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P 15.00 • 20 PAGESwww.edgedavao.netVOL. 8 ISSUE 78 • TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015
‘IT’S TIME TO GO’
Tight security for KadayawanDurian candymaker: Food poisoning alarming P5
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Duterte tells LTFRB 11 chief
EDGE Serving a seamless society
DAVAO
DA V A O C i t y Mayor
Rodrigo R. Duterte ad-vised Land T r a n s p o r -tation and Franchising Board (LT-FRB) 11 re-
gional director Benjamin Go to
resign if he can-not perform his
duties.“Ug di ka katra-
baho tinarong ngari hawa diri aron dili ta
magka-engkwentro (If you cannot do your work, just
leave your post so we will have no conflict),” Duterte said in an interview last Saturday night at Grand Men Seng Hotel.
Duterte said he had received reports that Go is no longer reporting to his office.
“I need to find out where he is first,” he said, adding he wants to tell Go not to make people suffer.
Duterte said he does not like how the LTFRB treats clients who are ap-plying to get a franchise for their public utility vehicles.
“If you are always ab-sent, the people cannot see you and they wait forever
for you. You are not sup-posed to do that,” he said.
“You are just a govern-ment a government work-er. Do not call yourself a government official,” he added.
Duterte told Go not to wait for him to take action that could result in his ex-pulsion from his post.
Go had been previously implicated in the murder of transport leader Emilio de Jesus Rivera in Davao City in 2013.
He denied any involve-ment in the killing and his name was subsequently cleared by police authori-ties.
By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO [email protected]
A toast to Matina Enclaves’ VIPs
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DOXOLOGY. Teenagers with Down Syndrome perform an interpretative dance during the doxology of this year’s National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation (NDPR) Sayawitan Plus 2015 at the Annex of SM City Davao yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.
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NEWS
DAVAO City Mayor Ro-drigo R. Duterte is set to form a task group to
strengthen the enforcement of the law against human trafficking.
“Although we have strict policies, I want more pro-active action coming from government,” Duterte told reporters in an interview on Saturday night at the Grand Men Seng Hotel.
The mayor said there will be coordination between the Davao City Police Office (DCPO) and the city’s baran-
gay officials.“Suko jud kayo ko anang
human trafficking. Kana sila iapil ta nag ihaw (I am really angry at human trafficking. I want them (human traffick-ers) included among those who will be butchered),” he said.
The mayor said he will call all barangay captains to inform them of their role in the early detection of pos-sible trafficking from their area.
He said the police station commanders should also use
the Barangay Peace and Or-der Unit (BPOU) against hu-man trafficking.
He said every police sta-tion should also assign two female police officers who will assist human trafficking victims in the barangays.
“Ang pinaka-urgent nato karon is human trafficking (The most urgent matter we have now is human traffick-ing),” the mayor said.
“Ayaw ko na ang mga Pilipino naipagbibili sa labas and gawing slave for the rest of their lives. Masakit paking-
gan (I do not want to hear Fil-ipinos being sold abroad and becoming slaves for the rest of their live),” he said.
Duterte said he received two reports of human traf-ficking in the city.
Davao City-based an-ti-human trafficking group Global Impact had earlier said the level of knowledge on human trafficking of the Filipino public “is still mini-mal at this stage.”
The group’s founder, Amy Muranko-Gahan, said the
THE Davao City Police Office (DCPO) will intensify its security
measures next month for the celebration of 30th Kaday-awan Festival.
In an interview yesterday, DCPO spokesperson Senior Inspector Milgrace C. Driz said the tight security will start in the first week of Au-gust.
“Prior to the week-long
celebration we will impose tight security,” she said.
Driz said all police sta-tions will conduct random checkpoints within their area of responsibility, especially in the areas of San Pedro, Sta. Ana, and Talomo Police Sta-tions which will secure the inner portion of the city.
She said the City Public Safety Company and Mobile Patrol Company of DCPO will
also tighten their security measures.
Driz said the DCPO is now ready to implement the secu-rity plan to secure the people and visitors.
She said on August 17, the first day of the week-long event, around 2,500 police personnel will be deployed in the different area of activities.
She said 1,400 will be from DCPO while the rest will
come from the augmentation forces from the Regional Pub-lic Safety Battalion and PNP Scout Rangers.
She said the deployment will be done in shifts to en-sure round-the-clock securi-ty.
Driz said the DCPO will still implement prohibition of backpacks and covered tum-blers for security purposes.
THE Department of Health (DOH) 11 will be deworming 800,000
kindergarten and elementary school students in Region 11 on July 29 in an activity that will be done simultaneously all over the country.
“These students will be coming from 1,644 public kinder and elementary schools in the region,” DOH Integrated Helminth Control Program head Dr. Grace Berguia said during the Kapehan sa Dabaw at SM City Annex yesterday.
Berguia said DOH will be partnering with the Depart-
ment of Education (DepEd) for the identification of pre-school and elementary students.
“The teachers will be in-charge in giving the dosage to each students,” she added.
Based on the records of DepEd, Davao City has the most number of students to-taling 214,214, followed by Davao del Norte with 141,000, and Compostela Valley Prov-ince with 123,072.
DOH is targeting to give pre-school and elementary students 400 milligrams (mg) ofAlbendazole, an anthelmint-
THE Philippine Statis-tics Authority (PSA) 11 urged the people of
Davao City to participate in the mid-decade census of popula-tion next month.
In yesterday’s flag raising ceremony at City Hall grounds, PSA 11 regional statistician Maria Leah C. Magracia an-nounced that the census in the city will start on August 10.
“Dapat kita magpartici-pate, magpa-census, magpa-bilang, magpa-interview para makuha namo ang accurate data na kinahanglan sa City Planning and Development Office (We should participate
in the census for us to get the accurate data needed by the CPDO),”she said.
Magracia said the CPDO frequently asks the PSA for the exact population for future projects.
“Ang among mga enumer-ators manuktok sa inyong ka-balayan unta dawaton niyo sila (Our enumerators will go to your houses and we hope you will welcome them),” she said.
Magracia said the enumer-ators have identification cards to ensure the people they are legitimate enumerators of PSA.
She said three methods
Tight securityfor KadayawanBy ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
Duterte trains sights on human trafficking
DOH targets to deworm800K students in region
CENSUS COMING. Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) 11 regional statistician Maria Leah C. Magracia announces the upcoming mid-decade census of population in the city next month. Magracia urged the people to cooperate with the enumerators for them to get accurate data. Armando B. Fenequito Jr.
By CHENEEN R. CAPON
PSA to Dabawenyos:Participate in census F TIGHT, 10
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OFFICIALS of the gov-ernment’s peace pro-cess office have urged
the Manila City Prosecutor’s Office to dismiss the case of treason and inciting to se-dition filed against them by two party-list congressmen because it is “appallingly be-reft of factual and legal basis.”
Lawyer and former Sen-ator Rene Saguisag, who is representing Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) Secretary Teresita Quintos Deles, Government of the Philippines (GPH) Chief Peace Negotiator Pro-fessor Miriam Coronel-Fer-rer, and other members of the government peace panel,
said the complaint “at best is the product of willful igno-rance of the basic tenets of criminal law, democracy, and the legislative process, and must be dismissed for utter lack of merit.”
“At worst, it is the com-plainants’ malevolent at-tempt to use the Honorable Office for their political ends,” he added.
Saguisag said as gov-ernment officials, Deles, Coronel,and the others hold themselves to the highest standards with regard to ad-hering to the laws of the Re-public of the Philippines.
He also pointed that even though the case is “appalling-
ly bereft of factual and legal basis,” his clientspersonally submitted their counter-af-fidavits “in deference to the established legal processes of this country.”
The treason and incit-ing to sedition case was filed last May 28 by Buhay Party-list Rep. Lito Atienza, ABAKADA Party-list Rep. Jonathan dela Cruz, and Uni-versity of Asia and the Pacific law professor Jeremy Gatdu-la.
In their counter-affidavit filed on July 16,2015, a copy of which was furnished to EDGE Davao, Deles and the others argued that the BBL is “clearly a document in-
citing peace, justice, order, unity, and goodwill among all peoples. Quite contrary to the baseless asseverations of the complainants, the text of the BBL itself reveals that it espouses an enduring peace.”
“To charge us with trea-son and inciting to sedition is to misunderstand not only basic concepts of criminal law and constitutional law, but the very idea of a nation, democracy, the Philippine people, and the history of the Republic of the Philippines,” the counter-affidavit added.
They said the complaint failed to prove the existence of all the elements of treason such as a state of war.
THE Food and Nutri-tion Research Institute (FNRI) of the Depart-
ment of Science and Tech-nology (DOST) is urging local government units in Davao Region to pass ordinances that will mandate rice millers to produce iron-fortified rice.
DOST 11 assistant region-al director Elsy Mae Solidum said only the province of Com-postela Valley has such an or-dinance.
“The iron-fortified rice is now being sold in different public market in Compostela Valley,” Solidum said during yesterday’s KapehansaDabaw at SM City Davao Annex.
She said DOST-FNRI pi-loted the technology in Com-postela Valley because it was stricken by Typhoon Pablo in December 2012.
Solidum said consump-tion of fortified rice helps in meeting the body require-ment for iron, thus increasing the ability of a child to under-stand and prolong his or her attention during classes.
“Our study conducted at Maco Heights Elementary School bared that students who were fed with fortified rice became more attentive and active in the class,” she said.
FNRI assistant scientist Dr. Imelda Angeles-Agdeppa said the Philippines has a na-tional iron-deficiency preva-lence rate of 11 percent based on the recently conducted National Nutrition Survey last April.
Agdeppa said the success of the program will depend on the participation and commit-ment of the local government unit to end iron deficiency among children.
She said each LGU should pass an ordinance to oblige rice millers to produce iron-fortified rice.
Agdeppa said this is the only way fortified rice can reach every table of each household in the region.
“Rice millers have to have the technology we developed
DEPARTMENT of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Leila M. De Lima on Monday
said that the civil and crimi-nal cases of Andal Ampatuan Sr. are extinguished with his death.
De Lima cited the decision of the Supreme Court (SC) in the case of “People of the Philippines versus Soria” only last year, which states that the death of an accused before his conviction of final judgment extinguishes his criminal case even the civil aspect of the case.
However, De Lima said, if an accused is convicted with finality before he dies, the civil
case will remain and the civil claims can be sought by the private prosecutor from his estate.
In the case of Andal Sr., De Lima said, he died without conviction of final judgment, hence, both the criminal and civil cases filed against him in connection with the alleged massacre of 58 civilians, in-cluding 32 media practitioners, are already both extinguished.
Andal Sr. was one of the principal accused in the Ma-guindanao massacre that al-legedly took place in Ampatu-an town, Maguindanao on Nov. 23, 2009. (PNA)
THE Commission on Elec-tions (Comelec) has cre-ated a technical working
group (TWG) that will study a proposal that allows voting in shopping malls.
In a weekly forum in Ma-nila, Comelec Chairman Jose Andres Bautista said the tech-nical working group would be composed of poll body direc-tors.
“Pinagaaralan natin ngay-on ‘yan. In fact kami ay bu-muong isang TWG among directors ng Comelec para pag-aralan ‘yan at sabihin sa Comelec en banc kung magan-da ba itong panukalang ito,” he said.
Bautista noted that com-mission en banc had initiated its own study on the proposal.
“We have initiated a soft assessment. Ito ‘yong strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threat. Sa aming prelimi-nary assessment mas marami ang strength kaysa weakness-es, mas maraming oppotunity kaysa threat,” he said.
The poll body chief added that they would also consult stake holders to know their opinion regarding the plan.
“Sabi ko nga bago namin ito gawin kami ay makikipag-consulta dahil gusto namin malaman sa ating mga botante kung sila ba ay pabor sa panu-kalang ito,” he said.
