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P5.8B FOR 2015US FENCER WITH DAVAO ROOTS WINS WORLD CUP SILVER

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INSIDE EDGE

With 13 % increase, Council passes budget ordinance

The Davao City Council yesterday approved on third and final reading

the P5.813-billlion budget of the city for 2015.

In yesteday’s regualr ses-sion, the Council approved the ordinance titled “An Or-dinance Granting Legislative Authority to the Proposed General Fund Annual Budget and Plantilla of the City Gov-ernment of Davao for Calen-dar Year 2015, Comprising the Budget by Fund Accounct

Under the General Fund Proper, The economic en-terprises for the Operation of Markets Slaughterhouse, Davao City Overland Trans-port Terminal (DCOTT), Sta. Ana Port, Cemeteries, Davao City Recreation Cen-ter (DCRC), Magsaysay Park, Pasalubong Center and the Annual Development Fund (ADF) in the total amount of P5,813,841,960.”

Compared to this year’s P5.165 billion budget, next

year’s budget has a 13 per-cent or P662.24 million in-crease.

“This is attributed to the increase in the estimates made by the City Treasurer as well as the Internal Rev-enue Allotment (IRA) due to the increased collection of internal revenue,” the com-mittee report states.

The bigger chunk of the total budget goes to the Gen-eral Fund Proper with a total of P4.5 billion or 79 percent

of the total budget.General Fund will cov-

er the expenditures for the current operations of vari-ous departments and offic-es of the city government comprising of personal ser-vices (PS), maintenance and other operation expenses (MOOe) and Capital Outlays, Statutory and Contractual Obligations, aids to the na-tional government agencies, boards, councils, committees

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WORKING HIGH. Davao City’s General Services Office (GSO) em-ployees prepare the LED lights that will be installed as Christmas decorations around the premises of City Hall two weeks before the launching of this year’s “Pasko Fiesta sa Dabaw” celebration. Lean Daval Jr.

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ALL is set for the opening today of the four-day 16th Davao

Trade expo back-to-back with the two-day Interna-tional Banana Symposium at the SMX Convention Center in Lanang, Davao City.

Davao City Mayor Ro-drigo R. Dutetere will grace the opening ceremony at 4 p.m. today together with Bioversity International regional coordinator Dr. Agustin Molina, Pilipi-no Banana Growers and exporters Association (PGeA) president Alexan-der Valoria, Mindanao Ba-nana Farmers and export-ers Association (MBFeA) president eusebia delos Reyes, and Bioversity In-ternational programme leader Dr. Dietmar Stoianl.

DATe chair Luciano Frederick Puyod III said this year’s trade expo will highlight again the multi-billion-peso banana industry which is also Davao region prime export commodity. This year’s DATe theme is “Davao: From Local Agriculture to Global Agribusiness.”

DATe will also feature almost 200 exhibitors from Mindanao essential-ly coming from agri-trade and agri-industrial sectors together with its comple-mentary industries, food (fresh, processed and

packaging), machineries and equipment, post-har-vest facilities, agricultural chemicals, animal hus-bandry, fertilizers and pest management, financing, ICT and logistics, among others. In addition, exhib-itors from all other indus-tries are also invited to showcase their products and businesses in the said event.

The trade expo is ex-pected to draw 8,000 walk-in visitors and generate about P80 million to P100 million in booked or actual sales. Last year, the trade expo generated P83 mil-lion when it highlighted cacao, coffee, cassava, co-conut, and corn.

Puyod said the Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. (DCCCII) partnered with Bioversity International and Banana Asia Pacific Network (BAP-NET) to bring international and speakers to share their ideas on the strategies on how to strengthen further the banana industry.

The topics include pests and disease manage-ment and the latest tech-nologies for the banana industry. Puyod said there would be speakers from countries like Belgium, Cuba, Iran, South Korea and China.

More than 300 foreign

The massive increase in private construc-tion and real estate

development in urban areas like Davao City will not create a property bubble, architect Daniel Lim said.

Speaking at a press conference at the new-ly-renovated Davao City Chamber of Commerce

and Industry Inc., (DCC-CII), Lim, who is a past president of the cham-ber, said the changing landscape of the city due to real estate develop-ment – varying from so-cialized mass housing to high-rise condominium to multi-story commercial buildings – is “not enough to inflate the bubble.”

he said there are still no signs that there is a slowdown in activity that could mean a faltering demand in the property sector.

A property bubble or housing bubble is a form of an economic bubble that is characterized by a quick increase in proper-ty values of real property

such as housing until they reach unsustainable lev-el and then declines, fol-lowed by decreases that results in many owners holding negative equity.

Lim said among the reasons that contribute to the activity in the proper-ty sector, as in the case of Davao City, are peace and

DAVAO City Councilor Danilo C. Dayanghi-rang yesterday said

he does not have any quar-rel with Vice Mayor Paolo Z. Duterte regarding the issue of luxury cars.

In an interview yesterday before the regular City Coun-cil session, Dayanghirang said he had met with Paolo on Monday afternoon and the two of them had no conflict.

“Naa lay miscommunica-tion didto. But generally, wala koy nakita na could destroy our relationship (There was just a miscommunication. But generally, I did not see anything that could destroy our relationship),” he said.

“I will continue serving him (Paolo) including the City hall,” he added.

Dayanghirang said the bottom line of the issue is

public interest.he said after their meet-

ing, the vice mayor did not give him any instruction.

The vice mayor was not in the regular session yesterday since he is now sitting as the acting mayor in line with the leave of absence of his father, Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte.

Last Monday, Dayanghi-rang said he was misquoted in a news story which quoted

him as telling other council-ors that the City Council will not buy luxury vehicles.

he said he had direct-ed his statements not at the councilors but at city building officials who were asking for 4x4 vehicles to be used to go to far-flung areas in the city.

“It started when building officials requested a bud-get of P1.8 million during a

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CHRISTMAS FIGURINES. An exhibitor of Abreeza Mall’s Christmas Vil-lage fixes her display of Christmas figurines at the Abreeza Corporate Center in Davao City yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

Dayanghirang says no quarrel with VMBy ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.

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No property bubble in Davao Citycrc@edgedavao.net

By ChENEEN R. CApON

DATE 2014 opens today

REGIONAL DIRECTOR Mariano R. Alquiza of the Department of

Public Works and highways (DPWh) in Region 11 will fly to Manila today to join other DPWh officials in a meeting aimed at discussing the pro-posed bypass road which maybe constructed in Davao City sometime in 2018.

Alquiza told edge Davao that the big ticket infrastruc-ture project which may cost between P6 billion and P7 billion all in all is designed to solve the worsening vehicular traffic problem in the city and adjacent communities.

An outstanding feature of the project is a 12-kilometer tunnel, Alquiza said, although he failed to provide details.

earlier, Jose Froilan Rig-or, chief of the plans and pro-gram division of the City Plan-ning and Development Office (CPDO), said the 44-kilometer bypass highway, at least the Davao City part of it, will ini-tially cost P162 million.

Speaking during the Up-dated Davao Regional De-velopment Plan, 2014-2016 Roadshow at Grand Men Seng hotel last October, Rigor said the bypass road will start near the Davao International Con-

tainer Terminal (DICT) in San Vicente, Panabo City, passing through barangays Lasang, San Isidro, Mahayag, Mudiang, and Waan in the second con-gressional district, Tacunan, Mintal, Bangkas heights, and Marapangi and exits in Toril in the third congressional dis-trict.

he said the proposed 12-kilometer tunnel will be constructed in the Magtuod ridge, located between Waan and Tacunan.

he said the bypass road is mainly proposed by the city government under the admin-istration of Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte, but the DPWh will play a major role in its funding and implementation being an infrastructure project.

Rigor said the bypass highway is aimed at reliev-ing worsening truck traffic from the production centers in Davao del Norte. Once the project is completed, cargo trucks and similar big vehicles coming from Davao del Norte bound for Cotabato, Bukidnon or further to Cagayan de Oro and vice versa will use the bypass road instead of the tra-ditional highway which is be-coming more congested each passing day. CRC

DPWH officials discusscity’s P6-B bypass road

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DAVAO City Council majority floor leader Bernard Al-ag asked

open tricycle (known as pay-ong-payong) operators in the areas of Binugao and Sirawan, Toril district to apply for the new route franchise opened by the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) 11.

In his privilege during yesterday’s regular session, Al-ag said that the LTFRB al-ready approved 15 franchises that the Council had asked for in the area of Crossing Bara-catan to Toril Poblacion and vice versa.

“It is my desire that those will be issued with the fran-chise for the area are tricycle operators in the area. I sug-gest they sell their tricycles, buy multicabs, and apply for the franchise in the area,” he said.

Al-ag said the highways in Sirawan and Binugao are the industrialized area of Toril and there is a need for more legal public transport vehicles.

he said a few years from now many employees will be

in the area because Therma South Inc., the company op-erating the coal-fired power plant of AboitizPower, and bottling companies will be operating there.

“There is really a demand for legal, reliable, and safe public transport in the area,” Al-ag said.

Al-ag said he hopes the move of the City Council and the LTFRB will solve the transportation problem in the area.

In a regular session last month, Al-ag blamed the lack of public transport in the area for the spate of vehicular ac-cidents involving hapless tri-cycles, including the one that killed two people on October 10.

Al-ag came up with a strong plea to the LTFRB to open a new jeepney route franchise from crossing Bara-catan to Toril Poblacion.

Al-ag also asked the Traffic Management Center (TMC) and PNP Highway Pa-trol Group to strictly imple-ment the law prohibiting mo-torized tricycles from plying the national highways.

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By ChENEEN R. CApON

DAVAO City Overland Transport Terminal (DCOTT) supervis-

ing transportation officer Alejandro Alilin said the commercial area of the public terminal should be renovated to boost its rev-enue-generating capacity.

Alilin told reporters in last Monday’s Kapehan sa Dabaw at SM City Annex that stalls and units for vendors and peddlers are already old.

“Gamay lang sa karon

ang nagarenta maski mura lang ang among singil (Only a few vendors rent from us even though the rent is low)he said, adding that renters only pay P2,000 to P2,500 per month depend-ing on the space.

Alinin said the trans-port terminal office, one of the revenue-generating offices under the City Eco-nomic enterprise, charged renters P6 per square me-ter daily.

DCOTT commercial area needs renovation: GM

Al-ag urges tricycle operatorsto apply for new routes

SENATOR TEOfIsTO “TG” Guingona III yes-terday said he will start

working on Charter change to shift the country’s system of government to a federal form by 2016.

“Panahon na karon na atong sugdan ang paghisgot, sugdan ang movement para sa pag-establish sa Federal Sate of the Commonwealth of Mindanao (It is about time we start the discussion and start the movement to estab-lish the Federal Sate of the Commonwealth of Mindan-ao),” Guingona told report-ers in a press conference.

he said the federalist movement is the “unintend-ed consequence” of the pro-posed creation of the Bang-samoro state, which became

“a wake-up call to the Mind-anaoans” while the negotia-tions about the Bangsamoro Basic Laws (BBL) continues.

Guingona said if the government can give to the Bangsamoro government an automatic 75 percent of the revenue from its natural re-sources, there is no reason the same cannot be done for other places in Mindan-ao outside the Bangsamoro state.

“I see there is a great concession of the national government on the Bang-samoro, and I think this is a paradigm shift. It could really change the political power of the local govern-ment because it looks like it’s federal but it’s not called federal. They (Bangsamoro)

are being given a lot of favor,” he said.

“If they, the former reb-els who did not follow the law, are given a 75 percent share, why not everyone else who is part of Mindanao?” he added.

