I. BANNER STORIES
Bread prices going up, too
‘Pan de sal’ to cost 25% more on April 15
By Ronnel Domingo
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:55:00 04/11/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Starting April 15, P10 will buy you only four small pieces of pan de sal, the breakfast fare of Filipinos, instead of today’s five because bakers are raising their prices to reflect soaring flour prices amid low global supply.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080411-129631/Bread-prices-going-up-too
Bread, poultry, meat prices also going up
By Ma. Elisa Osorio
Friday, April 11, 2008
As it considers an increase in the price of rice sold by the National Food Authority (NFA), the government is also expecting an increase in the cost of bread due to China’s refusal to sell milling wheat to the country.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008041092
3. Manila Times
Oil hovers at $110 a barrel
World crude prices could climb to $120–experts
World oil prices were steady in Asia on Thursday, after reaching record highs on the back of an unexpectedly sharp drop in US energy inventories and a further decline in the dollar.
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/apr/11/yehey/top_stories/20080411top1.html
4. Malaya
Gloria eyes NFA pullout from public markets
Cheap rice to be sold at churches, mosques
BY JOCELYN MONTEMAYOR
A DAY after the National Food Authority said it was eyeing an increase in the price of government-subsidized rice, President Arroyo yesterday announced she was considering pulling out the P18.25 NFA rice from public markets and selling this instead in non-traditional outlets like churches and mosques.
http://www.malaya.com.ph/apr11/news1.htm
Villar seeks IPU help in solving food crisis
Senate chief to stress poverty issues at meeting
Villar to ask IPU for help in solving poverty, food crisis
Senate President Manny Villar will appeal to legislators from more than 140 countries to help solve the food crisis and poverty in developing countries as he prepares to lead a Senate delegation to the Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Cape Town, South Africa.
http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN20080411121579.html
Gloria plans pullout of NFA rice from public markets
By Sherwin C. Olaes
04/11/2008
In a suprise move, President Arroyo yesterday disclosed plans of removing the National Food Authority (NFA) rice from the public markets, a move which is expected to create more problems for the people who buy the government-subsidized rice.
http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/20080411hed1.html
7. Abante
STATE OF CALAMITY
Nina Tina Mendoza, Rose Miranda at Noel Abuel
Isailalim sa ‘state of calamity’ ang buong bansa.
Ito ang ipinanukala kahapon ni Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay sa Malacañang bilang isa sa agarang solusyon upang maprotektahan ang mahihirap na mamamayan laban sa patuloy na pagtaas ng bigas at ang pinangangambahang pagkaubos ng abot-kayang National Food Authority (NFA) rice.
http://www.abante.com.ph/issue/apr1108/default.htm
GOBYERNO NAPASUKO NG RICE TRADERS
Bernard Taguinod With Rose Miranda/Noel Abuel
Sa halip na pasunurin ang mga negosyante para mapababa ang presyo ng bigas, ang gobyerno na umano ang mistulang sumusuko sa mga ito.
Ito ang ipinahayag ni Nueva Ecija Rep. Edno Joson, dating National Food Authority (NFA) administrator, kaugnay ng pinaplano ng Department of Agriculture (DA) na itaas na rin ang presyo ng NFA rice.
http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/apr1108/news1.htm
Riot sa bigas nakaamba
Nina Malou Escudero, Rudy Andal, Angie Dela Cruz At Doris Franche
Friday, April 11, 2008
Hindi umano dapat balewalain ng gobyerno ang naging babala ng World Bank na magiging mitsa ng kaguluhan at social unrest ang krisis sa bigas hindi lamang sa Pilipinas kundi sa ibang panig ng mundo.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Bansa&p=50&type=2&sec=54&aid=2008041038
10. Journal
NO LETUP
After rice, prices of canned goods up next
DON’T look now, but the consuming public is in for another bout of price increases – this time involving processed food or canned goods.
