Vergel Cruz. The President re-appointed Francisco Magsajo Jr. as Philexim chief executive ofcer. Magsajo used to head the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. before he joined Philexim in 2008. Mr. Aquino appointed Jay Yuvallos, Kasigod Jamias and Benigno Zialcita III as board members of Philexim. OIL rms spearheaded by Petron Corporation reduced their prices on Tuesday for the fourth consecutive week, this time amounting to P0.85 per liter of diesel and P0.40 per liter of regular gasoline. They also cut kerosene prices by P0.85 per liter but froze the price of premium and unleaded gasoline. The oil rms issued separate advisories announcing the price cut effective 12:01am November 13, as a result of changes in the world market. Petron will implement the following price rollbacks (VAT inclusive) effective 12:01 am Nov 13: P0.85 per liter for Turbo Diesel, DieselMax and kerosene and P0.40 per liter for Pinoy Gasoline and Regular. This reects movements in the international oil market, Petron said in its advisory. Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp. Seaoil Philippines, PTT Philippines, Eastern Petroluem

and Phoenix Petroleum also cut prices at the same level and the same time as Petron. Energy director Zenaida Monsada said the local prices were inuenced by Greece, whose economic outlook dimmed, and the US, whose economy was seen going strong as a result of post election factors and reduced underemployment. The oil rms also cut prices last November 6 by P0.40 per liter of premium and unladed gasoline and P0.20 per liter of kerosene.

Six hired guns killed

SIX suspected members of a gunfor-hire syndicate were killed in an encounter with policemen who were manning a checkpoint in Calamba City, Laguna. Laguna Provincial Director James Melad said the suspects were aboard a brown Toyota Innova (TDI 214). The suspects tried to speed off and a reght ensued. Five of them died on the spot and the sixth suspect was wounded before he died at a nearby hospital, Melad said. Melad said the suspects remained unidentied but he was not ruling out the possibility they were members of a private armed group. Police are under orders to neutralize the PAGs before they could cause havoc in the May 2013 elections. Frankie Tuyay

Mines bucks gold tax abolition

By Othel V. Campos
THE Mines and Geosciences Bureau said any move to stay taxes on locally-produced gold should be scrutinized, citing more harm than good can be done by denying the government its much needed revenue. There has to be a clear study before taxes on gold are suspended or scrapped. The government should be cognizant of the effects of such proposals, Director Leo Jasareno told Manila Standard in a phone interview. He said the government should be able to collect taxes and retrieve all gold production in the country. But that is not what is happening right now. Some lawmakers have called on the Bureau of Internal Revenue to suspend the tax on gold over the declining sale of the precious metal to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. In August 2012, the Bureau reported a reduction in the rst semester gold purchases by the Bangko Sentral to 786 kilograms compared to 15,003 kg in the same period in 2011. The Bureau said the drop started last year in the second semester when the Bureau of Internal Revenue set a 2 percent excise tax and 10 percent creditable withholding tax from the sale of gold by small-scale miners and traders.

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My warmest greetings to the Department of Agriculture on the occassion of your 2012 Gawad Saka, the Search for Outstanding Achievers in Agriculture and Fisheries. Agriculture is a vital foundation of our nations economy, and we in government, together with our partner industries, are steadfast in strengthening this sector to fulfill our goal of national progress and stability. May this event further inspire our farmers, fishers, agricultural scientists, and entrepreneurs to observe the comprehensive management of our land and water resources, in pursuit of food security, increased local incomes, and an empowered citizenry. Let us keep cultivating a culture of excellence, innovation, and productivity, as we sustain the momentum of our countrys social and economic advancement. My heartfelt congratulations to the 2012 Gawad Saka awardees for facing up to the challenges of our present milieu and responding to our peoples needs. The progress of our agriculture depends on your ingenuity and productivity. Continue to be role models and movers of society, with passion and dedication to our civic duty to revitalize the Philippines.

P-Noy honors 2012 Gawad Saka awardees

President Benigno S. Aquino III leads the nation in honoring the countrys outstanding farmers, fishers, and farmers and fisherfolk groups in todays awarding ceremonies of the 2012 National Gawad Saka winners, at the Department of Agricultures Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA-PhilRice) main headquarters, at Muoz City, Nueva Ecija. This years Gawad Saka national awardees are led by Teodoro Kub-ao, Jr. of Kalinga, a 48-year old civil engineer-turned-rice farmer as the national Gawad Saka winner for integrated rice farming, and 62-year old Ricarte Corpuz of Ilocos Norte, chosen as this years model hybrid rice farmer. Kub-ao earned more than P1.2 million last year from his four-hectare integrated rice farm in Tabuk City, while Corpuz earned P1.5 million from producing hybrid rice at his farm in Laoag City. President Aquino will be assisted by Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala during the awarding ceremony, held for first time at PhilRice, where the President will also launch the National of the Rice campaign. The President recently declared 2013 as National Year of Rice, as per Proclamation No. 494, signed on October 18, 2012. Kub-ao and Corpuz are among the 25 national winners of the 2012 Gawad Saka, who will receive a total of P6.5-million in cash prizes and project grants, and Presidential citation and trophy. After the awarding ceremonies, President Aquino will deliver a keynote address to about 1,000 participants, including the awardees and their families, foreign guests, and DA and local government officials, farmer- and fisherfolk-leaders. The Department of Agriculture conducts the yearly Gawad Saka contest to pay tribute to model farmers, fisherfolk, and their respective groups who have excelled and made significant contributions to enhancing the development of the agriculture and fishery sector in their respective communitis and the country, in general. The 2012 Gawad Saka national steering committee is chaired by DA assistant secretary Edilberto de Luna, who is also the concurrent national corn program coordinator. For their feat, this years Gawad Saka winners under the individual category will each receive P150,000 cash, while winners in the group category will each receive P50,000 cash and project grant, ranging from P150,000 to P450,000. Aside from Kub-ao and Corpuz, the other 15 Gawad Saka national individual category winners are: Corn - Delia Nanong (Tarragona, Davao Oriental) Coconut - Alberto Panghulan (Esperanza, Sultan Kudarat) Sugarcane - Jaime Sillador (Carmen, North Cotabato) High value crops - Gregorio Saljay III (Pigcawayan, North Cotabato) Organic agriculture Ronald Costales (Majayjay, Laguna) Agri-entrepreneur Arthur Tabbu (Lighthouse Cooperative, Tuguegarao City) and Bonifacio Begonia (Guaranfood Mfg. Corp., San Pablo City) Fish culture - Ferdinand Mari (Alicia, Isabela) Fish capture - Rene Maunas (Mati City, Davao Oriental) Large animal raiser Francisco Pasion (Marcos, Ilocos Norte) Small animal raiser Vicente Doletin (Midsayap, North Cotabato) Young farmer - Dario Gullos (Espaola, Palawan) Farm family - Bernardino Nunez, Sr. and family (San Rafael, Bulacan) Agricultural scientist - Dr. Mudjekeewis Santos (BFAR-NFRDI) and Agricultural researcher Ambrosio Alfiler (Philippine Coconut Authority Albay Research Center). Dr. Santos and Alfiler will each receive P1 million (P900,000 as project grant and P100,000 cash), courtesy of the DAs Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR). The eight Gawad Saka national winners in the group category are: Small farmers or fisherfolks organization Abrasa Multi-Purpose Cooperative (Diffun, Cagayan) Rural Improvement Club (RIC) Calatagan Tibang RIC (Virac, Catanduanes) Young farmers or fisherfolks organization Monteverde 4-H Club (Culianan, Zamboanaga City) Municipal Agricultural and Fishery Council (MAFC) - Sablayan MAFC, Occidental Mindoro Provincial Agricultural and Fishery Council (PAFC) - Mountain Province PAFC Barangay Food Terminal (BFT) LGU-operated - Barangay Kiba-o, Matanao, Davao del Sur BFT non-LGU-operated - Valiant Primary MPC, Bongabon, Nueva Ecija Municipal Fishery and Aquaculture Resources Management Council (FARMC) Aroroy FARMC, Masbate

Benigno S. Aquino III President, Republic of the Philippines

Mainit na pagbati sa mga nagwagi sa 201112 Gawad Saka Awards, sa mga kapwa pinuno at kawani ng Kagawaran ng Pagsasaka, at sa lahat ating mga katuwang sa matagumpay na pagbibigay ng pagkilala na ito. Higit kailanman, nararapat na bigyang pagkilala at pagpupugay ang ating magsasaka at mangingisda. Sila ang mga bida sa ating paglago ng 1.9 percent sa sektor sa unang siyam na buwan ng 2012. Sila rin ang pangunahing dahilan kayat umakyat ng halos pitong porsyento ang produksyon ng palay, kasabay ng pag-angat ng produksyon ng mais ng pito at kalahating porsyento. Kaya naman, tiwala tayo na makakamit natin ang pagkakaroon ng sapat na pagkain sa 2013. Ang sama-samang pagsisikap at husay ng mga Gawad Saka awardees at iba pang mga magsasaka at mangingisda - kasama na ang kontribusyon ng Kagawaran ng Pagsasaka, mga pinuno ng mga pamahalaang lokal, pribadong mga kumpanya at individual ang siyang susi para mahinto ang pag-angkat natin ng bigas. Asahan ninyo ang tuluy-tuloy na pagbibigay ayuda ng Kagawaran, lalo na sa kinakailangang infrastructure, technical atmarketing support. Hahanap pa rin tayo ng mga paraan para mapataas ang produksyon at kita ng magsasaka at mangingisda. Gayunman, inaasahan namin na ang inyong mga nakamit na pagasenso ay magsilbing inspirasyon at huwaran sa mga kasamahan natin sa agrikultura. Kayo ang patunay na ang agrikultura ay daan hindi lamang sa pagkakaroon ng panustos sa pang araw-araw, kundi sa pagkakaroon ng maginhawang buhay sa kanayunan. Mabuhay! Proceso J. Alcala Secretary, Department of Agriculture

2012 Gawad Saka National Awardees

Integrated Rice Farmer Hybrid Rice Farmer Corn Farmer Coconut Farmer Sugarcane Farmer HVC Farmer Agri-Entrepreneur Agri-Entrepreneur

Teodoro G. Kub-ao, Jr. Tabuk City, Kalinga Organic Farmer

Ricarte J. Corpuz Ilocos Norte Fisherfolk (Fish Culture)

Delia D. Nanong Davao Oriental Fisherfolk (Fish Capture)

Alberto G. Panghulan Sultan Kudarat

Jaime P. Sillador North Cotabato

Gregorio B. Sajay III North Cotabato Young Farmer

Arthur B. Tabbu Cagayan, Region II Agricultural Scientist

Bonifacio B. Begonia Laguna Agricultural Scientist

Large Animal Raiser Small Animal Raiser

Ronald Costales Laguna, Region

Ferdinand B. Mari Isabela

Rene D. Maunas Davao Oriental

Francisco Alex Dani R. Pasion Ilocos Norte

Vicente V. Doletin North Cotabato

Dario D. Gullos Dr. Mudjekeewis D. Santos Ambrosio Raul Ricardo Alfiler Albay Palawan Quezon City City/Municipal Agricultural & Fishery Council

Farmer/Fisherfolk Family

Young Farmer/Fisherfolk Organization

Rural Improvement Club (RIC)

Small Farmer/Fisherfolk Organization

Mr. & Mrs. Bernardino P. Nuez, Sr. & Family Bulacan

Monteverde 4-H Club Zamboanga City

Provincial Agricultural & Fishery Council

Abrasa Multi-Purpose Cooperative Calatagan Tibang Sablayan MAFC Quirino Rural Improvement Club Occidental Mindoro, Region IV-B Catanduanes Barangay Food Terminal (Non-LGU Operated) Municipal Fisheries & Aquatic Resources Management Council Barangay Food Terminal (LGU Operated)

Mountain Province PAFC Mt. Province

Barangay Kiba-o Davao del Sur

Valiant Primary MPC Nueva Ecija

Aroroy MFARMC Masbate, Albay

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with regard to the measure. Time will soon run out on the bills champions. Congress will only be in session until Dec. 21. Next year, an election year, there will only be 15 session days from Jan. 21 to Feb. 8. And then the campaign period will start. Despite this administrations feel-good pronouncements about the need for government to be transparent and accountable to the people, the bill has moved at a glacial pace. Ofcials claim they are working out several provisions in an attempt to balance transparency and potential for abuse. Some lawmakers claim they want a provision for government ofcials seeking to explain their side if they are unfairly portrayed. An administration ally once joked that there is no more need to pass the FOI bill because President Aquino is already transparent. This is hardly a consolation, hardly a substitute, and hardly true. The Presidents pronouncements about good governance notwithstanding, citizens requesting access to public documents still encounter difculty doing so. Just look at how unsuccessfully numerous groups were in requesting access to the Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth of lawmakers at the height of the

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ADVOCATES of the freedom of information bill are in a last, desperate push for the passage of the measure given the small window afforded by the resumption of congressional sessions last week up to the Dec. 21 recess for the Christmas holidays. They organized a forum in Tondo, Manila, on Sunday to bring the issue closer to ordinary citizens. On Monday, the bills supporters marched from the University of Santo Tomas to Mendiola to remind the Aquino administration of its promise to foster transparency in government. Today the House committee

Make or break
on public information decides the fate of the bill, which provides access to information being used for decision making or project management, as well as the transcripts and minutes of ofcial meetings. The committees decision will determine whether the House will discuss the bill, and vote on it, in succeeding plenary sessions. Previous attempts by the committee to gather its members to talk about the bill had failed because of the lack of available rooms for the meetingor so our House ofcials would have us believe. The Senate, for its part, has yet to follow a more denite timetable impeachment trial. We have no doubt that Congress can act, and swiftly, on this measure if it wants to. Recall how quickly 188 House members signed the resolution for the impeachment of the chief justice earlier this year. Recall, too, how the Cybercrime Law was enacted at a time when the government should be opening itself up. Only a clamor from the people prompted the Supreme Court to issue a temporary restraining order on the law. Only the President can make or break this law. Will he certify this bill as urgent, or will he continue to reveal himself as insincere by simply doing nothing?

Drilon heeds his master

LOWDOWN
IF ITS true that Malacaangs virtual takeover of the Judiciary was part of the daang matuwid reforms promised by President Noynoy Aquino, stuff like this shouldnt be happening anymore. And people like former Ambassador Francisco Paqui Ortigas would not be at the mercy of lawyers and judges conspiring to grab his property. I dont understand why Makati Judge Liza Marie Picardal Tecson of Regional Trial Court Branch 144 refuses to inhibit herself from the case involving the dissolution of the marriage between Ortigas and his estranged wife Susana, when a similar case has already been led earlier in a San Juan court, where the couple both lived. Ortigas had moved to inhibit Tecson not only because of this obvious attempt at forum shopping, but also because of Susanas ties to the judge through the CVC law rm that represents her. Tecsons husband used to be a lawyer at the high-prole rm. Susanas lawyer is also a former classmate and friend of Tecsons. All of this should be grounds for any right-thinking judge to let go of any case, something that Tecson has adamantly refused to do. The way I see it, this is just a naked conspiracy by Susana, her lawyers and a judge to make sure that Ortigas loses everything in the domestic drama, which has now moved on to the courts. *** Ive never been a fan of Senator Franklin Drilon. And Drilons recent and ham-handed botching of the sin tax hearings has given me more reason to doubt if he even knows whats hes doing in the Senate, apart from the bidding of whoever is in power, like he always does. Drilon became chairman of the Senate ways and means committee once headed by Senator Ralph Recto, who gave it up in reaction to intense pressure from Malacaang. Recto had studied the sin tax measure well and was inadvertently giving President Noynoy Aquinos nance and health ofcialswho couldnt get their acts together on whether the issue was revenue or healtha tough time. Driln had no such problems. In fact, he seemed to have no understanding or preparation at all, conferring constantly with revenue and nance ofcials and making a ne mess out of the hearings once presided very ably by Recto. During the initial debates on the tax bill, Drilon had a hard time keeping up with his colleagues. Drilon found it hard to eld queries from his own colleagues, particularly Senator Joker Arroyo, who wondered out loud whether Drilon got his point at all.
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Drilon doesnt have a clue. All he knows is his nicotine-addicted master wants a tax bill.

Drilon was also vague and inconsistent in responding to Senator Panlo Lacson, who pointed out that it was a no-brainer that cigarette consumption would go down as a result of high taxes, which in turn would lead to a decline in the sales volumes of manufacturers and lead to less revenues. Drilon kept insisting that the experience in other jurisdictions would not lead to that conclusion, although he did not mention which country he was referring to, nor did he cite any case study or example. At one point, Drilon said that even assuming [that revenues will decline], the position of the sponsor is that we should be willing to take that risk if it will result in less people smoking. Drilon fell right into the trap avoided by Recto, who saw no point of setting revenue goals that would be sacriced in exchange for less Filipinos buying cigarettes. If Drilon is willing to take the risk of declining revenues just so less people would stop smoking, then why was Rectos proposal of collecting an additional P15 billion revenues from sin taxes unacceptable? If Drilons ultimate goal is to stop Filipinos from smoking, then why not just ban cigarettes altogether, as Recto proposed? Drilons lame sponsorship and defense is this, in a nutshell: he wants to tax cigarettes so high to discourage Filipinos from smoking, yet he wants more cigarettes to be sold in order to collect more taxes and raise more revenues for the governments health care program. Drilon just doesnt have a clue. All he knows is his nicotine-addicted master in Malacaang wants a tax bill; and thats exactly what hes going to get. *** The Romeros of R-II Builders Corp. must think themselves above the law, with their refusal to heed the latest court decision ordering them to immediately relinquish control and management of the 79-hectare Manila Harbour Centre located in Vitas, Tondo. Last Friday, pandemonium nearly broke out at the sprawling industrial complex which had long been the milking cow of the Romeros when their guards initially refused entry to a court sheriff serving a writ of execution issued by Branch 24 of the Manila Regional Trial Court. The court ordered R-II to turn over all of the common areas, utilities and facilities to the Manila Harbour Centre Industrial Park Association Inc. An association of locators doing business at the complex, MHCIPA was appointed by the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council to manage Manila Harbour Centre in place of R-II and the Harbour Centre Port Terminal Inc., which R-II controls. Anyone who blatantly disobeys lawful court orders should be cited in contempt and thrown into jail. Otherwise, our justice system will remain the laughingstock of the world.

Four more years

RECENT updates from former President Arroyos legal battles: In the NBN-ZTE case, proceedings had to be postponed for three months because whistle-blower Jun Lozada came down with a cold. Would that the administration were as solicitous of his principal target, a grandmother with a misplaced titanium plate at the back of her neck thats pressing against both her breathing and eating tubes. But Jun will probably need all his wits about him if he intends to implicate Mrs Arroyo in that deal even if it was she who cancelled it in the rst place. In another caseI think the PCSO oneleftist partylister Teddy Casio was forced to admit that the entirety of his knowledge in the matter was limited to hearsay, based largely on media coverage of Senate hearings. Poor Teddy! Someone needs to remind him that proper courts of law operate very differently from the peoples courts that his comrades may be more used to. In a third onethere are so many now that I cant remember which onethe Malacaang records ofce took up the entire court session just to stipulate thatyes, take our word for it, Your Honor!Mrs. Arroyo was the president of the country at the time of the allegations. This is whats called grasping at straws, for want of anything more substantial to say. Luckily for them, the court took it in good humor. Senator Alan Peter Cayetano has deplored these reversals in the administrations witch-hunt against Mrs. Arroyo and suggested that matters might have turned out better with a new and improved legal team from government.

BYPASS

GARY OLIVAR

Hey, Alan, heres another angle you might want to think about: The witchhunt isnt prospering precisely because its nothing more than thatan illmeaning, ill-conceived, and ill-executed lynching party. In the end, it doesnt even really matter to the Palace how all these baseless cases turn out. Regardless of the outcome, the trials are already proving their value in two sordid ways: (i) They serve to keep Mrs. Arroyo behind bars, regardless of her medical condition; and (ii) They give the President a great excuse to shoot off his mouth whenever and wherever he caneven in front of international audiencesagainst his convenient scapegoat for everything thats going wrong. He may look totally unpresidential, but that is of absolutely no moment to him. *** The prospect of four more years under Aquinoso signicant for us here in the Philippinesdwindles in cosmic signicance when compared to the prospect of four more years in the United States under re-elected President Barack Obama. I like the way his victory was summed up in a recent Wall Street Journal editorial: It was a triumph of hope over change. This is a president whose only achievement I would praise was the long-overdue termination with blessedly extreme prejudice of Osama bin-Laden. And even then, I would qualify that with a footnote: It was under Obamas predecessor, George W. Bush, that the US militarys inter-service coordination and capabilities were upgraded to the level of prociency that allowed those two Navy SEAL teams to awlessly execute Osamas execution. On pretty much everything else in Obamas record, I would give him the same failing marks as the tens of millions of other American voters who also voted to turn him out of ofce, among them:

His failure to revive a moribund American economy, which now faces the prospect next year of a scal cliff of expiring tax cuts and new spending mandates that will further bloat the already staggering budget decit; ObamaCare, his expensive new entitlement program, shoved onto the backs of businessmen and taxpayers at precisely the wrong time, when what is needed instead is renewal of investor sentiment and consumer condence; His support for liberal-Left initiatives like same-sex marriage and partialbirth abortion, and his ham-handed attempts to bully the Catholic Church into kowtowing to the misbegotten value system that breeds such initiatives; His careless belittling of American exceptionalism in dealing with rogue states and other international bullies, apologizing forinstead of holding highthe American security umbrella that sheltered the postwar growth to prosperity of Asia, Western Europe, and now Eastern Europeto cite just two continents. Nonetheless, whatever one may think of the man, the American people have now spoken. While the American president may be the worlds most powerful political gure and the leader of the free world, at the end of the day he is truly responsible only to the American citizenry. It is not the worlds peoples that elect him, only his fellow Americans. Last week, the majority of them expressed their preference for four more years of Obamas brand of leadership. Theres a lot of hope thats still riding on himnotwithstanding the evidence otherwiseand so we can only endorse those voters hopes that the United States will nally get back into the gamenot just because it is the worlds only superpower, but really because it is the worlds only global exemplar. gbolivar1952@gmail.com

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EAGLE EYES
LAST week, the Judicial and Bar Council submitted to President Aquino its short list of seven names for the vacant position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Out of the seven, four are Court of Appeal justices while three are prominent members of the Philippine Bar. I do not personally know CA Justices Andres Reyes, Noel Tijam, Rosemari Carandang and Jose Reyes. They have judicial records and reputations from which the president can make informed decisions about their respective qualications and their integrity. As for former Energy Secretary Raphael Perpetuo Popo Lotilla, Philippine government negotiator with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and former University of the Philippines College of Law Dean Marvic Leonen, and De La Salle University College of Law Dean Jose Manuel Chel Diokno, they also have professional records and personal reputations that President Aquino can evaluate in considering their appointment. Let me make the case for Lotilla, Leonen and Diokno. Because this is a seat previously held by Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, who came to the court from academe and law practice, the President should also appoint someone with the same background for this vacancy. In addition, Sereno replaced impeached and convicted Chief Justice Renato Corona who also came from outside the Judiciary when rst appointed to the court. To maintain the balance between those from the ranks of the bench and those from academe and private practice, this is an appointment that should be from the latter. In addition, appointing anyone of
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Time to amend the 60-40 rule

TO THE POINT
THE Supreme Court has ruled on the issue of our Constitutions 60-40 equity cap on corporations, giving priority to Filipinos who must always own majority shares in businesses here. This whether the shares are voting or non-voting, and whether they are common or preferred. This is another blow to our efforts to attract foreign capital. In fact, even the Philippine Stock Exchange is worried about the impact of the ruling on the entry of foreign capital into the stock market. And rightly so. With this high court ruling, there is now a need for Congress to pursue the proposal of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and House Speaker Sonny Belmonte to take a second look at the economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution, e s p e c i a l l y those which affect foreign investments into the Philippines. Congressional leaders are of the opinion that changing the 1987 Constitution can be done through legislation, by both chambers voting separately, and then a plebiscite. President Aquino must realize that there is a need to revise the restrictive provisions of the Charter. As it is, we are now only settling for crumbs in so far as foreign investments are concerned. Yes, there are some coming in. But the amount is in no way comparable to what is coming into our Asian neighbors. Santa Banana, even Vietnam is now ahead of us! If President Aquino still does not get what needs to be done, then we have a real problem. Are we that insecure about foreign capital that would mean more jobs for Filipinos anyway? I wonder: Who is the President protecting, and why? *** The Sandiganbayan is now in a quandary over the graft and malversation case against newly appointed Comelec commissioner Grace Padaca. Padaca claims, and arrogantly if I may say so, that she can only be removed through impeachment if proven guilty. Padaca is facing these charges for acts she committed when she was governor of Isabela. She used public funds and spent them without bidding. For so many months, she avoided a warrant of arrest and then she was bailed out by President Aquino. The President went as far as declaring Padaca innocent of the charges led against her. Now if that is not pressure on the Sandiganbayan to decide a particular way on a case, then I dont know what is. Now the court is mulling what to do about Padaca. If she is found guilty, she cannot be removed and be disqualied from holding ofce since the
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A few good men

the three will also be seen as supporting the leadership of Chief Justice Sereno as they will be able to work closely with her to implement judicial reform. Finally, all three will serve long years, more than 15 for all three of them, in the courtcementing Aquinos legacy in the Judiciary. First, disclosures are necessary. I have known both Popo Lotilla and Marvic Leonen for 25 years. I was Lotillas legal research assistant in the UP College of Law and worked with him to draft various chapters of the Administrative Code of 1987 and the rst versions of the economic plunder law. Ever since those stints, Lotilla has been a friend and mentor. As for Leonen, in 1988, we founded, with two other colleagues Gus Gatmaytan and Nonette Royo (we were all students of the great professor Owen Lynch Jr. in UP Law), the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center- Kasama sa Kalikasan. Currently, we are law partners although Leonen is on leave because of his government work. Finally, I have known Diokno for more than 20 years as I am a member of the Free Legal Assistance Group which he leads. Diokno is also my dean at the DLSU College of Law. My long association with these three nominees qualies me to attest that they are eminently qualied to be in the Supreme Court. Lotilla, Leonen and Diokno are intellectually brilliant, rigorous and at the same time imaginative as legal thinkers, with reputations for practical wisdom and unquestionable integrity. The President can do no wrong if he makes the appointment from the ranks of these few good men (a phrase I borrow from the movie starring Tom Cruise and Demi Moore). Indeed, he will be universally praised for such an appointment. If he appoints Lotilla, President Aquino will be applauded by the business and legal community for having chosen a master of constitutional, economic and international law. As Serenos classmate, he would certainly be of great help to the Chief Justice. It will also be a tting reward for someone who has chosen to have no other commitment but public service and who has consistently lived a simple life in spite of his many achievements (he is a former energy secretary who does not even have a car and does not use air conditioning). The appointment of Leonen will be welcomed by the alternative law, environmental, and human rights community from whose ranks he comes from. It will also be welcomed by peace groups even if there will be concern that the peace process with the MILF could be imperiled. I believe however that no one is indispensable and there is a greater value for the country if Leonen is appointed to the Supreme Court. Such an appointment will be historic as Leonen, who at 50 years old is even younger than Sereno, will serve almost 20 yearsthe last two of which hopefully as chief justice. In the meantime, human rights advocates, the academe and the practicing bar will appreciate Dioknos appointment. Diokno is the lawyers lawyer with an unparalleled mastery of court proceedings. Among the three, he probably knows courts the most and would be very helpful in reforming the Judiciary. There is also sweet justice if Aquino appoints the son of the greatest Filipino lawyer Jose W. Diokno who was with Ninoy Aquino when they were put in solitary connement conned in Fort Magsaysay in Nueva Ecija. In sum, President Aquino has good choices in these few good men. If he follows his instincts in this important appointment, he will make the right choice. Facebook Page: Dean Tony La Vina Twitter: tonylavs

The investments we are getting are mere crumbs.

