I. BANNER STORIES
Palace: Pardon for 9 officers ‘premature’
But Puno to make recommendation
By Lira Dalangin-Fernandez, Thea Alberto
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 15:52:00 04/11/2008
MANILA, Philippines -- Talk of a presidential pardon for the nine junior officers convicted for a failed uprising in 2003 is premature and should go through the legal process, a Malacañang official said Friday although a presidential adviser said he would make the recommendation.
No respite from rice crisis until 2010 – IRRI
By Marianne Go
Saturday, April 12, 2008
LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – The global rice crisis is not expected to diminish until 2010 and may take from five to 10 years to finally settle down, according to the chairman of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080411134
3. Manila Times
High prices of rice to remain for two years
Focus on looking for solutions, not on panicking, say rice experts
Rice prices are likely to keep rising for some time as production of the popular cereal fails to keep up with soaring demand, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) said Friday.
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/apr/12/yehey/top_stories/20080412top1.html
4. Malaya
Convicted Magdalo officers seek pardon
'Scripted clemency' playing out?
BY VICTOR REYES
NINE junior officers who have been meted prison terms by a Makati court for the 2003 Oakwood mutiny yesterday asked for forgiveness for their misdeeds as they said they are seeking "mercy" from President Arroyo.
http://www.malaya.com.ph/apr12/news1.htm
10% pay hike for gov’t workers
In time for Labor Day celebration on May 1
10% gov’t pay hike to take effect July 1
By GENALYN D. KABILING
President Arroyo will issue on or before Labor Day, May 1, an executive order granting a 10 percent increase in the basic pay of national government employees starting July 1, Secretary Rolando Andaya Jr. of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) said yesterday.
http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN20080412121674.html
6. The Daily Tribune
7. Abante
FOOD RIOTS SUMIKLAB!
(Rose Miranda/Boyet Jadulco)
Nagsimula nang mawala sa kontrol ng ibang bansa ang krisis sa pagkaing dinaranas ngayon ng buong mundo at sa katunayan ay sumiklab na ang ‘food riots’ at civil disturbance sa may 33 bansa.
http://www.abante.com.ph/issue/apr1208/default.htm
GLORIA NAPABORAN SA RICE CRISIS?
Boyet Jadulco With Bernard Taguinod
Hindi man ginusto, mistulang napaboran pa si Pangulong Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo sa pagsulpot ng rice crisis dahil natakpan nito ang mga kontrobersya at anomalyang kinasasangkutan ng kanyang administrasyon partikular na ang $329 milyong NBN-ZTE deal.
http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/apr1208/news1.htm
Pasahe sunod na tataas
Ni Angie Dela Cruz
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Pinamamadali ng transport groups sa pamunuan ng Land Transportation Franchising Regulatory Board ang pagkilos sa kanilang petisyon na humihiling ng 50 centavos na provisional increase sa pasahe sa mga pampasaherong jeep.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Bansa&p=50&type=2&sec=54&aid=2008041150
10. Journal
NO PARDON
By: Tess Bedico
Too early yet to talk about pardoning mutineers -- Palace
ANY appeal for presidential pardon or clemency is premature at this point.
Malacañang thus reacted to reports that nine Magdalo soldiers convicted of coup d’etat for the failed Oakwood mutiny in 2003 had apologized for their action and will seek pardon.
http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-04-12&sec=1&aid=55817
11. Business World
IMF cites more room for rate cuts
The country has ample room for further easing its monetary policy in order to prod economic activity amid the global economic slump this year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in the Asia-Pacific regional economic outlook it released Friday.
http://bworldonline.com/BW041208/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
GLOBAL PROBLEM
RP: 'Rice price crisis, not food crisis'
By Amy R. Remo
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:40:00 04/12/2008
LOS BAÑOS, Laguna--The Philippines is calling on the international community to start focusing on solutions to what is being described as a "rice price crisis" in countries worldwide.
Arroyo wants generics proviso on cheaper drugs bill removed
By Lira Dalangin-Fernandez
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 13:19:00 04/11/2008
MANILA, Philippines – (2nd UPDATE) Bent on ensuring the passage of the Cheaper Medicines Bill, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has instructed the Department of Health (DoH) to take out the controversial "generics only" provision in the measure.
Crane cuts power supply in Metro
By Abigail L. Ho
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:52:00 04/12/2008
MANILA, Philippines--As if scorching summer heat and rising food prices were not enough, residents of parts of Metro Manila and Bulacan on Friday had to contend with another woe: A tower crane at a construction site hit a power line and knocked out electricity from their homes.
