P 15.00 • 20 PAGES www.edgedavao.net VOL. 8 ISSUE 133 • SUNDAY-MONDAY, OCTOBER 4-5, 2015 T HE ‘Great Wall of China’ proved to be a formidable roadblock to the Philippines’ Olympic dream. Led by players as young as 19 years old, a new-look Chinese team--tall, hot-shooting, and athletic--proved too big a mountain to climb for Gilas Pilipinas on Saturday night, pulling off a 78-67 victory to deny the Filipinos the Fiba Asia Championship and a trip to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. EDGE Serving a seamless society DAVAO HEADS UNBOWED FHEADS, 10 Gilas goes down fighting to tall, hot-shooting China TOUGH NIGHT. Jayson Castro (foreground) of the Philippines tries to collect a loose ball in this scuffle with his Chinese defender during the finals of the FIBA Asia Championships. The usually hot-shooting Castro, shot dismally in the finals and had to sit down early on fouls as the taller, younger hosts prevailed (inset). FIBA Asia photo Going loco over choco COVER STORY
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THE ‘Great Wall of China’ proved to be a formidable roadblock to the Philippines’ Olympic dream.Led by players as young as 19 years old, a new-look Chinese team--tall, hot-shooting, and athletic--proved too big a mountain to climb for Gilas
Pilipinas on Saturday night, pulling off a 78-67 victory to deny the Filipinos the Fiba Asia Championship and a trip to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
EDGE Serving a seamless society
DAVAO
HEADS UNBOWEDFHEADS, 10
Gilas goes down fighting to tall, hot-shooting China
TOUGH NIGHT. Jayson Castro (foreground) of the Philippines tries to collect a loose ball in this scuffle with his Chinese defender during the finals of the FIBA Asia Championships. The usually hot-shooting Castro, shot dismally in the finals and had to sit down early on fouls as the taller, younger hosts prevailed (inset). FIBA Asia photo
Going loco over choco
COVER STORY
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Going loco over choco
IMAGINE your ordi-nary tablea or native chocolate as the main
ingredient of a cocktail drink.
If you can use your imagination to the hilt, then, the possibilities are actually boundless.
That’s the main point of staging the mock-tails-cocktails compe-tition as a side event of the 2015 Davao Choc-olate Festival held last September 25 to 27 at SM City Davao.
To start with, choc-olate isn’t just a sweet
treat. As experts would say, cocoa has a com-plex flavor combination of bitterness, sweetness and the rich cocoa, mak-ing chocolate perfect to use in cocktails and li-quors.
And what if you are after a chocolate fix? Try this. Rather than grabbing your nearest chocolate bar, you might instead head to the near-est bar.
That’s the whole idea of the competition organized by Gatchi Gatchalian. Make choc-
olate as an after-dinner digestif or a bar drink.
There are many ways that chocolate is utilized by the world’s best mix-ologists--from the use of chocolate liquor as a sta-ple spirit to grating choc-olate on top as a garnish. Everything depends on one’s creativity. The sub-tle use of chocolate bit-ters in classics and the addition of chocolate in quirky and unusual ways illustrates that these are the best chocolate cock-tails around.
But what makes this
competition unique is that it uses the native chocolate or tablea, grown in the vast cacao farms in Davao and the main attraction of the Chocolate Festival orga-nized by SM City Davao, together with the Cacao Industry Development Association of Mindanao Inc. (CIDAMI).
Eight promising bar-tenders lent their cre-ativity and bartending skills to the contest. They are John Paulo Tapangco, Kaide Kyle At-tos, Leonard Ian Japhet
Dee, Eric John Decena, Glenn Mark Rabino, Wil-liam E. Puerto, Ramel G. Managbanag, and Joro-mellee Paro.
Dee ran away with the title as Grand Cham-pion with Decena plac-ing first runner-up and Paro finishing second runner-up.
The contestants all proved one thing: choc-olate and alcohol work together like a dream--the sweetness of the co-coa and the hard kick of alcohol combine to make the perfect drink.
the access road leading to the Matina Enclaves mixed use real estate project has been recent-ly widened and now open for passage.
The road project, undertaken by the City Government of Davao, has been widened to ten meters. To date, approxi-mately 85 percent of the
existing road has already been widened for the convenience of road us-ers particularly the res-idents and guests.
Remaining works in-clude the installation of culverts on the left side of the road, gutters, side-walks and pavement of approximately 25 me-ters.
The Matina Enclaves is a signature project of the Escandor Devel-
opment Corporation (Esdevco). At the mo-ment, the project is in full swing with the first Condominium build-ing of The Residences. It already boasts of the CAME (Clubhouse at Ma-tine Enclaves) perime-ter fence, main gate and road networks inside the sprawling property located at Quimpo Bou-levard in Ecoland, Davao City.
DAVAO City Mayor Rodrigo R. Dute-rte should choose
a running mate based on that candidate’s win-ability and not ideology, Ateneo de Davao Uni-versity (AdDU) political science professor Ra-mon Beleno III said.
In an interview, Bele-no told EDGE Davao that if Duterte decides to run for president in 2016, his logical running mate should be Senator Ferdi-nand “Bongbong” Mar-cos Jr. because the latter has a solid voter base in the north.
Marcos, who is ey-ing the vice presidency, had met with Duterte in Davao City last Wednes-day. Marcos said he merely asked for advice from the mayor.
The mayor has not yet made a final decision on whether or not he is running for president. He has acted for a final time of “soul-searching” after a big rally at the Quirino Grandstand two weeks ago.
Marcos’ visit came a day after Senator Alan Peter Cayetano declared his intent to run for vice president in Davao City.
AS RODY RUNNINGMATE
DUTERTE MARCOS
By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
Beleno said “win-ability-wise, it’s Marcos since he has captured voters. Ideology-wise, it’s Cayetano.”
But he said if he were Duterte, he would choose winability be-cause ideology is “use-less” if the candidate does not win.
“You have to win first before you can actually preach your ideology,” he said.
At the same time, Be-leon said Duterte should strengthen his strategy now that he has matched other presidentiables in the 2016 election.
He said Duterte should offer the pub-lic his alternative plat-forms since he is al-
ready in a statistical tie with candidates Mar Roxas and Vice Presi-dent Jejomar Binay in the latest Pulse Asia survey.
“He is an alternative candidate. He is not trapo (traditional poli-tician). He offers actual platform and not just glittering generalities,” Beleno said.
He said Duterte must work harder to reach more people because he is not visible in other places.
He also said Duterte should get “candidates or endorsements from local politicians espe-cially the incumbent ones or even dynasties” to earn more support.
Newly-widened road to Matina Enclaves opens
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Buy-bust nets P1.8M shabu
NEWS
AN alleged drug pusher was arrest-ed with P1.8 million
worth of shabu (metham-phetamine hydrochloride) in his possession in a buy-bust operation in Mati-na, Davao City on Friday morning.
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 11 identified the suspect as Rian P. En-riquez, 35, a sound tech-nician residing in Gemini Street, GSIS Subdivision, Matina.
The PDEA said En-riquez was arrested by operatives of the Aviation Security Group 11 and the Regional Intelligence Unit 11 for possession of 200 grams of suspected shabu at around 10:45 a.m. along McArthur Highway in Ma-tina.
A sachet of suspected marijuana and drug para-phernalia were also recov-ered from his possession.
PDEA said the street value of the drugs con-
fiscated from Enriquez amounted to P1.8 million.
In an interview, PDEA 11 regional director Adzhar A. Albani told EDGE Davao that most of Enriquez’s buyers are from well-off families who can afford to buy bulk sup-plies of drugs.
Albani said these buy-ers will also be arrested eventually.
“Nagpapasaway tal-aga tong mga taong ito. Next time magpang-abot din sila ng mga operatives (These people are really stubborn. Our operatives will catch them sooner or later),” he said.
Albani also said En-riquez should be thankful he was not armed during his arrest, otherwise a shootout would have en-sued that would have re-sulted in his death.
Albani said according to PDEA’s intel, Enriquez’s drugs came from the Vi-sayas region, reflecting a shift in the supply chain
because of bigger de-mand.
“The supply used to concentrated in Cotabato areas, but (the demand) is now bigger and that is why they get their sup-plies from other areas,” he said.
Albani said another possibility is that the sup-pliers from the usual ar-eas in Cotabato and parts of the Autonomous Re-gion in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) are running out of stock.
Enriquez is now de-tained at the Davao City Police Office (DCPO) de-tention facility while the seized suspected illegal drugs have been submit-ted to the DCPO Laborato-ry Service for qualitative and quantitative examina-tion.
Enriquez will face a case of violating Section 11 of Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
THE Association of Tourism Officers of the Philippines
(ATOP) will give out “small grants” to various tourism stakeholders nationwide in a bid to strengthen rural commu-nity-based tourism next year.