Constitution is clear that she can only be removed through impeachment. But what kind of a commissioner will we have if she is found guilty of graft and malversation? She may not be worried because of the constitutional restriction, but we do need people in the Comelec who should have honesty and integrity. I have a sneaking suspicion that the President has found a way to protect his friends and allies from being found guilty of any crime. All he has to do is appoint them to constitutional commissions where they can only be removed through impeachment. *** Former Trade Minister Roberto Bobby Ongpin continues to amaze me. He is not new to controversies. Still, he remains bullish about the economy despite the efforts of some quarters to throw the kitchen sink even the toilet bowl!at him. Despite the controversies he is facing, Ongpin has embarked on property development with Alphaland, of which he is chairman, with Eric Recto as vice chairman and Mario Babes Oreta as president. They have with them a team of professionals focusing only on high-end, top-ofthe line projects. They have entered into a joint venture with the Ashmore Group, a private equity fund based in London, managing funds of about $60 billion. Alphaland is unique in the sense that it fullls its commitment to the market on timeand even ahead of time. After aquiring the abandoned Carding Silverio building at the corner of Edsa and Pasong Tamo in Makati, Ongpin transformed the area into a thriving business community called Alphaland Southgate. And then, there is now the Alphaland Makati Place at the Makati Central Business District. This is located on a prime one-hectare property along Ayala Avenue. It is a business, residential and commercial complex complete with a shopping center, a world-class sports and leisure club called City Club which will open its doors to members and guests in February. This will make the The Tower Club at the Philamlife Building along Paseo de Roxas looking like a sari-sari store. And, of course, there is Bobbys signature developmentBalesin Island, with seven kilometers of whitesand beaches. It is 35 kilometers off the eastern coast of Luzon, and 25 minutes by plane from Manila. I have been there and I can say that it is paradise on earth. Thursday last week, the Alphaland Marina Club was launchedthe centerpiece of the Alphaland Bay City, a 32-hectare community close to the Mall of Asia and Pagcors Entertainment City. You dont have to own a yacht to enjoy the club. There will be a fleet for rent to sea lovers. Truly, Bobby Ongpin is my kind of businessman!

Issues, not personalities

ARE WE THERE YET?
NOW that the elections in the United States have been concluded and Barack Obama has been re-elected, pundits are bursting veins trying to piece together the real story behind what carried Obama and Joe Biden to a second victory. What I found amusing in the whole effort to analyze the Obama phenomenon is that very little is said about the fact that media and the pollsters were actually wrong in their predictions. Up until the eve of the elections, everyone was talking about how close the ght was going to be with some actually predicting that it was going to go down to the wire with Obama probably winning with just a few electoral college votes. Everyone was hyperventilating about how the results of the elections could swing both ways. They even made a big case out of what happened in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire where the towns mere 10 voters split their votes 5-5 between Obama and Romney. Well, we all know now that Obama won by a landslide, the nal tally was 332 -206quite a margin there. Obama also won by more than two million in the popular vote. Okay, so we know this thing about predicting outcomes of elections is not really an accurate science and that there are always some last-minute factors in the equation that change the outcome. But what amazed most Filipinos was

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just how fast and efcient the counting of votes in the US elections turned out to be. In less than 24 hours Romney had already conceded to Obama, and the results, minus a state or two, were made known a few hours after. One couldnt help but take a deep sigh when we compare that with the way things are done here in our country. Although the last elections were automated and Benigno Simeon Aquino III was already publicly acknowledged as the putative winner six hours after the last vote was cast, it wasnt until a few weeks more before the nal canvassing and the ofcial proclamation could be made. And that was just for the presidential contest. The ght in many provinces and towns was bitterly fought for months after. This is something we denitely can work on and the Commission on Elections must ensure that given advances in technology the canvassing of votes could be sped up next time around. To my mind, however, if there is anything that we all should be envious about as far as the US elections are concerned, it is the fact that Americans have been able to stick to the two-party system and make it work. The 2012 US election was mainly about issues as represented and espoused by the Democratic and the Republican parties. Each of the two parties stood for specic ideologies and political paradigms, often diametrically opposed to each other; thus the generalization about one being conservative and the other liberal. The results of the election proved that the face of America is truly changing, from being that of the

stereotyped white man to being multicolored and multi-racial. One wishes that the same system were in effect in our country. Wouldnt it be great if senators, congressmen, governors and mayors got elected into ofce on the strength of what they represent and what issues they carry with them to ofce? For example, since it is a fact that 70 percent of the population wants the Reproductive Health Bill passed, it should stand to reason that more legislators who are proRH bill should get elected into Congress. Since most people frown on Senator Vicente Sottos intellectual acrobatics on plagiarism, he should really kiss further political ambitions goodbye. The senators and congressmen who voted for the Cybercrime Law should not get the votes of those who are staunchly opposed to the measure. Candidates who part of a political dynasty such as the Binays, Cayetanos, Villars, Revillas, Osmenas, Aquinos, Duranos, Marcoses, Romualdezes, etc, should not get the votes of people who are against dynasties. Sadly, this is not the case and it will not be the case come May 2013. Most will continue to vote based on personalities and family afliations. The two major parties (or political coalitions) that are ghting it out in 2013 are not even distinct from each other. Even the so-called leftist parties are not even ideologues anymore, many among them have been coopted by the system already. If we come to think about it, Ang Ladlad, partylist of lesbians, bisexuals, gays and transgenders is probably the only remaining party with a truly distinct ideology. The rest are hardly distinct from each other.

FEATURE
By Joe McDonald
BEIJINGLei Shujie, a designer in Shanghai, piled up a wish list for the quirky holiday dubbed Singles Day that has grown into Chinasand possibly the worldsbusiest online shopping day. Clothes, a pillow, a cabinet to give a friendLei put off buying until Sunday, when retailers promised discounts of up to 70 percent. The prices are irresistible, she said. Singles Day was begun by Chinese college students in the 1990s as a version of Valentines Day for people without romantic partners. The timing was based on the date: Nov. 11, or 11.11four singles. Unattached young people would treat each other to dinner or give gifts to woo that special someone and end their single status. That gift-giving helped to turn it into a major shopping event as sellers of everything from jewelry to TVs to cars saw a marketing opportunity and launched Singles Day sales. It is Chinas answer to Cyber Monday in the United Statesthe day after Thanksgiving weekend, when online Christmas

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shopping begins and merchants have their busiest sales day. Companies that rushed to cash in on the holiday ranged from Alibaba Group, operator of Chinas biggest e-commerce platforms, to rival platforms such as 360buy Ltd., mom-and-pop companies that sell online and delivery services. This is very, very big for us, Steve Wang, vice president of Tmall.com and head of website operations, said in a phone interview before sales started. The 50,000-plus merchants on Alibabas consumer-oriented Taobao and Tmall.com platforms, took in a total of 19.1 billion yuan ($3 billion) from midnight Saturday to midnight Sunday, the company announced early Monday. That would top the total of $1.25 billion that research rm comScore said U.S. online retailers took in last year on Cyber Monday and might make Singles Day the biggest e-commerce sales day on record. The spending binge will be welcome news for communist leaders who want to shift the basis of growth in the worlds second-largest economy from trade and investment to consumer spending and service industries. Weak global demand for Chinese exports has added to the urgency of ramping up domestic consumption. China has the worlds biggest population of Internet users, with 538 million people online. Its population of online shoppers also is the biggest at 193 million, versus 170 million for the United States, according to Boston Consulting Group. It trails the U.S. and Japan in online spending but, despite average incomes less than one-tenth the American level, is forecast to rise to rst place as early as 2015. The Communist Partys latest veyear development plan calls for more than quadrupling annual e-commerce volume from 2010 levels to 18 trillion yuan ($2.9 trillion) by 2015. The party tries to block access to online material deemed subversive or pornographic but promotes Web use for business and education. The Internet today in China is similar to television in the 1960s and 70s in the Westthe place where consumers congregate and companies need to locate, Boston Consulting Group said in an April report. Alibaba, founded by a former English teacher, Jack Ma, grew into one of the worlds biggest e-commerce players by linking Chinese suppliers with Western manufacturers and retailers. It branched into consumer sales with the 2003 launch of Taobao, which operates Tmall.com. Alibaba also operates Chinas biggest online payment system, Alipay. Tmall.com accounted for 45.1 percent of business-to-consumer online sales in China in the three months ending in September, according to Analysys International, a research rm in Beijing. 360buy was in second place with 17.4 percent. Boston Consulting Group said more products were sold through Taobao in 2010about 48,000 per minute than at Chinas top ve bricks-andmortar retailers combined. Alibaba has so many assets that they can integrate that its hard to compete with them, said Mark Natkin, managing director of Marbridge Consulting, a technology consulting rm in Beijing. Other rivals include clothing retailer Vancl.com, bookseller Dangdang.com, Amazon.com Inc.s joint venture with a Chinese partner, and traditional retailers such as consumer electronics chain Suning Ltd. that have expanded online. Walmart Stores Inc., which operates 340 outlets in China, boosted its online presence last month by expanding its stake in online retailer Yihaodian to a controlling 51 percent. In addition to its e-commerce platform used by other merchants, 360buy also is Chinas biggest online retailer, selling consumer electronics and other goods directly to customers. The source of Singles Days rise as Chinas online shopping day is a matter of debate by Chinese commentators and industry analysts. Some cite demographics and timing: University graduates who adopted the holiday earn more and shop online. Singles Day comes as people receive monthly paychecks and need to buy winter clothes. Unlike other events such as the Lunar New Year, Chinas biggest family holiday, it involves few other expenses such as travel or banquets, leaving more money for gifts. And there is the romantic angle that might prompt shoppers to open their wallets. AP

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IN RE: ) ) CAB CASE NO. ) EP-38898 ) ) ) APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY ) TO OPERATE AS OFF-LINE ) CARRIER ) CAB CASE NO. AIR MADAGASCAR ) EP-38899 Applicant. ) X----------------------------------------------------------------------x NOTICE OF APPLICATION Pursuant to the provisions of Republic Act No. 776, as amended, Notice is hereby given that HANKOOK AIR SERVICES INC. has applied with the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) for authority to act as General Sales Agent for Air Madagascar and AIR MADAGASCAR for authority to operate as an Off-Line Carrier. The applications shall be given due course by this Board on or before January 11, 2013. Parties opposed to the granting of these applications must file their written opposition supported by documentary evidence on or before the aforesaid date, furnishing a copy of the same to the applicants, and if any so desire, appear before the Board on the said date. Failure on the part of any interested party to register its opposition on time shall be construed as a waiver of its right to be heard. Thereupon, the Board shall act upon the applications on the basis of the records and documentary evidence presented by the parties, unless the Board deems it necessary to receive additional documentary and/ or testimonial evidence. The applicants are required to have this Notice of Application published at least once a week for two (2) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation, and/or have copy thereof sent to General Sales Agents and Off-Line Carriers at least five (5) days before January 11, 2013. Let a copy of the petition and this Notice be posted at the CAB Bulliten Board beginning today. October 31, 2012 Pasay City, Philippines cc: ATTY. DESIREE ANTONIO Counsel for Hankook Air Services, Inc. and Air Madagascar Unit 101 & 102 le Domaine Condominium 104 Tordesillas Street, Salcedo Village, Makati City
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REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS ILOCOS SUR 1ST DISTRICT ENGINEERING OFFICE BANTAY, ILOCOS SUR

INVITATION TO BID FOR WIDENING OF MANILA NORTH ROAD, ILOCOS SUR 1ST DISTRICT, a) K0405+000 K0407+880; b) K0409+650 K0412+200; c) K0412+200 K0415+080
1. 1. The Department of Public Works and Highways, Ilocos Sur First District Engineering Office, Bantay, Ilocos Sur, through FY 2013 DPWH INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM ,intends to apply the sum of FORTY THREE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED NINETY NINE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED FOURTEEN PESOS & 34/100 (Php43,499,914.34) being the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) to payments under the contract for Contract No. 12AC0071 WIDENING OF MANILA NORTH ROAD, ILOCOS SUR 1ST DISTRICT, a) K0405+000 K0407+880; b) K0409+650 K0412+200; c) K0412+200 K0415+080. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at bid opening. The Department of Public Works and Highways, Ilocos Sur First District Engineering Office, Bantay, Ilocos Sur now invites bids for the cutting of 118 pieces of different kinds of trees; removal of structures and obstructions; removal of 6,983.30 sq.m. existing pavement; 5,417.83 cu.m. roadway excavation; 633.20 cu.m. structure excavation; 1,245.24 cu.m. embankment; 20,624.40 sq.m. subgrade preparation; 2,502.04 cu.m. aggregate base course; 20,624.40 sq.m. PCCP @ 28mm thick; 17,981.00 kgs. reinforcing stee; 239.14 cu.m. concrete class A (3000 psi); 237.66 cu.m. stone masonry; 1,257.25 sq.m. reflective thermoplastic stripping materials; pipe drains; mobilization & demobilization; traffic control & management and construction safety & health. Completion of the Works is required within one hundred seventy nine (179) calendar days. Bidders should have completed, within ten (10) years from the date of submission and receipt of bids, a contract similar to the Project. The description of an eligible bidder is contained in the Bidding Documents, particularly, in Section II, Instructions to Bidders. Bidding shall be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using non-discretionary pass/fail criterion as specified in the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act 9184 (RA 9184), otherwise known as the Government Procurement Reform Act. Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizen / sole proprietorships, partnerships, or organizations with at least seventy five percent (75%) interest or outstanding capital stock belonging to citizens of the Philippines. 4. Interested bidders may obtain further information from DPWH, Ilocos Sur 1st District Engineering Office and inspect the Bidding Documents at the address given below from 8 am to 5 pm starting November 8, 2012 to November 27, 2012. A complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested Bidders from the address below and upon payment of non refundable fee for the Bidding Documents in the amount of Php25,000.00. It may also be downloaded free of charge from the website of the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS) and the website of the Procuring Entity, provided that bidders shall pay the fee for the Bidding Documents not later than the submission of their bids. 6. The DPWH, Ilocos Sur 1st District Engineering Office will hold a pre-bid Conference on November 15, 2012 at 10:00 in the morning at the Office of the BAC Chairman, which shall be open to all interested parties. Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before November 27, 2012 at 10:00 in the morning at the Office of the BAC Chairman. All bids must be accompanied by a bid security in any of the acceptable forms and in the amount stated in ITB Clause 18. Bids will be opened in the presence of the bidders representatives who choose to attend at the address below. Late bids shall not be accepted. 8. The Department of Public Works and Highways, Ilocos Sur First District Engineering Office, Bantay, Ilocos Sur reserves the right to accept or reject any bid, to annul the bidding process, and to reject all bids at any time prior to contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder or bidders. For further information, please refer to: SUSANA M. PARDO BAC Secretariat Department of Public Works and Highways Ilocos Sur First District Engineering Office Bantay, Ilocos Sur (077) 722-3024 Fax No. (077) 722-8054 (Sgd.) RAYNALDO R. ABLOG, MAPA BAC Chairman
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INVITATION TO BID FOR REHABILITATION / RECONSTRUCTION / UPGRADING OF VIGAN SAN VICENTE ROAD, K0408+(-1652) K0408+201
The Department of Public Works and Highways, Ilocos Sur First District Engineering Office, Bantay, Ilocos Sur, through FY 2013 DPWH INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM ,intends to apply the sum of TWENTY NINE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY SIX PESOS & 96/100 (Php29,481,176.96) being the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) to payments under the contract for Contract No. 12AC0072 REHABILITATION / RECONSTRUCTION / UPGRADING OF VIGAN SA VICENTE ROAD, K0408+(-1652) K0408+201. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at bid opening. The Department of Public Works and Highways, Ilocos Sur First District Engineering Office, Bantay, Ilocos Sur now invites bids for the removal of 5,487.22 sq. m. existing pavement; 1,293.72 cu. m. roadway excavation; 1,290.58 cu. m. structure excavation; 4.23 cu. m. foundation fill; 539.33 cu. m. embankment; 9,307.87 sq. m. sub-grade preparation; 930.79 cu. m. aggregate base course; 2.23 M.T. bituminous tack coat; 1.00 M.T. crack & joint sealing; 3,183.60 sq. m. bituminous concrete surface course; 5,817.57 sq. m. PCCP at carriageway @ 28mm thick; 3,490.30 sq. m. PCCP at shoulder @ 23mm thick; 43,944.00 kgs. reinforcing steel, 544.23 cu. m. concrete class A (3000 psi); 23.91 cu. m. concrete class A (5000 psi); 59.27 cu. m. stone masonry; 336.00 sq. m. reflective thermoplastic stripping materials; pipe drains; mobilization & demobilization; traffic control & management and construction safety & health. Completion of the Works is required within one hundred sixty nine (164) calendar days. Bidders should have completed, within ten (10) years from the date of submission and receipt of bids, a contract similar to the Project. The description of an eligible bidder is contained in the Bidding Documents, particularly, in Section II, Instructions to Bidders. Bidding shall be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using non-discretionary pass/fail criterion as specified in the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act 9184 (RA 9184), otherwise known as the Government Procurement Reform Act. Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizen / sole proprietorships, partnerships, or organizations with at least seventy five percent (75%) interest or outstanding capital stock belonging to citizens of the Philippines. 4. Interested bidders may obtain further information from DPWH, Ilocos Sur 1st District Engineering Office and inspect the Bidding Documents at the address given below from 8 am to 5 pm starting November 8, 2012 to November 27, 2012. A complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested Bidders from the address below and upon payment of non refundable fee for the Bidding Documents in the amount of Php25,000.00. It may also be downloaded free of charge from the website of the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS) and the website of the Procuring Entity, provided that bidders shall pay the fee for the Bidding Documents not later than the submission of their bids. 6. The DPWH, Ilocos Sur 1st District Engineering Office will hold a pre-bid Conference on November 15, 2012 at 10:00 in the morning at the Office of the BAC Chairman, which shall be open to all interested parties. Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before November 27, 2012 at 10:00 in the morning at the Office of the BAC Chairman. All bids must be accompanied by a bid security in any of the acceptable forms and in the amount stated in ITB Clause 18. Bids will be opened in the presence of the bidders representatives who choose to attend at the address below. Late bids shall not be accepted. 8. The Department of Public Works and Highways, Ilocos Sur First District Engineering Office, Bantay, Ilocos Sur reserves the right to accept or reject any bid, to annul the bidding process, and to reject all bids at any time prior to contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder or bidders. For further information, please refer to: SUSANA M. PARDO BAC Secretariat Department of Public Works and Highways Ilocos Sur First District Engineering Office Bantay, Ilocos Sur (077) 722-3024 Fax No. (077) 722-8054 (Sgd.) RAYNALDO R. ABLOG, MAPA BAC Chairman
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(Sgd.) MARIA ELBEN SL. MORO Hearing Officer

Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS

Region III Nueva Ecija 2nd District Engineering Office

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1. The DPWH-NE2ndDEO, through the FY 2013 DPWH Infrastructure Program intends to apply the sum of the amount stated below being the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) to payments under the contract for the following: 12-CF-0108 Preventive Maintenance (Intermittent Section) along Jct. Tablang-Gabaldon Road, Laur, N.E. Km.139+568.3 Km.140+032.68; Km.142+000 Km.142+530.68; Km.144+000 Km. 144+529.60 d. Fee for Bid Documents P10,000.00 e. Scope of Work Asphalt Overlay f. Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) P19,735,037.26 g. Conctract Duration : C.D. 55 CD a. CONTRACT ID: b. Contract Name: c. Contract Location: 12-CF-0109 Preventive Maintenance (intermittent Section) along Sta. Rosa Tarlac Road, Sta. Rosa, N.E. Km.110+000 Km.110+680.61; Km.110+680.61 Km.111+108.53; Km. 111+108.53 Km.111+757.20 w/ exception L=202.64 LM d. Fee for Bid Documents: P20,000.00 e. Scope of Work: Asphalt Overlay f. Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): P21,872,856.16 g. Conctract Duration : C.D.: 100 CD a. CONTRACT ID: b. Contract Name: c. Contract Location: 12-CF-0110 Rehab./Reconst./Upgrading of Damaged Paved National Roads along Nueva Ecija-Aurora Road, Palayan City & Bongabon, N.E. Km. 135+000 Km.135+087.34; Km.135+087.34 Km.137+295 w/ exception L=995.95LM; Km.143+000 Km.143+649.75 w/ exception L=647.09 LM; Km.143+649.75 Km. 144+160 w/ exception L=508.55 LM d. Fee for Bid Documents: P 20,000.00 e. Scope of Work: Asphalt Overlay f. Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): P30,229,089.94 g. Conctract Duration :C.D.: 100 CD a. CONTRACT ID: b. Contract Name: c. Contract Location: 12-CF-0111 Preventive Maintenance (Intermittent Section) along Nueva Ecija-Aurora Road, Cabanatuan City Km. 117+(-)799 Km. 119+175 w/ exception L=2,925.17 LM P20,000.00 e. Scope of Work: Asphalt Overlay f. Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): P42,039,038.58 g. Conctract Duration : C.D.: 80 CD a. CONTRACT ID: 12-CF-0112 b. Contract Name: Preventive Maintenance (Intermittent Section) along Bongabon c. Contract Location: Rizal Road, Bongabon, N.E. Km.144+030 Km. 147+000 d. Fee for Bid Documents: P20,000.00 e. Scope of Work: Asphalt Overlay f. Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): P21,573,666.42 g. Conctract Duration : C.D.: 90 CD a. CONTRACT ID: 12-CF-0113 b. Contract Name: Preventive Maintenance (Intermittent Section) along Tablang c. Contract Location: Gabaldon Road, Laur, N.E. Km. 164+806.12 w/ exception d. Fee for Bid Documents: P20,000.00 e. Scope of Work: Asphalt Overlay f. Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): P34,255,882.35 g. Conctract Duration : C.D.: 75 CD a. CONTRACT ID: b. Contract Name: c. Contract Location: 12-CF-0114 Rehab./Reconst./Upgrading of Damaged Paved National Roads and Widening along Daang Maharlika Road, Sta. Rosa, N.E. Km. 104+242 Km.107+110 w/ exception (2,875.00 LM) d. Fee for Bid Documents: P20,000.00 e. Scope of Work: Overlay/Selective Reblocking & Road Widening f. Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): P26,636,357.05 g. Conctract Duration : C.D.: 120 CD a. CONTRACT ID: b. Contract Name: c. Contract Location: 12-CF-0115 Rehab./Reconst./Upgrading of Damaged Paved National Roads along Gapan-San Fernando-Olongapo Road, Cabiao, N.E. Km.98 + 714 Km. 105+767.10 w/ exception (3,750.45 LM) d. Fee for Bid Documents: P20,000.00 e. Scope of Work: Reblocking f. Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): P24,163,979.84 g. Conctract Duration : C.D.: 120 CD a. CONTRACT ID b. Contract Name: c. Contract Location: 12-CF-0116 Rehab./Reconst./Upgrading of Damaged Paved National Roads along Nueva Ecija-Aurora Road, Cabanatuan City & Palayan City Km. 122+215 Km. 122+381.30; Km. 125+106 Km. 125+149.23; Km. 125+149.23 Km.128+820 w/ exception (2,224.27 LM); Km. 129+007 Km. 129+718.07 d. Fee for Bid Documents: P20,000.00 e. Scope of Work: Asphalt Overlay/Reblocking f. Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): P22,702,227.74 g. Conctract Duration : C.D.:140 CD 12-CF-0117 Rehab./Reconst./Upgrading of Damaged Paved National Roads along Nueva Ecija-Aurora Road, Palayan City Km. 130+000 Km.134+500 d. Fee for Bid Documents: P20,000.00 e. Scope of Work: Reblocking f. Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): P28,513,725.49 g. Conctract Duration : C.D.: 120 CD a. CONTRACT ID b. Contract Name: c. Contract Location 12-CF-0118 Rehab./Reconst./Upgrading of Damaged Paved National Roads along Cabanatuan City-Carmen Road, Cabanatuan City Km. 123+(-)975 Km. 128+062 d. Fee for Bid Documents: P20,000.00 e. Scope of Work: Selective Widening/asphalt Overlay f. Approved budget for the contract (ABC): P21,727,000.45 g. Conctract Duration 120 CD a. CONTRACT ID b. Contract Name: c. Contract Location a. CONTRACT ID: b. Contract Name: c. Contract Location

