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ICE CREAM TEMPTATION. An ice cream vendor crosses a busy intersection on board a customized bicycle with a cart along C.M. Recto Avenue and Palma Gil Street in Davao City yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

NO ESCAPE. This gentlemen uses a mechan-ical electronic cigarette or e-cig which is slowly becoming a popular alternative to cigarettes to ease his craving for nicotine. With the enforcement of Davao City’s rein-forced anti-smoking ordinance on May 31, 2013, electronic cigarettes like this one will be banned. Lean Daval Jr.

HOURS after Davao City Police Office (DCPO) di-rector Ronald de la Rosa declared a 70- percent decrease in Illegal drug activities in Davao City,

a suspected drug pusher was gunned down by police officers in Toril yesterday.

That could change the figures altogether.The ill-fated suspect, identified only as Tata Borja,

was gunned down by Toril police officers when he re-sisted arrest during a buy-bust operation on Thursday afternoon at St. Michael Village, Toril.

“Police officers in Toril received reports earlier that the suspected drug pusher would really fight back as he carries with him two caliber .45 pistols.”

Earlier in the day, de la Rosa told Edge Davao in a text message that “Oplan Tokhang” was very successful because through this operation, reliable information

DCPO: 70% decrease on drug trade activitiesBy EJ Dominic Fernandez

Bawal na sad na!

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F37 HOUSES, 11

FLOOD ON SUMMERTIME. Knee-high floodwaters in several streets of Davao City caused by Wednesday night’s heavy rain surprised home-bound employees who just got off from work. Lean Daval Jr.

REINFORCED ANTI-SMOKING BAN. Dr. Domilyn Villareiz, co-chairperson of the Davao City Anti-Smoking Task Force, explains the city’s reinforced anti-smoking ordinance, Ordinance No. 0367-12, which will be fully

implemented on May 31, 2013, in a presentation during the weekly I-Speak media forum at the conference room of the Davao City Hall yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

SOME 1,500 nurses are needed for im-mediate employ-

ment in Saudi Arabia, the Philippine Overseas Em-ployment Administra-tion (POEA) announced.

The POEA regional office said that there are a total of 1,000 available nursing jobs for estab-lishments catering to Is-lam patients and 500 for both Muslims and Chris-tians in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).

POEA Regional Cen-ter for Mindanao chief, Maria Carolina Agdamag told Edge Davao yester-

day that nursing demand abroad is still high de-spite of the rampant clos-ing of nursing schools in the region.

“The demand is still okay and manageable,” Agdamag said.

She also added that the qualification for the said nursing jobs is high.

“Before, employers are not particular with the experience, now they demanded for a minimum of four years experience in order to acquire the slot,” she ex-plained.

Agdamag bared the

following qualifications for the job: Female; Bachelor of Science(BS) in Nursing or with Mas-teral Degre; minimum four years experience for nursing graduates; minimum of two years experience for those with Masters degree; with board license or prometric exam passer; and must not be more than 40 years old.

“For the experience, on the job training and being a health volun-teer is counted,” she ex-plained.

Agdamag said the

employing Ministry of Health (MOH) of the re-ceiving country will give a basic salary of 4,080 Saudi Arabian Riyals (SAR).

Qualified applicants must present original documents, and for those who will register online they will be asked to present original docu-ments for authentication of written information before forwarding the re-sume to the employer.

“After they have filed the application, they will take the examination and interview,” she added.

“OPlAN Tok-h a n g ” added 37

houses to its invento-ry of houses of sus-pected drug pushers and users yesterday at Barangay 76-A, Bu-cana.

Davao City Police Office director Ronald de la Rosa, along with police and barangay officials, were able to talk to 32 suspects out of the 37 houses that they visited yes-terday.

San Pedro police station commander Superintendent Elis-

eo Malana said that most of the suspects they talked to were users of illegal drugs and only a few were pushers.

“The increasing number of suspects who quit using and selling illegal drugs is evident with the success of Oplan Tukhang, because it is better to approach them directly,” he said.

According to Mala-na, most of the sus-pects they talked to confessed that they

THE government’s K-12 program for education is not a

guarantee that students will land on jobs after graduating from high school, according to sec-ond district congressional candidate Joji Ilagan-Bian.

Ilagan-Bian, who op-erates technical-vocation-al schools in Davao, said, “there is no assurance yet that K-12 will prepare the students for employment after high school, we need to wait for the results in 2018.”

Bian said that the “Fil-ipino culture’s bias is very

strong in favor of a college education.”

She said that there is still a big question wheth-er or not employers will take the risk and hire se-nior high school gradu-ates in their companies.

She said, “K-12 pro-gram is not the ultimate solution for the lack of employment skills of our students after they grad-uate.”

The K-12 education program, which was re-cently approved by the senate January 2013, states that the current ed-ucational program in the

Philippines would extend from 10 years to 12 years with two additional years in high school.

This means there would be a four-year ju-nior high school program and a two year senior high school program would be introduced in the basic education program.

Ilagan-Bian also point-ed out that since there is a change in the educa-tional system, there will be no college enrollments from 2016 to 2018, which means teachers may lose their jobs during this pe-riod.

Saudi needs 1,500 nursesBy Che Palicte

37 houses ‘Tok-hang-ed’By EJ Dominic Fernandez

K-12 program does not guarantee employment

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CAMPAIGNING. Acting Mayor Rody Duterte campaigns for his Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod party candidates and several senatorial bets during a campaign rally in Don Julian Village, Ma-a, Davao City Tuesday night. In

the background are Leandro Legarda, son of front run-ning re-electionist senator Loren and Hugpong candi-dates for councilor Jessie Culaste. Lean Daval Jr.

A RANKING leader of Hugpong sa Tawong lungsod, the mono-

lithic local party founded by the Dutertes, complained that his recent statement was unfairly exploited by the camp of Joji Bian, con-gressional candidate in Davao City’s Second Dis-trict, for propaganda pur-poses.

Davao City Councilor Melchor V. Quitain, secre-tary general of Hugpong, Tuesday said he did not say that there was a long list of party members in the Sec-ond District who violated party rules by supporting Bian, who is running for the second time against re-elec-tionist Rep. Mylene Garcia of Davao City’s second con-gressional district.

Quitain said his state-ment about possible sanc-tions against members not toeing party lines by supporting candidates other than Hugpong bets was quoted out of context by the Bian camp to make it appear that the erring members were contained in a “long list” and that the cases of party betrayal were confined to the Second Dis-trict.

“As far as I can remem-ber I said that there is a list

of Hugpong members, re-ferring to members in all 3 districts, who have not been toeing party line,” Quitain said in a statement to re-porters Tuesday night.

Using Quitain’s state-ment, media handlers of Bian came out with a press release quoting him as say-ing “the list of party mem-bers rejecting Garcia-Alba-no and supporting Bian is very long.”

In belying Bian’s pro-paganda line, Quitain said that actually “except for one or two (members of Hug-pong) in the entire city, all follow party lines and or-ders” after the party made the announcements and discussed the probability of their being expelled from the party for disloyalty.

Hugpong is headed by no less than Vice Mayor and now candidate for mayor Rodrigo Duterte, who has tasked field members to monitor and report activi-ties of members with ques-tionable loyalty.

Duterte has repeatedly endorsed the re-election of Garcia, who is lawyer, top-ping the bar examinations in the 1990’s with Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III.

Aside from this, Dute-

rte said, Mylene has ex-tensive experience in the field of lawmaking and government work having been chief of staff of her fa-ther, Congressman Nonoy, brother, former Rep. Vin-cent Garcia, and as assistant secretary in the Depart-ment of Environment and Natural Resources, among many other positions.

Earlier in his popular “Gikan sa Masa Para sa Masa” television program, Duterte said the family of Garcia, starting from her great grandfather, “Kapitan” Tomas Monteverde Sr., had served the city with distinc-tion and decency for close to a century now. The late leon Garcia Sr., her grandfa-ther on the father side, was mayor of Davao City, while her father Manuel was a city councilor, regional assem-blyman and later congress-man. leon Jr., her uncle, was delegate to the 1971 Constitution Convention, while Vincent, a younger brother, was congressman for the Second District for three terms. Vince now acts as Mylene’s chief of staff, triggering a pleasant joke that the Second District is lucky to have two repre-sentatives, who have no big business interest to protect.

Disloyal ‘Hugpong’ members

Quitain says Bian propa quoted him out of context

WITH the election campaign pe-riod reaching

its peak, the Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) on Thursday urged candidates to stop using women’s bodies as selling points in campaign sorties.

“We are against any activity that capitalizes on sensual and provoc-ative images of women. To win votes, candidates should sell their political platforms, not women’s bodies,” PCW Chairperson Remedios Ignacio-Rikken said.

PCW noted that hir-

ing women entertainers is ‘common’ in election cam-paigns. The practice usu-ally treats women as ‘eye candies’ or objects to be fantasized and exploited. PCW said that such feeds the sexual frenzy of people.

“Candidates should focus on communicating their causes through in-formative dialogues, not by resorting to distasteful and derogatory entertain-ment,” Rikken said.

She added that treat-ing women as sexual ob-jects are against existing laws and policies such as RA 9710 or the Magna

Carta of Women and the Millennium Development Goals. Both call for the protection and promotion of women’s rights.

“We call on politicians to support these laws and help stop exploitation of women. We also urge political parties to create programs where women can participate meaningfully,” Rikken said.

PCW likewise urged the voters to be critical in choosing the next political leaders by voting on is-sues rather than personal-ities. Rikken cited that de-

spite having higher wom-en voter turnout (75.5%) than men (74.4%) during the 2010 automated elec-tions, a “women’s vote” is still to be created. Filipino women, according to PCW, do not necessarily vote for women or those who car-ry their issues.

“Elections is still a pop-ularity contest. Voter’s education is still wanting. We should address this big issue so that voters, especially women, would consider candidates with agenda that support or promote women’s rights,” Rikken said.

