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DAVAO CITY Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte yesterday said he

will not hesitate to order the closure of mall estab-lishments in the city if they do not impose strict security measures.

The mayor’s warning came in the aftermath of two successive bombings on Monday night in two cinemas inside SM City Davao in Quimpo Boule-

vard and Gaisano Mall in J.P. Laurel Avenue.

“They should provide adequate security or else I will close them and re-voke their permit to op-erate,” a fuming Duterte told media in a press con-ference at the Grand Men Seng Hotel shortly after cutting short an official business trip to South Ko-rea.

SECURITY LAPSES. Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte says he will not hesitate to padlock Davao City malls with ineffectual and inef-ficient security setups as Davao City Police

Office (DCPO) chief Ronald dela Rosa listens during yesterday’s command conference

at the Grand Men Seng Hotel after two Davao City malls’ cinemas were bombed on

Monday night. Lean Daval Jr.

CRIME SCENE. A lady guard fixes the police line outside cinema 5 of Gaisano Mall of Davao yesterday where police operatives are conducting thorough inves-tigation after Monday night’s bomb explosion. Lean Daval Jr.

Rody threatens malls, security firms with closure, permit revocationAT A GLANCE:•Police still clueless as to twin bombings suspects and

motive•MNLF: We have nothing to do with blasts•Mayor clears Misuari-led MNLF•Bomb threat at Ecoland Terminal a hoax

By Emilord P. Castromayor and EJ Dominic Fernandez

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AS expected, mem-bers of the Davao City Council yes-

terday approved in una-nimity the appointment of their former colleague, lawyer J. Melcor V. Quita-in, as the new city admin-istrator.

Councilor Rachel Zo-zobrado, chair of the com-mittee on government appointments who spon-sored the resolution for Quitain’s confirmation, said the city adminis-trator “possesses all the qualifications and none of the disqualifications.”

Even before his confir-mation, she said Quitain already showed his com-petence in carrying out the order of Duterte to get rid of corruption the en-tire bureaucracy.

“I firmly believe in his capacity to make Davao City a corruption-free lo-cal government unit,” she said.

Quitain, who resigned as city councilor last September 9, said he be-lieves on the quality of leadership, competency

and sincerity of Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte as the main reason he accepted the post offered to him by the mayor even before the last elections.

“It is our vision to con-tinue make Davao City as a city for the least, last and lost,” he said.

“With all these issue of corruption in the national government, sometimes I say to myself maybe it is not the law but men. I be-lieve that the goodness of men in government will be the salvation of the country,” Quitain said.

Quitain’s former col-leagues took turn in com-mending and appreciat-ing his “brilliance, legal expertise and guidance” in the legislative process and other discussions in the City Council.

“He was always there in providing legal guidance on some criti-cal issues, which, if not properly taken cared of, might bring us into ad-ministrative and criminal action. Every time issues were raised, everybody

are looking at him for his guidance and his voice will surely reverberate in this hall while every-body intently listen,” said councilor Danilo Dayang-hirang.

“After seeing the head-line in the news about the instruction of the mayor to rid all the local bureau-cracies with corruption, the signal is clear, every-body in government is en-joined to help and assists the leadership if the city maintain its course and be proud of having a cor-rupt free-city,” he added.

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THE BIG NEWS

DAVAO City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has cleared the par-

ticipation of the members of the Misuari-led Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) faction on the twin explosions Monday night inside cinemas in two malls here.

Duterte personally called Nur Misuari Tuesday morning through mobile phone and was assured that his men were not involved in bombing attacks.

“I am convinced of his assurance. The MNLF has nothing to do with the in-cidents. And I believe that

there is a third force which is behind this,” he said.

Earlier, MNLF-Davao City chair Rolando Olamit has denied his group was behind the bombings, say-ing they could not do it be-cause they fully supported the peace and order pro-gram of Duterte.

Olamit, who went to the bomb site at Gaisano Mall at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, said a third party was out to make the situation to be shaky.

Duterte said as of this posting time, investigators have still no leads on the identities of the suspects

and their motives.“We are still waiting for

the post-blast investiga-tion. The EIDs used should still be determined,” he said.

He ordered all law en-forcement agencies during a command conference to augment security mea-sures, especially on the frisking of baggages and body check in all public places.

“This is my order to them and I am asking you to cooperate. If you have com-plaints on our policemen, don’t sue them, instead sue me,” he said. [PNA]

TWO movies shown in the cin-ema houses that

were bombed Mon-day night were about hate, rebellion, deceit, and revelations, while Mayor Rodrigo Duter-te speculated that the bombers may have wanted to make a state-ment.

Duterte in a press conference at the Grand Men Seng Hotel Tuesday morning , “it appears the bombers wanted to say some-thing, it could be a political statement, a statement of rebellion or a statement of hate.”

According to Davao City Police Office direc-tor Ronald dela Rosa, the bombs exploded in the SM City, Ecolan-d,Cinema 1 at 9:05 p.m, then in Gaisano Mall Cinema 5 at 9:30 p.m. occurred during the last full showing of the two movies.

The movie at SM Ecoland “Elysium,” while the one in Gaisa-no Mall was titled “In-tersections”.

In the Internet Mov-ie Database the Best IMDb, a popular and authoritative source for movie, TV, and ce-lebrity content online, Elysium is a story set in the year 2154---where the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population reside on a ruined Earth---a man takes on a mission through rebellion that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.

Intersections, on the other hand, is a movie set around a wife and husband on vacation in Morocco with the wife plotting to murder her husband with help from her lover. The plan goes terribly wrong when her lover and husband get into a terrible car

accident on a remote desert road. They es-cape the multi-car pile-up at a desert intersec-tion and encounter the group of survivors, in-cluding a wanted smug-gler, an undercover cop, a kidnapper, a baby and an unconscious Aus-tralian. They embark on a journey of deceit and revelation that cul-minates in a Tangiers souk (marketplace).

Duterte said that two or three days ago, the military and police, through collated intel-ligence reports, were warned and informed that something like this was likely to happen.

He said, the military and police warned SM City, particularly an American coffee shop, Starbucks. The intelli-gence report showed that the likely targets are anything that rep-resents American in-dustry.

The Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) rebels

have released Zambo-anga City police offi-cer-in-charge Sr. Supt. Jose Chiquito Malayo and his two companions whom they seized earli-er Tuesday in Zamboan-ga City.

Initial report dis-closed that Malayo and his two companions were freed shortly after 6 p.m., several hours af-ter they were seized at Sitio Bagtus, Barangay Mampang, 9 kms east of

this city.The report said that

Malayo and his com-panions were freed in exchange for the safe surrender of the Basi-lan-based rebels who seized them.

The report quoting Councilor Percival Ra-mos said Malayo’s group and the rebels boarded on a government-owned bus en route to Camp Batalla along R.T. Lim Boulevard.

Malayo and his two companions were seized by the rebels

while the police official was trying to convince a group of rebels to peacefully surrender.

Meanwhile, Armed Forces Public Affairs Officer Lt. Col. Ramon Zagala said there were already a total of 123 hostages who were rescued, recovered and released as the troops continue to pounce the rebels.

“This is the result of the gradual constriction on the movement of the rebels,” Zagala said. [PNA]

TALK WITH MISUARI. Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte takes some time off during yesterday’s command conference at the Grand Men Seng Hotel to talk to Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) leader Nur Misuari through cell-

phone. Duterte cut short his Korea trip after two Davao City malls’ cinemas were bombed on Monday night. Lean Daval Jr.

Rody clears MNLF

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...Says bombers want to make a statement

MNLF rebs free Zambo cop chief, companions

Councilors concur with Quitain’s appointment

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TWIN BOMBINGS

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EDGEDAVAO THE BIG NEWS

FIRST the unremitted collections, then the attempted bribery

and now even the petty processing of payroll is also becoming a source of corruption.

City Councilor Dios-dado Mahipus yesterday revealed the prevailing practice in the local gov-ernment, particularly in the city council, to charge P50 for every job order and P500 for the city councilor to hasten the release of their salaries.

In a privilege speech, Mahipus said the practice was relayed to him not by his staff but by the staff of other councilors.

“While we councilors pay P500 for our salary to be released but it’s so petty for the job orders earn so little and yet being charged to pay P50 just for the fast release of their salary,” he

said.Mahipus originally

passed a resolution asking the city council on ethics and good governance to conduct and investigation on the case of eight City Treasurer’s Office (CTO) employees allegedly in-volved in over P8 million unremitted cash collec-tions and another resolu-tion that will put to stop the manual collection of taxes which, he said, gives the chance of bribery to the personnel of CTO.

But his motion was de-ferred upon the interces-sion of councilor Bonifacio Militar who cited the ongo-ing investigation of the City Legal Office (CLO) on the case of CTO employees.

“Before the committee on ethics, we wait first for the outcome of city legal in-vestigation. We will instead pass a resolution asking

the city legal to furnish their findings to the city council,” Militar explained.

City administrator J. Melchor V. Quitain, who at-tended the city council reg-ulalr session for his confir-mation, said he expects the CLO to submit to him the investigation report within a week. He however ques-tioned the prevailing prac-tice of charging a fee for the fast release of payroll.

“Whether the payment is to facilitate (the fast re-lease of salary), why you should pay to anybody who is expected to per-form his duty,” he said.

Quitain also revealed that the two job order em-ployees that the city gov-ernment recently termi-nated from service were involved in “attempted bribery.”

He however refused to elaborate the circumstanc-

es around the case includ-ing the identities and the offices where the em-ployees formerly worked with. “The termination of their contract of service is enough punishment. We should spare their families including their children from further humiliation,” Quitain said.

Councilor Danilo Dayanghirang considered the revelation made by Mahipus as “just allega-tions.”

“I don’t know where councilor Mahipus got that information but what we can do is to report it to the mayor. Pero naa gyud problema diha, on the competence sa nag pro-cess sa payroll. But we will never tolerate this prac-tice. In an organization of over 7,000 there are bad eggs but not the entire or-ganization,” he said.

THE Regional Tri-al Court Branch 11 last June 13

convicted two siblings to life imprisonment for stabbing to death a man in December, 2007.

Judge Virginia Eu-ropa ordered Romeo Padal Jr. and Reynan Padal to suffer the “su-preme penalty of re-clusion perpetua” for the murder of Ragnel Laguardia.

