P 15.00 • 20 PAGES www.edgedavao.net VOL. 7 ISSUE 133 • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2014 EDGE Serving a seamless society DAVAO FFELONIA, 10 THE BIG NEWS page 2 SPORTS page 14 ONYOT FINISHES 3RD IN ASIAN TPC 2 CITIES, 3 BLASTS, 1 GROUP? INSIDE EDGE FELONIA CHARGED Former Police Intel chief indicted for murder of Richard King S UPERINTENDENT Leonardo Felonia, the former head of Police Regional Intelligence Unit (RIU) 11, has been charged with murder by the Davao City Prosecution Office for allegedly being the mastermind in the kill- ing of Cebu-based hotelier Rich- ard Lim King last June. Prosecutor Panfilo Lovitos indicted Felonia for murder after finding prob- able cause of the complaint filed by the victim’s brother James L. King. The resolution, dated September 17, was submitted to the Regional Trial Court (RTC) branch yesterday morning. In the resolution, Lovitos recom- mended the inclusion of Felonia in the criminal information previously filed against Paul Dave Molina Labang and Rodel and Rommel Escote dela Cerna now pending before RTC branch 17. The three accused surrendered on June 23 to the Davao City Police Office (DCPO). King was shot dead at close range while in a dinner gathering inside the Vital C office along Sobrecarey Street in Barrio Obrero, Davao City at around 6:45 p.m on June 12. Labang, the self-confessed trigger- man, pointed to Felonia By FUNNY PEARL A. GAJUNERA Correspondent BANNED? Several blue fin tunas caught in Davao Gulf are lined up to be weighed by a fish trader at Sta. Ana wharf, Davao City yesterday. Commercial fishing operations are still ram- pant in Davao Gulf despite the implementation of a three-month fishing ban to ensure the sustainability of the region’s fishery resources. Lean Daval Jr.
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EDGE Serving a seamless society
DAVAO
FFELONIA, 10
THE BIG NEWS page 2
SPORTS page 14
ONYOT FINISHES 3RD IN ASIAN TPC
2 CITIES,3 BLASTS,1 GROUP?
INSIDE EDGE
FELONIA CHARGEDFormer Police Intel chief indicted for murder of Richard King
SUPERINTENDENT Leonardo Felonia, the former head of Police Regional Intelligence
Unit (RIU) 11, has been charged with murder by the Davao City Prosecution Office for allegedly being the mastermind in the kill-ing of Cebu-based hotelier Rich-ard Lim King last June.
Prosecutor Panfilo Lovitos indicted Felonia for murder after finding prob-able cause of the complaint filed by the victim’s brother James L. King.
The resolution, dated September 17, was submitted to the Regional Trial Court (RTC) branch yesterday morning.
In the resolution, Lovitos recom-mended the inclusion of Felonia in the criminal information previously filed against Paul Dave Molina Labang and Rodel and Rommel Escote dela Cerna now pending before RTC branch 17.
The three accused surrendered on June 23 to the Davao City Police Office (DCPO).
King was shot dead at close range while in a dinner gathering inside the Vital C office along Sobrecarey Street in Barrio Obrero, Davao City at around 6:45 p.m on June 12.
Labang, the self-confessed trigger-man, pointed to Felonia
By FUNNY PEARL A. GAJUNERACorrespondent
BANNED? Several blue fin tunas caught in Davao Gulf are lined up to be weighed by a fish trader at Sta. Ana wharf, Davao City yesterday. Commercial fishing operations are still ram-pant in Davao Gulf despite the implementation of a three-month fishing ban to ensure the sustainability of the region’s fishery resources. Lean Daval Jr.
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THE BIG NEWS
TASK Force (TF) Davao commander Colonel Macairog S.
Alberto yesterday said the group that set off a bomb on Tuesday night in front of the city hall of General Santos City could be the same one behind the twin bombings in two different cinemas in Davao City last year.
“We have speculation that it is the same group because the motive is almost the same. These people just want to sow fear and terror to the
public,” Alberto told Edge Davao in a phone inter-view.
Tuesday night’s bomb-ing in GenSan happened exactly a year after two improvised bombs ex-ploded 22 minutes apart inside Cinema 1 of SM City Davao and Cinema 5 of Gaisano Mall of Davao. The date was September 16, 2013
The bombing in Gen-eral Santos happened at around 7:30 p.m. last Tuesday, September 16, 2014.
The Davao blasts had no casualties while nine people were hurt in the GenSan blast.
“Both groups used small improvised explo-sive device. You can re-member that bombers also used small bombs that can fit into a small canister or colored cup,” Alberto said.
He said the group or individuals involved in last year’s bombing are still unidentified until now.
Meanwhile, Police Re-
gional Office (PRO) 11 director Chief Superin-tendent Wendy Rosario ordered all units to inten-sify security in the after-math of the GenSan blast.
Rosario told reporters that the regional intelli-gence unit, along with dif-ferent law enforcement agencies, is conducting investigation on the inci-dent.
“We intensified our checkpoint operations and directed all security agencies to conduct foot
THE Davao City Watershed Man-agement Council
(WMC) has already sub-mitted the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the Davao City Rainwater Ordinance of 2009 for approval by Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.
City Legal Office (CLO) representative lawyer Gil Norman Ciu-dadano told Edge Davao in an interview yester-day that the final draft of the IRR was submit-ted to the office of Mayor Duterte last Tuesday for his signature. The sign-ing the IRR is the final operative act of the mea-
sure’s approval.Ciudadano said the
salient point of the ordi-nance is the mandatory installation of the rain-water catchment system for those who plan to construct buildings in the city.
“As a matter of re-quirement in acquiring their building permits, each structure or build-ing should have its own catchment system,” he said.
Ciudadano said the purpose of the installa-tion of catchment system is to optimize the use of water.
DAVAO City admin-istrator Melchor V. Quitain ordered
the City Legal Office (CLO) to file charges against any person who will refuse to testify against an un-
named doctor allegedly behind the dumping of medical wastes in the Talomo beach front.
Quitain told Edge Davao in an interview that there are people who
witnessed the incident but are reluctant to exe-cute their affidavits which could be used as the basis of filing of charges against an unnamed doctor who allegedly buried the med-
ical waste at the beach front last July.
He said he has ordered the CLO to charge any wit-ness who will decline to execute a statement on
POLICE are look-ing at a number of angles as possible
motive in the explosion at a plaza in front of the main City Hall building here on Tuesday night that injured nine people.
Superintendent Rolly Octavio, deputy city po-lice director for admin-istration, said Wednes-day their investigation is still ongoing in connec-tion with the blast, which occurred past 7 p.m. near the monument of nation-al hero Jose P. Rizal at the Plaza Heneral Santos and the flag pole of the City Hall complex.
The scene of the ex-
plosion, which happened three days after the cul-mination of the city’s week-long 16th Tuna Festival, was just a few meters from the main entrance of the City Hall building.
An official statement issued by the City Police Office, Army-led Joint Task Force GenSan, and the city government de-clared that the explosion was caused by a grenade.
“As of now, no shrap-nel or fragments have been found. Investigation is still continuing as to the motives and culprits of the crime,” the state-
ALERT. Davao City police operatives stand guard at the city’s vital installations after an alert was raised due to a bombing incident in General Santos City on Tuesday night. Lean Daval Jr.
Two cities, threeblasts, one group?By CHENEEN R. CAPON and FUNNY PEARL A. GAJUNERA
Witnesses to medical wastedumping urged to testifyBy ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
IRR of rainwater ordinancewaiting for mayor’s signature
Cops looking at angles behindGenSantos grenade bombing
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SUDDEN RAIN. Commuters are stranded as a sudden heavy downpour, brought by a low pressure area(LPA) moving closer to Mindanao, batters Davao City on Tuesday night. Lean Daval Jr.
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HUMAN rights groups are calling for the interven-
tion Davao City Mayor and Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC) chair Rodrigo R. Duterte to end the ongoing armed conflict among tribal communities in Kapalong, Davao del Norte.
Hanimay Suazo, sec-retary general of Karapa-tan-Southern Mindanao Region (SMR), shared her sentiments along with leaders of Pasaka Region-al Lumad Confedation,
who said the armed con-flict in their area has al-ready affected their daily lives.
“It is urgent to de-mand the disbandment of the Alamara and all para-military groups,” Suazo said in a text message yesterday.
Suazo earlier accused Armed Forces of the Phil-ippines (AFP) of being be-hind the composition of the Alamara group.
She said this accusa-tion was proven when 10th Infantry Division
commander Major Gen-eral Eduardo Ao awarded nine indigenous people with military merit med-als after clashing with the New People’s Army (NPA) on September 14 in Ba-rangay Gupitan, Kapalong, Davao del Norte.
Suazo said the nine were members of the Ci-vilian Armed Forces Geo-graphical Unit (CAFGU)/Civilian Active Auxiliary (CAA)/Alamara.
“Loud and clear, they (AFP) are accountable for all the atrocities
and sowing terror in Kapalong with the arm-ing of the IPs in the area ,” she added.
“We call for the pull-out of military troops away from the civil-ian communities in Kapalong,” Suazo said.
She also said the peace talks between the government and the Na-tional Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) should be resumed. “It is the only way to address the roots of armed con-flict,” she said.
THE seaworthiness of a sister vessel of the ill-fated M/V
Maharlika 2 has come under question and its owner was already is-sued a suspension order, an official of the Mari-time Industry Authority (MARINA) in Caraga said Tuesday.
Emmanuel B. Carpio, MARINA regional direc-tor, said that upon in-spection audit on Sun-day, M/V Mahalarlika 4 was found to have ma-jor deficiencies as far as seaworthiness was con-cerned and should not be allowed to sail.
Carpio said the defi-ciencies of Maharlika 4, which has been plying the Surigao City-Liloan, Southern Leyte route, are grounds for the can-
cellation of its certificate of public conveyance.
“We already issued a suspension order against the operator of this vessel,” he told Min-daNews.