Bautista is convinced that the people maybe in favor of allowing them to vote in shop-ping malls based on those who
BIOMETRICS REGISTRATION. SM City Davao public relations manager Precious Ann Legario announces the upcoming voters biometrics registration dubbed “No Bio, No Boto” set on July 25 and August 2 at the Annex of SM City Davao. Lean Daval Jr.
Deles urges prosecutorto drop treason chargeBy JON JOAQUIN
OUTSTANDING PWDS. Department of Science and Technology (DOST) 11 assistant regional director Elsy Mae Solidum checks out the exhibit of the nominees of the recently-concluded Most Outstanding Person with Disability (PWD) Award at the Annex of SM City Davao yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.
Comelec studiesvoting in malls
FNRI pushes [email protected]
By CHENEEN R. CAPON
Ampatuan civil, criminal rapsextinguished with his death
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SUBURBIA
THE La Panday Foods Corporation (LFC) and the Pilipino Banana
Growers and Exporters Asso-ciation (PBGEA) in partner-ship with the local govern-ment unit of Hagonoy Davao del Sur conducted another free medical clinic for the in-digent community of Sitio Camocaan on July 15, 2014 at the community court of the Si-tio in Guihing, Hagonoy, Davao del Sur.
More than 700 people were given free medical as-sistance and services, which included consultation, tooth extraction, and medicines. A supplemental feeding pro-gram was also conducted. Demetria Manggaga of Sitio Camocaan, together with her husband and grandchildren, were among those who bene-fited from the clinic.
“Maayo gyud ilang gibu-hat dri sa amua, labaw na sa paghatag ug mga tambal. Akong mga apo ky nangasakit labaw na akong bana, lisud magkuha ug tambal sa hospi-tal ky puno kaayo, naa higay-on paulion nalang ka ug wala gyud kay madala na tambal (This medical mission is re-ally appreciated here in the community, especially the free medicines. My grandchildren are sick and so is my husband and it’s difficult to get medical assistance from the hospital because they are already full. There were even instances where they just sent us home
Banana firms conduct medical outreach for IPswithout any medicine),” Manggaga said.
Hagonoy Municpality Mayor Franco M. Calida ex-pressed his gratitude to La Panday and PBGEA for being the government’s partner in helping out the community. “This has been a regular effort and the Indigenous People (IP) in the area really need this. Aside from the regular medical clinics, the banana industry has also put up a Day Care Center in the area.)
Hernani Geronimo, Head of the Strategic Human Re-sources Department of LFC, said, they have been operating in the community for a long time “and this is our home too.”
“We want the communi-ty to have their basic health and medical requirements checked. It’s good to make
sure that those in the commu-nity achieve a certain healthy physical well-being so they can be more productive. If the community is healthy and progressive then we achieve a certain degree of success as well. The local government unit cannot do this alone and they need all the partners they can get, and we are privileged to have been a major develop-ment partner of the local gov-ernment and Mayor Calida,” Geronimo said.
PBGEA executive director Stephen Antig said the suc-cess and survival of the indus-try “rests on the health and well-being of the growers, the workers, the families, and the communities that surround the farmlands that protecting their health and well being is of utmost importance and central to our operations with
the belief that quality of life is an important measure of busi-ness performance.”
Datu Ramil Morillo, Sitio Camocaan’s Tribal Chieftain, acknowledged the shared ef-fort of the company and the government. “Nakatulong gyud. Unta magpadayon pa ang partnership sa company ug sa gobyerno sa paghatag ug ing-ani nga serbisyo sa publiko (This truly helped and we hope that the partnership between the company and the government continues to bring services like this to the public.)
Each year, the banana in-dustry shells out millions of pesos for Corporate Social Re-sponsibility (CSR) projects/activities that endeavors to uplift and empower the local community.
MEDICAL MISSION. The banana industry in partnership with the local government unit of Hagonoy Davao del Sur conducted another free medical clinic for the indigent community of Sitio Camocaan on July 15, 2014.
SUMILAO BROOMS. On both sides of the national highway in Sumilao, Bukidnon are stalls selling what are referred to as “Baguio brooms.” Choose plain or those with handles marked “Sumilao, Bukidnon” in red, green, yellow and blue. These made-in-Sumilao brooms are sold at 40, 50 and 60 pesos each. MindaNews photo by Carolyn O. Arguillas
POLICE authorities in South Cotabato de-clared as generally
peaceful the 10-day festivities in the province in connection with its 49th foundation anni-versary celebration and 16th T’nalak Festival.
Senior Superintendent Jose Arnaldo Briones Jr., South Cotabato police director, said Monday they have not re-corded any major untoward incident that was related to the conduct of the festivities, which ended last Saturday.
He said a motorcycle was stolen, a robbery-holdup and several minor incidents were
reported at the festival venue but they were properly ad-dressed by their operatives.
“Overall, the conduct of the entire festival was peace-ful, smooth and orderly,” he said during their regular flag-raising ceremony.
He attributed the peaceful conduct of the festivities to their intensified intelligence and security operations.
The official credited the efforts of local police units and augmentation personnel from the Police Regional Office 12’s Public Safety Battalion.
He cited the assistance given by the provincial civil
KAPALONG will mark another milestone as it celebrates its 67th
founding anniversary as a dis-tinct town on August 1, 2015.
Then-President Elpidio R. Quirino signed on August 1, 1948 Executive Order No. 151 declaring Kapalong as a dis-tinct municipality.
To make the festivity more exciting and fun filled, the celebration’s steering committee headed by Mayor Edgardo L. Timbol has lined up two-weeklong activities.
On July 20 is the Inter-ba-rangay basketball tourna-ment for men and volleyball for women as a kickoff event, while other game tourna-ments such as football invi-tational games, Inter baran-gay volleyball for PRO-GLAD, billiard, dart taekwondo, sepak takraw for elementary and high school and veter-ans, trisikad padyak race, in-ter-basketball for elementary, drum and lyre competition will have different schedules.
The Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (MDRRMC) will have its Life Boat Making Contest out of recyclable materials open to all elementary and high schools in the municipali-ty starting January 25.
The Public Employment Service Office (PESO) will have its PESLA and career guidance
for graduating students on July 27 while the Municipal Health Office will have its Blood Let-ting Activity on the 28th. The Health Office will also cele-brate its health day and blood donors’ day to give recogni-tion to individuals and families who contributed much in the blood sufficiency program of the local government.
A day with the farmers will also be initiated recogniz-ing their effort for the town’s booming agriculture industry which will be underscored with the inauguration of the LGU’s livestock center.
A tribal ritual will also be performed by the Kapalong Tribal Council at the town square’s mini theater as part of the LGU’s effort of preserv-ing the municipality’s cultural heritage apart from staging the Hugyaw sa Kagabhion cultural night presentation among sec-tors in town and the Search for Miss Teen Kapalong.
On August 1, which is the anniversary day, a grand pa-rade will be participated in by different sectors in town which will be highlighted with a program with Congressman Anthony Rafael G. del Rosario as the Guest Speaker. The most awaited fireworks display and rave party is expected to be showcased as the celebra-tion’s concluding activity in the evening. (cj-MIOKapalong)
THE Provincial Envi-ronment Management Office (PEMO) further
strengthened its Solid Waste Management (SWM) program during the 2015 T’nalak Fes-tival celebrated on July 9-18 with the establishment of Col-lection Points (CPs) for waste disposal and collection in strategic areas in the streets of Koronadal Ciy.
Environment Manage-ment Specialist II Elbe Balu-canag, Officer-in-Charge of PEMO’s Environment Man-agement Division, met with City Environment and Natural Resources Office (City ENRO) personnel a few days before the celebration to mapped out plans on the strict enforce-ment of proper waste segre-gation, disposal and collection of garbage during the 10-day festivities.
The joint PEMO-City ENRO team designated 8 CPs located at Jaycee Avenue-Rizal Street, Girl Scouts of the Philippines, Trisha’s Burger House-Alunan
Avenue, DepED Provincial Schools Division-Alunan Av-enue, NDMU-Sucayan Street, City Health Office – Alunan Av-enue, Mabini Street (Provincial Capitol) and Judge Alba Street (PROTECH Center).
Wastes disposed on gar-bage bins were collected be-tween 6 o’clock to 7 o’clock in the morning by dump trucks of the City ENRO in the duration of the T’nalak Festivities.
The joint also strict en-forced proper segregation of wastes such as the “Nabubu-lok” and “Di-Nabubulok during the 10-day long festivities.
The City ENRO also said reminded the public of its ordi-nance prohibiting smoking in food establishment, in which violators will be fined P100.00.
Aside from establishment of CPs and scheduling collec-tion of garbage daily, the joint team also mobilized enforcers and other personnel to assist in their SWM program. (Fruto C. Sumagaysay Jr., PIO-South Cotabato)
SouthCot festivities‘generally peaceful’
Kapalong LGU all set for 67th anniversary
Waste management strengthened during SoCot’s 2015 T’nalak Festival
security unit, barangay police teams and elements from the Army’s 27th Infantry Battal-ion.
Briones also lauded the
support extended by the pro-vincial government, especially by South Cotabato Governor Daisy Avance-Fuentes.
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ECONOMY
A TOP durian candy man-ufacturer in Davao City admitted that the food
poisoning incident in Caraga has affected their business that customers are refusing even their free tasting.
“We have clients who al-ready have apprehensions on our products,” Imee Añabesa, operations supervisor of Apo Ni Lola, said in yesterday’s Kapehan sa Dabaw at SM City Annex.
“We were alarmed,” she added.
Añabesa said what hap-pened in Caraga more than a week ago where some 2,000 school children suffered nau-sea and vomiting after eating a durian candy has created a stigma to both foreign and lo-cal tourists.
She said some of their cus-tomers had already refused taking even their free taste of durian candies because of the fear they might be poisoned as well. The tourists also general-ized negatively to the products of other durian processors.
The Davao-based creamy durian delicacies producer, however, said it was not total-ly hit by the incident as it has other products like pie and
pastries.Añabesa assured ustom-
ers Apo Ni Lola has mecha-nisms to ensure the quality and safety of their durian products.
“We have quality assur-ance officer that regularly check our products,” she said.
The company, Añabesa added, was able to maintain its quality by assuring that their products are only distributed at their five other branches lo-cated at hotels and a mall.
Apo ni Lola marketing offi-cer Roldan Maghari said their branches are located at the Royal Mandaya Hotel, Pinnacle Hotel, Apo View Hotel, Water-front Insular Hotel and at the ABreeza-Ayala Mall.
“You will not see our prod-ucts in the sidewalks,” he said.
The company sees a pos-itive outlook for the durian candy industry this Kaday-awan when there will be a lot of visiting tourist.
“We were hardly affected by the incident because June and July are lean months,” Añabesa said, adding that it will be hard to estimate whether the poisoning inci-dent has significant on their sales.
Candy maker: Food poisoning [email protected]
By CHENEEN R. CAPON
TOP-OF-THE-LINE. Happy Mobile marketing and product manager Francesca de Guzman and trade marketing manager Joeremie F. Fresnido show off the company’s top-of-the-line smartphones during the opening of the firm’s concept store at Gaisano Mall of Davao on Saturday afternoon. Happy Mobile is the newest mobile phone brand in the country with interesting but very affordable devices. Lean Daval Jr.
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By CHENEEN R. CAPON
COUNCILOR Marissa Salvador-Abella on Monday said she will
be proposing to Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte for the establishment of a livestock slaughterhouse to cater the export market.
“There’s a huge demand for export quality livestock meat in Muslim countries in the Middle East like Dubai
as well as nearby coun-tries, which are part of the BIMP-EAGA (Brunei Darus-salam, Indonesia, Malay-sia, Philippines- East Ase-an Growth Area),” Abelle said in yesterday’s regular media forum Kapehan sa Dabaw at SM City Annex.
Abella, chair of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) committee on agricul-
ture and food, said there is a huge demand of high qual-ity pork meat for instance in Middle East because of the increasing number of non-Muslims and expats.