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INVITATION TO BID FOR REPLACEMENT OF BIMMECLAT BRIDGE ALONG MANILA NORTH ROAD, K0436+386
1. The Department of Public Works and Highways, Ilocos Sur First District Engineering Office, Bantay, Ilocos Sur, through FY 2013 DPWH INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM ,intends to apply the sum of TWENTY NINE MILLION NINETY NINE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED THIRTY SIX PESOS & 07/100 (Php29,099,936.07) being the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) to payments under the contract for Contract No. 12AC0073 REPLACEMENT OF BIMMECLAT BRIDGE ALONG MANILA NORTH ROAD, K0436+386. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at bid opening. The Department of Public Works and Highways, Ilocos Sur First District Engineering Office, Bantay, Ilocos Sur now invites bids for the clearing & grubbing of 600.00 sq. m. area; removal of 10 pieces different kinds of trees; removal of 469.00 sq. m. existing pavement; removal of existing bridge; 195.25 cu. m. roadway excavation; 419.00 cu. m. structure excavation; 1,177.38 cu. m. embankment; 405.67 cu. m. aggregate sub-base course; 516.00 cu. m. aggregate base course; 878.01 sq. m. PCCP; furnishing 336 l. m. reinforced concrete piles; driving of 302.40 l. m. reinforced concrete piles; 72.00 l. m. concrete railings; 44,903.00 kgs. reinforcing steel; 3,462.00 kgs. of reinforcing steel on the approach slab; 280.26 cu. m. concrete class A (3000 psi); 77.70 cu. m. concrete class A (5000 psi); 19.16 cu. m. concrete class A on the approach slab; furnishing of 4 pieces pre-stressed concrete girder; launching of 4 pieces pre-stressed concrete girder; placing of 8 pieces elastomeric bearing pads; 20.45 cu. m. grouted riprap; 472.86 cu. m. stone masonry; construction & removal of craneway; cofferdam & dewatering; placing of 12 pieces G.I. pipe drains; 4.72 cu. m. lean concrete; construction of detour bridge which comprises of 86.00 cu. m. structure excavation; 250.00 cu. m. embankment; 64.00 cu. m. aggregate sub-base course; furnishing of 192.00 l. m. steel H-piles; driving of 108.00 l. m. steel H-piles; 71.37 cu. m. stone masonry; 170.00 cu. m. gabions; 24.00 l. m. bailey bridge; 10.20 cu. m. concrete back wall & concrete blocks; removal of detour bridge; mobilization & demobilization; traffic control & management and construction safety & health. Completion of the Works is required within one hundred eighty (180) calendar days. Bidders should have completed, within ten (10) years from the date of submission and receipt of bids, a contract similar to the Project. The description of an eligible bidder is contained in the Bidding Documents, particularly, in Section II, Instructions to Bidders. Bidding shall be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using non-discretionary pass/fail criterion as specified in the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act 9184 (RA 9184), otherwise known as the Government Procurement Reform Act. Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizen / sole proprietorships, partnerships, or organizations with at least seventy five percent (75%) interest or outstanding capital stock belonging to citizens of the Philippines. 4. Interested bidders may obtain further information from DPWH, Ilocos Sur 1st District Engineering Office and inspect the Bidding Documents at the address given below from 8 am to 5 pm starting November 9, 2012 to November 28, 2012. A complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested Bidders from the address below and upon payment of non refundable fee for the Bidding Documents in the amount of Php25,000.00. It may also be downloaded free of charge from the website of the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS) and the website of the Procuring Entity, provided that bidders shall pay the fee for the Bidding Documents not later than the submission of their bids. 6. The DPWH, Ilocos Sur 1st District Engineering Office will hold a pre-bid Conference on November 15, 2012 at 10:00 in the morning at the Office of the BAC Chairman, which shall be open to all interested parties. Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before November 28, 2012 at 10:00 in the morning at the Office of the BAC Chairman. All bids must be accompanied by a bid security in any of the acceptable forms and in the amount stated in ITB Clause 18. Bids will be opened in the presence of the bidders representatives who choose to attend at the address below. Late bids shall not be accepted. 8. The Department of Public Works and Highways, Ilocos Sur First District Engineering Office, Bantay, Ilocos Sur reserves the right to accept or reject any bid, to annul the bidding process, and to reject all bids at any time prior to contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder or bidders. For further information, please refer to: SUSANA M. PARDO BAC Secretariat Department of Public Works and Highways Ilocos Sur First District Engineering Office Bantay, Ilocos Sur (077) 722-3024 Fax No. (077) 722-8054 (Sgd.) RAYNALDO R. ABLOG, MAPA BAC Chairman 8. 6. 4.

INVITATION TO BID FOR REHABILITATION / RECONSTRUCTION / UPGRADING OF QUIRINO-PANDAN ROAD, a) K0407+(-480) K0407+845; b) K0408+776 K0410+000
1. The Department of Public Works and Highways, Ilocos Sur First District Engineering Office, Bantay, Ilocos Sur, through FY 2013 DPWH INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM ,intends to apply the sum of THIRTY THREE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FORTY TWO PESOS & 53/100 (Php33,408,542.53) being the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) to payments under the contract for Contract No. 12AC0074 REHABILITATION / RECONSTRUCTION / UPGRADING OF QUIRINO - PANDAN ROAD, a) K0407+(-480) K0407+845; b) K0408+776 K0410+000. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at bid opening. The Department of Public Works and Highways, Ilocos Sur First District Engineering Office, Bantay, Ilocos Sur now invites bids for the removal of 9,433.22 sq. m. existing pavement; 1,333.75 cu. m. roadway excavation; 1,570.09 cu. m. structure excavation; 4.54 cu. m. foundation fill; 685.25 cu. m. embankment; 11,049.99 sq. m. sub-grade preparation; 1,105.00 cu. m. aggregate base course; 1.00 M.T. bituminous tack coat; 0.50 M.T. crack & joint sealing; 1,366.40 sq. m. bituminous concrete surface course; 7,984.90 sq. m. PCCP of carriageway @ 28mm thick; 4,384.10 sq. m. PCCP on shoulder @ 23mm thick; 46,273.31 kgs. reinforcing steel; 472.87 cu. m. concrete class A (3000 psi); 21.14 cu. m. concrete class A (5000 psi); 92.65 cu. m. grouted riprap; 24.19 cu. m. stone masonry; 740.00 sq. m. reflective thermoplastic stripping materials; pipe drains; mobilization & demobilization; traffic control & management and construction safety & health. Completion of the Works is required within one hundred seventy nine (179) calendar days. Bidders should have completed, within ten (10) years from the date of submission and receipt of bids, a contract similar to the Project. The description of an eligible bidder is contained in the Bidding Documents, particularly, in Section II, Instructions to Bidders. Bidding shall be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using non-discretionary pass/fail criterion as specified in the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act 9184 (RA 9184), otherwise known as the Government Procurement Reform Act. Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizen / sole proprietorships, partnerships, or organizations with at least seventy five percent (75%) interest or outstanding capital stock belonging to citizens of the Philippines. Interested bidders may obtain further information from DPWH, Ilocos Sur 1st District Engineering Office and inspect the Bidding Documents at the address given below from 8 am to 5 pm starting November 9, 2012 to November 28, 2012. A complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested Bidders from the address below and upon payment of non refundable fee for the Bidding Documents in the amount of Php25,000.00. It may also be downloaded free of charge from the website of the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS) and the website of the Procuring Entity, provided that bidders shall pay the fee for the Bidding Documents not later than the submission of their bids. The DPWH, Ilocos Sur 1st District Engineering Office will hold a pre-bid Conference on November 15, 2012 at 10:00 in the morning at the Office of the BAC Chairman, which shall be open to all interested parties. Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before November 28, 2012 at 10:00 in the morning at the Office of the BAC Chairman. All bids must be accompanied by a bid security in any of the acceptable forms and in the amount stated in ITB Clause 18. Bids will be opened in the presence of the bidders representatives who choose to attend at the address below. Late bids shall not be accepted. The Department of Public Works and Highways, Ilocos Sur First District Engineering Office, Bantay, Ilocos Sur reserves the right to accept or reject any bid, to annul the bidding process, and to reject all bids at any time prior to contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder or bidders. For further information, please refer to: SUSANA M. PARDO BAC Secretariat Department of Public Works and Highways Ilocos Sur First District Engineering Office Bantay, Ilocos Sur (077) 722-3024 Fax No. (077) 722-8054 (Sgd.) RAYNALDO R. ABLOG, MAPA BAC Chairman

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Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at bid opening. 2. The DPWH-NE2ndDEO now invites bids for bids for projects stated above with required completion date stated thereof. Bidders should have completed, within (10) years from the date of submission and receipt of bids, a single contract similar to the Project, equivalent to at least fifty percent (50%) of the ABC. 3. Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using nondiscretionary pass/fail criterion as specified in the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act 9184 (RA 9184), otherwise known as the Government Procurement Reform Act. Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizens/sole proprietorships, partnerships, or organizations with at least seventy five percent (75%) interest or outstanding stock belonging to citizens of the Philippines. 4. Contractors/applicants who are interested in the DPWH civil works are required to register prior to the set schedule of submission of bid while those already registered shall keep their records current and updated. Contractor Profile Eligibility Process (CPEP) and subject to further postqualification. Information on registration can be obtained at DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph or Central Procurement Office (CPO), 5th Floor, DPWH Bldg., Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila from 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Interested bidders may obtain further information from DPWH-NE2ndDEO and inspect the Bidding Documents at the address given below from 8:00 A.M. 5:00 P.M.. Monday to Friday. A complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested Bidders from the address below and upon payment of non-refundable fee for the Bidding Documents in the amount of as indicated above. It may also be downloaded free of charge from the website of the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS) and the DPWH Website www.dpwh.gov.ph, provided that bidders shall pay the fee for the Bidding Documents not later than the submission of their bids. Payments can be made at any DPWH field office. The submission of the Original Receipt (OR) for payments of bidding documents issued by any DPWH field office is sufficient for the BAC of this District Office to process the electronic eligibility evaluation of contractors. 7. The DPWH-NE2ndDEO will hold a Pre-Bid Conference on November 20, 2012, 10:00 A.M. at the BAC ROOM,DPWH, Nueva Ecija 2nd District Engineering Office, Brgy. San Isidro, Cabanatuan City which shall be opened only to all interested parties who have purchased the Bidding Documents. Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before December 03, 2012, 10:00 A.M. at the BAC ROOM, this office. All bids must be accompanied by a bid security in any of the acceptable forms and in the amount stated in ITB Clause 18.1. Bids will be opened in the presence of the bidders representatives who choose to attend at the address below. Late bids shall not be accepted. 9. The DPWH NE2ndDEO reserves the right to accept or reject any bid, to annul the bidding process, and to reject all bids at any time prior to contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder or bidders.

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Elliptical Road, Diliman, Quezon City Tel. No.: 928-4501 to 09 P.O. Box 3386, Manila, TIN # 000724616 http ://www.pca.da.gov.ph ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO . 02 Series of 2012 RULES AND REGULATIONS AUTHORIZING AN INCREASE IN PCA LABORATORY ANALYSIS FEES WHEREAS, Section 54 (1), Chapter 12, Book IV of Administrative Code of 1987 (Executive Order No. 292) gives the heads of bureaus, offices or agencies, upon approval of the concerned department head, the continuing authority to revise their rates of fees and charges. Government owned and controlled corporations likewise exercise the same authority pursuant to their respective charters; WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 157, Series of 2000 directed all departments, bureaus, offices, agencies and units, including government owned or controlled corporations to review and upgrade their rates of fees and charges by not less then twenty percent (20%) for it is only proper that the persons receiving the services for which the fees and charges are imposed should be made to share the burden of the expenses incurred by the government; WHEREAS, corollary thereto, there is a need to meet the rising costs of chemicals, laboratory supplies and maintenance of laboratory equipment of the Authority; NOW, THEREFORE, foregoing premises considered, the following revised fees are hereby adopted and prescribed pursuant to PCA Board Resolution Nos. 007-2011, 022-2011 and 003-2012 authorizing the implementation of the appropriate increase in fees and charges. Section 1. NEW RATES OF FEES. Upon effectivity of these rules, the following revised schedule of rates herein prescribed shall be collected by the Authority. SCHEDULE OF FEES FOR LABORATORY SERVICES* A. Plant/Fertilizer and other Agro/Bio-related Samples 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. Nitrogen, Total (Automated Colorimetric) Phosphorus, Total (Automated Colorimetric) Potassium, Total (Flame Photometric) Calcium, Total (AAS)1 Magnesium, Total (AAS) Sodium, Total (Flame Photometric) Sulfur, Total (Automated Turbidimetric) Chlorine, Acid Soluble (Potentiometric) Boron, Total (Automated Colorimetric) Iron, Total (AAS) Iron, Total (ICP-AES)2 Manganese, Total (AAS) Manganese, Total (ICP-AES) Zinc, Total (AAS) Zinc, Total (ICP-AES) Copper, Total (AAS) Copper, Total (ICP-AES) Molybdenum (ICP-AES) Lead (ICP-AES) Lead (AAS) Cadmium (ICP-AES) Nickel (ICP-AES) Aluminum (ICP-AES) Chromium (ICP-AES) Selenium (ICP-AES) Arsenic (ICP-AES) Cobalt (ICP-AES) Mercury (ICP-AES) Crude Silica (Gravimetric) Moisture (Air-oven) Ash Organic Carbon (Automated Colorimetric) Organic Matter (Gravimetric) pH (Potentiometric) Electrical Conductivity (EC) New rate P 600.00 500.00 500.00 600.00 600.00 500.00 500.00 800.00 800.00 700.00 900.00 700.00 900.00 700.00 900.00 700.00 900.00 900.00 900.00 700.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 900.00 1,000.00 1,000.00 400.00 400.00 400.00 300.00 300.00 200.00 200.00 New rate P 600.00 400.00 400.00 400.00 600.00 600.00 300.00 300.00 500.00 500.00 500.00 500.00

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PHILIPPINE COCONUT AUTHORITY

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

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PROVINCE OF PANGASINAN BIDS AND AWARDS COMMITTEE (BAC) 2nd Floor Malong Building, Capitol Compound Lingayen, Pangasinan Tel. No. (075) 542-6918 Website@biddingandawards.pangasinan gov.ph. E-mail address: ebmendoza57@yahoo.com

INVITATION to BID
The Province of Pangasinan, through its Bids and Awards Committee (BAC), invites contractors registered and classified by the Philippine Contractors Accreditation Board (PCAB) to bid for the project/s described hereunder: Project No. 1 Name of Project Location Source of Fund Approved Budget for the Contract Contract Duration Project No. 2 Name of Project Location Source of Fund Approved Budget for the Contract Contract Duration Project No. 3 Name of Project Location Source of Fund Approved Budget for the Contract Contract Duration Project No. 4 Name of Project Location Source of Fund Approved Budget for the Contract Project No. 5 Name of Project Location Source of Fund Approved Budget for the Contract : Repair/Rehabilitation of Urduja House (Phase V) : Capitol Compound, Lingayen, Pangasinan : Repair & Improvement of Provincial Building (PR#2012-08-6886) : P 10,522,822.50 : Ninety (90) Calendar Days : Construction of Polong Bridge, Phase I : Bugallon, Pangasinan : General Fund (PR#2012-09-6549) : P 10,000,000.00 : Three Hundred (300) Calendar Days : Repair/Improvement of Tower Guard House, Extension Office & Power House including Genset : Urduja Compound, Lingayen, Pangasinan : Repair & Improvement of Provincial Building (PR#2012-08-6374) : P 5,449,547.24 : One Hundred Thirty (130) Calendar Days : Delivery of Various Medical Supplies (refer to bid documents) : GSO, Lingayen, Pangasinan (for use of Pangasinan Provincial Hospitals Dialysis Center) : Medical/Dental and Laboratory Supplies Inventory (PR# 2012-10-8855) : P 3,252,775.00 : Delivery of Various Medical Supplies (refer to bid documents) : GSO, Lingayen, Pangasinan (for use of various hospitals) : Medical/Dental and Laboratory Supplies Inventory (PR# 2012-10-8654) : P 2,168,644.00

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Department of Public Works and Highways REGION IV-B MIMAROPA OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER Southern Mindoro District Engineering Office Roxas, Oriental Mindoro INVITATION TO BID
The DPWH Southern Mindoro District Engineering Office, through GAA CY 2013 intends to apply the sum of P 20,579,677.89 being the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) to payments under the contract for 13EI0015 - Replacement/Rehabilitation of Macanlig Bridge Along Calapan South Road, Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at bid opening. The DPWH Southern Mindoro District Engineering Office now invites bids for the Replacement/Rehabilitation of 20.00 L.M. Prestressed concrete girder bridge; Clear Roadway = 7.32m; Sidewalk = 0.76m; Two Approach Slab = 8.0 ln.m.; Concreting of 192 ln.m. approaches, width = 6.70m; thickness = 0.28m; shoulder = 3.0m; Construction of 193 ln.m. line canal and slope protection bothsides. Completion of the works is required in 192 calendar days. Prospective bidders must have an experience of having completed at least one (1) contract that is similar to the contract to be bid, and whose value, adjusted to current prices using the NSO consumer price indices, must be at least fifty percent (50%) of the ABC to be bid as stated in the Revised Section 23.5.2.5 under GPPB Resolution No. 11 2012 of the IRR of R.A. 9184. The description of an eligible bidder is contained in the Bidding Documents, particularly, in Section II, Instruction to Bidders. Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using non discretionary pass/fail criterion as specified in the Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations of R.A. 9184, otherwise known as the Government Procurement Reform Act. Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizens/sole proprietorships, partnerships, or organizations with at least seventy five (75%) interest or outstanding capital stock belonging to citizens of the Philippines. Interested bidders may obtain further information from DPWH Southern Mindoro District Engineering Office and inspect the Bidding Documents at the address given below from 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. A complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested Bidders from the address below or any DPWH field offices and upon payment of a non refundable fee for the Bidding Documents in the amount of P 25,000.00. It may also be downloaded free of charge from the website of the Philippines Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS) and the website of the Procuring Entity, provided that bidders shall pay the fee for the Bidding Documents not later than the submission of their bids. The DPWH Southern Mindoro District Engineering Office will hold a Pre Bid Conference on November 16, 2012 @ 10:00 A.M. at the Conference Room, DPWH Southern Mindoro District Engineering ffice which shall be open to all interested parties. Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before November 28, 2012 until 10:00 A.M. at the DPWH Southern Mindoro District Engineering Office. All bids must be accompanied by a bid security in any of the acceptable forms and in the amount stated in the Bid Data Sheet (BDS). Bids will be opened in the presence of the bidders representative who choose to attend at the address below. Late bids shall not be accepted. The DPWH, Southern Mindoro District Engineering Office reserves the right to accept or reject any bid to annul the bidding process, and to reject all bids at any time prior to contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder or bidders. For further information, please refer to: ANNIELYN E. PADULLO DPWH, Southern Mindoro District Engineering Office Dangay, Roxas, Oriental Mindoro Telefax No. (043) 289 - 2565 Approved : (Sgd.) ANNIELYN E. PADULLO (BAC Chairperson)
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with serial number X902070978 and ve assorted vehicle plate numbers. Just last September, Abra provincial policemen, under the leadership of Senior Supt. Alexander Rafael, almost nabbed Britanico and Vilastique at Britanicos house in Barangay Quilat, but the two were able to evade the police. Instead the cops found Britanicos cache of high-powered rearms, including two Colt M16 ries, two short magazines and 28 rounds of live 5.56mm ammunition. The arrest of the two men was a boost to the governments bid to curb election related violence ahead of the mid-term elections next year. We should not let this group to be exploited by any politicians of inuential individuals to sow havoc at any given time, particularly in the forthcoming elections, said National Police chief Nicanor Bartolome. Since January to October this year, the PNP accounted some 5,000 loose

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IN BRIEF
Beauty queen arrives
FILIPINO Kevin Balot, a 21-yearold transgender who won the Miss International Queen 2012 transgender/ transsexual beauty pageant in Pattaya,Thailand last Nov.2, arrived Sunday evening at the NAIA terminal 2 on board PAL ight PR731from Bangkok. Balot told newsman that he hopes his family will accept him being the only son in the family as their new found daughter, revealing an offer to do a movie and will soon be an English teacher in Thailand after her reign expires. Balot who competed in an international pageant for the rst time, bested over 100 entries from nearly 30 countries beating 15 other foreign contestant in the nals. Eric Apolonio

Top Abra hitman arrested

By Dexter A. See and Francisco Tuyay

CAMP DANGWA, La Trinidad, Benguet Lawmen nally arrested on Sunday the most wanted hitman in Abra provinces along with a henchman, according to Cordillera regional police director Chief Supterintendent Benjamin Magalong.
Magalong said suspected hitman Prudencio Britanico Jr., alias Onyor, 44, of Barangay Quilat in Langiden, Abra was arrested in Barangay Santolan in Pasig City around 5:15 p.m. of Sunday. Britanico is believed to be behind murders in Abra in 2001 and 2010 and is wanted for a frustrated murder charge earlier this year. Britanico was arrested with his supposed henchman Robert Villastique, 39, alias Ubeng, of Barnagay Lubong in Bangued, Abra. Villastique is waited for six counts of attempted homicide, one rape, one homicide and two cases of illegal possession of rearms. The police had earlier offered P250,000 for information leading to the arrest of the two men, who are part of a group that is believed to have been involved in at least seven killings involving political gures in Abra. The police found in their possession a Shooters X9 9mm submachine pistol

Banker, 2 others slain

A BANK executive, her mother and their maid were killed inside in their Sta. Cruz residence following an alleged robbery before dawn on Monday. Homicide investigators said victims Evelyn Tan, 40, an ofcial of Banco De Oro, her mother Teresa Tan, 65 and their helper, Kristina Bartolay, 22, succumbed to multiple stabwounds in different parts of their bodies inside their house at 2017 Yakal Street, Barangay 225. Before the killings was unearthed 5:30 a.m., a certain Nestor Delazalde, a barangay tanod, was seen leaving the hosue. Macon Ramos-Araneta

rearms in a countrywide drive against illegal guns from the hands of PAGs, criminal elements and unauthorized citizens. But the last political gure to be arrested for election-related violence was former Abra governor Vicente Valera, who was arrested in 2009 for the 2006 killing of Abra Rep. Luis Bersamin and his bodyguard in front of the Mt. Carmel Church in New Manila, Quezon City , but he was not arraigned until 2011. The former governor had earlier pleaded not guilty on the frustrated murder charge for the wounding of 13-year-old Rolly Labaja on the same incident. The other frustrated murder charge was for the wounding of Allan Sawadan, Bersamins driver. Murder charges were subsequently led against six other people apart from Valera: Runo Panday, Freddie Dupo, Sunny Taculao, Dominador Barbosa, Leo Bello and Jerry Turqueza.

Models murder suspects nabbed

By Rio N. Araja
THE Quezon City Prosecutors Ofce on Monday recommended the ling of murder charges against a model Althea Altamirano and her boyfriend for the killing of her friend and fellow model Julie Ann Rodelas last Nov. 6. Assistant City Prosecutor Alessandro Jurado said he recommended the ling of murder charges against Altamirano, 23, and her boyfriend Fernando Quiambao, 32, for the killing of the 20-year-old Rodelas, who was abducted in Pasay City before dawn of Nov. 6 and was later found dead on 18th Avenue in Cubao, Quezon City around 5:30 a.m. of the same day. Aside from Altamirano and Quiambao, police also nabbed Jaymar Waradje, 22, and Gelen Pasewilan, 28. The authorities are still looking for a fth suspect, Efren Talib. Jurado said Waradje who appeared to have personal knowledge about the crime has offered to testify against Altamirano and Quiambao. My conscience is clear. I am willing to be a state witness, Waradge told reporters. I did not actually witness if Rodelas was raped. Maybe she was abused, because Quiambao brought her to a safehouse. Why take her to a secluded place? Quezon City police director Chief Superintendent Mario de la Vega said the suspects were arrested after they found a hamburger fastfood outlets receipt in the hand of Rodelas. When the police checked the outlets video footage, it showed Quiambao buying two meals two hours after the supposed abduction. De la Vega they later surveilled Quiambaos residence and followed his father to Apalit, Pampanga where they found the missing couple and the Mitsubishi Montero that was used in the abduction. De la Vega said the motive for the killing may have been a grudge Altamirano harbored against Rodelas, who allegedly spread rumors that Altamirano had children, diminishing her fees as a model.