Carpio said he found at least four deficien-cies of the ferry. These are the expired license of the chief marine en-gineer, heavy corrosion of the ship’s watertight bulkheads, incomplete checklist of machiner-ies maintenance system, and non-functioning fire alarm system and deflec-tion system.
“These aspects could affect the seaworthiness of the ferry,” he said.
MindaNews tried but failed to get the side of the management of Phil-
THE military cited three members of the civilian active
auxiliary for their role in the series of military operation in Kapalong, Davao del Norte where three rebels were killed.
Major General Eduar-do Ano, commander of the 10th Infantry Division honored CAA Ongging Masaloon. CAA Aurelio Masaloon, CAA Macoy Ugail, CAA Jonathan Li-ruan, CAA Noel Warag, CAA Allan Ompocanon, CAA Larry Masaloon, CAA Micmic Casiano, and the group’s leader Corporal Lito Masaloon.
Their efforts were credited for the a success-ful offensive operation
in Sitio Poton, Barangay Gupitan, Kapalong Davao del Norte in the evening of September 14, where three bodies of New Peo-ple’s Army members.
Two high powered firearms, an improvised explosive device and a hand grenade were also recovered from the per-petrators.
Año lauded the gal-lantry of the militias in risking their lives for the call of duty.
He also emphasized how the support from the community is instrumen-tal in achieving the dream of peaceful and resilient communities.
He also welcomed for-
CO N T ROV E RS I A L event organizer Kat Dalisay got
her business permit back after it was re-voked last July 22 over tax issues and other al-leged violations.
On her Facebook page, Katrina Mae “Kat” Dalisay, owner of Manic Nightnings Productions which has organized successful rave parties in Davao City, posted a photo of her shaking hands with Vice Mayor Paolo Z. Duterte yester-day at around 3: 30 p.m..
“It wasn’t really per-
sonal after all. Very grateful to our Vice Mayor for giving me and Manic Nightnings a second chance. Thank you so much sir, from the bottom of my heart. Mabuhay po kayo!” the photo caption said.
The post had gar-nered more than 500 likes as of press time.
Dalisay’s business permit was revoked just three weeks before the scheduled Kadayawan Invasion because of al-leged violations of the Davao City 2005 Reve-
AFP honors auxiliariesin Davao Norte clash
Rights groups urge Duterteto intervene in Kapalong
HARD AT WORK. A laborer hauls a 15-kilo yellow fin tuna caught in Davao Gulf from a fishing boat in Sta. Ana wharf, Davao City yesterday. Commercial fishing operations are still rampant in Davao Gulf despite the implementa-
tion of the three-month fishing ban to ensure the sustainability of the re-gion’s fishery resources. Lean Daval Jr.
Kat Dalisay gets herbusiness permit back
Sister ferry of ill-fated Maharlika 2has ‘major deficiencies’ – MARINA
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AS the global de-mand for quality cacao beans rises,
a local investor is looking for a 500-hectare area in Davao City that can be converted into a cacao plantation.
Councilor Marissa Sal-vador-Abella, chair of the City Council’s Agriculture Committee, told report-ers in an interview yes-terday that the investor, whom she did not name, is eyeing a 500-hectare idle land in Callawa, Bu-hangin.
“We’ve been in the area early this morning and the investor said that he is planning to rent the area per year,” Abella said.
Abella said the inves-tor chose Davao City be-cause it is one of the ar-eas in the region that can be planted with cacao.
She said Region 11 it-self produces 70 percent of the cacao bean produc-tion in the country.
Abella said the inves-tor is planning to invest P70,000 per hectare.
“He [investor] still needs to plant and his produce will cater to the foreign market,” she said.
Abella said the city still has a large number of idle lands that can be planted with high-value crops such as cacao and rubber, which can be in-tercropped.
“Look at Marilog and Paquibato, there’s still so many barren lands in that area that can be utilized. Those areas are mostly covered only with cogon,” she said.
Based on the ap-proved but not yet pub-lished Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) 2013- 2022 of Davao City, a total of 111,387.49 hectares or 45.65 per-cent of the city’s total land area are identified for agriculture.
According to an earli-er report, only 29.95 per-cent or 73, 086.05 hect-ares of Davao City’s to-tal land area of 244,000 hectares was classified for agriculture based on the 2011 CLUP. Since
then, it has grown by 38, 379.66 hectares.
However, the produc-tion areas for agricultur-al products only covered 44, 738.23 hectares in 2010. The city’s third district covers the big-gest chunk at 74.11 per-cent, followed by second district at 22.07 percent and only 2.91 percent in the first district.
“We need to utilize this but there are prob-lems in some areas, like Paquibato and Marilog, which prohibit investors
from coming in,” Abella said.
She said the insur-gency problem contin-ues to be an issue that should be addressed by the government so that development will follow.
“There is this one family in Paquibato that owns almost 12,000 hectares but they are still poor because it is only covered with cogon. The area used to be in-fested with members of rebel groups ,” Abella said.
ESTIMATED earnings of Robert Downey Jr., 49, the star of Disney’s Marvel superhero film franchises “Iron Man” and “The Avengers,” making him Hollywood’s highest paid actor for the second consecutive year. He is followed by former wrestler Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, $52 million, and “Hangover” star Bradley Cooper, with $46 million.
P200 M
ROUGHLY the amount in pork barrel funds of Senator Juan Ponce Enrile, seven party-list representatives, and several allies of the Aquino administration that were coursed through the National Agriculture and Fisheries Council (NAFC) from 2012 to 2013 and awarded to dubious non-government organizations (NGos). The Commission of Audit reported that projects under the congressional Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) were implemented without any bidding and proof that the recipients benefited. PDI, September 15, 2014
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Number of families from nine barangays in Kidapawan City that were displaced after torrential rains flooded a wide portion of the low-lying areas since last Thursday, September 11. Damage to crops was placed at P52 million. Manila Bulletin, September 14, 2014
ld Corporation, through its subsidiary Suntrust Properties Inc., will invest P5 billion for an industrial project which is expected to create 500,000 direct and indirect jobs in eight years.
In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) Wednesday, the company said it will devel-op the Suntrust Ecotown within its 200-hectare property in Tanza, Cavite.
The Suntrust Ecotown is Megaworld’s first mixed use project with industrial development and is ac-
credited by the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA).
Megaworld said it po-sitions the Suntrust Eco-town to be the major hub for world-class light to medium export-orient-ed industries, residential, commercial, and institu-tional establishments in the south.
Of the total 200 hect-ares, 111 hectares will be allotted for industrial projects, particularly ca-tering to export-oriented industries such as elec-tronics, home appliances, computer parts, car as-semblies, fabric and tex-tile goods, food products,
pharmaceuticals, machin-eries, chemicals, and other industrial products.
Another 40 hect-ares will be allocated for project expansions and lifestyle amenities devel-opments like hotel, com-mercial and retail hubs, driving range, mini golf course, putting greens, swimming pool, jogging path, basketball and bad-minton courts, and open parks.
As a real estate devel-oper, Megaworld will allot 50 hectares for residential and other recreational facilities in Suntrust Eco-town.
“Megaworld’s entry
into industrial park de-velopment leads us to an innovative blueprint that will entice more for-eign locators to invest in the Philippines. Suntrust Ecotown is designed to respond to the needs of dynamic export-oriented industries and to exceed their expectations by of-fering lifestyle amenities never seen before in any industrial park,” Mega-world senior vice presi-dent Jericho P. Go said.
Suntrust Properties Inc. president Atty. Harris-son M. Paltongan said the firm eyes to expand the development up to 350 hectares. (PNA)
Megaworld’s P5-billion industrialdevelopment to create 500K jobs PRESIDENT Benigno
Aquino urged Euro-pean businessmen
to invest in the Philip-pines, saying there is a wealth of opportunity for investors to forge new business partnerships in the country.
Speaking at the Con-ference on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Pro-grams for Infrastructure Projects, President Aqui-no told business leaders that the transformation taking place in the Phil-ippines coupled with economic reforms have leveled the playing field for all players, making the country a good invest-ment destination.
“There is indeed a wealth of opportunity in the Philippines, and we hope to forge new part-nerships or even broaden the existing ones in the near future — partner-ships where all parties involved will benefit, and will contribute to the rise of Asia’s next tiger,” he said.
“As it turns out,” the President added, “all in-vestors needed to see was a government dedicated
to integrity and public service. We do not have to look beyond the area of public-private partner-ships in order to see the transformation that has taken place in industry.”
The President said as a result, the world has taken notice of the government’s reform efforts.
From December 2011 to September this year, the Aquino administration was able to award some $3 billion worth of projects under the PPP program.
The President also shared the solid economic achievements of his ad-ministration, including a GDP of 6.3 percent in 2010 as opposed to the 4.3 per-cent recorded from 2006 to 2009.
The GDP growth of the Philippines as of the second quarter of 2014 stands at 6.4 percent, and the government predicts the economy to hit its tar-get of 6.5 percent to po-tentially 7.5 percent GDP growth by the end of the year.
According to the Pres-ident, it has been “a very productive four years.” (PNA)
President Aquino offers ‘wealth ofopportunity’ for European investors
FOOD self-sufficien-cy could be the lasting legacy of
the administration of President Benigno Aqui-no, the Department of Agriculture said yester-day.
In a statement, Ag-riculture Secretary Proceso Alcala, who is
with the President on a week-long official vis-it to Europe, said once attained, “the greatest legacy of the adminis-tration would be food self-sufficiency.”
According to the DA chief, rice and corn self-sufficiency are al-ready within reach due
to record harvests of the two staples last year.
DA records showed that despite the occur-rence of several calam-ities, the Philippines managed to register a record-setting rice har-vest of 18.44 million metric tons in 2013 that achieved 96-percent rice
self-sufficiency for the country.
“Never before had we achieved such a bounti-ful harvest of rice,” Alca-la noted.
Meanwhile, the coun-try is also on the verge of corn self-sufficiency due to timely government in-terventions. (PNA)
ONE in nine people in the world – or more than 800
million – suffer from hun-ger, a UN spokesman said here Tuesday, adding that the number of hungry people has dropped by more than 100 million in the past 10 years and by more than 200 million in the past two decades.