The establishment of a slaughterhouse facility, she saId, will support the live-stock industry of the city as well as the livelihood of livestock raisers who will be
contracted by whoever who will operate the abattoir.
“This will help the agri-farming industry but also the livestock industry,” Abella said, adding that the abattoir will also have a state-of-the-art laboratory which will be necessary for testing the quality of the processed meat products.
The establishment of
the laboratory and a mod-ern slaughterhouse is nec-essary for the local livestock industry players to seize the opportunity in the export market, according to her.
“We need a triple A quality grade to be able to export to other countries. At present, we only have a double A quality grade,” Abella said.
The foreign certifier will be from Switzerland.
The local lawmaker from the second district said the proposal is still being crafted by concerned offices and agencies.
There is now a discus-sion on the matter among industry players, Depart-ment of Agriculture and City Veterinary Office.
Livestock abattoir in Davao pushed
HOMEGROWN Apo ni Lola will launch its du-rian coffee next month
in time for the celebration of the Kadayawan Festival.
Roldan Maghari, Apo ni Lola marketing officer, said they will be the first processor which will introduce durian coffee, giving the new shape of the local durian processing industry
Durian coffee is also being served in home-based Blugre coffee shop.
“We will be using pro-cessed durian meat as an add-on to our very own coffee,” Maghari said.
Maghari said the durian coffee will be soon served at their main branch in Matina, where tourist can also taste their soft and creamy durian delicacies like tart and durian pies.
“Apo ni Lola offers delica-cies which will complete the whole Davao experience,” he said, adding that Apo ni Lola
has truly grown from a small processor.
“We do not settle, we inno-vate,” Maghari said.
“Our sales for the first six months of the year have in-creased to 70 percent, higher than our sales on the same pe-riod last year,” he added.
Maghari said their facto-ry is already processing three tons of durian meat per month.
He sees Apo ni Lola to be in different parts of the country five years from now.
“We’re planning to open Apo ni Lola for franchising one or two years from now,” Maghari said.
The company is planning to open its durian house soon where local and foreign tourist can enjoy a cup of their durian coffee and buy their other del-icacies.
At present, among their products are durian delights, durian yema, durian pies, du-rian sandwich spread and du-rian candy. Cheneen R. Capon
Apo ni Lola to launch durian coffee
THE Philippine Exporters Confederation (Philex-port) Davao confirmed
the attendance of Customs Commissioner Bert Lina during the Mindanao Export-ers Congress 2015 slated from July 23 to 25 at the SMX Con-vention Center.
Speaking at the Kapehan
sa Dabaw media forum at SM City Annex Monday, Philexport president Ferdinand Maranon said they will raise the con-cerns of exporters over proce-dures in the three-day activity which has theme “Integrating the Mindanao SMEs in the Global Value Chain.”
“We want to address the
issues of exporters in Mindan-ao, to make export procedures seamless,” Marañon later told reporters.
He said their export cost have increased because of “un-der the table transactions.”
Meanwhile, Marañon said they are expecting 200 to 250 participants during the Con-
gress.PhlExport, Department of
Trade and Industry, Depart-ment of Agriculrure, city gov-ernment of Davao and Bureau of Customs are supported the event.
The opening ceremony will start at 10am and followed by the congress proper.
Lina to grace Exporters CongressBy JESSAMARIESTELA P. PUTONGand CHENEEN R. CAPON
PHILIPPINE Veter-ans Bank (PVB) chair Roberto de Ocampo
emphasized the concept of ‘DaangMatino,’ (sensible path) should go hand in hand with the current adminis-tration’s ‘DaangMatuwid’ (straight path) “if we want the Philippine economy to con-tinually progress.”
While De Ocampo is quick to praise the economic improvements in the country, he stressed that there is still more work left to do as he went on to tackle the current economic and business over-view of the country during his speech.
“The Philippines contin-ues to be one of the fastest growing emerging econo-mies in Southeast Asia. GDP growth rates of 7.2% in 2013, an all-time high, and 6.3% the following year garnered pos-itive 2015 forecasts of 6.7% and 6.4% from IMF and ADB respectively,” De Ocampo said in a speech he delivered at the Filipino-American Youth Leadership Program (FYL-Pro) economic and business
briefing at Ayala Tower One.He added that the Philip-
pines is also regarded as an investment-attractive econ-omy, as net foreign direct in-flows surged in 2014. Inter-national tourist revenues also show steadily increasing rise.
According to De Ocampo, this particular period is criti-cal if the Philippines wants to move forward.
“While Philippine trajec-tory is going up, we’re hoping that it’s not a step forward then two steps back,” de Oca-mpo said.
“The Philippines should aim not only for ‘Daang-Matuwid’ (straight path) but ‘DaangMatino’ (sensible path), as the country needs leaders who are not only clean and incorruptible, but also competent and decisive,” he added.
De Ocampo also urged the young leaders present in the event to inspire and en-gage future generations to promote equal opportunity for all, and develop business solutions addressing current
De Ocampo: ‘DaangMatino’ as vital as ‘DaangMatuwid’
THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will surpass its target
of establishing 100 Negosyo Centers nationwide by end of 2015.
DTI said on Monday that it will open a total of 146 Nego-syo Centers this year.
Of the number, 54 Go Nego-syo Centers were launched since the start of 2015.
For the remaining days of July, the DTI will further launch 26 more Go Negosyo Centres.
In 2014, five Negosyo Cen-ters have been operational. To date, the government has es-tablished 59 Negosyo Centers: 31 are located in Luzon, 12 in Visayas, and 16 in Mindanao which are based in local gov-ernment units (LGUs) and DTI regional and provincial offices.
Negosyo Centers are part of the Republic Act No. 10644 or the Go Negosyo Act signed into law by President Benigno S. Aquino III in July 2014 to facilitate faster registration of micro, small, and medium en-terprises (MSMEs) in order to encourage more Filipinos to establish businesses.
The functions of these centers involve business reg-istration assistance, business advisory services, business information and advocacy and monitoring and evaluation of business processes for MSMEs.
This aims to increase local job creation, production and trade in the country.
The law has mandated DTI to facilitate the establishment of Negosyo Centers in the country.
“Based on the numbers, we are on track in our goal of making sure that Negosyo Centers are set up in the areas where they matter the most, where they are felt the most. This is DTI’s commitment for the continued growth of our MSMEs,” DTI Regional Oper-ations Group Undersecretary Zenaida C. Maglaya said.
Earlier, DTI Secretary Gregory L. Domingo said the department has earmarked Php92.7 million for the estab-lishment of Negosyo Centers.
The government eyes some 1,200 Negosyo Centers in a span of five to seven years. (PNA)
More Negosyo centers
FORTIFIED. Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI)senior Science research specialist Marcela C. Saises holds a sample of iron fortified rice being promoted by various government agencies, particularly the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and FNRI, to lessen the increasing cases of anemia in the country. Lean Daval Jr.
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A royal toast to
Matina Enclaves’ VIPs
(Top) Host Giselle Sanchez was a lovely sight. (Right photo) Esdevco president Glenn Y. Escandor (second from right) unveils a huge replica of the Matina Enclaves VIP card along with The Royal Mandaya Hotel GM Benjie Banzon and TME project head Gerald Garces.
ESCANDOR Development Corporation (Esdevco), the home-grown developer of Matina Enclaves, hosted a royal dinner to its clients in glitzy and glam fashion on Saturday.
By NEILWIN JOSEPH BRAVOPhotos by LEAN DAVAL JR.
Buyers and prospects of Esdevco’s signature project walked in on red carpet into the elegant ballroom of the Royal Mandaya Hotel like it was Oscar Night in local set-ting.
Project director Gerald Garces welcomed the grow-ing community of Matina Enclaves to the affair dubbed as “Wine Night.” Host ex-traordinaire Giselle Sanchez regaled the crowd with her comic antics and witty one-liners.
Sanchez even called Es-devco as the “David among real estate Goliaths.”
Esdevco president and CEO Glenn Y. Escandor gave his message emphasizing on the project which he said was a product of intense study and research to bring only the best for the future residents of Ma-tina Enclaves.
“We are fully committed to this project and deliver to you the best that we can of-fer,” Escandor said. He also thanked the buyers of the property for the trust reposed upon the local real estate firm.
The highlight of the affair was the unveiling of the Ma-tina Enclaves VIP Card which
gives buyers of the property a bevy of perks and privileges as well as discounts from partner establish-ments like The Royal Mandaya Hotel, Brothers Burger, Mesa, and Globe.
Also in attendance for the Es-candor family are matriarch Vio-leta, vice president Gerome, and scions Francis Gabriel and Irina Glenne.
Esdevco president and CEO Glenn Y. Escandor delivers his speech
Project head Gerald Garces welcomes the guests
The Escandors Best dressed guests of the night
The Matina Enclaves VIPs
The toast to the new Matina Enclaves VIP card
Retired Judge Jesus Quitain and wife
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THE very first of its kind in SOX, Neon Rain is a neon-paint-rave-party-for-a-cause, for the benefit of the Save the Children foundation, a celebration following the 5th anniversary of Sun City Suites.
The Sun City Music Fest:NEON RAIN 2015 The gates at Robinson’s Gravel Grounds were opend by 4pm, booths were opened up as well, among them were, Can-to’s beer pong booth and Mr.Bigshots booth where you could try your luck on archery. Sick beats, energy and good vibes of the night were courtesy of Mx-DamnP, Kat DJ, DJ Torch, Wacky Masbad, Ram Mia,DJ Law, DJ Klawn, DJ Hardfunk, DJ Young Jenz. I brought with me my bro, my cousin, my fian-cée and his sister. Along with fellow blogger Gem, we danced ecstatically to the techno beats, splashed paint at each other. We were mesmerized by the visuals from the led screens, plus the fire-
works, accompanied by the rain of neon paint and powder coming from all directions. It was trully an epic night. Special thanks to Sun City Suites and Team1000 to making this awesome event happen. Follow me on Twitter or Instagram, @kyriek-outre for more adventures in and around my won-derland that is Gensan, Tuna Capital of the Phil-ippines.
We were mesmerized by the visuals from
the led screens, plus the fireworks,
accompanied by the rain of neon paint and powder coming from
all directions.
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THE CITY OF BA-GUIO recently ad-opted a resolution commending ABS-CBN’s hit romantic drama series “For-evermore” starring Enrique Gil and Liza Soberano for the show’s contri-bution in the pro-motion of the tour-ism in the city. According to Resolu-tion Numbered 92, the City of Baguio acknowl-edges ABS-CBN and the whole production of “Forevermore” for help-ing boost the tourism industry of the summer capital of the Philip-pines. “Due to the popular-ity of the said teleserye, tourists and visitors have been flocking to the City of Baguio to
visit and get a glimpse of ‘La Presa’ which has become an instant tour-ist attraction for the City of Baguio and Tuba, Benguet,” the resolution stated, referring to the
show’s fictional town where its characters Xander (Enrique) and Agnes (Liza) fell in love with each other. “Forevermore” re-volved around the love
story of two different people—the rebellious and rich kid Xander and the Strawberry Jam Queen of Benguet Ag-nes. After it aired in Octo-
ABS-CBN FM radio station MOR 101.9 once again celebrated origi-nal Pinoy music and recognized some of the best music artists in the industry today in the re-cently concluded MOR Pinoy Mu-sic Awards held at the Araneta Coliseum, with Daniel Padilla and Yeng Constatino winning top plums as Male and Female Artists of the Year. On its second year, the MOR Pinoy Music Awards committee gave its prestigious OPM Lifetime Achievement Award to the one and only megastar Sharon Cuneta who person-ally accepted the award and even performed one of her hits alongside Car-la Estrada, C h r i s t i a n Bautista, M o r i s -s e t t e , K l a r i s s e De Guz-m a n , L i e z e l G a r c i a , Nyoy Vo-lante, and Jolina Mag-d a n g a l -Escueta in a special tribute number. KZ Tand-i n g a n ’ s “Mahal Mo o Mahal
Ako” was named Song of the Year while the Himig Handog P-Pop Love Songs 2014 album won Al-bum of the Year. Actor-turned-singer Enchong Dee, meanwhile, accepted his first music award after his hit “Chinito Problems” won the Dance Hit of the Year award. Vice Ganda, who graced the night by debuting his newest sin-gle “Huwag Kang Pabebe,” also took home an MOR Pinoy Music
Award as his smash hit “Boom Panes” won LSS Hit of the
Year while “The Voice of the Philippines” final-ist now dubbed as the next big diva, Moris-sette, bagged the Best New Artist of the Year Award.