Europa also or-dered the siblings to pay P85,000 as civil

indemnity and other damages to the family of the victim.

Eric Bugayong and Alan Cardero, friends of the victim, testified that it was Romeo who stabbed the victim while Reynan fired at them with an impro-vised gun (sumpak).

“Conspiracy exists if, at the time of the commission of the of-fense , the accused had the same purpose and were united in its exe-cution.” Europa said in her decision.

MANILA-- Gov-ernment secu-rity forces have

constricted members of the Moro National Lib-eration Front (MNLF) in only two barangays in Zamboanga City.

Interior and Local Government Secretary Manuel Roxas II on Tuesday announced that members of the MNLF faction of Misu-ari, who earlier infil-trated six barangays in Zamboanga City, are now holed up in a 500-meter area in ba-rangays Sta. Barbara and Sta. Catalina.

”Now, they are just in Sta. Barbara, Sta. Catalina...just maybe a diameter of 500 meters in an area...straddling the two barangays. So, talagang constricted na sila,” said Roxas in a broadcast interview.

Aside from Baran-gays Sta. Barbara and Sta. Catalina, members of the MNLF also infil-trated Barangays Tal-on-Talon, Riohondo, Mariki and Mampang since Sept. 9.

Roxas said that since the launching of “calibrated response”

DAVAO City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte con-

demned the bombings in the cinemas of SM City Davao and Gaisano Mall Monday night.

In his Facebook ac-count, the mayor yes-terday posted, “togeth-er with the people of Davao, I condemn in the strongest terms the barbaric acts (inside) the two malls of our city.”

He said, “as of the moment, the law en-forcement agencies are conducting a thorough investigation on the in-cidents.”

He also called for the support of the peo-ple to give any informa-tion that would lead to

the early resolution of the incidents and the apprehension of the perpetrators.

The vice mayor’s post elicited a heap of reaction from followers of his social media site.

Jae Santiago Eng-weiler said that she still sees that SM City has “not whatsoever tight-ened security” and that there should be an ulti-matum for the security problems of the malls to be fixed.

Jeane Silvano Surin-ga Pajota expressed her disappointment with the way security guards check people getting in and out of malls.

She said, security guards only do their

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By GREGORIO G. DELIGERO

APPEAL. Vice Mayor Paolo Z. Duterte asks Dabawenyos to be cooperative and to strictly follow the city’s security policies to prevent another bomb explosion during this week’s edition of Pulong Pulong ni Pulong at the Sangguniang Panlungsod yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

Pulong condemns bombings

INVESTIGATION. Police personnel stand guard outside cinema 5 of Gaisano Mall of Davao yesterday where scene of the crime operatives (SOCO) are con-ducting thorough investigation after Monday night’s bomb explosions. Lean Daval Jr.

2 siblings meted life for murderBy EMILORD P. CASTROMAYOR

To hasten processing of payroll

P50 for JOs, P500 for dads

MNLF Misuari faction now constricted in 2 barangays

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SUBURBIACOMPOSTELA VALLEY PROVINCE

GENERAL SANTOS CITY CARAGA, DAVAO ORIENTAL

SOUTH COTABATO

THE Compostela Val-ley Province gives full support as the

world celebrates the Tour-ism Month in September. Opened with a program on September 16, 2013 at the Capitol Lobby, Se-nior Tourism Operations Officer III Christine T. Dompor presented their office’s accomplishments, programs, and projects, and delivered a Tourism and Water Address, giving emphasis on how one can contribute in the produc-tivity and sustainability of water.

With the coming World Tourism Day 2013 on September 27 anchored on the theme “Tourism and Water: Protecting Our Common Future, the province has set various activities such as State of the Water Address Con-test for high school and college students, Tourism Stakeholders Assembly, Launching of Tatak Com-Val Brand in partnership with the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI),

and Launching of Wa-ter Potability Sampling with the Department of Science & Technology (DOST).

Other support activ-ities are the conduct of DTI-ComVal’s Stonecraft Training, ODTOAs Festi-val Management Work-shop, Customer Service & Personality Develop-ment Training for Beach Resorts, White Clay Dis-play Center Opening, Food Handling, Barbeque Seasoning and Business Management Training for BBQ Stall Owners, and the Pablo Arts and Crafts Ex-hibit of the typhoon vic-tim-survivors who were trained stonecraft arti-sans.

As reported, the up-coming World Tourism Day is in support to the United Nations Inter-national Year of Water Cooperation, highlight-ing the importance and the role of tourism in water resource or ac-cess. [Grace Almedilla, IDS-COMVAL]

PABLO CRAFTS ON DISPLAY. Part of the activities in the Tourism Week cel-ebration themed “Tourism and Water: Protecting Our Common Future” in Compostela Valley is the Pablo Stonecrafts Exhibit at the capitol. The cele-

bration is in line with the coming World Tourism Day 2013 set on September 27. [P. Rendon/IDS Comval]

LGU celebrates tourism month

THE Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)

has allocated around P54 million for the installa-tion of energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) streetlights in ma-jor roads within General Santos City.

Engr. Pio Lumongsod, DPWH district engineer here, said they are tar-geting to install around 1,000 LED streetlights starting late October in three thoroughfares leading to the city’s com-mercial and industrial areas.

He said the project will cover the western section of the city cir-cumferential road in Ba-rangay Sinawal, Makar road and Pioneer Avenue.

The western section

of the circumferential road covers an alternate route leading to the city international airport and the industrial areas in Barangays Fatima, Tam-bler and Calumpang.

The Makar road is part of the main highway that leads to the city’s Makar port or the sub-port of Dadiangas and nearby industrial sites while the Pioneer Avenue is located at the heart of the area’s main commer-cial district.

Lumongsod said they will install the LED lights in unlit portions and replace the sodium lamps presently installed in some portions of the three roads.

“These are 90 to 100 watts of LED lights and are equivalent to around

250 watts of sodium lamps. They are mainly brighter and more ener-gy-efficient,” he said in an interview over TV Patrol Socsksargen.

The official said the DPWH Region 12 recent-ly approved the plans and programs of the project and they’re now prepar-ing for the publication of its bid notice.

He said they are ar-ranging to start this week the publication of the bid notice that would last for about a month based on government regulations.

Lumongsod said they expect to complete the bidding process and award or “bid-out” the project by (late) October.

Meantime, to comple-ment the DPWH project, city engineer Francisco

Provido said the local government will start the replacement in the com-ing weeks of the city’s so-dium lamp streetlights to LED lights.

He said the city gov-ernment earlier allocated around P1 million for the purchase and installation of the initial batch of LED streetlights.

City Mayor Ronnel Rivera had created a technical working group to lead a study and the identification of the ar-eas where the LED lights would be installed.

Based on the local government’s earlier as-sessment, the use of LED lights will effectively re-duce the city’s energy consumption by around one megawatt. [MindaN-ews]

GenSan installs 1,000 LED streetlights Caraga fishers getlivelihood support

Power coop seeks contract for 25-MW hydro plantsDISTRIBUTION util-

ity South Cotabato I Electric Coopera-

tive (Socoteco I) is push-ing for the development of two hydropower plant projects with a combined maximum capacity of 25 megawatts (MW) in Lake Sebu town in South Cota-bato.

Santiago Tudio, Soco-teco I general manager, said they are currently working for the issuance by the Department of En-

ergy (DoE) of the service contracts for the pro-posed hydropower plant projects, which would be built in two major water-falls in Lake Sebu.

“We’re now process-ing the requirements for the service contracts and we’re hoping to get them before the end of the year,” he told MindaNews.

Tudio said the pro-posed hydropower proj-ects comprise a 5-MW plant at the Lanon water-

falls, which is the third of Lake Sebu’s famed seven waterfalls, and another 10 to 20-MW plant in a waterfalls in Barangay Lamfugon.

Based on their initial assessment, he said the required investments for the project’s full develop-ment would reach around P145 million per MW or a total of P3.625 billion.

Last year, Socoteco I tied up with renewable energy firm Euro Hydro

Power (Asia) Holdings Inc. for the development of the Lanon plant but the project has yet to proceed due their failure to ac-quire its service contract.

Tudio said they found out that the DoE has al-ready awarded the ser-vice contract for the La-non project to Renouvel Development Corpora-tion, which is reportedly owned by former Nation-al Power Corp. executives. [MindaNews]

FISHERFOLKS’ asso-ciations recently re-ceived new fishing

boats in Caraga, Davao Oriental one of the coast-al towns hit by typhoon Pablo last December.

Financed by the De-partment of Agriculture through the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Re-sources (BFAR) under its Quick Response Fund for Fisherfolk Victims of Ty-phoon Pablo and in part-nership with the provin-cial government, a total of 239 fishermen bene-fited on the seventy units motorized banca and 210 non-motorized ones that were provided.

While these new boats will replace the ones slashed by strong winds and capsized by the huge waves, pounding through the east coast during the supertyphoon, these boats mainly intend to help fisherfolks restore their means of livelihood.

Hoping to help fish-erfolks get back on their feet and further boost their income, BFAR an-nounced that it has in-cluded Davao Oriental under the National Payao Project, which is set to commence next year in support to the banca pro-vision project.

BFAR said that they will deploy steel type payao which are com-monly used in large-

scale, commercial fishing.Aside from serving

as boundary markers to keep off foreign fisher-men from fishing in Phil-ippine waters, the payao project initiative aims at backing the province’s tuna industry, which would take advantage on the province’s strategic location of being located along the Tuna Highway.

Considering the prov-ince’s vast resources in fishery and marine and having the longest coast-line in the region of 513.2 kms, the provincial gov-ernment poises this sec-tor as another emerging industry with vast poten-tial of spurring economic growth to these coastal towns that would highly benefit rural fisherfolks.

The provincial gov-ernment under the lead-ership of chief executive Corazon N. Malanyaon has also facilitated pro-posals for cold storage facilities and other proj-ects to boost the fishing industry in the province, especially in the coastal towns.

Governor Malanyaon also committed to pour more attention on proj-ects that would benefit fisherfolks, considering that they are among the population groups with relatively high incidence of poverty. [Karen Lou Deloso/PIO DavOr]

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A local cooperative of small vendors has been recipient

for the third time of a mi-cro-financing loan from Aboitiz-owned Davao Light and Power Co. through its social devel-opment arm, the Aboitiz Foundation, Inc.