The trend in hunger reduction in developing countries means that the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the proportion of undernour-ished people by 2015 is within reach with the req-uisite political commit-ment, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at a press conference.
The annual report is published jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Program (WFP).
More than 800 million people – or one in every
nine on the planet – suffer from hunger, but a new joint UN agency report released Tuesday stated that the Millennium De-velopment Goals (MDGs) of halving the proportion of undernourished peo-ple by 2015 is still within reach.
MDGs are a set of eight anti-poverty targets to be reached by 2015.
The report confirmed a positive trend, which has seen the number of hungry people decline globally by more than 100 million over the last decade and by more than 200 million since 1990-92.
“China alone has re-duced the number of un-dernourished people by 138 million in this period, while the 10 countries that have achieved great-est success in reducing the total number of hun-gry people in proportion to their national popula-tion are: Armenia, Azer-baijan, Brazil, Cuba, Geor-
gia, Ghana, Kuwait, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Thailand and Venezuela,” FAO said in a press re-lease.
To date, 63 developing countries have reached
the MDGs, and six more are on track to reach it by 2015, said the report.
“This is proof that we can win the war against hunger and should inspire countries to move for-
ward, with the assistance of the international com-munity as needed,” the heads of the three UN food agencies wrote in their foreword to the report.
The report noted that
access to food has im-proved rapidly and sig-nificantly in countries that have experienced eco-nomic progress, notably in Eastern and Southeastern Asia. (PNA/Xinhua)
ANSWER TO HUNGER. Fresh tuna are laid side by side at Sta. Ana Wharf. The United Nations says more than 800 million in the world still suffer from hunger. Lean Daval Jr.
Over 800 million peoplestill hungry: UN report
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COMMUNITY SENSE
DAVAO Light and Power Company ex-tended five electric
posts providing electricity to 15 households at Ba-rangay 76-A Purok 22 in Katunggan and Kabacan, Davao City.
Brgy. 76-A is one of the biggest barangays in Davao City. Unfortunately, not all of its residents have access to electricity. Electric posts are too far from them and residents are not capable of financing extension of poles.
But through the proj-ect Oplan Kahayag, electric poles were installed free-of-charge to lit up the said community.
The project Oplan Ka-hayag is a joint venture between Davao Light and Congressman Karlo Nograles of the 1st Con-gressional District. It aims to provide electricity in areas of urbanized baran-gays which still do not have access to electricity. And more importantly, it aims to avoid illegal tapping of power which is prone to accidents such as fire.
After the necessary installation works were
completed, the barangay council headed by Punong Barangay Rolando Tra-jera initiated a ceremonial switch-on last August 29. Around 100 constituents together with brgy. officials attended the simple cere-mony.
“We are very happy that our barangay was cho-sen to become a beneficia-ry of this project. In behalf of my constituents, I thank the local government and Davao Light for making these all possible.” said Brgy. Captain Trajera.
Congressman Karlo Nograles, Oplan Kahayag Coordinator Allan Linao, and Davao Light’s AVP for Special Projects Rey Caba-lan, Safety Manager Edelito Fernandez, Safety Super-visor Dado Gonzales and Engr. Charlo Deniega were also present to grace the event.
Residents in Purok 12 Brgy. 76-A and in Purok 10 Brgy. Gumalang in Davao City had also been benefi-ciaries of this project. En-ergization of power lines to these areas was made on December 21, 2013 and May 30, 2014, respectively.
Davao Light extends serviceto 15 households at Brgy 76-A
Congressman Karlo B. Nograles (3rd from left) and Davao Light AVP Rey C. Cabalan (4th from left) officially switches on the lights for the community in Purok 22, Katunggan & Kabacan, Brgy. 76-A (Bucana).
WIRELESS leader Smart Commu-nications, Inc.
(Smart) announced the opening of the 11th Smart Wireless Engineering Ed-ucation Program (SWEEP) Innovation and Excellence Awards, incorporating for the first time, a mobile apps competition that is open to all college students nationwide.
With the theme, “Build-ing Cloud-based Commu-nities”, Smart’s SWEEP Awards continues to pro-vide college students with the platform to develop and create innovative mo-bile applications that pro-vide solutions to existing consumer pain points. The SWEEP Awards is the lon-gest-running and biggest technology competition in the country. It is open to college students from SWEEP partner-schools from all over the country.
For this year’s run, Smart is accepting stu-dents from non-SWEEP schools to participate via the open competition on mobile apps development, and compete for the Smart DevNet Innovation Award.
Under this new cate-gory, special awards will be given to teams or stu-dents from SWEEP and
non-SWEEP schools whose entries satisfy the criteria set by the Smart Developer Network (Smart DevNet), the telco’s developer com-munity program targeted at developers on desktop and mobile platforms.
SmartDevNet will be choosing the top five en-tries with up to P250,000 in cash prizes to be given away. The winning mobile apps will also have a path to commercialization. In-terested parties have until November 7 to submit a working mobile app. For more details, visit https://smartdevnetsweepx2014.eventbrite.com and use smartdevnet as password to access the site.
For the 11th SWEEP Awards, Smart will require participating teams from SWEEP partner-schools to develop cloud-based appli-cations that are innovative, community-based, sustain-able, and technology-fo-cused.
Cloud-based apps run on the Web rather than on computer programs. With servers on the Web, everything is done on the Internet, and all files are saved on the “Cloud”. The cloud-based system is more affordable since there is no need to maintain informa-
tion technology infrastruc-ture and hardware, and provides mobile access to data through Internet-capa-ble devices. It helps users deliver more efficient and resourceful work outputs.
Each SWEEP part-ner-school may submit up to 10 entries for the SWEEP Awards. Just like in previ-ous years, entries will go through a rigorous five-step screening process of online registration, project con-cept video presentation, validation, bootcamp, and final judging.
The grand champion will win a cash prize of P500,000, while the sec-ond- and third-placers will win P200,000, and P100,000, respectively. Equivalent amounts in the form of grants will also be given to the schools of the winning teams.
SWEEP is the first-of-its-kind partnership be-tween the industry and the academe that seeks to enhance engineering and IT education in the Philip-pines. For more informa-tion about the 11th SWEEP Awards and the SWEEP Mobile Apps Open Com-petition, click on www.smartsweep.ph and www.smartsweep.ph/open. [END]
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Smart launches 11th SWEEP Awards
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Bad repEDITORIAL
IT is probably no coincidence that the blast in Gen-eral Santos City on Tuesday night happened exact-ly a year after the twin cinema blasts in Davao City.
As Task Force Davao commander Colonel Macairog Al-berto said, the incidents could have been perpetrated by the same group. Aside from sharing the same date of September 16, albeit a year apart, the three blasts were too small to cause any real damage or deaths. Last year’s explosions, which were set off in two mall-based cinemas, injured five people, while Tuesday night’s blast injured nine. Few things are clear in the incidents, but one thing for sure is that those behind were not out to kill anyone. Otherwise they would have placed the bombs in more strategic spots for maximum casualties.
So what was the motive, if not to kill or maim? Ob-viously, it was to create the impression that Mindanao is still a lawless land, its people and facilities easy tar-gets for anyone who has even the slightest grudge and the wherewithal to purchase materials with which to create improvised bombs. It is a tactic that had been
employed to great effect in the past, and in even greater scale: wars have been mounted, conflict instigated, and attacks provoked in order to put Mindanao in a bad light. The Estrada and Arroyo administrations both launched “all-out wars” against rebel groups in Mind-anao, both claiming victory but neither actually win-ning in the long run.
In other words, explosions in Mindanao serve the purpose of diverting attention from the national capi-tal and its many controversies. For too long the island region has been made a convenient attention grab-ber, a newsmaker that instantly takes the attention of the people away from more pressing issue-based problems and onto sensationalized and even over-the-top reportage on supposed conflict in Mindanao. It remains to be seen if this is the case in the Davao and GenSan blasts, but the fact that they were minor serves as a clue. With no real intent to do physical harm, what else could the perpetrators intend but give us a bad rep?
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FAST BACKWARD
As early as the 1620’s, the Dutch in Moluccas wanted the Jesu-its, who were expelled from the
Philippines in 1581, returned to Ma-nila from Ternate via Maguindanao. The intention was acceptable to the congregation but the priests wanted to take the route that would bring them to the east coast of Davao where they had earlier established missions. This insistence would change later when the Jesuits acceded to return to Ma-nila, where they originally came from before their deployment to Manado, Indonesia.
In the late 1630’s Kudarat estab-lished a residence at the riverbanks of Simoay, close to Silongan, his father’s former capital. The location was stra-tegic but mainly because it had Suguru Bay (Polloc Harbor), which provided two vital mechanisms: Its location was good for defense against Spanish in-cursion, and its natural channel effec-tive in controlling inflow and outflow of commerce from Buayan. To promote pleasant relations with neighboring kingdoms, the sultan offered the port for free to traders.
Obviously, this good-natured ges-
ture and the unwritten assurance of protection of the lesser fiefs drew more support for Kudarat and, by ex-tension, more tributes. During this period, the people of Davao Gulf, and the inhabitants of the islands of Sangir and Sarangani, became his tributaries. After the Dutch threat in Manila and Mindanao had subsided, Spanish influ-ence started to expand without Dutch interference.
In 1678, as locusts and drought af-fected the rice supply that was deliv-ered to Moluccas from Mindanao, the
Ternate dispensation, wanting to spare the priests from starvation arising from the shortage of food supply and, in part, due to ecclesiastical differenc-es, once again raised the issue of bring-ing back the Jesuits to the Philippines, asking the traders who delivered wax and rice to give them free boarding. But the merchants found the sugges-tion unacceptable, aware that it could result in trouble given the hostility the Maguindanaoans had towards Spain and Catholicism. This gave the Bat-avia (Jakarta) administration an op-portunity to order Ternate to fan the hatred between the Spaniards and the Maguindanaoans. Somehow, a proxy war was started when Padtbrugge, who originally convinced the king of Kandahar to cede his territories, asked the Maguindanao sultan to dispatch a vessel to Davao inform his tributaries that the lands once owned by the ruler of Davao had already been transferred to the VOC, and that his (sultan’s) role now was as caretaker of the dependen-cies in the name of the Dutch company.