Stop using women’s bodies to win votes: PCW

NACIONAlISTA Par-ty-Team Pnoy sen-atorial candidate

Cynthia Villar yesterday urged Philippine embassy and consulate personnel abroad to extend all possi-ble assistance to Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) as they exercise their right of suffrage under the over-seas absentee voting (oav) starting on Saturday, April 13.

“We urge all officials and personnel in Philip-pine embassies and con-sulate offices abroad to go out of their way and extend all forms of assistance they

can give to the more than 900,000 Filipinos abroad who are qualified to vote under the absentee voting law,” Villar said.

Villar, a former las Pinas Congresswoman, said she and her husband, Senator Manny Villar, have been long-time ad-vocates of granting Fili-pinos aboard to the right to participate in national elections.

“We are aware that in past elections, many of our workers aboard who are qualified absentee vot-ers were not able to vote due to several problems in

their working places,” Vil-lar said. “We are hoping that in this elections, more and more Filipinos aboard will be able to vote and exercise their duty in se-lecting the leaders of this country.”

At the same time, Vil-lar said Commission on Elections (Comelec) and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) personnel should see to it that the conduct of the overseas absentee vote should be honest and orderly in or-der to maintain the integ-rity of the process.

“Allowing our OFWs

to participate in our elec-tions is one significant way we can acknowledge their contribution to the coun-try,” Villar explain. “They are our modern-day he-roes and it is still through their remittances that the Philippine economy has remained upfloat.”

Villar said she was satisfied with the prepa-ration and information conducted jointly by the Comelec and DFA but add-ed that she would not be surprised of last-minutes problems would still arise in various polling centers for Filipino abroad.

Villar urges DFA to help Filipino voters abroad

UNA senatorial can-didate Migz Zubiri yesterday assailed

the government for its failure to bring down the prices of medicines, al-most five years after the enactment of the Cheaper Medicines Act or Republic Act 9502.

Zubiri also proposed an overhaul of the Imple-menting Rules and Reg-ulations (IRR) that have been identified by many medical professionals and pharmaceuticals as a major cause of persistent high medicine prices. “We have yet to see how the government plans to ex-pand the number of cov-ered drugs from around 50 to 200 as health pro-fessionals recommend-ed.”

“The government must carry the big stick

through the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to supply the re-quirements of the Depart-ment of Health (DOH) and private health facilities. The law is supposed to aid the poor,” Zubiri said.

“Although the Cheap-er Medicines Act gives the President the power to set price ceilings on various drugs, includ-ing those for chronic ill-nesses and prevention of diseases, as recommend-ed by the Secretary of Health, only very few are covered. And on those few drugs, the price re-ductions are not substan-tial.”

“Bakit hindi sila gum-agalaw? Gamitin na ang baston sa mga respons-able sadistribution and price manipulation,” said Zubiri.

Zubiri criticizes DTI, DOH for not lowering medicine prices

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--Davao City candidate for councilor Ma. Belen “Mabel” S. Acosta on women in politics. EdgE davao, april 9,2013

‘A LOT of people says that women are emotional, but I believe this is a positive at-tribute for a being a leader because this makes her empathize with her constituents which is good for servanthood.’

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--Senator Francis Pangilinan, chairman of the Senate committee on agricul-ture and food. BusinEssMirror, april 9, 2013

‘WHAT will end smug-gling is throwing smug-glers behind bars by en-suring that speedy trials of those accused end in conviction and jail sen-tences.’

ME T RO P O l I TA N Bank and Trust Co (Metrobank) signs

an agreement for a $120 Million term loan facility with Globe Telecom to help finance the latter’s capital expenditures for 2013.

The seven-year loan was arranged by the bank’s Corporate Bank-ing Group. loan proceeds would be used to fund the on-going network mod-

ernization and IT transfor-mation program of Globe that aims to improve network capacity and re-siliency to handle much higher levels of voice, SMS, and data traffic.

“As a long-time bank-ing partner of Globe Tele-com, we are proud to sup-port the efforts of Globe Telecom to bring world-class telecommunications infrastructure to the Phil-

ippines. We are commit-ted to supporting Globe, having maintained a solid relationship through the years, serving the compa-ny’s needs for short-term financing, cash manage-ment and over-all finan-cial advisory,” said Vicente Cuna, Jr., Senior Executive Vice President and Head of the Institutional Bank-ing Sector of Metrobank.

As of end-December

2012, Metrobank had total assets of over P1.037-Tril-lion, with total corporate and commercial loans reaching P49 Billion, up 15% year-on-year. The bank offers a wide array of financial services for corporate customers, in-cluding cash management, import and export trade products, specialized lending facilities, treasury and investment services.

LOAN AGREEMENT. Metrobank signs a loan agreement with Globe Telecom to help the latter fund its capital expenditures for the year. The agreement was signed by Metrobank Institutional Banking Sector Head Vicente Cuna, Jr. and Albert de Larrazabal, CFO of Globe Telecom (2nd and 3rd from left,

respectively); and witnessed by Anthony Ocampo, Senior Vice President and Head of the Large Corporates Division; and Veronica So, Head of Liquidity and Treasury Operations for Globe.

Metrobank inks $120-M loan for Globe capex

THE Department of Trade and Industry – Davao City Field Of-

fice (DTI-DCFO) will be con-ducting a one-day seminar to equip those who want to start their own business.

Dubbed as “Developing an Entrepreneurial Mind-set”, the seminar is set on April 16, 1:00 to 5:00 pm, at the DTI Conference Room, 2/F Mintrade Building, cor-ner Monteverde and Sales Streets, Davao City.

The seminar is the first module in the DTI Entre-preneurship Development Training.

DTI-DDCFO director Teolulo T. Pasawa said it is most suited for small busi-ness owners or start-ups, would-be entrepreneurs, young professionals, out-of-school youth, and students who consider starting up a small business.

In this seminar, partic-ipants will discover how passion, purpose and vision can help achieve long-term

business success “because without personal motiva-tion it is very difficult to suc-ceed whether in business or in life in general”.

They will also explore how anyone can be more entrepreneurial by lever-aging on the philosophies on entrepreneurial mind-set and the power of the mind.

Techniques on how to unleash the entrepreneur-ial spirit and break free from the employee mind-set to be able to see a path of a career in entrepre-neurship will be taught as well so they can apply this important skill-set to the business.

The seminar is for free, however, slots are limit-ed. Interested participants are encouraged to make early reservations at tele-phone numbers 224-0511 local 208, 201 or 205 and look for Ivy or thru email at dcfo.tmsmed@gmail.com.[DTI]

DTI-Davao City sponsors free seminar on April 16

MUlTINATION-Al electronics giant Hewl-

ett-Packard (HP) has inked a P100 million deal with the South-ern Philippines Med-ical Center (SPMC) to strengthen the hospi-tal’s information tech-nology (IT) infrastruc-ture.

In yesterday’s con-tract signing at the Mar-co Polo Davao, HP Phil-ippines managing direc-tor Ryan Guadalquiver said the company will provide the hospital a “converged infrastruc-ture” ranging from stor-age and back up hard-ware to management software, servers and network.

“HP is the only ven-dor than can offer this very comprehensive portfolio. It will really give SPMC the stability as they move forward to digitalization,” he said.

HP is the world’s largest IT solutions provider in healthcare industry.

SPMC chief Dr. leo-poldo J. Vega said that for the past five years the hospital started de-veloping applications to digitalize its operation starting from admission and laboratory results to billing documents and records after the discharge of the pa-tients.

“IT plays a cru-cial role in hospital. It makes us efficient and effective. We are trying to fully-automize and digitalize.” he said, add-ing that 85 percent of the different modules developed by an out-sourced IT company are already integrated into the hospital’s IT infra-structure.

“From basic informa-tion upon admission to x-ray results and labo-ratory tests, everything

will become digital. Imagine a doctor in his android phone reading the laboratory results and from there give his diagnosis. This is where we are going. This is our future,” Vega said.

Bong M. Paloma, AMTI general manager and senior vice presi-dent, said the project will fully integrate the various aspects of hos-pital operation includ-ing data management, cash flow and billing.

AMTI is the project’s system integrator. Sys-tem integration refers to bringing together of the component subsys-tems into one system and ensuring that the subsystems function together as a system. In IT, systems integration is the process of link-ing together different computing systems and software applications physically or function-

ally utilizing a variety of techniques such as hardware and software solutions, computer networking, enterprise application integration and other solutions in-frastructures.

“We believe that this could be the model for all hospitals. The SPMC made the first step. This could be an exam-ple on universal health care delivery,” he said.

Vega said HP will be paid for the infrastruc-ture in the next five years in monthly in-stallments, adding that the funds to be used in the project will mainly come from the hospi-tal’s income particu-larly from revenues de-rived from PhilHealth.

Vega said since the time of former health secretary Alberto G. Ro-mualdez, Jr., public hos-pitals are authorized to retain and utilize their

income which, he said, is a big help to all gov-ernment-owned hospi-tals in modernizing and upgrading their infra-structures.

“Before, government hospitals are treated as expense center without the authority to retain income which has to be reverted to the national treasury,” he said.

Vega said the plan of the Aquino administra-tion to issue PhilHealth

cards to all Filipinos by 2016 will make the project’s financial re-quirement more viable.

“Five years ago, when only 18 percent of our patients are Phil-Health members, we earn an income of 250 million (pesos) annual-ly. last year we earned close to a billion (pe-sos) as 42 percent of our patients are cov-ered by PhilHealth,” he said.

Hewlett-Packard signs P100-M deal with SPMCBy Greg G. Deligero

44, 748 hectares

49 percent

Davao by the numbersDavao City has

of agricultural area devoted to major crops

of which are planted with industrial crops.

sourcE: city agriculturist’s officE

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CONSUMERS should not buy compact fluores-cent light (CFl) bulbs

that are being sold around town for a bargain price of three for P100 here, the De-partment of Energy (DOE) warned.