Beneficiary of a P600 thousand soft loan is the Davao Ecoland Small En-trepreneurs Multi-pur-pose Cooperative or DE-SEMULCO. It is a coop-erative of small vendors whose members sell var-ious “pasalubong” items, food, soft drinks and other beverages, fruits, bottled mineral water, pastries, and others at the Davao City Overland Transport Terminal at Ecoland, Ma-tina, Davao City.

The loan that the co-operative has availed of, was released yester-day, September 17, 2013. The P600 thousand loan brings the total soft finan-cial support from Aboitiz

Foundation and Davao Light to P1.2 million in a period of 3 years. The first loan was granted in 2011 while the second one was given in 2012. Both loans have a term of one year and were fully paid by the cooperative in accordance with the agreed term.

Vic N. Sumalinog, Manager for Corporate Community Relations of Davao Light, said that while the micro-financ-ing loan extension is undertaken by the Ce-bu-based Aboitiz Foun-dation it is tapping the electric utility as its arm in reaching out to the Davao-based coops.

The micro-financing loans are given to small cooperatives that are in need of additional re-sources to support proj-ects of its members. The other Davao coop that has availed of the loan facility in 2011 was Man-dug Development Coop-erative or MADECO.

Davao Light bridges local coop for micro-livelihood financing

CEREMONIAL CHECK. Davao Light’s EVP and Chief Operating Officer Art M. Milan turns over a ceremonial check for P600 thousand to Ms. Margarita Pulleda, chairperson of the Davao Ecoland Small Entrepreneurs Multi-pur-pose Cooperative (DESEMULCO). The loan, the third to be availed of by the

said cooperative, will be used to help members in getting start-up capital or expand the operating fund of their small livelihood projects inside the local bus terminal at Ecoland in Matina.

MANILA, Sept. 17 (PNA) –- Philip-pine stocks de-

fied a regional downtrend and extended their rally for a second day ahead of the outcome of the Unit-ed States Federal Reserve policy meeting when it was expected to reduce its monetary stimulus.

The benchmark Philip-pine stock exchange index (PSEi) increased 41.43 points or 0.66 percent to 6,344.14 on Tuesday from previous day’s 6,302.71 finish.

”The newly reconstitut-ed PSEi debuted on a high note,” said Jun Calaycay, an analyst at Accord Capital Equities Corp.

The PSE implement-ed starting Monday a

new composition of the 30-member benchmark index.

Included in the new index were LT Group Inc. of tycoon Lucio Tan and GT Capital Holdings Inc. of George Ty. They replaced Manila Electric Company and Belle Corp.

Calaycay added that the next few days would test the strength of this rally as well as make an attempt to close the gap close to the 6,500 mark.

The market’s ascent was led mainly by property and industrial stocks that edged up 1.61 percent and 1.42 percent.

The sub-indices of min-ing and oil and holding firms were in the negative territory. (PNA)

PHL stocks extend gains

BOI, PEZA approved investments in 8 months increase by 26%

THE combined Board of Investmets (BOI) and Philippine Eco-

nomic Zone Authority (PEZA) approved invest-ments from January to August 2013 went up by 26 percent P398.30 billion from to last year’s P317.34 billion.

Department of Trade and Industry Secretary Gregory Domingo told re-porters during the Phil-ippine Economic Briefing Tuesday that from January to August 2013, BOI record-ed a total approved invest-ments of P287.48 billion while PEZA reached a total of P110.82 billion.

On the same period last year, BOI posted a total of P230.2 billion while PEZA had approved investment of P87.14 billion.

Domingo said 56 per-cent of the approved in-vestments came from electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply industry; followed by real estate activities, 22 percent; accommodation and food service activities, 9 percent; manufacturing, 7 percent; and administrative support service activities, 2 percent.

Investments coming from these sectors gener-ated a total of 70,936 jobs. [PNA]


THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in Re-gion 11 reminds establish-

ments that adoption of No Re-turn, No Exchange (NRNE) policy is a violation of the Consumer Act of the Philippines.

It has been noted that a few complaints have been received by DTI-Davao regarding some stores which are implementing NRNE policy.

DTI-Davao chief of the Regional Consumer Welfare and Trade Regulation Division (CWTRD) Rachel S. Remitio said such policy of some establish-ments is a violation of Republic Act 7394 or the Consumer Act of the Philippines.

Remitio further elaborated that adopting the NRNE policy by establishments might send a misconception among consum-ers that defective products can’t be returned.

“Our country’s Consumer Act provides for the protection of consumers from the prod-ucts and services that are being availed of. Thus, if they are not happy with the products or ser-vices that they paid for, they al-ways have the right for redress,” she said.

However, Remitio said, the

consumer can only return the defective item provided that such was due to manufacturing limita-

tions and not by personal misuse. “Hindi pwedeng isasauli mo

ang nabili mong produkto dahil

nasira mo ito o dahil gusto mo lang palitan at nagbago ang isip mo,” she said. [DTI 11]

THE level of central bank’s special deposit account dropped to its record-low

of P1.63 trillion in end-August 2013 as banks continue to pull out funds from investment management accounts.

“It’s still a process of wind-ing down of the SDA,” Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Deputy Gov-ernor Diwa Guinigundo said.

Deposits in the SDA facili-ty peaked at P1.98 trillion last April but went down after mon-etary officials banned foreign funds from parking in the facil-ity to remove speculative flows.

IMA funds are money from retail investors pooled through a bank’s trust department.

The central bank’s poli-cy-making Monetary Board (MB) has decided that by end-July this year, IMA deposits should be reduced by 30 per-cent based on the end-March 2013 level and fully withdrawn by end-November this year.

The SDA facility was estab-lished in November 1998 as part of the central bank’s policy toolkit.

It has a fixed-term of one-

week, two-weeks and one-month and a rate pegged against the central bank’s over-night borrowing or reverse re-purchase facility, which is now at 3.5 percent.

The BSP allowed the trust entities to park funds in the facility starting in 2007 for the central bank to further manage liquidity in the system follow-ing the surge of dollar inflows in the domestic economy.

However, the MB have put in place several adjustments in the SDA rules this year alone since this is being used as among the central bank’s policy tool kits.

Aside from defining who can tap the facility, the Board also reduced the interest rate of the SDA to record-low of two per-cent.

Monetary officials believe that although the IMA with-drawal would result to higher growth of domestic liquidity or M3 in the domestic economy this will only be temporary.

Based on the Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, 6th edition (BPM6), the latest

reporting standards world-wide, BSP said M3 growth as of last July grew at a faster rate of 30.1 percent to P6 trillion from 20 percent rise in the previous month.

Monetary officials believe that although banks will with-draw the IMA funds, these will go back to the SDA facility as funds deposited to banks’ time deposit products. [PNA]

BY THE NUMBERSThe Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) collected P118.11 billion

taxes in August, narrowly missing its goal of P118.48 billion.

SOURCE: BIR

MONTHLY AVERAGE EXCHANGE RATE (January 2012-April 2013)

Month 2013 2012 2011

Average 42.23 43.31December 41.01 43.64November 41.12 43.27October 41.45 43.45

September 41.75 43.02August 42.04 42.42

July 41.91 42.81June 42.78 43.37May 42.85 43.13April 42.70 43.24

March 42.86 43.52February 40.67 42.66 43.70January 40.73 43.62 44.17

Stat Watch7.1

1st Qtr 2013

7.8 1st Qtr 2013

USD 3,741 million

Feb 2013USD 4,708

million Feb 2013USD -967

million Feb 2013USD -640

millionDec 2012

P 4,964,560 million

Feb 2013

2.4 % Mar 2013P113,609

million Mar 2013

P 5,281 billion

Mar 2013

P 41.14 Apr 2013

6,847.5 Mar 2013

132.8 Apr 2013

2.6 Apr 2013

3.1 Apr 2013

418,108 Feb 2013

20.9% Jan 2013

7.1% Jan 2013

1. Gross National IncomeGrowth Rate(At Constant 2000 Prices)

2. Gross Domestic ProductGrowth Rate(At Constant 2000 Prices)

3. Exports 1/

4. Imports 1/

5. Trade Balance

6. Balance of Payments 2/

7. Broad Money Liabilities

8. Interest Rates 4/

9. National Government Revenues

10. National government outstanding debt

11. Peso per US $ 5/

12. Stocks Composite Index 6/

13. Consumer Price Index 2006=100

14. Headline Inflation Rate 2006=100

15. Core Inflation Rate 2006=100

16. Visitor Arrivals

17. Underemployment Rate 7/

18. Unemployment Rate 7/

Cebu Pacific Daily 5J961 / 5J962 5:45 Manila-Davao-Manila 6:15Zest Air Daily Z2390 / Z2390 5:45 Manila-Davao-Manila 6:25Cebu Pacific Daily 5J593 / 5J348 6:00 Cebu-Davao-Iloilo 6:30Philippine Airlines Daily PR809 / PR810 6:10 Manila-Davao-Manila 7:00Philippine Airlines Daily PR819 / PR820 7:50 Manila-Davao-Manila 8:50Cebu Pacific Daily 5J394 / 5J393 7:50 Zamboanga-Davao-Zamboanga 8:10Cebu Pacific Daily 5J599 / 5J594 8:00 Cebu-Davao-Cebu 8:30Cebu Pacific Daily 5J347 / 5J596 9:10 Iloilo-Davao-Cebu 9:40Cebu Pacific Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri/Sun 5J963 / 5J964 9:40 Manila-Davao-Manila 10:10Philippine Airlines Daily PR811 / PR812 11:30 Manila-Davao-Manila 12:20Cebu Pacific Daily 5J595 / 5J966 12:00 Cebu-Davao-Manila 12:30Cebu Pacific Thu 5J965 / 5J968 12:55 Manila-Davao-Manila 13:25

Cebu Pacific Tue/Wed//Sat 5J965 / 5J968 13:35 Manila-Davao-Manila 14:05Silk Air Mon/Sat MI588 / MI588 13:35 Davao-Singapore 18:55 Silk Air Wed/Sun MI566 / MI566 15:20 Davao-Singapore 18:55Silk Air Thurs MI551 / MI551 12:05 Davao-Singapore 15:45Cebu Pacific Mon/Tue/Wed/Fri 5J507 / 5J598 15:00 Cebu-Davao-Cebu 15:30Philippine Airlines August 15:55 Mani2Mani 16:50Zest Air Daily Z2524 / Z2525 16:05 Cebu-Davao-Cebu 16:45

as of May 2013

EDGEDAVAO6 THE ECONOMY

CUSTOMERS’ SATISFACTION. A lady commissioned by motorcycle firms for a research on customers’ satisfaction conducts random inter-views from motorists in front of Sangguniang Panlungsod along San Pedro Street yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

Special deposit account drops to record low

‘No return no exchange’ policy a violation--DTI


SENATOR Loren Legarda yester-day warned that

unless the Philippines takes concerted effort against climate change, such would continue to threaten the Philippine economy, and the lives of millions of Filipinos.