That same year, the Dutch gover-nor in Indonesia privately sent Pieter Tides, a public official in Ternate, as
emissary to Maguindanao; the meet-ing was held on Dec. 2, 1678. Maulano, the brother of Sultan Barahaman who was residing along the Simoay River, openly disclosed his rift with his sib-ling king because of suspicion he was hatching a plan to remove the sultan by enlisting the help of foreigners. He explained that if he wanted to de-throne his brother he could have done it by himself because of his resources. He also warned the envoy not to pro-ceed to Davao because anybody who first dropped by him without paying courtesy call on the sultan would be under suspicion as an accomplice of Maulano, the kapitan laut (admiral of the navy)
The rift between the two brothers was the result of the sultan’s resolve to keep from his younger brother the slaves, artillery, and commodities he seized. Before Tides left Maulano’s turf on February 24, 1679, he was told that if the sultan did not allow him to send a vessel to Moluccas to redeem the debt of the nakoda (captain of the ship) named Jisson, he would leave Si-moay along with his people and trans-fer to either Zamboanga or Davao Gulf.
WHEN God saw the misery of His people in Egypt, He asked Moses to lead them out of the
clutch of Pharaoh. “I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people out of Egypt,” God told Moses.
At first, Moses declined. “Who am I?” he asked. But God insisted, “Lead my people.” And that was what terrified Moses: to lead the people out of Egypt when he never had any experience at all. “A leader,” says Dr. John C. Maxwell, the leading authority on leadership, “is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
Leonard Ravenhill in The Last Days Newsletter shares the story of a group of tourists who were visiting a picturesque village. As they walked by an old man sit-ting beside a fence, one tourist asked in a patronizing way, “Were any great men born in this village?”
The old man looked at the tourist who inquired and told him bluntly: “Nope, only babies.” In other words, leadership is developed, not discovered. The truly “born leader” will always emerge; but, to stay on top, natural leadership char-acteristics must be developed.
So, what are some of the traits that a leader must develop? First and fore-most, he must have a character. A scorpi-on, being a poor swimmer, asked a turtle to carry him on his back across a river. “Are you mad?” exclaimed the turtle. “You’ll sting me while I’m swimming and I’ll drown.”
“My dear turtle,” laughed the scor-pion, “if I were to sting you, you would drown and I would go down with you. Now, where is the logic in that?” The turtle agreed, “You’re right. Hop in.”
The scor-pion climbed aboard and halfway across the river the scorpion gave the turtle a mighty sting. As they both sank to the bottom, the turtle resign-edly said, “Do you mind if I ask you some-thing? You said there’d be no logic in your stinging me. Why did you do it?”
“It has nothing to do with logic,” the drowning scorpion sadly replied. “It’s just my character.”
“Nearly all men can withstand ad-versity. If you truly want to test a man’s character, give him power,” said Abra-ham Lincoln. Character is what you do in the dark, D.L. Moody notes. And “there is no substitute for character,” reminds Robert A. Cook. “You can buy brains, but you cannot buy character.”
Integrity is the second trait a leader must always possess. If what you say and what you do are the same, then you are a man of integrity. As Max Depree points out: “Integrity in all things precedes all else. The open demonstration of integri-ty is essential; followers must be whole-heartedly convinced of their leader’s in-tegrity. For leaders who live a public life, perceptions become a fact of life.”
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with the important matters,” said Albert Ein-stein. The ultimate test of leaders’ cred-
ibility is whether they do what they say. Most politicians are not good leaders because they lack this specific trait of a good leader. After all, what they say is not what they do.
“No one achieves and sustains suc-cess without discipline,” Dr. John C. Max-well once said. And that includes being a leader. As Bertrand Russell puts it, “Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself some-times not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one de-termined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.”
A person may be talented, wealthy, and famous, but without discipline, he is nothing. As author H. Jackson Brown Jr. reiterates, “Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.”
A good leader should also have the ability to influence others. “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority,” Kenneth Blanchard says. John Maxwell himself agrees: “Leader-ship is influence.”
John D. Rockefeller was known for his amazing business success, but he had a greater reputation among those who knew him as being a man who motivated his people. He had a sincere appreciation for others and was willing to accept fail-ure if an honest attempt had been made at success.
When one of his partners, Edward
T. Bedford, failed in a business venture, which cost Rockefeller’s company a mil-lion dollars, Rockefeller responded with a statement that has become classic in business lore. He didn’t criticize Bedford because he knew he had done his best. He did, however, call Bedford to his office.
“I think it is honorable that you were able to salvage 60 percent of the money you invested in the South American ven-ture,” Rockefeller told Bedford. “That’s not bad; in fact, it’s splendid. We don’t al-ways do as well as that upstairs.”
A good leader is also good in mo-tivating others rather than manipu-lating them. In his book, Something to Smile About, author Zig Ziglar gives us a thought-provoking comparison on both words: “Motivation occurs when you per-suade others to take an action in their own best interests. Things such as peo-ple preparing their homework, accepting responsibility for their performance, and finishing their education are the results of motivation.”
On the other hand, “manipulation is persuading others to take an action that is primarily for your benefit,” Ziglar ex-plains. “Things such as selling an inferior product at an inflated price and working people overtime with no extra pay are ex-amples of manipulation.”
Walter Stevenson once pointed out: “If leadership is an art, then leaders are the artists, organizations are the easel, people are the canvas, ideas are the pig-ment, values are the frame, and vision is the thing that’s hung up at the gallery – the final outcome that’s so magical it tempts the audience to forget the messy process by which the result is fashioned, and lures them into a state of awe.”
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Republic of the PhilippinesDepartment of Transportation
and CommunicationsLAND TRANSPORTATION
FRANCHISING AND REGULATORY BOARDRegional Office No. XI
Davao City
Application for a Certificate of Public Convenience to operate aTH FREIGHT TRUCK Service
ROSYDASE MARKETING, INC. Petitioner
Case No.2014-XI-00685
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Applicant requests authori-ty for a Certificate of Public Convenience to operate a TH FREIGHT TRUCK SERVICE for the transportation of freight on the route:WITHIN DAVAO CITY AND FROM SAID PLACE TO ANY POINT IN THE ISLAND OF MIN-DANAO ACCESSIBLE TO MOTOR VEHICLE TRAFFIC AND VICE VERSA with the use of TWO (2) units. NOTICE, is hereby given that this petition will be heard by this Board on OCTOBER 01, 2014 at 9:50 a.m.. at this office at the above address.
At least, TEN (10) days prior to the above date petitioner shall publish this Notice once in a one (1) daily newspaper of general circulation in Mindanao
Parties opposed to the granting of the petition must file their written opposition supported by documentary evidence on or be-fore the above date furnishing a copy of the same to the petition-er, and may if they so, desire ap-pear on said date and time.
This petition will be acted upon by this Board on the basis of its records and the documentary ev-idence submitted by the parties, unless the Board deems it nec-essary to receive additional doc-umentary and/or oral evidence.
WITNESS the Honorable BENJA-MIN A. GO, CESO V, Regional Di-rector, this 3rd day of September 2014 at Davao City.
TERESITA DELA PEÑA-YÑIGUEZChief TransportationDevelopment Officer
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as the one who contracted him to kill King.
Felonia submitted his counter-affidavit on Au-gust 8 and said the con-fession of Labang is only admissible against him
(Labang) and not on his co-accused.
Felonia said the sworn statements of Labang and the dela Cerna brothers are not admissible as evidence against him since there
is no independent evi-dence to prove the exis-tence of any conspiracy between them.
The first arraign-ment of Labang and the dela Cerna brothers is set on October 2
He said the water that will be harvested from the rain will be used for non-potable purposes such as washing vehicles and flushing toilets.
The draft IRR ob-tained by EDGE Davao states that it is the policy of the City Government of Davao “recognizes
the need to promote the proper harvesting, storage, and utilization of rainwater as a viable alternative source of wa-ter supply, primarily for non-potable use.”
The proper harvest-ing, storage, and utiliza-tion of rainwater would reduce the effects of
storm water and surface runoff and siltation and will contribute in the reduction or mitigation of flooding, soil erosion, deposit of silt loads on local roads and rivers, non-point source pollu-tion in urban areas, and improve the quality of surface water. ABF
and mobile patrols,” he said.
He advised the public to be more vigilant and to report to the police any suspicious persons espe-cially in areas like malls and parks.
He also reminded se-curity guards through their agencies to be watchful and stricter in their conduct of personal search on persons enter-ing malls and to utilize the use of canine (K9).
PRO 12 Investigation Division head Senior Su-perintendent Roberto Ba-dian said the Crime Lab-oratory is taking charge of the post-blast investi-gation and the identifica-tion of the type of the IED used.
Superintendent Rolly Octavio, deputy city po-lice director for adminis-
tration of General Santos City, said as of Wednes-day morning, they record-ed a total of nine persons, mostly students, who sus-tained various injuries as a result of the explosion.
Five of the victims – identified as Sarah Ar-quiza, Marlon Fajada, Christian Paul Amimong, Jay Magnanao and Joan Michelle Abranilla – were brought to the St. Eliza-beth Hospital here.
The two other victims identified as James Abreo and Geraldine Ilon were rushed to the City Hospi-tal.
Red Cross rescue per-sonnel treated two per-sons identified as Andy Galapon and Shiela Mag-inda for minor injuries at the blast site.
Octavio said only two of the victims – Amimong
and Magnanao – are still confined at the St. Eliza-beth Hospital while the rest have been so far re-leased.
City Mayor Ronnel Ri-vera, who was on his way to Davao City when the explosion happened and had to rush back to the city, said the local govern-ment will shoulder the hospitalization and other needs of the victims.
The mayor personally inspected the blast site and later visited the vic-tims at the St. Elizabeth Hospital and the City Hos-pital.
The mayor directed city police personnel and other law enforcement units to speed up the in-vestigation of the incident and identify the possible suspects. With reports from MindaNews
ment said.But Octavio said they
could not yet make any conclusion as to the type of explosive that was used in the attack.