“The grants that will be coming for the asso-ciation’s saving will be used for trainings and ca-
pacity-building of select-ed tourism stakeholders nationwide,” ATOP pres-ident Alphonsus D. Teso-ro told reporters on the sidelines of 16th National Convention of tourism of-ficers at the SMX Lanang Convention Center.
Launched during the business meeting last Fri-day, the grant will have a total amount of P200,000
SENATE Majority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano expressed
his gratitude to Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Dute-rte for supporting the senator’s vice presiden-tial bid in the upcoming national elections.
In an interview fol-lowing their dinner meet-ing on Tuesday (Sep-tember 29), Duterte was asked by media members in Davao City to compare Cayetano with other pos-sible candidates for vice president, to which the mayor responded, “Wala, wipe out ‘yan sila lahat sa kanya.”
Duterte also lauded the Senate leader’s “good grasp of practical solu-
tions” for the country’s enduring problems on poverty, poor infrastruc-ture, and lack of inclusive economic growth.
Cayetano, for his part, thanked the mayor for believing in his ability to serve the country in a higher office. He said he also continues to pray for a president who will take on the challenge of creat-ing genuine change in the lives of Filipino families.
“I join my fellow Fil-ipinos in hoping for the best. Mayor Duterte is a very decisive person, he’s the type of leader who offers concrete solutions to problems and really takes action,” the senator
WHILE Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said he
has yet to make a decision on whether or not he will run for president in 2016, he already expressed his support for the vice pres-idential bid of Senate Ma-jority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano.
In an interview with reporters in Davao City on Tuesday (Sept. 29), Duterte said his bond with the Cay-etano family extends way
back to their father, the late senator Renato “Compañe-ro” Cayetano.
“Kaibigan ko itong mag-kapatid talaga (referring to the Cayetano siblings: Sena-tors Alan and Pia Cayetano) long, long before. At alam nilang ang mga taga-Davao [are] fully supportive of their family,” Duterte added.
Duterte had a private dinner meeting with the Cayetano siblings on Tues-day night in the city, the same day the senator an-
nounced his bid for vice presidency.
The mayor confirmed that he and Cayetano, whom he described as an articulate lawyer, briefly discussed the possibility of forming a tan-dem for 2016, although he clarified that nothing was finalized.
Asked whether he would campaign for Cayetano as the country’s next vice pres-ident, the Davao mayor said, “Wipe out ang iba sa kanya.”
He added that if he had
one thing in common with the Senate leader, it would be their “good grasp of the practical solutions for [the country’s] problems,” such as poverty and the need to improve the economy through adequate infra-structure.
Cayetano, for his part, said he continues to “hope and pray” for a president who has “malasakit at mat-apang” and who will be able to create real change all over the country.
By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
BUSTED. Alleged drug pusher Rian P. Enriquez is presented to members of Davao City media on Friday afternoon at the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 11 office. PDEA personnel said they seized methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu) worth P1.8 million from Enriquez. Lean Daval Jr.
COMPACT. Construction workers conduct soil compaction along R. Castillo Street as part of the ongoing drainage and road rehabilitation project in the area. Lean Daval Jr.
ATOP gives out small grantsto Phl tourism stakeholdersBy Cheneen R. Capon
FATOP, 10
FCAYETANO, 10
Duterte supports Cayetano’s bid for VP
Cayetano thanks Rody
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ANYONE who has been to a traditional political campaign can attest to the fact that these things are often no more than variety shows where the old song-and-dance routine
is employed to great effect. Political candidates, in an effort to attract a crowd (who hopefully would vote for them), hire all sorts of celebrities and performers to provide entertainment in between speeches. There would be singers, dancers, actors and actresses, models, and of course, “sexy dancers.” It is this last group that provides the risqué kind of diversion that the men in the audience are presumed to lap up. In a male-dominated polit-ical landscape, such a practice comes as no surprise and has in-deed been tacitly encouraged through the years and in countless election campaign periods. After all, it gets the crowds in, and a large crowd is seen as a sign of a candidate’s popularity with the voters.
The case of the Liberal Party’s use of such dancers, therefore, is not an isolated case. Indeed, virtually all parties and individual candidates have, in one way or another, used skimpily clad wom-en to attract people to their sorties. That we have not questioned
this up till a few days ago is actually an indictment on us as a peo-ple; we have, in fact, come to accept “sexy dancers” as part and parcel of political campaigns, and that the exploitation of women is acceptable in advancing the careers of our politicians.
If we are actually serious in making the LP pay for its most recent infraction, then we must take all other parties to task for doing the same thing. More than that, we must look at all aspects of our social life and see where we are actually exploiting women — often without us realizing it. Noontime shows, movies, adver-tisements — even a superficial review of these media will show us that women are being exploited and treated as mere sex ob-jects in so many ways, and we are patronizing them just the same. Even something as mainstream as a beauty contest can be seen as nothing more than the objectification of women. It is time we realize that we have been treating our women badly publicly.
Is this a lost cause? We certainly hope not. Perhaps it is for-tuitous that the LP is being harangued over the issue because it could force us all to look deeper into ourselves and see if we are not actually guilty of the same thing.
CHARISSE WONG I took to colouring books again because of one of my bffs, Aimee. She does zendoodle, as they call it. I can’t “zendoodle” because as of the moment, my brain is load-ed with menus for the week, kids’ activities, errands, and a whole lot of stuff - my mind can’t afford to space out enough to come up with patterns and stuff needed to come up with doodles. Colors on the other-hand - that’s me. I love colors! On cloth, beads, canvas, photography, clothes, etc! That is why I took up colouring books. For patterns, I like paisley, but-terflies, sea creatures, and some abstract patterns that aren’t too busy to give me a headache. Those images give me the excitement to play with colors. Mix media, too. Crayons, pastel, coloured pens, even gel pens Colouring lets me escape from the mundane, even for a few mo-ments. They refresh and recharge my mind. It also relaxes me. Funny thing, I always find myself smiling like a kid who’s happy with a project!
APOL BORRO DOMINGO I am fond of reading the Face-book status of my FB friends, then two of my friends always post their finished colored imag-es and hashtaged it with #adult-
coloringbook #stressreliever. Out of curiosity, I also bought my own colouring book at Fully Booked, Abreeza and indeed for me its really a stress reliever be-cause I really love to combine and blend colours ever since. I like girly designs like flowers, abstracts, bible verse, good vibes phrases and most especially all about Christmas season. I’m so happy because I already have my Winter Magic Book the designs are all about Christmas. Colouring is relaxing activity and gives me reflective time and provides an easy creative outlet. I believe everyone is an artist. Anyone can make an effect with colour.
MONETTE TORRES-CUTLER I’ve always loved colouring books but until recently, those available were of poor quality printed on inferior paper stock. Colouring relaxes me and brings out my artistic side . I prefer those of nature, more on plants rather than animals. I am looking for one that has ma-rine themes. Aside from relaxation, colour-ing also serves as a bonding activ-ity with my teenage daughter. As a matter of fact, she has already reserved the pages she’ll colour
solo and with me.
PADDY PEREZ I took up colouring books again because it helps me release stress and calming my mind. It also brings out the creativity in me especially in combing col-ors. Most of the patterns that i am looking for are nature, tress, bushes, fruits and flowers. You can see a lot of greens and orange and red to my piece. It relaxes my mind, it helps me think creatively especially with the kind of work that I do. Needs a lot of creative approach while being calm. Re-leases a lot of tensions too. Whenever I am in a situation that needs a critical thinking and a decision, i am trying to relax my mind first by colouring some of my madalas coloring book so i can decide with a sound mind.
CHARISSE VILCHEZ When I was younger, I’ve al-ways been into arts and crafts. I like joining art contests – draw-ing, sketching and colouring. My favorite medium before would be oil pastels on felt paper! So when this fad came out first online,
I felt like the experience wasn’t the same as the actual stroking. I went to a workshop recently and there was a coloring activity and I realized that I missed it. The in-structor also says that it’s thera-peutic and can help you meditate. The first coloring book that I purchased is called “Dream Cit-ies”. The reason is because I love traveling. It calms me down and as mentioned earlier – it’s a form of meditation. It also reminds me in some way that life is colorful no matter what and you’re the artist for making this possible.
ROCHELLE VENUTI I took up colouring because I never had the chance to do it be-fore with adult colouring books. I’ve always loved colouring when I was younger, doing the demo first with my children’s colouring books so they can get encouraged to be creative and artistic. I like fruits and vegetables. And asymmetrical patterns. These help me improve in my decision making, it enhances creativity and enhances my pre-cision.
COLOURING BOOKS for adults are fast becoming all the rage in Davao. With intricate patterns and elaborate designs in many differ-ent themes, more and more Dabawenyos are again taking up their colouring tools and revisiting their childhoods. I interviewed some urbanites and asked what made them fall in love again with colour-ing books.
ARTS AND CULTURE
With intricate patterns and elaborate designs in many different themes,
more and more Dabawenyos are again taking up their colouring tools and
revisiting their childhoods.
Life in Colour
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EDGEDAVAOINdulge!