Raquel Huliganga, director of the DOE’s Energy Research Testing and laboratory Ser-vices, said in a press confer-ence here Wednesday that there were reported instanc-es of cheap CFls exploding, which caused harm or fire.

She said that these cheap bulbs are not entering the country through legal means.

Huliganga advised con-sumers to look for the manda-tory yellow label on the bulb’s packaging, which provide in-formation on the energy ef-ficiency performance of the product. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), she noted, performs safety tests on CFls sold in the local mar-ket.

The DTI said that the yel-low labels help “eliminate the least efficient lighting system in the local market, reduce monthly electricity bill, pro-tect consumers from misla-beling, encourage the man-ufacturers to improve prod-uct efficiency, and to reduce greenhouse gas emission.”

Huliganga said safe CFl bulbs that cost P80 to P120 each, depending on the quali-ty and wattage, are energy-ef-ficient compared to the cheap incandescent bulbs.

The DOE urges the public to use CFls to help reduce

energy consumption. In its Philippine Energy Efficien-cy Project (PEEP), the DOE distributed 8.6 million CFls to households all over the country to demonstrate how to save energy using the CFl bulbs.

She mentioned that the DOE also replaced street

lights in some major cities with light-emitting diode (lED) lamps from the high pressure sodium (HPS) lamps.

Of the two types of street lamps, the lEDs are more efficient in energy consump-tion. It has the same life span as the HPS lamps at 30,000 hours, Huliganga said.

She noted, though, that the government does not have tests yet for the quality of the lED lamps. She advised consumers to ask for warran-ty and know where the lamps were manufactured to pro-tect their consumer rights. (lorie Ann A. Cascaro / Min-daNews)

THE STAGE is set for another head-to-head battle between the group of businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan and conglomerate San Miguel Corp.—this timefor the P13.61-billion contract to build and operate the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) Expressway. Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 9, 2013

THE DEPARTMENT of Agriculture is allocating P500 million for programs that will encourage more farmers to plant hybrid rice varieties, as the government moves to attain national rice sufficiency by the nd of the year, according to Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala.

TYCOON Lucio Tan-led conglomerate LTG is making a grand stock market debut with a follow-on public offering worth much as $800 million, possibly making history for launching the biggest among initial public offerings. Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 9, 2013.

THE PHILIPPINES extended nearly $350 million in loans to the International Monetary Fund for relending to crisis-stricken countries in the euro zone, including Portugal, Ireland and Greece, according to the BangkoSentralngPilipinas.

13.6 500 800 350It figures

MONTHLY AVERAGE EXCHANGE RATE (January 2012-February 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 Watch5.4

4th Qtr 2012

6.8 4th Qtr 2012

USD 3,969.51 million

Dec 2012USD 5,135.46

million Nov 2012

USD -1,585 million

Nov 2012USD -209

millionMar 2012

P 5,171,689  million

Dec 2012

3.6 % Jan 2013P155,308

million Nov 2012

P 5,381 billion 

Nov 2012

P 40.67 Feb 2013

6,242.7 Jan 2013

132.4 Feb 2013

3.4 Feb 2013

3.8 Feb 2013

352,438 Nov 2012

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/

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PHILIPPINES’  AIRASIA  PARTNERS WITH  CEBUANA LHUILLI-ER. Paying for your Philippines’ AirAsia promo seats and other online purchases at www.airasia.com has just become more con-venient after Cebuana Lhuillier and AirAsia Inc. launched a cash payment partnership service which allows passengers to pay for airline tickets booked online in cash at any Cebuna Lhuillier’s over

1,500 branches nationwide. Photo shows (L-R) Cebuana Lhuillier Corporate Planning Group Head Marissa Ancog, AirAsia Inc. CEO Maan Hontiveros, Cebuana Lhuillier President and CEO Jean Henri Lhuillier and AirAsia Inc. Commercial head Freddy Herrera after the signing ceremony.

Beware of cheap CFL bulbs – DOE

WITH almost 50 years of providing top-notch finan-

cial services to its clients, the United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB) continues to exceed industry-standards and ventures into another project focused on preserv-ing and protecting the envi-ronment to create a better society.

Dubbed as the UCPB Cor-porate Office Power Conser-vation Project, the initiative is the bank’s way of support-ing the call for a “greener environment” in the modern

workplace.To achieve step-by-step

complete transformation of the UCPB headquarters to a greener institution, the UCPB Corporate Power Conservation Project was divided into three phases. Phase 1 involves the con-version of light power source to light-emitting di-odes commonly known as lED’s; Phase 2 is the up-grading of the centralized air-conditioning unit into a water-cooled system; and Phase 3 is the implementa-tion of the automated build-

ing management system. The project not only

helped minimize the car-bon footprint at the bank’s headquarters, but also helped the bank save mon-ey from its total budget al-location for operations and maintenance. The project reduced the bank’s annual cost of electricity by more than 50% due to the con-version of the light power source to lED’s and the de-crease in heat build-up in the building. The bank also gained benefits from the air-conditioning upgrade,

which was implemented in September 2012, with a noticeable drop on power consumption.

To date, UCPB has com-pleted Phases 1 and 2 while Phase 3 is set to be imple-mented this year coinciding with the bank’s 50th anni-versary.

As UCPB reaches its golden year, the bank re-mains committed not only to providing excel-lent banking services, but also to helping secure the Earth’s future for the next 50 years.

UCPB banking on energy conservation to support environmental initiatives

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SOMEBODy must be laughing at Tubba-taha to the tune of ‘Tubbataha-haha.’

Days after the last bits of steel from the United States navy ship USS Guardian was removed from the protected reef, an-other boat from China ran aground Tubba-taha. The Chinese fishing boat ran aground on the world heritage site last Monday and just when we thought the worries of Tub-bataha’s conservation administration are over, here is another problem.

When the minesweeper US Guardian ran aground Tubbataha, we questioned what is the business of the US naval ship in the waters of Tubbataha? Now, should we also ask what the business of this Chinese boat there?

Are the US and China playing games on us?

It is no secret that the Philippines and China are locked in a territorial dispute over the Kalayaan Group of Islands (KGI). The Chinese have built structures in Sprat-leys and has been in no mood for settling the dispute with the Philippines nor with any other state with territorial claims. The Philippine government is in no mood too to stir ripples into this delicate issue.

Here’s the irony. If China can drift into

our waters and poach into our marine re-sources, are we still in no mood to make a significant move, perhaps in the form of a diplomatic protest? Which leads us also to another issue—the Sabah conflict.

Same reaction. The President is in no mood to come up to Malaysia and say “hey, there’s a fairly good reason these men are fighting for Sabah, but can we talk this over?”

Alright, charges have been filed as of Thursday against the 12 Chinese fishermen whose boat is the latest to be stuck in Tub-bataha. Is that enough?

We wonder, what if these are Filipino fishermen caught poaching in Chinese wa-ters? That would be a different story alto-gether knowing the Chinese would be in no mood to let it all pass.

Meantime, what do you do with a Chinese vessel? Unlike the USS Guardian where its bits and pieces make for money out of the junkie, this Chinese vessel parts could even end up to be a hazardous, toxic chunk like some China-made toys.

Seriously, at 97,000-hectare (239,700-acre) of pristine marine sanctuary and one of the world’s best diving sites, it’s no joke to be Tubbataha.

OLIVIA D. VELASCOGeneral Manager

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Hard-luck Tubbataha

AQUILES Z. ZONIOStaff Writer

EJ DOMINIC C. FERNANDEZ • CHERRY MAE D. PALICTEReporters

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AGUSTIN V. MIAGAN JRCirculation

My office-mates

at Edge Davao c o u l d n ’ t understand why I always stirred my cup of coffee 60 times, no more, no less. Meaning, 60 strokes with a teaspoon going round and round and round and round. Even at home no one had noticed this fact. Now it’s no longer a secret. Everybody knows the reason behind this eccentricity, thanks to World War 2.

As I revealed in a previous column, as a member of a combat unit in World War 2, my weapon of choice was the 60 mm mortar. Not that I carried with me on combat missions a 60 which is too heavy for one individual. The weap-on consisted of three main parts—the tube through which the shell passea on its way to the target, the steel base-plate on which the tube’s butt end was attached for firing, and the bipod (two legs which when attached to the tube became a tripod (the tube itself serv-ing as the third leg) making the weap-on stable and holding it firmly in place. Each of these three parts was carried by a member of the mortar team. The rest of the team carried the cases containing rounds of ammunition (shells) on their shoulders.

Upon arrival at the place from which the mortar was to be fired at designated target(s), the three major components would be assembled into one potent weapon. The gunner would then calcu-late the distance to the target after first making certain that the tube is steady with the aid of a level attached to the it much as a carpenter’s level does the same job. The gunner then fires two or three smoke shells to see where they fall and makes the necessary adjust-ments for accuracy. Our 60 was more reliable than the Japanese knee mortar which was attached to the gunner’s leg and the angle of fire adjusted by bend-ing the knee accordingly. It was more reliable as a weapon for eliciting fear among the enemy with its loud explo-sion than for actually killing anyone, being so inaccurate. After a while we would simply ignore it as a mere nui-sance.

Except that, in the battle of Doyan-gan Hill, Gigaquit where our Combat Company had 100 men in place at the same time armed with new weapons from a cargo submarine—including two .50 cal. machineguns, two .30 cal. MGs, plus one .30 cal. Japanese MG captured in in an earlier battle—one of our men, Corporal Dandan, happened to be near where a Jap mortar shell landed and one piece of shrapnel got embedded in his brain. Our medics headed by a doctor did not have the capability to extract the shrapnel. Dandan died several days later.

I had become attached to my 60 mm mortar, so much so that with the aid of a sewing kit from that submarine I em-broidered the silhouette of my weapon of choice on the breast portion of my denim shirt showing the weapon spew-ing smoke from its mouth as if it had just fired a shell. Under it was the caption in colored thread—Baby Sixty (as opposed to the bigger 81 mm) of which we had two under Sgt, Berana (who succumbed to dysentery while in service). It was no work of art but my comrades liked it.