“We’re still deter-mining what type of ex-plosive was used and its materials. We don’t want to speculate as to the motive and the identity of the suspects so we’re considering all possible angles,” the police offi-cial said in an interview over television program Magandang Umaga South Central Mindanao.
He said they will con-tinue with the post-blast investigation on Wednes-day morning after it was temporarily suspended late Tuesday due to the rains.
Octavio said person-nel from the Region 12 police’s crime laboratory and members of explo-sives ordnance disposal teams of the city police and the Philippine Army will conduct another sweep of the blast site to locate any shrapnel and other evidences.
He said the result of the blast site investiga-
tion will establish the type of explosive that was used in the attack and if they contain “signatures” of terror groups, he said.
He said after the site investigation, they will proceed with the gath-ering of statements from witnesses, especial-ly those present at the scene of the attack.
He said the city police director, Senior Superin-tendent Froilan Quidilla, also directed investiga-tors to secure footages from closed-circuit tele-vision cameras set up near the site to assist their investigation.
Octavio said as of Wednesday morning, they recorded a total of nine persons, mostly students, who sustained various injuries as a re-sult of the explosion.
Five of the victims – identified as Sarah Ar-quiza, Marlon Fajada, Christian Paul Amimong, Jay Magnanao, and Joan Michelle Abranilla – were brought to the St. Eliza-beth Hospital here.
The two other vic-tims, identified as James Abreo and Geraldine Ilon,
were rushed to the City Hospital.
Red Cross rescue per-sonnel treated two per-sons, identified as Andy Galapon and Shiela Mag-inda, for minor injuries at the blast site.
Octavio said only two of the victims – Amimong and Magnanao – are still confined at the St. Eliza-beth Hospital while the rest have been so far re-leased.
City Mayor Ronnel Ri-vera, who was on his way to Davao City when the explosion happened and had to rush back to the city, said the local gov-ernment will shoulder the hospitalization and other needs of the vic-tims.
The mayor personally inspected the blast site and later visited the vic-tims at the St. Elizabeth Hospital and the City Hospital.
The mayor direct-ed city police personnel and other law enforce-ment units to speed up the investigation of the incident and identify the possible suspects. (Min-daNews)
the matter.“I told them to look
for witnesses. If there are witnesses who will not cooperate, sue them for obstruction of justice,” Quitain said.
In a separate inter-view, CLO spokesperson lawyer Enrique Junior Bonocan said that they will file cases against per-sons who do not cooper-ate with the CLO.
Bonocan said that they are now gathering infor-mation that could lead them to some prospective witnesses who could help in the filing of the case.
He said his office is
also trying to find the person who had inserted an anonymous letter in the windshield of an ABS-CBN Davao news team ve-hicle.
The anonymous letter pointed to a certain doc-tor in the city as the one who buried the sacks of medical wastes such as needles, used vials, bot-tles of dextrose, and sy-ringes.
Bonocan said they are gathering concrete evi-dence and testimonies that could pin down the suspect.He said they are still determining the peo-ple who have knowledge
of the incident.Bonocan that they will
solve the case as soon as possible because Mayor Rodrigo Duterte is deter-mined to charge the per-son behind the disposal of medical wastes.
In an earlier interview with a local television station, the doctor said the burying of medical wastes was part of an ex-periment to see if the ma-terials could help mitigate the impact of calamities in the area.
The mayor, however, said the experiment was “reckless and thought-less.”
mally three rebel surren-derees who yielded to the government troops.
“It is even better for us, because life is valu-able, and because the government’s program is to win the peace through cooperation towards de-velopment. Our role at this stage is to exert the pressure, both military
and social, for them to abandon the armed strug-gle, but for those who re-fuse the proposal and still want to deceive people into taking up arms, we will commit all our forces to go after them,”Ano said.
Among the three rebels killed only Amel-ita Oyla of Sitio Tagpu-puot, Barangay Florida,
Kapalong, Davao del Norte was been identi-fied, while the two oth-ers remained unclaimed. (PIA 11-Joey Sem G. Da-lumpines)
nue Code.Her troubles started
when she was grilled by councilors over the use of the name “Ka-dayawan” in the event. Things escalated quick-ly, with Dalisay even-tually calling council-ors “hypocrites” on her Facebook wall.
An irate vice mayor then called Dalisay’s at-tention and asked her to talk in front of the coun-cilors last July 17.
The vice mayor said there violations of some city ordinances com-mitted during Dalisay’s Carte Blanche held in November 2013 and Liberalia in March 2014 that were both held at Davao Crocodile Park concert Ground and were attended by more than 10,000 partygoers.
Among the violations were on the city ordi-nance on smoking and the liquor ban. Duterte said there were unver-ified reports of selling and distribution of ille-gal drugs inside the ven-
ue of the event.Duterte also cited
other violations, includ-ing “no performance bond posted, no ap-proved special mayor’s permit (since the permit was only complied after payment of tax only), and no tickets regis-tered at central office” on the Carte Blanche event.”
Alcoholic drinks were served to minors, and violated the wom-en’s code by “holding lewd dances by scantily clad girls,” the vice may-or also said.
Dalisay denied all the allegations, but Duterte, who was acting may-or at the time, decided to revoke her business permit.
Mayor Rodrigo Dute-rte, for his part, said Dalisay could apply for another permit under a different business name.
Yesterday’s post, however, indicated that Dalisay was able to re-gain her old business permit. CRC
Harbor Ferries and Port Services Inc., operator of Maharlika 4 whose sister ferry Maharlika 2 sank off Pintuyan, Southern Leyte on Saturday.
Rescue and search teams have so far recov-ered eight dead bodies of passengers of Maharlika 2. An undetermined number of passengers
remained missing.At least 110 crew
members and passen-gers had been rescued as of 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, according to Captain Jo-seph Coyme, deputy dis-trict commander of the Philippine Coast Guard in Northern Mindanao. (Roel N. Catoto/MindaN-ews)
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FISH contributes ani-mal protein to the hu-man diet. Generally,
fish protein is recognized as a valuable ingredient in a balanced diet. Where staple foods are available, a small quantity of fish can contribute significantly to increasing consumption by improving the overall palatability of the food.
In most of the develop-ing countries, fish makes up 19 percent of the total animal protein consump-tion, notes the UN Food and Agricultural Organi-zation. “This is over 4 per-cent of protein from both animal and plant origin,” it adds.
In recent years, more and more people are eat-ing fish. In fact, most in-dustrialized countries are now eating fish. It is no longer considered a poor man’s source of meat. To health conscious people, fish is the best alternative to pork, chicken, and other meats.
That’s the reason the oceans are no longer teeming with fish. “Before World War II, the world’s oceans were filled with fish to the point that nets would often rip due to too many fish,” notes Darrell D. Blatchley in an article he wrote for a local daily.
But thanks to freez-er units and manufac-tured ice, the whole fish-ing industry completely changed. “For now, boats could stay out longer and keep more fish, creating larger boats and larger
catches,” Blatchley points out. “And yet, as the years have gone by, the fish catch numbers and sizes have continued to drop.”
“Like the other vital resources such as forests, Philippine fisheries are about to collapse – a vic-tim of the almost unabated plunder of the commons,” says Roy C. Alimoane, the director of the Mindanao Baptist Rural Life Center (MBRLC).
As defined, the com-mons encompasses unoc-cupied land and all waters which are considered a God-given set of resources for the people to consume as much as needed.
But these resources ap-pear to have been abused to the point of exhaustion. Despite the country’s vast marine resources – 220 million hectares of coastal and oceanic territorial wa-ter area – the Philippines is now experiencing a shortfall in fish supply.
Take the case of the Davao Gulf, a key biodiver-sity area in the country. It is listed as one of the bio-diversity hotspots in the world, according to the re-gional office of the Bureau
of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR).
BFAR, a line agency of the Department of Ag-riculture, reported that Davao Gulf is the feeding ground for 11 species of cetaceans, which in-clude sperm whales, killer whales, and bottle-nose dolphins. Not only that, it also serves as the nursing ground for endangered marine turtles.
In 2012, a study done by the regional office of the Department of Science and Technology found that there has been a decline in fish catch in the Davao Gulf from 2000 to 2010. Based on the study, the BFAR im-plemented a closed fishing season from June 27to Au-gust 31 this year. The main objectives: to conserve marine resources and to secure the spawning peri-od of pelagic fishes in the gulf.
The problem is noth-ing new. I had been report-ing on it since the 1990s, although not specifically on Davao Gulf. Decline of fish catch was common in many parts of the country. And to think that fish pro-vides more than half of the
pro-tein requirements of most Filipinos.
“Our fishery resourc-es are beset with prob-lems,” a BFAR official told me in 1996. Fishery re-sources refers to inland (lakes, rivers, freshwater swamps, and fishponds), coastal, and offshore wa-ters.
The official enumer-ated several factors in the fisheries decline. But he singled out overex-ploitation as the primary culprit. Oceans are glob-al common property re-sources, open, with few limitations to all takers.
Although fish stocks are a renewable resource, many of them are strained to the limit, the BFAR offi-cial said. “Over the years, they have suffered from a widespread notion that the seas are inexhaustible and economic pressures that have encourage over-exploitation,” he added.
If we have to save the remaining fish in the oceans, Blatchley made this recommendation: “We should make a dras-
tic change in the way we view the ocean – not as an endless supply of fish but as a garden needing protection. It would take 3-5 years at least to undo the damage that has been done. That would be 3-5 years of no small-scale or large-scale fishing.”
The destruction of coral reefs and the de-nudation of mangroves have further obfuscated the problem. “If only the degraded 38,000 hect-ares of mangroves and 2,000,000 hectares of coral reefs were intact, an estimated 960,000 tons of fish could be produced each year,” a marine sci-ence professor disclosed in the late 1990s.
In the case of Davao Gulf, among those cited as the reasons for de-pleting fish catch are as follows: water pollution, destroyed fishing habitat, diminishing seagrasses, conversion of mangrove planting areas to recre-ational resorts, and poor fishing practices in the fish sites.