Guingona, however, clar-ified that he still supports the BBL.

“Let’s hope that the BBL and federalism are passed together. I still support the BBL and federalism at the same time,” he said.

Guingona said under a federal government, the people of Mindanao can mold their own future themselves instead of hav-ing a central government do it for them.

“We all know this is not

new because this had been discussed in the Senate. I remember former Senator (Aquilino) Nene Pimen-tel (Jr.) led this movement. Now it is not Nene, it’s (his son) Koko (Senator Aquilino Pimentel III), ” he said.

“Ang kadaghanan sa produkto sa Mindanao kin-say nagbenepisyo… kita din-hi sa Mindanao o sila? Kinsa ba sila, gawas sa Mindanao (Who benefits most from our products here in Min-danao… Is it the people of Mindanao or they? Who are they? The people outside Mindanao),” he added.

Giungona said he is hop-ing this will materialize by 2016 but added it could go beyond that year since 2016 is an election year.

A traffic enforcer from the Traffic Manage-ment Center (TMC)

was temporarily relieved after being seen mulcting a motorist in a four-minute and fifty-two second vid-eo posted by a certain Jack Doctor last Monday in the Facebook page of the Public Safety and Safety Command Center (PSSCC) mulcting a motorist.

PSSCC chief Frank Vil-laroman told edge Davao in a phone interview yesterday that Allan Fanlo, who has been a traffic enforcer for 18 years under a job order, has no authority to apprehend traffic violators.

“Only personnel from Land Transportation Office

(LTO) can issue traffic viola-tion ticket and Fanlo is just a traffic enforcer,” Villaroman said.

In the video, Fanlo is seen talking to man wearing a hel-met riding a black motorcy-cle. On the first part, Fanlo is shown holding a black note-book and the driver’s license of the traffic violator.

The negotiation between Fanlo and the violator lasts for more than four minutes before the traffic viola-tor secretly hands over an amount of money to Fanlo. The alleged violator is then allowed to leave.

Villaroman said upon seeing the video, he asked Traffic Management Group

By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.abf@edgedavao.net

SOUVENIR. A Traffic Management Center (TMC) en-forcer distributes smiley bookmarks to public utility jeepney (PUJ) drivers and passengers during the re-opening ceremony of the Governor Generoso Bridge 2 on Monday. Lean Daval Jr.

Guingona vows to workon shift to federalismBy ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR. and FUNNy pEARl A. GAJUNERA

Traffic enforcer caughtmulcting suspended

FEDERALIST. Senator Teofisto “TG” Guingona III strongly believes that creat-ing a federal state of the Commonwealth of Mindanao is “just and fair” for the people of Mindanao. Guingona gave his take on current issues to members of

Davao City media during a press briefing held at the Grand Men Seng Hotel yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

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AS part of efforts to re-form the Bureau of Cus-toms (BOC), top-level

officials of the agency will par-ticipate in the second Customs Mindanao Cluster Collectors’ Conference and lead the first Customs’ Stakeholders Dia-logue in Cagayan De Oro on Wednesday, November 19.

Both events will be hosted by the BOC-Collection District 10, based in Cagayan De Oro.

The theme for the 2nd Cus-toms Mindanao Cluster Collec-tors’ Conference is “Working together in fighting illicit trade and promoting efficiency in Mindanao.”

The Conference will be attended by Customs Deputy Commissioners Jessie Dello-sa (Intelligence Group), Ariel Nepomuceno (Enforcement Group), and Agaton Uvero (Assessment and Operations Coordinating Group), as well as BOC Administration Office Director Jesusa Dimpna Lejos.

The Customs Mindanao Cluster Collector’s Conference was an off-shoot of organiza-tional changes implemented by Commissioner John P. Sevil-la at the start of the year to en-gage and align BOC ports and districts within geographical proximity to the directions and objectives of the Bureau.

The cluster conference is also designed as a means to update key officials on the regional trade and security; share information, issues and concerns that may lead to col-lective solutions; and simplify the priority agenda for BOC offices in Mindanao to be dis-cussed with the BOC leader-ship.

On top of operational and revenue-performance issues affecting BOC ports in Mind-anao, other concerns include

the Brunei Darussalam-Indo-nesia-Malaysia-Philippines East AsEAN Growth Area (BIMP-eAGA) and the prevail-ing security situation in Mind-anao.

Aside from the conference for BOC officials and employ-ees, the Bureau’s top officials will also hold a Dialogue with Stakeholders where they lay down the plans for the BOC in the medium to long term.

Concerned business orga-nizations, entrepreneurs and traders can also take-up their issues and concerns regarding the Bureau.

The BOC Mindanao Clus-ter is composed of all ports and sub-ports, all under four of the Bureau’s 17 Collection Districts. These are: Port of Cagayan de Oro, headed by Ruby Alameda; the Mindanao Container Terminal in Tago-loan, Misamis Oriental, head-ed by Datu Samson Pacasum; Sub-Port of Iligan, headed by John Simon; Sub-Port of Ozamiz, headed by Laureana Gaite; Port of Davao, headed by Ricardo Butalid, Jr.; Sub-Port of Dadiangas (General Santos), headed by Pendatun Alim; Sub-Port of Parang in Maguindanao, headed by De-siderio Cabatania; Sub-Port of Mati in Davao Oriental, head-ed by ebert Montero; Port of Surigao, headed by Lilibeth Mangsal; Sub-Port of Bislig, in Surigao del Sur, headed by Rosita Arabaca; Sub-Port of Nasipit, in Agusan Del Norte, headed by Josefa Villaseñor; Port of Zamboanga, headed by Migelfio Saquisame; Sub-Port of Basilan, headed by hadji Mohammad Ali; Sub-Port of Jolo, in Sulu, headed by Zahreeb Jaljis; and the Sub-Port of Tawi-Tawi, headed by Pirza Bulante.

Davao del Norte’s an-nual budget for 2015 of P1,241 billion was

approved by the provincial Sanggunian in last Monday’s session.

For its part, Compos-tela Valley Province has a proposed annual budget of P1,012,797,768 for next year, which is still up for

legislative deliberation as of press time.

The 2015 budgets of the two provinces are in the same level as Tagum City’s annual budget of P1,000,346,670, which is still under finance commit-tee hearings.

This will be the first time for Tagum City and Comval

to hit the billion-peso mark, while it was only last year that Davao del Norte became a billionaire province.

Davao del Norte’s bud-get grew by 11.20 per-cent or P123.9 million compared with last year’s P1,108,200,000 budget.

On the other hand, Com-val’s budget grew by 13.69

percent or P121.96 million from last year’s budget of P890,840,238.

Tagum City’s budget grew by 9.8 percent or P89 million compared with last year’s scaled-down budget of P911 million from orig-inally proposed budget of P926 million. Cha Monforte, Correspondent

FOR many Tagumen-yos, November is a much-awaited month

as it offers two distinct events that are both crowd-drawer and symbolic, each one cel-ebrating Christ the King, the city’s official patron.

As a prelude to the city’s parochial fiesta this coming November 23, the city for-mally lit up its holiday Tree last November 13 at the Freedom Park. The annual event has become a highly anticipated program where thousands of Tagumenyos join in the countdown to sig-nal the formal lighting of the city’s Christmas icon which is present in every holiday sea-son since the start of the new

millennium. Mayor Allan L. Rellon

and Gov. Rodolfo P. del Ro-sario, along with the rest of the city officials, led locals in lighting this year’s 61-feet holiday tree adorned with 373 meters of rope lights, 645 sets of rice bulbs, and 319 assorted sets of deco-rative designs consisting of snow flakes, leaves, birds, stars, raindrops and sequen-tial lights.

“It was a bit smaller com-pared to the previous holi-day trees of the city yet it’s the most beautiful in recent years,” said Novea Anne Vil-legas, a non-uniform person-nel of the Philippine National Police.

Adding flare to this year’s icon is the humungous life-sized eagle—with a wing-span of 5 meters and a height of 1.5 meters—sitting atop the holiday tree and just be-low a multi-colored star rep-resenting the Almighty Cre-ator, lighting the path of the eagle representing the ten-point development agenda of the Rellon administration.

Mayor Rellon said the city allocated P600,000 for the annual structure and some of the materials used were recycled from last year’s holiday tree. The private sec-tor also donated a substantial amount for the provision of Christmas lights, he said.

Thursday’s ceremony

was marked with grand mu-sical performances from the chorale groups in the city, brass bands, the symphonic orchestra, and the dancing traffic officers.

Anwar Maadel, a govern-ment employee and a proud Muslim, said the city’s Christ-mas icon never fails to mus-ter hope and unity among the tri-people of Tagum every year.

“The holiday tree proved that despite of diversity, we Muslims, Christians, and Lumads share the same sen-timents, happiness and hope that we can be resilient in all the challenges that come to our way,” he said. louie lapat of CIO Tagum

Symbolic holiday treeoffers hope in Tagum

BOC Mindanao ports holdconfab in Cagayan de Oro

DavNor OKs P1.2-B annual budget;Comval’s P1.01B up for deliberation

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THE ECONOMY2,000 MW of coal supply stilluntapped – former DOE execCOAL resources located in

various areas around the country are projected to

supply about 2,000 Megawatts (MWs) worth of fuel to mine-mouth power plants, a former Undersecretary of the Depart-ment of energy (DOe) said.

“I estimate that the com-bined measured and indicated coal resources are sufficient to supply at least another 2,000 megawatts of mine-mouth power generating capacity,” Rufino Bomasang said in a speech at the Coal Business and Policy forum at the New World hotel Monday.

Bomasang, who is also the chair of the Philippine Cham-ber of Coal Mines Inc., said the challenge lies in the still unextracted 2,000 MWs worth of low rank coal deposits in the areas of Cagayan, Isabela, Surigao, Davao Oriental, and South Cotabato.

Mine-mouth plants are located near the coal mines, which directly deliver the coal through a conveyor belt, af-ter it has been dug out of the ground.

Bomasang said the poten-tial 2,000 MWs extraction is important in stabilizing elec-tricity prices, adding that coal-fired power generation may continue to be commissioned in the country.

“Coal is still the least cost fuel for base load power gener-ation and this is in turn due to coal’s worldwide abundance and relatively more even dis-tribution, thus ensuring supply security and greater price sta-bility,” Bomasang said.

he also thanked DOe Sec-retary Carlos Jericho Petilla for his efforts in promoting talks with government agencies and other stakeholders that have always blocked the develop-ment and utilization of coal.

Bomasang gave assurance that the companies are just as worried when it comes to the disastrous effect of coal emis-sions to the environment, add-ing that there are Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects to mitigate it, as well as the recent emergence of Carbon Capture Technology (CCT). (PNA) SHINING. A itinerant shoeshine man works on a pair of shoes right on City Hall Drive. He earns only a few pesos from each customer, but it’s honest work –

one that he can be proud of. Lean Daval Jr.

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ZARZUELA. Tiny Kitchen owner Vincent Rodriguez introduces his Spanish lyric-dramatic genre-inspired dish Zarzuela at his famous restaurant along F. Torres Street in Davao City yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

The acting chief of the Bureau of Cus-toms-Customs Intel-

ligence and Investigation Service was dismissed from her duties by the Office of the Ombudsman last Octo-ber 28 after being found to have violated Republic Act. No. 3019 or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, and Republic Act No. 6713, or the Code of Conduct and ethical Standards for Public Officials and employees.

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) said Intelligence Of-ficer II Marissa Rae Rollo Galang was indicted on seven counts of perjury and found guilty of serious dishonesty and grave misconduct.