J a D i n e f a n s ,
on the o t h e r h a n d , were ec-static af-ter James
Reid and Nadine Lus-tre’s song “No Erase” won Best Col-laboration. A s i d e from main-
stream performers, MOR Pinoy Music Awards also recognized regional artists and awarded the Regional Song of the Year Award to Cebuano Von Saw for his single “Sa Akong Heart.” The advertising world was also recognized with the Kantamer-cial of the Year Award going to Tuseran Forte’s “Habit Song.” Hosted by the MOR 101.9 DJs, the MOR Pinoy Music Awards were
also graced by guest presenters or per-
formers such as Alex Gonzaga, Janella Sal-vador, Marlo Mortel, Lyca G a i r a n o d , E d w a r d
Benosa, Jovit Baldivino, Ha-
rana boys, Bugoy Drilon, JC Padilla, and Kaye Cal.
Winners this year were determined based on to-
tal votes from texters, MOR Pinoy Music Awards committee,
and select panel of judges from the Organisasyon ng Pilipinong Mang-aawit (OPM) that include VP for Special Projects Christian Bautista, board member Jose Mari Chan, and president Ogie Alcasid.Always tune in to ABS-CBN’s FM radio station in Mega and Metro Manila, My Only Radio (MOR) 101.9 For Life! and online via MOR TV at www. MOR1019.com. For more updates about “M.O.R. 101.9 For Life!” visit www.facebook.com/mor1019 and follow @MOR1019 on Twitter.
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Megastar Sharon Cuneta honored with OPM Achievement Award
Baguio City commends ‘Forevermore’ for boost in tourism
ber 2014, “Forevermore” conquered the national TV ratings game and social media sites be-cause of the gripping love story of the Xander and Agnes. The finale episode the Enrique and Liza-starrer even scored the series its all-time high national TV rating of 39.3%. Adding to the suc-
cess of the series, “For-evermore” has become one of the latest Filipino series aired internation-ally, most recently in Kazakhstan, Cambo-dia, Vietnam, and other parts of Africa. From the production of Star Creatives, “Forev-ermore” is under the di-rection of Cathy Garcia Molina.
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Cotabato City and its festival of
PEACETO BE HONEST, I was initially apprehensive when I got the invitation to experience Eid’l Fit’r from DOT-XII regional director Nelly Dillera as it entailed a drive to Cotabato City. Given the usually violent image of Cotabato City in the national dailies, one does tend to be anxious and worry, but the desire to push back preconceived perceptions prodded me to say yes and I was glad I did.
Morning prayers at Cotabato City’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Mosque to mark the start of Eid’l Fit’r.
Various Iranun sweets are served before the Dulang feast was uncovered.
Photo by Ian Garcia
Iranun women prepare a meal at the Iranun Village at the Tribal Village located at the ARMM Capitol grounds.
Together with fellow travel writers, we took a four-and-a-half hour van ride to get from Durianburg to Cotabato City on the eve of Eid’l Fitr. The ride was quick and comfortable thanks to the well-maintained highways that span the two cit-ies. It also helped that the route through Kidapawan was sce-nic, with Mt. Apo occasionally showing its summit. I was pleasantly surprised when we finally got to the Co-tabato City centre. Far from the war-torn image portrayed on the news channels, the streets were lined bustling commer-cial centres, huge mosques, and even a McDonald’s and Jollibee outlet. After checking in to our ho-tel, we met with director Nelly together with Cotabato City’s tourism officer Gurlie Frondo-za who were more than ready to share what Cotabato City has to offer to the traveller from the city’s imposing mosque, its colourful culture, and of course its unique cuisine. To start off our tour, we vis-ited Cotabato City Hall or mor popularly called the People’s Palace. A totally new building designed with Moro motifs, the People’s Palace is so called because it was built with only the local taxes of the people of Cotabato City and without any help from the national govern-ment or private sector. This is where I also got to experience iftar or the breaking of the Ra-madan fast. Dates were served after sunset prayers together with fruits and water. This was also were I had my first taste of Beef Sinina, a spicy beef stew cooked with lots of ginger, turmeric, and chilli, its flavour profile more similar to that of Malay cuisine and best paired with lots of white rice. After the meal, we made our
way to the Tribal Village located at the ARMM capitol grounds. A pre-rogative of the ARMM Tourism Office led by its secretary Marites Maguindra and assis-tant secretary Shalimar Amerkhan, the Tribal Village is a beehive of activities and highlights the culture as well as food of the different tribes who populate the different provinces
of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao. I was amazed at the colour-ful cultural displays as well as of the huge crowd that was gathered at the village. The fes-tivities grew even more as the sighting of the new moon was announced which officially marked the end of Ramadan fasting. We turned up early the fol-lowing day to catch the first morning prayer at Cotabato City’s most famous landmark, the Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Mosque or more popularly called the Golden Mosque. A gift to the people of Cotabato from the Sultan of Brunei, the Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Mosque was a sight to behold and is the biggest mosque in the Philippines. It was amazing to see people
from all walks of life gather together to pray. More then a solemn occasion, the celebra-tion of Eid’l Fit’r was a joyous one, much like Christmas is for Christians. We also got to experience local hospitality as well-off locals throw an open house, inviting guests and strangers alike to join in the feasting and merriment. Cotabato City was truly an experience I would not forget and to visit one of Mindanao’s oldest cities during the Eid’l Fit’r opened my eyes to the real meaning of the festival, a cel-ebration of peace, of sharing, and goodwill. Follow me on Intagram or on Twitter at @kenneth-kingong for more travel stories, foodie finds, and happenings in, around, and beyond Duri-anburg.
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“FOOD is more than sim-ple nutrition for Filipinos; they love to eat, whether
it’s a sit-down meal with fam-ily or friends or a quick snack. Sharing food is one of the great social pleasures for all classes, and not having food for your guests is considered a source of ‘hiya,’ so mountains of it are served at parties and fiestas.”
That is what Lindsay Ben-nett wrote in globetrotter is-land guide, “Philippines.”
Bennett considered Fili-pino food “a melting pot” as it has “many differing cultural antecedents, with dishes and methods from Malaysia and Indonesia mixing with later Spanish, Chinese and Ameri-can touches.”
Recently, Cable News Net-work (CNN) came up with a list of 50 Filipino food that de-fine the Philippines. “Filipino food may not be as famous as that of its Thai and Vietnam-ese neighbors. But with more than 7,000 islands and a col-orful history, this archipelago has some delicious dishes of its own,” wrote authors Maida Pineda and Candice Lo-pez-Quimpo.
The Philippines is re-nowned for its “adobo,” “sin-igang,” “kare-kare,” “bulalo,” “sisig,” and “halo-halo.” But some of the food that made it to the list are what others called as extreme food. In-gredients may be distasteful to some but are delicious to people who eat them.
In Pampanga, for in-stance, people cook mole crickets into a delicious appe-tizer called “kamaro.” The two CNN authors wrote: “If catch-ing these bugs is tough, so is cooking them. Legs and wings must be removed, and then the body is boiled in vinegar and garlic. It’s then sautéed in oil, onion and chopped to-matoes until chocolate brown. These bite-size appetizers are crunchy on the outside and moist on the inside.”
Ever heard of “betute tu-gak”? The two authors shared this information: “The French may have turned frogs’ legs into a delicacy, but Filipinos take it to the next level. They
get a frog, stuff it with minced pork and deep-fry it.”
“Kapampangans are ac-tually proud that their ‘be-tute’ is very unique to them,” wrote Alexander Villafania in an article that appeared in the website of Food and Bev-erage. “This can be attribut-ed to the fact that the frogs they use as main ingredient for this delicacy are rice field frogs, which eat small insects. These are actually larger than the normal frogs that are sold for food in most wet markets. However, smaller sized frogs are still good enough to make ‘betute.’”
To Westerners, “dinuguan at puto” may not look appe-tizing. But this black dish of pork and pig innards stewed in fresh pig blood seasoned with garlic, onion and oregano and eaten with a white “puto” (rice cake) or steamed rice is a comforting dish for many Filipinos.
“Balut” has been the “shocking” topic of some tele-vision shows because of its taboo nature in some West-ern cultures. In two episodes of Survivor: Palau and two episodes of Survivor: China, separate challenges featured attempts to eat the boiled 17-day-old duck embryo. Sim-ilarly, Fear Factor frequently uses “balut” as a means of dis-gusting contestants. “Balut” is best eaten with rock salt or spicy vinegar; oftentimes, it is consumed with beer.
Named after the Filipino term which means “wrapped,” balut (a fertilized egg with a nearly-developed embryo in-side that is boiled and eaten in the shell) has been touted as an aphrodisiac as it boosts libido. Studies have shown balut contains 12.6 grams of protein, 181 calories and good sources of Vitamin B1 and B2, minerals, niacin, beta caro-tene and other supplements.
Balut is common in street drinking sessions and just chatting with friends on late nights. Generally, balut is sold mostly when the street lights are on by vendors in basket covered with thick foams and cloths to keep them warm.
If you find balut a little bit
gross, why not try “ginataang daga”? No, it is not prepared from rats living in homes or in the cities. These are rats “har-vested” from rice fields in the provinces.
“I actually had an experi-ence catching these rats and I find in more enjoying than actually eating it,” one blogger wrote. “The best time to catch them is during rainy season because the rat holes are filled with water. Once they get out of their holes, we strike them with a bat or a stick. Cooking it is just like cooking a “ginata-ang manok.” However, it takes a longer time to cook it as you need to remove the skin, cut the heads and boil them several times to remove the smell. The taste is similar to chicken.”
Then, there’s the “tami-lok,” which has become one of the tourism identities of plac-es like Agusan del Norte, Bo-hol and most especially Pala-wan. If you’re still at loss what a “tamilok” is, it’s actually a wood worm which tastes like your familiar oyster. Although it looks like a worm, bigger than a twelve-inch ruler, it is actually a mollusk found in-side rotting mangroves.
In her blog, Faith Salazar wrote: “Finding these wood worms among throngs of mangrove trees is not an easy feat. First, those scouting for ‘tamilok’ need to locate a dead mangrove. When they find one, they need to be careful when trudging muddy parts of the mangrove – it can get very sticky and slippery so their steps have to be calcu-lated. Plus, they have to evade sharp shells and tree branch-es. When they get to the prized rotting mangrove, they hack it open. They are lucky if they find a ‘tamilok’ inside.”
Jodelen O. Ortiz, who has eaten “tamilok” when he visit-ed Palawan, reports “They are served raw after their insides are removed and cleaned. You may choose between vinegar or calamansi juice for perfect dips. If I were you, however, I will ask for native coconut vinegar (the one from ‘tuba’) as ‘tamilok’ tastes better than the commercial vinegars.”
ExtremefoodBy HENRYLITO D. TACIO
Balut (Photo by Henrylito D. Tacio)
Those who have eaten “tamilok” said that it tastes better than oyster (“talaba”) and any other pulutan while some even answer that it could taste like cheese when served fresh. But one this is sure: drinking becomes more engaging with tamilok as “pu-lutan.”
One food that may not be considered weird among most Filipinos but foreign-ers find it shocking to eat is Soup No. 5, which is made up of bull’s testes or penis. It is believed to have aphrodisiac properties.