W h a t the BFAR failed to in-clude is climate change. “The level of impact var-ies widely and depends on the attributes of the fish species as well as on their regional specificity,” said the first assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Changes in ocean cir-culation, the UN-spon-sored body explained, may lead to the loss of certain populations or the establishment of new ones.
“Many of the changes will be very unpredict-able,” notes Panos Insti-tute, an international re-search and information organization. “They will depend on local changes in climate and ocean cur-rents.”
The matter of dimin-ishing fish catch is not unique to the Philippines. Newsweek, in a cover story some years ago, declared: “The oceans are awash with too many fishing vessels, and the result is big trouble for fish and fishermen.”
“Like the other vital resources such as forests, Philippine fisheries are about to collapse – a victim of the al-most unabated plunder of the com-mons.” – Roy C. Alimoane, director of the Mindanao Baptist Rural Life Center (MBRLC)
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TRADITIONALLY celebrated every fif-teenth day of the eigth lunar month, the Autumn Moon Festival is the second larg-est celebration in Chinese communities worldwide. This year’s celebration fell on September 8 and Marco Polo Davao’s Lotus Court heaped songs and dances paired with a splendid Cantonese buffet.
Of mooncake celebrations The sumptuous spread conceptualised by Marco Polo Davao’s Executive Sous Chef Victor Baran-gan included Chinese fa-vourites such as Yin Yang
Garoupa, Roast Suckling Pig, Peking Duck, Bud-dha Jumps Over the Fence Soup, Eight Treasure Chicken, Braised Pork Knuckle, Lohan Chai, and
legio de San Ignacio, sang “Mother’s Hand” in fluent Mandarin. To cap off the celebrations, a Sword and Fan Dance was performed by select fourth year boys and girls. Dessert was served immediately after and it featured Lotus Court’s famous Dark Chocolate Bucchi, and Chef Victor’s new concoction, Choco-late Ganache-covered Mooncake. The chocolate added more richness to the mooncake which was stuffed full of nuts and beans, a rich and filling ending to a wonderful Mid-Autumn meal. Follow me at @ken-nethkingong on Instagram or Twitter for more travel tips, foodie finds, and hap-penings in, around, and beyond Durianburg.
Stir-fried Crab. And what is a Chinese festival without Chinese songs and dances? Entertainment was provided courtesy of Col-legio de San Ignacio’s sudents who performed a dance inspired by the Yuan Dynasty and their eating utensils as well as a tribal dance by the Ai Lao Tribe of Yunnan Prov-ince. Gwyneth Bacalan-mo, also a student of Col-
Marco Polo Davao’s General Manager Anthony Tan and Director of Sales Pamela Villegas.
Chocolate covered mooncake.
Eight treasure chicken. Peking Duck.
Marco Polo Davao’s Executive Sous Chef Victor Barangan.
Students of Collegio de San Ignacio perform a Yuan Dynasty dance.
Yin Yang Garupa.
Lotus Court’s Captain Waiter Rogelio Canales, F&B Manager Patrick Capili, Media Communications Officer Patty Tan, and Captain Waiter Archie Canete.
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THE Davao auditions for the second season of the hit TV game show for kids and moms on GMA, Ready Set Laban!, is set on September 21 at the SM City Davao. If you and your kids aged 4 years old and above, are up for the challenge to undergo fun and exciting activities, then you might be the contenders for the show by GMA and Bonakid Pre-School. The show’s second season starts airing on October 5. Set to be the country’s first and most fun-filled game show for kids and their mothers, Ready Set La-ban will be hosted by Drew Arellano along with celeb-rity mommy co-hosts: Julia Clarete, Ruby Rodriguez, Nina Ricci Alagao, and Donita Rose. “The show is one of a kind in the Philippines, and as a milk brand committed to help raise strong and re-silient children, we’re very honored to be a part of it,” says Claudine Serrano, Product Manager of Bonakid Pre-School. With al-most one m i l l i o n worth of prizes up for grabs, Ready Set Laban is l o o k i n g for mom and kid t a n d e m s to join in the game show that is set to air on GMA this coming October 5. The mall auditions will be held on the following dates: September 14 at Glorietta, September 21 at SM Davao, and September 28 at Ayala Terraces Cebu. Interested mom and kid tandems must present a proof of purchase of Bonakid Pre-School upon regis-tration. For more information about Bonakid Preschool and Ready Set Laban Season 2, please visit www.facebook.com/BonakidPreSchoolPH or www. gmanetwork.com/promos/readysetlaban
Davao auditions for GMA kids show Ready Set Laban! set
SMART PREPAID leveled up the color-ful Kadayawan Fes-tival as it offered the ‘Live All Out’ expe-rience to thousands of Dabawenyos cel-ebrating the region’s rich harvest and cul-ture. Derived from ‘Maday-aw,’ a local term for a warm greeting, the Kadayawan Festival is a week-long fes-tivity that features a wide range of cultural events like concerts, a fluvial pa-rade, lively street dance competitions, and a grand showcase of the Davao re-gion’s products. To heat up this year’s celebrations, Smart Pre-paid’s “Live All Out” backed the first Kaday-awan Invasion, an all-night outdoor rave party at the Crocodile Park where over 7,000 people enjoyed a spectacular light show with upbeat live perfor-mances by top-notch DJs like DJ Jom, Inno Naguit, Gino V, Julio R, Jet Boado, MC Pao and MC RDS un-til the break of dawn. Aside from getting ex-clusive perks at the Ka-
dayawan Invasion, Smart Prepaid subscribers also enjoyed three-night VIP passes and freebies at the Harv-Fest at the Auto-Shop compound during the festival. Smart also backed this year’s Hiyas ng Kaday-awan, Davao’s annual pageant for ladies repre-senting indigenous tribes. Smart awarded the Tex-ter’s Choice to Bai Azy-elah Latip of the Magu-indanao Tribe, while Ata Tribe’s Susan Batawan was crowned this year’s
winner. M e a n w h i l e , Sta. Ana Nation-al High School, a Smart-spon-sored contingent, bagged the third place in this year’s ‘Indak-Indak sa Kadalanan,” the much-anticipated colorful street dance competition in the festival. As the country’s leading mobile services provider, Smart intensified its mobile and data coverage in the region so everyone could have an easier time sharing the joys of Kadawayan Festi-val to the world through Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, among others. As such, Kadayawan 2014 became a trending topic in various social media sites throughout the celebra-tion. Prior to the Kadayawan Festival, Smart Prepaid “Live All Out” graced the celebrations in Bohol’s
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Alden Richards tries hosting skills on GMA’s new reality show Bet ng BayanAFTER playing smart and loving Yago Tor-res on GMA’s original series Carmela: Ang Pinak amagandang Babae sa Mundong Ibabaw opposite Pri-metime Queen Marian Rivera early this year, Kapuso prime leading man Alden Richards has spent the last cou-ple of months travel-ling across the country, helping the Network search and highlight homegrown talents via the newest reality tal-ent search Bet ng Bay-an. Alden personally considers this experience a humbling one as he gets to fully empa-thize with the aspirants’ lives. “It keeps me grounded know-ing the stories of the lives of the people who are audition-ing. Ang sarap ding makarinig ng words of wisdom galing sa mga contestant dahil nalala-man mo how passionate they really are with what they’re doing,” he shares. But aside from Bet ng Bay-an, also keeping the 21-year-old actor busy these days are tapings for GMA Network’s first primetime bayaniserye Il-ustrado, wherein he portrays the role of no less than the country’s National Hero, Dr. Jose Rizal. Read on as Alden talks about his latest projects, his take on the creative side of show business, and how as a celebrity, he makes an effort to become someone view-ers can look up to and at the same time stay reachable.
Q: Can you share with us how you became an actor? Have you always dreamt of joining show business?A: Before I started in this in-dustry, I joined two pageants in Laguna. Afterwards, I did a few commercials and then made some appearances in print. My mom wanted this for me and not me naman, pero as time went by, I have learned to like it and love it as well. Tapos nag-audition ako sa StarStruck, until top 60 lang ako then I got eliminat-ed. So medyo na-disappoint po ako noon that’s why I went back to school na lang. Then after two or three weeks, they called me and pinag-audition po nila ako for Alakdana. So it was a matter of choosing be-tween school and showbiz. ‘Yung subject na a-attend-an ko sa school that day was a PE class at isang absent na lang, the professor would fail me already. And then there was
showbiz na very uncertain, hindi ka naman sigurado da-hil mamaya pupunta ka tapos wala naman pala. But I still chose to do the audition, so after that, nakuha naman ako, then sunud-sunod na po siya. Q: What were you taking up back then?A: Business Management major in Operations at La Salle, Canlubang. Actually, I originally wanted to become a pilot kaya lang mahal ma-syado and we can’t afford the schooling for Aeronautics. Since nasa line of managers naman po ‘yung sa father side ko, in-encourage na rin nila ako kaya Business Man-agement ang kinuha ko. Pero
it’s a half-hearted decision for me, taking the course. Unfortunately now, I don’t have much time to continue my studies but I really want to pursue it. But actually, ev-erything changed na, from wanting to be a pilot since I entered showbiz, I want now to be more on the creative side of show business like a creative director, medyo na-i-incline na ako sa ganoong interest. Q: Let’s talk about your new show, Bet ng Bayan. We know for a fact that this is your first hosting stint, how is it so far?A: It’s my first time hosting and I’m gonna be work-
tin. Meron kaming tatlong categories—may kantahan, may sayawan, at saka ka-kaibang talento. Q: Of all the acting genres, which is your favorite?A: Drama po talaga. Drama with a little bit of everything if possible. Drama with ac-tion, drama with romance, drama with comedy, ‘yung very dynamic at hindi ‘yung one-sided na kapag sinabing
drama, puro iyak ka lang. Q: Until when do you see yourself being a Kapuso?A: I’m very much at home with GMA. I’m saying this coming from the projects na binigay nila sa akin, and the way they take care of me. They take care of my career in all ways possible and they make sure that I get good projects talaga. Very thankful ako sa kanila.