“According to the International Disaster Database (IDD) main-tained by the Center for Research on the Ep-idemiology of Disasters (CRED), the Philippines lost US $ 8.809 billion, roughly Php378 billion in damages due to natu-ral disasters from 1900 to 2013,” Legarda said.

She also noted that Typhoon Pablo accounted for almost 19% of this number after it recorded economic damages worth US $ 1.6 billion, or about Php68 billion.

“The tragedy of Pablo happened because of the absence of an effective disaster risk strategy. For example, had the barangay captain of Barangay Andap re-ceived and understood the geo-hazard map, he would have never relo-cated his constituents in the barangay hall. He might have never built it in the first place,” Le-garda, who chairs the Senate Committees on Climate Change and En-vironment, said.

“It is about time that the we push for the full implementation of our environmental laws, build climate-resilient infrastructure and sus-tainable long-term pro-grams through an ef-fective communication campaign,” she added.

Legarda, who au-thored landmark envi-

ronmental laws such as the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act, the Philippine Climate Change Act of 2009 and the Disaster Risk Reduc-

tion and Management Act of 2010, called for constant vigilance as heavy rains continuous-ly plague the country with threats of poverty,

environmental degrada-tion, and economic pa-ralysis.

“The fact that five of the most devastating disasters in the

Philippines for the last century have occurred in the last five years can only mean one thing: the necessity to act now,” she noted.

7EDGEDAVAO

SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENT

TOP TEN NATURAL DISASTERS IN THE PHILIPPINESBased on Economic Damages, 1988- 2013 (in US$ Thousands)

Disaster Date Economic Damages

Storm 4 December 2012 1,692,961Flood 4 September 1995 700,300Storm 29 September 2009 585,379Storm 12 November 1990 388,500Earthquake (seismic activity) 16 July 1990 369,600Storm 21 September 2011 344,173Storm 21 June 2008 284,694Storm 18 October 2010 275,745Storm 3 November 1995 244,000Storm 21 October 1988 240,500

Source: Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters

P378-billion lost due to natural disasters

RESEARCHERS have found evidence to suggest that cli-

mate change, rather than humans, was the main factor that drove the woolly mammoth to ex-tinction.

A DNA analysis shows that the number of crea-tures began to decrease much earlier than pre-viously thought as the world’s climate changed.

It also shows that there was a distinct pop-ulation of mammoth in Europe that died out around 30,000 years ago.

The results have pub-lished in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

The view many re-searchers had about woolly mammoths is that they were a hardy, abun-dant species that thrived during their time on the

planet.But according to the

scientist who led the re-search, Dr Love Dalen of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, the study shifts that view.

“The picture that seems to be emerging is that they were a fairly dy-namic species that went through local extinctions, expansions and migra-tions. It is quite exciting that so much was going on,” he told BBC News.

Dr Dalen worked with researchers in London to analyse DNA samples from 300 specimens from woolly mammoths collected by themselves and other groups in ear-lier studies

The scientists were able to work out how many mammoths existed at any given time from

the samples as well as tracing their migration patterns. They looked at the genetic diversity in their samples - the less diverse the lower the population

They found that the species nearly went ex-tinct 120,000 years ago when the world warmed up for a while. Num-bers are thought to have dropped from several million to tens of thou-sands but numbers re-covered as the planet en-tered another ice age.

The researchers also found that the decline that led to their eventual extinction began 20,000 years ago when the Ice Age was at its height, rather than 14,000 years ago when the world be-gan to warm again as pre-viously thought.

They speculate that it was so cold that the grass on which they fed became scarce. The de-cline was spurred on as the Ice Age ended, possi-bly because the grassland on which the creatures thrived was replaced by forests in the south and tundra in the north.

The reason they died out has been a matter of considerable scientific debate. Some have ar-gued that humans hunted them to extinction while others have said that changes in the climate was the main factor.

A criticism of the cli-mate extinction argu-ment is that the world warmed well before the creatures became ex-tinct and so that could not have been the cause. [BBC]

The traditional view of the woolly mammoth as a hardy, abundant species will have to change.

‘Climate change’ killed off mammothsSEVERAL stations

that will moni-tor water levels

during heavy down-pour are now installed in various barangays of Davao City.

Department of Sci-ence and Technology (DOST) XI science re-search specialist Eric Colmenares shared the information to the participants of SM’s forum Tuesday on “Green Retail Agenda: Adapting Business for Climate Change.”

He said the WLMS (water level monitor-ing system) are in-stalled in Tamugan, Suwawon, Calinan, Mintal, Wangan and Matina Pangi.

He said these are the areas where bod-ies of water traverses even as he said that the stations are un-der the care of the barangay and any movement of water level will be reported to concerned author-ities.

Colmenares said the installation of WLMS is part of the government’s pre-paredness program where the device measures and deter-mine the flood wa-ters in real time. It is equipped with so-lar panel and makes use of an ultrasonic sensor to measure the rate of change of water level using the

principle similar to radar and sonar.

Aside from the WLMS he said the au-tomated rain gauges (ARG) are installed in two sites here at Ba-guio District and in Barangay Dakudao.

The ARG is a monitoring station equipped with differ-ent sensors capable of measuring the wind speed and direction, air temperature, air humidity, air pressure, and rain amount, du-ration and intensity.

Colmanenares en-couraged the partic-ipants to be aware of relevant information that will help them in their day to day activ-ities.

He also said that the software applica-tion of Project NOAH can now be uploaded in the mobile phones as this will provide the public weather fore-cast in a specific area at a particular time.

Meanwhile, Pepito Capili, admin officer of the Davao City Di-saster Risk Reduction and Management Of-fice, said their advo-cacy campaign in the different barangays here continue as they encouraged the public to learn and be ready when disaster strikes.

He said 40 percent of the people in Davao City live in coastal ar-eas. [PNA]

Water level monitoring stations installed in Davao City villages


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EDITORIALGetting somewhere

THREE senators and 35 other people have been charged with plunder in connection with the P10-billion racket involving the Priority De-

velopment Assistance Fund (PDAF), also known as “pork barrel.” The formal charges filed formally by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima with the Office of the Ombudsman last Monday constitute only the first batch of 38 acccused, which includes Janet Lim Napoles, the alleged mastermind, five former mem-bers of the House of Representatives, several chiefs of staff or representatives of the senators and other lawmakers and heads of five national agencies used as conduits of PDAF money.

De Lima said the second batch of charges to in-clude the same and additional personalities who are involved in the squandering of the P900-million Malampaya funds.The filing is expected next week. And the week after next, considering that the Com-mission on Audit has also made a longer list of law-

makers who may have mishandled their pork barrel funds in its audit of the years 2010, 2011 and 2012 of the PDAF.

Many right-thinking Filipinos are happy that the fight against graft and corruption started by Pres-ident Aquino seems to be getting somewhere. Yes, even if in the process, some of his political par-ty-mates will be affected. They’re all hoping that the PNoy administration will be consistent in its much-ballyhooed “matuwid na daan” (straight path) governance. Indeed, no leader of the country today is more credible to lead in the fight against corrup-tion than President Aquino.

As to the first batch of people charged with plun-der (crime if the stolen public money is P50 million or more), we commiserate, especially with their family members who share the anxiety and horror that come with being accused of high crime, even if clearly they have nothing to do with the cases at all.


(Conclusion)

MEANT TO SCARE, NOT TO KILL – What the real motives are behind the bomb explosions

that rocked Cinema 1 of SM City Mall along Quimpo Boulevard and Cinema 5 of Gaisano Mall in J.P.Laurel Avenue continued to baffle the authorities. The two explosions happened several min-utes apart past nine o’clock Monday night.

How the bombers were able to gain entry with their improvised explosive devices inside the two mall cinemas despite a much-vaunted tight security procedures befuddled the authorities even more. But some security experts say the case can be best described as sloppy security measures on the part of the mall guards. The security agencies therefore have a lot of explaining to do. Initial police investigation revealed that although it contained high-quality explosives the bombs have no shrap-nels at all.

Police officials theorized that the mobile-phone bombs have no destruc-tive power. For some reason, the bombs were not intended to kill moviegoers and shoppers, but were only meant to scare and sow terror – instill fear in the hearts and minds of the people. The clarification of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) leadership in the city clears the confusion initially created by the twin attacks. An MNLF official says their group had nothing to do with the devious act and belied con-jectures that it was a spillover from the Zamboanga siege.

Still, as we were writing this col-umn piece, no group has claimed re-sponsibility for the bombs. Police and intelligence operatives were continu-ing to work on all fronts trying to con-nect the dots. We were referring to the possibility that either a well-organized

terror group or perhaps a local clone, or maybe just a motley group of disgruntled people may have been be-hind the cow-ardly attacks. So far, au-thorities have found no evi-dence that the assaults bore plenty of a terrorist group’s trademarks: well-or-ganized, synchronized, well-coordinat-ed and precision timing.

The bad news is that commercial establishments are easy targets for perpetrators. Although these places are easy to secure, the many doors and volumes of shoppers and cus-tomers make them excessively hard to control, thereby making them vul-nerable target for attacks. Police and intelligence agents know one thing about terror attacks: as government harden security around military facil-ities, diplomatic posts, key businesses and transportation nodes; perpetra-tors will look for targets that are not so well protected. They have switched to striking the so-called “soft-targets” where the risks are much lower.