Excuse me, but I have to fix myself a cup of instant coffee—stirring it with 60 strokes round and round and round and round . . . in memory of my Baby Sixty!

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IN his book The Cleanest Race, B.R. Myers, an American professor in South Korea’s Dongseo University

and an authority on North Korea, ar-gues that the North, often called “the last Stalinist state,” isn’t that at all. Nor is it, as other scholars claim, a kind of tyrannical Confucianism. It is highly ideological, but the ideology is one of race, not of class struggle.

Since 1948, when the present Kim’s grandfather, Kim Il Sung, took the lead-ership of the north, until now, the family strategy has been to enfold Korea’s 25 million people in a myth that they are the most pure, unsullied, childlike and innocent race on earth. Their purity and innocence requires the tender care of paternal leaders like the Kims. The rest of the world are dirty mongrels.

This is the internal approach: Exter-nally (with the major exception of Chi-

na) the stance is one of contempt and bellicosity. The result is the most com-plete isolation of any state in the world: necessary, if the population is to be kept docile, united both in love of the leader and hatred of outsiders. As the 2004 British documentary, A State of Mind, showed, the love is real.

Westerners, accustomed to being skeptical of political power and to pol-iticians’ being judged on delivering material prosperity, assume the devo-tion is a façade. It isn’t, any more than the mass adoration of Stalin, Hitler and Mao was. We have been here before.

Kim Jong-un lives a savage paradox.

More absolute in power than any oth-er ruler, with a population more cowed than in any other country, he must, still, fear collapse. His frontiers are more po-rous than they have ever been. A wid-ening circle is coming to know, not only that their neighbors are much richer and freer, but also that they wish to bring the isolated state into the world community.

There has been no sign – as there has been in every other dictatorship of the 20th century – of an underground: the hideous, starving punishment camps, and the sheer efficiency of iso-lation and propaganda, have seemed to work. They may not work much longer. Once dissent springs up, it may grow, spread, usher in a violent end to the re-gime. Of course, we cannot know that it will do that. But nor does Kim: And it makes his regime the more perilous.

(Conclusion)

(Conclusion)

EXTENSIVE BUT INEFFECTIVE POWER PURCHASE AGREE-MENT – This time the Aqui-

no administration cannot make just cosmetic changes. Consum-ers’ displeasure and disgust have been building up fast against the leadership, National Power Corp. (NAPOCOR), Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC), Power Sector Assets and liabilities Management (PSAlM) and Independent Power Producers (IPPs). They are solely blamed for the country’s prevailing power deficiency problem. Govern-ment dealings with these agencies do not always develop picture-per-fectly. Plans for additional power supply suffered setbacks the pre-vious months when the IPPs failed to deliver the promised power ca-pacity to meet the country’s energy needs.

There’s an ongoing public out-cry against the 19 centavos per kilowatt-hour increase imposed by the ERC through the alleged mis-chievous prodding of PSAlM. The Trade Union Congress of the Phil-ippines (TUCP) through its sector representative Raymond Mendo-za wasn’t impressed by the addi-tional charges saying that PSAlM with ERC blessings hits consum-ers with double whammy. The ERC and PSAlM undertaking looks like shots in broad daylight where con-sumers are being made to reward the IPPs for never constructing their promised power plants and in the same vein for not fulfilling the promised power capacity they undertook to set up.

Absolutely incredible! How high will the cost of electricity go? The poor and hapless consumers have no idea about it but one thing sure

is that they have to pay for addi-tional cost. They don’t think ener-gy officials can show them the fundamen-tals but per-haps only the figures. And they don’t also buy the story that the price of electricity goes up unprecedentedly due to the scar-city of supply. The perception was that government has a tremendous power purchase agreement with the IPPs and Napocor in turn is ob-ligated to by all the electricity that the IPPs produced, a take-for-pay contract granted to the indepen-dent power operators. However, it’s absolutely the fault of the IPPs for their failure to deliver the in-tended power capacity because some have never constructed pow-er generation plants.

The new power rate adjust-ment dictated by the ERC through the alleged intercession of PSAlM actually is no laughing matter. It is precisely the reason TUCP ac-cused that PSAlM instead acted as mere collecting agent for the IPPs and not observing the “matuwid na daan” (right path) philosophy of the PNoy leadership. Its repre-sentative likewise points out that if the capacity contract were not de-livered during the original period of the contract that already consti-tutes breach of contract on the part of the IPPs. That alone supposedly should exempt government from the liability of paying them.

The issue actually is not sole-ly about power never generated and never consumed, according to TUCP. The larger issue is about consumers being made to pay more when some IPPs never constructed power plants at all and never gen-erated their obligated power capac-ity. This is a clear violation of the IPPs’ contract with Napocor there-fore consumers do not owe them a cent. The TUCP further explained that the 19 centavos per KHW in-crease represents the difference of the cost of these contracts with the IPPs from the proceeds of the privatization of the assets of Napo-cor. Sadly of course, these are now being collected from all power con-sumers – unknowing or otherwise.

The TUCP fully believes that several of the IPPs were in breach of contract. It further added that the breach was never uncovered until power supply demand dra-matically declined because of the Asian financial crisis way back in 1997. If the IPPs were in breach of their contracts with the gov-ernment then it follows that there were no stranded costs for which government is now collecting for these IPPs. What is more import-ant right now is for TUCP to appeal to the President to order the hold-ing in abeyance of the 19 centa-vos per KWH increase this month and instead order the setting up of a Presidential Task Force to re-view the so-called stranded costs of Napocor. There are reasons to believe that the Aquino adminis-tration will most likely act pru-dently on this crucial issue and at the same time give the poor and hapless power consumers a high degree of hope.

VANTAGE POINTSEDGEDAVAO 9

Thatcher versus the establishment

North Korea’s known unknowns

A high degree of hope

By Walter ruSSell Mead COMMENTArY

By John lloydANAlYSIS

BUT there’s a catch: The establish-ment is good at keeping the mostly unwritten British constitution on

an even keel; but, since Queen Victoria died in 1901, it hasn’t been good at run-ning the country. The nation dithered into World War One and fought it bad-ly, brutally and destructively, without the strategic flexibility that marked past conflicts. Before World War Two, the es-tablishment believed that disarmament was the way to avoid war with Germany – the Munich Accords between Cham-berlain and Hitler weren’t an aberration. They were the climax of an establish-ment foreign policy blessed by the good and the great. Only cranks and outcasts – like Churchill – dissented, and the es-tablishment was (and is) quite effective at sidelining cranks.

After the war, the establishment found a new, almost equally destructive genteel consensus. From Churchill’s res-ignation in 1955 a stream of well-mean-ing non-entities passed through the doors of 10 Downing Street. labor or Tory, they subscribed to the postwar credo: tepid socialism and a welfare state that failed the poor while weaken-ing the economy.

Whether in 1930s appeasement or the postwar welfare state this bipartisan consensus backed disastrous policies until they pushed the country into such a hole that the establishment temporar-ily lost its head, and turned to a talented outsider in despair. As soon as the emer-gency is over, however, the long knives come out and it’s back to the comfy me-diocrity of consensual decline.

That is what Churchill and Thatcher had in common: They were outsiders who stepped into a crisis the estab-lishment couldn’t solve on its own. In his last years, Churchill was vindicated and brought back into power. The vot-ers who dismissed him before the guns of World War Two fell silent called him back for an encore in 1951, and Chur-chill chose the time and the manner of his departure.

Thatcher never sought power after her party showed her to the door. But no subsequent prime minister of either par-ty has tried to reverse the basic changes she made in British life.

Thatcher failed to solve all the prob-lems she identified – like all politicians. In Europe, she saw that the eurocrats in Brussels were making policy choices that would plunge Europe into its worst crisis since World War Two. She warned pre-sciently against the euro, and told anyone who would listen that centralizing power in Brussels was a recipe for European di-saster.

But for all her insight, she couldn’t re-solve Britain’s European Union dilemma. Britain can’t live with the EU, but it can’t live without it. European policy remains a minefield for British politicians, and Conservative prime ministers have the hardest time managing the conflicting ex-pectations and goals that keep British di-plomacy flummoxed and frustrated when engaged with the Continent.

Thatcher’s most important contri-bution was discovering the limits of the postwar social model. The welfare pol-icies, state economic controls and enti-tlement systems established in the ear-ly- to mid-20thth century across Europe and North America were costing more and delivering less. Demographic change (fewer young people supporting more elderly retirees) and foreign competition made old entitlements unsustainable.

“There is no alternative,” the Iron lady said and she was right. like it or not, we can’t go on in the old way. The numbers don’t add up.

But what Thatcher found was a prob-lem – not a solution. She didn’t unite her country, she polarized it. The same thing has happened in many other countries where “Thatcherism” remains a synonym for the cruel despoliation of the poor and the weak.

The social welfare policies of the mid-20th century no longer work very well, and more and more countries don’t have the money to pay for them even if they did. Thatcher was brilliantly right that the old road led nowhere. But 34 years af-ter Queen Elizabeth appointed her prime minister, we still don’t know what new road we should take.

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AND now, Tubbataha has two black eyes.

Barely a week after the USS Guard-ian was removed from Tubbataha’s South Atoll, another vessel has run aground the Philippines’ top coral reef.

At 1140H last 8 April, Tubbataha Park Rangers discovered the F/V Min long yu, a Chinese fish-ing vessel with bow num-ber 63168, floundering 1.1 nautical miles east of the Ranger Station, part of Tubbataha’s North Atoll.

The two atolls are the only land-masses jutting out of the Sulu Sea and form the core zone of the 97,030-hectare park – which is wholly off-limits to fishers.