Christmas fest in Albay

ALBAY province will commence its month-long Karangahan sa Pasko: Albay Green Christmas 2012 Edition on Nov. 25. The festival will further underscore the plastic-free, smoke-free and Zero Casualty advocacy and goals of the province. The festival culminates on Christmas Day and constitutes the last of the provinces long list of year-round festivities. Karangahan sa Pasko will also present the provinces giant 60-foot Christmas tree in a new concept at the Albay Park. The Christmas tree was assembled from over 3,000 Pili tree seedlings. Albay Gov. Joey S. Salceda recently issued a memorandum to provincial workers prohibiting the use and explosion of recrackers and encouraging the use of organic and indigenous materials for decorations and food serving.

Date with the boys. Miss Earth 2012 contestants (from left) Kristina Airi of Finland, Chelsy Liven of Indonesia, Teresa Fajksova of Czech Republic and Liudmyla Kuzmina of Crimea visit orphans in Mandaluyong City on Monday. Close to a hundred beauty contestants are vying for the Miss Earth title, with organizers claiming to be the only beauty pageant with an advocacy to save Mother Earth. AP

Binay asks Saudi to stay Pinoys execution

By Sara Susanne D. Fabunan
VICE President Jejomar Binay has asked Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud to defer the execution of Filipino worker Joselito Zapanta who was convicted of murdering and robbing the Sudanese accountant of his landlord in with robbery of a Sudanese national in the Arab state. Binay wrote the Saudi king in a bid to defer the execution by beheading so that Zapantas family could raise P55 million in blood money to compensate the family of Saleh Imam Ibrahim. A Saudi court convicted Zapanta of killing Ibrahim with a hammer during a dispute over Zapantas rent and taking the victims mobile phone and some SAR3,000 (about P32,000) in cash. Zapanta only has until Nov. 14 to pay the blood money. The deferment, which we seek on compassionate grounds, will allow the family of Mr. Zapanta to raise the blood money of SR5-million being asked by the heirs of his victim Salah Imam Ibrahim, Binay said in his letter to the Saudi monarch. So far, Binay said the government was able to raise P4 million but the Zapanta family still has to raise P51 million more in order for Joselitos punishment be commuted to a lower sentence. Binay noted that the Philippine government has been extending legal and nancial assistance to Zapanta since he was apprehended in 2009. But Binay implored the King to stay the execution because Zapantas family is very poor and they have no capacity to raise such huge amount of money before the deadline. The original diya (blood money) was set at SAR200,0000 to pardon the 32-year-old Zapanta and save him from execution. Joselito, who is jailed at the Malaz Central Jail in Riyadh, was sentenced to death in 2009 after he was found guilty of premeditated murder. But the worker pleaded self-defense, saying he accidentally killed his landlord when the latter beat him up over a dispute on rental dues.

Filipinos in Dubai to get $400 minimum wage

By Vito Barcelo
FILIPNO household workers in the Emirate of Dubai will soon receive a minimum salary of US$400 a month, according to the Department of Labor and Employment. Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz made the annnouncement after the signing of a joint statement of commitment between Philippine licensed recruitment agencies and their counterparts in Dubai. Lawyer Delmer Cruz, labor attachedesignate to Dubai, said the joint statement of commitment reinforces the positive developments in the Middle East region with regard to the continued deployment of Filipino household workers following the agreement between the Philippines and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on a new Standard Employment Contract for household workers. Last month, Saudi Arabia has agreed to a $400 monthly minimum wage for Filipina maids, a year after a row over the issue halted the entry of such workers. Saudi Arabia is a major employer of Filipinos, with 1.2 million working there as laborers, technicians, salesgirls and domestic helpers while an estimated 450,000 OFWs in Dubai are working. They are part of the estimated nine million Filipinosor about 10 percent of the populationwho work overseas and whose remittances back home are a major pillar of the economy. Meanwhile, 10 distressed Filipino workers overseas returned to the country on Monday from Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, through the help of the Villar Foundation. The workers, who arrived at Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 aboard Gulf Air 154 at 10:10 a.m., expressed their gratitude to the Villar Foundation led by its managing director, former Las Pinas Rep. Cynthia Villar.

Better days. Rodelas (left) and Altamirano in a photo posted in Altamiranos Facebook page on Nov. 6.

Dont fool farmers, Noynoy told

By Christine F. Herrera
SENATOR Joker Arroyo on Monday warned the Aquino government against betraying and fooling the coconut farmers for the second time involving the P57.6-billion coconut levy funds. Arroyo, along with Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares, said the Aquino government was giving the same promise that the Martial Law regime did 30 years ago as far as the coco levy funds were concerned. Will the coconut farmers be betrayed by the government today as they were betrayed by the Martial Law government when the coconut levy funds were imposed in 1973? Arroyo asked, adding that betrayal was about to be repeated based on the impact of Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcalas statement on the disposition of the coco levy funds. Secretary Alcala provided the answer for the government over the weekend. The coconut farmers, he proclaimed, should not expect cash. The coco levy monies will be spent to rehabilitate the industry, such that the benets would trickle down to the poorest farmers, Arroyo said. But that is exactly the same as what the Martial Law government promised the farmers when they collected the levies from them which in turn was used to buy the controlling interest in San Miguel. The farmers did not benet from that investment, directly or indirectly, Arroyo pointed out. The senator said the farmers for 26 years fought to recover these monies. The farmers were fooled once, they will not be fooled twice, Arroyo stressed. They were suckers before, they are afraid they will be suckers now if the Alcala prescription is allowed. He said in 1973, a Martial Law edict imposed a levy on the coconut produce of the farmers. The levies helped the industry; coco mills were put up, a coconut bank was established; coco deposits were loaned to acquire the controlling stock of San Miguel. But that did not benet the coco farmers, he said.

Under new management. Home Guarantee Corp. president Manuel Sanchez (right) con-

fers with lawyer Eric Quevedo during a meeting with locators at the Manila Harbour Centre. A Manila court decided on Friday to evict former manager RII Builders from the facility and hand its management to its 200 locators. SONNY ESPIRITU

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Card Winner and Figure World Champion, beating famous health and tness expert Ashley Horner. McClinton, known as Mama Luz from the Pinoy Big Brother House, also won a bronze in Diva Fitness category. Thank you for all your prayers. Finally, we are champion again. I offer this to all mothers like me and to our President (Noynoy) Aquino, said McClinton, who will be back in Manila on Tuesday. She will y to Berlin, Ger-

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Francisco gets an opponent, at last

By Ronnie Nathanielsz
AFTER weeks of uncertainty that rightfully angered his trainer Justin Fortune, Filipino Drian Francisco knows who he will ght on the Brian ViloriaHernan Marquez unication yweight title ght card at the Sports Arena in Los Angeles on Sunday (Manila time). Franciscos opponent will be stocky, squat Javier Gallo, the 29-year-old Mexican from Tijuana, who has a record of 18-5-1 with 10 knockouts. One of Gallos defeats was a 10-round majority decision loss to former World Boxing Council light yweight champion Rodel Mayol on May 7, 2011 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Gallo is coming off a 10-round unanimous decision loss to David Quijano last Jan. 21, but he had earlier scored a third-round TKO over Jason Rorie on Sept. 9, 2011. Francisco, who is 30, has a record of 23-1-1 with 18 knockouts and in his last ght scored a spectacular rst-round knockout of Mexican Jose Carlos Vargas, whom he dropped three times in the opening round. The world-rated Francisco has been training at the Justin Fortune Gym in Los Angeles after taking a short break, following the Vargas KO victory and told us he is in great shape and eager to ght anybody whom promoter Fernando Beltran puts in front of him. There were talks that World Boxing Association champion Guillermo Rigondeaux would face Francisco in the undercard of the title ght between Nonito Donaire and Jorge Arce in Houston, Texas on Dec. 15, but the Cuban two-time Olympic gold medalists handlers chose Thailands Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym instead.

McClinton bags world gure bodybuilding title

By Robbie Pangilinan
OKLAHOMA via PCSOLuz McClinton, the rst Filipina to win the Pro Fame Figure World Championship in the USA in 2010 and the only one with a world gure bodybuilding title, was declared the worlds best at the recently concluded World Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation Southwest US Championship in Oklahoma, USA. McClinton was the WBFF Pro many after a week for another competition. McClinton, who also recently won in the Phil-Asian Pacic International Body Building Competition in Cebu City, earning the titles 2012 Cebu Philippines and 2012 UBFFP Ms. Phil- Asia, wants to fulll another dream, which is to box. The Mom of Steel is a fan of Nonito Donaire and Ana Julaton. I am willing to train in boxing. Why not? I have a good trainer my father, McClinton said. For the past four years, McClinton has competed here and abroad, bringing honor to the country. Awards she has won include Fame International 2010 Champion, Ironpinoy Figure Champion 2010, Overall National Cebu Champion 2010, Fame Muscle Model Silver 2010, Ms. Boracay 2010, Ms. Physique Philippines 2009, Ms. Universe Figure 2009 and Ms. Fitness Philippines 2006.

Tigers, Generals win

UNIVERSITY of Santo Tomas-Metroil and Emilio Aguinaldo College turned back their respective opponents to join Far Eastern University in the semnal round of the 2012 IPPCA Football Pre-Season Cup at the Nuvali Field in Sta. Rosa, Laguna.
University of Santo Tomas, last seasons runner-up in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines, sailed past defending National Collegiate Athletic Association titlist San Beda, 4-1, to secure the top spot in Group C with nine points on three straight victories, while Emilio Aguinaldo College ousted Philippine Christian University-Cavite, 3-1, to top Group B and likewise advanced into the Final Four of the tournament organized by Filoil Flying V Sports and sponsored by Meralco, Nuvali, Natures Spring, Molten, N20 Gastropub, Boysen Paints, BDO, Topcoms/StarSports Korea, Bacchus, CDO San Marino Corned Tuna and Pingping Lechon. The Tigers and the Generals thus joined the Tamaraws in the next round. FEU earned the rst semis spot on three straight wins for nine points to rule Group A. In Group B, Ateneo blanked College of St. Benilde, 2-0, to move closer to clinching the remaining slot, but must hope that De La Salle-Flying V loses to University of Perpetual Help System Dalta on Wednesday at the Philsports pitch to automatically make it to the next round. The Green Archers, on the other hand, will advance if they beat the Altas by at least eight goals, since the Blue Eagles hold the tiebraeaker with a seven-goal difference. Reigning UAAP champion University of the Philippines topped Rizal Technological University, 2-0, in a nobearing match Group A while Arellano University downed University of Makati in Group C, 8-0 to complete last weekends elimination matches in the tournament funded by IPPCA members Chemrez Technologies Inc., Eastern Petroleum Corp., Filpride/ USA88, Seaoil Philippines Inc., Flying V, Oilink, Unioil, International Engineer Phils., Inc., Filoil Energy Company, City Oil, Metro Oil Subic, LPGMA, Omni Petroleum Corp, Trans Overseas Industrial Corp. and CIIS.

Building chemistry, the Gin Kings way

CHRIS Ellis couldnt have summed up the experience any better. Mixing different spirits is just like applied chemistry. You need to know all the ingredients and determine which go best together. So to add another metaphor, its also just like building a team, said the Barangay Ginebra San Miguel rookie, who incidentally was a bartender back in the States before he seriously pursued a professional basketball career. The Gin Kings recently joined a special run of the GSM Blueniversity, where bartender-instructors taught the basics of mixology using various GSMI brands. Aside from raising the teams awareness on their namesake brands, the GSM Blueniversity also served as a team building activity. Many of the players are new to the team so creating chemistry among them is our main objective. We attended the mixology seminar in order to learn how to do things together, Ginebra San Miguel head coach Siot Tanquingcen said. The players and coaches were Allan Caidic and Rico Maierhofer divided into four groups during the mixing activity. The rst was composed of coach Alfrancis Chua, Jayjay Helterbrand, Rudy Hateld and Billy Mamaril; the second group was made up of Mark Caguioa, Kerby Raymundo, coach Allan Caidic, and Rico Maierhofer; the third group included Dylan Ababou, Allein Maliksi, Elmer Espiritu, and Ellis while Willie Wilson and Keith Jensen were in the fourth group. Following the short seminar, all four groups concocted their own original cocktails using Ginebra San Miguel Inc.s extensive line of Kerby Raymundo and Mark Caguioa products.

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My warmest greetings to the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) as you hold your 27th Anniversary and National Year of Rice declaration. As rice is among the most vital commodities in our country, we in government are steadfast in our efforts to empower our farmers in the production of this valuable resource. Your solidarity in our ongoing mission will assure the Filipino people a more promising future where all citizens have access to our basic staples. As you prepare for 2013, the National Year of Rice, may this even galvanize your members towards achieving complete reliance on our own grain, with absolute confidence in the hands that till our soil. Your efforts to enlist the support of your allied sectors and the public at large in our communal agenda of rice self-sufficiency reflect your dedication to our broader goal of national transformation. In partnership with the Department of Agriculture and the various agencies aligned with our cause, we shall reap our harvest.

P-Noy proclaims 2013 as National Year of Rice

President Benigno S. Aquino III has declared 2013 asNational Year of Rice or NYR and directed the Department of Agriculture to lead its celebration, as per Proclamation No. 494, signed on October 18, 2012. The NYR proclamation aims to intensify ongoing efforts of the Aquino government through the DA to attain rice self-sufficiency by 2013. Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala said the proclamation will all the more reinforce initiatives of the agency since July 2010 which it has been pursuing in partnership with farmers groups, local government units and the private sector to provide needed infrastructure, technical, marketing and institutional support to successfully attain rice sufficiency by 2013, and at the same time start exporting fancy and upland rice varieties. He said the DA family particularly through the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) and the DA National Rice Program will sustain initiatives to boost farmers morale and motivate them to adopt modern and sustainable technologies to increase their farm productivity and incomes, and encourage the general public to be responsible rice consumers. He said the NYR adopts an apt battle cry: Sapat na Bigas, Kaya ng Pinas! Further, the DA and PhilRice will undertake a nationwide National Year of Rice information campaign and social marketing to enjoin farmers, other industry stakeholders, consumers and policymakers to help attain national rice sufficiency. Proclamation 494 also affirms the month of November of every year as a National Rice Awareness Month, pursuant to a previous proclamation (No. 524) issued in 2003. For his part, PhilRice Executive Director Eufemio Rasco, Jr. said the agency has commenced several activities last November 5, 2012, in celebration of its 27th anniversary, starting with the reading of a Pledge of Rice or Panatang MakaPalay, as part of their flag-raising ceremony, by hundreds of DA-PhilRice officials and staff, at their main headquarters in Muoz City, Nueva Ecija.

Panatang MakaPALAY
(Pledge of Rice )
Bilang isang mamamayang Pilipino nakikiisa ako sa panatang huwag magsayang ng kanin at bigas. Magsasaing ako ng sapat lamang at sisiguraduhing tama ang pagkakaluto nito. Kukuha ako ng kaya kong ubusin upang sa aking pinggan ay walang matirang kanin. Ganun din ang aking gagawin kung may handaan o kung sa labas ako kakain. Ang brown rice o pinawa ay susubukan kong kainin pati na ang ibang pagkain bukod sa kanin tulad ng saba, kamote, at mais. Ituturo ko sa iba ang responsableng pagkonsumo nang mabigyang halaga ang pagod ng mga magsasaka at nang makatulong na maging sapat ang bigas sa Pilipinas. Aking isasapuso ang panatang ito dahil sa bawa't butil ng bigas o kanin na aking matitipid ay may buhay na masasagip.
recovery of 75 percent (%) compared with 65% for white rice we will have an additional supply of 10 kilograms (kg) for every 100 kg of palay harvested and milled, said Dr. Bordey. F inally, she said we also urge consumers not to waste rice by preparing the right amount for their family, properly cook it (not over- or under-cooked), recycle leftovers into other dishes, and when dining out order only the right amount or serving.

Benigno S. Aquino III President, Republic of the Philippines

Congratulations to the officials and staff of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) for the celebration of your 27th anniversary. PhilRice has been at the forefront of the Department of Agricultures (DA) research and development efforts in rice variety development, proper cultivation practices and promotion of cost-efficient technologies. These prove crucial in making the industry profitable and capable of meeting the countrys rice requirement. This has never been more pronounced these past two years. Our goal of food self-sufficiency hinges on providing enough rice or encouraging consumption of rice additives and alternatives boosting production, lessening consumption and post-harvest losses. Adequate infrastructure, equipment, training, technical and marketing assistance are being provided to farming communities. While increasing production, at the same time we are working on helping farmers secure their produce. Our efforts in turn, have spurred interest and have encouraged local government units to prioritize agriculture. We have also enlisted the help of farming associations in seed banking, as we strive to make quality planting materials available and more accessible. These complement the development of climate-ready seeds: drought-resistant and the submergence-tolerant varieties. We trust that PhilRice will continue technology development: optimizing available land and water resources and lessening production cost. This in turn, will increase farmers income and productivity. Thus, we are confident that we have laid the foundation for a sustainable rice industry. Greater cooperation among the national government, LGUs, farmers associations and the private sector will only bring greater progress in the industry bringing sufficient food to every Filipino family. Mabuhay!

Lets be responsible consumers!

Do you know that an average Filipino wastes two tablespoons of cooked rice every day? If this amount is not wasted and consumed, the country could save up to P6.2 billion, and more importantly Ang bawat isa sa atin ay may malaking maiaambag upang makamit natin ang pambansang kasapatan sa bigas na abot-tanaw na, added the DA chief. He said the battle cry for the National Year of Rice in 2013 Sapat na Bigas, Kaya ng Pinas! is very apt as the DA is confident of attaining said goal, barring no strong typhoons that would affect the countrys major rice areas next year. In addition to managing rice consumption as part of the Aquino governments Food Staples Sufficiency Program (FSSP) the DA is urging consumers to diversify by including in their daily diet equally nutritious food such as white corn, sweet potato, cassava, and banana as rice substitutes. For her part, Dr. Flordeliza H. Bordey, PhilRice socio-economist and FSSP spokesperson, said countries like Japan and China are rice-sufficient despite their small rice area harvested per capita because of their citizens diversified diet. As part the FSSP, we also encourage fellow Filipinos to eat unpolished or brown rice, which is more nutritious than white rice, said Dr. Bordey. Nutritionists said brown rice retains most of the nutrients from the rice bran that are removed by polishing. By producing more brown rice which has a higher average milling

Proceso J. Alcala Secretary, Department of Agriculture

feed an additional 2.6 million Filipinos in a year. Kaya naman, dapat po tayong maging responsable. Huwag nating sayangin ang ating inaning palay, giniling na bigas, at sinaing na kanin, said Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Los Angeles Lakers have hired Mike DAntoni, signing the former coach of the Suns and Knicks to a four-year contract to replace Mike Brown. The Lakers and DAntonis agent, Warren LeGarie, conrmed the deal late Sunday night, two days after the Lakers red Brown ve games into the season. DAntoni got the high-prole job running the 16-time NBA champions after negotiations broke down with former Lakers coach Phil Jackson. AP

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Ginebra banks on veterans

By Jeric Lopez WHILE Barangay Ginebra was in deep slumber during a ve-game losing skid, Coach Siot Tanquingcen dug deep for answers on how to turn things around only to nd out that the best solution was to turn to his old reliables. In Ginebras past two games that both resulted in solid wins, Tanquingcen went back to the basics, tightened the rotation and called upon his veterans to show the team the way out of that darkness. Suddenly, the Gin Kings turned things around and won their last two outings to climb back into the thick of things. Particularly impressive was their 104-101 triumph over front-running Talk N Text Sunday night. The GSM veterans have taken over the responsibility of carrying the team on their shoulders. Reigning Most Valuable Player Mark Caguioa had 22 points and 11 rebounds, LA Tenorio dropped 21 of his own, Rudy Hateld had 12 markers and 13 boards, while Jayjay Helterbrand scored 11 points just as he regained his condence. We go to our veterans because they already know our system. But the younger players also have to step up to provide balance. That is the key, said Tanquingcen, who had shortened his rotation and relied more on his veterans the past two games to get the team out of trouble after that long dry spell.

Erasers score 2 straight win

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ERASE Xfoliants offense was on a meltdown in the second quarter when Nate Matute came off the bench and made things happen.
Matute scored seven of his 13 points late in the period that sparked a telling rally and the Erasers won their second straight, 79-68, against Informatics yesterday in the elimination round of the Philippine Basketball Association D-League Aspirants Cup at the Arellano University Gym in Legarda, Manila. Tsamba lang, said Erase Xfoliant coach Aric del Rosario, his voice hoarse so he relegated most of the coaching and the talking to his son and assistant, Lester. Del Rosario said his expectation this conference is pretty simple. Huwag lang ako matanggal ng maaga masaya na ako. Pero mas masaya kung makalaro tayo kahit sa seminal, he said with a grin. In the other game, Cagayan Valley bounced back from last weeks stunning defeat at the hands of Erase Xfoliant by dealing Caf France an 85-70, romp for its third win in four games. The Rising Suns, who got 15 points RAymund Almazan and 14 from Christopher Eximiniano, stretched a three-point halftime lead to 17 by outscoring the Bakers, 26-15, in the third quarter. (Ynares Sports Arena) 2p.m. Blackwater Sports vs Boracay Rum 4p.m. NLEX vs JRU

Games Today

Swept away. University of Makati and Arellano booters engage in a erce battle for possesion in one of the highlights of their game on Sunday in the 2012 IPPCA Football Pre-Season Cup at the Nuvali Field in Sta. Rosa, Laguna. The Arellano Chiefs swept past the UMAK booters, 8-0, to wind up their campaign with three points. (Story on A9)

Lim, Santarin rule Youth Masters

CARL Lim of San Juan Bowling Association and MTBAs Bea Santarin ruled the Youth Masters nals in the 41st PBC-Philippine Sports Commission-Philippine Olympic Committee Open championships Sunday at the SM Center lanes in Mall of Asia, Pasay City. But another young bowler who has been making waves in the international scene 16-year-old Enzo Hernandez overshadowed the young champions by grabbing the Class O all-events lead. TBAM-Primas Hernandez, silver medalist in the 2012 BevidaStorm International Masters Challenge and the Asian Youth boys doubles event, collected 2132 pinfalls on his 609 and 639 cards in singles. 420 in doubles and 464 in trios to nish ahead of teammates Kenneth Chua (2091) and Richie Poblete (2088). Lim posted 1489 in eight games to subdue TBAMs Miguel Ocampo (1470) and PBAP-Bowlmarts Kevin Cu (1449) in the boys division, while Santarin carded 1459 to outsteady TBAM-Primas Gia Oyco (1420) and QCBA-Eagle Ridges Andrea Laureano (1415) in the girls bracket. PBAP-Bowlmarts Mades Arles created a ripple in Class O ladies all-events by grabbing the lead with 2146 (607-638 in singles, 450 in doubles and 451 in trios). TBAM-Primas Rachelle Leon checked in second with 2084 while Poland-bound World Cupper Krizziah Tabora came in third with 2037. TBAM-Primas Bea Hernandez showed the way in the ladies Associate Masters event of the twoweek kegfest sponsored by PSC, POC, Boysen, PCSO, Team Prima, F.R. Sevilla Construction, HCG and Enervon.

Pro boxing gets boost

PROFESSIONAL boxing will soon be part of the organizational structure of its national sports association. Amateur Boxing Association of the Philippines executive director Ed Picson said this after they received a directive from the world body AIBA last month. There is an AIBA directive to drop the word amateur. The directive came out about three weeks ago. We will let you know when the process is complete, wrote Picson in a text message to the Manila Standard. Picson revealed that the ABAP will soon be known as Association of Boxing Alliances in the Philippines. Last Oct. 5, AIBA president Ching-Kuo Wu informed member associations that they plan to implement the program called adoption of AIBA Professional Boxing. The program was supported, amended and approved in AIBA Statutes during the AIBA Extraordinary Congress on Sept. 24, before the AIBA World Boxing Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan. Peter Atencio

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Ray S. Eano, Editor business@mst.ph Roderick T. dela Cruz, Assistant Editor extrastory2000@gmail.com Co, who also owns luxury resort Misibis Bay in Albay. Retail magnate Lucio Co of Puregold Price Club Inc., meanwhile, partly owns Midas Hotel and Casino. The Philippine Stock Exchange suspended the trading of the shares of Leisure Resorts since the transaction is covered by the revised disclosure rules on substantial acquisitions and takeovers of the bourse. The PSE said the trading of Leisure Resorts shares will remain suspended pending submission of financial documents. Shares of Leisure Resorts were last traded Friday when it closed at P9.20 apiece. Leisure Resorts, owned by the family of businessman Alfredo Benitez, the son of former human settlements minister Jose Conrado Benitez, is a gaming company involved in Belle Corp.s Belle Grande Manila Bay project. Leisure Resorts has committed to invest P4 billion in the $1-billion Belle Grande project, which is slated for opening by the end of 2014. Leisure Resorts in exchange will get a share of Belles earnings from leasing of commercial space as well as a piece of casino earnings. Funding for the P4-billion investments will come from borrowings and internally generated funds.