PARTY to a literal whole new level as Club Echelon brings you Stratos: Roof-top Music Festival, an elec-tronic dance music festival happening on October 17, 2015, Saturday at The Peak (Rooftop Carpark Area), Gaisano Mall Davao. “Stratos” will be the first massive electronic dance mu-sic festival set on a building rooftop. It features the world’s sexiest international DJ Katya Kazanova aka DJ Katty Q from Moscow, Russia, who has per-formed on stage with artists such as JD Davis (vocal artist of David Guetta), Jay Sebag (vocal artist of Martin Solveig) and
Leeroy Thornhill of The Prod-igy, among many others. She is joined by the top DJs based in the country Patty Tiu of Deuce, world’s top remix producer X-Factor, Dutch-Tunisian Samir Ayeb, Luane de Lima and Nat-alie Moon of DJ Lunatics and Club Echelon’s own renowned DJs Mike Mayer, DJ Law, Jack Ripper and Wacky Masbad. As a pre-festival treat, King Lady, one of the top 100 female DJs In the world and #5 Asia’s Sexiest Female DJ will be per-forming this Saturday, October 3, 2015 at Club Echelon at The Peak of Gmall Davao. During “King Lady Live @ Club Ech-elon: A STRATOS pre-festival
special,” Stratos tickets will ini-tially be sold, with ticket prices at P400 for General Admission, P800 for VIP and P1,500 for SVIP. Entrance is free for the October 3 event when you buy a Stratos VIP or SVIP ticket on the same night; pay only P100 for entrance on October 3 when you buy a General Ad-mission ticket. The exhilirating, high-grounded Stratos: Rooftop Mu-sic Festival is Club Echelon’s celebration of their 1st year an-niversary and is also brought to you by Gaisano Mall Davao, in cooperation with Johnnie Walker, Mono Resto Bar and APM.
MTRCB at 30: Empowering the Filipino family
A2 INdulge!UP AND ABOUT
THE Movie and Televi-sion Review and Classi-fication Board (MTRCB) proudly launches a commemorative book—“Empowering the Filipino Family”—in celebration of its 30th anniversary on October 5 at Luxent Hotel, Que-zon City. Spearheaded by writer and executive director Alfred “Krip” Yuson, together with as-sociate editor Marra Lanot and principal photographer Milo Sogueco, the book features
the artwork of Dranreb Angeli-tud, who won second place in the poster-making contest for kids of the MTRCB last year. The book is divided into nine chapters which chronicles the history of the MTRCB. It be-gins with the early precedents and an overview of the board leaders through the years. Ar-ticles by Jose Lacaba on media control and censorship during Martial Law as well as by Bi-beth Orteza on former MTRCB chief Armida Siguion-Reyna can also be found in the book. Included also are the MTRCB
modernization projects and updates on the agency’s initia-tives as well as voices from the staff, present board members, and current MTRCB Chairper-son Atty. Eugenio “Toto” Vil-lareal. Chair Toto takes pride that “the present board has been consistent with its mandate to promote and protect the Filipi-no family, especially the youth, women, and other vulnerable sectors of society, to evaluate and intelligently choose media content.” Another highlight of the
30th anniversary celebration is the culmination of the script-writing contest sponsored by the Senior Citizen Committee of the MTRCB. A total of 62 entries centered on empower-ing senior citizens have been submitted and the awarding ceremony for the top three winners will be held during the anniversary party. The top entrant will be getting Php 30,000.00 cash while the second and third placers will be receiving Php 20,000.00 and Php 10,000.00 cash, respectively. The MTRCB
may later on help find produc-ers of the winning full-length screenplay as film or as movie for television. “The board will continue to create and implement inno-vative initiatives that will pro-mote a value-oriented media and entertainment culture,” Chair Toto adds. Come Novem-ber 14, MTRCB will be hold-ing its 3rd Family and Child Summit entitled “Matalinong Panonood para sa Kabataan” at St. Mary’s College of Quezon City in nearby Mother Ignacia Avenue.
Party to a whole new level at
Stratos:Rooftop music festival
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Ryan Rems on debut book launch:I thought only a few people would come
‘Ang Probinsyano’ tops list of most watched TV programs nationwide
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“IT’S SHOWTIME” Funny One grand winner Ryan Rems was surprised when fans of all ages at-tended his recent book launch at the Manila In-ternational Book Fair. “I thought only 20 people would arrive,” Ryan said when he saw dozens of people who fell in line for the launch of his de-but book by ABS-CBN Publish-ing titled, “Rock and Roll to the World! Wooooh! Orayt.” The Funny One Grand Champion turned author excit-edly signed books and posed for photographs with his fans who were excited to see him in per-son. Published by ABS-CBN Publishing, “Rock and Roll to the World!” is a collection of one-liners guaranteed to make people laugh out loud or start scratching their heads. Present-ed in a unique two-tone design with illustrations from fellow stand-up comedian Josel Nico-las, the book is a riot from start to finish. “Rock and Roll to the World! Wooooooooh! Orayt” available in all leading bookstores and newsstands nationwide.
VIEWERS NATIONWIDE tuned in to the premiere of the TV adaptation of “Ang Probinsyano” topbilled by the King of Pri-
metime Teleserye, Coco Martin, as it re-corded a national TV rating of 41.6%,
or 25 points higher than that of its rival program “Marimar” on GMA
with only 16.3%, according to data from Kantar Medial.
The pilot episode, which shot to the top spot of the most watched
programs nationwide, showed the emotional, physical, and mental struggles Ador (Coco Martin) went through in the academy that showed his com-
mitment to his chosen profes-sion.
The TV adaptation of the clas-sic Fernando Poe Jr. film also gained
positive comments from netizens on-line that the official hashtag #AngProbin-
syanoSimula sa Twitter trended worldwide on Twitter.
Also topping the ratings game Monday night were programs of ABS-CBN Primetime Bida, which also featured the premiere of “Tonight with Boy Abunda” hosted by King of Talk Boy Abunda.
The Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla-starrer “Pangako Sa ‘Yo” also continued to dominate its timeslot with a national TV rating of 34.3%, 19 points
higher than that of its ri-val “Beautiful Strangers” (14.9%). “On the Wings of Love,” topbilled by Nadine Lustre and James Reid, also won with 21.4% versus “My Faith-ful Husband’s” 12.6%. Watch out for more
thrilling action in FPJ’s “Ang Probinsyano,” weekdays after “TV Pa-trol.” For more informa-tion, log on to www.abs-cbn.com, or follow @abscbndotcom on Twitter.
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MX3 Team and ABS-CBN “Kapamilya Karavan” graced Peñaf-rancia Festival 2015 as big-time Kapamilya artists celebrated with the Bicolanos at the star-studded event of the festival’s culmina-tion. The occasion gave chance for Bicolanos to witness their Kapamilya stars in person and enjoy games and gifts brought by the MX3 team on the 20th day of September 2015 at SM City Naga. The giving-out of MX3 samples, Brochures and MX3 Gift packs are few of the many ways whereby the DMI Company demonstrates and expresses our gratitude to all the MX3 us-
MX3 and Kapamilya stars at Peñafrancia Festival 2015
ers in Naga. This is also a gift to all the local folks joining the joyful celebra-tion where every-one has the chance to chance to taste
the MX3 Products and gain the ben-efits the MX3 Prod-uct provides. Mall’s Open Parking Area was jam-packed by 10,000 excited Bicola-nos. A good number got the chance to play a part in the opening games prepared by the MX3 Team. There was over-flowing of merriment when awards and MX3 gift packs were distrib-uted to the game win-ners and participants. Some of the MX3 prod-ucts given were – MX3 Capsule with the abil-ity to improve immune system, MX3 Plus with Co Q10 and L-Carnitine which gives healthy me-tabolism, MX3 Coffee-
FPJ Ang Probinsyano Casts Arjo Atayde, Maja Salvador and Coco Martin. (From the left-back) DMI-MX3 Wellness Specialist Dr. Edwin Bien, Event Marketing Director- Joel Sano.
mix that is non-acidic and sugar free, and MX3 Tea that is not only good for the body but also eco-nomical for 1 teabag may be dipped in 1 pitcher of water to be enjoyed by the whole family. The “Kapamilya Karavan” was spiced up by ABS-CBN soap op-era “Ang Probinsyano”
Casts, Coco Martin, Maja Salvador and Arjo Atayde, performing with passion as they entertain the cheering crowd. The event was overall fun and dazzling seeing the people’s smiles and con-tentment that essentially gave meaning to the jubilee. Bicolano’s MX-traordinary Peñafrancia
celebration remained a festival of giving and sharing, and thank-ing Above the bountiful blessings they received throughout their home-land. For more infor-mation about the MX3 Products, visit MX3 website at www.mx3.ph or call/text 0918-8888-693.