Local meat processors yesterday warned about further increases in food prices after the Department of Agriculture issued a new policy limiting the raw materials that the meat processing industry can import for their production.
http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-04-11&sec=1&aid=55681
11. Business World
Risks seen in rice campaign
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s all-out campaign to ensure rice supplies amid skyrocketing prices risks sowing panic among Filipinos and raising the political and financial heat on her government.
http://bworldonline.com/BW041108/content.php?id=001
12. Business Mirror
Meat prices seen rising
BUSINESSES BLAME POLICY RESTRICTING IMPORTATIONS
By Jennifer A. Ng
Reporter
LOCAL meat processors warned on Thursday that the prices of processed meat products like hotdogs and canned products like meat loaf will go up by as much as 20 percent due to a new Department of Agriculture (DA) policy limiting the raw materials that the meat processing industry can import for their production.
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/0411&122008/headlines01.html
II. POLITICAL
Palace says no price hike for NFA rice, at least for now
By Lira Dalangin-Fernandez
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 18:59:00 04/10/2008
MANILA, Philippines -- The government-subsidized rice will be kept at its present price of P18.25 a kilo -- at least for now, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's spokesman said Thursday.
Hanjin: We have nothing to hide in Subic condos
By Arlyn dela Cruz
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:23:00 04/11/2008
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT—Despite the controversy it has generated, work goes on uninterrupted—three shifts, 24 hours a day—for the more than 1,000 laborers, mostly Filipinos, who are building two high-rise condominiums in the Subic rainforest.
Higher NFA rice price opposed
By Norman Bordadora, Michelle Remo, Gil C. Cabacungan Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 03:31:00 04/11/2008
MANILA, Philippines—The National Food Authority’s plan to raise the selling price of government-subsidized rice is ill-timed, according to administration and opposition lawmakers.
Arroyo: Abra, Apayao poor to get P500 in food aid
By Vincent Cabreza, Norman Bordadora
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:06:00 04/11/2008
MANILA, Philippines—President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Thursday said that the government would give P500 to each of about 10,000 families in Abra and Apayao, the poorest provinces in the Cordillera Administrative Region, to help them cope with rising food prices.
3 senators opt to skip IPU junket
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 05:52:00 04/11/2008
MANILA, Philippines -- Three senators have decided to skip the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) general assembly in South Africa amid criticism that it looked like junket time for lawmakers.
Arroyo warned against pardoning rebel officers
By Leila Salaverria, Julie M. Aurelio
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 05:53:00 04/11/2008
MANILA, Philippines -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo should be careful in deciding whether to pardon the rebel officers convicted of the July 2003 coup as it could encourage other soldiers to engage in military adventurism knowing they can always seek clemency after, said Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez.
CONSPIRACY THEORY
Victims’ kin seek reversal of Villarosa acquittal
By Leila Salaverria
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 05:54:00 04/11/2008
MANILA, Philippines -- Since a conspiracy to kill the Quintos brothers existed, all the participants should have been convicted.
The family of Michael and Paul Quintos made the argument in seeking the reversal of the Court of Appeals’ acquittal last month of former Mindoro Occidental Rep. Jose Villarosa and three others in the killings.
Pullout of NFA rice from markets mulled
By Paolo Romero and Ding Cervantes
Friday, April 11, 2008
President Arroyo plans to stop the sale of government-subsidized rice at public markets and have it distributed directly to poor communities to keep the staple from being diverted by unscrupulous traders.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008041093
Malunggay oil tapped as biofuel in US
By Helen Flores
Friday, April 11, 2008
There is another wonder plant in the Philippines that is being tapped for use as biofuel source in the United States.