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LR buys 51% of Midas Hotel

By Jenniffer B. Austria

LEISURE Resorts World Corp. plans

to invest P750 million in acquiring a 51percent interest in a company that operates the Midas Hotel and Casino in Pasay City, formerly the Hyatt Regency Hotel.

Leisure Resorts said in a disclosure to the stock exchange that it signed an agreement with Eco Leisure and Hospitality Holding Company Inc. and Hotel Enterprises of the Philippines Inc. to purchase a controlling stake in the outstanding capital stock of HEPI. The investment of the company is expected to strengthen and enhance the operations of the Midas Hotel and Casino, Leisure Resorts said. Eco Leisure and HEPI are owned by businessman Elizalde

Emirates disputes PALs claim

By Lailany P. Gomez
EMIRATES Air denied the Philippine Airlines claim that the seven ight frequencies between Dubai and Manila the Middle Eastern carrier wants to add is counterproductive and unjustied. Emirates Philippine manager Gigie Baroa said in a letter to Civil Aeronautics Board executive director Carmelo Arcilla the airlines winter schedule would not undermine the condential memorandum of understanding signed by both governments in September this year. The new schedule would take effect on Jan. 1, 2013. Contrary to PRs [Philippine Airlines] assertion that it was the intention of the two governments that no more than 28 weekly frequencies were to be offered by each side on the agreed routes between UAE and Manila, it was in the fact the agreement of the aeronautical authorities of the two governments that the pre-existing borrowing of unused entitlements could continue alongside the additional daily services granted under the new condential memorandum of understanding of Sept. 6, Baroa said. This must be since neither government raised the possibility that the new CMOU would alter the pre-existing situation. Had they intended otherwise the two governments would have recorded that decision in the document, which they did not and for very good reason, Baroa added. Emirates said it was the intention of the two governments that the total capacity on the Dubai-Manila route be increased, including via Emirates third daily service, in response to the extraordinary size and growth of the market demand on the route.

Outstanding expat Pinoy children. Bank of the Philippine Islands honors this years 10 outstanding

overseas Filipino children. Now in its sixth year, the annual search cites seven talino awardees and one awardee each for community leader, entrepreneur and artist/athlete categories. Shown are (from left) BPI senior vice president for global banking Raul Dimayuga, senior vice president and integrated marketing group head Marie Josephine Ocampo, executive vice president and global banking group head Antonio Paner and president and chief executive Aurelio Montinola III.

Ty group investing P10b for coal plant

By Alena Mae S. Flores
GLOBAL Business Power Corp., a unit of Metrobank Group, is investing P10.2 billion to replace the existing 66-megawatt coal facility of unit Toledo Power Corp. with clean coal technology. As a testament of our continuing commitment to the Visayas region, we are investing an additional P10.2 billion to replace Toledo Powers existing coal facility with the latest clean coal technology to provide more efcient power supply. The same clean coal technology is being used in Cebu Energys 246-MW and Panay Energys 164-MW plant facilities, Global Power chairman Francisco Sebastian said in a statement. Toledo Power held the groundbreaking of its 82-MW clean coal-red power plant expansion project on Sunday, as an addition to its existing 66MW coal plant in Toledo City. The groundbreaking, attended by Metrobank chairman George Ty, signaled the formal start of the construction project. Through this 82-MW expansion project, Toledo Power will be providing 500 jobs during the construction phase, 120 direct and indirect jobs upon operation and additional tax revenues to the host community, Sebastian said. The project aims to supply the electric power requirements of Carmen Copper Corp. beginning Dec. 26, 2014. Carmen Copper, a subsidiary of Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corp,, will need additional electric supply to power its mining expansion undertakings.

IN BRIEF
October car sales rise 12%
CAR sales in October grew 12 percent to 15,081 units from 13,456 year-on-year, fueled by a more stable supply and aggressive promotions of different vehicle brands. We are very pleased with the outstanding performance of last months sales. This was a result of all manufacturers being very aggressive with their marketing efforts coupled with an inux of new model introductions the past months, Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines Inc. president Rommel Gutierrez said in a statement Monday. Gutierrez said sales in October were also 17 percent higher than the 12,857 vehicles sold in September. This is a very clear sign that the industry continues to be strong and is on track. I am condent that we will exceed last years performance despite the slow start at the beginning of the year due to supply shortages, he said. Gutierrez said aside from the normalization of supply and aggressive promotional campaigns, the industry also took advantage of the countrys strong economy and the increased purchasing power of Filipinos. Total sales in the rst 10 months grew 7 percent to 126,663 units from 118,762 a year ago. Toyota Motor Philippines led the industry by garnering 42 percent share of the market in the 10-month period, followed by Mitsubishi Motors Philippines with 22 percent, and Honda Cars Philippines with 8 percent. The total projected industry sales of 185,000 is still possible, Gutierrez said. Industry sales hit 165,194 units in 2011, of which Campi accounted for 141,616 while the Association of Vehicle Importers and Distributors contributed 23,578. Julito G. Rada

Foreign investments slow

FOREIGN direct investments slowed in August, with net inows falling to $13 million from $76 million recorded during the same month last year, the Bangko Sentral said Monday. This reected investors relatively cautious stance due to weak global economic prospects and nancial strains in the advanced economies, the Bangko Sentral said. It said despite the lower gure in August, net inows in the rst eight months reached $1 billion, up 61.2 percent from $644 million registered during the same period in 2011. Data showed that gross equity capital in the eight-month period amounted to $1.3 billion, signicantly higher than the year-ago level of $400 million. Inows were channeled mainly to the manufacturing, real estate, wholesale and retail, nancial and insurance, and mining and quarrying sectors, the Bangko Sentral said. These investments originated mostly from the United States, Australia, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Japan and Bermuda. Reinvested earnings also recorded a net inow of $101 million, although this was lower by 52.4 percent than the level posted in the same period last year. The other capital account, which consists largely of intercompany borrowing or lending between foreign direct investors and their subsidiaries or afliates in the country, posted net outows of $206 million, a reversal of the $403 million net inows in 2011. Anna Leah G. Estrada

E ATE PSE COMPOSITE INDEX F OREIGNUnitXCHANGE RPeso Currency US Dollar

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United States Japan UK Hong Kong Switzerland Canada Singapore Australia Bahrain Saudi Arabia Brunei Dollar Yen Pound Dollar Franc Dollar Dollar Dollar Dinar Rial Dollar 1.000000 0.012583 1.589800 0.129022 1.054407 0.998901 0.817327 1.038314 2.652661 0.266660 0.814001 41.0800 0.5169 65.3090 5.3002 43.3150 41.0349 33.5758 42.6539 108.9713 10.9544 33.4392 5200 4460 3720 2980 2240 1500 1200 Indonesia Thailand UAE Euro Korea China India Malaysia New Zealand Taiwan

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Monday, November 12, 2012

Rupiah Baht Dirham Euro Won Yuan Rupee Ringgit Dollar Dollar 0.000104 0.032632 0.272272 1.271400 0.000920 0.160128 0.018322 0.326691 0.814001 0.034468 0.0043 1.3405 11.1849 52.2291 0.0378 6.5781 0.7527 13.4205 33.4392 1.4159
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fell 0.76 percent to P2,610. The rest of Asian stock markets retreated. Economists have said the US risks slipping into recession if hundreds of billions of dollars in expiring tax cuts and automatic spending reductions take effect on Jan. 1the so-called scal cliff. Congress and the White House must nd a compromise to prevent a big hit to the worlds biggest economy. President Barack Obama, fresh from a reelection victory, and House Speaker John Boehner have spoken of compromise but appear to be taking rm stances on some issues, including whether to raise taxes for the wealthiest Americans. Despite comments from the US administration and Congressional leaders of a willingness to compromise,

The Philippine Stock Exchange index rose just 1.91 points, or 0.03 percent, to 5,470.70, after climbing to an intraday high of 5,488.92 in early session. Losers beat gainers, 83 to 75, with 52 issues unchanged. Conglomerate Ayala Corp., which has interests in property, banking and telecommunications, rose 0.45 percent to P450. Ayala Land Inc., a unit of Ayala and the biggest property company, advanced 1.5 percent to P23.25. Megaworld Corp., the secondbiggest real estate company, rose 0.4 percent to P2.51. SM Prime Holdings Inc., operator of the countrys largest shopping mall, declined 0.4 percent to P14.52. Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., the largest telecommunications company,

markets remain unconvinced, analysts at Credit Agricole CIB in Hong Kong said in a market commentary. Japans Nikkei 225 index fell 0.6 percent to 8,704.21 at midday, with growth gures showing the economy contracted an annualized 3.5 percent for the quarter ending September. Most economists forecast a further decline in economic activity for the OctoberDecember quarter, which would ofcially put the worlds no. 3 economy in recession, according to the common denition of two consecutive quarters of contraction. South Koreas Kospi fell 0.2 percent to 1,900.27 and Australias S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.2 percent to 4,453.40. Benchmarks in Singapore, Taiwan and Indonesia fell. New Zealand rose. Hong Kong and mainland Chinese stock markets rose following comments over the weekend by Chinese Cabinet ofcials that the countrys economic slowdown has ended, although the economy is not ready to stage a recovery, and that exporters still face tough conditions. With AP

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A second go at Ubuntu 12.10

A STUBBORN streak led me to try installing Ubuntu 12.10 (a.k.a. Quantal Quetzal) on my home PC again, after an anti-climactic failure last week to get past the Preparing to Install screen the rst time around. After doing some research, I found that for some strange reason, the new installer needed to work with a clean drive, a bug that I never encountered in any previous version of Ubuntu. This caused the installer to hang at a very early stage in the installation process. Fortunately, the solution was in the Ubuntu 12.10 LiveCD itself. What I needed to do was boot from the LiveCD, choose Try Ubuntu, and use the Gparted utility to delete the old partition in my hard drive and create a new one (ext4) that the installer could use. I later found another possible solution on the Ask Ubuntu site that suggested using the Disks utility instead to format the old hard drive, certainly a much less intimidating approach than using Gparted. Gparted did the trick and I was nally able to install the latest release of the popular Linux distribution. Canonical should move quickly to squash the partition cleaning bug, even if it doesnt affect that many people. After all, if it wants to win over new users to Linux, the last thing it should be doing is to require them to use Gparted or the Disks utility before they can proceed. The installer is supposed to take care of preparing a hard disk (and has done in so many previous releases). Making users take the extra step carries the risk that those with multiple hard drives might end up formatting the wrong one. Still, I am happy to report that after the initial hurdle, installation went smoothly. I was also able to get most of my important applications and utilities sorted out fairly quickly. Here are some useful things to do after installing Ubuntu 12.10: 1. Install Ubuntu Restricted Extras to gain the ability to play MP3 and Flash les, DVD playback and Microsofts standard fonts. Use the Software Center to do this. 2. Use Software Center to install Synaptic Package Manager, which many old-school Ubuntu users still prefer to Software Center. 3. Get rid of the Amazon search results to protect your privacy. Canonical has taken a lot of ak for passing desktop searches on to Amazon so that it can present shopping suggestions along with your desktop search results. Fortunately, it is easy to get rid of this feature. Simply go to System Settings, click on Privacy and turn off online search results. 4. Install any extra drivers you might need. In my case, I use such a driver to get the most of my Nvidia graphics card. To do this, go to System Settings, Software Sources and nd what you need

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in the Additional Drivers tab. Hardware support in Ubuntu keeps getting better. This time around, I didnt even need to install my old Epson Perfection 660 scannerthe OS immediately recognized it. 5. Install Dropbox. Ubuntu comes with free online storage through Ubuntu One, but for better cross-platform synching, download Dropbox (www. dropbox.com). 6. Install VLC, still a great all-around media player. You can do this by using Software Center or Synaptic, or simply opening a Terminal window and typing: sudo apt-get install vlc 7. Install utilities to customize the Ubuntu interface. This time around, Ive decided to forgo installing an alternative desktop but use Unsettings to customize Unity to hew more closely to the way I want to work. The rst thing to do after installing Unsettings is to use it to reclaim some desktop space by shrinking Unitys oversize icons. You can also use Unsettings to turn off Unitys Global Menu and return most menus to their rightful place inside individual windows. (Some programs like Firefox and LibreOfce require extra steps to regain their menus.) Unsettings also gives you the ability to turn off Ubuntus annoying overlay scrollbars. MyUnity, another customization tool that worked well in Ubuntu 12.04, doesnt work as yet on Ubuntu 12.10. Of course, you might want to poke around the mother of all customization tools, Ubuntu Tweak, by typing the following lines in Terminal: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak 8. Get a more capable Torrent client. If you will be downloading a lot of large les, you may want a better tool than Transmission, which is Ubuntus default client. Deluge is my client of choice. 9. Install Gimp. For serious image manipulation on Linux, nothing beats Gimp. 10. Install Compiz Settings and the Emerald windows decorator for better eye candy. The process isnt hard at all but fairly involved, so if youre comfortable with using Terminal commands, this tutorial (http://handytutorial.com/install-emeraldin-ubuntu-12-04-12-10/) will step you through the process. With my applications and tweaks in place, Ubuntu 12.10 is starting to look like a winner after all. Column archives and blog at: http://www.chinwong.com

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STOCKS Imperial Res. `A' Euro-Med Lab. I-Remit Inc. Araneta Prop `A' Vitarich Corp. Phil. Estates Corp. Alphaland Corp. Acesite Hotel Ginebra San Miguel Inc. Forum Paci c Close (P) 6.00 1.90 2.95 0.610 1.25 0.6800 29.40 1.38 18.50 0.229 Change (%) 20.00 11.76 9.67 8.93 6.84 6.25 6.14 5.34 5.11 5.05

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STOCKS C. Azuc De Tarlac F&J Prince 'B' IPVG Corp. IP E-Game Ventures Inc. Phil. Seven Corp. Ever Gotesco ATN Holdings A Bankard, Inc. Jolliville Holdings Maybank ATR KE Close (P) 13.06 2.60 0.87 0.028 85.00 0.320 1.33 0.69 7.50 20.05 Change (%) (13.51) (13.33) (12.12) (9.68) (8.60) (8.57) (6.99) (5.48) (5.06) (4.52)

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FINANCIAL INDUSTRIAL HOLDING FIRMS PROPERTY SERVICES MINING & OIL GRAND TOTAL

SHARES 9,933,528 844,613,246 808,112,745 295,934,853 553,938,318 127,9962,497 3,792,495,187

VALUE 644,086,528.3 1,060,055,754.18 1,684,943,132.67 1,064,168,796.01 745,327,382.15 213,641,496.965 5,412,223,090.28

FINANCIAL 1,421.67 (down) 2.48 INDUSTRIAL 8,621.72 (up) 10.59 HOLDING FIRMS 4,711.71 (up) 12.21 PROPERTY 2,098.42 (up) 11.46 SERVICES 1,729.07 (down) 15.68 MINING & OIL 19,435.53 (down) 250.25 PSEI 5,470.7 (up) 1.91 All Shares Index 3,588.65 (down) 0.77 Gainers: 75; Losers: 783; Unchanged:52; Total: 210

6.96 0.50 1.0600 1.0900 0.042 0.570 15.04 2.91 0.008 2.99 0.014 0.014 5.10 18.40 3.00 0.017 39.00 161.10 0.015 23.05 535.00 100.00 101.50 6.00 108.90

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Banco de Oro Unibank Inc. Bank of PI Bankard, Inc. China Bank COL Financial Eastwest Bank Filipino Fund Inc. First Metro Inv. I-Remit Inc. Manulife Fin. Corp. Maybank ATR KE Metrobank Natl Reinsurance Corp. Phil. National Bank Phil. Savings Bank PSE Inc. RCBC `A Security Bank Sun Life Financial Union Bank Vantage Equities Aboitiz Power Corp. Agrinurture Inc. Alliance Tuna Intl Inc. Alphaland Corp. Alsons Cons. Asiabest Group C. Azuc De Tarlac Calapan Venture Chemrez Technologies Inc. Cirtek Holdings (Chips) Energy Devt. Corp. (EDC) EEI Euro-Med Lab. First Gen Corp. First Holdings A Ginebra San Miguel Inc. Greenergy Holcim Philippines Inc. Integ. Micro-Electronics Ionics Inc Jollibee Foods Corp. Lafarge Rep LMG Chemicals Manchester Intl. A Manchester Intl. B Manila Water Co. Inc. Mariwasa MFG. Inc. Megawide Mla. Elect. Co `A Panasonic Mfg Phil. Corp. Pancake House Inc. Pepsi-Cola Products Phil. Petron Corporation Phinma Corporation Phoenix Petroleum Phils. RFM Corporation Roxas Holdings Salcon Power Corp. San Miguel Brewery Inc. San Miguel Corp `A San MiguelPure Foods `B Seacem Splash Corporation Tanduay Holdings TKC Steel Corp. Trans-Asia Oil Universal Robina Victorias Milling Vitarich Corp. Vulcan Indl. Abacus Cons. `A Aboitiz Equity Alcorn Gold Res. Alliance Global Inc. Anglo Holdings A Anscor `A Asia Amalgamated A ATN Holdings A Ayala Corp `A DMCI Holdings F&J Prince A F&J Prince B Filinvest Dev. Corp. Forum Pacic GT Capital House of Inv. JG Summit Holdings Jolliville Holdings Lopez Holdings Corp. Lodestar Invt. Holdg.Corp. Marcventures Hldgs., Inc. Metro Pacic Inv. Corp. Minerales Industrias Corp. Pacica `A Prime Orion Republic Glass A Seafront `A Sinophil Corp. SM Investments Inc. Solid Group Inc. South China Res. Inc. Unioil Res. & Hldgs Wellex Industries Zeus Holdings A. Brown Co., Inc. Araneta Prop `A Ayala Land `B Belle Corp. `A Cebu Holdings Century Property City & Land Dev. Cityland Dev. `A Cyber Bay Corp. Empire East Land Eton Properties Ever Gotesco Global-Estate Filinvest Land,Inc. Highlands Prime Interport `A Megaworld Corp. MRC Allied Ind. Phil. Estates Corp. Phil. Realty `A Robinsons Land `B Rockwell Shang Properties Inc. SM Development `A SM Prime Holdings Starmalls Suntrust Home Dev. Inc. Vista Land & Lifescapes

2GO Group ABS-CBN Acesite Hotel APC Group, Inc. Bloomberry Boulevard Holdings Calata Corp. Cebu Air Inc. (5J) Centro Esc. Univ. DFNN Inc. FEUI Globe Telecom GMA Network Inc. I.C.T.S.I. Information Capital Tech. Imperial Res. `A IPeople Inc. `A IP Converge IP E-Game Ventures Inc. IPVG Corp. ISM Communications Liberty Telecom Lorenzo Shipping Manila Jockey Metro Pacic Tollways Pacic Online Sys. Corp. PAL Holdings Inc. Paxys Inc. Phil. Seven Corp. Philweb.Com Inc. PLDT Common PremiereHorizon Puregold STI Holdings Touch Solutions Transpacic Broadcast Waterfront Phils. Yehey

Abra Mining Apex `A Apex `B Atlas Cons. `A Atok-Big Wedge `A Basic Energy Corp. Benguet Corp `A Benguet Corp `B Century Peak Metals Hldgs Coal Asia Dizon Geograce Res. Phil. Inc. Lepanto `A Lepanto `B Manila Mining `A Manila Mining `B Nickelasia Nihao Mineral Resources Omico Oriental Peninsula Res. Oriental Pet. `A Oriental Pet. `B Petroenergy Res. Corp. Philex `A PhilexPetroleum Philodrill Corp. `A PNOC Expls `B Semirara Corp. United Paragon

Megaworld Corp. Warrants

FINANCIAL 69.20 67.95 85.45 85.00 0.73 0.69 52.90 52.75 18.48 18.20 24.80 24.30 10.30 10.30 87.50 87.10 2.95 2.69 460.00 460.00 21.00 20.05 98.20 96.95 1.82 1.82 71.85 71.40 87.00 85.00 371.00 370.00 46.95 46.90 162.10 160.50 980.00 969.00 112.50 110.00 2.15 2.13 INDUSTRIAL 33.65 33.65 33.50 8.00 8.38 8.00 2.05 2.13 1.99 27.70 31.00 27.75 1.40 1.39 1.38 18.50 18.50 18.30 15.10 13.10 13.06 4.20 4.25 4.25 3.05 3.07 3.05 11.96 11.96 11.96 6.64 6.75 6.64 8.93 8.93 8.70 1.70 1.90 1.90 22.55 23.15 22.55 94.00 95.50 91.40 17.60 18.50 18.50 0.0230 0.0240 0.0220 13.40 13.62 13.40 4.25 4.30 4.15 0.640 0.640 0.640 105.50 105.80 104.50 9.65 9.65 9.30 2.00 2.10 2.01 9.50 10.30 9.13 9.32 10.70 9.02 29.55 30.10 29.65 3.70 3.65 3.60 16.200 16.180 16.080 265.80 265.80 260.00 5.05 5.20 5.20 7.50 7.60 7.60 5.60 5.70 5.50 10.74 10.80 10.70 10.44 10.24 10.24 8.48 8.55 8.40 4.17 4.19 4.08 2.54 2.54 2.48 4.80 4.80 4.80 34.00 34.10 34.00 109.00 109.00 108.50 700.00 700.00 700.00 2.39 2.40 2.30 1.77 1.78 1.73 11.66 11.76 11.66 1.99 2.00 1.92 1.13 1.15 1.12 74.70 75.60 74.70 1.20 1.22 1.16 1.17 1.27 1.13 1.89 1.91 1.83 HOLDING FIRMS 0.70 0.71 0.69 48.80 48.80 48.50 0.1220 0.1270 0.1180 15.08 15.02 14.90 2.09 2.15 2.03 4.80 4.80 4.80 5.03 5.28 5.00 1.43 1.43 1.29 448.00 452.00 448.20 52.10 53.60 52.30 2.60 2.90 2.60 3.00 2.60 2.60 4.57 4.65 4.54 0.218 0.232 0.229 542.00 551.00 542.50 5.98 5.86 5.85 34.00 34.55 33.25 7.90 7.50 7.50 6.50 6.51 6.42 1.08 1.10 1.07 2.05 2.05 2.02 4.27 4.48 4.27 4.80 4.95 4.75 0.0470 0.0480 0.0470 0.590 0.590 0.570 2.20 2.21 2.20 1.95 1.95 1.94 0.320 0.315 0.315 815.00 824.50 814.00 1.92 1.98 1.94 1.14 1.14 1.14 0.2850 0.2900 0.2750 0.3000 0.3250 0.2900 0.385 0.390 0.385 PROPERTY 3.09 3.09 3.04 0.560 0.610 0.590 22.90 23.60 23.00 5.15 5.16 5.12 4.60 4.62 4.60 1.40 1.45 1.41 2.25 2.36 2.20 1.10 1.10 1.10 0.83 0.83 0.82 0.960 0.970 0.940 2.92 2.95 2.90 0.350 0.365 0.320 1.92 1.88 1.87 1.57 1.61 1.56 1.90 1.92 1.80 1.15 1.19 1.15 2.50 2.57 2.50 0.1780 0.1780 0.1760 0.6400 0.7200 0.6400 0.430 0.435 0.430 18.56 18.66 18.60 3.03 3.07 3.03 2.93 2.90 2.76 6.07 6.08 5.90 14.58 14.62 14.52 3.66 3.74 3.51 0.530 0.530 0.520 5.120 5.170 5.100 SERVICES 2.12 2.30 2.00 31.00 31.50 30.40 1.31 1.44 1.30 0.620 0.620 0.620 14.10 14.16 13.80 0.1560 0.1590 0.1540 6.09 6.06 5.85 58.80 59.75 58.90 10.00 10.00 10.00 5.34 5.49 5.33 1080.00 1080.00 1010.00 1143.00 1143.00 1127.00 8.50 8.50 8.40 70.00 70.00 68.90 0.440 0.440 0.425 5.00 6.10 6.00 8.00 8.00 7.75 2.44 2.48 2.33 0.031 0.032 0.028 0.99 1.01 0.84 2.5700 2.5700 2.5700 2.40 2.40 2.33 1.26 1.26 1.26 2.88 2.88 2.83 6.25 6.18 6.18 14.02 14.04 14.02 5.22 5.25 5.14 2.90 3.12 2.92 93.00 90.00 81.00 14.16 14.22 14.02 2630.00 2650.00 2606.00 0.320 0.325 0.325 29.95 30.00 29.65 1.03 1.08 1.02 4.25 4.15 4.00 2.20 2.30 2.18 0.440 0.450 0.440 1.390 1.390 1.340 MINING & OIL 0.0066 0.0066 0.0062 4.70 4.75 4.70 4.70 4.75 4.70 17.52 17.52 17.42 25.70 25.60 25.60 0.275 0.285 0.275 21.25 21.00 20.50 20.50 20.50 20.05 1.03 1.02 1.00 1.06 1.07 1.03 17.40 17.60 17.38 0.56 0.57 0.55 1.100 1.100 1.050 1.200 1.200 1.170 0.0630 0.0620 0.0600 0.0610 0.0630 0.0610 17.00 16.98 16.94 5.70 5.74 5.60 0.6300 0.6400 0.6400 3.900 3.940 3.820 0.0190 0.0190 0.0180 0.0200 0.0200 0.0200 5.90 5.90 5.87 14.70 14.76 14.48 25.95 26.50 25.10 0.042 0.044 0.041 50.00 50.00 50.00 220.00 225.00 218.00 0.0160 0.0160 0.0160 PREFERRED 30.60 30.75 29.95 518.00 520.00 520.00 104.00 104.10 104.10 102.50 102.20 102.00 8.40 8.40 8.30 110.00 110.50 110.00 75.00 75.00 74.95 75.40 75.50 75.10 1025.00 1030.00 1020.00 WARRANTS & BONDS 1.48 1.52 1.51 68.95 85.50 0.73 52.90 18.40 24.30 10.30 87.10 2.69 460.00 21.00 96.55 1.87 71.80 87.00 371.00 46.85 163.00 955.00 110.00 2.15