The BOC said Galang “was proven to have falsi-fied her Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth (sALN) to conceal ill-gotten wealth. her assets, includ-ing real estate and personal

properties, travels and ex-penses, were all dispropor-tionate to the legitimate in-come she was earning in the government service.”

“Claiming to have legit-imate businesses to have other sources of income sup-plementing her government salary, Galang’s incongruent defense did not add up to the figures representing the expenses she incurred,” the BOC said in a statement.

“In one of the more no-table arguments for her defense, Galang claimed to having earned income as a franchisee of Mitsukoshi products. As Mitsukoshi is a major Japanese inter-national department store and would have issued cor-responding documents to franchisees, Galang’s failure to provide any of the kind to the Office of the Ombudsman makes her alibi completely fictitious,” it added.

The BOC said declaring fictitious businesses in her sALN constitutes perjury and willful intent to conceal the truth of her wealth and high-expense lifestyle.

“Further, she was found to be guilty of simple dishon-esty, as she was discovered to have falsified her Daily Time Record (DTR) to re-flect time in the office when she was clearly on vacation in the Republic of Palau, as proved by a flight manifest presented to the Office of the Ombudsman,” the BOC added.

Galang was meted the penalty of dismissal from the service, with accesso-ry penalties of cancellation of eligibility, forfeiture of retirement benefits and perpetual disqualification for reemployment in the government service. A peti-tion for forfeiture will also be filed to recover Galang’s

ill-gotten wealth of around P2,374,520.07.

The BOC said Galang’s dismissal “represents yet another mark of success the Revenue Integrity Protection Service (RIPS) program of the Department of Finance has enjoyed since 2010.”

The RIPS program inves-tigates and recommends for prosecution and eventual dismissal corrupt and or err-ing public officials.

The BOC said as of Sep-tember 30, 2014, RIPS has filed cases against 226 re-spondents since its incep-tion in 2003. Of these, 80 personalities were charged before the Office of the Om-budsman during the current administration, while 28 personalities were charged before the Civil Service Commission (CSC), and five personalities were referred to the concerned agency for filing of formal charge.

Customs intelligence officerdismissed for unexplained wealth

CORPORATe Gover-nance Asia, consid-ered as the author-

itative voice in corporate governance practices in the region, recognized Security Bank Corporation with two key awards during The Best of Asia 2014 awards night held on October 24, 2014 at the Renaissance harbour View hotel, Wanchai, hong Kong.

During the 10th Cor-porate Governance Asia Recognition Award 2014, Security Bank was award-ed as Icon on Corporate Governance. This distinc-tion – the highest accolade given by the award-giving body – is bestowed to com-panies who have consis-tently made it to the honor roll of the annual awards for excellence in Corporate Governance. For the past four years, Security Bank has consecutively won the much-coveted distinction, which belongs to “the best of the best in corporate gov-ernance in Asia as they up-hold the highest standards in business practices”.

In the same awards night, Security Bank Chair-man Frederick Y. Dy was recognized as Asian Cor-

porate Director of the Year. The award honors out-standing corporate direc-tors from boards of public and private companies in Asia who have guided their boards and executive man-agement in growing their businesses, maintaining ethics and steering their companies to periods of ex-traordinary growth.

Security Bank recent-ly reported its 2014 third quarter financial results, showing P6.428 billion in net income in the first nine months of the year, representing 54 percent year-on-year growth and 20 percent return on share-holders’ equity (ROe). The bank posted solid growth in core business, with loan portfolio increasing by 25 percent year-on-year to P181 billion and deposits growing by 26 percent to P232 billion.

For the past 11 years, Corporate Governance Asia has recognized companies in the region who continue to lead the way in initiating best practices. It provides news and analyses on cor-porate governance issues, boardroom practices and shareholder activism.

Corporate Governance Asia giveshighest distinction to Security Bank

AS global oil prices continue to fall, six local oil companies

rolled back their petroleum products effective Tuesday.

Phoenix Petroleum Philippines, PTT Philip-pines Corporation, Chev-ron Philippines Inc. (CPI), Seaoil, Petron Corporation and Pilipinas Shell Petro-leum Corporation (PSPC)

reduced their gas prices by 80 centavos per liter.

Aside from the de-crease in gasoline prices, the six companies also ap-plied a cut in their diesel prices by 50 centavos per liter.

Moreover, Petron, Shell, Seaoil and CPI, which manages the Caltex brand, lowered their kerosene

products by 35 centavos per liter.

With the exception of Phoenix Petroleum Philip-pines reducing its prices by 6 a.m., the five oil com-panies applied the price movements by 12:01 a.m. Tuesday (November 18).

Meanwhile, indepen-dent player eastern Petro-leum said there will be no

changes in their prices.The Dubai Crude Oil

serves as most of Asia’s benchmark, which offers the lowest prices in the global market due to its abundant reserves.

The Philippines obtains its fuel supply mostly from Middle-east Asia, but the Asian trading takes place in singapore. (PNA)

PRODUCTIVITY in Asia has been declining and this has to be ad-

dressed properly and limit its impact on the regional economy.

Arjun Goswami, Direc-tor of the Asian Develop-ment Bank’s (ADB) Office of Regional economic Integra-tion (OReI), on Monday said drop in productivity plays a big factor on people’s per capita income.

he said there are some countries where the decline is notable and this issue needs to be tackled.

he said this is the topic of the two-day conference that ADB is hosting starting Monday.

“We’re exploring here, at this conference, the sort of reasons behind why that can be happening and the role that regional cooper-ation and integration can play to address that,” he said.

Goswami said the de-clining productivity in the region can be attributed to cyclical issues, which can be partly blamed on the eco-nomic slowdown as well as natural disasters.

he stressed the need to make the countries resilient to these developments.

Another factor is struc-tural in nature, which

Goswami said is also caus-ing the underlying trend.

The ADB executive said this can be traced partly to the fast transition of some economies from having more productive sectors to a less productive sectors.

An example of this is the Philippines, which previ-ously banked on the indus-trial manufacturing sector to the services sector.

Goswami explained that it is not a bad thing to pre-fer the services sector over manufacturing but stressed that “it depends on what kind of services you are do-ing.”

”If you’re not doing high-er productivity service then you cannot get high produc-tivity gains,” he said, adding “you have to have enough manufacturing base.”

Goswami said it is worth noting, on the oth-er hand, that governments are seriously pushing for further enhancement of the small and medium en-terprises (SMes) to help the manufacturing sector, among others.

he added that region-al efforts is really needed to address this concern, thus, the review of the Ma-nila-based lender’s Region-al Cooperation and Integra-tion (RCI) efforts. (PNA)

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The Philippines is home to two species of croc-odiles. Both remain

“critically endangered” and need to be protected, accord-ing to Dr. Theresa Mundita Lim, director of the Biodi-versity Management Bureau (BMB), a line agency of the Department of environ-ment and Natural Resources (DENR).

In a news feature pub-lished in “Business Mirror,” Lim said that only the saltwa-ter crocodile (known in the science world as “Crocodylus porosus”) is allowed for com-mercial production.

As for the freshwater crocodile (“Crocodylus mind-orensis”), trading it is strictly prohibited by law. The Inter-national Union for Conser-vation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species listed it as “critically endangered,” which means it is in very high risk of extinction.

“While the government is promoting crocodile farming, these giant reptiles continue to face the threat of extinc-tion,” wrote Jonathan L. Ma-yuga, author of the news fea-ture, who quoted Lim.

While saltwater croco-dile can be raised commer-cially, it is still listed under Convention on International Trade in endangered Spe-cies of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITeS) Appendix I. As such, trade in specimens of the spe-cies is still subject to particu-larly strict regulation in order not to endanger further their survival.

Mayuga quoted Lim as saying that crocodile farming is good business. “She said the Philippines has the po-tential of becoming a major supplier of crocodile skins. In fact, some farms have started to export crocodile skins as early as 2010 even at a small volume,” Mayuga reported.

Unfortunately, farmers who raised crocodiles are still having hard time when

it comes to producing quality crocodile skins.

“Our farmers in Kapu-long, Davao City, Tarlac, and Rizal have been successfully breeding crocodiles in cap-tivity. The species has been historically recorded to occur in most parts of the country, thus, crocodile farming may work anywhere else in the country. however, establish-ment of crocodile farms in areas that experience flood-ing during rainy season is not advised,” Lim was quoted as saying.

The mere thought of a crocodile makes some peo-ple shudder with fear and revulsion. A rumor about the presence of a crocodile in a river is enough to make peo-ple shun the area. After all, they are dangerous creatures, especially during the mating period.

According to the BMB, crocodiles actually have no any wilful inclination and in-tention to attack humans. In fact, there are many wildlife sanctuaries in the country wherein crocodiles live peace-fully together with human beings.

It is only when human be-ings try to disturb the habitat of the crocodiles that they at-tack people. With the current population of 100 million and the land area being constant, there is no way people won’t claim those areas currently being inhabited by crocodiles.

“Crocodiles are being hunted down and killed,” one environmentalist said. “Unless we do something to save them from vanishing in our waters, they will soon be extinct. We may only see them in national parks or museums and not in their natural habitat.”

“Roughly a quarter of the world’s 23 crocodilian species is either threatened or virtu-ally extinct in the wild,” the World Conservation Union (IUCN) Crocodile specialist Group reported. “Before new

populations of Philippine crocodiles were discovered on the island of Luzon in 1999, none had been spotted in the wild for years.”

While most Filipinos fear crocodiles in the past, such is not the case today. Some businessmen found out a few years ago that there’s money in crocodiles. “Growing glob-al demand for croc-patterned luxuries has turned commer-cial crocodile farming into a profitable industry – with more than $200 million in annual international sales of skins alone,” reports the IUCN Crocodile Specialist Group. “The high-end leather goods produced from crocodiles earn ten times that amount in retail sales.”

Aside from the skin, oth-er parts of the reptile have monetary value. The oil, de-rived from its flesh, has a big market also. It is widely used as stabilizer for perfumes and cosmetics.

Crocodile meat, which tastes like chicken meat if properly cooked, can be canned for export to some eu-ropean countries. In the Unit-ed States, people are eating dishes like crocojambalaya, ‘gator steak, and croco-spiced Cajun.

The meat also commands a good price in some Asian countries, especially those having large populations of ethnic Chinese people. They consider crocodile meat a del-icacy. In Thailand, dry croco-dile meat costs about US$120 per kilogram.

Due to uncontrolled hunting of crocodiles for their valuable hides and other parts and the continued destruction of their natural habitat by hu-man beings, the population of crocodiles in the Philippines dwindled. In 1982, the popu-lation of crocodiles was about 500 to 1,000 heads. No cur-rent data are available.

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extinction is to raise them just like other animals. As an enterprise, crocodile farming doesn’t break any laws. Farms are legally allowed to operate, as well as to sell skins and meat from their stocks.

“Crocodile farming was introduced to prevent the fur-ther decline of the crocodile

population in the wild,” said Lim. “With importers of croc-odile skin buying from croc-odile farms that offer them good-quality skin, hunting in the wild will eventually stop.”

“Going into crocodile farming is not about making profit alone. It is about wild-life conservation,” said Vicen-

te P. Mercado, president of J.K. Mercado & Sons Agricultural enterprise, which runs the Pag-asa Farms in Pag-asa, Kapalong, Davao del Norte. Pag-asa Farms is one of the six cooperators licensed by the government to operate crocodile farms in the Philip-pines.