The 12-man Chinese crew, which supposedly sailed from Fujian Prov-ince in Southeastern Chi-na, allegedly tried to bribe the Tubbataha Rangers with USD2400 (roughly PHP100,000). The Rang-ers flatly refused and con-tinued inspecting the ves-sel, which measured 48 meters from bow to stern and had an estimated dis-placement of 500 gross tonnes. Found aboard were nets and fishing par-

aphernalia – but no ma-rine life.

The crew have now been brought to Puer-to Princesa City to face charges. Possible viola-tions include Sections 19 (Unauthorized Entry), 20 (Damages to the Reef), 26 (Destroying or Disturb-ing of Resources) and 27 (Poaching by Foreigners) of Republic Act 10067 or the Tubbataha Reefs Natu-ral Park Act of 2009.

The same fine of PHP24,000 (USD600) per square meter of damaged or destroyed coral reef, which was levelled against the errant crew of the USS Guardian, shall be levelled against the Chinese. A cor-ruption case under Article 212 of the Philippines’ Revised Penal Code might also be filed.

If found guilty, the Chinese face fines rang-ing from PHP100,000 (USD2500) to PHP4M (USD100,000) plus jail terms of one to 12 years. The Philippine Coast Guard aims to refloat the grounded vessel with-in the week. Once escort-ed to Puerto Princesa, the Tubbataha Management Office plans to confiscate the vessel along with all

onboard equipment. An assessment of the damage wrought to North Atoll has been slated for next week.

F/V Min long yu is the seventh Chinese fishing vessel caught prowling the Tubbataha Reefs since

2002. Time and again, foreign poachers have in-truded upon the country’s rich waters. In Palawan alone, over 660 Chinese have been arrested fishing illegally over the last de-cade. Some vessels were

apprehended repeatedly. Many more were never caught.

On 21 December 2006, 30 Chinese poach-ers aboard the F/V Hoi Wan were apprehended 1.5 nautical miles from

Tubbataha’s South Atoll. More than 2300 high-val-ue fish, including live Grouper, Red Snapper and 359 endangered and le-gally-protected Napoleon Wrasse were discovered in the vessel holds.

10 EDGEDAVAOSCIENCE/ENVIrONMENT

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--Trade Secretary Gregorio Domingo, on mining revenue sharing

‘BY mid-May, there will be a more defined formula. A draft bill for mining will be finished by mid-May or sometime in June.’

AGROUND. The F/V Min Long Yu, a 48-meter Chinese fishing vessel, ran aground Tubbataha’s North Atoll last 8 April. Though smaller than the 68-meter USS Guardian, the Chinese ship is steel-hulled, which is far more destructive to coral reefs. TMO, which is leveling a PHP58M (USD1.4M) fine against the US Navy for destroying 2345.67 square meters of coral reef, will now file charges against the Chinese poachers.  [TMO Archives]

Chinese fishermen give Tubbataha 2nd black eye

ASIDE from its re-habilitation efforts in the three wa-

tersheds of Davao City, namely, Mt. Talomo-li-padas, Malagos and Mt. Tipolog-Tamugan, Davao City Water District also upholds existing laws that protect the watershed ar-eas in the country includ-ing the wildlife thriving in their midst such as Repub-lic Act No. 7586 or the Na-tional Integrated Protect-ed Areas System (NIPAS) Act of 1992.

The NIPAS Act classi-fies and administers pro-tected areas in the country which includes areas or islands proclaimed as na-tional park, game refuge, bird and wildlife sanctu-ary, wilderness area, strict nature reserve, water-

shed, mangrove reserve, fish sanctuary, natural and historical landmark, protected and managed landscape / seascape as well as identified virgin forests in order to main-tain ecological processes and life support systems, preserve genetic diversity, ensure sustainable use of resources found therein, and maintain their natural conditions to the greatest extent possible.

Since DCWD is one of the many stakeholders for watershed protection, it does not only implement rehabilitation and protec-tion efforts. It also con-cerns itself with threats to endangered species in-side identified watershed protected area. [Jovana T. Duhaylungsod]

THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources

(DENR) is boosting its pro-duction of bio-fertilizers by 55 percent during the first half of 2013 to ensure the supply of root growth en-hancers for planting mate-rials to be used in the gov-ernment’s National Green-ing Program (NGP).

According to the DENR’s Ecosystems Re-search and Development Bureau (ERDB), some 155 tons of bio-fertilizers will be made this semester or 55 tons higher than what was produced during the same period last year.

ERDB is using “mycor-rhizal” technology in pro-ducing fungus-based fer-tilizers, which main com-ponent is a nitrogen-fixing bacteria species called “vesicular arbuscular my-corrhiza.”

Mycorrhiza is known to promote fungal infection in the root area of a plant, in-duce root growth and im-prove transfer of water and nutrients to the host plant.

“A total of 155 tons are

to be distributed to 16 re-gions from January to June 2013, with a maximum of 10 tons per region,” ERDB Director Portia lapitan said in her memorandum to DENR Secretary Ramon J. P. Paje.

The production of the bio-fertilizer was first pegged at 100 tons in May last year, when it entered into a partnership with the National Institute of Molec-ular Biology and Biotech-nology of the University of the Philippines-los Baños (UPlB-BIOTECH).

lapitan noted that the production capacity of the UPlB-BIOTECH has been hitting 25 tons per month since last December.

Dr. Evangeline Castil-lo, ERDB science research specialist and project leader for the mycorrhizal production, said some 43 tons had already been dis-tributed to various DENR field offices as of March this year.

Castillo said satellite nursery facilities will be constructed this year to mass produce the bio-fer-

tilizer by the DENR for the next four years of the NGP’s implementation as well as for possible public consumption after 2016.

“The project hopes to produce about 500 tons of mycorrhiza by the end of the year from the three sat-ellite nursery facilities es-tablished in laguna, Bohol and Zambales provinces,” Castillo said.

She added that the mass production of bio-fer-tilizers was in compliance with Paje’s order to main-tain an 80 percent survival rate of planted seedlings under the NGP.

The DENR is also plan-ning to put up another my-corrhiza facility in Agusan del Norte to supply the bio-fertilizer requirements of the NGP’s implementa-tion in Mindanao, Castillo said.

ERDB’s facility inside the UPlB is already in production mode of the bio-fertilizer in prepara-tion for the supply needs for the second semester while the construction of other facilities is now in

full swing.These facilities are lo-

cated in Bohol Island State University in Bilar, Bohol; Ramon Magsaysay State University in Botolan, Zam-bales; and Caraga State University in Butuan City, Agusan del Norte.

According to Castillo, using mycorrhiza as fer-tilizer is more practical because of its unique char-acteristics that boost root growth.

“With the limited avail-ability of water particu-larly during long dry sea-son, mycorrhiza increases the plant’s tolerance to drought,” Castillo said.

She said biofertilizers were also effective even in hostile environment like mine waste areas and mine tailings site, citing studies which show that mycorrhiza has unique mechanisms that seques-ter heavy metals in the soil, thus increasing the plant’s tolerance to toxic-ity of the metals and min-imizing their transfer to the plants treated with the bio-fertilizer.

DENR ups biofertilizer production DCWD stresses watershed, wildlife protection in City

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Prayer concerts livened up the cities of Panabo and Tagum last 5 and 6 April 2013 as the Bukas Palad Music Ministry performed  well-loved tunes familiar to churchgoers across the country. Proud concert sponsors were the Diocese

of Tagum and the Ateneo de Davao University. The concert was aimed to generate funds for the development of a retirement home for priests of the Diocese of Tagum. (ADDU IPO)

THE Davao City Water District has scheduled

two sets of water ser-vice interruption to give way to separate systems improvement projects.

First set is on April 12 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM and will affect the entire S.I.R. Phase 1 in Matina and Agro compound. DCWD’s Operation and Main-tenance crew will in-stall a bypass pipe for the District Metered Area at S.I.R. Phase 1. Said project is part of DCWD’s efforts to reduce non-revenue water.

Second set is from 5:00 PM of April 12 until 12:00 MN of April 13 affecting the entire areas of Tug-

bok, Mintal, Bago Oshiro, Catalunan Grande and Catalunan Pequeño and portions of Davao-Bukidnon Rd. (from Tugbok to Ulas Cemetery), lib-by Rd. (Rosalina 1, ADCIVille Subd., Ka-bataan Center Assn., Toscana, San lorenzo Village, Reldo Village and Carmelo Porras Subd.), libby Rd to Baliok Rd. (lumanzo Compound, BAGASA, SUHAI Village and Si-tio Nalum) Bago Gal-lera Rd. (Samantha Homes Subd., Spring Valley Village, Mega Homes, Kaliraya Subd. and Gallera de Oro Subd.) and Bago Aplaya (BAVNAI Vill., and Saavedra Neigh-borhood Assn. Inc.). DCWD’s General Ser-

vices Department will do a revision of the discharge line assem-bly and installation of the 200mm produc-tion meter of Tugbok Production Well No. 5 for preventive main-tenance purposes.

DCWD acting gen-eral manager Edwin V. Regalado appeals for the understand-ing and cooperation of the would-be af-fected customers. He also advises them to store enough water prior to the scheduled water interruptions as water supply may be restored earlier if work goes smoothly or later if unforeseen problems arise.

The general public may call the DCWD trunk line at 221-9400

and press “1” on their phone dial to listen to the latest daily water updates, or contact its call center through the 24-hour hotlines 221-9412, 0927-798-8966, 0908-441-0653 or 0925-511-3293 for updates, complaints, queries and other matters pertaining to DCWD services. This announcement is also posted on the DCWD website (www.davao-water.gov.ph) and official Facebook account (www.face-book.com/davaocity-waterdistrict). It is also recorded in the 221-9400 voicemail. (Jovana T. Duhaylung-sod)

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are using illegal drugs and promised to quit.

“If their lives are important to them, then they should quit, considering the warn-ing that Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has given them,” he said.