1,864,380 823,510 1,190,000 83,020 289,500 405,000 500 330 301,000 90 6,700 3,319,140 11,400 226,000 2,000 2,810 18,900.00 456,030 1,360 42,090 787,000

(30,507,137.50)

(4,818,129.50) 114,700.00 816,510.00 (23,692,246.00) 759,523.00

(0.15) 0.63 0.98 6.14 (0.71) 0.00 (13.51) 1.19 0.66 0.00 0.75 (1.46) 11.76 1.33 (2.45) 5.11 0.00 1.64 0.71 0.00 0.28 0.00 2.00 (0.74) 0.00 1.02 (1.35) (0.74) (1.73) 2.97 1.33 (0.89) 0.37 (1.92) 0.83 (0.96) (2.36) 0.00 0.29 0.00 0.00 0.42 (2.26) 0.34 0.00 0.88 1.07 0.83 6.84 (2.65)

2,169,200 26,100 18,059,000 37,000 1,392,000 9,800 4,000 10,000 119,000 1,500 28,285,200 1,125,500 3,000 3,239,200 1,111,540 5,100 731,500,000 359,500 70,000 48,000 511,240 128,800 176,000 886,900 516,200 1,700,900 13,000 26,400 446,890 5,000 2,400 13,192,200 2,202,400 5,000 95,900 3,251,000 127,000 10,000 65,400 204,860 210 1,714,000 1,100,000 608,000 22,000 7,725,000 1,335,500 5,339,000 7,748,000 7,635,000

(3,276,790.00) (12,442,040.00) (491,850.00)

61,400.00

(20,702,719.00) 2,446,085.00

17,788,655.00 (21,698,683.50) 253,000.00 4,736,900.00 (21,400.00) (214,400.00)

30,376.00 8,788,340.00

(51,573,840.00) 32,010,006.00

238,240.00 7,616,200.00

259,642.00 (14,000.00) 230,000.00 (15,950.00) 82,340.00

(14,780.00) 21,044,234.50 82,250.00 (842,030.00) (466,300.00)

0.70 48.70 0.1200 14.98 2.15 4.80 5.00 1.33 450.00 53.15 2.60 2.60 4.59 0.229 550.00 5.86 34.00 7.50 6.42 1.07 2.05 4.40 4.95 0.0480 0.570 2.21 1.94 0.315 815.00 1.98 1.14 0.2750 0.3150 0.385 3.09 0.610 23.25 5.14 4.62 1.43 2.36 1.10 0.82 0.960 2.91 0.320 1.88 1.58 1.92 1.16 2.51 0.1780 0.6800 0.430 18.64 3.04 2.90 5.90 14.52 3.66 0.530 5.140

0.00 (0.20) (1.64) (0.66) 2.87 0.00 (0.60) (6.99) 0.45 2.02 0.00 (13.33) 0.44 5.05 1.48 (2.01) 0.00 (5.06) (1.23) (0.93) 0.00 3.04 3.13 2.13 (3.39) 0.45 (0.51) (1.56) 0.00 3.13 0.00 (3.51) 5.00 0.00 0.00 8.93 1.53 (0.19) 0.43 2.14 4.89 0.00 (1.20) 0.00 (0.34) (8.57) (2.08) 0.64 1.05 0.87 0.40 0.00 6.25 0.00 0.43 0.33 (1.02) (2.80) (0.41) 0.00 0.00 0.39

2,251,000 875,900 681,870,000 10,324,900 164,000 41,000 304,400 237,000 902,350 1,952,450 18,000 2,000 483,000 70,000 291,950 106,600 1,057,500 10,000 10,795,100 691,000 879,000 79,712,000 33,000 3,100,000 1,812,000 16,000 11,000 310,000 324,750 227,000 90,000 650,000 7,740,000 740,000 323,000 309,000 10,105,800 828,900 120,000 3,368,000 26,000 5,000 398,000 19,369,000 76,000 25,160,000 160,000 31,767,000 51,000 492,000 90,740 4,010,000 20,086,000 1,000,000 2,006,000 126,000 31,000 4,709,000 26,341,800 41,000 376,000 2,767,600

7,000.00 8,409,990.00 (107,250.00) 3,578,956.00

85,449,676.00 85,449,676.00 5,200.00 955,990.00

130,956,250.00 (15,030,250.00) (4,113,439.00) (13,613,850.00)

(26,206,665.00) 92,500.00

(38,454,070.00) 610,148.00 464,210.00

(4,627,450.00)

(69,900.00) 185,620.00 (34,009,600.00) 19,200.00 73,891,720.00 (35,400.00) (217,080.00) 5,787,300.00 6,140.00

(4,884,487.00) (11,544,824.00) (3,547,635.00)

2.10 30.75 1.38 0.620 13.82 0.1560 6.06 59.45 10.00 5.35 1075.00 1127.00 8.45 69.00 0.430 6.00 8.00 2.48 0.028 0.87 2.5700 2.40 1.26 2.85 6.18 14.02 5.25 2.95 85.00 14.16 2610.00 0.325 29.70 1.06 4.15 2.30 0.440 1.340 0.006 4.75 4.70 17.48 25.60 0.275 20.60 20.50 1.00 1.03 17.38 0.57 1.060 1.170 0.0610 0.0610 16.96 5.60 0.6400 3.820 0.0190 0.0200 5.89 14.50 26.00 0.042 50.00 220.00 0.0160

(0.94) (0.81) 5.34 0.00 (1.99) 0.00 (0.49) 1.11 0.00 0.19 (0.46) (1.40) (0.59) (1.43) (2.27) 20.00 0.00 1.64 (9.68) (12.12) 0.00 0.00 0.00 (1.04) (1.12) 0.00 0.57 1.72 (8.60) 0.00 (0.76) 1.56 (0.83) 2.91 (2.35) 4.55 0.00 (3.60) 1.61 1.06 0.00 (0.23) (0.39) 0.00 (3.06) 0.00 (2.91) (2.83) (0.11) 1.79 (3.64) (2.50) (3.17) 0.00 (0.24) (1.75) 1.59 (2.05) 0.00 0.00 (0.17) (1.36) 0.19 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

24,000 692,700 1,481,000 50,000 4,612,200 14,870,000 519,600 670,680 4,000 23,100 475 63,965 142,400 1,722,180 630,000 10,200 800 24,000 400,600,000 19,868,000 5,000 171,000 5,000 253,000 23,000 182,300 120,600 2,336,000 3,730 81,900 74,360 1,000,000 733,000 100,313,000 10,000 36,000 480,000 6,000 157,000,000 41,000 27,000 745,300 200 1,210,000 2,800 5,500 305,000 18,607,000 30,700 885,000 45,363,000 1,226,000 56,050,000 232,070,000 72,600 101,400 100,000 102,000 28,900,000 2,000,000 56,100 2,128,500 91,100 721,400,000 120 193,180 11,000,000

(360.00)

(12,775,580.00) (58,879.00) (1,102,954.50)

8,125,515.00 53,681,122.50 42,500.00 (5,738,200.00) 503,000.00 (26,200.00)

60,140.00 50,200.00 (498,358.00) 36,237,440.00 (16,379,315.00) (19,171,660.00) (17,600.00) 6,950.00

103,400.00

5,120.00 (102,500.00) 395,860.00 11,200.00

329,130.00 1,681,500.00 11,886.00

(10,515,694.00) 484,260.00 (21,500.00) (12,431,660.00)

30.00 520.00 104.10 102.00 8.40 110.00 75.00 75.10 1025.00 1.51

(1.96) 0.39 0.10 (0.49) 0.00 0.00 0.00 (0.40) 0.00 2.03

1,685,700 500 6,000 21,500 262,800 11,030 139,950 48,760 1,390

(38,141,480.00) (243,890.00)

(8,592,750.00) 1,325,500.00 1,503,400.00

1,129,000

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COAL Asia Holdings Inc. is still seen as an undervalued company based on current valuation and market capitalization, even after recently trading at 30 percent to 50 percent above its listing price, In compliance with PSE requirements related to its initial public offering, Coal Asia engaged an accredited third party company to reevaluate and revalue the coal resources of unit Titan Mining and Energy Company. A previous valuation was done in May by Multinational Investment Bancorporation, which assessed the coal reserves at a combined amount of 123 million metric tons at P12.5 billion, based on March data. Recent data as of June and July of this year, however, initially claimed that the previous valuation based on the existing coal operating contracts in Davao Oriental and in ZamboangaSibugay may still be undervalued because of current coal prices and the estimated yield from the operating contracts. Coal Asias market capitalization stood at P4.24 billion as of the last trading day, which means the companys stock price needed to jump by at least 300 percent to meet Multinational Investments previous valuation. Coal Asia said it had to make the re-

CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 13, 2012

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Coal Asia remains undervalued

revaluation to apprise the investing public of the latest development. Based on the results of the revaluation, the corporation shall conduct a study on options to enhance stockholders benets. The enhancement in the corporations assets will allow it to have retained earnings, and will result to a possible buyback program, depending on a surplus situation, Coal Asia said in a ling. Another factor which solidifies the companys valuation is its plans to be involved in the power production, especially for the Mindanao region. The projected volume of the operations of Coal Asias subsidiary, Titan Mining and Energy, is enough to supply the expected explosion in demand by large scale energy producers racing to establish their coal-fired energy generating plants in the region. As one of the few major coal mining players in the area, Coal Asia has established a key position by initiating discussions with the Energy Department and other power companies that plan to expand operations in the southern part of the country for long-term supply agreements. Positive talks with large power producers have been initiated, including the possibility of a mine-mouth power plant.

John Hay lease renewal. John Hay Management Corp. president and chief executive Jamie Eloise Agbayani (second from left) and Intercontinental Hotels Group corporate secretary Donna Liza Lim-Boncan seal the deal with a handshake after signing the contract for renewing IHGs lease for another ve years in the John Hay Special Economic Zone. The IHG Reservations Center in Baguio provides services to its nine hotel brands and 4573 hotel chains in 100 countries. With them (from left) are JHMC chairman Silvestre Afable Jr. and Bases Conversion and Development Authority president and chief executive Arnel Paciano Casanova.

Petrons income down sharply

By Alena Mae S. Flores

PETRON Corp., the countrys biggest oil

rener, posted a consolidated net income of P932 million in the rst nine months of the year, sharply down from a prot of P7.6 billion year-on-year, due to depressed margins in the global markets in the second and third quarters.
Despite the challenging market conditions, we remained focused and followed through with our strategic initiatives that will ensure the long-term growth and protability of Petron. Soon, we will start to see the benets of these programs, which will not only be felt by the company but the country as well, Petron chairman and chief executive Ramon Ang said.

Petron said in a statement the Malaysian operations contributed P155 million in consolidated net income during the nine-month period. Petron reported a net income of P500 million in the third quarter, down 68 percent from P1.56 billion on year. The thirdquarter prot, however, was a turnaround from a P2.1-billion loss in the second quarter.

Petron sold 35.6 million barrels in the rst nine months of the year, up 4 percent on year, as domestic demand remained strong. The higher sales translated into higher revenues of P212.4 billion, up 5 percent on year. Petron said the consolidation of Petron Malaysia beginning the second quarter added 17.6 million barrels in volume and revenues of P94.9 billion, bringing consolidated sales to P307.3 billion, up 52 percent on year. Total domestic sales of the Philippine operations increased over 9 percent to 33 million barrels in the rst nine months of the year as all major trades saw a surge in demand. Retail volumes, which account for nearly 40 percent of local sales, increased over 7 percent due to Petrons massive retail expansion program. The companys service

station network breached the 2,000 mark. Petron remained the market leader with a share of about 39 percent as of July. The company reported that Units 1 and 2 comprising half of its 216-megawatt co-generation power plant in Limay, Bataan would be operational within the rst half of 2013. The facility will give the renery a more economical power source and improve steam supply. Petrons Renery Master Plan 2, meanwhile, is scheduled for mechanical completion in the rst half of 2014 with commercial operations targeted for the fourth quarter of the same year. The project will allow the conversion of all negative margin fuel oil into higher value products such as gasoline, diesel, and various petrochemicals.

Republic of the Philippines DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER Isabela 2nd District Engineering Office Roxas, Isabela

INVITATION TO BID
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the DPWH-Isabela 2nd District Engineering Office, Roxas, Isabela, invites contractors to bid for the following project(s): Contract ID : Contract Name : Contract Location : 12BF0102 Preventive Maintenance (Intermittent Section) along Daang Maharlika (LZ) As per GAA As per POW a. KO382+(-433)-KO382+000 / (KO382+433)-KO382+(-049), Naguilian, Isabela b. KO383+000-KO383+919 / (KO383+000-KO383+853), Naguilian, Isabela c. KO383+919-KO383+1288 / (KO383+919-KO383+1258), Naguilian, Isabela d. KO386+000-KO386+430 / (KO386+000-KO386+392), Naguilian, Isabela RRA

Scope of Work : Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): Php32, 872,177.03 Contract Duration : 115 Calendar Days Cost of Bid Documents: Php25, 000.00 Contract ID : Contract Name: Contract Location :

SMC selling P7.5-b shares of Pure Foods

By Jenniffer B. Austria
CONGLOMERATE San Miguel Corp. is selling up to P7.5 billion ($182 million) worth of shares in food manufacturing unit San Miguel Pure Foods Co. Inc. Maybank ATR-Kim Eng managing director Roberto Benares said in a presentation during the start of a domestic roadshow the secondary shares would be sold between P240 and P300 apiece. San Miguel has set aside up to 15 percent of the offering size to cover a greenshoe option. The offer price of between P240 and P300 represents a steep discount to the companys closing price of P700 per share. The share sale will enable San Miguel Pure Foods to comply with the 10-percent minimum public ownership requirement of the Philippine Stock Exchange from its current public oat of 0.08 percent. The offering period started Monday and will end on Nov. 19. San Miguel hired UBS, Maybank-ATR Kim Eng and Standard Chartered Bank as underwriters for the offering. San Miguel Pure Foods will not get any proceeds from the share sale. San Miguel, the selling shareholder, will use the proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes. San Miguel Pure Foods earlier reported a net income P1.23 billion in the third quarter of 2012, up 31.6 percent from P934 million yearon-year on higher sales. Revenues in the third quarter of 2012 totaled P24 billion, up 9 percent from P21.9 billion on year.

Republic of the Philippines DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER Isabela 2nd District Engineering Office Roxas, Isabela

Scope of Work : Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): Php38, 573,046.64 Contract Duration : 164 Calendar Days Cost of Bid Documents: Php25, 000.00 Contract ID : Contract Name : Contract Location :

12BF0103 Preventive Maintenance (Intermittent Section) along Santiago-Tuguegarao Road As per GAA As per POW a. KO367+364-KO368+365 / (KO367+364-KO368+294), Aurora, Isabela b. KO369+000-KO369+355 / (KO369+000-KO369+320), Aurora, Isabela c. KO369+355-KO371+000 / (KO369+355-KO370+874), Aurora, Isabela d. KO372+000-KO373+084 / (KO372+000-KO372+911), San Manuel, Isabela e. KO374+417-KO375+083 / (KO374+417-KO375+014), San Manuel, Isabela f. KO375+083-KO375+500 / (KO375+083-KO375+459), San Manuel, Isabela RRA

INVITATION TO BID
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the DPWH-Isabela 2nd District Engineering Office, Roxas, Isabela, invites contractors to bid for the following project(s): Contract ID : Contract Name : Contract Location: Scope of Work : Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): Contract Duration : Cost of Bid Documents: Contract ID : Contract Name : Contract Location: Scope of Work : Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): Contract Duration : Cost of Bid Documents: 12BF0100 Construction/Rehabilitation of Mallig Flood Control Project (Rang-Ayan Section) Mallig, Isabela FHR Php 9, 275,279.52 180 Calendar Days Php10, 000.00 12BF0101 Construction/Rehabilitation of Pinacanauan River Flood Control Project (Maranao Section) San Mariano, Isabela FHR Php9, 313,445.44 180 Calendar Days Php10, 000.00

Scope of Work : Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): Php22, 378,306.14 Contract Duration : 115 Calendar Days Cost of Bid Documents: Php25, 000.00 Contract ID : Contract Name : Contract Location :

12BF0104 Preventive Maintenance (Intermittent Section) along Gamu-Roxas Road As per GAA As per POW a. KO396+995-KO397+990 / (KO396+995-KO397+872), Gamu, Isabela b. KO403+000-KO404+000 / (KO403+000-KO403+967), Roxas, Isabela c. KO412+299-KO413+419 / (KO412+299-KO413+382), Roxas, Isabela d. KO413+613-KO413+686 / (KO413+613-KO413+684), Roxas, Isabela e. KO413+730-KO413+832 / (KO413+730-KO413+828.50), Roxas, Isabela RRA

Scope of Work : Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): Php21, 728,588.40 Contract Duration : 179 Calendar Days Cost of Bid Documents: Php25, 000.00

12BF0105 Road Upgrading (Gravel to Paved) (Intermittent Section) along IlaganDelfin Albano-Mallig Road As per GAA As per POW a. KO436+214-KO437+124 / (KO436+214-KO437+236.36), Quirino, Isabela b. KO438+375-KO438+437 / (KO438+375-KO438+688.70), Quirino, Isabela RCP

The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with the Revised IRR of R.A. 9184. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at the opening of bid. To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI), purchase bid documents and must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior registration with DPWH, (b) Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino-owned partnership, corporation, cooperative, or joint venture, (c) with PCAB license applicable to the type and cost of this contract, (d) completion of a similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within a period of 10 years, and (e) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line commitment for at least 10% of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids. Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration to the DPWH- Central Procurement Office (CPO), Manila, before the deadline for the receipt of LOI. The DPWH-CPO will only process contractors applications for registration with complete requirements and issue the Contractors Certificate of Registration (CRC). Registration Forms may be downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph. The significant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below: 1. Issuance of Bidding Documents 2. Pre-Bid Conference 3. Deadline of Receipt of LOIs from Prospective Bidders 4. Receipt of Bids 5. Opening of Bids November 8-27, 2012 10:00 AM., November 16, 2012 November 14, 2012 10:00 A.M., November 27, 2012 2:00 P.M., November 27, 2012

The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with the Revised IRR of R.A. 9184. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at the opening of bid. To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI), purchase bid documents and must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior registration with DPWH, (b) Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino-owned partnership, corporation, cooperative, or joint venture, (c) with PCAB license applicable to the type and cost of this contract, (d) completion of a similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within a period of 10 years, and (e) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line commitment for at least 10% of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids. Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration to the DPWH- Central Procurement Office (CPO), Manila, before the deadline for the receipt of LOI. The DPWH-CPO will only process contractors applications for registration with complete requirements and issue the Contractors Certificate of Registration (CRC). Registration Forms may be downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph. The significant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below: 1. Issuance of Bidding Documents 2. Pre-Bid Conference 3. Deadline of Receipt of LOIs from Prospective Bidders 4. Receipt of Bids 5. Opening of Bids November 9-29, 2012 10:00 AM., November 19, 2012 November 15, 2012 10:00 A.M., November 29, 2012 2:00 P.M., November 29, 2012

Calata probe restores confidence in market

AGRICULTURE supplies distributor Calata Corp. said Monday the completion of the Securities and Exchange Commissions probe on the companys shares helped maintain and preserve the condence and trust of investors in the company and the stock market. Calata president Joseph Calata said in a statement the swift conduct of the probe strengthened our faith in the ability of the SEC to safeguard the credibility of the stock market. He lauded the SEC for keeping a low-prole investigation and preventing the case from becoming a controversy. In so doing, the SEC has made sure there would be no unnecessary panic in the market that could have been triggered by baseless speculations. Let us allow the SEC to move on with the due process so that it can end this chapter and proceed with reforms in the stock market, Calata said.

SEC chairman Teresita Herbosa said last week the commission had approved the ling of criminal complaint against more than 10 people who were allegedly involved in price manipulation of Calata shares. Herbosa did not disclose the names of the persons involved, but said more people could be investigated as the probe was still far from over. The ling of criminal complaint was the culmination of a fourmonth investigation conducted by SECs enforcement and prosecution department. The investigation was made upon the recommendation of the Capital Markets Integrity Corp., the independently-run watchdog of the Philippine Stock Exchange. The share price of Calata surged to as high as P23.95 a piece in a period of two weeks after listing its shares at the stock exchange, before abruptly falling in a matter of days. Jenniffer B. Austria

The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at Isabela 2nd District Engineering Office, Roxas, Isabela, upon payment of a non-refundable fee as stated above. Prospective bidders may also download the BDs from the DPWH web site, if available. Prospective Bidders that will download the BDs from the DPWH website shall pay the said fees upon the submission of their Bid Documents. The Pre- Bid Conference shall be open only to interested parties who have purchased the BDs. Bids must be accompanied by a bid security, in the amount and acceptable form, as stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR. Prospective Bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specified in the BDs in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The first envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include a copy of the CRC. The second envelope shall contain the financial component of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bids (LCRB) in the evaluation and post qualification. The Isabela 2nd District Engineering Office, Roxas, Isabela reserves the right to accept or reject any bid and to annul the bidding process anytime before contract award, without incurring any liability to the affected bidders. Approved by: (SGD.) ORLANDO T. ESCOBAR Chief, Quality Assurance Section BAC Chairman DPWH-Isabela 2nd District Engng. Office Roxas, Isabela

The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at Isabela 2nd District Engineering Office, Roxas, Isabela, upon payment of a non-refundable fee as stated above. Prospective bidders may also download the BDs from the DPWH web site, if available. Prospective Bidders that will download the BDs from the DPWH website shall pay the said fees upon the submission of their Bid Documents. The Pre-Bid Conference shall be open only to interested parties who have purchased the BDs. Bids must be accompanied by a bid security, in the amount and acceptable form, as stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR. Prospective Bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specified in the BDs in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The first envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include a copy of the CRC. The second envelope shall contain the financial component of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bids (LCRB) in the evaluation and post qualification. The Isabela 2nd District Engineering Office, Roxas, Isabela reserves the right to accept or reject any bid and to annul the bidding process anytime before contract award, without incurring any liability to the affected bidders. Approved by: (Sgd.) ORLANDO T. ESCOBAR Chief, Quality Assurance Section BAC Chairman DPWH-Isabela 2nd District Engng. Office Roxas, Isabela

Noted: (SGD.) EVELYN C. COSTALES, Ph.D. District Engineer

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Japans economy shrank in 3rd quarter

TOKYOJapans economy contracted in the latest quarter, signaling that like Europe it may already be in recession, further weighing down world growth. On an annualized basis, the worlds No. 3 economy shrank 3.5 percent in the July-September quarter, the government reported Monday. It was in line with gloomy forecasts after Japans territorial dispute with China hammered exports that were already weakened by feeble global demand. The bad news will temper optimism over recoveries in China and the US, where some economists are predicting growth will top 3 percent in the third quarter. Chinas painful slowdown likely bottomed out in the third quarter, with recent indicators such as factory production and auto and retail sales showing improvement. And Europe, though it may have turned a corner on its debt crisis as the nancial system stabilizes, is forecast to get worse before it gets better. Japans outlook remains bleak, with most economists forecasting a further decline in economic activity for the OctoberDecember quarter, which would ofcially put it in a recession according to the common denition of two consecutive quarters of contraction. Consumer spending fell 0.5 percent in the third quarter, as subsidies for auto purchases expired, and corporate capital spending fell 3.2 percent. Spending on reconstruction from the countrys March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disasters has also weakened. AP

Congress seeks more Petraeus affair details

WASHINGTONMembers of Congress said Sunday they want to know more details about the FBI investigation that revealed an extramarital affair between ex-CIA Director David Petraeus and his biographer, questioning when the retired general popped up in the FBI inquiry, whether national security was compromised and why they werent told sooner. We received no advanced notice. It was like a lightning bolt, said Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee. The FBI was investigating harassing emails sent by Petraeus biographer and girlfriend Paula Broadwell to a second woman. That probe of Broadwells emails revealed the affair between Broadwell and Petraeus. The FBI contacted Petraeus and other intelligence ofcials, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper asked Petraeus to resign. A senior US military ofcial identied the second woman as Jill Kelley, 37, who lives in Tampa, Fla., and serves as an unpaid social liaison to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, where the militarys Central Command and Special Operations Command are located. Staffers for Petraeus said Kelley and her husband were regular guests at events he held at Central Command headquarters. In a statement Sunday evening, Kelley and her husband, Scott, said: We and our family have been friends with Gen. Petraeus and his family for over ve years. We respect his and his familys privacy and want the same for us and our three children. AP

