I. BANNER STORIES
P5-B aid anti-poor, says Church group
Caritas: Dole will only breed laziness
By Margaux Ortiz, Delfin Mallari Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer, Southern Luzon Bureau
First Posted 01:01:00 04/28/2008
MANILA, Philippines—The Arroyo administration’s program that gives a family living below the poverty line up to P1,400 a month will just make the poor dependent on the government and, thus, encourage them to be lazy, the social arm of the Archdiocese of Manila said Sunday.
No threat on May 1, says PNP
By Cecille Suerte Felipe
Monday, April 28, 2008
Police see no specific terror threat during the celebration of Labor Day on May 1.
Chief Superintendent Nicanor Bartolome, Philippine National Police (PNP) spokesman, said police have yet to estimate the crowd that would attend the traditional mass actions calling for a wage increase and the grant of benefits to workers.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008042795
3. Manila Times
Medicines bill faces delays
Speaker wants to ensure bill will lower costs
By Jomar Canlas, Reporter
As the prices of basic commodities and oil continue to go up, many are likely looking forward to some good news—passage of a bill making medicines more affordable. But that may take a while.
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/apr/28/yehey/top_stories/20080428top1.html
4. Malaya
Church social action arm hits gov't doles
'Ahon Pamilya breeds culture of dependency'
BY GERARD CARITAS
CARITAS Manila, the Manila Archdiocese's social action arm, yesterday criticized government's Ahon Pamilyang Pilipino poverty reduction program which it said would only teach the poor to become dependent on government doles.
http://www.malaya.com.ph/apr28/news1.htm
5. Manila Bulletin
House minority to block Marcos Baseline option
By Charlie V. Manalo and Sherwin C. Olaes
04/28/2008
Members of the minority in the House of Representatives vowed yesterday to block a substitute bill that Ilocos Norte Rep. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. would file today that would define the country’s baseline with the disputed Spratlys and Scarborough Shoals placed outside its boundary as a regime of islands.
http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/20080428hed1.html
7. Abante
P5B KATANGAHAN!
Nina Eralyn Prado at Rose Miranda
Mariing tinuligsa kahapon ng isang administration senator ang mga maling prayoridad at tila hindi pinag-isipang mabuting mga hakbang upang maibsan ang epekto ng patuloy na pagtataas ng presyo ng bigas at iba pang pangunahing bilihin.
http://www.abante.com.ph/issue/apr2808/default.htm
FOOD COUPON `WAG CASH
Bernard Taguinod
Hindi cash subsidy kundi food coupon o discount coupon ang nararapat na ipamudmod ng pamahalaan sa mga pinamakahihirap na pamilyang Filipino upang matulungan ang mga ito sa patuloy na pagtaas ng presyo ng mga bilihin.
Ito ang reaksyon ng ilang mga mambabatas mula sa dalawang kapulungan ng Kongreso dahil sa pangambang mapunta sa bulsa ng mga kurakot at magamit lamang sa pulitika ang bagong gimmick ng Malacañang na bigyan ng cash subsidy ang mga pinakamahihirap na pamilyang Filipino kada buwan.
http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/apr2808/news_story1.htm
Pinoy tinuturuan maging tamad
Ni Doris Franche
Monday, April 28, 2008
Magkakasalungat ang pananaw ng ilang matataas na lider ng Simbahang Katoliko hinggil sa P5 bilyon subsidy na inilaan ng pamahalaang Arroyo para maiahon umano sa kahirapan ang mga mahihirap na Filipino.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Bansa&p=50&type=2&sec=54&aid=2008042735
10. Journal
BATTLE PLAN
UN takes action vs global food crisis
GENEVA -- United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was set today to lead a concerted effort by 27 key UN agencies to tackle the growing crisis caused by a worldwide sharp rise in basic foodstuff prices.
http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-04-28&sec=1&aid=57600
11. Business World
BY FELIPE F. SALVOSA II, Sub-Editor
Lobby rebuffed in piracy report
THE US GOVERNMENT HAS IGNORED recommendations by drug companies and cable broadcasters to put the Philippines on the list of the worst violators of intellectual property rights (IPR), but noted an "apparent increase in piracy" in the country despite numerous raids and confiscations last year.
http://bworldonline.com/BW042808/content.php?id=001
12. Business Mirror
Oil prices to soar to $225 per barrel
By Cai U. Ordinario
Reporter
IF the $100-per-barrel cost of oil sent the Arroyo administration in such a frenzy that it called an energy summit in only three weeks, imagine what the next administration will do if oil actually hits $225 per barrel after 2010.
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/04282008/headlines01.html
II. POLITICAL
US military health insurance fraud continues in RP--retirees
By Teresa Cerojano
Associated Press
First Posted 11:52:00 04/27/2008
MONCADA, Philippines--The clinic where Dr. Alberto Marzan allegedly played his role in a $100 million (€64.12 million) swindle of the US military's health insurance program sits abandoned, along with the adjacent family home.