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Tale of two bridgesEDITORIAL

NOW that the Governor Generoso Bridge 2 in Bankerohan, Davao City is once again open to the public, it is time to dis-cuss that other project that is of equal importance but is

also facing serious – and far longer – delays. We are referring to the pipe bridge of the Davao City Water District (DCWD) that collapsed in 2012 but has not yet been rebuilt almost two years after the fact. The incident was nothing short of a disaster for Davao City as thou-sands of homes and establishments lost water for several days due to the loss of a main pipe that served DCWD’s clients. It was more than a week later that the water utility was able to remedy the sit-uation by installing two smaller temporary pipes, bringing water to the areas but to a much lesser degree. For almost two years now, water pressure in many areas in the city served by DCWD has been low, and many residents have been complaining that water does not reach them during certain hours of the day.

This is no trivial matter as water is an absolute need, and access to clean water is recognized as a basic human right. It is now No-vember 2013 and no work has yet been seen on the part of DCWD

to rebuild the bridge that carried the main pipe. The last word we have heard is that the contractor that won the project has done a study and has submitted a design to DCWD. The utility’s board of directors, however, has yet to meet to discuss the design – much less approve it, and it could be weeks, or even months, be-fore work can actually start. The worst part is that, according to DCWD, the actual work could take an entire year – which means the suffering of the waterless will continue for a very long time.

DCWD has said it is still within its time frame even if it starts work in December, but this is really an unacceptable explanation. A few months is a delay, but two years can be already be called questionable. Why is it taking so long to start a project that is vital to the lives of the people of the city? Whatever the reasons are, the DCWD is not winning any points by being mum about it. If the Department of Public Works and highways (DPWh) can com-plete the Bankerohan bridge in a few months, there is no reason the DCWD cannot do so since the two bridges stand on the same river.

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Considered as the first integrated resort development in the country and the first blue-chip eAGA proj-

ect to come out of davao region was the samal Casino, a proposed Us$50-million resort investment on a 250-hectare proper-ty at Kaputian town, in samal island. The idea was hatched in early 1993 during Pres-ident ramos’ state visit to Malaysia. Malay-sia prime minister Mahathir Mohamad ap-proved the plan and tapped sarawak-based Tan sri datuk Ting Pek Khiing, chair of the Malaysian investment firm ekran Berhad, to invest in tourism in Mindanao.

ekran Berhad, a publicly-listed Malay-sian investment holding company with in-terests in housing, construction, and tour-ism, was regarded a legendary contractor, finishing the five-star, 267-room sheraton Langkawi Hotel in 100 days and the 300-room delima resort Hotel, both in Malay-sia, in 53 days.

in response, Khiing and a contingent of businessmen visited the Philippines in April 1993 and were shown the govern-ment’s blueprint for tourism development in the next twenty years. in particular, the master plan proposed samal as an ideal site

for resort development that would cater to emerging markets in Asia. Highlight of the visit was the signing of a memorandum of agreement (MoA) between Khiing’s firm and the Philippines. on november 18, 1994, President ramos, in the presence of Khiing’s entourage, unveiled a scale model of the resort.

The project was ambitious. Khiing said the first phase would be the devel-opment of a 19-hectare beachfront with 300 units of hotel and accommodations,

3,500-square-meter ball room and func-tions rooms, a casino, and ‘a whole range of shopping, dining, and recreation facili-ties.’ Upon completion, the entire under-taking would have featured “1,720 units of hotel [and] resort accommodations, va-cation homes, a championship 18-hole golf course, club house, restaurants and a shop-ping [and] entertainment complex.” Brief-ly, the casino-resort had a soft opening but the lack of continental players and guests, in part due to the lack of direct flights from outside the country and the reports of in-surgency and secessionist threat, forced it to close shop.

The euphoria resulting from BiMP-eAGA led to the establishment of the davao integrated development Pro-gram (didP) took place on July 15, 1994 further enhanced the eAGA concept. its formal creation, though, did not happen until January 26, 1995 when a Manifesto for Unity and development was signed by the local chief executives (LCes) representing davao City and the provinces of davao (del norte), davao del sur and davao oriental in Manila.

The didP manifesto has three major

thrusts: (1) the promotion and expansion of “an effective and mutually beneficial undertaking” that will help develop LGUs according to “their financial, material and human resource capabilities”; (2) support the government’s agenda on “peace and de-velopment, political stability and achieving the goal of becoming a newly-industrialized country at the turn of the twenty-first cen-tury”; and (3) the realization of the agenda “through a combined effort and teamwork, mutual support and cooperation [and] unity and solidarity” of the government and the LGUs.

But the manifesto also carried political red flags, namely: “unqualified support” for the ramos administration in all its social, political, and economic development objec-tives; carry the “entire senatorial slate” of the administration in the May 10, 1995 elections; unite all partisan groups “within [didP’s] area and collectively work for the success of the programs” of the ramos government; and work closely with the President’s office so the program’s goals and objectives are achieved in “consistency with existing de-velopment priority thrusts and strategies” being pursued by the government.

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What’s in a name?

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“TheRe is everything in a name,” pointed out George Ade. “A rose by any other name would smell

as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months.” Mark Twain contradicts. said he: “Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.”

On permitting Samuel Goldfish to change his name to Samuel Goldwyn, Judge Learned hand penned: “A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.” William ha-zlitt forwarded: “A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.”

In all languages, certain names are traditionally used to designate men and others are used for women; a number of english names, such as evelyn or Leslie, can be used for either sex. Names in them-selves have no psychological significance, unless one associates a memorable expe-rience with someone of a particular name.

Given names, known among en-glish-speaking people variously as first names, forenames, or Christian or bap-tismal names, existed before surnames. Christian influence on first names has been especially strong. In some countries, Brazil, for example, a child must be given an ap-propriate Christian name before he or she can be issued a birth certificate.

Modern names often are derived from sources such as the names of the months (April, May, June), precious stones (Ruby), popular contemporary personalities (Jose, Bonifacio), flowers (Sampaguita), plac-es (Luzviminda for Luzon, Visayas, and

Mindanao), or figures in clas-sical legend (Diana, Jason). New names are frequently coined from the names of the father and mother (Dan-ele from Daniel and elena).

Some peo-ple change their names or surnames. For instance, you probably wouldn’t recognize Charlton Car-ter, would you? But as Charlton heston, you will remember him as one of hollywood’s best-known actors, noted for his portrayals of epic heroes in large-scale historical dra-mas as Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur (for which he won an Oscar for Best Actor). Actually, he took the name “heston” as his screen surname after his mother’s maiden name.

Well, Charlton is just one of them. There are several other famous persons now known by their mothers’ maiden name. Most of them, however, are actors like Buster Keaton (his original surname is Cutler), Paul Newman (fetzer), Orson Welles (Ives), Arnold Schwarzenegger (Jedrny), Sylvester Stallone (Labofish), Anthony Quinn (Oaxaca), and Rip Torn (Spacek).

It happens that the real surname of Oscar winner Diane Keaton is hall. As

such, she adopted her mother’s maiden name to avoid being mistaken for another actress named Diane hall.

Shirley MacLaine and her handsome brother, Warren Beatty, started life as the Beaty siblings. he added an extra “t” when he started acting and she improvised on her mother’s maiden name, Maclean.

The following singers also use their mothers’ surname: Frank Sinatra (Gara-venti), Michael Jackson (Scruse), Mick Jag-ger (Scutts), Perry Como (Travaglini), and Bruce Springsteen (Zirilli). Johnny Carson is actually Johnny hook in real life while Mike Tyson is legally Mike Smith.

Most Filipinos are known by our first names (for instance, my friends call me henry and not Lito). however, there are some instances that people are more pop-ular using their middle names. Our former president Cory Aquino is known as Cora-zon instead of her first name, Maria.

here are more people who are better known by their middle names: (Daniel) Louis Armstrong, jazz musician; (ernst) Ingmar Bergman, director; (Janet) Taylor Caldwell, novelist; (Charles) Robert Cum-mings, actor; (Ruth) Bette Davis, actress; (Dorothy) Faye Dunaway, actress; (Sam-uel) Dashiell hammett, novelist; (Mary) Lauren hutton, fashion model; (James) Paul McCartney, singer/songwriter; (James) Dan Quayle, U.S. vice-president; (Samuel) Billy Wilder, film writer; (how-ard) Andy Williams, singer; and (James) harold Wilson, British politician.

Some people are better known by

their initials than by their given names. Consider: W.C. (William Claude) Fields, US actor; B.F. (Benjamin Franklin) Goodrich, US tire manufacturer; D.h. (David her-bert) Lawrence, english writer; h.L. (hen-ry Louis) Mencken, US editor and jour-nalist; O.J. (Orenthal James) Simpson, US football player; and h.G. (herbert George) Wells, english novelist.

What’s in a name? Plenty, especially if you are a star. In fact, most of them have to adopt a screen name in order for them to be remembered. For instance, no one will ever notice Julia Wells but as Julie An-drews, well, she’s the star of The Sound of Music and other musical films.

More original names of celebrated people: Albert Brooks (believe it or not, he was born Albert einstein), ellen Burs-tyn (Edna Rae Gillooly), Nicholas Cage (Nicholas Coppola), John Denver (Henry John Deutchendorf ), Bo Derek (Cathleen Collins), and Michael Keaton (he was born Michael Douglas but since there is another actor named such, he changed his screen surname).

Still others never changed their names at all. After all, their names sound like stage names. here are a few of those who never changed their real names: Ursula Andress, humprey Bogart, Marlon Bran-do, Olivia de havilland, Clint eastwood, errol Flynn, Clark Gable, Dustin hoffman, Kris Kristofferson, Mercedes McCam-bridge, Dolly Parton, elvis Presley, Cesar Romero, Franchot Tone, Rudy Vallee, Gore Vidal, and King Vidor.

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as well as some programs and projects.

The development fund will have a P1.09-billion al-location, or 19 percent of the total budget. This will cover infrastructure and non-in-frastructure projects includ-ing debt servicing for the ensuing year.

The city also allocated P129.862 million for the ex-penses of the eight economic enterprises of the city.

Around P1.1 billion is al-located for PS for the salaries and other personnel benefits of all officials and employees of the city government.

There is a decrease of P2.9 million compared to the current year’s budget due to the non-inclusion of the budget for the Productivi-ty Incentive Benefits under the PS account. The perfor-mance-based incentives will be charged against the mis-cellaneous personnel bene-fits accounts as advised by Department of Budget and Management (DBM).

The PS total appropri-ation will only account for 24.5 percent which is within the bounds of Section 325 of Local Government Code that allocation for PS shall not ex-ceed 45 percent of the total annual income from regular sources.

The MOOe and Capital Outlay for 2015 are pegged with the current year’s bud-get, except for the wages of Job Orders and Contract of Service employees. These employees are pegged at minimum rate of P312 a day and cost of living allowance of P5 or a total of P317 a day.

Of the total allocation under the General Fund, the City Mayor’s Office (CMO) has the highest allocation of P1.691 billion or 36.9 percent, since its budget in-cludes the funds for Peace and Order Program, Central 911, Traffic Management Center (TMC) and the eight office such as Business Bu-reau, Davao City Invest-ment and Promotion Center

(DCIPC), City Tourism Op-eration Office, Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO), Integrated Gender and Development Division (IGDD).

The CMO also funds the Lingap Program, Crisis In-tervention, Barangay Devel-opment, Traffic Signalization Project, and Intensified Ca-nal Clean-up, drainage proj-ects and sidewalk vendors demolition team.

The City environment and Natural Resources Of-fice (CENRO) has 9.9 percent or a total of P455.48 million budget.