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The food and beverage industry is Europe’s largest manufactur-ing sector while agriculture ac-
counts for more than a quarter of GDP in several ASEAN member states. In the Philippines, agri-food or food and bev-erage have a great future, especially if the time between now and when GSP+ kicks in late this year are properly used. As explained during ECCP’s first GSP+ forum, the food sector is among the sec-tors that will benefit most from GSP+, given the fact that presently high duties will drop to zero.
Overview of Agri-Food in ASEAN and the EU:
ASEANAlmost all countries in ASEAN are
experiencing high economic growth accompanied by rapid changes in the consumption pattern. A growing mid-dle class is developing preferences for food and beverages that are more con-venient and packaged well, especially juices and premium beverage alcohols.
Through ASEAN’s Economic Com-munity blueprint, the seven priority areas for food, agriculture and forestry include:• Strengthening food security• Facilitating trade in agriculture and
forestry products•Generating and transferring tech-
nology to increase productivity and develop agri-business
•Developing rural communities and human resources
• I n v o l v -ing and investing in the pri-vate sec-tor
•Managing and con-s e r v i n g n a t u r a l resources for sus-tainable development
• Strengthening ASEAN cooperation in addressing regional and interna-tional issues.
European UnionTogether, the European food and
drink industries are the largest man-ufacturing sector in the EU in terms of turnover, value added and employment. Overall, food and drink accounted for 6% of all EU exports in 2011 and 5% of all EU imports. Distilled spirits are the EU’s biggest agri-food exports with ex-ports of Euro 8.5 billion in 2011.
While ASEAN and the EU markets offer great potential for enhanced trade and investment in agri-food, there con-tinuous to be key issues in the regula-tory space that is constraining develop-ment and growth:
1. Market Accessa. Tariffs, taxes and non-tariff
barriersb. WTO compliance c. Technical standards and
product classification rules
d. Labelinge. Sanitary and Phytosanitary
Standards (SPS)f. Religion and Halal standards
2. Other issuesa. Foreign investment restric-
tionsb. Intellectual property protec-
tionc. Traceability protection
As we are moving closer to ASEAN integration by 2015, here are key rec-ommendations within the ASEAN-EU perspective:• Import tariffs and non-tariff barri-
ers should be phased out over time;•All member states should ensure
their internal taxes and regulations are simple, transparent and fully compliant with WTO rules (in the Philippines we are happy that the Sin Tax Reform has pushed through in 2012);
• Labeling rules for packaged goods should be harmonized and simpli-fied;
• Technical standards/definitions and product classification rules should be based on international-ly-recognized standards;
• The protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights should be improved;
•ASEAN should strongly consider traceability information legislation to protect consumers and support legitimate EU trade; and
•Governments should consult indus-
try on proposed amendments or any new regulations affecting the agri-food sector.
It is further recommend that the EU and ASEAN strengthen cooperation in the following key areas:• Trade related capacity building
support to regulatory and enforce-ment institutions in ASEAN;
• Product safety, labeling and techni-cal standards, and SPS acceptance;
•Mutual recognition of food product registrations and of export estab-lishments certified by the national competent bodies;
• Export quality infrastructure, which includes testing laboratories and inspection agencies; and
•Best practice customs valuation and transfer pricing frameworks for related party transactions.
In other words, plenty of work to do, preparing for increased trade of agri-food products in both directions.
Mindanao obviously plays a major role in getting food / fish / fruits ex-ports going; the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) is heavily involved in supporting supply chains from farmers via converters to finished products to exports. Our new project – EU-Philippines Business Net-work – is in stand-by to assist. Contact us at our Davao office / become a mem-ber / contribute to the success of food & beverage in Davao and the rest of Min-danao.
TIME and again we have been hearing of praises from different international financing institu-
tions calling the Philippines a tough resilient economy on a world econom-ic stage characterized by great diffi-culties, countries in default, and erst-while strong economies defaulting on their own debt payments or shutting down their bureaucracies. Standard and Poor’s, a leading international fi-nance and investment company, rates the Philippines highly, and considers it among the least-vulnerable countries. Leading in S&P’s ranking are the Phil-ippines, Mexico and Poland, followed by Pakistan and Hungary. Common fea-tures of these economies are their low direct economic ties to China, a lower risk of domestic financial leverage, and moderate vulnerability to higher global interest rates. Least vulnerable is an ap-propriate term given that volatility, at present, is high and with it comes high levels of risk faced by larger economies.
Truly, a lot of instability is ahead, and no less than IMF Chair Christine Lagarde states this bluntly. In speech in
Washington just last week Lagarde not-ed that the p o s s i b i l i t y of rising in-terest rates in the United States cou-pled with China’s slow-down are contributing to “uncertainty and higher market volatility.” This is quite worri-some for emerging market economies dependent on commodity exports to China, which consumes much of what developing economies can produce such as minerals and agricultural prod-ucts.
Moreover, the US Federal Reserves hike in interest rates by the end of the year may encourage investors to move a lot of their portfolio investments to the US away from emerging economies, strengthening the dollar, which may cause many companies who borrowed dollar denominated funds to default
as the currency value bloats their pay-ments, forcing them to pay more.
It remains to be seen, however, if our local Philippine stock exchange’s value may be affected sharply as it did before due to the portfolio pullback to America. We all have to wait, see, and trend.
Nonetheless, we in Southern Min-danao have the advantage of having many commodities like food and elec-tricity costing lower than the national average, and the ability to feed and en-ergize ourselves even if we were to cut ourselves off from Manila. While this is good for lowering inflation, much still needs to be done to attract value add-ing manufacturing to further improve the regions economic position, making it a robust contributor to the nation’s GDP.
We need to work on two things: get-ting food processing industries and oth-er manufacturing moving, and enabling the export of surplus food production to other regions of the country and our immediate neighbors in ASEAN. Let’s make processed meats, plant high value
vegetables, and get started on export-ing. Of course, it is easier said than done. There is a lot of fear about exports, and a lot of red tape, financing difficulties, and other factors that hamper indus-trial development. The multiplier effect on the rest of the Philippine economy will be such that food will be plentiful so that the OFWs and BPO workers can save more as their food and electricity bills go down. This enables the banking system to recirculate their cash to fur-ther strengthen our economy.
However, we ought to take these tasks seriously if we are to capitalize on the opportunities in ASEAN integra-tion,and protect ourselves from exter-nal economic shocks as foretold by the IMF. In times of global economic uncer-tainty and volatility, it is wise to look in-ward, and “strengthen your strengths” as they pertain to an ability to insulate ourselves from economic uncertainties beyond our shores, while keeping our own people fed and strong and happy. This is where we need to tread inter-national economic realities lightly, and with a lot of wisdom.
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS OF DAVAO DOCTORS HOSPITAL (CLINICA HILARIO), INC.
DOCUMENTARY REQUIREMENTS:The following documents must be executed and submitted to the Tender Offer Agent during the Tender Offer Period:
REQUIRED ATTACHMENTS TO THE APPLICATION TO TEN-DER SHARES IN DDH TO MPHHI
1. Duly executed tender offer application form (3 original cop-ies).
2. Original DDH stock certificates duly endorsed, which shall be verified by the Tender Offer Agent with the Office of the Corpo-rate Secretary of DDH as valid and authentic certificates. 1
Metro Pacific Hospital Holdings, Inc. (“MPHHI”) (formerly Neptune Stroika Holdings, Inc.), is the current owner of 313,655 common shares of Davao Doctors Hospital (Clinica Hilario), Inc. (“DDH”) which represent approximately 34.82% of the total outstanding capital stock of DDH.
MPHHI has offered to acquire the remaining 587,154 common shares of DDH which comprise approximately 65.18% of the total outstanding shares of DDH. Accordingly, on September 29, 2015, MPHHI filed with the SEC a Tender Offer Report (SEC Form 19-1) in compliance with Section 19 of the Securities Regulation Code and Rule 19 of the implementing rules and regulations thereof, setting out MPHHI’s offer (the “Tender Offer”) to acquire the remaining 587,154 common shares of DDH in the hands of all the other shareholders. All the shares tendered shall be purchased by MPHHI on a tiered pricing in accordance with the terms and conditions contained in the summary below:
OFFEROR:Metro Pacific Hospital Holdings, Inc. (“MPHHI”), a subsidiary of Metro Pacific Investments Corporation
SHARES SUBJECT OF THE TENDER OFFER:587,154 common shares of DDH, which comprise approximately 65.18%% of the total outstanding shares of DDH (“Tender Offer Shares” or “DDH Shares”).
THE OFFER:MPHHI is offering to acquire the Tender Offer Shares on a tiered pric-ing in accordance with the terms and conditions described below:
(i) If as a result of the tender offer, MPHHI acquires less than one hundred thirty six thousand seven hundred forty seven (136,747) DDH Shares: The Purchase Price shall be Two Thousand Three Hundred Pesos (Php 2,300.00) per share.
(ii) If as a result of the tender offer, MPHHI acquires at least one hundred thirty six thousand seven hundred forty seven (136,747) DDH Shares but less than two hundred eighty six thousand eight hundred eighty one (286,881) DDH Shares: The Purchase Price shall be Two Thousand Six Hundred Pesos (Php 2,600.00) per share.