NBI told to focus on rice hoarders, not smugglers
By Allison Lopez
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:47:00 04/12/2008
MANILA, Philippines--President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo wants the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the National Food Authority (NFA) to focus on rice hoarding and profiteering, not smuggling.
Customs agents seize P12M worth of smuggled rice
By Margaux Ortiz
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:48:00 04/12/2008
MANILA, Philippines--Agents of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) in Friday confiscated at the two major ports in Manila more than P12 million worth of rice apparently being attempted to be smuggled into the country.
Arroyo goes for 'long-delayed' checkup at St. Luke's
By Christine Avendaño, Juliet Labog-Javellana
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:49:00 04/12/2008
MANILA, Philippines--President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Friday went for a "long-delayed" medical checkup at the St. Luke's Medical Center in Quezon City, according to her spokesperson Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye.
COMMENTARY
How to balance farmer and consumer interests
By Ernesto Ordoñez
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:11:00 04/12/2008
MANILA, Philippines--The fact is that there is no rice supply shortage today. We have a 54-day buffer stock, ongoing harvests, and arriving importations.
Mutineers say sorry, ask for pardon
By James Mananghaya
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Nine junior officers convicted for taking part in the 2003 Oakwood mutiny apologized to the public and the government yesterday and asked President Arroyo to grant pardon for their misdeeds.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080411136
No power rate hike in next 2-3 months
Saturday, April 12, 2008
There will be no power rate increase for the next two or three months as far as the performance-based rate (PBR) mechanism of the Manila Electric Co. is concerned, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) announced.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080411137
GMA goes to St. Luke’s for check-up
By Paolo Romero
Saturday, April 12, 2008
President Arroyo squeezed into her tight schedule yesterday what officials said was a long overdue regular check-up at the St. Luke’s Medical Center (SLMC) in Quezon City.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080411147
GMA renews call to Congress for approval of cheap drugs law
By Marvin Sy
Saturday, April 12, 2008
President Arroyo renewed her call yesterday for Congress to pass the proposed Cheaper Medicine Bill when it resumes session later this month and offered a compromise solution to break the stalemate in the bicameral conference committee.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080411148
No hitch in granting 10% pay hike to gov’t workers
Saturday, April 12, 2008
President Arroyo has directed the Department of Budget and Management to flesh out the appropriations authority given by Congress to increase by 10 percent the basic pay of national government employees effective July 1 this year.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080411149
Pag-inhibit ng 3 justices ‘di isusuko
Boyet Jadulco/Bernard Taguinod
Nanindigan si Senate Majority Leader Francis Pangilinan na kung ayaw ng ibang senador na ipa-inhibit ang ilang justices ng Supreme Court (SC), siya na lamang ang magtutulak nito sa mga darating na araw.
http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/apr1208/news4.htm
P125 umento sa sahod binuhay
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Binuhay kahapon ng maka-Kaliwang grupong Kilusang Mayo Uno ang kanilang pakikipaglaban at kampanya para igiit ang P125 across-the-board increase sa arawang suweldo ng mga manggagawa.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Bansa&p=50&type=2&sec=54&aid=2008041151
Kamara tinatakot ng Malacañang
Bernard Taguinod
Ganito inilarawan ni Parañaque Rep. Roilo Golez ang pahayag ng mga alipores ni Pangulong Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo na sisiklab ang giyera kapag itinuloy ng Mababang Kapulungan ang kanilang bersyon sa Baseline Bill na sumasakop sa Kalayaan Island Group (KIG) o mas kilala sa Spratly Islands.
http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/apr1208/news5.htm
Lozada laos na raw?
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Publicity lang umano ang habol ngayon ni NBN-ZTE deal star witness Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada Jr., dahil laos na umano ito.
Ito ang parunggit kahapon ng abogado ni First Gentleman Mike Arroyo na si Rudy Rondain bilang reaksyon sa akusasyon umano ni Lozada na nagbabanta umano sa buhay nito ang Unang Ginoo.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Bansa&p=50&type=2&sec=54&aid=2008041155
Lozada tinawag na sinungaling ng kampo ni FG
TINAWAG kahapon ng tagapagsalita ni First Gentleman Mike Arroyo na likas na sinungaling si Senate NBN witness Jun Lozada matapos nitong ideklarang maging ang Unang Ginoo ay nagbabanta sa kaniyang buhay.
http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-04-12&sec=4&aid=55778
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