The City engineers Of-fice (CeO) has an allocation of P362.21 million or 7.9 percent of the General Fund budget.

All offices such as the Sangguniang Panlungsod, City Administrator’s Office, City health Office, City Social Services and Development Office, City Agriculturist Office, City Veterinarian Of-fice, and other offices will

receive an allocation ranging from P383.5 million down to P14.1 million for their cur-rent operating expenditures, capital outlays, and projects under general fund.

During the delibera-tion last November 11, the proposed ordinance was amended by incorporating the request of Councilor Maria Belen S. Acosta of her budget allocation under ADF (Non-Infrastructure).

Acosta amended the al-location of the development fund for every councilor. For the Comprehensive health Program, the allocation was changed from P5.4 million to P5.2 million, or a decrease of P200,000.

For the Sports Develop-ment Program, the amount was changed from P28.828 milllion to P29.128 milllion, an increase of P300,000.

For the Social Alleviation Program, the amount was changed from P12.95 million to P12.85 million, a decrease of P100,000.

committee hearing and I told them to just ask their office heads to use the unused vehi-cles parked outside City hall instead of buying new units,” he had said.

Dayanghirang said the City Council and city council-ors were never mentioned in the discussion.

“I want to emphasize that I did not say, ‘Councilors, you borrow (from) the other side,’” he said.

In a report that appeared in the Mindanao Daily Mirror, Dayanghirang was quoted as saying, “there’s no luxury vehicles anymore for coun-cilors.”

“The Council’s policy should be in consonance with Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte’s policy on prop-er standing” and that “the purchase of luxury vehicles should be avoided at all cost based on the Mayor’s policy,” he was quoted as saying.

The story alleged that Dayanghirang said 4x4 wheel vehicles “are consid-ered luxury cars because they are expensive” and “the city has always practiced motorpooling and even the councilors should follow this practice in case they need

vehicles in performance of their functions.”

he was also quoted as saying that the councilors “have been issued Avanza vehicles and if they need 4x4 vehicles they only need to look at the 4 x4 vehicles parked at the City engineer’s Office.”

Paolo, in a Facebook post, challenged Dayanghi-rang “and the Dept. head, who approved the budget for those avanzas, to use those toyota vehicles for a month and use it to visit far flung barangays of davao city, kung makasugakod ang sakyanan wa tay problema”

Dayanghirang, however, said he was “a little bit mis-quoted” by the newspaper.

In a text message to edge Davao yesterday, Councilor Dayanghirang said “my apol-ogies if I caused a different interpretation of what I’ve said. Criticism is part of pub-lic service, so it’s okay with me (to be criticized).”

“Vice Mayor Pulong is right that a 4x4 vehicle is not a luxury vehicle, as defined in the rules and regulations of DBM,” he said. With re-ports from CHENEEN R. CA-PON

order pushed by Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s admin-istration.

he said this will con-tinue to entice investors, locators, and migrants from nearby regions.

“I’ve talked to real es-tate brokers and they said that people from different places continue to relo-cate here because of the peace and order as well as the cheaper cost of living,”

he said.Lim added that foreign

investors from Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Japan are eyeing Mindan-ao, and even Davao City, for their vast agricultural projects.

The growing Busi-ness Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector and its de-mand for more infrastruc-ture also indicates that the current increase in real estate development will not create a bubble as forecasted by foreign economists, he said.

Lim said the con-struction and real estate development boom in Davao City will continue up to three years from now.

“This could be be-cause of the low interest rates and the increasing remittances of our OFWs (Overseas Filipino Work-ers),” he said.

he also said young professionals nowadays have higher purchasing power that will not soft-

en the demand for real estate properties.

he said that many young Dabawenyos are still renting and will soon be buying houses because of competitive price and interest rates.

“If peace and or-der will continue here, there’s no doubt that it will be easier to dispose of properties as supply of new houses and units continues to rise,” he said.

Lim also said he be-lieves the Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is do-ing some tweaking as far as policy is concerned in order to secure the rapid economic growth of the country, which is consid-ered one of the fastest in Asian region.

earlier, Diwa S. Guini-gundo, BSP governor for monetary sector, said the BSP will not hesitate to impose new regulations when it sees that the property sector is over-heating. CRC

delegates, who are the sectors of academe, re-search and development, government and private business, will participate in the two-day symposium that will start on Thursday, November 20 at 8:30a.m. experts on banana will provide recent advances on research and develop-ment, marketing strate-gies, logistics, pests and disease management, and other emerging trends at present.

Davao Trade expo and International Banana Symposium’s other event partners this year are AN-FLOCOR, Davao City May-or’s Office, Department of Trade and Industry, De-partment of Agriculture, Mindanao Banana Farm-

At present, there are more or less 70 renters in the commercial area of the DCOTT’s 1.7-hectare property. These are mostly vendors selling food and snacks to DCOTT passen-gers.

There are also food es-tablishments and restau-rants renting in the area.

“It would be better if the commercial building will have a second floor so that it can accommodate more renters,” Alilin said, adding that the Davao City Planning and Development Office already has a devel-opment and rehabilitation plan for the terminal.

Based on the collec-tion report of DCOTT for the month of Octo-ber, collection from stall and stand rental reached P310,395.12 or a total of P3,431,182.94 for the first ten months of 2014.

This year’ s October collection from stalls and stands renter is lower than the P323,085.66 during on the same period of this year.

Alilin said DCOTT serves an estimated 15,000 to 25,000 passengers on an average day, reaching up to 60,000 passengers during peak seasons like holy Week, All Saints’ Day, and Christmas.

The terminal also serves around 6oo to 650 trips average daily, reach-ing up to 1,200 during peak seasons.

DCOTT serves as the fetch and drop point of around 20 bus companies, with bus trips heading north and south of Mind-anao. Among the most pas-sengers are buses bound for Cagayan de Oro, Mar-bel, and General Santos City. CRC

(TMG) head Superintendent Rhodelio Poliquit to conduct an investigation.

Villaroman said Poliquit picked up Fanlo in his own residence yesterday morn-ing.

“Fanlo will be reporting to the Traffic Management Center while the investiga-tion is ongoing. I told him (Poliquit) to come up with the investigation in a week or two,” Villaroman said.

According to Villaroman, Fanlo was first assigned along Ilustre Street near Limso hospital but due to reports of mulcting and ex-tortion, he was transferred to C.M. Recto Street.

Villaroman said Fanlo could be suspended once proven that he is mulcting

motorists.“The video can be used

against him because we have a video that can be evidence but it will be hard to file a criminal case against Fanlo because as of now we don’t have complainants who filed against him,” Villaroman said.

however, he cited a Face-book user from Mati who commented in the post that he was also victimized by Fanlo when he was traveling in Davao City.

“This is just a reminder not just for traffic enforcers but also to police officers and government employees that ‘kotong’ is not allowed in the city and the mayor is also strict about that,” Villaroman said. CRC

ers and exporters Asso-ciation, Pilipino Banana Growers and exporters Association, Goodfarmer, Philippine Fresh Fruits Corporation, Zetryl Chem Philippines, Yida Import and export Corp, Mindan-ao Corrugated Fibreboard Incorporated, Philippine Council for Agriculture Aquatic and Natural Re-sources Research and Development, La Filipina Uy Gongco Corporation, Sagrex, Land Bank, Uni-lox Far east Resources, Unifrutti Philippines, Microtel, Crown Regen-cy, Manila Bulletin, edge Davao, Business World, Prime Billboards, STI, Wild 92.3, San Miguel Brewery, 95.5 hit Radio,GMA, and M-Magazine, Bayantel, Mindanao Daily Mirror, ABs-CBN, and Z-Tech. CRC

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ICT HUB

ThRee innovations launched by Smart Communications, Inc.

(Smart) and its subsidiary Smart e-Money, Inc. (SMI) were recently ranked among the world’s best by Telecoms.com, a leading provider of news, analysis, and opinion on the telecommunications industry.

Shortlisted at the Tele-coms.com Awards are music service Spinnr, mobile remit-tance service Smart Money Padala, and the multi-award-ed Green Merchandising program.

Spinnr – an application that gives Smart subscribers access to more than 3 million songs from the world’s big-gest music superstars – was named finalist under the OTT (Over-the-Top) Service Launch category. Spinnr of-

fers unlimited music stream-ing at affordable rates, play-list access and customiza-tion, and the best download discounts. It also enables Smart subscribers to pay for music streaming and down-loads using their prepaid load or postpaid credits.

Last year, Smart subsid-iary Voyager Innovations won the OTT Service Launch award for smartNet, a plat-form that offers the use of popular mobile apps such as Twitter, Facebook, and Facebook Chat for free. The “Freemium” model gives people a taste of what mo-bile Internet has to offer – without fear of unexpected data charges – and promotes the growth of mobile Inter-net usage among Smart sub-scribers.

Nominated this year as

Best Mobile Payment Solu-tion is Smart Money Padala, which serves the domestic and international money remittance requirements of Filipinos. With this service, Pinoys can transfer funds to tens of millions of Smart subscribers at the speed of a text message.

Smart Money Padala boasts of a large remittance network, with 95,000 inter-national and 27,000 local remittance partners.

In the running for its fourth international award, under the Green Technology category, is the Green Merch project, Smart’s sustained effort to reduce the impact of its operations on the en-vironment.

Smart is the first Phil-ippine company to use the environment-friendly

stone paper in the produc-tion of its advertising and merchandising materials. Unlike plastic, stone paper degrades under the sun and eventually becomes stone again. It is also water- and tear-resistant.

Smart has also been us-ing recyclable banners and recycled paper for its post-ers, flyers, and other mate-rials.

Green Merch previous-ly won at the Asian CSR Awards 2013 in Indone-sia, World Communication Awards 2012 in the United Kingdom, and Asia Com-munication Awards 2012 in Singapore.

Winners of the Tele-coms.com Awards will be announced in a ceremony to be held in London on De-cember 4.

Three Smart innovationsshortlisted for int’l awards

LENOVO has an-nounced the trend-setting VIBe

X2 – the world’s first lay-ered smartphone. The VIBe X2 turns heads with its signature design which frees users to express their multi-faceted lifestyles.

The layered motif is a quantum leap in terms of smartphone design. The thin and light VIBe X2 uses MediaTek’s latest 4G LTe mobile processor, prom-ising consumers True Oc-

ta-core™ processing power. “Becoming a PC Plus

leader with a focus on smartphone is the most crucial challenge for Leno-vo. We are well positioned to succeed as we have the innovation and in-house manufacturing capability to bring new and exciting products to the market quickly and efficiently,” said Michael Ngan, Coun-try General Manager, Leno-vo Philippines.

Lenovo is the first to ship

a smartphone with the latest MediaTek MT6595 True Oc-ta-core™ processor with 4G LTe. MediaTek applied its Cor-ePilot technology to the VIBe X2 to unlock the full power of all eight cores. This allows the MT6595M to deliver superior multi-tasking performance and excellent, sustained per-formance-per-watt, allowing users to enjoy great multi-media features, fast 4G data transmission rates and long battery life on the VIBe X2.

With the Lenovo VIBe X2 running on Android 4.4 KitKat, system performance is also taken to an all-time high through memory opti-mization and improvement of touchscreen responsiveness and accuracy.

The Lenovo VIBe X2 packs two advanced camer-as equipped with multiple shooting modes and editing features. Users can capture crisp, vivid photos and video whenever the moment strikes.