Indianapolis blast. Shown from the aerial shot are two homes that were leveled and the numerous

neighboring homes that were damaged from a massive explosion that sparked a huge re and killed two people in Indianapolis on Nov. 11. Nearly three dozen homes were damaged or destroyed, and seven people were taken to a hospital with injuries. AP

Syria war spills over to Israel

JERUSALEMIsrael was drawn into the ghting in neighboring Syria for the rst time Sunday, ring warning shots across the border after an errant mortar shell landed near an Israeli military installation in the Golan Heights.
While Israel appeared eager to calm the situation, its response was a potent reminder of how easily the Syrian civil war already spilling across borders with Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan could explode into a wider regional conagration. Israeli ofcials threatened even tougher retaliation if attacks persist. They have feared that the instability in Syria over the past 19 months could spill across the border into Israel, particularly as President Bashar Assads grip on power grows increasingly precarious. Israel has little love for Assad, who has provided refuge and support to Israels bitterest enemies through the years. But the Syrian leaderand his father before himhave kept the frontier quiet for nearly four decades, providing a rare source of stability in the volatile region. The Israeli military said the mortar re caused no injuries or damage at the post in the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and then annexed. In recent weeks, incidents of errant re from Syria have multiplied, leading Israel to warn that it holds Syria responsible. Israeli ofcials believe most of the re has come from Syrian government forces, although they think it has been inadvertent and not been aimed at Israel. After responding to Sundays mortar strike, the Israeli military moved quickly to defuse tensions. We understand this was a mistake and was not meant to target Israel, and then that is why we red a warning shot in retaliation, said Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich, a military spokesman. Defense ofcials said an anti-tank missile was red, and there were no reports of casualties in Syria. The Israeli military also said it led a complaint through United Nations forces operating in the area, stating that re emanating from Syria into Israel will not be tolerated and shall be responded to with severity. Israeli defense ofcials said the incident was not considered a serious military threat, but Israel felt the need to respond in order to set clear limits for the Syrians. Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Israeli defense forces have been instructed to prevent the battles from spilling over into our territory. Additional shelling into Israel from Syria will elicit a tougher response; exacting a higher price from Syria, Barak said. Nineteen months of ghting and the mounting chaos engulng the Assad regime have already shaken the region, spilling into Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. In new violence Sunday, Syrian army forces backed by helicopter gunships and artillery attacked a border area with Turkey after rebels captured a crossing point, activists said. AP

Chinas next premier open to western ideas

BEIJINGThe man in line to oversee Chinas massive but rapidly slowing economy for the coming decade speaks English and comes from a generation of politicians schooled during a time of greater openness to liberal Western ideas than their predecessors. But Li Keqiang also has been a cautious bureaucrat who rose through, and is bound by, a consensus-oriented Communist Party that has been slow to reform its massive state-owned enterprises while reexively stiing dissentand he has been an enforcer keeping a lid on bad news. Li, to be promoted within the leaderships top council after a pivotal party congress closes later this week and expected to take the economy-focused post of premier from outgoing Wen Jiabao next spring, was governor of the agricultural province of Henan in 1998 during an unusual explosion of AIDS cases. Tens of thousands of people had contracted HIV from illegal blood-buying rings that pooled plasma and re-injected it into donors after removing the blood products. But Beijing hadnt acknowledged the problem yet, and Li oversaw a campaign to squelch reporting about it, harass activists and isolate affected villages. AP

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Syrian groups reach unity
DOHA, QatarSyrian anti-government groups struck a deal Sunday under intense international pressure to form a new opposition leadership that will include representatives from the countrys disparate factions ghting to topple President Bashar Assads regime, activists said. The opposition has been deeply divided for months despite the relentless bloodshed in Syria and repeated calls from their Western and Arab supporters to create a cohesive and representative leadership that could present a single conduit for foreign aid. The agreement, reached Sunday after more than a week of meetings in the Qatari capital of Doha, could boost efforts to secure international supportand potentially weaponsthat will be crucial in the war to oust Assad. We have agreed on the broad platform and all [opposition] parties, without any exception, support this initiative, said Ali Sadr el-Din Bayanouni, a former Syrian Muslim Brotherhood leader who took part in the talks. He said the new leadership will be called the Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces. AP

Chinas Vice Premier Li Keqiang makes a toast during a welcoming dinner at a hotel in Hong Kong in this le photo taken on Aug. 17, 2011. In line to take over Chinese Premier and oversee Chinas massive but rapidly slowing economy for the coming decade, Li speaks English and comes from a generation of politicians schooled during a time of greater openness to liberal Western ideas than their predecessors. AP

Skyfall movie soars

Chinese students ock to US

ANN ARBOR, MichiganWant to see how quickly the look and business model of American public universities are changing? Visit a place like Indiana University. Five years ago, there were 87 undergraduates from China on its idyllic, All-American campus in Bloomington. This year: 2,224. New gures out Monday show international enrollment at US colleges and universities grew nearly 6 percent last year, driven by a 23-percent increase from China, even as total enrollment was leveling out. But perhaps more revealing is where much of the growth is concentrated: big, public landgrant colleges, notably in the Midwest. The numbers offer a snapshot of the transformation of Americas famous heartland public universities in an era of diminished state support. Of the 25 campuses with the most international students, a dozen have increased international enrollment more than 40 percent in just ve years, according to data collected by the Institute of International Education. All but one are public, and a striking number come from the Big Ten: Indiana, Purdue, Michigan State, Ohio State and the Universities of Minnesota and Illinois. Indianas international enrollment now surpasses 6,000, or about 15 percent of the student body, and in Illinois, the agship Urbana-Champaign campus has nearly 9,000second nationally only to the University of Southern California. To be sure, such ambitious universities value the global vibe and perspectives international students bring to their Midwestern campuses. But theres no doubt what else is driving the trend: International students typically pay full out-of-state tuition and arent awarded nancial aid. Public universities hit hard by state funding cuts really are starting to realize the tuition from international students makes it possible for them to continue offering scholarships and nancial aid to domestic students, said Peggy Blumenthal, senior counselor at IIE, the private nonprot that publishes the annual Open Doors study. Nationally, there were 765,000 foreign students on US campuses last year, with China (158,000) the top source, followed by India, South Korea and Saudi Arabia (the fastest growing, thanks to an ambitious scholarship program by the Saudi government). Altogether, the Department of Commerce calculates they contribute $22.7 billion to the economy, and many stay after graduation. For the rst time in a dozen years, according to IIE, there were more foreign undergraduates than graduate students. Indiana charges in-state students $10,034 for tuition and non-residents $31,484, so the economic appeal is straightforward. Still, out-ofstate recruitinginternational or domesticis always sensitive for public universities, fueling charges that kids of in-state taxpayers are denied available slots. AP

Greece passes austerity budget

ATHENSGreek lawmakers approved the countrys 2013 austerity budget early Monday, an essential step in Greeces efforts to persuade its international creditors to unblock a vital rescue loan installment without which the country will go bankrupt. The budget passed by a 167-128 vote in the 300member Parliament. It came days after a separate bill of deep spending cuts and tax hikes for the next two years squeaked through with a narrow majority following severe disagreements among the three parties in the governing coalition. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras pledged that the spending cuts will be the last Greeks have to endure. Just four days ago, we voted the most sweeping reforms ever in Greece, he said. The sacrices (in the earlier bill and the budget) will be the last. Provided, of course, we implement all we have legislated. Greece has done what it was asked to do and now is the time for the creditors to make good on their commitments, he stressed. Athens says that with the passage of the two bills, the next loan installment, worth 31.5 billion (about $40 billion), should be disbursed. Without it, the government has said it will run out of cash on Friday, when 5 billion ($6.35 billion) worth of treasury bills mature. Finance ministers from the 17-nation eurozone are meeting in Brussels later Monday, with Greece high on the agenda. However, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has indicated it is unlikely that the ministers will decide on the disbursement at that meeting. AP

LOS ANGELESJames Bonds Skyfall has extended its worldwide box-ofce rule to North America, hauling in a franchise-record $87.8 million in its rst weekend at US theaters. Adding in $2.2 million from Thursday night previews at IMAX and other large-format theaters, Skyfall has taken in $90 million domestically, according to studio estimates Sunday. That lifts the worldwide total for Skyfall to $518.6 million since it began rolling out overseas in late October. Internationally, the 23rd Bond ick added $89 million this weekend to raise its overseas revenue to $428.6 million. The third installment starring Daniel Craig as British super-spy Bond, Skyfall outdid the $67.5 million US debut of 2008s Quantum of Solace, the franchises previous best opening. Skyfall more than doubled the $40.8 million debut of Craigs rst Bond lm, 2006s Casino Royale. Skyfall already has passed the $407.7 million overseas total for Quantum of Solace and by Monday, it will top the $432.2 million international haul for Casino Royale. AP

Oz dress fetches $480,000

BEVERLY HILLSThe now-faded blue gingham dress that Judy Garland wore in The Wizard of Oz has sold for $480,000. Auction house Juliens Auctions says the pinafore fetched the highest price of any item during a twoday auction of Hollywood memorabilia that drew bids from around the world. The auction ended Saturday in Beverly Hills, California. Steve McQueens racing jacket sold for $50,000, as did a purple skirt worn by Marilyn Monroe while lming River of No Return in Canada. Julie Andrews Sound of Music dress brought $38,400. Sunglasses worn by Jean Reno in Leon went for $8,320, while Johnny Depps shades fetched $3,250. Bidders also snapped up pieces of royal wedding cakes. Prince William and Kate Middletons cake sold for $7,500 while Prince Charles and Princess Dianas cake sold for $1,375. AP

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Partners for life, now and forever the Anlene team with Dr. Alex Pineda, RJ and Vanessa Ledesma, and Vince and Patricia Hizon

BONE thinning occurs as part of aging. If this continues to happen to the point that your bones become very brittle, this is called osteoporosis. The alarming truth is that you can break your hips and require hip replacement surgery after slipping on the bathroom oor if you are medium to high risk for osteoporosis. Heres the good news: you can prevent this.
Based on statistics, between two women having lunch, one of them will be at risk for bone breakage after a seemingly minor fall or even just a bump in their advanced years. After age 30, men and women naturally begin to lose bone mass. You can help your body slow this process down with a diet rich in calcium and vitamin D. In the years after menopause, bone mass loss is even more rapid. Calcium is found in dairy products such as milk or yogurt, fortied orange juice, and many vegetables. Anlene is a formula milk that is rich in calcium and vitamin D. It has been proven to reduce the bone loss among women. It only takes two full glasses a day to meet 100 percent of the Philippine calcium and vitamin D requirements for mature adults. If you have seen those milk commercials showing womens bones breaking due to lack of calcium, heres a dose of realityosteoporosis hits not only women but men as well. In fact, during a recent Anlene media event where the brand had bone scan machines for the guests, more of the male guests had medium to high risk for osteoporosis than the women. Osteoporosis is no longer a womans disease, according to recent nding.

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By Dinna Chan Vasquez
According to the International Osteoporosis Foundation, one out of ve men over the age 50 will suffer from an osteoporotic fracture. In the Philippines, data on osteoporosis in men is limited but Anlene Bone Health check results from August 2011 to July 2012 showed that 43 percent of men 26 to 65 years old in the Philippines are at risk. Dr. Alex Pineda explains that as men age, their testosterone levels also decrease and this results in more signicant bone thinning. Habits such as smoking and alcohol consumption also result in more rapid bone loss and the inhibition of calcium absorption and bone consumption, says Pineda, who is the secretary general of the Osteoporosis Society of the Philippines Foundation. During the Anlene event, couple RJ and Vanessa Ledesma and Vince and Patricia Hizon shared their stories with the guests. Vince revealed that three years ago, his father suffered a serious spinal fracture due to osteoporosis. The two couples agreed that men and women alike need to live a healthy and active lifestyle and have a diet rich in calcium in order to prevent the risk of osteoporotic injuries later in life. Pineda said osteoporosis can be prevented. Osteoporosis is determined by factors such as genetic predisposition, which means its hereditary, as well as age and sex. Women produce estrogen which serves as a protecting factor against bone loss, so males are more predisposed to suffer from osteoporosis, said Pineda. Two glasses of milk daily are recommended for men and women, said Anlene marketing director Harvey Ong. Anlene comes in powder variant in chocolate and vanilla avors, and in ready-to-drink tetra packs. It has vitamin D that promotes calcium absorption, and has been proven to reduce bone loss with continued consumption.

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Food gifts galore
WHEN it comes to giving gifts, people say that its always the thought that goes behind them that counts. Well, what says thoughtfulness more than a gift that you made and cooked yourself? Get a little help with your Christmas gift list of your loved ones this year and turn your kitchen into a food factory this November with Appetite. With over 30 easy to do recipe of dishes that are ready to go, there will be less worries (on the part of the gift givers), happy hearts, and full stomachs this coming Yuletide season. Try your hand at making your own salad dressings; or why not make a batch of Market Mommas Chicken Liver Pat. The Roasted Garlic Cheese Spread from Homecooking pairs well with the Focaccia featured in Appetease. Send a package with both, for something thats ready to eat upon receipt. Get the baking pans out, dust your workspace, and make sure the oven is pre-heating. You might as well roll up those sleeves and get to work on all these delicious gifts this November

The best of the best

GET the best of 2012 from beauty to fashion to trendiest celebrities this November in Meg, starting off with cover girl Kathryn Bernardo. De. spite her superstardom, the Princess and I star never fails to have her slice of teenage fun. Find out what and who made it to the 2012 Buzzmakers list and get the juicy details behind the most talked about topics, what trended online, and the hottest beauty and fashion products. Read on the most effective and trustworthy beauty brands from Megs Beauty Awards. Find out where to get the perfect pampering treatments with the list of the nest spas and salons. Finally, its a clash of the department store giants! Get your doze of high fashion with amazingly put together pieces from the industrys leading department stores. This season, theres no reason not to be in style.

Alumni homecoming
CALLING all alumni of the Varsitarian, the 84-year-old ofcial student publication of the University of Santo Tomas, to attend its 85th Sapphire Anniversary celebration. Valik Varsi is scheduled on January 26, 2013 at the Harbor Garden Tent, Sotel Philippine Plaza Manila in Pasay City. For inquiries and registration, visit the Varsitarian ofce at room 105, Tan Yan Kee Student Center, UST, Espaa, Manila, send an e-mail to valikvarsitarian@ gmail.com, or call at 406.1611 loc. 8235 and look for Ms. Maria Luisa Mamaradlo (0905.508.4934).

A celebration of color
COLORS can have a profound effect on a persons mood and behavior. Soft neutrals can help one relax and unwind while bright hues can make one feel more alert. From the somber to the vibrant and the feminine to the masculine, the November issue of MyHome magazine is a celebration of the power, the inuence and the sheer beauty of color. Adorn your walls and tell time in style with the wide selection of clocks for you to choose from. Liven up your space by learning how to make a chic oral arrangement in less than 10 steps. For those considering a strikingly painted wall or simply a new entertainment cabinet for the family room, MyHome has great ideas that can surely help. Spruce up the living room, the bedroom and every other part of your home with no less than 70 furniture and accessory picks. With more than 30 pages of enthralling homes that range from the clean and streamlined hideaway to the eclectic sanctuary awash in color, nding inspiration for your own home is made easy.

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(How to protect your child from cyberbullying)
By Ed Biado

THE one thing every parent must know is that the Internet is no safer than schools, playgrounds or the street outside your house. Dont ever think for one second that your children are not in danger just because they are at home. Whenever theyre doing homework or research on the Internet, chatting with friends on social networking sites or playing multiplayer online games, they could be targets of cyberbullies.
Stopcyberbullying.org denes cyberbullying as the instance when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child, preteen or teen using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones, limiting the participants to minors because once adults become involved [in most cases, as the attacker], it is plain and simple cyber-harassment or cyberstalking. The online act of bullying is different from its real-world counterpart in the sense that no physical pain is inicted. But the emotional trauma that your kids could be subjected to affects them as badly as, if not worse than, the physical act. Psychologists say that cyberbullying causes severe stress, depression and anxiety among victimized youths. Data from December 2011 show that there are over 33.6 million Internet users in the Philippines, or 33 percent of the whole population. In July 2012, 28.3 million Filipinos have signed up to Facebook. Eight out of 10 Filipino children access the Internet on a weekly basis while more than three of them are online daily. In 2010, 73 percent of Filipino teenagers have proles on at least one social networking site. In total, according to February 2012 statistics, Filipinos log onto social networks 15 billion times a month. On average, we are online 21.5 hours a week. These numbers are proof that the Internet and social networking are a major part of the Filipino lifestyle. The more time weand our kidsspend online, the more prone we all are to being attacked by cyberbullies. Thats why twotime Philippines Broadband Service Provider of the Year Award winner Globe Tattoo has these tips on what to do if you suspect that your child is a victim of cyberbullying: Pay attentionKids who suffer from cyberbullying give out signals that they need help. And parents should watch out for these signals. The child may suddenly become moody and constantly angry or begin to distance himself from the family or even his friends. Sometimes parents mistakenly see this as a normal growing up phase not knowing that these sudden change in behavior are actually cries for help. If the parent is attentive to these red ags, the problem may be resolved at once before it gets any bigger. ConnectIf your child is active in the social network scene, you should be too. Create your own Facebook account if you still dont have one and make sure to add your child as family. That way, youll be able to see what your child is posting in cyberspace and the response that he or she is getting. Make sure, though, not to be intrusive in your childs social network activities. (Although, it should be noted that Facebooks privacy settings allow for users to hide posts from other users, including family members.) TalkAs soon as your child mentions the word cyberbullying or any Internet threat that tends to bother him, sit down with him for a serious one-on-one. Listen to what he has to say, try to nd out how he feels and what exactly disturbs him. Assure him that you are always there to support and help him with whatever he is going through. ExplainAt the same time, if your child happens to be the cyberbully, immediately step in and resolve the problem. Make your child understand that it is never right to tease, offend or bash someone, online or otherwise. Make the child understand the consequences of his actions, what cyberbullying is and how seriously it affects the victim. Show supportTake cyberbullying seriously and support them through the next steps. This is a very difcult situation for your child so he will be needing your guidance to help him get through this. You may also tap professional help to work with you and your child on this problem. EncourageHelp your child nd safe and better things to do online. By protecting your child against Internet threats, it does not mean that you will stop him from exploring the cyberworld, where he could learn and discover new things. Take actionParents who seriously want to protect their precious children from cyberbullying and other Internet threats but do not want to deprive them of the joy of learning and exploration that could be found in the digital space will nd an ally in Tattoo@Home with the Surf Safe suite, which provides protection for the kids from exposure to adult sites, offensive music and videos, social networking risks and strangers. (This can work on younger kids. But teenagers will easily nd workarounds and bypass security settings in mere minutes, thanks to a variety of online tools available and help from friends.) There are a lot of social media sites that your child could be visiting regularly. Aside from social networks, there are sites for gaming, music, video, photography, news, humor and other interests and activities, where a simple and innocent comment could lead to an all-out word war. Its next to impossible to keep track of all of them and ensure your childs safety and peace of mind. So what truly matters is that communication lines at home are always open. For more information on Tattoo@Home, go to www.tattoo.com.ph

Beneath the surface (of the Web)

By Ed Biado
If you subscribe to the belief that everything on the World Wide Web is searchable, you are sorely mistaken. Most Web queries begin with a search. You type some keywords, hit search and the search engine returns hundreds of millions of results in less than 0.3 seconds. For example, searching with the keyword Facebook on Google will give you over 20 billion results. Youd think that Google searched every existing web page to retrieve that much of information. Again, wrong. Think of the Web as an ocean. Search engines are ships and they can travel to any part of the oceans surface. Thats where the visible Web ison the surface. So when you search for something, you are only looking at the Surface Web. Whats beneath that is something most people dont know about. This is the Deep Web, or those sites, computers and servers not indexed Thehackernews.com says that there are also online marketplaces with products that are derived from illegal activities, (the black market of the virtual world). Because information is exchanged anonymously, weird and scary freesites exist within the Deep Web, such as sources of pirated materials, guides to explosives, arson and terrorism, ads for assassination services, child pornography and other illegal contentdenitely not for public consumption. Its a good thing that these sites are kept hidden from plain sight and inaccessible via regular means. But the Deep Web is not entirely invisible as there are a few specialized search engines able to explore its depths. However, thats not to say that anyone can just hire an assassin or watch grotesque videos exhibiting sick proclivities. Most of the known portals function to mine information limited to specic topics, a majority of which are scholarly works. And they can be quite useful.

by standard search engines. To use the ocean analogy, its underwater. It includes sites whose owners opted to not register them with any search engine, and unlinked, private and scripted content. Most of the Deep Web contains dynamically created web pages and forms; meaning, they dont exist unless a specic query is submitted, prompting the pages to be created as a response, which is why they cant be crawled by normal search engines. The Deep Web is home to academic papers, studies and journals, hacker networks and government content. Controversial whistle-blower website Wikileaks is published from the Deep Web.

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Republika ng Pilipinas KAGAWARAN NG PAGAWAIN AT LANSANGANG PAMBAYAN South Cotabato Sub-District Engineering Office General Santos City
November 9, 2012

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 13, 2012

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Cordillera Administrative Region BAGUIO CITY DISTRICT ENGINEERING OFFICE OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER Engineers Hill, Baguio City Tel. No. 442-8195 Fax No. (074) 442-8195

Department of Public Works and Highways

Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS

Misamis Oriental First District Engineering Office OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER Brgy 26., Gingoog City Tel./ Fax. No. (088) 861-1185 www.dpwh.gov.ph

Republic of the Philippines

INVITATION TO BID
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the DPWH Baguio City District Engineering Office invites contractors to bid for the aforementioned project/s: Source of Fund: 1. Contract ID: Contract Name: GOP through GAA 2013 12PD0095 Dredging of Burnham Lake including Construction of Fountain, Burnham Park Contract Location: Baguio City Scope of Work: Dredging, Construction of Fountain Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): Php 21,560,000.00 Contract Duration: 65 calendar days Cost of Bidding Documents: Php 25,000.00

INVITATION TO APPLY FOR ELIGIBILITY AND TO BID

The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) South Cotabato Sub-District Engineering Office, General Santos City through the CY 2012 VARIOUS ROAD PRIORITY PROJECTS, invites contractors to bid for the following projects: 1. a. b. c. d. e f. 2. a. b. c. d. e f. 3. a. b. c. d. e f. Contract ID: Contract Name: Contract Location: Scope of Work: Approved Budget of the Contract: Contract Duration: Contract ID: Contract Name: Contract Location: Scope of Work: Approved Budget of the Contract: Contract Duration: Contract ID: Contract Name: Contract Location: Scope of Work: Approved Budget of the Contract: Contract Duration: 13MB0014 Repair/Rehabilitation/Improvement of FILIPINOAMERICAN Friendship Avenue Brgy. Fatima, General Santos City Asphalt Overlay, Pavement Markings, Aggregate Surface Course P 19,392,560.38 60 cal. Days 13MB0015 Concreting of General Santos City Circumferential Road, Sinawal-Apopong Section (Island) Concreting of Roads P 11,640,000.00 60 cal. Days 13MB0016 Improvement of JCT. GSC Circumferential-MakarTupi-Marbel Road (Geometric Control), General Santos City Concreting of Roads P11,640,000.00 60 cal. Days

INVITATION TO BID
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the Department of Public Works and Highways-Misamis Oriental First District Engineering Office (DPWH-MOFDEO), invites contractors to bid for the projects as specified below: 1.) Contract ID. Contract Name Contract Location Scope of Work Availability of Fund Approved Budget for The Contract (ABC) Contract Duration Cost of Bid Documents LOI : : : : : : : : : 12KK0072 Anakan-Mimbunga-Tinabalan-Mimbalagon Road, Gingoog City Anakan-Mimbunga-Tinabalan-Mimbalagon Road 0.15x4x6,977.29 ln.m PCCP DA Priority FMR Projects-SARO#E-11-02262 dtd Dec. 22, 2011 Php 47,500,000.00 210 calendar days Php 20,000.00 (Free) D.O. No. 52 S. 2011

Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at bid opening. Bidders should have completed, within ten (10) years from the date of submission and receipt of bids, a contract similar to the Project. 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 non-discretionary pass/fail criterion as specified in the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act 9184 (RA 9184), otherwise known as the Government Procurement Reform Act. Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizens/sole proprietorships, partnerships, or organizations with at least seventy five percent (75%) interest or outstanding capital stock belonging to citizens of the Philippines. Interested bidders may obtain further information from DPWH-Baguio City District Engineering Office and inspect the Bidding Documents at the address given below from 8:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. A complete set of Bidding Documents may be purchased by interested Bidders from the address below and upon payment of a nonrefundable fee for the Bidding Documents as indicated. It may also be downloaded free of charge from the website of the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS) and the website of the Procuring Entity, provided that bidders shall pay the fee for the Bidding Documents not later than the submission of their bids. The DPWH-Baguio City District Engineering Office will hold a Pre-Bid Conference on November 19, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. at the DPWH-Baguio City District Engineering Office Conference Hall which shall be open only to all interested parties who have purchased the Bidding Documents. Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before December 3, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. at DPWH-Baguio City District Engineering Office. All bids must be accompanied by a bid security in any of the acceptable forms and in the amount stated in ITB Clause 18. Bids will be opened on December 3, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. at DPWH- Baguio City District Engineering Office in the presence of the bidders representatives who choose to attend at the address below. Late bids shall not be accepted. The DPWH-Baguio City District Engineering Office reserves the right to accept or reject any bid, to annul the bidding process, and to reject all bids at any time prior to contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder or bidders. For further information, please refer to: Nora R. delos Santos DPWH-Baguio City District Engineering Office Engineers Hill, Baguio City Telefax No. (074) 442-8195 dpwh.bcdeo.bac@gmail.com Approved by: (Sgd.) GIL L. NUQUE Engineer III BAC Chairman Noted by: (Sgd.) IRENEO S. GALLATO District Engineer

The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with the Revised IRR of R.A. 9184. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at the opening of bid. To bid for these contracts, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI), purchase bid documents and must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior registration with the DPWH, (b) Filipino Citizen or 75% Filipino- owned partnership, corporation, cooperative, or joint venture, (c) with PCAB license applicable to the type and cost of these contracts, (d) completion of a similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within a period of 10 years, and (e) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line commitment at least equal to 10% of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/ fail criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids. Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration to the DPWH-POCW Central Office before the deadline for the receipt of LOI. The DPWH-POCW Central Office will only process contractors applications for registration with complete requirements and issue the Contractors Certificate of Registration (CRC). Registration Forms may be downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph. The significant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below: Activities Issuance of Bid Documents Pre-bid Conference Deadline for the Submission of LOI Receipt of Bids Opening of Bids Schedule From November 10 to November 27, 2012, 10:00 A.M. November 16, 2012, 10:00 A.M. November 22, 2012, 3:00 P.M. Deadline: 10:00 A.M., November 27, 2012 November 27, 2012, 10:00 A.M.