(iii) If as a result of the tender offer, MPHHI acquires at least two hundred eighty six thousand eight hundred eighty one (286,881) DDH Shares: The Purchase Price shall be Two Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty Pesos (Php 2,750.00) per share.
For the avoidance of doubt, DDH Shares which were initially tendered but withdrawn pursuant to the terms hereof shall be considered as not tendered for purposes of determining the final purchase price.
TENDER OFFER PERIOD:9:00 a.m. of October 01, 2015 until 5:00 p.m. of November 19, 2015 (“Tender Offer Period”)
The duly accomplished Application to Tender Shares form must be re-ceived by MPHHI’s Tender Offer Agent (the “Tender Offer Agent”) to-gether with the duly endorsed DDH stock certificates and all the other required attachments and supporting documents specified below not later than 5:00 p.m. of November 19, 2015 at the following address:
SyCip Salazar Hernandez and Gatmaitan Law OfficesAttention: Atty. Dominador Maphilindo O. CarrilloThe Penthouse, 17/F, Landco Corporate Centre
Applications presented after the end of the Tender Offer Period shall be rejected, unless the Tender Offer Period is extended by MPHHI with the approval of the SEC. Applications that are not properly com-pleted, or lack any of the required attachments will also be rejected. The Tender Offer Agent will likewise reject an Application if it cannot verify the signature of the stockholder on the Application or the en-dorsement of the stock certificate.
SETTLEMENT DATE:Within ten (10) calendar days after the termination of the Tender Offer Period, starting November 20, 2015 (“Settlement Date”)
SETTLEMENT:DDH Shares that are validly tendered shall be paid for by MPHHI un-der the following terms:
1. Initial payment of 80% of the purchase price (“Initial Payment”), payable within ten (10) calendar days after the termination of the Ten-der Offer period, starting on November 20, 2015 (the “Settlement Date”). It is expected that part of the Initial Payment will be used by the tendering shareholders to pay for the capital gains tax due for the sale of the DDH Shares.
2. The balance equivalent to 20% of the purchase price (“Balance Amount”) shall be paid within seven (7) calendar days from delivery of the original and valid Certificate Authorizing Registration from the relevant Revenue District Office of the Bureau of Internal Revenue authorizing the transfer of the DDH Shares from the tendering stock-holder to MPHHI.
All payments shall be made through check payable in the name of the stockholder of record who made a valid tender of DDH Shares. When collecting payment, the tendering stockholder (or his/her authorized representative) shall present the “Applicant’s Copy” of the application together with a certification duly signed by the Tender Offer Agent, as well as proper identification (e.g. driver’s license, passport). Duly au-thorized representatives shall be required to present an authorization from the tendering stockholder.
MPHHI, through its Escrow Agent (the “Escrow Agent”), shall issue check payments representing the Initial Payment for validly tendered DDH Shares. The check payments representing the Initial Payment shall be made available by the Escrow Agent for pick up by the ten-dering shareholders within the Settlement Date at the offices of the Escrow Agent at the address indicated below.
Banco de Oro - Davao Bangoy BranchAttention: Romeo Cabiling (Branch Manager) and/or Grace Adlawan (Operations Officer) R. Magsaysay Ave. cor. C. Bangoy St., Davao City 8000Telephone Nos.: (6382) 227-2802/221-4480/222-2860
The check representing the Balance Amount (less allowable deduc-tions as provided herein) shall be made available for pick up within seven (7) calendar days from receipt by MPHHI’s Tender Offer Agent of the original Certificate Authorizing Registration covering all of the DDH Shares tendered also at the same offices.
In case the stockholder fails to submit the Certificate Authorizing Reg-istration to MPHHI within six (6) months after the Settlement Date, MPHHI and/or the Tender Offer Agent is hereby authorized to file the Capital Gains Tax Return, pay the Capital Gains Tax (together with any applicable penalties, interests and surcharges as the Bureau of Internal Revenue may assess) and apply for Certificate Authorizing Registration for the transfer of legal title over the shares to the Bidder, and all expenses incurred in undertaking such activity/ies shall be de-ducted from the Balance Amount.
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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS OF DAVAO DOCTORS HOSPITAL (CLINICA HILARIO), INC.
TAXES AND EXPENSES:The tendering shareholder shall be responsible for the filing of the Capi-tal Gains Tax Return, payment of the applicable capital gains tax with-in the period provided by law and securing the Certificate Authorizing Registration. MPHHI shall shoulder the payment of the documentary stamp tax and filing of the appropriate return. The tendering sharehold-er shall shoulder all of its own costs and expenses for the sale of the DDH Shares to MPHHI under the tender offer.
TENDER OFFER AGENT:SyCip Salazar Hernandez and Gatmaitan Law Offices shall act as the Tender Offer Agent for the tender offer. For copies of prescribed forms and other related documents, and for any inquiries regarding the tender offer, please contact the Tender Offer Agent as follows:
Atty. Dominador Maphilindo O. CarrilloSyCip Salazar Hernandez and Gatmaitan Law Offices
The Penthouse, 17/F, Landco Corporate Centre J.P. Laurel Avenue, Bajada, Davao City 8000 Telephone No. : (6382) 221-3917 Email Address: [email protected]
Bank of the Philippine Islands has confirmed that resources available to MPHHI are sufficient to satisfy the full acceptance of the Tender Offer.
Each stockholder of DDH is advised to read the full terms and conditions of the Tender Offer and SEC Form 19-1. Inquiries and requests for assis-tance and copies of SEC Form 19-1 may be directed to the Tender Offer Agent, whose address and telephone numbers are indicated above.
secretary attesting to the approval by the partnership to tender the DDH Shares and to sign, execute and deliver all documents and agreements, and to perform such acts as may be necessary for the tender of the DDH Shares to MPHHI in the form prescribed (3 original copies); (ii) copy of SEC Registration, latest Articles of Partnership and/or equivalent constitutive documents and Gener-al Information Sheet (or equivalent) certified as true copy of the original by the partnership secretary or equivalent person having official custody of the partnership records or a valid government-issued identification card containing the picture and signature of the Applicant’s authorized signatory.
Note: Documents executed abroad must be consularized. In case of married shareholders who are Philippine citizens, the special power of attorney must likewise be signed by the spouse of such stockholder to indicate his/her consent to the appointment of the at-torney-in-fact for purposes of disposing of the Tender Offer Shares.
WITHDRAWAL:Any DDH Shares tendered may be withdrawn by the tendering stock-holder at any time during the Tender Offer Period upon submission of an original written request to withdraw the tendered shares from the tender offer. All written requests must be received by the Tender Offer Agent before 5:00 p.m. of November 19, 2015.
The request to withdraw from the tender offer must clearly state the name of the tendering shareholder and the number of shares to be withdrawn from the tender offer. MPHHI shall have the right to exercise discretion in determining the validity of any written request to withdraw from the tender offer.
In case of lost stock certificates, a tendering stockholder must comply with the requirements under Section 73 of the Corporation Code of the Philippines and shall be required to submit (i) one (1) original of a duly notarized affidavit of loss, (ii) copy of the affida-vit of loss as published in a newspaper of general circulation, (iii) affidavit of publication (of the affidavit of loss), and (iv) bond in an amount equivalent to twice the book value of the DDH Shares as of the date of execution of the affidavit of loss, multiplied by the number of shares covered by each lost stock certificate.
3. Duly executed Deed of Absolute Sale of Shares indicating all the required details in the form prescribed. The price will be in-serted and the Deed of Sale will be notarized after the Tender Of-fer Period. For this purpose, the signatory to the Deed of Absolute Sale will have to appear before the notary public for purposes of notarizing the Deed of Absolute Sale on Settlement Date. (3 original copies)
4. Photocopies of two (2) valid identification cards issued by an official agency of the government, showing the applicant’s sig-nature and photograph (i.e., driver’s license, SSS/GSIS card, or passport, etc.).
5. Duly executed capital gains tax return (BIR Form 1707) signed by the shareholder or his/her/its authorized representative, indi-cating the selling price and acquisition cost for the DDH Shares tendered, and the computation of the capital gains tax payable. (3 original copies)
6. Copies of the proof of acquisition cost of the DDH Shares ten-dered by the tendering shareholder sufficient for purposes of ob-taining a Certificate Authorizing Registration (which will be used by the tendering shareholder in applying for a Certificate Autho-rizing Registration with the Bureau of Internal Revenue), includ-ing among others, the official receipt, Subscription Agreement or Deed of Sale for the purchase of the tendered DDH Shares by the tendering shareholder.2
7. Irrevocable Proxy in the form prescribed (3 original copies)
8. In case of individual stockholders: duly accomplished signa-ture card containing the specimen signature of the Applicant and verified by an officer of the bank where the Applicant maintains an account or a valid government-issued identification card con-taining the picture and signature of the Applicant. Furthermore, if the individual shareholder will tender his/her shares through a representative, an original notarized irrevocable special power of attorney authorizing the stockholder’s attorney-in-fact to enter into all transactions and to sign, execute and deliver the docu-ments and agreements enumerated herein shall also be submit-ted as part of the documents.