This brings me to the sto-ry shared by Ruben V. Napales, the Filipino reporter who is a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. He was at the Four Seasons in Los Angeles talking with Rachel Weisz, who came to the Phil-ippines doing “The Bourne Legacy.”
Napales asked the Os-car-winning actress if she had
her fill of Filipino food while she was shooting the movie. “I had a lot of lumpia and adobo (in Manila),” Rachel answered. “I also had…what’s that dish which has balls?”
When Napales heard the word “balls,” he stammered. “You know what I mean,” the London native said. He reluc-tantly blurted out the name of the only Filipino dish he knew that is made from bull testes.
However, the University of Cambridge-educated actress said it before he did: “Soup No. 5, which is a euphemism for…?” Instead of answering her question, Napales said, “It’s served mostly in mo-tels…”
“Motels?” Rachel asked, adding whether the dish is an aphrodisiac. Napales replied affirmatively. “I didn’t know that,” she said, and again she blurted, “Soup No. 5 from the Philippines.”
And then, there’s durian, which has been described as
something that “smells like hell but tastes like heaven.” A century and a half ago, travel-er and naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace praised the durian as “a new sensation worth a voy-age to the East to experience.”
“(I)ts consistence and flavour are indescribable,” he wrote in his 1869 book “The Malay Archipelago.” “A rich custard highly flavoured with almonds gives the best gener-al idea of it, but there are oc-casional wafts of flavour that call to mind cream-cheese, onion-sauce, sherry-wine, and other incongruous dishes. Then there is a rich glutinous smoothness in the pulp which nothing else possesses, but which adds to its delicacy … it is in itself perfect … and the more you eat of it the less you feel inclined to stop.”
You definitely heard of Andrew Zimmern, an Amer-ican television personality, chef, food writer, and teacher. He is the co-creator, host, and consulting producer of the Travel Channel series “Bizarre food with Andrew Zimmern” and “Andrew Zimmern’s Bi-zarre World.”
At one time, he came to the Philippines and tried eat-ing coconut grubs or those larvae and pupae develop in rotten coconut logs. “In the Philippines, I had them, and they were just gross,” Zim-mern wrote. “And I couldn’t understand: inside was this yucky fluid and stomach sac and I was like, ‘Wow, that just was not good.’”
Let’s cap this food trip with a drink – the civet coffee, which actually comes from the droppings of the noctur-nal, cat-like animal called the palm civet. These carnivorous mammals do eat the red cof-fee cherries that contain the beans. The consumed coffee cherries pass through the civ-et whole after fermenting in the stomach and that’s what gives the coffee its exquisite taste and aroma.
Mouthwatering for some, stomach-churning for others, the Philippines indeed serves up some of the world’s inter-esting and adventurous tradi-tional cuisine.
Tamilok (taken from the net)
Durian (Photo by Henrylito D. Tacio)
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Understanding human traffickingEDITORIAL
EVERY year an estimated 35.8 million people are trafficked all over the world, translating to a nefarious industry that is worth upwards of $31.6 billion. Not surprisingly, the
Philippines has been identified as one of the hotspots of human trafficking and has been pegged at Tier 2 of the Global Traffick-ing in Persons (GTIP) Report for about five years now (Tier Two countries are those that do not fully comply with the minimum standards of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act [TVPA] but are making significant efforts to do so). Poverty, obviously, has a way of pushing people to take desperate measures.
Human trafficking is defined as the illegal movement of peo-ple typically for the purpose of forced labor or commercial sex-ual exploitation. But while forced labor and sexual exploitation are indeed huge problems, human trafficking can take so many forms that even victims don’t realize they’re already being traf-ficked. Enticing and taking women and children from the rural areas to work in the cities as domestic helpers can be a form of trafficking, but most of us see this as natural part of Philippine
life. It does not take one to be brought out of the country to be exploited and even jailed for it to be a violation of their human rights. The harsh reality is that human trafficking is happening right under our very noses, and we are not aware of it.
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has recently trained his sights on hu-man trafficking, and this is laudable. Indeed, as he has said, this is a very urgent matter that needs to be addressed right now; no Filipino should be allowed to be virtually sold to employers in other countries. But the mayor should also expand his definition of trafficking to include domestic violations, as in the aforemen-tioned cases of women and children working right in our midst after being lured here with promises of more glamorous work. Indeed, many end up literally on the streets, forced to sell their bodies because there are no other means to keep body and soul together.
Much still has to be done in the fight against human traffick-ing, but it can be won if we all work against it. And the first step is understanding what it is.
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TOO often, campaigns in the Philippines fo-cus on the candidates and not enough on the issues that they stand for. This over-
sight, perhaps more than anything else, is one of the leading reasons we have been saddled with government officials who time and again have failed to live up to the needs of the office to which they were elected. It was therefore a pleasant surprise when, during his brief stop in Davao City last week, Congressman Sherwin Gatchalian of Valenzuela took time to talk to the media more about the issues that were near and dear to him and his decision to make a run for the Senate in 2016.
In more ways than one, Sherwin Gatchalian represents the new political thinking now popu-lar among the younger candidates, one that pays less attention to the trappings of the political power, preferring instead to focus on genuinely serving their constituents. His campaign, which is built on improving the country’s education system as a way to alleviate the crushing pover-ty that afflicts a majority of the country’s youth, is a case in point. From the way he talks about it, it is clear that he has put a lot of thought into his vision of a better future for the country. It isn’t like the political campaigns of the past where candidates can literally sing and dance their way to public office.
According to Gatchalian, while there are many programs for out-of-school-youths cur-rently being implemented by different govern-
ment agencies, one of his prior-ities in the Sen-ate would be to pass a law that would “unify all these programs to benefit the more than four million out-of-school-youths, representing about twenty-percent of the youth sector in the country.” By pooling the efforts of government in a systematic manner, the resources being used can be brought to bear more effectively towards the singular goal of eradicating poverty through educational reforms.
He adds that the bill that he hopes to pass in the Senate will also “provide younger genera-tions of Filipinos with more employment oppor-tunities and protect them from the abuse that are a direct result of their poverty.” According to official government data, the out-of-school-youth sector is among the most fertile nesting grounds for the growth of criminality in the country.
This, says Gatchalian, is a truly unfortunate situation that can often be traced directly to the poor state of education in the country. “Lack of education deprives many young Filipinos the opportunity of improving their lives. It can pre-
vent them from finding the right employment and, in many tragic cases, may lead to temp-tation, exploitation, and abuse by people who would take advantage of their situation. My pro-posed law is therefore not just about improving the educational system, it is also about giving Filipinos better opportunities in life.”
Casting his eyes over the Mindanao, Gatchalian shows that – unlike other Metro Ma-nila-based politicos – he has clear grasp of the situation outside of the capital. “The basic prob-lem in the educational system in Muslim Mind-anao is human displacement. When kids cannot go to school because people are bombing their communities, it creates ripples in their lives. It is disruptive.” Citing the recent case of Mamasa-pano and other similar encounters between the military and the insurgents, he says that “these kinds of violence naturally leads to higher drop-out rates in the schools within the affected area. We should have peace and stability to have a sustainable future.”
As one of the solutions, he wants govern-ment to push for more education reforms that would focus on promoting a culture of peace and understanding among the affected com-munities. “(How to solve the conflict) is a really a difficult situation to answer. It is like asking which came first, the chicken or the egg, should we have peace before progress or progress be-fore peace? But regardless of the difficulties, we should still continue to work towards a just
solution. Habang andyan yung problema na yan, mahirap talaga, but we should never give up.”
Listening to him talk so passionately about his causes, it seems such an injustice that he is currently languishing at the bottom half of the surveys while other candidates with less sub-stance (and a surplus of popularity) are lording it over the top of the list. While this situation has more to do with the voters’ lack of discernment rather than Gatchalian’s qualifications, Sherwin is still hopeful that he will be able to overcome the hurdles ahead in his bid to serve the country.
As part of his effort to “win the hearts and minds” of the voters, he has been actively going around the different parts of the Philippines, talking to any number of civic groups and peo-ple’s organizations, and sharing his plans after 2016. By building connections on the ground with the people whose lives will be directly af-fected by his decisions once in office, Sherwin Gatchalian is at least on the right track towards building the future that he envisions for the Fili-pino youth. “Right now I am openly telling people that I will be running for the Senate in 2016. But winnability is not the only criteria in running. It is also very important that your principles are in the right place so that government programs will run smoothly for the benefit of the people.”
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Sherwin Gatchalian – Winning isn’t everything
“IF the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” – Charles DarwinNobody talks about tuberculosis (TB) any-
more. But in the past, it was the most notorious disease. Nobody dared to go near to a person with TB as it is contagious. It is said that former president Manuel L. Quezon died of the disease at Saranac Lake, New York.
Although there are already medicines against TB, it still took its toll on Rene Requies-tas. At the age of 36, the film comedian died on July 24, 1993.
TB was once touted as a romantic 19th century disease. After all, its famous victims included fiction writer Edward Bellamy, poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, novelist Franz Kaf-ka, composer Frederic Chopin, inventor Alex-ander Graham Bell, entertainer W.C. Fields, and nurse Florence Nightingale.
Brazilian poet Manuel Brandeira contract-ed TB in 1904 and expressed the effects of the disease in his life in many of his poems. Amer-ican author Dashiell Hammet got the disease during World War II. American country com-poser Jimmie Rodgers sang about the woes of TB and ultimately died of the disease days after a New York City recording session.
Aside from Quezon, other world leaders who were not spared from TB include Charles IX of France, Edward VI of England, American presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew Jack-son, Louis XII of France, Napoleon II of France,
and Pedro I of Brazil.
Today, TB is considered as a disease of pov-erty. In her col-umn, Dr. Malaya Pimentel-Santos wrote: “Unless there a success-ful program for poverty eradi-cation, the battle against poverty-fueled diseases like tuberculo-sis will continue to be a losing one.”
Based on 2010 data, TB ranked as the 8th leading cause of sickness in the country. It is the 6th leading cause of death, based on the 2009 Philippine Health Statistics. Currently, our country is ranked 8th among the 22 TB high-burdened countries in the world in terms of TB cases.
The Department of Health (DOH) says six-ty percent of those who die of TB occur among the productive age group of 15-64 years old. Some P8 billion is lost annually from sickness and deaths due to TB.
Currently, an estimated 200,000 to 600,000 Filipinos have active TB. “This is alarming since each person with active TB can spread the dis-ease to 10 other Filipinos each year,” wrote Dr. Willie T. Ong in his column, ‘Mind Your Body.’
Multiply the number of Filipinos with
active TB by 10, and you get the idea. “Just imagine how much TB is being spread yearly,” Dr. Ong points out. “Hence, if someone in the household has been diagnosed with TB, all the other members of the household should get tested for TB, too.”
An estimated 80 percent of Filipinos have latent TB, according to Dr. Ong. “In this condi-tion, we already have the TB infection in our bodies, but the TB is still in the inactive state,” he explains. “Hence, we feel no symptoms and we are not contagious to other people.”
“Tuberculosis rose slowly, silently, seep-ing into the homes of millions, like an ageless miasma,” writes Dr. Frank Ryan, author of Tu-berculosis: The Greatest Story Never Told. “Once arrived, TB stayed – a stealthy predator.”
TB is a disease that is transmitted almost entirely by the aerial route. “When infected individual coughs, sneezes, or spits, infectious particles are released into the air,” wrote Dr. Santos. “Anyone who inhales these particles is at risk of contracting TB. Transmission is en-hanced in overcrowded and poorly ventilated places.”
This is the reason why TB is more preva-lent among those living in squatter communi-ties and correctional institutions. Based on a recent study of seven detention facilities in the Philippines, the prevalence of this disease in-side jails and prisons is up to five times higher than among the general population.