Selfies are effortless with the VIBe X2’s 5MP wide-angle front camera with auto-shut-ter that is activated by the blink of an eye or a smile. The13MP auto-focus, rear-facing camera comes with a back-illuminated sensor and LeD flash to pro-duce sharp, brilliant shots. And with 32GB of internal storage, users will have ample room to store their digital content.

Lenovo also introduced two new innovative click-on accessories, known as VIBe Xtensions: VIBe X2 Battery and VIBe X2 speaker. The VIBe Xtension™ cases add a fourth layer to the VIBe X2’s multi-layer design, immedi-ately extending battery life and cranking up high-fi sound. The ultra-thin (5.1mm) X2 Battery does double duty by protecting the phone while also extending its battery life by nearly 75 percent, lasting from day to night without having to recharge. The X2 JBL Speaker amplifies music

and movie audio. A stand al-lows for hands-free use and a built-in mic for group confer-ence calls.

“Uniquely crafted with three layers of distinc-tive colors, the VIBe X2 is the ideal smartphone for design trendsetters and style followers. Combined with the all-new VIBe Xtensions™ which gives the VIBe X2 its fourth layer, these innovations will drive Lenovo’s lead-ership in the PC Plus era,” said Dino Romano, Coun-try head, Lenovo Smart-phones. “Our partnership with MediaTek delivers powerful performance in the stylish VIBe X2 and this will appeal to our discern-ing customers who value best-in-class features in their smartphones.”

“Lenovo is one of our most important partners, and we have been enjoy-ing a full relationship over

the course of the smart-phone evolution from our single-core chip, through our latest True Octa-core™ LTe-enabled MT6595M SoC. MT6595M delivers high-end, powerful perfor-mance and is embedded with some of our leading technologies such as Cor-ePilot™ and other premi-um multimedia features, making VIBe X2 one of the best devices to enable consumers to reach their potential and be, what we like to call, an everyday Genius,” said Ching-Jiang hsieh, President of Medi-aTek.

The Lenovo Vibe X2 will be available in white, gold, red and dark grey and will be available on the market by mid-November with sRP of P18,999 at all Lenovo Mobile exclusive Stores and autho-rized resellers of Open Com-munications, Lenovo’s exclu-sive smartphone distributor.

Lenovo VIBE X2: World’s first layered smartphone

The new ASUS Zen-fone 5 (lite version) is now available for

just P5,595, allowing us-ers to experience the Pix-elmaster Technology at a more affordable price.

equipped with In-tel Atom Z2520 1.2Ghz processor with hy-per-threading Technology and 1GB of RAM, the best bang-for-the-buck smart-phone comes with the new ZenUI enhanced with Android 4.4 KitKat and a 2500 mAh battery.

Aside for having a powerful Intel chipset, it also comes with Pixelmas-ter camera technology with 18 unique camera modes, allowing the user to take great low-light shots thanks to its pixel-merging technology.

The Zenfone Series fea-tures high-performance and

Affordable technology with ASUS Zenfone 5

power-efficient Intel Atom processors to deliver out-standing mobile experiences at a competitive price that will be a compelling proposi-tion for consumers.

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Erika Soriano Mata is the face of calm and peace. Her mere presence is like a breath of fresh air, with her jovial personality, well comple-mented by her charm and effortless grace, and her big heart and modest smile which ceaselessly inspires any jaded soul. Her youth-ful glow gives you no hint that she’s actually 35 years of age, nor does it reveal that she now has a kid reaching adolescence stage. A full time mom to 3 beautiful children namely Patricia, Amanda and Richardo, Erika or “Ek” (as she is fondly called), maintains an idyllic life by staying positive and living an attitude of gratitude wherever she goes.

Erika Soriano MataStay at home mom“Being a full time mom is a decision my husband, Richard, and I made. It’s not for all families, but we felt that it’s better if I stay home and take care of the kids’ needs and affairs,” says Ek. “We’re blessed be-cause with my husband’s job as a pediatrician, we’re able to live comfortably with only one parent earn-ing. Being a housewife is no easy task, unlike what others think. Day in and

tion of values at a child’s early developmental stage somehow helps in instill-ing proper behavior and attitude as he or she grows up.” “There are some par-ents who tend to substitute their lack of time for kids

by giving them gifts and toys. They tend to forego the pressing matters such as discipline because they feel they are guilty of not giving enough attention to their kids. I believe that parents need to confront the problem whenever children misbehave. It all starts with your relation-ship with them, how you deal with their concerns and issues. You cannot take this for granted. In one of Zig Ziglar’s parent-ing lectures, we learned that rules without rela-tionship equal to rebel-lion. If you’re not able to develop a stable and open relationship with your kids when they’re young, you’re bound to have diffi-culty implementing rules by the time they hit their teens.” “We don’t resort to spanking as a disciplin-ary action. We deal with the problem by sticking to the source of the problem. We deal with the source rather than the outcome. For example, if our child misbehaves, we check on the possibility of lack of sleep as the cause for her crankiness. In turn, we try to make him or her get ample sleep. Of course, there are far more causes of misbehavior other than just the sleep issue. We also try to interpret situa-

tions based on our child’s personality which she or he naturally inherited from us or acquired from the environment.”

Share and learnThere is no perfect for-mula on becoming a good parent. As parenting is a life-long process, Ek be-lieves experience makes a perfect teacher. “We learn how to better manage our homes by two ways --- either through our own experience or the experi-ence of others. When we say others, it means from reading books, listening to audio lectures or attend-ing seminars. Our parent-ing style revolves around two objectives: keeping the communication lines open and practice be-ing role models. This is mainly the reason why we advocate faith and recep-tive parenting within the community. This is our contribution society and, in turn, it makes our life more meaningful. From time to time, we fly in in-spirational speakers here from Manila, the likes of Anthony Pangilinan, Maricel Laxa-Pangilinan and Chinkee Tan, to give talks on successful parent-ing.” Ek and her husband have consistently and generously shared their

blessings with the less for-tunate ones by enrolling a selected few in school. With Ek’s penchant for style and passion in reach-ing out to the commu-nity, she thought of other means of charity work within the area of fashion and lifestyle. “We want to help more students by getting extra funds to sup-port them in school,” she shares. “I started design-ing bags together with my daughters. After series of brainstorming sessions, Humabi was born. We were able to strike a deal with female bag weavers in the correctional facili-ties who are mostly moth-ers with dependent chil-dren. We actually haven’t launched our products yet, but soon they will be available to all. These are high quality but bags at very affordable prices. Each Humabi bag sold will help two people namely a bag weaver in correctional facility and one of our scholars in the Philippine Science High School. As of this time, I’m in com-munication with celebrity mothers and some mom-prenuers who are open to promoting this bag for free --- all for a good cause. Our main goal is to send a message of hope to everyone in the commu-nity.”

day out, we have to man-age a household with dif-ferent personalities, attend to each of their needs and

keep up with the demands of the day. You become a last priority, but I see to it that I also take care of myself. On the side, this is what I do --- imparting tips and useful insights to fellow mothers on how to stay classy and chic at any stage of our life. You see, amidst all the stress, we need to feel good about ourselves. Not that my family is too much for me to handle, but even with the ease and comfort of having good children, I try to look and feel my best not just for me but also for my loved ones.”

Parental GuidanceBeing a woman of today, Ek stays attuned with advances in technology. “Raising kids nowadays is totally different as com-pared to how our genera-tion was brought up. With the availability and con-venience of any kind of information on cable TV and Internet, my husband and I believe that parents have more responsibility now in guiding the kids through learning and dis-covery. While they do us good in so many ways, TV and Internet are also fac-tors which form and shape behavior. A good founda-

By Bai Fauziah Fatima Sinsuat Ambolodto Photos from Club Ech-elon Facebook Fan Page

CHRISTMAS is just around the corner and the an-nual search for the perfect gift for friends and fam-ily starts again. Some may think that the bigger the gift, the better. But some-times the best gifts come in small packages. SanDisk memory devices pack a lot of performance into a small form factor, and are sure to get you big hugs from your loved ones dur-ing this special season.

SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.0 Flash Drive for the Multitasker

For business people who dash between meet-ings, lunch plans and rushed deadlines, this thumb-sized flash drive is exactly what they need to support their fast-paced lifestyle.

The SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.0 features incredible transfer speeds, up to ten times faster than standard USB 2.0 drives (32GB and 64GB capacities). It’s so fast it can transfer a full- length HD movie in just 40 seconds**. With the exceptional performance of this speedy little flash drive, users can save time when transferring big files.

This reliable offering comes in 16GB,32GB, and 64GB capacities at an SRP of Php 699.00, Php 1,299.00 and Php 2,639.00, respectively.

SanDisk Ultra Mi-croSDXC 128GB Memory Card for the Multimedia Savvy

  In a size that’s smaller than a fingernail yet built with a storage space of 128GB, this epic device, dubbed the world’s largest capacity microSD memory card, is the perfect gift for today’s smartphone and tablet geeks. This memory card allows users to cap-

ture up to 7,500 songs, 3,200 photos, 16 hours of full HD video and install more than 125 apps with-out having to worry about running out of storage space.

The SanDisk Ultra microSDXC runs with a transfer speed of 48 MB/second and can be used with the SanDisk Memory Zone app to make viewing and storing files simpler than ever. It comes in 8GB, 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB capacities, fit for all kinds of tech junkies.

The SanDisk Ultra microSDXC 128GB is available across SanDisk authorized distributors and resellers at an SRP of Php 7,600.

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For college students and yuppies who like to share the latest tunes, photos and movies with their peers, the SanDisk Ultra Dual USB Drive is a great choice. This porta-ble flash drive helps users quickly and easily share files across PCs, laptops, Android smartphones and tablets with on-the-go (OTG) connection features.

This plug and play device features a retract-able cover, so no caps get lost while still keeping the connectors safe.

The SanDisk Ultra Dual USB Drive is available in suggested retail prices of Php 980 (16GB), Php 1,600 (32GB) and Php 2,980 (64GB).

With the remarkable performance of these SanDisk gadgets, you can never go wrong in giving the perfect small gifts for the big people in your life this Christmas.

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Be seen at Club Echelon IMAGINE partying at Club Hakkasan or Light at the Manda-lay Bay in Las Vegas with the best house and edm beats and a Dj on deck minus the travel expenses. Now, distressing from a week of work is easy at Davao’s newest place to be and party seen, Club Echelon. Located at the heart of down town Davao, Club Echelon caters to your body’s need to a night of music, dancing and laughter with a view to beat. Once inside, you’ll be transported to a world-class clubbing experience with state of the art lights, sounds and beats that will have you wanting for

more; step outside and see the Davao night skyline in all of its glory. More than just music and dancing, Club Ech-elon also features the best DJs in the country. Last October 31, celebrating its opening and Halloween in one night, Club Ech-elon had DJ Liv from C

Superclub Cebu and two of BigFish Manila world renown Djs, Ian Sndrz and Chris Raeuber, stir the crowd with their beats all night long. Celebrate love, laugh-ter and music at the new-est party place in Davao. Visit Club Echelon at the 6th floor, The Peak,

Gaisano Mall of Davao (roof top area), JP Laurel Avenue, Bajada, Davao City. For table and couch reservations, call them up at 0917.7134063. For the latest party news, browse and like their of-ficial Facebook Fan page at https://www.facebook.com/clubechelon.