9. In case of corporate stockholders, (i) an original notarized certification from the corporate stockholder’s duly elected and incumbent corporate secretary attesting to the approval by the board of directors and stockholders (if necessary) to tender the DDH Shares and to sign, execute and deliver all documents and agreements, and to perform such acts as may be necessary for the tender of the DDH Shares to MPHHI in the form prescribed (3 original copies); (ii) copy of SEC Registration and latest Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws or equivalent constitutive documents and General Information Sheet certified as true copy of the origi-nal by the corporate secretary or equivalent person having official custody of the company records, and (iii) duly accomplished sig-nature card containing the specimen signature of the Applicant’s authorized signatory and verified by an officer of the bank where the Applicant/authorized representative maintains an account or a valid government-issued identification card containing the pic-ture and signature of the Applicant’s authorized signatory.
10. In case of partnerships: (i) an original notarized certification from the partnership’s duly elected and incumbent partnership
Metro Pacific Hospital Holdings, Inc. (“MPHHI”) (formerly Neptune Stroika Holdings, Inc.), is the current owner of 313,655 common shares of Davao Doctors Hospital (Clinica Hilario), Inc. (“DDH”) which represent approximately 34.82% of the total outstanding capital stock of DDH.
MPHHI has offered to acquire the remaining 587,154 common shares of DDH which comprise approximately 65.18% of the total outstanding shares of DDH. Accordingly, on September 29, 2015, MPHHI filed with the SEC a Tender Offer Report (SEC Form 19-1) in compliance with Section 19 of the Securities Regulation Code and Rule 19 of the implementing rules and regulations thereof, setting out MPHHI’s offer (the “Tender Offer”) to acquire the remaining 587,154 common shares of DDH in the hands of all the other shareholders. All the shares tendered shall be purchased by MPHHI on a tiered pricing in accordance with the terms and conditions contained in the summary below:
1 For corporate/partnership stockholders, the stock certificates must be endorsed by its authorized signatory/ies whose name and specimen signature/s is/are on file with the Corporate Secretary of DDH.2 This is to enable the Bidder to apply for, and obtain the Certificate Autho-rizing Registration with the BIR in case the stockholder fails to submit the Certificate Authorizing Registration to MPHHI within six (6) months after the Settlement Date.
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and will be coursed through provincial tour-ism officers associations.
“Each island clus-ter will have P50,000 while selected four or-ganizations will also re-ceive P50,000 for their capacity building,” Te-soro said, adding that the financial aid will be coursed through local associations of tourism officers.
Tesoro said the as-sociation is targeting to release the guidelines by the fourth quarter of this year.
”By then, we can
start calling for propos-als,” he said.
Among the project proposals that could be extended with grants are those that promote job generation and in-clusive growth as well as proposals that also aims to preserve and promote local culture and creative industries.
Tourism stakehold-ers who are also en-gaged in Halal tourism could submit proposals for funding of their Ha-lal certification.
As part of the associ-ation’s plan until 2016,
he said extending grants is one way of the ATOP’s initiative to reach out to the grass root level.
“It is very important to promote communi-ty-based tourism,” Teso-ro said.
Tourism destinations like Benguet and Bohol are among the country’s most successful commu-nity-based tourism, ac-cording to him.
Mindanao’s tourist destinations, Tesoro said, have a huge fight-ing chance in the inter-national tourism mar-ket, but security and
safety are still one of the challenges faced by the local industry.
Meanwhile, more than 1,000 tourism of-ficers from different parts of the Philippines participated in the four-day convention that was scheduled to end Sun-day.
Next year’s conven-tion on October will be hosted by Clark, Pam-panga.
“The hosting of Davao City will be our benchmark,” Clark tour-ism officer Arwin Paul Lingat said. CRC
ALDUBMANIA. Popular noontime show’s “Kalyeserye” fanatics are glued to a television set as the phenomenal love team AlDub’s much-anticipated second meeting unfolds. The extremely popular “Kalyeserye” has gotten
global attention because of the record-breaking number of tweets it has generated on Twitter over the past weeks. Lean Daval Jr.
said in a radio interview a day after he officially an-nounced his plan to run for VP.
“When I announced
my candidacy in Davao, I took a step of faith. I told myself that a good part-ner is really worth wait-ing for," he added.
The senator, mean-while, stressed that what-ever happens in the fol-lowing months preceding the 2016 polls, he will
remain committed to his goal of pushing for real change and a more inclu-sive growth throughout the country
A fresh wave of fight-ing between Army soldiers and an un-
identified armed group trig-gered a new round of evac-uees in this town on Friday.
Marihatag Mayor Allan Pelenio told a Senate Com-mittee on Justice public hearing in Tandag City that more than 200 Manobo families or 1,000 persons fled their homes in Baran-gay Mahaba, eight kilome-ters from the town center.
Pelenio said he sent two trucks to fetch the residents from three sitios from Ba-rangay Mahaba and from the village’s central area.
“There is nothing left
there right now except stray dogs and untended pigs,” Barangay Mahaba Kagawad Alejandro Sanchez said.
Sanchez said they fled their villages after a fresh wave of fighting erupted be-tween soldiers and armed men believed to be New People’s Army rebels.
He said they could hear the fighting getting near-er to their houses so they decided to flee Thursday night.
Benny Canon, 64, how-ever, said they saw mem-bers of the Bagani terror group led by Bobby Tejero, suspect in the Sept. 1 killing of a school director and two
lumad leaders in Lianga, Su-rigao del Sur.
Canon said Tejero and the Bagani groups came after the soldiers arrived in their village on Thurs-day and demanded that the villagers identify NPA mem-bers among them.
“We have to flee because we do not want to become their victims,” he said.
Senator Teofisto Guin-gona said the Philippine Na-tional Police and the Army should arrest Bobby Tejero, his brother Loloy Abab Te-jero and Garito Layno to re-store the confidence of the lumads.
“The name of Bobby
Tejero is already enough to trigger a mass evacuation. They should be arrested. This is step no. 1 to re-store the confidence of the lumads,” Guingona said.
Police have filed murder charges, grave threats and arson against the suspects for the killing of Emerito Sa-marca, 54, executive direc-tor of the Alternative Learn-ing Center for Agriculture and Livelihood Develop-ment (ALCADEV), a school for lumads.
The PNP and Army have formed Task Force Bang-kaw (Spear) to immediately arrest the suspects. (Froilan Gallardo/MindaNews)
Fresh fighting triggers moreevacuations in Surigao town
CHURCH leaders reiterat-ed their calls for the dis-bandment and disarm-
ing of paramilitary groups that are being accused of sowing terror in Lumad communities in Surigao del Sur suspected to be sympathetic to the New People’s Army.
Speaking at the Senate public hearing here on Friday, Tandag Bishop Nereo Odchi-mar said the killings and ha-rassment attributed to these groups caused the evacuation last month of around 3,000 individuals from Barangay Di-atagon and neighboring areas.
The evacuees have sought refuge at the provincial sports complex since Sept. 1. They fled on the same day after members of a paramilitary called Bagani/Magahat al-legedly killed three Lumad leaders in Km 16, Sitio Han-ayan, Barangay Diatagon in Lianga, Surigao del Sur.
The victims were identi-fied as Dionel Campos, Bello Sinzo and Emerito Samarca.
Witnesses said the killers were members of the Magahat led by Loloy Tejero, Bobby Te-jero and Garito Layno.
Odchimar, who said he was voicing the sentiment not only of the Catholic Church but also of other Christian denom-inations, cited the problem about paramilitary groups has
been around since 2005.Aside from Odchimar, also
present during the hearing that started Thursday were Catholic priests and nuns and leaders of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente.
“We have to go to the root of the evacuation which is the harassment by these armed groups,” the bishop said.
Sr. Stella Matutina, a Bene-dictine nun, also urged the Senate to address the problem of displacement in the prov-ince.
“Let’s face the real prob-lem…. Give justice for those killed because they’re not NPAs,” she said.
The nun added that three mothers have given birth at the evacuation center and 52 more were about to give birth.
“They want to go back. We want help and immediate action from you, Senators. We want to emphasize the pres-ence of armed groups,” she said.
Sr. Matutina said they received reports that more people have left their homes, referring to the fresh wave of evacuees from Barangay Ma-haba in Marihatag town that fled Thursday due to the al-leged presence of paramilitary elements in their place. (H. Marcos C. Mordeno/MindaN-ews)
Disband paramilitary groupsin Surigao: Church leaders
POLICE authorities are eyeing extortion as be-hind the bomb explo-
sion inside a passenger bus in Polomolok town in South Cotabato around noon Thurs-day that injured 18 people.