ing with the Asia’s Songbird Regine Velasquez-Alcasid, so siyempre it’s not a joke, it’s a big deal for me. Ang hirap kasi the way the manage-ment presented this project to me, na they wanted me to be a host na someone to look up to pero reachable. May mga ganoong pres-sure pero nakakatuwa kasi parang as I go along, I enjoy hosting Bet ng Bayan since we did our first auditions in Cebu two months ago. The provincial showdown, which is currently happening at this point in time, is a step higher po than the auditions. Doon po sa mga nag-audition, we hand pick the ones who are qualified and pinagba-battle namin sila to see who would make it to the regional finals. Q: What is it about host-ing this show that you like best?A: The thing about hosting Bet ng Bayan is that it keeps me grounded knowing the stories of the lives of the people who are audition-ing. Parang it makes me real-ize that “I’m still lucky I have this,” na what I have now are blessings which most of our kababayans lack. Ang sarap ding makarinig ng words of wisdom galing sa mga con-testant dahil nalalaman mo how passionate they really are with what they’re doing. For instance, in the provincial showdown that happened in Iligan, there was a balut ven-dor na sobrang ganda ng bo-ses pero unfortunately hindi po siya nakuha. Pero ‘yung story ng buhay niya, na-aban-don siya ng father at a very young age, namatay kasi, and he was the one who needed to become mature for his siblings and mother, naging breadwinner siya. I know how it feels kasi to start with noth-ing. We’re not rich, my family, ‘yung life namin talaga before was, it’s not even well-off, it’s somehow poor talaga, we were just getting by. I know how it feels, so I empathize with them. Q: How different is Bet ng Bayan from the other real-ity-talent shows?A: Ito ang pambansang re-ality-talent search, umiikot kami. Ang difference nito sa mga reality search na nagawa sa TV, kami ang lumalapit ng audition, kami ang nagdadala ng venue, kami ang nagda-dala ng lahat para makapag-audition ang lahat ng mga tao na hindi makapunta ng Maynila. Nilalapit namin ang show sa mga kababayan na-
FILIPINOS as we are, we love the many flavours in our mouth. From simple salt and pepper to the most extravagant of caviars, we take pride and pleasure in igniting our senses whenever we eat. Nevertheless, satisfying our palates does not necessary mean going extravagant and out of budget.
Let me take you on whimsical and gastro-nomically satisfying ride into the world of sauces that could transform even our most bland biscuits to one of Parisian excellence. One more thing, you can always buy mason jars to use for your sauces. Keep it sealed and in the refrig-erator and you will never have to worry anymore!
Barbecue SauceIn a pan, combine 2 cups of tomato ketchup, ¼ cup vinegar, ¼ cup Worcester-shire sauce, ¼ cup brown sugar,2 tablespoons mus-tard, 1 tablespoon hot sauce, ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper and slowly bring to a simmer. Stir. Reduce to about half and cool before apply-ing to the meat. Keep in container and refriger-ate. Will last for several months.
Garlic Sauce
leaves, parmesan cheese, nuts (I love PILI nuts for my pesto), garlic and olive oil. Drizzle the rich sauce over your grilled chicken, pasta noodles or veggies! Keep remaining pesto in airtight container – also best for dips!
Peanut SauceHot off the grill chicken wings or satay, it’s never complete with this sauce. In a dry bowl, mix 5 tablespoon chunky pea-nut butter (you can use any variant you want), 3 tablespoon tepid water, 2 tablespoon vinegar, 1 ½
tablespoon dark soy sauce and 3 teaspoon white sugar. Mix well until well incorporated. Drizzle over grilled chicken, fish or beef.
Horseradish Cream SauceIn a bowl, whisk ½ cup all purpose cream until thick. Fold in ½ cup sour cream (you can also use plain yoghurt), ½ cup horseradish (malunggay), 2 tablespoons green on-ions, 1tablespoon lemon juice, zest of lemon, salt and pepper. Mix well. Transfer to container. Best
for meats and bread.
Butter SauceIn a pan over low-medi-um heat, sauté shallots in white wine. Whisk in lemon juice, all-purpose cream and, unsalted but-ter (you can use salted butter if you want). I usu-ally chill the butter sauce and top roasted vegetables with it. This is also good for pasta dishes.
Chimichurri SauceAlways been a fan of Chi-michuri. For this recipe, you will need the service of
your blender or food pro-cessor if you have. Dump fresh parsley leaves, fresh cilantro leaves, oregano leaves. ¼ cup vinegar, 8 cloves garlic, ½ cup evoo, salt, and pepper to taste. Pulse mixture. Add addi-tional evoo and water to achieve consistency.
Make #TheRoyalChef your Thursday habit! Email me at [email protected] (subject: Roy-alChef) or tag me on ins-tagram (@herroyalheiress) for your delicious pics and food finds!
Going ‘sosy’ for SAUCEThis is my ultimate go to whenever I have friends over. I keep some bottled garlic sauce handy to vamp any meal. In a bowl, combine plain yoghurt, sour cream, garlic paste, garlic powder, lemon juice, lemon zest and salt and pepper. Stir, taste and season accordingly. As I am a lover of paratha and chapati, I make this as my go-to dip!
Pesto Add an appetizing Ital-ian flair to your dinner! Grab some fresh basil
Pesto
Garlic sauce.
Chimichurri.
Barbecue sauce.
Butter sauce.
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A man walks by advertisement displays of the official balls for 2014 Incheon Asian Games at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee in Incheon
FACTBOX (Part 1 of a series):Here’s the factbox on the sports events at the
2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea from Sep-tember 9-October 4:
AQUATICSSWIMMING - The swimming events will take
place at the Munhak Park Tae-hwan Aquatics Center, named after South Korea’s 2008 Olympic 400 metres freestyle champion, over five days from Sept. 21-26.
There will be a total of 38 gold medals on offer – 19 each for men and women.
China have dominated swimming at recent Asian Games and have a powerful squad led by Olympic champions Sun Yang, Ye Shiwen and Jiao Liuyang.
Japan also have a strong team, winning seven golds at the recent Pan Pacific championships. Park, who won three gold medals at the last Games, will spearhead the home team.
DIVING - Diving will also take place at Munhak Park Tae-hwan Aquatics Center from Sept. 29-Oct. 3. There are 10 golds on offer. China has won every gold since they started competing at the Asian Games in 1974.
SYNCHRONISED SWIMMING - Also scheduled to take place at the Munhak Park Tae-hwan Aquat-ics Center, from Sept. 20-23. There are three golds at stake.
WATER POLO - Water polo will take place at the Dream Park Aquatics Centre. There are seven teams in the men’s event, where Kazakhstan are defending champions, and six in the women’s, where China are looking for back-to-back triumphs.
- -ATHLETICS
The athletics events take place at the Incheon Asi-ad Main Stadium over seven days. There will be a to-tal of 47 golds on offer, 24 for men and 23 for women, who do not compete in 50km walk.
China, who have world class quality in the field events and race-walking, will again be expected to take home the most medals, while Qatar’s world in-door high jump champion Mutaz Essa Barshim is the standout athlete taking part.
There will also be plenty of eyes on Japanese teen-ager Yoshihide Kiryu, who has a 100 metres personal best of 10.01 seconds, in the blue riband sprint.
- -ARCHERY
In addition to the Olympic style recurve competi-tion, the Asian Games will also feature a compound archery tournament for the first time.
The compound bow differs from its recurve equiv-alent in that it incorporates a lever system that uses pulleys and cables to help draw back the limbs, mak-ing the process of drawing and aiming less strenuous.
The competition will take place at the Gyeyang Asiad Archery Field from Sept. 23-28 with a total of eight golds on offer.
South Korea are the leading lights of recurve, with 2012 Olympic champion Oh Jin-hyek and world num-ber one Lee Seung-yun headlining the men’s team, while Jung Dasomi, ranked number two in the world, spearheads a strong women’s team.
South Korea have won 33 of the 44 archery golds awarded since the sport was officially included at the 1978 Bangkok Games, with Japan a distant second with seven.
- -BADMINTON
Badminton promises to be one of the highest quality events with the region providing a majority of the world’s best players.
Taking place over 10 days at the Gyeyang Gym-nasium, badminton offers seven gold medals in total with three each for men’s and women’s events as well as the mixed doubles.
Global powerhouse China has won 36 of the 90 golds awarded in Asian Games history, ahead of Indo-nesia (24) and South Korea (15), although India and Malaysia will be sending strong teams this time in the hope of gatecrashing the party.
ASIAN GAMES OPENING. Philippines’ chef de mission Richie Garcia (extreme right) join other leaders of the participating countries in the 2014 Incheon Asian Games in South Korea. The Games formally open today.
NO more than 20 ath-letes and an equal number of team
officials will comprise a tiny segment of Philippine representation that will be joining the opening day parade of the 17th Asian Games on Friday at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadi-um.
This is because while delegations representing the 40 plus member coun-tries of the Olympic Coun-cil of Asia have been ar-riving at the Games site as early as last week, the Phil-ippine contingent had just started flying to the host city only last Monday. As of Tuesday, only nine athletes representing windsurfing, shooting and rowing had flown to Incheon accompa-nied by five team officials Monday.
The bulk of the 150-man PH contingent Filipi-no, in fact, will start flying to South Korea today when 16 athletes and 10 officials, representing Judo, weight-lifting, wushu, fencing and tennis will be joining the early arrivals to be with
the advance party, headed by Philippine Sports Com-mission chair and chef de mission Richie Garcia who had been in the host city as early as last week.
Philippine Olympic Committee president and delegation head Jose “Pe-ping” Cojuangco and oth-er delegation officials will be leaving for Incheon no later than Saturday a day after celebrating his 80th birthday, which falls on the Games opening day.
The basketball team, which could have joined the opening day March will also be arriving in Incheon on Saturday along with the main bulk of 46 athletes and 20 team officials.
Heading today’s de-partures are the strong wushu contingents made up of medal prospects Daniel Parantac, Clemento Tabugara Jr., Jean Claude Saclag, Francisco Solis and Evita Elise Zamora, who will be accompanied by team officials Tong Quing-hai, Ma qing, Mark Robert Rlosales, Liangyi Hong and Jimmy Ong.