Today, “Oplan Tok-hang” will visit Ba-rangay 38-D, located behind the DCPO Phil-ippine National Police (PNP) barracks at San Pedro Street.

“Operation Tok-hang” has been con-sidered by several sectors as an efficient mechanism by far in the campaign against illegal drugs. Dela Rosa has vowed to in-tensify the anti-illegal drugs drive in Davao City after a series of buy-bust operations brought to fore the involvement of some police personnel and soldiers in the illegal drugs trade.

A man on board a bicycle braves the heavy pour of rain which causes flooding of Davao City’s main streets Wednesday night. Lean Daval Jr.

were usually extract-ed from suspects who have been approached by police officers during house-to-house visits.

The information from suspects who were “tokhang-ed” were instrumental in the unique anti-drug drive wherein suspects were first approached and convinced to stop their illegal trade, Dela Rosa claimed.

During Monday’s Kapehan sa Dabaw media forum at SM An-nex, dela Rosa issued another stern warning against drug pushers known to be still oper-ating in Davao City.

“Don’t even think about bringing illegal drugs to the city, be-cause transactions are mostly planted and you will definitely get caught,” he said follow-ing the arrest of three drug pushers, which included a soldier, last Saturday evening.

He also warned buy-ers that he empowered

some bogus drug push-ers to arrest people who are trying to buy drugs.

“These are not po-licemen, which means they don’t adhere to the human rights guide-lines and may beat up buyers before arresting them,” he said.

Poseur buyers can make a citizen’s arrest on peddlers of illegal drugs, according to Dela Rosa.

“There are no or-ders yet from Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duter-te whether the bogus drug pushers empow-ered to arrest buyers will be given rewards,” he said.

He said, however, that informants will receive awards for giv-ing the authorities tips on illegal drug trans-actions in the city. He admitted that it was through the help of an informant which en-abled them to intercept the transaction last Sat-urday.

Water service interruptions on April 12-13 announced

In some areas of Davao City

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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) -- The first tee shot clattered through

a pair of pines on the left side of the 13th fairway, fi-nally landing on the wrong side of Rae’s Creek. Tiger Woods tried again, and this wasn’t any better. Fans peered across the fairway and only heard the ball rifle through some bushes.

‘’He’s hitting another one,’’ a man announced from the gallery.

The third shot with a fairway metal caused them to retreat until it turned with a slight draw, clipping a pine branch and settling in the second cut of rough.

Woods played nine holes Wednesday morn-ing in his final tuneup for the Masters, and how he played was of little con-sequence. Even so, that snapshot from the 13th tee was another reminder how quickly the best plans can fall apart, even for the No. 1 player on top of his game, especially at Augusta Na-tional.

Think back to Woods at his absolute best.

He won 10 times in 2000, including three ma-jors, and finished no worse than fifth in 19 of his 22 tournaments worldwide. Going into the Masters, he either won or finished sec-ond in 10 of his previous 11 PGA Tour events. It felt as though everyone was playing for second at Au-gusta that year.

What happened?Woods made a double

bogey and a triple bogey in a span of three holes, shot 75 in the opening round and never caught up.

The hype over Woods is not that strong this year, though there is no doubt who is driving the conver-sation. Those who have

played with him on the course or hit balls next to him on the range talk-ed about how he never missed a shot. His putting has been pure since he got that tip from Steve Stricker last month at Doral. And it shows in the scores. Woods has won his last two tour-naments, at Doral and Bay Hill, and neither was terri-bly close.

When the Masters be-gins Thursday, he is the odds-on favorite to end his five-year drought in the majors, and win a green jacket for the first time since 2005.

Trouble is, Augusta Na-tional doesn’t play favor-ites.

‘’Obviously, Tiger is Ti-ger,’’ said Scott Piercy, who will play alongside Woods and luke Donald in the opening two rounds. ‘’He’s always going to be that tar-get. He knows it, and that’s how he wants it. But there’s a lot of people getting clos-er. And the golfing gods, or whatever you want to call them, have a lot to do with winning. A bounce here, a bounce there. A lip in, a lip out.’’

Angel Cabrera got one of those bounces off a pine tree and back into the 18th fairway in 2009 that helped him save par and win a playoff on the next hole. Sure, he was a former U.S. Open champion, but the big Argentine was No. 69 in the world that year, the lowest-ranked player to ever win the Masters.

The hole got in the way twice for Charl Schwartz-el in 2011, once on a chip across the first green that fell for birdie, another a shot from the third fairway that dropped for eagle. He finished with four straight birdies to win.

FIDE Master Austin Jacob literatus of Davao City ran off

a string of three wins including a man-sized demolition of National Master Giovani Mejia in the eighth round to gain solo second in the 2013

National Age Group Chess Championships at the Taguig City Audito-rium.

The 16-year old wiz from Toril, backed up in the tournament by Kin-gking Gold and Copper Mines, Inc., also beat

Andre Miguel Jorgio and Christian Jake Tomines in the sixth and seventh rounds to bring his total to 15 points out of a pos-sible 16.

While literatus ad-vanced within striking distance of retaining

his title, his chief rival and fellow FIDE Master Paulo Bersamina kept his perfect run to keep his lead with 16 points in the 16 and Under division of the tourna-ment organized by the National Chess Federa-

tion of the Philippines (NCFP) and serving as the qualifier for the Asean Age Group Chess Championships in Thai-land this June.

Mejia dropped to third.

Another Davao bet,

Ella Grace Moulic, paced the Girls 16 and Under category with a perfect 12 points after beating Virgenie Ruaya in the sixth round. Moulic, a standout of Holy Cross of Davao College, has six wins in as many outings.

Moulic still perfect, Literatus crushes NM Mejia

Masters not always kind to favorites

Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, kisses his caddy and girlfriend tennis player Caroline Wozniacki following the par-three competition before the

Masters golf tournament Wednesday (Thursday PHL Time), April 10, 2013, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

PERFECT PITCH. World no. 1 Tiger Woods practices from the pitching area during practice round before the US Masters.

Tennis player Caroline Wozniacki rests her head on Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy’s shoulder during the par three competition before the

Masters golf tournament Wednes-day (Thursday PHL Time), April 10, 2013, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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THE Milo-BEST Sum-mer Basketball Clinic opens on

April 29 at the Martinez Sports Complex at the Ateneo de Davao Univer-sity Matina campus.

Chad Bouffard, local organizer, said during the weekly Davao Sportswrit-ers Association (DSA) Fo-rum at the Dexter’s Pizza Stadium that the popular scientific basketball clinic will run from April 29 to May 4, 2013.

“We are looking for-ward to having more par-ticipants this year,” Bouf-fard said. last year, 229 participants took part in the summer hoops clinic organized by the Basket-

ball Efficiency Scientific Training Center and spon-sored by Milo.

The clinic is open to participants under five categories: Introduction to Basketball (5-8 years old), and levels 1 to 4 (9 years old and up). Reg-istration Fee for Intro course is P2,800 while levels 1 to 4 is P3,300.

In Cagayan de Oro City where the clinic was staged last week, some 210 participants took part eclipsing the previ-ous record of 190.

Interested par-ticipants may con-tact 09282917764, 09434799954 and 09168474305.

THE Royal Mandaya Hotel is the official hotel partner of

AlA Promotions for the hit Pinoy Pride series with Pinoy Pride 19 “Mexican Invasion” set on April 20, 2013 at the USEP Gymna-sium, Davao City.

TRMH GM Benjamen Banzon, Jr. and AlA Pro-motions president and CEO Michael Aldeguer signed the partnership pact making the Escan-dor-owned hotel as the official home of reigning WBO international feath-erweight champion Rey “Boomboom” Bautista, WBO and OPBF boxing officials and personalities to be showcased during the mega-boxing event.

Supporters and for-eign delegates are like-wise expected on this international night of boxing in Davao—the first biggest fight card in the city since Manny Pac-quiao fought Thai fighter Rakkiatgym in 2003.

The Royal Mandaya Hotel is strategically situ-ated at the heart of Davao City, ideal place for easy access to business en-gagements,tourism and leisure spots.

Pinoy Pride XIX “Mex-ican Invasion” will fea-ture one of Philippine’s boxing star in Bautista who will be defending his WBO Internation-al Featherweight title against famed Mexican boxing protagonist Jesus Ramirez. Also featured in this event is the reigning OPBF Flyweight Champi-on Rocky “the Road War-rior” Fuentes who would also be facing another tough Mexican opponent Juan “loquito” Kantun, King Arthur Villanueva against Marco Singwan-cha among other more spectacular bouts for the undercards.

Pinoy Pride XIX Mexi-can Invasion will be tele-cast the following day over ABS-CBN Channel 2 9:55 AM and 4:00 Pm on Studio 23.

The Pinoy Pride XIX Mexican Invasion Tickets are already available at SM City Davao, SM lanang Premier.

Other outlets are at the USEP Gym, Rise Man-agement 4/f Central Plaza Bldg, Toryano’s Chicken House and at lyndon Rita livestock Dealer in Agdao Market.

DEFENDING champi-on General Services Office defeated City

Environment and Natural Resources, 90 – 89, in over-time in their epic semifinal clash to take the last finals berth in the 76th Araw ng Dabaw – Dachea Basketball Tournament Category A on Wednesday at the Davao City Recreation Center Al-mendras Gym.

The fourth-ranked GSO pulled through with an as-tonishing upset over the top-seed and erstwhile title

favorite CENRO to arrange a rematch of last year’s finals against the Christopher “Bong” Go-led Sangguniang Panlungsod.

Ronel Bantillan carried the load for the short-hand-ed GSO, finishing with the game-high 26 points marked with clutch baskets in regulation and overtime.

Ryan Dela Pena made 22 baskets and Russel Ve-nus and Arnold Garces had 16 apiece to help GSO boost its title retention bid. (Rico Biliran)

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RMH is Pinoy Pride XIX partner

GSO beats CENRO, faces SP in finals

HOOPS CLINIC. Chad Boufard, organizer of MILO Best Summer Basketball Clinic, announces the upcoming basketball camp during the weekly Davao

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Learning to use the tjanting.

