Monday, June 30, 2008

I. BANNER STORIES

1. Philippine Daily Inquirer

What a masterpiece!

Pacquiao KOs Diaz, bags 4th world title

By Roy Luarca

Philippine Daily Inquirer

First Posted 00:32:00 06/30/2008

LAS VEGAS—Once the left hook landed, Manny Pacquiao knew David Diaz was out.

True enough, referee Vic Drakulich didn’t bother to count as Diaz fell to the canvas face first with 2:24 gone in the ninth round, handing Pacquiao the World Boxing Council lightweight crown on Saturday night (Sunday morning in Manila) and making him the first Asian to win major titles in four weights.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080630-145502/What-a-masterpiece!

2. The Philippine Star

Pacquiao destroys Diaz in 9

By Abac Cordero

Monday, June 30, 2008

LAS VEGAS – Manny Pacquiao rewrote Philippine boxing history Saturday with a sensational ninth-round knockout of David Diaz as he wrested the World Boxing Council lightweight crown at the Events Center of Mandalay Bay here.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008062997

3. Manila Times

Pacquiao dethrones Diaz

Manny wins fourth title after 9th-round KO

LAS VEGAS: Filipino champion Manny Pacquiao added another world title to his growing collection by dethroning David Diaz in a World Boxing Council lightweight bout at the Mandalay Bay hotel on Sunday.

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/june/30/yehey/top_stories/20080630top1.html

4. Malaya

4th world title via KO

Manny dominates Diaz from Round 1

LAS VEGAS - Manny Pacquiao became the first Asian boxer to capture world titles in four different weight divisions when he knocked out David Diaz in the ninth round to claim the WBC lightweight championship on Saturday.

http://www.malaya.com.ph/jun30/news1.htm

5. Manila Bulletin

6. The Daily Tribune

Salvage team arrives to remove toxic cargo

By Angie M. Rosales

06/30/2008

An expert salvage team arrived yesterday to remove toxic cargo from a sunken ferry to allow divers to recover hundreds of bodies inside the overturned vessel.

http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/20080630hed1.html

7. Abante

ALAMAT NA KAMAO!

LAS VEGAS --- Barrera, Morales, Marquez, Diaz -- meron pa ba?

Ito ang mga pangalan ng mga sikat na Mehikanong boksingero na inekisan ng mga taga-suporta ni Pinoy ring icon Manny Pacquiao sa kanilang mga banners upang idiin ang mabigat na mensahe sa iba pang nais humamon sa tinaguriang “Mexecutioner”.

http://www.abante.com.ph/issue/june3008/default.htm

8. Abante-Tonite

ATAT KAY PACMAN, NAKURYENTE

(Juliet de Loza)

Nasawi ang isang 55-anyos na obrero makaraang makuryente at mahulog mula sa ikatlong palapag ng bahay na kanyang pinagtatrabahuhan dahil sa pagmamadaling matapos ang ginagawang andamyo sa kagustuhang mapanood ang laban ng iniidolong Pinoy boxing champion na si Manny Pacquiao laban kay Mexican boxer David Diaz kahapon ng umaga sa Tondo, Maynila.

http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/june3008/news_story1.htm

9. Pilipino Star Ngayon

Sa laban ni Pacman, Walang trapik at krimen

Monday, June 30, 2008

Walang napaulat na anumang krimen sa buong Metro Manila sa panahon ng laban nina Manny Pacquiao at David Diaz kahapon.

“Walang naiulat sa National Capital Regional Police Office na mga krimen sa kalakhang Maynila mula alas-8:00 ng umaga hanggang alas-3:00 ng hapon sa panahon ng Pacquiao-Diaz fight,” ayon kay NCRPO Director Geary Barias.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Bansa&p=50&type=2&sec=54&aid=20080629146

10. Journal

KO

Pacman grabs lightweight crown in historic win

LAS VEGAS - Manny Pacquiao has added another leaf to his growing status as a boxing legend.

The Filipino ring icon proved too fast and too strong against a game but badly outclassed David Diaz, whom he dethroned Sunday to win the World Boxing Council (WBC) version of the lightweight championship " his fourth title in four different weight classes.

http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-06-30&sec=1&aid=64903

11. Business World

‘Indefinite’ fuel price hikes seen

GASOLINE PRICES have now topped P60 per liter and, if the current pace of adjustment continues, will likely be near P70 by August.

Diesel, by the same reckoning, could go up to P60/liter, according to an industry official who said that oil firms can be expected to keep hiking prices every weekend based on crude movements for the month of June alone.

http://bworldonline.com/BW063008/content.php?id=001

12. Business Mirror

Abuse of investor visas feared

By Lourdes M. Fernandez

Editor in Chief

WHILE Congress agonizes over the pending bill to rationalize the grant of incentives to investors, and leading chambers of commerce are totting up the taxes they’ve paid and jobs created in the Philippines after a grilling in the Senate, a quiet revolution of sorts to draw in so-called “investments” is going on in the unlikeliest of places: the immigration office and its posts across the archipelago, recently given semiautonomous powers.

http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/06302008/headlines01.html

II. POLITICAL

RP rejoices over ring masterpiece

By Paolo Romero

Monday, June 30, 2008

Manny Pacquiao’s ninth-round victory over David Diaz was much-needed relief for a nation still reeling from the fury and devastation of typhoon “Frank,” and President Arroyo could not hide her satisfaction as she once again hailed the Filipino boxing hero.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008062998

BMI summons Pagasa officials

By Sandy Araneta

Monday, June 30, 2008

The Board of Marine Inquiry (BMI) will call officials of the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) to answer allegations by Sulpicio Lines officials that the agency failed to immediately inform ship personnel that typhoon “Frank” was on the path of the M/V Princess of the Stars which capsized off Sibuyan Island last June 21.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008062999

Donations pour in for typhoon victims

Monday, June 30, 2008

Donations continue to pour in for victims displaced by typhoon “Frank.”