Also leaving are tennis aces Ruben Gonzales Jr., Conrad Treat Huey, Patrick John Tierro, Katharina Me-lissa Lehnert and Denise Dy and team officials Chris Cuarto and Czarina Mae Arevalo; fencers Nathaniel Perez and Wilfred Richard Curioso and coach Ven-erando Garcia; lone lifter Nestor Colonia and coach Gregorio Colonia; and ju-doka Gilbert Ramirez.
The three-tanker swimming team –Jessie King Lacuna, Joshua Hall and Jasmine Alkhaide ac-companied by coach Jen-nifer Buffin will follow Thursday along with gym-nast Reyland Capellan and Japanese coach Kugiyama Munehiro and basketball utility Arnolfo Bermeo. Geylord Coveta, who was recently designated as the national delegation’s flag-bearer in the pageant-ry-filled opening ceremony on Saturday flew earlier last Monday along with windsurfing teammate John Jarold Madrigal and coaches German Paz and Jeoffrey John Wooley.
Shooters Eric Ang and Hagen Alexander Topacio and armorer Mario Da-salla and rowers Roque Abala jr., Alvin Ampoasta, Nestor Cordova, Edgar Ilas and Benjamin Tolentino Jr. Along with team officials Benjamin Ramos Jr. And Edgardo Maerina rounded out the early birds Incheon making up a tiny segment of the Philippine dele-gation that will join the march past.
Also leaving Satur-day are teams in archery, bowling, softball, triath-lon and sailing with the boxing squad to follow on September 21. The Eques-triennes, golfers will fly September 23, while teams in canoe-kayak, cycling, wrestling and athletics on September 24.
The last to leave are the teams in soft tennis on Sep-tember 26 and taekwondo and rugby on September 27. Action in the 36-sports, 439-event conclave among the best in the region opens September 21 in water sports sailing and windsurfing.
TAIPEI – Davao’s Antonio “Onyot” Lascuna settled for
third place after Thailand’s Prom Meesawat came from behind to grab the title at the Yeangder Tournament Players Championship Sunday with a total of 277, beating overnight leader Miguel Tabuena of the Philippines on the second extra hole.
The Filipino veteran international shotmaker settled for third, one shot from joining the play-off following a 69. Rookie Paul Peterson (69) of the United States, Daniel Chopra (72) of Sweden and India’s Anirban Lahiri (73) finished tied for fourth on 280.
Tabuena was close to winning his first Asian Tour title after leading the tournament going into the final 18 holes.
The championship, with prize money of $90,000, was Prom’s second Asian Tour victory since 2006 when he captured a title in South Korea.
“I’ve been waiting for this win for a long time. I am really glad I made it,” he said at the Linkou International Golf and Country Club.
“Hopefully I won’t have to wait another eight years to win again. I will be aiming for a third win now and try to boost my ranking on the Order of Merit.”
Nicknamed the Big Dolphin due to his burly physique, Prom forced extra time when he birdied the last hole for a three-under-par 69 to tie with overnight leader Tabuena (71) in regulation play on 11-under-par 277.
After shooting matching pars on the first play-off hole, Prom needed three shots to safely find the par-five 18th green before sealing the win with a two-putt par as Tabuena narrowly missed his par putt.
Tabuena, 19, was disappointed to drop a crucial shot on 17 after bouncing back from two early bogeys with four birdies on holes nine, 12, 13 and 16 which had put him in the title mix.
“I want to thank God for keeping me calm out there. I really fought hard and gave myself a good chance to win. In the end, Prom turned out to be the better player,” Tabuena said in comments supplied by the organizers.
Asian TPC: Onyot finishes 3rd
Davao’s Antonio “Onyot” Las-cuna tees off at the Yeangder Tournament Players Champi-onship in Taipei.
BEAVERTON, Ore. -- LeBron James had some business to
take care before rejoining the Cleveland Cavaliers for training camp.
He was at Nike’s cor-porate headquarters Tuesday for the unveiling of his new shoe, the LeB-ron 12. It is his first new shoe with Nike since he returned this summer to the Cavs.
“I would like this shoe,” he joked. “But I love it because it has my name and logo on it.”
The rollout comes less than two weeks before the four-time league MVP reports to training camp. The Cavs open the season
on Oct. 30 at home against the New York Knicks.
The shoe, his 12th since signing with Nike as a rookie out of high school in 2003, features multi-colored hexagonal cush-ions on the soles. It retails for $200, and versions of it will start hitting stores next month.
The NBA superstar, who started his career in Cleveland and led the Mi-ami to two NBA titles, re-signed as a free agent with the Cavaliers in July. His new $41 million contract includes an option after one year, but he said last month that he planned to finish his career with the Cavs.
WITH restricted free agent Paul Lee expressing
an interest in staying with mother club Rain or Shine, his coach Yeng Guiao is fi-nally able to think about the formation of the team for the upcoming PBA sea-son.
Guiao told Inter-Aksyon.com that as soon as the team is able to sign the Philippine national
men’s basketball team member to a contract, they will begin to study which moves will be nec-essary for the guard-heavy Elasto Painters to balance out their roster although he made it clear that Lee isn’t likely to be among those traded.
“Hindi siya kasama because ayaw kong pahi-nain yung guard lineup natin dahil OK na siya,” the
coach said.“We have a very stabi-
lized backcourt once we have Paul in the lineup.”
Rain or Shine prepared for the possibility of los-ing their backcourt star by stocking up on guards in the 2014 PBA Rookie Draft.
They selected amateur standout and Gilas Pilipi-nas cadet team member Kevin Alas as the second
overall pick and nabbed Jericho Cruz at No. 9 to join a rotation that already includes Lee, Chris Tiu, Jonathan Uyloan, TY Tang and even Gabe Norwood, who steps into the point guard role on occasion.
“Once we have Paul, we really have to study who among the guards will have to be used as trade bait or which of them will be moved out,” Guiao said.
“FIGHTER of the Decade” Manny Pacquiao has
begun light training for his WBO welterweight ti-tle defense against unde-feated light welterweight champion Chris Algieri and is reportedly “excited” to get back into the gym.
Longtime friend and Filipino trainer “Buboy” Fernandez told Philbox-ing.com from the Pacman Gym in General Santos City that the eight divi-sion world champion did
five rounds on the punch-mitts, worked one round on the speed ball, skipped rope and did some shad-ow boxing on his second day of training for his No-vember 22 showdown with Algieri.
Fernandez said not only was Pacquiao excited but he also looked con-tented and happy.
Pacquiao’s training regimen is expected to pick-up when celebrated trainer Freddie Roach ar-rives on October 6.
In the meantime, Fer-nandez said he watched Algieri’s fight against Pac-quiao;s former sparring partner Ruslan Provod-nikov from whom he wom the title dispute being dropped in the opening round and having his right eye closed shut from the eighth round onwards.
The trainer said Pac-quiao “can’t underesti-mate Algieri” whom he de-scribed as “a good fighter” and someone who moves well besides enjoying a
height and reach advan-tage.
Talking about a possi-ble megabuck fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr, Fer-nandez said from what he saw in the unanimous twelve round decision win over Marcos Maidana, Pac-quiao would surely beat the undefeated American who is No. 1 in the pound for pound rankings.
Fernandez said he hopes the fight will hap-pen “so we can find out who is the better fighter.”
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AFTER losing nat-uralized NBA star Andray Blatche,
the Philippines’ woes are not yet over.
In a strange turn of events, the Philippines will be bracketed with reigning FIBA Asia cham-pion Iran in men’s bas-ketball in the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. That means, the region’s top two teams based on recent rankings are bunched in one group.
No thanks to the or-ganizers’ decision to use the last Asian Games rankings as basis for the groupings this year. China is the defending champion of the Games last held in Guangzhou and will be ranked no. 1, followed by host Korea as no. 2, Iran as no. 3, Japan as no. 4, Qatar as no. 5 and Philippines as no. 6
The Philippines and Iran will be playing in Group E. Pilipinas Gilas, fresh from a 21st place finish in the 2014 FIBA World Cup (Iran finished 20th), will have an early date with rival Iran.
Gilas Pilipinas suf-fered painful losses against Iran, a team which has dominated them in recent competi-tions. The Filipinos lost to the Iranians in the gold medal match of the FIBA Asia Champion-ships in Manila last year and bowed to them once again in the semifinals of the FIBA Asia Cup last July.
Gilas Pilipinas and Iran are two of the eight teams which secured qualification to the sec-
ond round of the com-petition, with defending champion China and Chi-nese Taipei of Group C, silver medalist South Ko-rea and Jordan of Group D, and Japan and Qatar of Group F also making it.
Eight more teams will go head-to-head in the qualifying round, with the top two teams from each of the two groups to be distributed among the brackets in the sec-ond round. Group A of the preliminaries feature Mongolia, Hong Kong, Ku-wait and Maldives, while Group B is composed of Saudi Arabia, Kazakh-stan, Palestine and India.
For the Asian Games, Gilas Pilipinas will be led by naturalized center Marcus Douthit who re-placed Blatche, and FIBA World Cup veterans LA Tenorio, Jeff Chan, Gabe Norwood, Ranidel De Ocampo, Marc Pingris, Japeth Aguilar and June Mar Fajardo. Jimmy Ala-pag will also be playing vice the injured Jayson Castro.
FIBA Asia Cup hero Paul Lee and Jared Dil-linger, late additions to the national team pool, will also join the team.
The Filipinos are looking to surpass their sixth-place finish in the 2010 edition of the squad coached by Rajko Toro-man.
The Asian Games, slated on September 19 to October 4, is the sec-ond major tournament of Gilas Pilipinas this year after their campaign in the FIBA World Cup in Spain this August.
EARLY CLASHGilas, Iran bunched in one group
CLASH. Iran and the Philippines are expected to clash early in Group E of men’s basketball in the Incheon Asian Games which begins tomorrow. Below, the Philippine contingent during the official sendoff rites.