My first Batik experience:Batik workshop and Indocraft 2013TradiTionally made using a manual (by hand) wax-resist dyeing technique, the Batik holds forth prominent and outstanding meanings rooted to the Javanese conceptualization of the universe(wikipedia.org/wiki/Batik). Basically a cloth or a piece of wood, it is believed that certain patterns can only be worn and used by nobility and tradition-ally. More so, UnESCo designated indonesian batik as a Master-

By Bai Fauziah Fatima Sinsuat Ambolodto

piece of oral and in-tangible Heritage of Humanity (october 2, 2009) and since then ordered indo-nesia to preserve it. last april 5-7 2013, the Consulate General of the republic of indonesia, in partnership with the Batik House of indonesia, con-ducted a Batik Workshop and indocraft Exhibit at the Convention Center of SM lanang Premier in the

metro. Highlighting authentic and intricately designed Batik products, the exhibit allowed everyone to expe-rience the art of making (Batik) and seeing their ‘masterpieces’ in a matter of minutes. Grateful for an invite from my ever-beautiful Kaka Bai Oleh Sinsuat Limbona Lidasan, i said yes the moment i learned of the event. at first, i was

worried that i would miss it because of my schedule but, as it turned out, i was able to make my way to the venue with my yaya in FBATIK WORKSHOP, A4

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RANChERO Nuevo is extending its popular deal until end of April. Dine at Ranchero Nuevo, SM City General Santos this month of April and avail our Buy One 50% Off on Second Order Deal on featured daily dishes. Dine on deli-cious Baby Back Ribs on Mondays, Sizzling Bulalo on Tuesdays, Seafood Fiesta on Wednes-days, Garlic Fried Chicken on Thurs-days and Kara-gatan Soup on Fridays. Visit Ranchero Nuevo today at the Al Fresco Area of SM City General Santos.

ThE Philippines’ largest national flag car-rier, Cebu Pacific (PSE:CEB) boosts travel to leisure destinations in the Philippines and select ASEAN routes in a seat sale from April 10 to 12, 2013 or until seats last. For travel from June 1 to August 31, 2013, travelers can buy P399 seats from Manila to Dumaguete, Ka-libo, Legazpi or Naga. The same P399 seat sale fare is available from Cebu to Busuanga, Camiguin, Caticlan, Puerto Princesa or Siargao; from Davao to Kalibo; and from Iloilo to Puerto Princesa. Meanwhile, P699 seats are up for grabs from Manila to Busuanga, Caticlan, Puerto Princesa or Tagbilaran; and from Davao to Puerto Princesa. “We encourage booking these seat sale fares in ad-vance, since this travel period is also considered off-peak in the Philippines. Aside from air fare savings, guests can already begin scouting for the best hotel offers through our partner www.agoda.com, and planning their trip itineraries,” said CEB VP for Market-ing and Distribution Candice Iyog. “These are some of the Philippines’ top diving, beach, surfing and eco-adventure destinations. They serve as gateways to marine sanctuaries, world-re-nowned surf spots, underwater wrecks, among many others. We hope our seat sale will enable even more local and foreign tourists to visit these destinations,” she added. Select ASEAN routes are also up for grabs for as low as P999. For travel from May 1 to September 30, 2013, guests can buy P999 seats from Manila to Kota Kinabalu, and from Clark or Iloilo to Singapore. For travel June 1 to September 30, 2013, passen-gers can buy P999 seats from Manila to Brunei, Siem Reap, Bali, Kuala Lumpur, hanoi or ho Chi Minh; as well as from Clark or Cebu to Bangkok. Those traveling from Manila or Cebu to Singapore, or from Manila to Bangkok can also buy P1,499 seats, while those headed from Manila to Jakarta can buy P1,899 seats. CEB also holds a special seat sale from April 10-15, 2013 only for those buying tickets originating from Dubai only. The seat sale fare starts at AED100 from Dubai to Manila, for travel from October 7 to Decem-ber 31, 2013. Quoted fares are exclusive of check-in baggage al-lowance, taxes, fuel surcharges and admin fees. The airline is set to pioneer direct services between Cebu and Camiguin on April 15, 2013. Direct flights between Cebu and Masbate will be launched on June 1, 2013. CEB will also launch its Cebu-Taipei service on July 5, 2013 and its Manila-Dubai service on October 7, 2013.

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JUSTIN Timberlake and Jessica Biel had quite the eventful Tuesday. The “Suit and Tie” singer and his actress wife paid a visit to the White house today, and got to hang out with Barack and Michelle Obama, but it wasn’t just to catch up on J.T.’s chart-topping album or talk politics. Timberlake was part of an interactive student workshop “Soulsville, USA: The history of Memphis Soul,” which was hosted by the first lady in the State Dining Room, and invited middle and high school students from around the country to take part. “The White house is buzzing with excitement today as we celebrate the rhythmic groove of Memphis soul,” Michelle Obama said, dressed in a buttercup yellow pantsuit

and coral top. “Yes! Memphis is in the house!” “Guess who @ F LO T U S i n -vited to the #atTheWh to-day!? Watch the student workshop live stream start-ing 11am ET. http://wh.gov/live -teamJT,” the Memphis-native’s team tweeted from his Twitter this morning. And it looks like Biel had a moment that she will cherish forever. “I hugged POTUS. I hugged POTUS. I hugged POTUS,” she tweeted. One more time with feeling, Jessica. Timberlake, along with musicians Sam Moore, Ma-vis Staples, Charlie Mussel-

white and Ben harper, all of whom were also pres-ent for the workship to-day, will be performing to-night for In Performance at the White house, which will be broadcast on PBS on April 16.

Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel visit Barack and Michelle Obama at the White House

JUSTIN Bieber may not have been born when the United States government’s so-called War on Drugs began, but he’s apparently hoping to be around to see the ceasefire.“shoutout to @Unc-leRUSh . gotta support him to #EndTheWarOn-Drugs and show that we the youth have a voice. hashtag and support the cause,” the 19-year-old pop star tweeted today in support of Def Jam co-founder Russell Simmons, who posted an online letter to the Obama ad-ministration urging him to implement “more cre-ative criminal justice re-form” (etc.) when it comes to drug users.The dozens of celebrity signees who threw their support behind Sim-mons’ missive include Will Smith, Jon hamm, the Kardashian sisters, Kris Jenner, Russell Brand, Su-san Sarandon, Tim Rob-bins, Demi Moore, Mark

Wahlberg, Eva Longo-ria, Scarlett Johansson, Woody harrelson, Jamie Foxx, Jim Carrey and Ker-ry Washington.And Bieber, who used his Saturday Night Live host-

ing gig in February as a platform to apologize to his fans for smoking marijuana, isn’t the only one helping to spread the word via Twitter, though we have a feeling the tweets have only just be-gun!“Props to ->’@justin-bieber: shoutout to @Un-cleRUSh . gotta support him to #EndTheWarOn-Drugs and show that we the youth have a voice,’” tweeted Samantha Ron-son.“America spends $30K to incarcerate an inmate but less than $12K on a student! http://bit.ly/Xzq0UM #EndTheWarOn-Drugs PLS RT!,” added Deepak Chopra.Of course, no well-meaning deed goes un-punished, so Simmons also tweeted this after-noon: “4 those frustrated by my political tweets, my tweets R prayers meant 2 remove suffering my actions have same in-tentions #endthewaron-drugs.”

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tow. all my Kaka said was, “Enjoy” and i know, i was in for an experience of a lifetime. Participants from all lifestyles, including kids, paraded to the venue armed with much gusto in learning the age-old craft of Batik making. Being a Muslim, i have heard, seen and adored some beauti-fully crafted batik fabrics but never been taught of how it was done. as soon as i was seated (yaya was as excited as i was)and had my own tjant-ing (a pipe like tool with a tiny metal cup and tiny spout at one end) and a piece of round wood, i was all set. Grouped in a table with five men, a cute baby girl and two other women, we were instructed of the steps and procedure of making batik. From the proper way of holding the tjanting, the canvass itself and how to get some of the melted wax (malam) in the tjanting. and off we go! Believe me it was fun. Super fun! Patience must have been with me that day as i delicately and seriously followed the outline on my

wood. We were taught to have thicker wax to have it emphasized. later on, we were encouraged to have the back designed as well. Well, i opted to make my royal CHEF crown or so i thought. after that tedious task, we were lead to a corner where the dyeing process takes place. Crowding, i made my way and was amazed as our pieces were dunked, dipped and boiled right on front of us. Pails full of water and dye’s lined the corner. you can really see the transformation. Flashes of smiles from the crowd made me shiver with delight as i wait on mine. at the end of the work-shop, we were treated to our very own Batik Certifi-cate and a loot bag which included a quaint batik pouch. The bookie in me opted to avail one of their visitor’s booklet (Welcome to indonesia) – we’ll never know, i might hop on a plane and visit the place anytime soon. Terima kasih for the ex-perience and ta-ta for now as i adore my own batik masterpiece!

The dyeing process.

My certificate and finished product.

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Damosa’s timeline is like browsing through vignettes of history of Davao’s business evo-lution. Afterall, what better way is there to define Davao’s growth than seeing one of its very own homegrown business firms grow with the city?

It was in the early 1940s when Don An-tonio Foirendo, Sr. ven-tured into a dealership with Manila Trading and Supply Co. (Man-trade) to distribute mo-tor vehicles and spare parts.

This was wartime in the country and busi-ness is not what occu-pies one’s mind in this decade of turmoil.

Don Antonio must be a different breed. He flew to Davao on April 14, 1948 and opened the first car dealership outside Manila. He es-tablished the Davao Motor Sales Company (Damosa) and rolled the operations Ford’s dealership.

For that, he was credited for “putting Mindanao on wheels.”