But there’s good news. According to a press
statement released by the health department, the Philippines is one of the seven countries among the 22 TB high-burdened countries to have achieved its 2015 Millennium Develop-ment Goal in its fight against TB. As early as 2012, the country has already achieved the goal.
Health Secretary Janette P. Loreto-Garin reported that there has been a marked decline in TB burden since DOH launched the DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment Short-Course) strategy in 1996. As of 2013, cases and deaths due to TB was reduced by more than 50% from the 1990 baseline.
“Vigilance and eradication of stigma will help us in winning the battle against TB,” Dr. Garin said, adding that the country has already developed a 2010-2016 Philippine Plan of Ac-tion to Control TB.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), the mi-croorganism that causes TB, divides every 16 to 20 hours, an extremely slow rate compared with other bacteria, which usually divide in less than an hour.
“Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a wily foe,” deplored Dr. Ann Ginsberg, acting medical chief officer of Aeras, a non-profit product develop-ment organization dedicated to the develop-ment of effective tuberculosis vaccine.
Unknowingly, the MTB can live only in hu-man beings. “It cannot be carried by animals, insects, soil, or other non-living objects,” says the Merck Manual of Medical Information.
The battle against tuberculosis
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“We really discourage the people to bring back packs and tumblers especially in-side the activity areas,” she said, adding the measure has
proven effective.Aside from tumblers and
backpacks, people are also discouraged from carrying sharp objects.
ic drug.She said Albendazole will
help in preventing and elimi-nating intestinal worms that rob essential nutrients that the body needs to absorb.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), soil-transmitted helminths like roundworms, whipworms, and hookworms impair the nutritional status of the indi-viduals they infect in multiple ways.
The WHO also said some soil-transmitted helminths cause loss of appetite, while some cause diarrhea and dys-
entery. These helminths are transmitted by eggs excreted in human feces, which contam-inate the soil in areas that lack adequate sanitation.
“People are infected through ingestion of infective eggs or larvae that contami-nate food, hands, or utensils, or by penetration of the skin by infective larvae that uten-sils that contaminate the soil,” WHO said.
Berguia said the region has a regular program on elim-inating these parasites. For this year, DOH 11 has a total budget of P3 million.
problem with human traf-ficking in the Philippines is very serious despite the fact that laws have been crafted and implemented like the Republic Act 10364 or the Expanded Anti-Trafficking in
Persons Act of 2012.Gahan said the latest sta-
tistics revealed that almost 35 million in the world are experiencing different kinds of slavery. Armando B. Fen-equito Jr.
went to the malls to have their biometrics taken and registra-tions validated.
“…Although kapag tini-tingnan naming ‘yong nag-ing karanasan sa no bio no boto campaign sa mga malls mukha talagang dinudumog. Dinadagsa ng mga botante,” he said.
Bautista added, “Last Sat-urday I was in Trinoma at tal-agang pila pila…Maganda pan-gitain ito sa aming palagay na talagang gusto ng taong bayan na pumunta sa mga malls.”
With this, he revealed that majority of those who went to
the malls in the last three mall-based registrations were new voters.
“Akala namin ang ‘no bio no boto’ campaign ay para sa mga botanteng dapat mag-pavalidate ng biometric. Pero tiningnan namin ‘yung per-centage 80 percent mga ba-gong botante ang pumupunta sa malls. 20 percent lang ang nagpapabiometrics,” the poll body chief added.
Earlier, Robinsons and SM malls have expressed will-ingness to have their malls as voting venues for the 2016 national and local polls. (PNA)
will be employed for the cen-sus: personal interview, ac-complishing the self-admin-istered questioner, and the online questionnaire.
“If you do not like to be interviewed by the enumera-tors you can ask to fill up the self-administered question-
naire and the enumerator will just pick it up later,” she said.
Magracia said the PSA is al-ready training about 113,000 enumerators nationwide.
Magracia said the census will last for 25 days and will end on September 6. Arman-do B. Fenequito Jr.
to be able to produce iron-for-tified rice,” she said, adding that it took 14 years for the re-search institute to perfect the technology.
The millers can use bro-ken rice turned to rice flour and mix it with a premixed rice containing Ferric Pyro-phosphate and produce the iron-fortified rice through the process called extrusion.
The National Center for
Biotechnology Information said ferric pyrophosphate is “a water-insoluble iron (Fe) compound used to fortify infant cereals and chocolate drink powders.”
At present, only the Loro-nix Rice Mill owned by Gaspar Lorono in Compostela Valley supplies iron-fortified rice in the region. It has a capacity to produce 50 bags of fortified rice per hour.
The industry’s commu-nity development interven-tions are focused on the im-provement of the quality of lives of all banana stakehold-ers and the general public through the following pro-grams: health-related activi-ties, medical/dental interven-tions including supplemental feeding programs and provi-sion of potable water supply systems; environmental inter-ventions; scholarship grants for dependents of workers;
skills training and livelihood opportunities to augment household incomes; disaster prevention, relief and rehabil-itation support service and as-sistance in times of calamities; and various infrastructure projects.
More than three million individuals are dependent on the banana export indus-try for their basic needs and self-esteem. The industry also helps mould the future of two million children in Mindanao.
“They provided every-thing that we needed to en-able us to make sure that the celebrations will be safe, se-cured and successful,” he said.
“We are one in this suc-cess,” Briones added.
Meanwhile, the police offi-cial declared the shooting inci-dent that ensued in Koronadal City and a bomb explosion that rocked a passenger bus in Sto. Nino town last Saturday as isolated and not related to the festivities.
The Koronadal City shoot-ing, which left a person dead and three others wounded, was triggered by a rido or family-related conflict.
A person identified only as alias Samen and a resident of Marawi City was killed in a shootout with vendor Junaid
Abdul Amir at past 8 a.m. in front of the St. Anthony parish cathedral.
Amir sustained a gunshot wound on his left ear while two bystanders were hit by stray bullets.
In Sto. Nino, an impro-vised bomb exploded inside a bus unit of the Yellow Bus Line Inc. in a stopover at the town’s public transport terminal at around 10 a.m.
No casualties were re-ported as the bus crew and passenger were able to dis-embark before the bomb ex-ploded.
Briones said they are eye-ing extortion as behind the incident and their operatives are now tracking down a sus-pect who was believed to have planted the explosive. (PNA)
market needs.“These young leaders
need to look at the Philip-pines as an investment des-tination,” he said, adding that the Philippines and its count-less opportunities remain ex-pectant on the young leaders who can lead the world by example through diving into the picture of the Philippine economy.
De Ocampo also ex-pressed the need to address various issues and competi-tiveness barriers that affect the Philippine economy.
These include the mod-ernization of public infra-structure and transport sys-tem, the need for a more com-petitive power industry, and the development of better IT structure and support-related industries. De Ocampo also stressed inclusive growth—one that ensures access to
needed human, natural, physical, social, and financial capital to enable Filipinos for opportunities to uplift their lives.
The Filipino-American Youth Leadership Program (FYLPro), launched by Am-bassador Jose Cuisia in 2012, aims to tap outstanding Fil-Am leaders who possess a sincere desire to engage in their respective communities and to promote the Philip-pines’ further development.
Ten delegates selected for their impressive leadership skills and involvement in the Filipino-American commu-nity undertake a week-long program in the Philippines, where theyhave the opportu-nity of meeting the country’s highest officials, industry leaders, cultural experts, en-trepreneurs, and innovators in various fields.
THE City Disaster Risk Reduction and Manage-ment Council here head-
ed by City Mayor Aniano P. Antalan visited Bohol Province on July 7 to July 9 to gain knowl-edge on disaster response, re-habilitation, and recovery.
“Samal Island is the same with Bohol because you are an island and also have lots of caves. You just don’t know you are sitting on a sinkhole, so you should always be ready,”
Maribojoc Municipal Mayor LeoncioBadillaEvasco told the participants.
Evasco emphasized the im-portance of legislative support in declaring a state of calamity in calamity situations so that help could readily be given to the people.
The IGACOS Council also visited Cebu Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Manage-ment Office and met with Of-fice of Civil Defence Region 7
DRRM regional director Olivia Luces.
The group also visited the Cebu City DRRM Operation Center which gave them a quick presentation of its disas-ter risk reduction facilities and equipment and its manage-ment strategies down to the barangays.
The local government of IGACOS annually conducts benchmarking to cities and municipalities with best prac-
tices worth emulating.The interactions and shar-
ing with the leaders who per-sonally experienced and were also victims of the calamity ear-nestly and honestly shared all their actual and difficult learn-ing. The gained knowledge and understanding could be basis for a better and realistic disaster planning of programs, projects and activities and for policy recommendations. (CIO Samal)
IGACOS officials visit Bohol to learndisaster response and management
ERADICATING HUNGER. Gawad Kalinga area coordinator for Region 11 Rene Rieta (center) shares his group’s advocacy of eradicating hunger. Rieta, together with Gawad Kalinga Enchanted Farm’s Patrick Doromal (left) and City Council committee on food and agriculture chair Councilor Marissa Salvador-Abella graced yesterday’s Kapehan sa Dabaw at the Annex of SM City Davao. Lean Daval Jr.
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ity; and the Smart One Cam-pus, a learning management system to help administrators and teachers track and mea-sure their students’ academic performance. Its compact and portable design makes it easy for the teacher to transfer the laboratory from one classroom to another. To help schools optimize the use of the Smart TechnoCart, teachers are also given training on tablet basics. They are also provided train-ing on child and curriculum development by the Commu-nity of Learners Foundation (COLF).
The Smart TechnoCart tablets are pre-loaded with the Batibot mobile app, the first localized mobile app aligned with the Kindergarten curricu-lum based on the hugely pop-ular children’s television show. Developed with COLF and startup partner OrangeFix, the mobile app makes available educational content from the TV show into the mobile de-vice for mobility and accessi-bility. Just like the TV show, the Batibot app is also in Filipino.
“The Smart TechnoCart is a mobile laboratory designed to address the need of young students for interactive and engaging learning tools to help them better grasp basic con-cepts. It does make for smart-er learning,” said Ramon R. Isberto, head of Public Affairs at Smart.
The other public kinder-garten schools identified by the Department of Education School Divisions as initial beneficiaries are: Batu-Batu Central Elementary School, Datu Halun Laboratory Ele-mentary School, and Yusop Dais Elementary School from Tawi-Tawi; Calasiao Central School, and Mangatarem Cen-tral School in Pangasinan; Ba-cacay East Central School, and Polangui South Central School in Albay; Tipo-Tipo Central Elementary School of Basilan; Antonio L. Jayme Elementary School, Education and Train-ing Center School II, and Ro-dolfo A. Medel Sr. Elementary School of Bacolod; Banilad El-ementary School, and Regino Mercado Elementary School of Cebu; and Parañaque Central Elementary School for Metro Manila.
“The Smart TechnoCart is perfect for millennials. That’s how kids consume their con-tent now—they learn using their tablets and smart phones. I have a nephew who, when he was two years old, can al-ready navigate the tablet, and he couldn’t even talk yet! Chil-dren who saw a tablet for the first time were able to open it within 5 seconds without help. It comes naturally to them,” said Stephanie V. Orlino, senior manager and head of educa-tion programs at Smart Public Affairs.
NORTH Cotabato Governor Emmylou Ta l i ñ o - M e n d o z a
lauded the respective lead-ership of Kabacan and Mid-sayap for the two towns’ inclusion in the 2015 Cities and Municipalities Com-petitiveness Index of the National Competitiveness Council (NCC).
“We commend the leadership of the mayors of the two towns – Mid-sayap Mayor Romeo Araña and Kabacan Mayor Herlo Guzman – for putting the value of public service and our brand of ‘Serbisyong Totoo’ at the forefront of governance,” Mendoza said in a statement.
The NCC index showed Kabacan ranking fourth in the country’s most com-petitive municipalities while Midsayap ranked eighth. The top slot was taken by General Trias in Cavite.