Chief Superintendent Lester Camba, Region 12 po-lice director, confirmed Fri-day that the management of Yellow Bus Line (YBL) Inc. based in Koronadal City re-ceived a call from a person who claimed to be a member of the Al-Khobar gang several minutes before the blast.
“The caller identified himself as a member of the Al-Khobar and warned that they planted an explosive in one of their [YBL] bus units,” he said.
The official said a secre-tary of the bus company re-ceived the call around 11:50 a.m. or less than 10 minutes before the bomb exploded in-side a YBL bus unit with body number 2008 and license plate MWD 296 at a portion of the national highway in Ba-rangay Silway 7 in Polomolok.
The passenger bus, which originated from Koronadal City and en route to this city, had just left the public termi-nal of Polomolok when the explosion came.
It had also made a brief stop in Tupi town in South Co-tabato as part of its route.
Eighteen of the 34 pas-sengers, including a week-old baby, were injured in the blast and were rushed to various
hospitals here.Most of the victims only
sustained minor injuries and four of them were still con-fined at a private hospital here as of Friday morning.
Citing accounts from witnesses, Camba said two unidentified persons board-ed the bus along the national highway in Tupi town and placed a package at the over-head compartment near the center section of the bus.
The two reportedly dis-embarked from the bus at the Polomolok public terminal, he said.
“We’re not discounting other possible angles and our investigators are currently digging deeper into the case,” Camba said.
Based on results of the post-blast investigation con-ducted by the South Cotaba-to Provincial Police Office’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit, the explosive was placed in red plastic and blue sando bags that were left near the sixth and seventh rows of the bus’s overhead compart-ment.
Sr. Supt. Jose Briones Jr., South Cotabato police di-rector, said it was fashioned from a PRB 423 fragmen-tation grenade that was at-tached to several batteries and a cellphone, which was used as triggering device.
“The grenade’s fuse was removed and modified, and the means of initiation was electric,” he said. MindaNews
Extortion behind SouthCotbus blast that hurt 18: police
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TWO national parks in Davao region have been included in the seven
biodiversity sites that Filipi-nos and foreigners need to discover.
Instead of going to fa-mous tourist spots like Bora-cay, Cebu, Bohol, Batanes and Palawan, the ASEAN Center for Biodiversity (ACB) rec-ommends other places in the Philippines where people “can enjoy history, culture and biodiversity richness all at the same time.”
ASEAN stands for Asso-ciation of Southeast Asian Nations (composed of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Phil-ippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam). Biodiversity (from the words “biological diversity”) refers to the vast diversity of plants and ani-mals on this planet and im-plies the importance of all.
The ACB calls those rec-ommended areas as ASE-AN Heritage Parks (AHPs). “These are protected areas of high-conservation impor-tance, preserving in total a complete spectrum of repre-sentative ecosystems of the ASEAN region,” it explained.
In Davao region, two na-tional parks were included: the Mount Apo Natural Park and Mount Hamiguitan Na-tional Park and Wildlife Sanc-tuary.
Apo, which means “ances-tor,” “master,” or “grandfather,” is a flat-topped mountain with three peaks. It is capped by a 500-metre-wide (1,600 feet) volcanic crater containing a small crater lake. It is classi-fied as a dormant but active Philippine volcano, whose most recent eruption is un-known and none are verified
in historical times. When Republic Act no.
9237 was approved on Feb-ruary 3, 2004, Mount Apo be-came a protected area under the category of Natural Park with an area of 54,974.87 hectares (135,845.9 acres). Two peripheral areas of 2,571.73 hectares (6,354.9 acres) and 6,506.40 hectares (16,077.7 acres) as buffer zones were provided for its management and for other purposes.
The Mount Apo National Park is considered by the De-partment of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) as the center of endemism in Mindanao. It has one of the richest botanical mountains in the region hosting hundreds of rare, endemic and threat-ened species of flora. Iden-tified floral species includes 629 species, 42 of which are endemic and 18 species are considered at risk, including the “waling-waling,” the coun-try’s second flower icon (after sampaguita).
Waling-waling (scientific name: Vanda sanderiana) “is one of the finest orchid spe-cies endemic to the Philip-pines, desired by orchid grow-ers and breeders alike for its showy and attractive flowers and ability to impart its vigor and floral characteristics to its progeny,” wrote Dr. Helen Val-mayor in her book, Orchidiana Philippiniana.
A Pictorial Cyclopedia of Philippine Ornamental Plants described the exotic wal-ing-waling in these words: “The flowers are flat, to eight centimeters across; the sepals and petals are obviate, bluish pink, with buff-yellow stain, and dull-crimson reticulations on the lateral sepals; the lip is
small and concave, purple-red at base, strongly recurved and brownish purple at apex; with three prominent keels.”
The waling-waling, named in “allusion to a moth in flight,” was discovered on Mindanao in 1882. It used to grow on tree trunks in the rainforests of Davao, Sultan Kudarat and other parts of the island. It is worshipped as “diwata” (fairy) by the native Bagobos.
The Mount Apo National Park is also home to one of the world’s largest eagles, the crit-ically endangered Philippine Eagle, the country’s national bird. It was in 1896 when the bird of prey was first discov-ered by English naturalist John Whitehead in Samar.
At first, it was called “monkey-eating eagle” be-cause he thought it fed pri-marily on monkeys. So he gave it the scientific name, Pithecophaga jefferyi. The sci-entific name came from two Greek words: pitekos (mon-key) and phagien (to eat). Jef-feryi was the discoverer’s trib-ute to his father, Jeffrey, who funded his expedition.
In 1978, the old name
was dropped and given its present name through Presi-dential Decree No. 1732 after it was learned that monkeys comprise an insignificant por-tion of the bird’s diet, which consists mostly of flying le-murs, civet cats, bats, rodents, and snakes.
A majestic bird, Philip-pine eagle stands a meter high, weighs anywhere from four to seven kilograms and has a grip three times the strength of the strongest man on earth, according to the Philippine Eagle Foundation, Inc.
With a wing span of near-ly seven feet and a top speed of 80 kilometers per hour, the Philippine eagle can graceful-ly swoop down on an unsus-pecting prey and carry it off without breaking flight.
“Nature and wildlife en-thusiasts will definitely enjoy Mount Hamiguitan, which has one of the most diverse wild-life populations in the Phil-ippines,” the ACB said. “This 1,620-meter-high mountain is in San Isidro, Davao Oriental.”
Aside from Philippine ea-gles, there are several species of Nepenthes that inhabit the area, including the endemic Nepenthes peltata. The moun-tain has a protected forest area of approximately 2,000 hectares. This woodland is noted for its unique pygmy forest of century old trees in ultramafic soil, with many en-dangered, endemic and rare species of flora and fauna.
Wikipedia reports: “In-ventory of flora species in the mountain and its vicinity showed that its montane for-est has the highest species richness of plants with 462 species, followed by its dip-terocarp forest with 338 spe-cies, mossy forest with 246 species and agro-system with 246 species.”
The International Union for Conservation of Nature
Red List has identified at least 11 endangered vertebrate species. The Laguna-based Philippine Council for Agri-culture, Aquatic and Natural Resources and Development reported that the mountain is inhabited by five endangered species, 27 rare species, 44 endemic species and 59 eco-nomically important species.
In June 2014, the Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary was added to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organi-zation (UNESCO) list of World Heritage Sites.
UNESCO, in its website, said: “The property showcas-es terrestrial and aquatic hab-itats at different elevations, and includes threatened and endemic flora and fauna spe-cies, eight of which are found only at Mount Hamiguitan.”
Two more national parks located in Mindanao were included: Mount Kitanglad Range Natural Park in Bukid-non and Mount Malindang Range Natural Park, which spans the provinces of Mis-amis Occidental, Zamboanga del Norte and Zamboanga del Sur.
In Luzon, two sites were
listed: Mount Makiling Forest Reserve (home to an abun-dance of plant and animal species) in Los Baños, Laguna; and Mount-Iglit-Baco Nation-al Park, where the endemic tamaraw (Bubalus mindoren-sis) can be found.
The only natural park not located in the mountain and included in the list is the Tubbataha Reef Natural Park, which was declared a UNESCO Heritage Site in 1993. “Be mesmerized by the crystal-clear waters and the amazing sight of underwater species of the natural park in the middle of the Sulu Sea,” ACB said.
According to ACB, the seven biodiversity sites are only part of the 35 ASEAN Heritage Parks in the region. These are “established to generate greater awareness, pride, appreciation, enjoy-ment and conservation of ASEAN’s rich natural heri-tage, through a regional net-work of representative-pro-tected areas.”
Another reason: “to cre-ate greater collaboration among the ASEAN mem-ber-states in preserving their shared natural heritage.”
Davao region home to two biodiversity sitesTEXT and PHOTOS By HENRYLITO D. TACIO
Mount Apo National Park
The endangered Philippine eagle
The endangered waling-waling
Mount Hamiguitan as displayed at the Subangan Museum in Mati City.