A Filipino biotechnology company reported yesterday that there has been a growing demand for Moringa oil or oil extracted from the seed of the malunggay plant in the US for use as biodiesel.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008041095
PCA hits wrong data of farmers
By Katherine Adraneda
Friday, April 11, 2008
Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) Administrator Oscar Garin recently “condemned” the data issued by a farmers’ group that had previously called for an investigation into supposed irregularities in the agency’s P1.89-billion salt fertilization program.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008041095
Ex-AFP comptroller Garcia cleared of another perjury case
By Sandy Araneta
Friday, April 11, 2008
Retired Army major general Carlos Garcia was acquitted of perjury by the Sandiganbayan yesterday, the second time he has been absolved of that charge.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008041096
Esperon in deal with coup plotters?
By James Mananghaya
Friday, April 11, 2008
A lawyer for one of the accused Magdalo officers linked in the foiled February 2006 coup plot has accused Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr. of striking a deal with the accused officers in an effort to divide the group.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008041098
No new oil price hike, say petroleum firms
Friday, April 11, 2008
Oil consumers may have a breather this weekend as petroleum companies indicated that pump prices are not likely to be increased.
For the past five weeks, oil firms have been raising pump prices of petroleum products by 50 centavos per liter to recover losses of about P2.56 per liter in March.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008041099
Employers recommend tax breaks for workers, but not pay hike
Friday, April 11, 2008
Company owners yesterday said the demand of workers for another salary increase is not the solution to the economic problems of the labor sector.
The Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) advised workers nationwide to consider seeking non-wage benefits to help them cope with the rising cost of essential commodities, instead of seeking a salary hike.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008041099
Rice imports may not lower prices of staple food – NGO
Friday, April 11, 2008
A non-government organization doubts that allowing private importation of rice would lower prices of the staple.
The Rice Watch and Action Network also warned yesterday that Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap’s plan to extend the National Food Authority’s (NFA) tax subsidy to private traders would deny the government the needed revenue to improve local rice production.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080410101
Coconut levy, mills wash hands of P2B project
THE Coconut Industry Investment Fund-Oil Mills Group (CIIF-OMG) yesterday denied direct involvement in the P2-billion corn and salt fertilization project of the Philippine Coconut Authority, except for providing the funds.
http://www.malaya.com.ph/apr11/news4.htm
TU bets pinakakanta sa baboy scam
Rey Marfil/Bernard Taguinod
Sa harap ng alegasyong nakinabang sa ‘baboy scam’ ang ilan sa senatorial candidates ng Team Unity (TU), ito’y hinamon ni opposition Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson na linisin ang kanilang pangalan at ituwid ang nagawang kasalanan sa pamamagitan ng kusang pagbibitiw.
http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/apr1108/news3.htm
Legalidad ng Hanjin project ‘di dapat husgahan ng SBMA
Hindi isang republika ang Subic Bay Freeport at hindi dapat magsalita ang administrasyon ng Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) na mistulang hindi sila sakop ng ating mga batas.
http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/apr1108/news7.htm
Lozada imbitado ng DOJ
(Grace Velasco)
Bibigyan ng isa pang pagkakataon ng Department of Justice (DOJ) si NBN- ZTE deal star witness Rodolfo Lozada Jr., upang dumalo sa hearing ng fact-finding committee na nag-iimbestiga sa umano’y anomalya sa nasabing kontrata.
http://www.abante.com.ph/issue/apr1108/news04.htm
Biyahe sa Africa itinanggi ni Ping
NAGLIPANA ang mga unggoy at buwaya sa Malacañang at hindi na kailangan pang pumunta sa ibang bansa para hanapin ito.
“There are enough lions and crocodiles in Malacanang, even more than enough see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, speak-no-evil monkeys in the Cabinet. I need not go to South Africa to see them. The fact is, I am not going,” ani Senator Panfilo Lacson.
http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-04-11&sec=4&aid=55659
DoJ’s ZTE probe body ‘summons’ Lozada anew
04/11/2008
A government fact-finding panel yesterday again summoned engineer Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr. to testify in its investigation into the $329.5-million ZTE-National Broadband Network (NBN) deal mess.
http://www.tribune.net.ph/nation/20080411nat2.html
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