Some security experts likewise noted that one of the things that fig-ures into the perpetrators’ calculation are the chances of success. So they are taking aimed at accessible public plac-es and commercial areas. But the ex-perts worry too that the current taste for soft targets although not as deadly might be intended to divert attention while the perpetrators prepare a spec-tacular attack. The downside for the culprits is that soft targets tally only

fewer casualties or none at all, but the cumulative impact of the string of smaller strikes can be just as telling, making it appears that the perpetra-tors can hit anyone, anywhere and anytime.

It’s good enough the two bomb ex-plosions slightly injured only at least five moviegoers with no casualties. The perpetrators left the improvised explosive device (IED) under the seats with rudimentary timers and simply walked away. Experts say it’s a load of rubbish to call it a sophisticated attack. After the assaults authorities could hear people saying it is virtu-ally impossible to make public places secure. That’s wrong! That’s possible and it doesn’t mean the government shouldn’t try. Government should show why it must because if the per-petrators seeking revenge for their grievances are actually responsible, urban centers like Davao City might be on the same hit list.

City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, the police and peace and security offi-cials wasted no time and immediately called for an emergency meeting. They should not take the incident lightly and with their concerted efforts map out plans to sharply step up security pro-cedures to avoid getting caught with their pants down. To sum up briefly, an expert says the perpetrators were in the city “for a reason.” The theory now is: they’ve been continuing work here and elsewhere to replicate the successful strikes in other areas. But despite growing fears, doubts remain that there are more than a handful of fanatical militants in the city and re-gion willing to sacrifice and die for their cause. However, in order to be safe and sure, many raised this query: should we brace for more strikes?

VANTAGE POINTS 9EDGEDAVAO

AQUILES Z. ZONIOCorrespondent

Returning to my birthplace,

a war zone

Should we brace for more attacks?

Lessons from traditional politics, bad politicians

MANNY VALDEHUESAWORM’S EYEVIEW

JOVELLAR street in the city of

Z a m b o a n ga where I was born, lies next to Sta Catalina district which links up with Talon-Talon and Rio Hon-do coastal village just be-hind the his-toric Fort Pilar.

These places were bloody “war zones” last week and still echo with the pak-pak-pak-pak! of armalites and the ka-pom! of M-203 grenade rifles and boom! of mortars coming from the breakaway forces of Nur Misuari’s Moro National Liberation Front and government soldiers.

While writing this, it was the seventh day and the remaining MNLF forces were being surrounded and pushed to the sea, their areas of control getting smaller and running out of food and bullets.

The images I saw on GMA News channel daily, hour-by-hour, were distressing and sometimes shocking, as mediamen and Red Cross volunteers scamper for safety after a mortar round exploded nearby, wounding two RC volunteers. I saw two hostages run-ning towards the soldiers, escaping from the MNLF snipers and forced to lie on the hot concrete road after suspecting them of being rebels, but eventually led away after seeing one of them bleeding from a sharp-nel wound on the back.

The place where it happened no longer looks familiar to me, but the mention of the Lustre street reminded me of the time when I would walk all the way to Zam-boanga Central Elementary School as a Grade One pupil. There were no jeepneys during that time, except calesas led by smelly horses that shit all over the city. This school is near Baliwasan where the 40,000 evacuees are housed in the new gymnasium and athletic grounds today, away from the stray bullets that fly daily from snipers at Sta Catalina and Rio Hon-do village.

At the height of the fierce fighting at Sta Catalina, you could see the huge col-umn of black swirling smoke at the back-ground of the TV newsman reporting the news at Tetuan district, across the rice-field that ends at the stretch of Jovellar street near the government hospital. If I were still living in my birthplace here, I would be counted as one of the thousands of evacuees running for our lives to the saf-er grounds at Baliwasan.

Back in the 80’s when I was still shoot-ing news pictures for the French news photo agency Sipa Press, I’m very sure I would get a frantic call from my French editor Jocelyn Manfredi to rush to Zam-boanga City to cover the news for various magazines in Europe , Great Britain and US. And since all flights are cancelled to and from Zamboanga, I have to find a way to get there by hook or by crook and that would probably be by midnight bus to Cagayan de Oro and get a bus there that brings us to Pagadian or Dipolog and from there, a van or another bus to the war zone in Zamboanga, which could take about eight to ten hours of travel.

(Thank goodness, I’ve retired from all this kind of adventure as a photojournal-ist--- disposing all my Nikons away and sticking to my laptop to get out news sto-ries and features to business and industry publications.)

For a long time, I’ve played with the idea of visiting my birthplace in Zambo-anga to see how Jovellar street looks like today. I wanted to see what buildings oc-cupy the exact spot where our big nipa house stood, overlooking the rice fields of Tetuan. I even thought of tracing my childhood, planning a leisure walk along the streets of Sta Catalina, Talon-talon, Sta Barbara and Rio Hondo and visit the mu-seum inside Fort Pilar.

But alas, all these places are now part of the “war zone” in the city of Zamboanga, the place of my birth.

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LESSON No. 2: No statute, no regime of checks and balances, nor any moral consideration, nor political

promises, can curb graft and corruption unless the people are truly enfranchised and the politicians are made truly ac-countable.

If the popular will is to prevail, we the citizenry must learn to assert our sovereignty and exercise our dynamic role right where we are—in our neigh-borhood in the barangay or community. And we ourselves must learn to resist the machinations of vested interests.

Already, the trapos have succeeded in delimiting our exercise of sovereign-ty to one solitary act: casting a vote on Election Day. Voting per se does not pro-vide the dynamism required by a dem-ocratic order; citizen participation/in-volvement does.

The people must participate in de-fining the public agenda and the govern-ment’s priorities. There is no substitute for their right to sanction or approve of-

ficial acts and decisions. What makes for a vibrant democracy is active participa-tion and involvement of the citizens. Cit-izens must have a hands-on experience of democratic processes.

Short of these, as events prove time and again, leaders become presumptu-ous. They take liberties with the public trust; they cannot resist the temptation to help themselves. The urge to privat-ize public goods and services overcomes any latent desire or ideal to ennoble public service. Such is the temptation to plunder.

Lesson No. 3: The force of people power is needed in one’s community even more so than at Edsa. Although it is less dramatic at the local level, it is the

effective way to induce reforms even if applied in small doses only.

What professionals in the field of communication term as the “feedback loop”—in which back-and-forth messag-es, responses, expectations, and reac-tions interact constantly—is essential to assure good governance.

This loop assures understanding, coordination, and cooperation between government and constituency—correct-ing misperceptions, rectifying miscues, reconciling differences, evolving con-sensual agreements, resolving issues.

This is the process that keeps gov-ernance oriented properly and in the proper spirit. It is what keeps the Social Contract between public servants and citizenry ever fresh and every strong. [MindaViews is the opinion section of MindaNews. Manny Valdehuesa writes from Cagayan de Oro and is the presi-dent and national convenor of Gising Ba-rangay Movement Inc. He can be reached at [email protected].]


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Duterte also berated security agencies for the security lapses in the said malls.

The two bombings occurred while the entire city was placed under heightened alert since the skirmishes between the military and Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) rebels in Zambo-anga City began last week.

No one was report-ed injured in the SM City Davao explosion which happened at around 9:03 pm but an unestimated damage to property in-side the moviehouse was reported. Over at Gaisa-no Mall, five persons re-portedly suffered minor injuries in the blast that occurred at around 9:25 p.m. The two blasts hap-pened within a gap of 22 minutes.

Police investigators remained clueless as of yesterday as to the identi-ty and motive of those be-hind the twin bombings although Mayor Duterte had cleared MNLF chair-man Nur Misuari of any responsibility (see sepa-rate story on page 2).

If there was any hunch to the investigation, Davao City police director

Ronald dela Rosa thought the modus operandi of the bombers in using an improvised explosive device (ied) seemed fa-miliar but the police was later cautioned by Mayor Duterte not to rush the in-vestigation to ensure they get the right perpetrators before pointing fingers.

“We are not in a state of certainty now, our scene of the crime op-eratives (SOCO) are still doing their job,and there is no official report yet,” Duterte said.

The mayor also said he had directed law en-forcers to step up security measures, especially se-curity agencies employed in shopping malls.

“All security agencies are subject to review on their protocols to de-termine if they are well equipped and capable of doing their duties,” he said.

FIRST BLASTAt 9:05 p.m. Monday

the first blast exploded in Cinema 1 of SM City Davao but no one was injured. Dela Rosa and members of the bomb squad rushed to the area and ordered moviegoers and the usual curiosity

seekers to immediately vacate the area as a pre-cautionary measure.

According to investi-gation report, the explo-sive device was left on seat J5 in the first row of the empty orchestra sec-tion. Fortunately, the re-maining ten moviegoers of the movie’s last screen-ing were seated at the balcony section and were unhurt.

SECOND BLASTSeveral minutes after

the first blast, another explosion rocked Cinema 5 of the Gaisano Mall of Davao in J. P. Laurel Ave-nue where another sus-pected IED exploded un-der a seat on the 9th row. Five moviegoers were rushed to a hospital com-plaining of pain and deaf-ness. They were released shortly attending physi-cians pronounced them out of danger.

In a separate press conference, Vice May-or Paolo Duterte said he would introduce four res-olutions in the city coun-cil to boost security mea-sures in the city.

The said resolutions include requesting for strict implementation of curfew hours wherein mi-

nors will not be allowed to roam the city after 10:00p.m.; intensifying security measures by the Philippine National Police and Task Force Davao; requesting the PNP to review the protocols of all security agencies; and requesting the Moro Na-tional Liberation Front (MNLF) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to help the police in inves-tigating the two incidents.

“If naa silay infor-mation na makatabang mas mayo aron mapadali ang imbestigasyon,” the younger Duterte said.

Chief Inspector Al-fredo Baluran, head of the operations and plans branch of the Davao City Police Office (OBB-DC-PO), said 75% of police personnel are on alert conducting double check-points on entry points to the city, deploy foot pa-trols, and conduct inspec-tions in public areas.

“Ang police visibility ay mas pinarami natin ngayon sa mga public places,” he said.

NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BLASTS

In a television report, the Moro National Liber-ation Front’s Davao chair-

man Rolando Abdul Aziz Olamit, who rushed to Gaisano Mall of Davao on Monday night, said that the incident has nothing to do with the Zamboan-ga City crisis involving MNLF members and gov-ernment troops.