Mendoza said the in-clusion of Kabacan and Midsayap was a recogni-tion of the province’s col-
lective efforts to deliver sustainable development and progress to the people.
“This also underscores our commitment to part-nerships in the pursuit of good and effective gover-nance and genuine public service,” she added.
Serbisyong Totoo aims to find equitable solutions and deliver on the devel-opment expectations of the people and provide sound environment and opportunities for business to thrive.
“The recognition is a proof that we on the right way; that we are all doing it the right way,” Mendoza said, adding the provincial government will continue to support local govern-ment units for their own growth and competitive-ness amid complex chal-lenges.
The 2015 competitive index also showed the City of Manila dislodging Makati City as the coun-try’s most competitive city. Davao City ranked fourth.
Kindergarten learning gets digitalboost with Smart TechnoCart
BATIBOT. Kindergarten pupils of the T. Paez Elementary School in Balut, Tondo, Manila try out the content of the Batibot mobile app with the help of a Read-to-be-Smart volunteer at the sidelines of the launch of the Smart TechnoCart.
HUSIN Ludsuman Abdu-halim, Principal I of Ma-luso Central Elemen-
tary School, couldn’t wait to show the mobile digital labora-tory to his kindergarten pupils when he gets back to Basilan.
Teacher Sin, as he is called by students and co-teachers, thinks that this latest initiative from undisputed leader in mo-bile Smart Communications,
Inc. (Smart) will help make learning more engaging for the young learners in his school.
“Our kinder kids, who are mostly five-year-olds, are ex-cited about using the gadgets. I’m pretty sure they will be motivated to learn with the help of technology,” he assured.
Teacher Sin said even the students’ parents were amazed when they learned
that their children will get to use tablets in kindergarten school. More often than not, only students in higher grade levels or in high school get to use gadgets.
Just like Teacher Sin’s stu-dents, kindergarten learners from 14 other public schools across the country will soon experience digital learning through the Smart TechnoCart,
an innovative mobile digital laboratory designed to facili-tate formative learning among young pupils with the use of mobile devices and applica-tions.
Each Smart TechnoCart contains 20 tablets for the use of students; a tablet, laptop and projector for the use of the teacher; Smart Bro pocket WiFi with load for connectiv-
Mendoza lauds Kabacan, Midsayapleadership for competitive ranking TWO office workers, a car
salesman, and a barista are stepping out of their
comfort zones and into the challenges of becoming the first AirAsia Travel Photogra-pher for 2015.
The #IamAirAsiaTravel-Photographer contest is joint-ly organized by AirAsia and ThinkDharma Inc. (exclusive distributor of Nikon Digital Cameras) in partnership with AirAsia’s global loyalty pro-gramme, BIG which will award winners with over 200,000 BIG Points or its equivalent free flights to any of AirAsia Group’s 100 destinations.
Assisted by multi-awarded photographers from the Phil-ippines and Malaysia as their personal coach, four pre-select-ed contestants, namely Velvet Lagman-Macasaet, an execu-tive assistant and marathon runner; Sarah Garcia, hotel front desk officer; TJ Nepomu-ceno III, car salesman; and Paul Delfin, an indie music fan and barista, will be traveling across Asia for one week starting July 21.
Online voting viawww.airasiatravelphotographer.com will be opened to the pub-lic in August 20 with Nikon cameras and BIG Points to
be given away to lucky vot-ers. Grand winner will be an-nounced in September 11.
AirAsia Philippines chair Maan Hontiveros led the launching of the exciting con-test with Strategic Partnership Head Jenny Au and Senior Mar-keting Manager Caroline Wong of AirAsia BIG. ThinkDharma Inc., meanwhile, is represented by Abrigo Merin, Chief Execu-tive Officer of OPAL, and Paolo Salazar, Head of Business Unit.
Four multi-awarded pho-tographers and respected leaders in the industry will be part of the AirAsia Travel Pho-tographer contest as mentors
of the four contestants. Nikon Pros George Tapan, Raymond Cruz, Parc Cruz and AirAsia’s resident photojournalist Adam Lee will be traveling around ex-otic places in Hong Kong, Indo-nesia, Malaysia and Thailand to help contestants capture their best entries across a range of categories that include land-scape, food, portrait, architec-ture and travel.
Keep updated with AirAsia Travel Photography contest by using #IamAirAsiaTravelPho-tographer and get the latest up-dates via Twiiter (twitter.com/AirAsiaPh) or Facebook (face-book.com/AirAsiaPhilippines).
AirAsia and Nikon launch travel photographer contest
LAUNCHED. AirAsia Photojournalist Adam Lee, contender Velvet Lagman-Macasaet, contender Sarah Garcia, Nikon pro and master photographer George Tapan, Business Unit head of ThinkDharma Paolo Salazar, AirAsia Philippines Chairperson Maan Hontiveros, Startegic Partnership Head of AirAsia BIG Jenny Au, Senior Marketing Manager of AirAsia BIG Caroline Wong, Nikon pro and photographer Raymond Cruz, contenders TJ Nepomuceno III and Paul Delfin with AirAsia cabin crew at the recent launching of #IamAirAsiaTravelerPhotographer contest in Taguig, Manila.
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Onos, Lourdes Padre-Juan and Rosano Oliva of the Ombuds-man, even alerted her of the need for more evidence.”
The SC added that Cam could have easily reproduced or obtained relevant docu-ments, like bank statements or affidavits, and attached these to her MR or subsequent pleadings, which she did not do.
The SC also said that Cam misquoted the resolution twice.
First, the SC clarified that nowhere in the resolution does it state that the complaint was dismissed because Cam failed to prove the guilt of respon-dents.
Instead, the SC said, the complaint was not given due course because of the “failure to present sufficient proofs to support the accusation.”
Second, the SC also clar-ified that “the Resolution impressed that public re-spondents had been unable to determine the existence of probable cause because Cam presented only uncorrobo-rated allegations, which were met with contrary declara-tions of the alleged involved personalities in the contested transactions”.
The SC said that nowhere in the resolution was it men-tioned that Cam’s uncorrob-orated allegations cannot be given credence, as Cam claimed.
It added that the “Om-budsman’s finding of probable cause, or lack of it, is entitled to great respect absent a showing of grave abuse of discretion.” (PNA)
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THE Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the dismiss-al by the Office of the
Ombudsman (Ombudsman)
of Sandra Cam’s complaint against the late Negros Occi-dental Rep. Ignacio “Iggy” Ar-royo, Juan Miguel “Mikey” Ar-
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SC upholds Ombudsman’s junking complaint vs Arroyosroyo and Restituto Mosqueda for lack of sufficient evidence.
Cam accused the respon-dents of allegedly coddling jueteng operations in violation of Section 2(k) of Republic Act No. 9287, or “An Act Increasing the Penalties for Illegal Num-bers Games Amending Certain Provisions of P.D. 1602 and for Other Purposes”.
The SC’s First Division pro-mulgated on June 29, 2015 a decision in the case of “Sandra M. Cam v. Orlando C. Casimiro, et al.” dismissing the petition for certiorari under Rule 65.
The SC affirmed the reso-
lution dated Oct. 9, 2006 and order dated Feb. 13, 2008 is-sued by Ombudsman, which in turn dismissed Cam’s com-plaint for insufficiency of ev-idence to establish probable cause and denying her motion for reconsideration (MR).
In the 12-page decision written by Chief Justice Maria Lourdes P. Aranal Sereno, the SC ruled that there was no grave abuse of discretion on the Ombudsman’s part in rul-ing that the evidence present-ed by Cam was insufficient to establish probable cause.
The SC said that while pe-titioner accused the respon-dents of receiving benefits in the form of cash and vehicles
in jueteng operations, Cam only presented her testimo-ny and four official receipts (ORs) covering the purchase of a Toyota Revo in the name of Marlyn Mosqueda, wife of respondent Mosqueda, which cannot be appreciated to prove that the funds used to pay for the vehicle came from jueteng operations.
The SC also ruled that there was no grave abuse of discre-tion on the Ombudsman’s part in not filing an information on the basis of Cam’s uncorrobo-rated testimony.
It said that Cam was “[giv-en] many opportunities to sub-stantiate her bare allegations. Public respondents Mothalib
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MOTORING
TOYOTA Motor Corpo-ration held simulta-neous launches of its
much-awaited, all-new 2016 Fortuner in both Thailand and Australia just a couple of hours ago. Sales in those markets start as early as October of this year with the Philippines slat-ed for a February 2016 launch (as indicated by Toyota sourc-es).
The Fortuner has contin-ued to be a very strong sell-er for Toyota even it traces its roots way back in 2006. However, the Japanese brand isn’t taking any chances and has put a whole new set of engines under the Fortuner’s hood. This is led by a new 1GD 2.8-liter diesel engine with 177 horsepower at 3,400 rpm and 450 Nm of torque at 1,600 to 2,400 rpm. This torque figure goes down to 420 Nm at 1,400 to 2,600 rpm when paired with the manual gear-box. This engine is joined by a smaller diesel engine, a 2.4-li-ter 2GD with 150 horsepower and 343 Nm of torque. The 2.7-liter VVT-i engine will still be offered and will carry on unchanged has been updated with a Dual VVT-i system.
All engines come with a choice of either a 6-speed manual or 6-speed automatic gearbox, although the 4WD model only comes with an au-tomatic gearbox. The 6-speed automatic even comes with a
paddle shift.Designed all new from the
ground up, the 2016 Fortun-er features a heavily revised chassis with a Double Wish-bone / Four-Link coil spring suspension (Update: appar-ently, Australian models have a Five-Link coil spring suspen-sion) that promises a much plusher ride without compro-mising on loading and payload performance. In fact, Toyota says it can still tow some 3,000 kilograms (2,800 for the au-tomatic). It also receives the added security of four-wheel disc brakes as well (at least for Australia, Thailand mod-els continue with rear drum brakes). Ride height varies per market with Australia actually receiving a 225-mm ground clearance.
For the 4WD variant, the Fortuner removes the full-time 4WD in favor of a part-time unit. It now has a me-chanical rear differential lock along with Toyota’s A-TRAC or Active Traction Control Sys-tem that allows the driver of either taking electronic assis-tance or engaging the diff lock himself.
Outside, the all-new Fortuner features a sleek-er appearance that’s pretty removed from the Hilux on which it’s based on. In terms of dimensions, it measures up at 4,795x1,855x1,835 (LxWxH, in millimeters). Some models
ASIANBRANDS Motors Corporation, the ex-clusive distributor of
Mahindra in the Philippines, will showcase the complete lineup of Mahindra vehicles at
the 2015 Philippine Truck and Bus show at the SMX Conven-tion Center in Pasay City on Friday, July 17 to Sunday, July 19, 2015. As the ideal brand for the modern Filipino en-
trepreneur who values utility, durability, and ruggedness, the Philippine Truck and Bus Show is the perfect venue for Mahindra.
Fresh from its official
2016 Toyota Fortuner: This is it
Mahindra to display line-up at Bus and Truck Show 2015launching in the Philippines, Asianbrands Motors Corpora-tion is poised to hold its first public display, which will fea-ture the Mahindra Enforcer Single Cab and Double Cab, as well as the Xylo AUV. Leading the opening ceremony and ribbon cutting on Friday, July 17, 2015 will be Mr. Eric R. Arpilleda, Vice President for Government Sales, Special Util-ity Vehicles and Tractor Sales Division, Asianbrands Motors Corporation, together with Mr. Anis Sayyad, Deputy General Manager, International Oper-ations, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.
Faithful to its thrust of providing Filipinos affordable
yet dependable vehicles, Ma-hindra will put on display the recently launched the Enforcer Single and Double Cab pick-up models, ideally built for trans-porting any cargo on any ter-rain, and the Xylo AUV – a peo-ple carrier designed for utmost comfort and versatility.