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ARMED with a smile that lights up the entire room, Jake Vargas has proven that he’s not just a Kapuso tween star, but a serious and talented actor. After the successful run of his teen oriented weekend show Tween Hearts, the young star did not rest on his laurels and worked on improving his skills. Currently, he is a regular in the comedy program Pepito Manaloto: Ang Tunay na Kuwento as Chito and in the primetime series Straw-berry Lane opposite Kapuso actress and real-life girlfriend Bea Binene. He also plays Dimitri in another sitcom starring Bossing Vic Sotto, Vampire Ang Daddy Ko. In an interview with GMANet-work.com, Jake revealed that he still feels the pressure of working with the country’s comedy heavy-weights: Vic and Michael V. He add-ed that the two are both hilarious on TV, but are completely opposites off-camera.

“Ibang-iba kasi si Kuya Bitoy. Ma-joke siya ‘pag ganyan sa mga eksena kahit hindi pa-take. Off-cam

maloko siya lagi siyang nagbibiro, nagjo-joke siya tatawa kami.” “Si Bossing naman parang me-dyo serious, pero ‘pag umarte na-kakatawa. Ganun ‘yung pinagkaiba nila kaya nakakatuwa silang dala-wa. Nakaka-pressure din minsan,” Jake said. It has been a fruitful year for the protégé of German Moreno. After doing several TV projects and com-mercial endorsements, we asked the Kapuso actor what he wants to achieve next year after accomplish-ing so many things in 2014. Jake said, “Actually, nagawa ko ‘yung dream ko, ‘yung dream ko na parang medyo horror siya, pero may fight scene. ‘Yun ‘yung dream ko na parang may fight scene na gi-nagawa lumilipad-lipad.” “Actually, nagawa ko na naman ‘yun. So siguro etong mga susunod na years pa, siguro blessings na rin. ‘Tsaka health na huwag pabayaan ni Lord ‘yung resistansya ko, ‘yung katawan ko” said the young actor.

WHEN film restoration in the country is being talk-ed about, the first thing that will come into mind is the restoration of clas-sic Filipino films the likes of “Himala” and “Oro Pla-ta Mata.” But for ABS-CBN Film Archives, the coun-try’s pioneer in locally re-storing and remastering films, the preservation of Filipino films is not lim-ited to old titles but also covers recent ones. “Even more recent films have some defects that were not important enough to fix during its initial commercial run in theaters or were unno-ticeable in a standard def-inition television broad-cast. However, today’s more sophisticated tech-nologies require crisper images and more picture clarity so we need to ad-dress these defects as we convert the old SD films in to High-Definition,” said ABS-CBN head of Film Ar-chives Leo Katigbak. Since ABS-CBN Film Archives started restor-ing films in late 2011 in partnership with Central Digital Lab, it has already restored a total of 63 films that were produced from 1976 to 2011. Among the recent titles restored were Star Cinema’s hit movies “Miss You Like Crazy,” “One More Chance,” “Milan,” “Tanging Yaman,” “Anak,”

“Feng Shui,” and “My Am-nesia Girl.” Some of these restored films are available to the public via theatrical re-leases, DVDs, free-to-air television via ABS-CBN, cable television via Cin-ema One, and global tele-vision via TFC. Some are also available on iTunes, which is another first made possible by ABS-CBN Film Archives. ABS-CBN is the first Philippine-based Con-tent Company that has regularly and consistently

made Filipino films avail-able on iTunes locally and internationally. “Our performance in iTunes isn’t big business yet but its better than we thought. And it’s also filled with surprises. Who could imagine that a movie like Cinema One’s ‘Mater Dolorosa’ would be performing as well as Star Cinema’s ‘The Mis-tress.’ There are certainly new opportunities at play now and on a global field.” When it comes to clas-

sic films, ABS-CBN Film Archives already restored five titles namely “Hi-mala,” “Oro Plata Mata,” “Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon,” “Virgin People,” and its newest addition set to be screened in cinemas before the year ends, Mike De Leon’s 1985 masterpiece “Hindi Naha-hati Ang Langit” starring Christopher De Leon, Lor-na Tolentino, Edu Man-zano and Dina Bonnevie. “Hindi Nahahati ang Langit” tells the story of Noel Delgado (De Leon) and Melody (Tolentino), step-siblings who grew up belligerent to each other. Melody appears to be trying hard to get attention while Noel re-mains indifferent. When their parents died, Noel becomes the legal guard-ian of Melody who is an-noyed with Noel’s strict and old fashioned ways. The two should have parted ways when each got married but still their lives intertwine when Melody gets into the construction business as Noel’s business partner, stirring jealousy and sus-picion in their respective spouses. The digitally restored and remastered version of “Hindi Nahahati ang Langit” will be screened in select cinemas later this month.

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What I learned while in Bogor“A romantic little village” -- that was how Sir Stamford Raffles described Bogor when he made it his country home during the British interregnum.

The Lonely Planet seems to agree. It writes: “As an oasis of unpredict-able weather – it is credited with 322 thunderstorms a year – cool, quiet Bogor was the chosen retreat of colonials escaping the sti-fling, crowded capital. “Today, the long arm of Jakarta reaches almost the whole way to Bogor, and while a ribbon of green still just about survives between the two, the city is already choked with the overspill of the capital’s perennial traffic prob-lems.” Yes, rapid economic development has turned the central part of Bogor into a congested mess, but there are still rivers, canals, red-roofed hous-es, mosques, churches, trees, flowers and views of nearby Mount Salak, an eroded volcanic range in West Java. Why I know all these? It’s because I had the op-portunity of visiting Bo-gor recently. It is about 60 kilometers to the south of Jakarta. Although its transformation into a distant Jakartan suburb continues apace, the real oasis remains untouched. Bogor is one of the most beautiful cities I have vis-ited in recent years. A local told me that Bo-gor earned the sobriquet, “Kota Hujan,” for a rea-son. It simply means “City of Rain.” In my research, I found that Bogor receives 4000 millimeters of rain a year with over 200 mil-limeters falling in any one month. So, I didn’t won-der why there was never a day without rain. But it did stop -- when we left the city on our way back to Manila. There were so many things I learned on the said trip. For one, I didn’t know that Bogor was once Indonesia’s capital -- this was during the brief Brit-ish occupation. It was called Buitenzorg, named

after the summer capital of the Dutch in the hot dry season. As Bogor is located 290 meters above sea level, it is amazingly cooler than those areas in torrid low-lands. This is the reason why most of the Indo-nesian elite have their villas in the city. I have observed this during our travel as we approached the hotel where we were billeted. Where I went, I find people in Bogor to be ex-tremely friendly; in fact, some of them will go out of their way to help you. So if you are polite and smile often, you will go very far. Although Eng-lish is not prevalent, ba-sic English is spoken by many in restaurants and in the local warung food-stalls. If you think the traffic is Jakarta is worst, then you better be prepared when you are in Bogor; the traf-fic is chaotic. There is a daily traffic jam in Bogor from early in the morning to late in the afternoon. On weekend and holiday, people from Jakarta of-ten go to Bogor with their

cars. It was good that the ho-tel provided us a ride in going to the heart of the city. The hotel is about 10 minutes away from the city and getting a taxi is always a hassle. Gener-ally, we went to go “where the action” not to shop (although some of us did!)

but to eat. Although it was exhausting, we still liked it so we could try other foods other than those we ate at the hotel. On our last night, all of us tried something new. I went for rice noodles with various vegetables and meat (you have to pay for all that you will pick and

it will be cooked by the chef). The only person who ordered unusual was Zacarias Sarian, an edi-tor of a national magazine and recipient of Ramon Magsaysay Award. When I asked him if it tasted good, he replied: “Not bad.” Bogor is known around the world for its Botanical Gardens, which stretch out over 87 hectares. One part look like palace gardens as they are care-fully manicured and an-other part look like a wild jungle at first glance (if not for the tags detailing where every tree and plant comes from). It has lakes, two rivers, and hilly trails. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to see the Botanical Gardens firsthand. I only

got the information from my friends and those I interviewed. Never had a chance to go out from the place where we were hav-ing our workshop. But on second thought, we were billeted in a ho-tel that is set amongst breathtaking gardens. It features an 18-hole golf course. But the most im-portant: food. You can choose from delicious Sundanese-Indonesian or Western cuisine at its Verandah Restaurant or indulge in Italian dishes at Capriccio. I really wondered why the media workshop on biotechnology was held in Bogor. I only knew it af-ter reading A Handbook for Newcomers to Bogor, which Jose Levelink ed-

ited. It said: “Bogor is a university town. Students from all over Indonesia attend IPB (Bogor Ag-ricultural University) to study agriculture, veteri-nary science, animal hus-bandry, fisheries, forestry and engineering, or at-tend other universities. “Bogor is also an im-portant scientific research center with numerous in-stitutes conducting stud-ies in the fields of soils, crops, forestry, fisheries, animal science, agricul-tural economics, biology and others. These insti-tutes have also attracted foreign aid projects, often in the form of technical experts working within the various institutes of the universities.” You can get to Bogor through Jakarta’s Soekar-no-Hatta Airport. I hated when we arrived since it rained and there was a to-tal black-out. I stood in-side the airport for almost 30 minutes and with no air-con, it was totally hot. But my bad feeling about the airport changed when we were flying out. It was very clean; the stores are scattered all over the place. In fact, beautiful orchids are ev-erywhere. I really had fun taking photos. Well, I never get to know all these had I not visited Bogor.

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POWER MOVE. Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard (12) shoots against Memphis Grizzlies forward Zach Randolph (50), guard Mike Conley (11) and guard Courtney Lee (5) in the first half of an NBA basketball game Monday (Tuesday PH Time), Nov. 17, 2014, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Brandon Dill)

ON November 23, Pi-noys will again drop everything to watch

the country’s pride Manny ‘Pacman’ Pacquiao battle it out with the young and hun-gry Chris Algieri of the US. If you are a smart, Talk ‘N Text, and Sun Cellular subscriber, you are in for a treat. For the first time, you can watch Pac-quiao’s fight live and with no commercial breaks, on your mobile device, for only P199.

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Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart ) has partnered with video-on-demand service Blink to provide an afford-able, convenient, and enjoy-able Pacquiao experience exclusively to smart, Talk ‘N Text, and Sun Cellular sub-scribers.

No need to sit through endless advertisements on television, no need to shell out cash for costly pay-per-view subscriptions or cine-ma tickets, or jostle for a nice

viewing spot at the crowded barangay center.

Will Algieri score an up-set and retire boxing’s only 8-division champion? Will Pacquiao overwhelm his op-ponent and further raise the world’s hopes for a Floyd Mayweather match?

Watch how it goes down by texting BLINKsPORTs 199 to 3161 for Smart and Talk ‘N Text, or 2354 for sun. The system will send you an SMS containing an e-PIN code.

MACAU – Manny Pac-quiao returned to the site where he

successfully relaunched his career a year ago.

The 35-year-old boxing superstar from the Philip-pines arrived in this former Portuguese colony early Monday evening accompa-nied by an entourage of close to 400 aboard two commer-cial AirAsia chartered flights which flew directly from General Santos City, which served as training camp of the reigning world welter-weight champion for the past seven weeks.

Pacquiao sparred for four rounds for the last time Monday afternoon before flying over in this gambling haven, where he found a new lease of life in his boxing ca-

reer exactly 12 months ago following a 12-round unan-imous decision over Ameri-can Brandon Rios.

The Rios victory came at the time Pacquiao was reel-ing from back-to-back loss-es against Mexican nemesis Juan Manuel Marquez and Timothy Bradley.

The Pacman has since bounced back big time as he avenged his loss against Bradley by dominating the California native inside 12 rounds last April to regain back the World Boxing Orga-nization (WBO) 147-lbs title belt. Pacquiao checked in at the palatial Venetian hotel here along with wife Jinkee and new-born son Israel.