“Definitely, this has nothing to do with (us). The MNLF in Davao City is supporting peace and order,” he said. As this developed, Aleem Muhammad Pasigan, Re-gion-XI mufti, the head of all Muslim religious leaders in the region, cautioned the media yes-terday against branding Muslims in reporting sto-ries regarding the inci-dents.

“Kung may Makita di-yan, titiyakin mo muna kung ano sila, wag sabi-hin agad na Muslim kasi kami mapayapang tao. (If they see something, they should ascertain first who these persons are, don’t brand them quickly as Moslems, because we are peaceful people.),”he said.

Alim Jamal Manib, executive director of Ma-drasah Comprehensive and Promotion Program

said that he encourages all Muslim communities to support Mayor Duterte to attain peace in the city. He also said that Muslims should be vigilant in their areas and immediately report to the police if any suspicious persons are seen in their area. They have a tie-up with mem-bers of Task Force Davao to help them in monitor-ing the peace and securi-ty in the city.

ANOTHER BOMB THREAT

The Davao City Over-land Transport Termi-nal yesterday received a bomb threat that turned out to be a false alarm around 12:00 noon, po-lice said.

PO1Dennis Paulino, radio operator of Talomo police station, said that the Emergency Response Center Central 911 called for their assistance over an alleged bomb in the vicinity of the DCOT but there was no bomb.

K-9 and Explosive Ordnance Units were immediately deployed in the terminal to detect any suspicious cargo.

However, he observed that there were fewer passengers than usual.

jobs properly after bombs go off, then will just go back to the nor-mal after a few days.

Fe Maños also com-mented on the vice mayor’s post putting the blame on security guards assigned at the time of the bombings, and find out how the

bombs found their way into the movie houses.

Fredrick Formacil Banoza recalled the Davao airport bomb-ing and that history is repeating itself, but he challenged terrorists in face the Duterte admin-istration.

Reno Caneda

Balungay said that the bombing was a politi-cal strategy, a strategy he claims that has been used ever since the Marcos regime, where a low intensity conflict is amplified to cover up another big story, such as the pork barrel scam.

by government securi-ty forces last Friday, the movement of the MNLF members have been limited.

”Sa ngayon, nagka-karoon na ng clearing, house to house, build-ing by building, room by room na kung saan talagang sinisiguro na-tin ung kaligtasan ng mga hostages at sinis-guro din natin na hindi makakalaya, hindi bas-ta basta mawawala na lang itong mga salaring mananakop na ito,” said Roxas.

Meantime, the Phil-ippine National Police (PNP) on Tuesday an-nounced that Senior Supt. Jose Chiquito Ma-layo, Zamboanga City police commander, was making arrange-ments with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) forces for the release of civil-ian hostages when ab-ducted at gunpoint and held hostage by the rebel group.

Field reports from Police Regional Office 9 indicate that Malayo

rushed to the man-grove area in Baran-gay Mampang around 11:00 a.m. to secure the safety of civilian hostages being held by the group of Habier Malik.

“Malayo was com-municating with the MNLF Misuari Group when he was re-strained and held hos-tage just within the vi-cinity of operating ele-ments,” reports added.

Pursuit operations are under way to res-cue Malayo. (PNA)

MANILA– Despite the filing of plunder charges

against some senators, congressmen and indi-viduals in the P10-billion pork barrel scam, Sen. Francis Escudero said the Senate should contin-ue with its investigation on the misused priority development assistance fund.

”We did the same in the case of AFP Gen. Car-los Garcia. His case was already before the San-diganbayan and it was already in the plea bar-gaining stage. We went on with the senate investiga-tion,” Escudero said.

Escudero, chairman of the Senate committee on finance said Senate, in sustaining its own investi-gation, affords the public the venue to be informed with the facts of the case

through testimonies un-der oath.

“The senate remains to be the only venue where the citizens can very much acquaint themselves with the goings-on of this case from the witnesses and key players themselves,” Escudero said.

”This has become equally important to the people because they now become more vigilant to demand to know where and how the government utilize the taxes they pay,” he added.

The senator from Bi-col said there are still many facts to be had sur-rounding the siphoning of lawmakers funds to bo-gus organizations.

“The uncovering of the Napoles-NGO ope-randi does not close the issue, but of course this is where we take off. Rather,

it opened a whole wide door about other NGOs, 82 as reported in the Commission on Audit re-port. There are only 8 Na-poles-related NGOs; we’d like to find out how the remaining 74 operates. It follows the same oper-ation and pattern as the Napoles group and the amount involved is more staggering than what is being looked at now,” Es-cudero said.

Escudero, the prin-cipal author who asked the Senate to probe the scandal had asked the committee to call for Jan-et Lim Napoles, tagged as the mastermind of the scam.

Other whistleblowers and key personalities al-ready mentioned in Luy’s narration should also be called before the senate, he said. (PNA)

Escudero wants Senate probeon PDAF scandal to continue

CONDEMNED. Alen Jamal S. Munib (left), Ulama leader and Madrasa executive program director, says that Mus-lims in Davao City strongly condemn Monday night’s bombings in a press briefing of Muslim Religious Group

and United Muslim Council for Peace and Development at Ecoland Mosque yesterday. With him is Lt. Colonel Roberto Rivas, deputy commander of the TF Davao. Lean Daval Jr.


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INVESTMENT FORUM. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Aman-do Tetangco Jr. (left) and Ayala Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala exchange ideas before the panel

discussion of government and private sector open forum on foreign direct investment Tuesday (September 17) at the Philippine International Conven-tion Center in Pasay City. [PNA photo by Ben Briones]

THE legal counsel of Janet Lim-Napoles, the alleged master-

mind in the P10-billion pork barrel fund scam, has filed a motion for bail at the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 150 regarding the latter’s se-rious illegal detention charges filed against her by whistle-blower Ben-hur Luy.

Also named respon-dent in the case is Na-poles’ brother Reynald Lim.

Through the Ka-punan Garcia and Castil-lo law Offices, Napoles, in her 27-page motion, said the evidence pre-sented “does not estab-lish that the evidence of guilt against her is strong.”

She also claimed the private complainants’ “incredible tale is merely based on their self-serv-ing testimonies and nothing else.”

Contrary to the charges lodged against her and her brother, Napoles said Luy decid-

ed to voluntarily stay in “Bahay ni San Jose”, a property of the respon-dent, for three months.

Napoles also alleged that the “fabricated and speculative claims of pri-vate complainants and the National Bureau of Investigation surround-ing Luy’s self-imposed retreat strongly negate the charge of serious il-legal detention.

Napoles’ camp also pointed out that the charge was “subse-quently used to extort money.”

The defense said the Luy family and their counsel Atty. Baligod used this “sham kidnap-ping complaint to extort money from Janet.”

Based on a narra-tion of Napoles, Baligod asked her to pay P300 million, plus require-ments needed for Inves-tors’ Visas for Canada for the entire Luy family, costs of travel expenses to Canada and pocket money , amounting to USD1.5 million. [PNA]

MANILA

Napoles wants bail for serious illegal detention charges

AN official from the Bureau of Internal Reve-

nue (BIR) suggests on a conference on Tuesday that LGUs must have an integrating system for registration much like the iGovPhil of the Na-tional Government.

iGovPhil (Integrat-ed Government Philip-pines) is an ICT project from the Department of Science and Technolo-gy launched in June 10, 2013 that integrates all government websites

making a single site for everyone to check.

“The problem an investor faces is that when they try to set up a branch in a dis-trict they are face with different kind of regis-tration,” Commissioner Kim Jacinto-Hanares said.

“It’s nice that all of them [LGUs] are com-puterizing but if you look at the computer-ization it’s localized, it’s not integrated,” she stressed.

She also mentioned that in every locali-ty there are different requirements, it’s not enough that every cit-ies and municipalities have their own IT sys-tem for it institutional-ize the difficulties that hides in the system.

“It should be inte-grated like what the national government does now which is in-tegrating all its system into the national gov-ernment,” she said.

“So that we don’t

have a repeat of ways to get resources and data will be automatically integrated. We’ll have a clear picture of what is happening in the econ-omy,” she stressed

Even though this is the case, Hanares knows that the chal-lenge now is inte-grating LGU websites without lessening the independence of LGUs while making it easy for investors to reg-ister in the country. [PNA]

BIR encourages LGU website integration

THE controver-sial Freedom of Information

(FOI) bill may soon become a law after Malacañang “vowed to include the mea-sure in the priority bills,” Speaker Felicia-no Belmonte said on Tuesday.

Belmonte breaks the news after he was informed of the devel-opment that the said bill may get its way in the 16th Congress.

“Yes, I think it will

be voted on,” Belmon-te told House report-ers in a chance inter-view. “The pronounce-ment will speed up the passage.”

“We are quite sym-pathetic, but it really helps that the Palace itself gave its okay, so that augurs well for the future of the bill in the 16th Congress,” he stressed.

He said that he has tasked three indepen-dent of lawmakers to study the FOI bill.

“We are serious-ly studying it. We are not ignoring it. I don’t want to discuss the particulars of the FOI. What I can say is it will be taken up,” Bel-monte pointed out.

Only the Senate passed the FOI bill but in the House, the mea-sure was stalled at the committee level then headed by Rep. Ben Evardone.

Everdone argued that it is a waste of time during the 15th

Congress to push FOI bill because Mala-cañang did not certify the bill urgent.

He added that with the promise that they will include the bill in the priority bills, ex-pect that the passage of the measure in the near future.

The controversial bill was one of the promises of Presi-dent Noynoy Aquino during the 2010 pres-idential campaign. [PNA]

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FORMER pound-for-pound king claimant Manny “Pacman”

Pacquiao will earn a cool $18 million for fighting Brandon Rios in Macau on November 24, accord-ing to his promoter Bob Arum.

ABS-CBN.com quoted Arum as saying that “we hope at the end of the day, he (Manny) will do well enough so that he will get around $30 million.”

The guaranteed purse of Pacquiao is definitely paltry when compared to the staggering $41

million paycheck earned by his biggest rival, the universally recognized pound-for-pound best fighter, Floyd Mayweath-er, Jr., for battling Mexi-co’s Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. Mayweather pounded the 23-year old upstart to a majority decision last Sat-urday.