The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with the Revised IRR of R.A. 9184. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at the opening of bid. To bid for this contract, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI), purchased bid documents and must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior registration with the DPWH, (b) Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino-owned partnership/corporation, cooperative or joint venture, (c) with PCAB applicable to the type and cost of this contract, (d) completion of a similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC and (e) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line commitment at least equal to 10% of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids. Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration to the DPWH-POCW Central Office before the deadline for the receipt of LOI. The DPWH POCWCentral Office will only process contractors applications for the registration with complete requirements and issue the Contractors Certificate of Registration (CRC). Registration Forms may be downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph. The significant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below: 1. Issuance of Bidding Documents 2. Site Inspection/Pre-Bid Conference 3. Deadline of Receipt of LOI from Prospective Bidders 4. Receipt of Bids 5. Opening of Bids From: November 9, 2012 to December 4, 2012 Time & Date: November 23, 2012 @ 8:30 AM & 1:30PM. Respectively Deadline: November 28, 2012 until 12:00 NN Deadline: December 4, 2012 @ 10:00AM. Time & Date: December 4, 2012 @ 10:30 AM.

The BAC will only receive Contractors LOI/Expression of Interest (NR-003) and issue Bidding Documents upon presentation of the original copies of their PCAB License and Contractors Registration Certificate (CRC) in person or thru their authorized representative as reflected in their CRC; Special Power of Attorney will not be accepted. The BAC will issue hard copies of bidding documents (BDs) at BAC Secretariat, 3rd Floor DPWH Building, Purok 5, Brgy. 26, Gingoog City, upon payment of a nonrefundable fee of the amount stated above. Prospective bidders may also download the BDs from the DPWH website, if applicable. Prospective bidders that will download the BDs from the DPWH website shall pay the said fees on or before the submission of their Bid Documents. The Pre-bid Conference shall be open only to interested parties who have purchased the BDs. Bids must be accompanied by a bid security, in the amount and acceptable form, as stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR. Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specified in the BDs in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The first envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include a copy of the CRC. The second envelope shall contain the financial component of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as determined in the bid evaluation and post-qualification. The Department of Public Works and Highways- Misamis Oriental First District Engineering Office reserves the right to accept or reject any bid, to annul the bidding process at any time prior contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder/s. Approved: (Sgd.) PEDRO M. MERCADO OIC - Asst. District Engineer BAC Chairman

NOTE: 1.) Only Proprietors/Project Managers/Project Engineers and Materials Engineers are allowed to attend the Site Inspection and Pre-bid Conference.

The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents at DPWH-South Cotabato SDEO GENERAL SANTOS CITY, upon payment of a non-refundable fee of 1-3) P25,000.00. Prospective bidders may also download the BDs form the DPWH website if available. Prospective bidders that will download the BDs from the DPWH website shall pay said fees on or before the submission of their bids Documents. Pre-bid Conference shall be open only to interested parties who have purchased the BDs. Bids must be accompanied by a bid security, in the amount and acceptable form, as stated in Section 27.2 of the Revised IRR. Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specified in the BDs in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The first envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include of the CRC. The second envelope shall contain the financial component of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as determined in the evaluation and post-qualification. The DPWH South Cotabato Sub-District Engineering Office, General Santos City reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bid and to annul the bidding process anytime prior Contract Award, without incurring any liability to the affected bidder/s. (Sgd.) EVELYN E. DUARTE Engineer II/Chief, Maintenance Section BAC Chairman

Noted: (Sgd.) OMAR P. DIRON OIC-District Engineer

(MST-Nov. 13, 2012)

Approved: (Sgd.) MANGOLAMBA D. HADJI ALI Engineer V/Acting Head

(MST-NOV. 13, 2012)

(MST-Nov. 13, 2012)

Republic of the Philippines Department of Public Works and Highways Caraga, Region XIII OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER Agusan del Norte Engineering District Butuan City
DPWH INFRA-07-Standard Avertisement-Revised IRR

Republic of the Philippines Department of Public Works and Highways Caraga, Region III OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER Agusan del Norte Engineering District Butuan City
DPWH INFRA-07-Standard Avertisement-Revised IRR

OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ENGINEER

Davao del Norte District Engineering Office Km. 48, Brgy. Canocotan, Tagum City

Department of Public Works and Highways

Republic of the Philippines

INVITATION TO BID
The Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Region XI, Davao del Norte District Engineering Office, through the FY 2013 Reg. Infrastructure Program, invites contractors to bid for the aforementioned projects: 1. Contract ID: Contract Name: 12LC0177 Widening of Tagum-Panabo Circumferential Road, 1st District Poblacion Asuncion Section, Km. 1469+313Km. 1471+000 Contract Location: Davao del Norte Scope of Works: Concreting of Additional Two (2) Lanes Approved Budget for the Contract ( ABC ): Php. 39,490,940.00 Cost of Bid Documents: Php. 20,000.00 Contract Duration: 170 Calendar days 12LC0178 Construction/Widening/Upgrading/Rehabilitation of Del Pilar (San Juan)-New Cortez-San Jose-Carcor, Panas Contract Location: New Corella, Davao del Norte Scope of Works: Concreting of Unpaved Road Approved Budget for the Contract ( ABC ): Php. 48,500,000.00 Cost of Bid Documents: Php. 20,000.00 Contract Duration: 179 Calendar days 12LC0179 Construction/Widening/Upgrading/Rehabilitation of Jct. Island Garden City of Samal Circumferential Road, Babak-Tambo, Contract Location: Island Garden City of Samal, Davao del Norte Scope of Works: Concreting of Unpaved Road Approved Budget for the Contract ( ABC ): Php. 43,600,000.00 Cost of Bid Documents: Php. 20,000.00 Contract Duration: 179 Calendar days

INVITATION TO BID
The DPWH DISTRICT ENGINEERING OFFICE, J. Rosales Avenue, Butuan City, Agusan del Norte, through its Bids and Awards Committe (BAC), invited contractors to apply to bid for the following contract (s): Contract ID : Contract Name : Limits: Length of PCCP: Net Length: Contract Location : Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC): Contract Duration : 12NA0041 Widening of Butuan-Cagayan de Oro-Iligan Road (Agusan-Misamis Oriental Section) Nasipit Section Sta. 1259+480-1261+217 1,7370 km. 1,7370 km Nasipit, Agusan del Norte PhP P36,372,619.00 142 calendar days

INVITATION TO BID
The DPWH DISTRICT ENGINEERING OFFICE, J. Rosales Avenue, Butuan City, Agusan del Norte, through its Bids and Awards Committe (BAC), invited contractors to apply to bid for the following contract (s): Contract ID : Contract Name : Limits: Length of PCCP: Net Length: Contract Location : Approved Budget for the Contract: Contract Duration : 12NA0042 Improvement/Upgrading Junction TagcatongVinapor Road, Sta. 0+000-Sta. 1+093.50, Carmen, Agusan del Norte Sta. 0+000-1+093.5 1,0935 km. 1,0935 km Nasipit, Agusan del Norte PhP P29,400,000.00 89 calendar days

2. Contract ID: Contract Name:

Procurement will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures in accordance with R.A. 9184 and its Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations. To bid for this contract, a contractor must purchase bid documents and must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior registration with DPWH, (b) Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino-owned partnership, corporation, cooperative, or joint venture, (c) with PCAB license applicable to the type and cost of this contract, (d) completion of a similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within a period of 10 years, and (e) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line commitment at least equal to 10% of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids. Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration, to the DPWH-POCW, Central Office before the scheduled date of bidding. The DPWH-POCW, Central Office will only process contractors applications for registration with complete requirements and issue the Contractors Certificate of Registration (CRC). Registration Forms may be downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph. The significant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below:
1. Receipt of LOI from Prospective Bidders 2. Issuance of Bid-Documents 3.Pre-Bid Conference 4. Receipt of Bids 5. Opening of Bids From November 23, 2012 10:00 a.m. Nov. 9, 2012 to November 29, 2012 November 16, 2012 at 10:00 A.M. November 29, 2012 at 9:00 to 10:00 A.M. November 29, 2012 at 10:15 A.M.

Procurement will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures in accordance with R.A. 9184 and its Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations. To bid for this contract, a contractor must purchase bid documents and must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior registration with DPWH, (b) Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino-owned partnership, corporation, cooperative, or joint venture, (c) with PCAB license applicable to the type and cost of this contract, (d) completion of a similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within a period of 10 years, and (e) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line commitment at least equal to 10% of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids. Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration, to the DPWH-POCW, Central Office before the scheduled date of bidding. The DPWH-POCW, Central Office will only process contractors applications for registration with complete requirements and issue the Contractors Certificate of Registration (CRC). Registration Forms may be downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph. The significant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below:
1. Receipt of LOI from Prospective Bidders 2. Issuance of Bid-Documents 3.Pre-Bid Conference 4. Receipt of Bids 5. Opening of Bids From November 23, 2012 10:00 a.m. Nov. 9, 2012 to November 29, 2012 November 16, 2012 at 10:00 A.M. November 29, 2012 at 9:00 to 10:00 A.M. November 29, 2012 at 10:15 A.M.

3. Contract ID: Contract Name:

The BAC will conduct the procurement process in accordance with the Revised IRR of R.A. 9184. Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at the opening of bid. To bid for this contact, a contractor must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI ), purchase bid documents and must meet the following major criteria: (a) prior registration with DPWH, (b) Filipino citizen or 75% Filipino-owned partnership, corporation, cooperative, or joint venture with PCAB license applicable to the type and cost of this contract, (c) completion of a similar contract costing at least 50% of ABC within a period of 10 years, and (d) Net Financial Contracting Capacity at least equal to ABC, or credit line commitment for at least 10% of ABC. The BAC will use non-discretionary pass/fail criteria in the eligibility check and preliminary examination of bids. Unregistered contractors, however, shall submit their applications for registration to the DPWH-POCW Central Office before the deadline for the receipt of LOI. The DPWH-POCW Central Office will only process contractors application for registration with complete requirements and issue the Contractors Certificate of Registration (CRC). Registration Forms may be downloaded at the DPWH website www.dpwh.gov.ph. The Significant times and deadlines of procurement activities are shown below: ACTIVITIES 1. Issuance of Bidding Documents 2. Pre-Bid Conference 3. Deadline of Receipt of LOI from Prospective Bidders 4. Receipt of Bids 5. Opening of Bids SCHEDULE November 6, 2012 to November 27, 2012 10:00 a..m on November 16, 2012 at the District Engineer Conference Room 12:00 Noon, November 19, 2012 2:00 p..m. on November 27, 2012 2:00 p.m. on November 27, 2012

The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at DPWH DISTRICT ENGINEERING OFFICE, Butuan City, Agusan del Norte, upon payment of a non-refundable fee of (P20,000.00). Prospective bidders that will download the BDs from the DPWH website shall pay the said fees on or before the submission of their bids Documents. THe Pre-bid Conference shall be open only to interested parties who have purchased the BDs. Bids must accompanied by a bid security, in the amount and acceptable form, as stated in Section 27.2 of the IRR. Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specified in the BDs in two(2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The first envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include a copy of the CRC. The second envelope shall contain the financial component of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as determined in the bid evaluation and the post-qualification The DPWH DISTRICT ENGINEERING OFFICE, J. Rosales Avenue, Butuan City, Agusan del Norte reserves the right to accept or reject any bid, to annul the bidding process anytime prior contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder/s. Approved by: (Sgd.) CLARO S. COMILING Chief MQC Section BAC Chairman
(MST-NOV. 13, 2012)

The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents (BDs) at DPWH DISTRICT ENGINEERING OFFICE, Butuan City, Agusan del Norte, upon payment of a non-refundable fee of (P20,000.00). Prospective bidders that will download the BDs from the DPWH website shall pay the said fees on or before the submission of their bids Documents. THe Pre-bid Conference shall be open only to interested parties who have purchased the BDs. Bids must accompanied by a bid security, in the amount and acceptable form, as stated in Section 27.2 of the IRR. Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specified in the BDs in two(2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The first envelope shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include a copy of the CRC. The second envelope shall contain the financial component of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as determined in the bid evaluation and the post-qualification The DPWH DISTRICT ENGINEERING OFFICE, J. Rosales Avenue, Butuan City, Agusan del Norte reserves the right to accept or reject any bid, to annul the bidding process anytime prior contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder/s. Approved by: (Sgd.) CLARO S. COMILING Chief MQC Section BAC Chairman
(MST-NOV. 13, 2012)

The BAC will issue hard copies of Bidding Documents ( BDs) at DPWH-Davao del Norte District Engineering Office upon payment of non refundable fee. Prospective bidders that will download the BDs from the DPWH website shall pay the said fees on or before the submission of their bids Documents. The Pre-Bid Conference shall be open only to interested parties who have purchase the BDs. Bids must accompanied by a bid security, in the amount and acceptable form, as stated in section 27.2 of the Revised IRR. Prospective bidders shall submit their duly accomplished forms as specified in the BDs in two (2) separate sealed bid envelopes to the BAC Chairman. The first enveloped shall contain the technical component of the bid, which shall include a copy of the CRC. The second envelope shall contain the financial component of the bid. Contract will be awarded to the Lowest Calculated Responsive Bid as determined in the bid evaluation and post qualification. The Department of Public Works and Highways, Davao del Norte District Engineering Office reserves the right to accept or reject any bid, to annul the bidding process at any time prior contract award, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder/s. Approved by: (SGD.) LIBERATO S. TAN, JR. Asst. District Engineer (BAC Chairman)

(MST-Nov. 13, 2012)

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tation Island and the TV series, Be Careful With My Heart in which he is actually paired off with Aiza. Even as a child, I always wanted to be Aladdin. In fact, I even had a pet monkey. Playing this role now, makes it all the more special, says Tom. K-la Rivera who was last seen onstage in her breakout performance as Nina in In The Heights plays Princess Jasmine. K-la is also a recording artist and has recently released a six-song album under Star Records. Every young girl dreams of becoming a princess, and so did I. Playing Princess Jasmine is really an indescribable feeling and a dream come true, gushes K-la. Raul Montesa, theater veteran and Miss Saigon alumnus plays the villainous Jafar. Jimmy Marquez, concert performer and now theater actor plays Jafars sidekick, Iago. Another theater veteran and Miss Saigon alumnus, Jun Ofrasio plays the Sultan of Agrabah. Rounding off the cast are Bibo Reyes, Johann Dela Fuente and Jamie Wilson who play Babkak, Omar and Kassim. They will be joined by a multi-talented ensemble who will sing and dance thru the enchanting world of Agrabah in this romantic musical adventure. Atlantis staging of Disneys Aladdin promises to be magical musical theater for the whole family. The show runs from Nov. 16 to Dec. 9 at the Meralco Theater and is made possible through a special licensing arrangement with Music Theatre International. For tickets and inquiries, call Atlantis Productions at 892-7078. The big voice that took over primetime television is on this episode of Jay Leno. Lea Michele sits down with Jay to talk about all things full of Glee. The TV show, at least. Now on its fourth season, hit TV series Glee grows even bolder as they introduce new characters and plots, while their lead Rachel Berry, played by Lea, nally takes on the Big Apple to pursue her lifetime Broadway dreams. Tune in as Lea talks about new twists in the show and production numbers with guest stars Sarah Jessica Parker and Oscar nominated actress, Kate Hudson. Nev Schulman, star and co-producer of acclaimed documentary Catsh, stops by the show to open up about the world of virtual dating. The premise of Catsh revolves around thisa woman Schulman meets online and poses to be a lot of things that later turned out to be all a hoax. So how do you nd true love amidst a sea of deceitful online prole pages? You dont. But, apparently, MTV will. The entertainment channel is producing a TV version of the documentary which will cover the emotional journey of hopeless romantics in uncovering the truth about their online signicant other. Is prole information as important as personality? Will love conquer all? Find out as Schulman spills the beans over this juicy new show. American country music singer Toby Keith performs a song off his latest album, Hope on the Rocks. Tonight Show with Jay Leno airs on Solar News Channel, SBN Ch. 21, SkyCable Ch.16, Destiny Ch.28, Cignal Ch.21 and Cable Link Ch.12

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ATHLETE, model, actor and entrepreneur, Andrew Wolff has been appointed to represent the Philippines in the forthcoming Mr. World Pageant on Nov. 24 in Kent, England. This was announced by Cory Quirino, chairman and CEO of CQ Global Quest Inc. in a Presscon held at Annabels in Quezon City.

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Due to the recent appointment of Cory Quirino as licensee of Mr. World Philippines and in the interest of time, no pageant was held this year in preparation for the Mr. World Philippines 2013 Pageant. Thus, from a eld of 20 entries sent by top talent and modeling agencies, a private panel of judges selected the candidate with the strongest athletic background. The reason for this move is that Mr. World is a brain and brawn pageant, and we wish to make a strong showing in sports and endurance challenge of the competition, says Cory Quirino. The prestigious Mr. World Pageant established in 1990 is the search for the most desirable man in the world, Andrew Wolff: From rugby to Mr. World? an exclusive competition for men ages This GMAAC star earned a Best 17 to 27 owned and managed by the drew used to play the violin as a child. Miss World Organization, the same And, aside from dabbling in soccer New Movie Actress nomination from organizer of the Miss World Pageant. and badminton during his spare time, the PMPC for her role in Peque Galhe is also a budding entrepreneur. Re- lagas Agaton and Mindy. Later she cently he started his own events com- starred in Pilyang Kerubin and bepany, specializing in sports-related en- came one of the Tween Hearts on TV deavors. To date, a fun-run slated for and the big screen. She appeared in a number of January 2013 is already in the works. Spooky Nights episodes, as well as Mr. World Philippines 2012 Andrew Wolff will receive a one year endorse- some for Maynila. All the while her chemistry with Alden whom she has ment contract for Novu Hair. His formal been working in tandem with for quite wardrobe will be provided by Merger. a number of times is evolving into a The title Mr. World has never been mighty force to be soon unleashed by won by the Philippines and remains One True Love. just as elusive as the Miss World Louise, her acting proven, has decrown. The two beauty pageant titles nitely the looks to boot. Prior to being could be considered as the most cov- seen on GMA, she won in beauty coneted in the world. tests like the Ms. Lyceum of the Philippines University-Cavite in 2010. Reaching for stardom Three years earlier she bagged crowns After earning an acting nomina- as participant in Ms. Teen Philippines tion a few years ago for her work in International-Luzon, Ms. Jag Teen, an indie lm, 19-year old Louise de and Ms. Teen Super Ferry. los Reyes moved on to even greater heights, conquering mainstream audiAladdin on stage ences with her tremendous success on After the success of Disneys BeauGMAAC talent Louise de los Reyes national TV. ty And The Beast in 2005 and Disneys Everything was capped by the wa- The Little Mermaid last year, Atlantis Headed by Julia Morley as chairtershed triumph of the TV series One Productions proudly announces that it man, the international event held evTrue Love in which she and screen has been handpicked by Disney Theery two years attracts over 70 partici- partner Alden Richards became the atricals to stage the Asian premiere of pating countries. The last Mr. World current generations latest well-loved its newest full-length stage musical Pageant was held in 2010 at Incheon, romantic duo. Disneys Aladdin. South Korea. The title went to Kamal The musical is based on the muchLouise as Elize Samonte was the Ibrahim of Ireland. The Mr. World turning point in her career, trans- loved animated lm and tells the story Pageant will include the following forming her to adult whose fan base of Aladdin, a street-smart commoner theme and qualifying competitive instantly doubled. Big thanks to her whose life changes with one rub of a magic lamp. This brand new romanevents: sports, talent and multi-media leading man Alden Richards. In an interview on their chemistry, tic musical adventures features all the award. A unique Army Assault Course will be introduced this year making the Louise told a reporter, Kailangan po beloved songs from the lms OscarMr. World Pageant the most unique kasi may chemistry para siyempre, winning score and brings the movies makatotohanan. Kasi hindi kami si most memorable characters to life and challenging of competitions. Andrew Wolff is a member of the Louise at si Alden. Kami si Elize at Genie, Jafar, Iago, the Sultan, and of si Tisoy. course, Jasmine and Aladdin. Joining Philippine Volcanoes, which recently She added, Ang pangit naman these characters are three riotous narclinched the 2013 Rugby World Cup kung parang hindi po kami bagay on rators who make up Aladdins street Seven Slot in Singapore. This historic screen. Hindi rin namin nabibigyan bandBabkak, Omar and Kassim. win assured the Philippines of the 3rd ng justice yung dapat naming ibigay Disneys Aladdin features music by and last Asian Team slot to compete in sa characters namin. Sabi nila effec- eight-time Oscar Award winner Alan the Moscow showdown. tive kami; sa amin parang yun yung Menken with lyrics by Oscar Award Not many people know that An- pinakaimportante. winner Howard Ashman, Oscar

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Award winner, Tim Rice and Tony Award nominated lyricist Chad Beguelin, who also wrote the brand new book of the musical. Alternating in the role of the Genie are award-winning recording artist, lm and television star, and musical theater performer, Aiza Seguerra and veteran stage actor, Calvin Millado. Aiza Seguerra who was most recently seen in Rock of Ages has appeared in such musicals as The Rocky Horror Show, and Avenue Q (Manila and Singapore). Calvin Millado has been seen in musicals such as Rent, Legally Blonde, The Rocky Horror Show, In The Heights, Avenue Q, The Little Mermaid and Rock of Ages. On playing the Genie, Aiza says, I have been a fan of Disneys Aladdin since I was a child. I knew all the songs by heart. I knew right away playing the Genie would be so much fun! And Calvin says, I very excited to play the Genie and I look forward to the big production numbers that will showcase my skills as a dancer! Tom Rodriguez plays Aladdin. Moviegoers and TV fans would know him from his appearances in movies like Here Comes The Bride and Temp-

Aladdin casts Aiza Seguerra, Tom Rodriguez, K-la Rivera and Calvin Millado

Jazz is rising
JAZZ Ocampo is one of the busiest among TV5 Networks home grown talentswith shows and commercials left and right. Aside from being part of Enchanted Garden which airs weeknights [6:30 p.m. on TV5], shes also part of Game N Go [Sundays noontime]. According to Jazz, shes been

Enchanted Gardens Jazz Ocampo

doing TV commercials since she was a baby but it was only when she joined TV5s Star Factor in 2010 that she seriously considered the idea of joining showbiz for real. I like the challenge of being able to portray different roles. Its like being a lot of things, she says. Jazz explains that most of her lines in commercials are always shortsometimes none at allunlike in TV series where she gets to deliver lines and act. She usually plays the

lead in commercialsand this year alone, she did an ad for facial wash, a fast food chain, choco energy drink, body lotion, deodorant, candy and an android phone commercial. Her rst acting assignment was Bangis, which aired last year on TV5. She also appeared in Star Confessions and Pidols Wonderland. In TV5s eco-fantasy series, she plays Amapola, one of the queens ladies in waiting. I like my role as Amapola because its very active. I dont

just serve the queenI joined the rebels and even managed to escape the palace guards. In the story, she has feelings for Molave, played by Edgar Allan Guzman. Jazz admitted that she had mixed emotions when she rst learned that she was going to be a part of the TV5s biggest fantasy series. I was very excited and happy because its a big project but at the same time, I was also very nervous at the thought of working with such big stars.

These days, Jazz is more relaxed and condent in doing scenes with senior stars. She says shes lucky and blessed because her co-stars are all nice. When shes not working, Jazz is busy catching up with all her lessons in school. Juggling showbiz with school is a tough task but Jazz doesnt mind. I love my career and I value education. I want to learn more from both elds thats why Ill do everything to make things work.

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