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VOL. 8 ISSUE 133 • SUNDAY-MONDAY, OCTOBER 4-5, 2015 15SPORTS
GABE Norwood was just a year old when the Philippines and China last faced each other in a
heated battle for the Fiba-Asia (then known as the Asian Basketball Con-federation) title.
Yet, he certainly knows the deep-ly rooted rivalry between these two Asian powers.
“Yeah, very aware,” said Norwood when asked about his sense of Asian cage history after China and the Phil-ippines disposed of their respective semifinal opponents Friday to ar-range a final duel on Saturday night.
“Not just ours but coach Tab’s personal rivalry also. So it’s a lot of emotions going in there. We just gonna have our rest and be ready for tomorrow,” added the high-leaping forward, obviously referring to Bald-win’s heartbreaking 70-69 loss to China during the 2011 final in Wu-han while still calling the shots for Jordan.
Handled by the legendary Ron Ja-cobs and reinforced by naturalized players Jeff Moore and Dennis Still, the Philippines completed a six-game sweep of the 1986 tournament capped by an 82-72 win over China in its final outing.
It was the last time a Philippine team would win the championship as China would capture 10 of the next 14 editions of the biennial meet.
The 8::30 p.m. showdown will pit the tournament’s two most accom-plished teams, with China owning 15 titles and the Philippines with five.
Norwood expects the rivalry to be rekindled anew, at a time when the two nations are in the mid-dle of a territorial dispute that grows worse by the day.
“ I t w a s brought up a g a i n there in the l o c k -er room af- t e r the game,” a c -knowledgedthe Rain or Shine stalwart. “It was unspoken but spoken indirect-ly between the coaches’ speech, to the bosses speeches to the prayer.”
N o r w o o d knows toppling China in front of its r u c k u s crowd would be a mountain to climb, but he has faith in Gilas no matter what.
“It’s gonna be an all-out bat-tle,” he said. “What a better way to end the tournament than to play the host team in the battle for the gold medal given the his-tory (between the two teams).”
STEVE Kerr is stepping aside from his job as coach of the NBA cham-
pion Golden State Warriors to focus on his recovery from two back surgeries in the past three months.
The NBA team announced Thursday that Kerr would take a leave of absence to continue his rehabilitation from surgery to fix a ruptured disc in July and another operation last month.
Kerr led Golden State to an NBA championship in June in his first season as head coach.
“At this point, the most im-portant thing is to make sure Steve is healthy, completely re-covered and ready for not only the rigors of a long NBA season but day-to-day life in general,”
Warriors general manager Bob Myers said.
“We don’t anticipate the recovery process will be long term, but as of today we don’t know the exact time frame. We’ll evaluate his progress daily and provide updates as necessary.”
Warriors assistant coach Luke Walton will take over from Kerr while he is in rehab.
“After the first two days of training camp, I realized I need to take a step back and focus on my rehabilitation in order to be ready for the grind of an-other NBA season,” Kerr said.
“As I noted last week, my summer was difficult and no fun due to the multiple back surgeries. At this point, I sim-ply want to get healthy and
back to my normal daily rou-tine on and off the court.”
Golden State gave no timeline for his return, saying the top priority is that he gets better.
Kerr, who was born in Bei-rut, Lebanon, won five NBA championships as a player, in-cluding three with the Chicago Bulls.
He was chosen in the sec-ond round of the 1988 NBA entry draft by the Phoenix Suns and went on to play 910 games with Phoenix, Cleve-land, Chicago, Orlando, Port-land and San Antonio in 15 seasons.
Golden State opens the 2015-16 regular season on October 27 at home against the New Orleans Pelicans.
JORDAN Spieth picked up another award on Friday after being
named PGA Tour Player of the Year by his fellow pro-fessionals, a statement said.
The world number one received the Jack Nicklaus Trophy after a record-breaking 2015 season which included victories in two Majors.
“The PGA Tour en-joyed a sensational sea-son from every perspec-tive as our young stars shone brighter than ever before, but none brighter than the PGA Tour Player of the Year Jordan Spi-eth,” commissioner Tim Finchem said in a state-ment.
The PGA Tour’s mem-
bership also named Dan-iel Berger as Rookie of the Year in the awards an-nounced Friday.
On Monday, Spieth was named PGA of Amer-ica Player of the Year and was also handed the pres-tigious Vardon Trophy.
Spieth, 22, became the second youngest play-er to win the awards in the same year after Tiger Woods achieved the feat as a 21-year-old in 1997.
On Sunday Spieth took his earnings for 2015 to just over $22 million af-ter carding a one-under-par 69 to claim the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, clinching the $10 million bonus on offer to the win-ner of the FedEx Cup.
WINNING KARATEKAS. AAK Davao’s (left to right) Jelynn Landong, Daryll Sulla, Darlene Maramara, Julian Ambrose Ramirez, JP Ponce and Sophia Agullo show the medals won by the team in the recent SM Marikina Super Karate Kids Tournament during the FAST Fridays media forum at the Archipelago 7107 by Barrio Fiesta at SM Lanang Premier. Lean Daval Jr.
RUN FOR LUMADS. Marion Solis, spokesperson of the Run for Lumads 2015 gives the details of the advocacy run set on October 17 during the FAST Fridays media forum at the Archipelago 7107 by Barrio Fiesta at SM Lanang Premier. Lean Daval Jr.
It’s not just basketball, it’s also politicsTOP GUNNERS. China’s Yi Jianlian (11) and the Philippines’ Jayson Castro (7).
Spieth voted Golfer of the Year
Kerr steps aside as Warriors coach
VOL. 8 ISSUE 133 • SUNDAY-MONDAY, OCTOBER 4-5, 201514EDGEDAVAOSports
Regardless of what hap-pens from here on, Gilas Pilipinas is al-
ready guaranteed a place in the qualifying tournament for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
All four semifinalists in the ongoing Fiba Asia Championship - defending champion Iran, host China, Gilas and dark horse Ja-pan - have earned tickets to one of three Fiba qualifying tournaments set from July 4 to 10 in three different cities around the world.
Of course, the winner can get an outright spot in the Rio Games, joining pow-
erhouse the United States and qualifiers from Africa, Europe, Fiba Americas and Oceania. The Americans, the defending Olympic gold medallists, earned an out-right spot in Rio after ruling the 2014 Fiba World Cup in Spain.
Aside from the US, al-ready assured of Olym-pic berths are AfroBasket champion Nigeria, Fiba Americas champion Vene-zuela and runner-up Argen-tina, EuroBasket champion Spain and runner-up Lith-uania, host Brazil, and Aus-tralia who beat New Zealand for the lone Oceania berth in
a best-of-three series.Gilas needs to beat Ja-
pan in a semifinal late Fri-day and the winner of the Iran-China game in Satur-day’s final to make it back to the Olympics for the first time since 1972 in Munich, where a Philippine team led by the late Ciso Bernardo, Bogs Adornado and Jimmy Mariano placed 13th.
If it falls short, the Phil-ippines will end up in a world qualifying tourna-ment to be staged next year where three more tickets to Rio will be at stake.
Under the new format approved by the Fiba Cen-
tral Committee last August, 18 teams will be divided into three groups of six for three separate qualifiers to be staged just weeks before the August 5-21 basketball tournament in Rio de Janei-ro.
Fifteen teams from around the world have earned places in the quali-fiers. Aside from the three from Asia, also qualified are European teams France, Ser-bia, Greece, Italy and Czech Republic, Africa’s Angola, Tunesia and Senegal, Cana-da, Mexico and Puerto Rico from Fiba Americas and New Zealand from Oceania.
THE OTHER ROAD TO THE OLYMPICS
Gilas started strongly but soon found itself hang-ing on for dear life against a Chinese team that dom-inated with its sheer size inside and time and again pounced on the Filipinos’ zone with a barrage of three-point shots before a boisterous crowd at the Changsha Social Work Col-leges Gymnasium.
From the second quar-ter on, the Philippines found themselves sim-ply trying to stay in the game as it couldn’t hit its shots consistently enough from both inside and out against China’s gangling defenders and, worse, couldn’t seem to get a call from the referees.
Before the first half could end, China had built a 13-point lead, 46-33, and kept a safe distance from
Gilas from there to win their 16th Asian champi-onship - and first since the 2011 edition in Wuhan.
On the other hand, Gi-las finished runner-up in this biennial tournament for the second successive time, consoling itself with a trip to the Olympic Qual-ifying Tournament in July.
Andray Blatche led Gilas with 17 points but most of his points came in the second half after the Chinese had built a big lead.
The Filipinos shot 15 of 26 from the line and at one point, Calvin Abueva muffed four free throws in the third quarter typifying their pathetic foul shoot-ing. Jayson Castro was lim-ited to single digit output and was saddled by fouls early in the game.
HEADS... FROM 1
ONE ON ONE. Yi Jian Lian of China cuts loose against Andray Blatche of the Philippines tries in this bit of action during the finals of the FIBA Asia Championships. FIBA Asia photo