According to Arum, he has warned the fighting congressman from the Philippines not to under-estimate the skills of the younger Rios. Arum said that Pacquiao should not look ahead to his next

fight and instead focus on Rios, a dangerous 27-year old former WBA light-weight champion.

The domination of Mayweather in recent years and the shocking consecutive losses of Pac-quiao last year have shat-tered the hopes of many boxing fans wanting to see the two biggest super-stars in the sport collide in the ring.

The ABS-CBN report also quoted veteran box-ing writer Kevin Iole as saying that he doesn’t see Pacquiao and Mayweath-

er clashing in the ring, and the fight would have been a ‘good one’ had it transpired back in 2009-2010.

In his column for Ya-hoo! Sports, however, Iole wrote that Mayweather has still not completely ruled out the possibility of fighting Pacquiao.

Pacquiao, the only boxer to win titles in eight different weight divisions, is coming off a shocking knockout to Mexican nemesis Juan Manuel Marquez last year.

NEGRENSES flocked the jam-packed Es-calante City Colise-

um as it roared with cheers from over 3,000 scream-ing fans last August 24, 2013. IDOL pugilists did not disappoint and put on a good show that marked the city’s first boxing event featuring foreign fight-ers. Escalante was indeed ready for the biggest inter-national boxing event to hit their beautiful city as IDOL 1 Philippines vs Indonesia invaded the island.

Hometown hero Melvin “Topgun” Gum-ban is overjoyed as he is embraced with support from his fellow Escalante-hanons. Gumban, 22, a “slaughterhouse boy” knocked out Indonesian John Bajawa two minutes into the fight during the 7th round. Chiseled Gum-ban also did countless in-terviews, posed for photos and worked out in public in front as fans followed him around.

New generation fight-ers Mark “Machete” Ber-naldez and Mark “Magnif-ico” Magsayo succeeded in keeping their undefeated records, 11-0 and 3-0 re-spectively.

Butuan City native Mark “Machete” Bernal-dez scored his eleventh TKO win with a hard left to the midsection of veter-an Marangin Marbun, who was still grimacing in pain when he tried to get up prompting the stoppage at the 2:00 mark during the first round. “Magnifico” won by unanimous deci-sion over John Rey Melli-gen of Bacolod City.

Created by Asia’s pre-mier boxing promotional outfit ALA Promotions, the ‘Idol’ Boxing Series, whose pilot TV episode aired last September 14 on Studio 23, was created to help Filipi-no fighters establish their image in the early stage of their careers before going up as title contenders and future champions.

CROSS TRAINING. Manny Pacquiao, playing basketball in between training, is poised to earn $18 million against Brandon Rios.

Manny set to earn $18M for Rios fight

Slaughterhouse boy stops Indon

GOLF PHENOM. New Zealand teenager Lydia Ko rose three spots to No. 5 in the Rolex World Rankings following the amateur’s second-place finish at the Evian Masters in France over the weekend. Ko, 16, finished two shots be-hind Suzann Pettersen, who passed Stacy Lewis for the No. 2 spot in the world rankings behind Inbee Park.

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IT’S that time of the year again when the vi-brant spirit of the world’s favorite flip-flops brand, Havaianas, gathered everyone to revel in the ultimate celebration of self-expression - Make Your Own Havaianas (MYOH). The an-nual event of mixing and matching soles and straps continues to gain a good following over the years as it introduces new varieties that in-spire Havaianaticos to take their imagination off to greater heights with customized pairs. Much of the thrill that comes with the annual Make

Make Your Own Havaianas 2013: Imagination at Play

Every pair made during MYOH had its own unique story to tell. This unique event gives us the freedom to personalize flip-flops to our own liking, depending on our day to day style and char-acter. The possibilities are endless with the wide range of pins, straps and soles to choose from. Nothing beats the comfortable soles of each Havaianas pair. Spruced up

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WOMEN

THE red hair was a giveaway –yes, it was Yeng Constan-tino. As she strutted and made her way to the venue, fans and spectators could not contain their delight as they express their appreciation for her. As part of her album tour, singer and songwrit-er extraordinaire, Yeng, serenaded her fans and spectators last Saturday, September 14 2013 at the SM City Davao Annex. Songs from her current and past albums were sung to life with the help of her guitarist friend. Her new album, Meta-morphosis, is composed of 10 upbeat pop-alterna-tive OPM songs. Of the 10, only one, Chinito, was written by a close friend to which she said was a ‘cool song that she would love to sing and include in her album’ – and include she did. The album was in col-laboration with one of Philippine’s finest musi-cians, Raymond Mara-sigan. Driven with passion and love for the craft, both came through with an al-bum that is so catchy and danceable that you cannot help but sing-along. Read on as Yeng shares the story behind her new album, her first movie and her red hair.

Q: What’s with red (your hair colour)?Y: Reinvention. Late last year, when we were doing the album, I just wanted to do something new. Driven with gut feel, I researched and stumbled upon a blogger with red hair and I felt it was it. I think the blogger was from Russia.. I forgot. (TRIVIA: This is the first time that she shared the meaning be-hind her red hair)

Q: Is this the first time you coloured your hair red? Y: Yes. Kelangan panindi-gan. Make sure that if you decide to do something, you are all for it. Person-ally, ganyan ako. I won’t do anything kapag half-hearted lang ang pakiram-dam ko. Dapat sold out

palagi.

Q: Aside from the new album, what’s new with Yeng? Y: I have a new project. “Shift”, first movie ko un-der Cineme One ipapala-bas by November, sabay sa film fest ng Cinema One. Pangalan ng character ko sa movie Estela Alano (instagram:Estela_Alano), an artist, works for a BPO company and falls in love with a gay man. So, yes, cool ng plot and some-thing to look forward to.

Q: Who is Yeng now?Y: Yung Yeng seven years ago (after PDA), actu-ally sobrang clueless sya kung ano pinasok nya. Ang alam lang nya is so-

brang passionate sya sa gi-nagawa nya at gusto lang nyang kumanta. With time, came maturity – now, parang nararating ko na yung point na sobra lang akong nag-eenjoy sa ginagawa ko, walang pres-sure. Pero mature enough to think that you are in a business pero di mo nawawala ang core mo – ang purpose mo. So long as you are sincere with what you do, then you know you are on the right path.

Q: Speaking of Metamor-phosis, did you and Ray-mond Marasigan collabo-rated in a song?Y: Wala kaming collab – yung album ang collab

namin. Bibigay ko sakan-ya yung song, bibihisan nya yung kanta. Nagugu-lat ako sa sobrang galing nyang bihisan ang mga kanta.

Q: Any artist you would love to collaborate with?Y: Kung may isa pang art-ist na gusto kong maka-collborate, alam mo hindi isa.. Marami sila.. Lahat ng legendary songwriter natin.. like sir Vehnee Saturno, Sir Basil Valdes, Sir Ryan Cayabyab.

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PHILIPPINE showbiz’s teen king and queen, Daniel Pa-dilla and Kathryn Bernardo, along with some of today’s finest Star Magic talents, find themselves posed with the question “What would you want to do before the world ends?”, putting their hearts to the test in their hit movie together, “24/7 in Love”, which is set to air this Sunday (September 22) on Cinema One. An end of the world pre-diction based on the Ma-yan calendar causes panic worldwide. In line with this, a young student named Jane (Kathryn Bernardo) comes up with an idea for a video project that she wants to submit in order to win a VIP pass to her ulti-mate crush’s concert. Being a huge fan of the young ac-tor Billy Fernandez (Daniel Padilla), she decides to cir-cle the city, asking people what they’d do if it were the end of the world. As she goes around to meet different people, she

discovers different love sto-ries that are taking place all around the world, making her cross paths with char-acters that form a star-stud-ded cast including Piolo Pascual, Gerald Anderson, Maja Salvador, Sam Milby, Zanjoe Marudo, Bea Alonzo, John Lloyd Cruz, Angelica Panganiban, Kim Chiu and Diether Ocampo. Directed by John Lazatin, Mae Czarina Cruz, Frasco Mortiz and Dado Lumibao from Star Cinema, “24/7 in Love” brought together an ensemble to celebrate Star

Magic’s 20th anniversary. It has been said to be able to cover love in all forms with its stellar cast of some of the biggest and brightest stars in Philippine cinema today. Don’t miss out on “24/7 in Love” airing at 8:00 p.m. on the Blockbuster Sundays movie block of Cinema One (SkyCable channel 56 and Destiny Cable analog chan-nel 37 or digital channel 56), the Philippines’ number one cable channel. For program schedules and updates, visit and like www.facebook.com/Cinema1Channel.

KAPUSO Primetime King and Queen Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera recently staged yet another record-breaking and crowd-drawing fete during the city’s annual celebration of the Tuna Festival. In the fully-packed Events and Convention Center of the KCC Mall of GenSan, the audience, estimated at 6,000, just wouldn’t stop screaming and applauding as the celebrity couple ex-changed sweet and roman-tic gestures on top of their engaging performances in the Kapuso Fans’ Day held on September 5. “This is the third and the last regional tour we are making together this year and I can say that it was re-ally memorable,” said award-winning actor Dingdong. “Our first regional trip to-gether was in Batangas for the celebration of the Sub-lian Festival and the second one was in Tagbilaran, Bohol for the Sandugo Festival,” he went on, adding that it has always been a pleasure for him to share the stage with her long-time girlfriend. Dong-Yan fans, however, need not worry because they can still catch Marian in several upcoming mall shows prepared by GMA Regional TV. The actress is scheduled to fly to Naga City this month for the feast of Our Lady of Peñafrancia.