Not too many peo-ple know that Damosa’s humble beginnings saw its first establishment in Bangkerohan (at the site now occupied by a Mercury Drug outlet).

In the 1960s, Don Antonio began acqui-sition of property from lease agreements and land collaterals from his clients. The acqui-

sition included the La-nang property where he later established the Damosa office and ser-vice center.

The 1970s saw the rise of the staple car from Ford known as the Ford Fiera. The Fi-era is a jeep-type vehi-cle that emerged as the decade’s most sought after vehicle for its ver-satility.

The 70s also saw ex-pansions in Gen. Santos City with Valley Motor Sales Inc., and Cagayan de Oro City with Mind-anao Motors Corpora-tion. Significantly in the same decade, Damosa’s holding company Anflo Management and In-vestment Corporation (Anflocor) was estab-lished.

The automotive in-dustry took a differ-ent turn in the 1980s which saw Ford Philip-pines halting its oper-ations. The downtrend in Ford’s business forced Damosa to stop its distribution of Ford vehicles.

But the debacle was transformed into an op-portunity by Damosa as it steered on a different course from automo-tive dealership to prop-erty development and real property leasing.

As Damosa moved into its golden year of existence, it start-ed implementing the detailed site plan for the proposed improve-ment of the property in Lanang. This paved the way for the institution of what is now known as Damosa District.

From Ford to Fairlane

65 years of DamosaBy Neil Bravo

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over 1,000 em-ployees, execu-tives and guests

of the Davao Motor Sales (DAMOSA) will switch their working shoes for their run-ning sneakers on Sat-urday with the Damo-sa 65th Anniversary Run.

The fun run, fea-turing two divisions for the 3-kilometer and 5-kilometer foot-race, will be fired off at 5:30 in the morn-ing.

“Damosa’s em-ployees will be tak-ing part in this anni-versary event which is made exclusively for them,” said Fun Run Committee head James Velez.

There will be 10 winners in each cat-egory, says Velez. Top finishers will receive commemorative med-als while all runners will get certificates and race kits.

The fun run is or-ganized in celebra-

tion of the long years of the company’s suc-cessful venture and in recognition to the excellent service ren-dered by DAMOSA’s employees.

Honey Wong, pub-lic relations officer of DAMOSA said that employees of sister companies Tadeco, Davco, Anflocor Da-mosa, Pitrade, DPC, SVT, Pearl Farm, Nest Farms and House of Travel are joining the run. (NJB)

Through the early part of the new mil-lennium, Damosa for-malized its business diversification and es-tablished the Damosa Land Inc. (DLI) as the property development arm of Anflocor.

And as the property development business boomed in the Davao Region and the coun-try’s giant property developers realized its potentials, Damosa cemented its status as one of the pioneering developers with im-pact projects inside the vast Damosa Dis-trict such as Damosa Gateway, Market Bas-ket, Damosa Business Center, IT Park and Mi-crotel.

Damosa also ven-tured into mixed use commercial complex project in Kilometer 11 in Sasa, north of Davao City called the Sasa Onse. Another mixed

use project is the McPd at MacArthur Highway at the south side of Davao.

It also expanded its IT Park with the To-paz Tower (Damosa IT Park Building III) and Microtel with the opening of Microtel Gen. Santos City.

At present, Damosa prides itself with more milestone projects like the Damosa Fairlane and more residential projects in Davao City and Davao del Norte set for the next three years ensuring that its timeline will be dotted with more accomplish-ments—a legacy of de-termination and resil-iency.

Trough the 65 years of existence, Damosa has become synony-mous with develop-ment, a byword in inno-vation and leadership, and one Davao can tru-ly call its very own.

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DAMOSA Land, Inc. will embark on a series of exciting

events as it celebrates its biggest milestone ever – the 65th Anniversary of DAMOSA.

For this year’s cele-bration, a showcase of the long fruitful years of DA-MOSA as an automotive dealership business until it shifted to real estate company that is Damo-sa Land, Inc. today, will

be available for the pub-lic through an exhibit in Abreeza Ayala Mall, in the headquarters of ANFLO-COR Group of Companies in DAMOSA, and at the Damosa Market Basket from April 12 to 13.

A motorcade will jumpstart this series of activities on April 12. At night, Damosa Land, Inc. will host an exclusive cocktail gala at the new-ly opened Seda Hotel to

give a toss to the produc-tive years and milestones reached. The classical father and daughter tan-dem of singers Hajji and Rachel Alejandro join the Damosa Land, Inc family in these events.

Open for everybody to take part of is a line-up of fun-filled activities. Da-mosa Market Basket Car Park will be filled with sights and sounds of trea-sure-trove vintage mod-

els of Ford vehicles on the duration of the event. Adding up to the vibrancy of the celebration are the outdoor bazaars with live entertainment up until 12 midnight.

On April 13, more than a thousand employees of Damosa Land, Inc. and its affiliates under the AN-FLOCOR Group of Com-panies will gather for the 65th Damosa anniversary Fun Run at the Damosa Parking Lot. The activity will commemorate the long years of service of the company employees, many of whom started to build their career in DAMOSA. The run will also promote bigger and stronger bond among the ANFLOOCOR-wide em-ployees to achieve a more fruitful organizational operation in the coming years.

The celebration, of course, wouldn’t be com-plete without treating the public with a whole day of blissful activities all for free. Guests will enjoy and spin round and round as Damosa Land, Inc. brings carnival revelry with rapid rides and other awe-inspiring carnival games on April 14 at the Damosa Fair-lane grounds at E. Ramos St., along Mamay Road, Davao City. To culminate the celebration, a Dog Agility Show will be fea-tured to entertain fami-lies on the same day.

Davao Motor Sales or DAMOSA was former-ly the premier dealer of Ford vehicles and parts in 1948. The automotive business boomed in the 70’s and became well-known with the brisk sales of the Ford Fiera, which became the staple ride of the town.

In 1985, DAMOSA shifted its business to property development and leasing of real estate properties. With the shift

in the business line, the management decided to change the name of the company from DAMO-SA to Damosa Land, Inc., which now functions as the property develop-ment arm of the ANFLO-COR Group of Companies.

The real estate busi-ness of Damosa Land, Inc. flourished in the year 2000 as the compa-ny introduced the urban mixed-use Damosa Dis-trict billeting Damosa Gateway, Damosa Market Basket, Damosa Business Center, and the PEZA-ac-credited Damosa IT Park placed in synergy with Microtel Davao to tailor the modern way of living in Davao City.

Damosa Land, Inc. went grandiose with the establishment of more developments: Sasa Onse, a mixed-use com-plex in Sasa; the commer-cial McPod Building in McArthur Highway; To-paz Tower which houses BPOs and corporate of-fices in Damosa IT Park; and the expansion of Mi-crotel in General Santos City.

Today, Damosa Land, Inc. takes a major leap forward as it devel-ops the fast-rising urban residential community which will soon become the residence of Davao’s discerning market – the Damosa Fairlane.

Damosa Land, Inc. in-deed extends beyond the need for convenience as it has evolved into a com-pany with intense pur-suits of achieving valu-able innovations in real estate industry.

Powered by an in-spired, dynamic and proactive organization, espousing the legacy of values of its founder the late Don Antonio O. Floirendo, Sr., Mindanao is assured of enhanced real estate experiences for the years to come.

DAMOSA celebrates 65th Blue Sapphire Anniversary

Festivities lined up for the celebration

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PHOENIX Petroleum Philippines will be funding the trip of

the ten finalists to the Jr. NBA Final Selection Camp in Manila on April 26-29.

Phoenix Petroleum marketing supervisor Neb Bulaclac said during the weekly Davao Sports-writers Association (DSA) Sports Forum at Dexter’s Pizza Stadium that the ten qualifiers will be flown to Manila by the sponsoring firm which has partnered with the Jr. NBA to bring the popular basketball development program to Davao.

“Phoenix will be send-ing these kids to Manila while the Jr. NBA and

Alaska’s commitment will be their accommodation and food where they are there,” Bulaclac said.

The ten promising basketball players cho-sen in the Jr. NBA Davao regional selection camp attended by 499 aspiring players aged 10-14 on April 1 and 2, 2013 at the University of Southeast-ern Philippines Gym.

Four of the 10 players came from Davao while other qualifiers came from Bacolod, Bukidnon, General Santos City, and Cagayan de Oro. They bested 30 other regional finalists and will repre-sent the Mindanao region at the National Training

Camp of the Jr. NBA in Ma-nila.

The 10 qualifiers are Paolo Coquilla, Mahloney Tarranza, Cornelio Reta V, and John Cañete from Davao, Jan Gabriel Sobre-vega and Jose Antiporda from Bacolod, John lloyd Bernales and lorenz Via-jar from Bukidnon, An-thony Sistoza from Gener-al Santos and Earl Vincent Areola from Cagayan de Oro.

Present in yesterday’s DSA presentation were Assumption College of Davao’s Tarranza, Agro Industrial Foundation College’s Canete, and Ate-neo de Davao University’s Reta and Coquilla. (NJB)

Phoenix backs Jr. NBA finalists

JR. NBA. Phoenix Petroleum marketing supervisor Neb Bulaclac (center) together with 2013 Jr. NBA Regional Selection finalists Cornelio Reta (ext. left) and Paolo Luis Coquilla (2nd from left) of Ateneo De Davao University, Mahloney Tarranza (2nd from right)of Assumption Col-

lege of Davao and John Rodney Canete of Agro-Industri-al Foundation College join hands teamwork during the weekly Davao Sportswriters Association at Dexter’s Pizza in Matina, Davao City yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.

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DAMOSA FUN RUN. Anflocor Group of Companies’ corporate communica-tions officer Honey Wong and human resources staff James Vales promote this Saturday’s Damosa 65th Anniversary Fun Run in the weekly Davao

Sportswriters Association at Dexter’s Pizza Stadium in Matina, Davao City yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.