“We are looking forward to this year’s Philippine Bus and Truck Show as this will be our first public display. We are con-fident that the market will see Mahindra as their perfect part-ner in their businesses, which comes with a friendly price tag, yet does not compromise qual-ity and dependability,” said Mr. Felix Mabilog, Jr., President, Asianbrands Motors Corpora-
tion.Co-located with PhilAu-
to’15, the 2015 Philippine Bus and Truck Show is the biggest trade show exhibition which provides a business-to-busi-ness platform for bus, trucks and commercial vehicle op-erators, leasing and logistic companies, banking & insur-ance, parts and service & re-pair workshops to see and get updated on the latest range of bus, truck and commercial ve-hicles, auto parts, accessories and garage equipment. It will showcase over 250 exhibitors from 16 countries including Pavilions from China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand.
receive such spiffy exteri-or details like LED daytime running lights, bi-LED head-lights and tail lights, a pow-ered tailgate, and a shark’s fin antenna. All Fortuner models ride on standard 17-inch alloy wheels with higher variants going up to 18-inches (Thailand has all models running on 18-inch wheels).
Inside, the Fortuner is now more luxurious than ever before with a long list of comfort and safety fea-tures. Like its exterior, the interior is also far removed from the Hilux and features leather stitching on the dashboard, available brown leather seats, and matte wood paneling. It now gets a proximity key entry sys-
tem with push button engine start/stop, up to 7 airbags, a climate control with rear air conditioning, a multi-in-formation display nestled in the gauge cluster, a new touchscreen infotainment system, anti-lock brakes with EBD and brake assist, traction control and stability control, hill start assist, and a reverse camera system. All
in all, Toyota believes the all-new Fortuner will achieve top safety ratings (Five-Star ASEAN NCAP).
Coinciding with the launch, Toyota has an-nounced that it’s starting to develop a wide range of genuine accessories for the Fortuner including bullbars that are compatible with the car’s safety systems.
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FIL-AUSSIE LEADS Jason Day shares lead but Jordan Spieth within striking distance
JORDAN Spieth surged through a gridlocked British Open leader-
board as a third straight major title loomed large but he had to share the spotlight with Irish ama-teur Paul Dunne at St An-drews after a remarkable day’s action on Sunday.
The 21-year-old American, bidding to be-come the first man to win the year’s first three ma-jors since Ben Hogan in 1953, began the delayed third round in the chas-ing pack and lost ground early on but he stormed home with a seven-birdie, six-under 66 for an 11-un-der total, one off the lead.
Dunne, a year older but inhabiting a different golfing planet to Masters and U.S. Open champi-on Spieth, ended a crazy
day of low scoring in a three-way tie at the top on 12-under par 204 with Australian Jason Day and 2010 British Open cham-pion Louis Oosthuizen.
Clearly on course for the amateur’s silver med-al after a nerveless 66, Dunne remains in serious contention to become the first amateur to win the British Open since Bobby Jones 85 years ago.
At this most unusual of Opens, anything seems possible,
With flags hang-ing limp like damp tea towels -- a huge c o n -trast to Satur-d a y ’ s
gales that wiped out the third round and forced a first Monday finish since 1988 -- an eclectic mix of major winners, amateurs and nearly-men tucked into the Old Course birdie banquet with relish.
There were 37 sub-70 rounds, although the one notable exception was Spieth’s fellow Amer-ican Dustin Johnson, the overnight leader, who collapsed to the day’s sec-ond=worst round, a mis-erable three-over 75.
SPIETH CLINICALSpieth struggled to make much headway
early on and was clearly getting frus-trated when he dropped a shot at
the ninth.
But the Texan re-gained his already leg-endary composure to re-spond with three consec-utive birdies at the 10th, 11th and 12th and sunk another at the 15th be-fore pocketing pars at the final three holes -- smiling and joking his way round with Sergio Garcia who is nine under after a 68.
“I kind of just wanted to stay patient today, let them come to me, and once I figured out my put-ting, it did,” world number two Spieth, still on for an unprecedented calendar year grand slam, told a news conference.
Asked about the mag-nitude of what he is chas-ing, he added: “It hasn’t come up in my head while I’ve been playing yet.
“I can’t speak for
TEAM STANDINGS W LJMC 2 010TH ID 2 0Aegis 2 0Bangoy 2 0Team Tin 24 3 2CMO 3 3LTO 1 2Goldstar 0 2DENR 0 2Viva 0 2Cops 0 2
City Mayors Office snapped its three game los-ing skid with a thrilling 95 – 92 overtime win against the Cops in the ongoing Apollo C.
Quiboloy Cup Commercial B League on Sunday at the Davao City Recreation Center Almen-dras Gym.
The City Hall dribblers regrouped after a last second defensive fallout in regulation and held on in the final stretch of the extension to formally pull away with the win.
Christopher “Bong” Go laid it out in the floor finishing with game-best 29 points, including five triples, for the CMO which improved to 3–3.
Go, the sweet-shooting executive assistant of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, was effective
in a lot of ways – not only in scoring but also getting into the paint and making plays for others.
Michael Walingan and Weng Farochillen provided the necessary support that was lacking in the CMO’s three game losing stretch.
Walingan scored 17 while Farochillen made 13 for the City Hall dribblers who won their first two outings but lost the next three at the hands of the Army, Team Tin 24 and Aegis.
The Cops played a more balance offense with five
players made double digits in scoring led by Kim Josol who dished out 16 points.
Balong Cameros had 15, including a three pointer that sent the game into overtime, for the Cops who got 14 points each from Milvar, Driz and Lamparas.
CMO pushed hard in the final period with baskets from all cylinders and solid stops that kept the Cops in trouble.
The City Hall dribblers couldn’t close it out in regula-tion, however, as Cameros hit a three pointer for the extension. (Rico Biliran)
TOP Rank promoter Bob Arum is obviously not satisfied with the way
Manny Pacquiao has been treating his rehabilitation for his recently-operated injured right shoulder.
The veteran boxing offi-cial blasted the Filipino boxing icon after he was remiss in his supposed check-up in Los Angeles early this month after undergoing surgery last May to repair a torn rotator cuff on the injured shoulder.
acquiao aggravated the injury during his May 2 su-
per-fight with Floyd May-weather Jr. which he lost by unanimous decision.
“Well, Pacquiao was sup-posed to come in to see the doctor, and for some reason, he decided to cancel it and come later,” said the 83-year-old Arum in an interview by ABS-CBN sports reporter Dyan Castillejo in Dubai where Top Rank promoted a special boxing card Saturday night that features Filipino Nonito Donaire Jr.
“You know, he’s not acting very professionally, in my opin-
ion,” Arum added. The 36-year-old Pacquiao is currently in General Santos with his entire family. He appeared not yet in-formed about Arum’s outburst, but a member of the boxing icon’s inner circle said the Top Rank official could have just talked to him in private.
“He can say it personally. Why say it through media in-terview?” said the Team Pac-quiao member, who spoke on condition of anonymity pend-ing an official statement from the boxing champion.
According to Arum, Pac-
quiao was scheduled to depart for the US early this month to undergo rehabilitation pro-gram with famed Los Angeles orthopedic surgeon Dr. Neal ElAttrache, who performed surgery on the eight-time world division champion last May 6.
Instead, Pacquiao moved his US trip to a later date. “You got an operation like that, you got to do rehab, you got to get the doctor to look at it and guide you on the kind of re-hab that you can do,” stressed Arum.
WHILE all eyes were on Ray Parks and Jordan Clarkson as they saw ac-
tion in the NBA Summer League, there are actually two more Fili-pino-American players who have also showed their wares in the tournament, hoping to land a spot in an NBA roster next season.
Both Stephen Holt of the At-lanta Hawks and Aaron Craft of the Golden State Warriors have both played major minutes for their respective clubs in the tour-nament.
The 6’4″ Holt, a product of Saint Mary Gaels and once eyed to be a member of the Gilas Pilipi-nas national team, has helped the Hawks enter the Summer League semifinals. He started all of his team’s five games, averaging 21.4 minutes of play.
The 23-year-old guard has also put up 8.4 points, 1.2 re-bounds, 1.2 assists and 1.6 assists per outing. His best game was
against the Denver Nuggets when he scored 17 markers alongside two assists and three steals in an 82-73 win last Thursday.
He was able to play against Parks and the Dallas Mavericks during the quarterfinals, finishing with five points, three assists and two rebounds in a 91-83 win.
Holt, who earlier signed a deal to play in for Melbourne United in Australia’s National Basketball League, also played for the Hawks’ Summer League team last year and was able sign with the Cleveland Cavaliers, only to be cut right before the season.
Meanwhile, Craft, a 6’2″ guard out of Ohio State, was also named as a starter for all of the Warriors’ games in the tourna-ment. He averaged 4.8 points, 4.5 assists, 3.2 rebounds and 1.5 steals in 25.8 minutes per game.
One of his teammates is for-mer PBA import Dominique Sut-ton.
FIL-AUSSIE Jason Day (left)
studies his line of putt. Jordan Spieth
(right) roars after sinking his own
putt.
tomorrow given it’s the last round, and if I have a chance coming down the stretch, if it creeps in, I’ll embrace it. I’ll embrace the opportu-nity.”
Dunne’s bogey-free six-under 66 means he smashed the previous
lowest 54-hole total for an amateur at the Open.
Incredibly, howev-er, he was not the only player yet to join the paid ranks remain-ing in the hunt for the Claret Jug as American Jordan Niebrugge’s 67
took him to nine-un-der.
“I saw that I was tied for first on the 10th green and I said to my caddie how cool is it to leave the Open on Sunday, even if it’s a different type of Sun-day,” Dunne said.
CMO rallies past Cops in OT
Arum takes jab at Pacquiao
2 more Fil-Ams inNBA Summer League
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THE
BOBBY RAY PARKSJOURNEY
FITTING CLIMAXParks ends NBA Summer League with 4 against Hawks
Francis Gabriel Escandor of Ateneo drives against a Precious Interna-tional School cager in this bit of action during the Matina Enclaves
Inter-School Basketball Tournment at the Genesis Gym. Ateneo won this one by a mile 88-23. Contributed photo
Bobby Ray Parks Jr. capped his NBA Summer League stint with 4 points against Atlanta as theDal-las Mavericks bowed out of the tournament.
BOBBY Ray Parks ended his campaign
in the 2015 NBA Sum-mer League by finish-ing with four points, three rebounds, and one block in the Dal-las Mavericks’ 83-91 loss to the Atlanta Hawks on Satur-day (Sunday Manila time) at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas.
Parks, 22, played for 14 minutes and four seconds in his final game for the Mavericks in the Summer League, which he had hoped would be a stepping stone in his bid to make it to the NBA. Parks had a lengthy but scoreless shift during the first half before finally scoring his first field goal at the 2:51-mark of the
third quarter. He scored again
moments later with 1:57 left in the pe-riod off a pass by Dwight Powell.
Parks was com-ing off an impres-sive second-round game against the NBA D-League Se-lect where he fin-ished with 10 points, five rebounds, four steals, and one assist in 21 minutes and six seconds of play.
The game also saw the stint of an-other Fil-Am cager in Stephen Holt, who finished with five points, two re-bounds, and three steals in 28 minutes of action for the Hawks.
Justin Ander-son had 23 points, six rebounds, two assists, and three
steals, while Jordan Crawford and Dwight Powell each had 17 points for the Mav-ericks, who reached the quarterfinals de-spite going 0-3 in the preliminaries.
Glenn Robinson III had 20 points for the Hawks, who will face the San Antonio Spurs in the semifi-nal round.
Parks, looking to become the first homegrown Filipino to make it to the big league, now hopes he has made an impres-sion to earn a call-up for training camp of the Mavericks or any other NBA team. In a teleconference with reporters last week, the son of former PBA import Bobby Parks Sr. said he has no plans beyond the summer league.
EDGEDAVAOSportsSLASHING THE LANE
BIG GAME BOBBY
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