The champion (56-5-2, 38 KOs) is expected to go to work right away on Tues-

day with trainer Freddie Roach, who considers the seven-week training camp he had with Pacquiao as `perfect’ for the fight against Americna challenger Chris Algieri.

The 30-year-old native of New York has been here as early as Saturday. As the limelight swirled on the ar-rival of the champion, Al-gieri (20-0, 8 KOs) silently worked out at the Venetian Macao gym in keeping with his low-profile personality.

But the challenger, who owns a Bachelor of Science degree in health Care Man-agement, a Masters Degree in Clinical Nutrition, and a Ph.D in Upsets Inside The Ring, vows to shock the world come Nov. 23 at the Cotai Arena.

LEBRON James began the day by missing the morning shootaround

because of a cold. A loss to the struggling Denver Nug-gets didn’t make him feel any better.

Ty Lawson scored 24 points, Arron Afflalo added 23 and the Nuggets ended Cleveland’s four-game win-

ning streak with a 106-97 victory Monday night.

James led the Cavaliers with 22 points, but Denver took the lead for good early in the third quarter and was up by as many as 14 midway through the fourth.

“They were the more desperate team and that’s why they walked out with a

win,” James said. “I felt OK, good enough to go out and help the team win, and as a group we didn’t have it.”

The Nuggets limped into the game having lost seven of eight and were coming off sunday’s defeat at New York in which they made one field goal in the second quarter.

FOR a night, the hous-ton Rockets’ new defensive mindset

was blown up completely, leading to a blowout by the Memphis Grizzlies.

The Grizzlies dominat-ed a showdown between the teams with the NBA’s best records, running away from the Rockets in a 119-93 victory on Monday night.

“They just beat the hell out of us,” Rockets coach Kevin Mchale said.

While the Rockets struggled, Memphis put to-gether its best all-around performance of the season.

“This team could easily come in and beat us by 30, and we came in and stayed focused,” said point guard Mike Conley, who led the Grizzlies with 19 points and six assists. “I thought it was a good statement to the rest of the league that we’re one of the teams to be reckoned with.”

Whatever showdown was expected from the two

9-1 teams and among the best defensive squads in the league never materi-alized as Memphis took a 16-point lead in the first quarter and extended it in each of the remaining pe-riods, until it reached 36 points in the fourth.

Memphis coach Dave Joerger said it was nice “to come out and throw the first punch.”

“We played with force and quick attacks in the paint,” he said.

Seven players finished in double figures for Mem-phis, which won its fourth straight overall. Court-ney Lee finished with 15 points, while Zach Ran-dolph added 14. Quincy Pondexter, Beno Udrih and Jon Leuer had 13 points each.

Trevor Ariza led the Rockets with 16 points, while Dwight howard had 15 points and nine re-bounds. Patrick Beverly managed 10 points. James harden had six points, go-

ing 1 of 8 from the field.The Rockets, who en-

tered the game allowing a league-low 89 points a game, had given up that many by the end of the third quarter.

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Grizzlies silence Rockets

Smart, Blink bring Pacquiao vsAlgieri fight to mobile devices

Nuggets sink Cavaliers 106-97

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POLICe Regional Office-XI hammered Philippine Coast Guard, 114 – 72, to

keep its Final Four hopes alive in their Mayor Rody Duterte and Vice Mayor Pulong Duter-te – 12th AfP-PNP Basketball Tournament encounter yes-terday at the Davao City Recre-ation Center Almendras Gym.

Versatile-forward Wil-liam Furuganan stepped up with game-high 24 points for the Policemen who came out strong and finished stal-wartly to pull away with the much-needed win.

The victory and the loss of 10th Infantry Agila Division at the hands of Davao City Police

Office in the second game of the triple-bill boosted up the PRO’s chance for the No. 4 spot in the next round.

At 3 – 3, PRO is tied at fifth place with the 10th ID and Philippine Navy and one game behind Regional Public Safety Battalion which at fourth spot with 4 – 3.

Glenfort Gaffud chipped in 23 for the summer league champion PRO that bounced back mightily following an 84 – 63 rout of league-leader City Mayor’s Office the other day.

Wilson Alpay scored 12 baskets for the Coast Guards who along with Task Force

Davao remained winless. The 91 – 83 win of DCPO

over 10th ID enabled the Camp Domingo Leonor drib-blers to take the solo second with 5 – 1 card.

Marlon Cabanog and Archie Zozobrado delivered the big blows with 16 points apiece for the DCPO.

eduardo Mahilum led the 10th ID with 22 points. Alvi-no had 14.

Defending champion Bu-reau of Fire Protection clob-bered Task Force Davao to clinch its sixth win in seven games and tie with CMO at the top of the standing. (Rico Biliran)

Startrek, Gavino win in 3 Fore TreeINTEREsTINGLY, a team

with two lady members, Startrek, took the over-

all team championship in a close finish to cap the 3 Fore Tree golf tournament at the Rancho Palos Verdes over the weekend.

Led by Richard Bad-ang, Startrek relied on lady par-busters evelyn Quimsay and Virgie hermiston to score an aggregate 61.16 on Modified Stableford scoring format to win the team title over the team of Jorge Martinez, Ryan Co and Leo Yap who scored 62.66 and the troika of ce-lebrity golfer epi Quizon, Jeff Bernaldes and Alrey Ceniza with 63.83.

Individual champion Jing Gavino’s team composed also of single-handicappers Karlos Alba and Vince Gu-mapac finished 3rd runner on a 64 while perennial cham-pion Joel Yamyamin, Rainer Cruz and Randy Cadiogan finished fourth runner up with 64.33.

Gavino won the green jacket signifying the overall gross winner with 40 points while hermiston made it a double victory after she also won the net overall title with a 44. Cristine Powell won the ladies gross overall plum with 28.

Martinez took the Class A gross title with a 37 while Ryan Co took the net title with a 43 via countback. Bobby Wee also won Class B gross title on countback with a 37 while Ian Dagatan took the net trophy with a 44.

Bad-ang likewise be-came a double winner with the Class C net title with a 46 while Jake Obligado took the gross trophy with a 28. In Class D, Bill Donohoe took the gross title with a 20 while Jockson Liu won the net honors with a 41.

Demy Monedero took runer-up honors in Class A net with eJ Casintahan for Class A gross. Chiboy Apos-tol was runner up in Class B gross while Randall Gotan was runner-up in Class B net.

Making the tournament more interesting were celeb-rity golfers Tonton Gutierrez and partner Glydel Mercado, Daisy Reyes, epi Quizon and

PRO 11 stays alive in AFP-PNP hoops

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Eyes...FFROM 16gold medalist and continues to win medals around the world,” Coleman added.

The half-Pinay who last visited her mother’s hometown in Davao when she was 12, won over 2013 Senior World medalist Inna Deriglazova (RUS) in a come-from-behind fashion as she trailed the Russian 13-10 lead after the second break. In the third period, Kiefer picked off a quick touch just two seconds in and went on to tie the bout

at 13 and again at 14 before scoring the final touch for a 15-14 win.

Kiefer won her first two direct elimination bouts over Polish opponents and advanced to the table of 64, Kiefer defeated Natalia Go-lebiowska, 15-9.

Fencing against Mag-dalena Knop in the table of 32, a top-eight finisher at the 2014 Senior Worlds, Kiefer found herself tied at nine in a fast-paced first pe-riod. Kiefer scored six of the

next eight touches to close the bout out at 15-11 before the break.

Kiefer won her table of 16 bout against three-time Senior World team medalist Yulia Biryukova (RUS), 15-12, in their first match-up since Kiefer’s first appear-ance on the World Cup cir-cuit as a 15-year-old in 2009.

Kiefer advanced to her third straight internation-al quarter-final after earn-ing top eight finishes at the Senior Worlds in July and

the Cancun World Cup last month.

In the team competition, Kiefer led a United States Team also composed of Ni-cole Ross, Margaret Lu and Madison Zeiss to a sixth place finish. The US fencers opened with a 45-19 win over hong Kong to advance to the quarter-finals.

Although Team USA de-feated Korea in the quarters at the Cancun World Cup, the Americans missed the medal rounds after a 28-25 loss.

Fencing for a chance at fifth place, Team USA defeat-ed Poland, 45-31, but fin-ished sixth after a 39-32 loss to Germany.

Top eight and U.S. results are as follows:

St. Maur Individual Foil World Cup

1. Arianna errigo (ITA)2. Lee Kiefer (Lexington,

Ky.)3. Inna Deriglazova

(RUS)3. Chiara Cini (ITA)5. elisa Di Francisca

(ITA)6. Valentina Vezzali (ITA)7. Larisa Korobeynikova

(RUS)8. Alice Volpi (ITA)St. Maur Team Foil World

Cup1. Russia2. Italy3. France4. Korea5. Germany6. USA7. hungary8. Poland

Cesar Montano.The two-day golfest

shares in part to the Davao

City watershed project through its organizer Green Tee.Org.

CELEBRITY GOLFERS. (Clockwise) Tonton Gutierrez, Glydel Mercado and Daisy Reyes took part in the 3 Fore Tree golf tournament recently at the Rancho Palos Verdes Golf and Country Club. Boy Lim

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EYES ON RIOUS fencer with Davao roots wins World Cup silver

LOOKS like the elusive Olympic gold medal the Philippines is hotly pursuing could be in the works

for a half-Pinay fencer. Unfortu-nately, this 18-year old pros-pect who traced her roots t o Davao, will be repre- senting the United States.

Lon- don Olympian Lee Kiefer

DABAWENYA AT HEART. Lee Kiefer, daughter of a Dabawenya doctor, won the silver medal in the 2014 World Cup of fencing. She defeated reigning Olympic champion Elisa Di Francesca (right) in the quarterfinals. USFA photo

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is slowly but surely inching closer to her Olympic dream. The daughter of a doctor from Tagum, Davao

del Norte who reached the quarterfinals in the London Olympics in 2012 reached the podium for the first time at a Senior World Cup with her silver medal finish in St. Maur, France on Saturday.

The United States Fencing Association said in its web-site that Kiefer, a 2011 Senior World medalist, defeated no less than reigning Olympic champion elisa Di Francesca of Italy in the quarterfinals. In a field stacked with six Senior World or Olympic medalists, Kiefer drew Di Francisca, the reigning Olympic Champion and one of five Italians in the quarters.

Instead of being intimated by her highly-favored and experienced rival, Kiefer registered the biggest upset of

the tournament when she defeated Di Francisca, 15-6, to earn her first World Cup podium finish.

“Not too many fencers get to fence with and de-feat the reigning Olym-

pics foil fencing champ. So exceedingly proud and excited, my heart beats fast whenever I think about it, and whenever I remember watching her fence at the Olympics,” Kiefer’s aunt Martz Angeles Coleman told edge Davao in a Facebook message.

Di Francesca won the gold medal in Lon-don by beating compatriot Arianna errigo. It was the same errigo who ended the cam-

paign of Kiefer in London in the quarter-finals.

As fate would have it, Kiefer and errigo met again in the finals. While Kiefer tied errigo at three early in the bout, the top-ranked fencer in the world never gave up her lead and won her fourth straight individual

World Cup gold medal, 15-8.“Lee had fenced well and

we are very proud of her. She is now in her sophomore

year and Notre Dame and has been NCAA women’s foil fencing

FEYES, 15

OUT OF THE TRAP. Jong Gavino blasts out of the bunker en route to win-ning the individual title in the 3 Fore Tree golf tournament recently at the Rancho Palos Verdes Golf and Country Club. Boy Lim