Dead among listed recipients of rice access cards
By Jocelyn Uy
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:07:00 04/28/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Some of the people on the list to receive rice access cards turned out to be dead. A separate list contained names of people living in slums that had long been demolished, according to Social Welfare Secretary Esperanza Cabral.
Cheaper meds bill hits new snag
By Norman Bordadora
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:15:00 04/28/2008
MANILA, Philippines—The House of Representatives will suspend ratification of the cheaper medicines bill, Speaker Prospero Nograles said Sunday.
Analysis
RP rice crisis mirrors face of global food price apocalypse
By Amando Doronila
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:13:00 04/28/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Of all crises encountered by this government since 2004, nothing is more threatening to its survival and more menacing to the 11 million poorest Filipinos than the current rice crisis.
Jamby sees bitter court battle for inheritance
By Gil C. Cabacungan Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:15:00 04/28/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Sen. Jamby Madrigal is gearing up for a “long and bitter” court battle for the fortune left behind by her aunt, the late Consuelo “Chito” Madrigal-Collantes, regarded as one of the Philippines’ wealthiest women.
Nograles: China exploration deal probe can wait
By Norman Bordadora
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:41:00 04/28/2008
MANILA, Philippines—The inquiry by the House of Representatives into the constitutionality and propriety of the joint marine seismic undertaking (JMSU) the Philippines entered into with China and Vietnam around the Kalayaan islands in the South China Sea may have to wait, according to Speaker Prospero Nograles.
Climate change to aggravate RP food woes – Pagasa
By Helen Flores
Monday, April 28, 2008
Two top officials of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pag-asa) yesterday warned that climate change could worsen the country’s precarious food situation due to abnormal weather patterns that damage agricultural production.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008042796
Teachers prod Congress on pay
By Rainier Allan Ronda
Monday, April 28, 2008
The Teachers Dignity Coalition (TDC) again called on Malacañang and Congress to speed up the enactment of a bill that seeks to increase the salaries of public school teachers amid talk of a wage increase for private sector workers.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008042797
Cement prices up P8
By Edith Regalado
Monday, April 28, 2008
DAVAO CITY — Cement prices have risen by at least P8 per bag following the recent increase in the prices of coal in the world market, particularly in Indonesia, Vietnam and Australia.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008042798
Traders cry foul over subsidized goods
By James Mananghaya
Monday, April 28, 2008
Small businessmen are now complaining of competition from subsidized food.
Stall owners in the military commissary at Camp Aguinaldo yesterday opposed moves to evict them to give way to the government’s “Bagsakan ng Bayan” project, aimed at selling cheaper goods to soldiers and their families.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008042799
House to defer approval of Cheap Medicine Bill
By Jess Diaz
Monday, April 28, 2008
Speaker Prospero Nograles said yesterday he would defer House approval of the final version of the proposed Cheaper Medicines Bill until he is satisfied that it could reduce drug prices.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080427100
Palace optimistic on peace talks with MILF
By Paolo Romero
Monday, April 28, 2008
Malacañang remained optimistic the peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will succeed even as it accepted the decision of Malaysia to pull out from the contingent monitoring the ceasefire with the Muslim rebel group.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080427103
GMA declares rehabilitation of 25-km Pasig river
By Paolo Romero
Monday, April 28, 2008
President Arroyo has declared the dredging and rehabilitation of the 25-kilometer long Pasig river as a presidential priority project.
The declaration became official after Executive Order No. 717 was signed on March 28, but was only released by Malacañang over the weekend.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080427106
DILG ordered to fill vacancies in SK
Monday, April 28, 2008
President Arroyo has authorized Interior Secretary Ronaldo Puno to fill up existing vacancies in the Sangguniang Kabataan following the lack of SK officials elected in October last year.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080427107
Picop joins suit questioning
ZTE mining deal
BY EVANGELINE DE VERA
THE publicly-listed Paper Industries Corp. of the Philippines (Picop) Resources Inc has filed a manifestation with the Supreme Court in support of a motion of Southeast Mindanao Gold Mining Corp., a Mindanao-based mining firm, questioning the government's agreement with China's ZTE International Investments Ltd. to explore and operate the mining sites in the Agusan-Davao-Surigao Forest Reserve also known as the Mt. Diwalwal "gold rush" area.
http://www.malaya.com.ph/apr28/news4.htm
Ethnic war sisiklab sa SC ruling
Nagbabala ang malaking paper at pulpwood company na kapag hindi nabaliktad ang division ruling ng Korte Suprema, hindi lang ito magbubunsod ng pagkopo ng ZTE Corporation ng China sa pangunahing mining area ng Pilipinas, kundi magreresulta rin sa pagkawatak-watak ng mga tribu na posibleng humantong sa ethnic war.
http://www.abante.com.ph/issue/apr2808/news03.htm
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