Dingdong, on the other hand, will be devoting most of his time for his upcoming primetime soap Genesis , which will air on October 7 replacing GMA’s pioneering series My Husband’s Lover. “Talagang nakakataba ng puso ang mainit na pag-tanggap nila sa aming dal-awa ni Dingdong. Umaasa kami na patuloy nila kam-ing susuportahan sa future projects namin,” shared Marian. Earlier that day, thou-sands of local and foreign tourists flocked the major streets of the city to catch a glimpse of the colorful Tuna Float Parade, with a special coverage from GMA

Regional TV that aired on September 15. Meanwhile, host-come-dian Mike “Pekto” Nacua also became part of the cel-ebration the following day, September 6, via the Fish Fest that took place at the GenSan Fish Port from 6am to 12 noon. The cast members of primetime soaps Anna Kar-enina and My Husband’s Lover—Joyce Ching, Krys-tal Reyes, Julian Trono, Hiro Peralta, Rodjun Cruz, and Bettina Carlos—also added fun to the revelry in a Ka-puso Mall Show held at the Event Center of the SM City GenSan on September 7 at 4pm.

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MOBILE leader Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) celebrated the Kadayawan Festival with a roster of exciting activities that has added more fun and color in the annual thanksgiving revelry in Davao City. Smart line-up various events, from an adventure race and new technology launch, to parties and concerts, as a treat to its loyal Da-bawenyo subscribers. On August 16, Smart gathered Da-bawenyo adven-ture enthusiasts at People’s Park for the much-awaited Smart Prepaid Live All Out Race in Kadayawan. The day-long affair took participating teams to various points around Davao City while braving assorted obstacles along the way. Health buff and adventure seekers Raymund Libre and Keilah Rodriguez won the adventure race and each took home brand new iPhone 5. The winning pair has chosen the House of Hope of the Children for Cancer Founda-tion as the beneficiary of their cash prize.

More exciting adventures and es-capades await Da-bawenyos at the Smart Prepaid Live All Out Dare Sta-tions last August 16, also at People’s Park. From 11 AM to 6 PM, Smart sub-scribers and park

visitors all had their fun turn with various carnival attrac-tions, such as the Reverse Bungee, Running Rockeoke, Human Joust, and Photo Booth, all for free. Showing network strength at the height of the Kaday-awan Festival, PLDT and Smart Technology Group con-ducted a series of speed tests of Long Term Evolution Ad-vanced (LTE-Advanced) last August 17. LTE-Advanced hit almost 4 times the data speed of current fourth-gen-eration (4G) LTE. The test showed that LTE-Advanced achieved an ultra-fast speed of 210.58 mbps, a far-cry from the current LTE hit of 62.71 mbps, which only demonstrates the readiness of the network’s infrastructure to meet the de-mands of more advance tech-nologies. LTE-Advanced will soon be another first to be offered by Smart. The festive verve got even more intense with Smart’s back-to-back parties at Matina Town Square. Last August 16, Smart brought out the fun at the Smart Prepaid Live All Out Party at MTS’ Taboan. During breaks, Live All Out hosts conducted dares to the audience on stage and gave out premium items from Smart. Smart finally capped the celebration on a high note with the Smart Prepaid Live All Out Concert last August 17. Celebrities Rizza Diaz, Ramon Bautista, Yassi Press-man, Rock band Chicosci and Vhong Navarro joined Dabawenyos in partying the festival’s last night away.

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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) -- Marc Gasol had 32 points and

10 rebounds and Italy beat two-time defending champion Spain 86-81 in overtime at the European basketball championship on Monday.

Italy overcame a 15-point deficit to earn the win, after Luigi Datome made a layup at the buzzer in regulation to force over-time.

Also, Croatia knocked out Greece with a 92-88 victory in double OT.

The loss meant little for Spain, which had qualified for the quarterfinals be-cause of Croatia’s victory.

Spain dropped to fourth place in Group F and will play Serbia in the first quarterfinal on Wednes-day, when host Slovenia faces France.

On Thursday, Croatia plays Ukraine and Lithua-nia is against Italy.

In another game, Fin-land beat Slovenia 92-76.

Datome also had key plays in overtime and Ales-sandro Gentile made four straight free throws to se-cure Italy’s victory. Gentile finished with 25 points.

‘’We beat probably the best team in the tourna-ment,’’ said Italy guard Pi-etro Aradori, who had 17 points.

Datome had a block on Victor Claver before mak-ing two free throws for an 82-77 Italy lead.

Since winning the silver medal at the 2004 Olym-

pics, Italy has not been able to reach the quarterfinals in any major competition, and failed to qualify for the past two Olympics.

Italy missed the 2009 Europeans as well and fin-ished 17th two years ago.

‘’This was a good win for my players who had a great desire to play such a game - in the last few years we could see Spain only on TV,’’ Italy coach Simone Pi-anigiani said.

Spain dropped its third game of the tournament and has looked vulnerable. It has also lost to Slovenia and Greece.

‘’I thought we had the game under control for three quarters, we defend-ed well and we could run and score easy baskets. But then we broke down, lost our game and they took the momentum into overtime,’’ said Gasol, whose brother Pau is sitting out the event.

Bojan Bogdanovic made two free throws with 18 seconds left to secure Croatia’s victory in a tight game. Bogdanovic led all scorers with 22 points.

Greece needed to beat Croatia and hope for Italy to beat Spain and Slovenia to defeat Finland to have any hope of advancing to the quarterfinals.

Instead Croatia, which had already secured its spot, made sure of winning Group F.

Croatia is aiming to make the podium at a ma-jor tournament for the first time in 18 years.

15SPORTSEDGEDAVAO

WHILE Los An-geles star Kobe Bryant is recov-

ering from a torn Achil-les’ tendon, neither he nor the Lakers will say when the 35-year-old future hall of famer will be back to begin his 18th season.

“He’s progressing

well and has met all the targets and milestones of his rehab, and we expect him to make a full recov-ery,” Lakers spokesman John Black told The Los Angeles Times on Mon-day. “One of the key is-sues is to make sure he builds up strength and endurance not only in

his Achilles’ but also in his legs, knees, back and core.”

Bryant was injured on April 12, and he first said he would need six to nine months to recov-er. The Lakers travel to China for two exhibition games in October. Bryant is not expected to play in

those two games or any of the other six presea-son Lakers games.

The Lakers’ kick off the regular season against the Los Angeles Clippers on Oct. 29. It is possible Bryant will be ready, but the team will not declare a target date for his return.

TENNIS RANKINGS(Latest ATP Rankings)

MEN1. (1) Novak Djokovic (Serbia) 11,120 points2. (2) Rafa Nadal (Spain) 10,8603. (3) Andy Murray (Britain) 7,0754. (4) David Ferrer (Spain) 6,7105. (6) Roger Federer (Switzerland) 4,5156. (5) Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) 4,4607. (7) Juan Martin Del Potro (Argentina) 4,4258. (8) Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) 3,4259. (9) Richard Gasquet (France) 3,16510. (10) Stanislas Wawrinka (Switzerland) 3,15011. (11) Milos Raonic (Canada) 2,61012. (12) Kei Nishikori (Japan) 2,32513. (13) Tommy Haas (Germany) 2,26514. (14) Jerzy Janowicz (Poland) 2,11015. (15) John Isner (U.S.) 2,02516. (16) Gilles Simon (France) 1,95017. (17) Fabio Fognini (Italy) 1,94518. (18) Nicolas Almagro (Spain) 1,94019. (19) Tommy Robredo (Spain) 1,85520. (20) Mikhail Youzhny (Russia) 1,825

WOMEN (Latest WTA Rankings)1. (1) Serena Williams (United States) 12,2602. (2) Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) 9,5053. (3) Maria Sharapova (Russia) 7,8664. (4) Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) 6,3355. (5) Li Na (China) 5,5656. (6) Sara Errani (Italy) 4,3257. (7) Marion Bartoli (France) 3,7468. (8) Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) 3,6459. (9) Angelique Kerber (Germany) 3,42010. (10) Jelena Jankovic (Serbia) 3,24511. (11) Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) 3,17012 (12) Roberta Vinci (Italy) 3,06513. (13) Sloane Stephens (United States) 3,04514. (15) Carla Suarez Navarro (Spain) 2,775

BACK IN TIME. The Lakers are not rushing the return of superstar Kobe Bryant and will wait until he is doing full weight-bearing running and on-court activities.

Italy beats Spain, Greece knocked out at Euros

EUROBASKET. Italy’s Alessandro Gentile (left) tries to block Marc Gasol (right) of Spain during their EuroBas-

ket Championship Group F match in Ljubijana, Slovenia, Monday. (AP)

NO RUSH Lakers taking timefor Kobe’s return

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DAVAO City’s 15 big-gest schools will compete in the re-

gion’s biggest and most prestigious basketball league, the Davao Cham-pions League (DCL), opening this Saturday, September 21, 2013 at the Davao City Recre-ation Center.

The basketball tour-nament presented by Phoenix Petroleum Phil-ippines and sanctioned by the Samahang Basket-ball ng Pilipinas (SBP) aims to produce Davao’s basketball stars and to provide opportunities for young talents to be discovered for bigger leagues outside Davao.

The seven-week tour-nament will be partici-pated by the 15 biggest schools in Davao City: Agro Industrial Founda-tion College of the Phil-ippines (AIFCP), AMA Computer College (AMA), Ateneo De Davao Uni-versity (ADDU), Davao Central Colleges (DCC), Davao del Norte State College (DNSC), Davao Merchant Marine Acade-my (DMMA), Holy Cross of Davao College (HCDC), John Paul College of Davao (JPCD), Jose Ma-ria College (JMC), MATS College of Technology (MATS), Rizal Memori-al Colleges (RMC), San Pedro College (SPC), STI

College (STI), University of Immaculate Concep-tion (UIC), and University of Mindanao (UM).

The Davao Champions League is Davao’s own version of the UAAP and NCAA. It will be played annually and is open to both high school and col-legiate levels. The winner from this year’s tourna-ment will get a chance to represent Davao in the Mindanao Regional Championship of Philip-pine Collegiate Champi-ons League.

DCL will also con-duct a cheerdance com-petition that will signal the battle of the top four teams.

DABAWENYA BELLE. Mayette Zapanta of Adamson University, a native of Davao City, played for the Manila All-Stars in a recent exhibition match against De La Salle University at the USEP Gym. Lean Daval Jr.

15 teams in Davao Champions League

CHAMPIONS. Atty. Ernesto Raphael Robillo (4th from left second row), acting president of the Rizal Memorial Colleges (RMC) proudly holds the championship trophy after the Bulldogs won this year’s DFA Columbia Com-

puter Inter-Collegiate football tournament last Sunday at the Tionko grounds. RMC dethroned UM via penalty shootout.

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