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said the Knights of Columbus (KC) Supreme Council based in the United States has donated $25,000 in financial assistance.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080629100

American embraces GK

By Patricia Esteves

Monday, June 30, 2008

In a room full of Filipino-Americans during an assembly in San Jose, California, a tall, white American woman talks fervently about Gawad Kalinga, her voice cracking with emotion as she recounts how GK changed her life when she first heard about it in 2005.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080629101

Metro garbage woes ease as Rizal landfill reopens

By Michael Punongbayan

Monday, June 30, 2008

The Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) was able to convince the provincial government of Rizal to reopen the Rodriguez sanitary landfill for at least 15 days.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080629102

Sulpicio hires diving firm to remove toxic cargo

By Sandy Araneta

Monday, June 30, 2008

An expert salvage team hired by Sulpicio Lines Inc. arrived yesterday to begin removal of toxic cargo from the sunken M/V Princess of the Stars to allow frogmen to resume retrieval of hundreds of bodies still inside the ship.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080629103

Metro workers to sue wage board

Monday, June 30, 2008

Workers in Metro Manila will sue the National Capital Region (NCR) wage board to question what they called an “unjust” wage hike of P20.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080629105

Comelec trained on auto machines

Monday, June 30, 2008

A total of 50 personnel of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) have been trained on the operation of the automated counting and voting machines that will be used in the Aug. 11 elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080629104

GMA meets McCain, cites US peacemaking role in RP

By Paolo Romero

Monday, June 30, 2008

WASHINGTON (via PLDT) – President Arroyo and Republican presidential candidate John McCain met here Sunday with the US senator recalling his family’s “long relationship” with the Philippines starting with his grandfather during World War II.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080629106

PUJ groups eye P3 fare hike

By Rainier Allan Ronda

Monday, June 30, 2008

Disappointed over government’s failure to come up with the promised P2 fuel subsidy and other assistance to help them cope with the weekly oil price hikes, jeepney groups are now planning to ask for a P3 fare hike.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080629107

Military agent turns state witness vs Indanan mayor, son

By Cecille Suerte Felipe

Monday, June 30, 2008

A suspected military agent who claims to have a “line” to Abu Sayyaf leader Radulan Sahiron and is accused of setting up and leading ABS-CBN broadcast journalist Ces Drilon and her three companions to their abductors in Sulu, has agreed to turn state witness against Indanan Mayor Alvarez Isnaji and his son Haider.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080629108

Opposition may not form united ticket

Monday, June 30, 2008

SANTIAGO CITY – The chances are slim for the opposition to form a united ticket in the wake of the ongoing merger of the top two administration parties for the 2010 elections.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080629109

No nuclear weapons on US carrier – Kenney

By Cecille Suerte Felipe

Monday, June 30, 2008

US Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney maintained yesterday that the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan which is helping in the retrieval operations of passengers who perished in the sinking of M/V Princess of the Stars does not carry any nuclear weapons.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080629113

Food shortage looms in Western Visayas

By Nikko Dizon

Philippine Daily Inquirer

First Posted 00:44:00 06/30/2008

MANILA, Philippines—Western Visayas is likely to face a “food shortage” in the coming days because of the damage wrought by Typhoon “Frank” (international codename: Fengshen) to its agriculture and infrastructure, a Palace executive said Sunday.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080630-145504/Food-shortage-looms-in-Western-Visayas

Salvage team gets ready to remove toxic cargo

By Tarra Quismundo

Philippine Daily Inquirer

First Posted 04:43:00 06/30/2008

SAN FERNANDO, SIBUYAN ISLAND—Frogmen were poised to cut through the hull of the MV Princess of the Stars on Monday to remove a deadly cargo of endosulfan pesticide and allow the retrieval of hundreds of bloated bodies entombed in the capsized ferry.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080630-145543/Salvage-team-gets-ready-to-remove-toxic-cargo

Analysis

Sulpicio Lines should go into mortuary business

By Amando Doronila

Philippine Daily Inquirer

First Posted 06:58:00 06/30/2008

MANILA, Philippines—It has been nine days since the MV Princess of the Stars of Sulpicio Lines sank off Sibuyan Island with more than 800 passengers and crewmen on board. Only 57 survivors have been found, and the rest have been trapped inside the capsized floating coffin.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080630-145549/Sulpicio-Lines-should-go-into-mortuary-business

Nun recalls boast ferry is unsinkable

By Romulo Ponte

Southern Luzon Bureau

First Posted 06:58:00 06/30/2008

SAN PABLO CITY—A crew member of the ill-fated MV Princess of the Stars once boasted to his cousin—a nun—that the Sulpicio Lines ferry was unsinkable, not knowing he would soon be going down with the vessel.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080630-145548/Nun-recalls-boast-ferry-is-unsinkable

Plan to replace aging ships to be revived

By Michael Lim Ubac

Philippine Daily Inquirer

First Posted 06:57:00 06/30/2008

MANILA, Philippines—Living up to their moniker as floating coffins, the inter-island ferries in the country have an average age of 28 years, prompting the Cabinet to revive a plan hatched two years ago to modernize the entire shipping industry.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080630-145547/Plan-to-replace-aging-ships-to-be-revived

PACQUIAO FIGHT

Call of duty prompts Yano to settle for replay

By Nikko Dizon

Philippine Daily Inquirer

First Posted 06:55:00 06/30/2008

CABATUAN, ILOILO—While the rest of the nation was cheering Manny Pacquiao as he pummeled David Diaz in Las Vegas, Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Alexander Yano was consoling himself with the thought that, at least, he would be able to see it all in the replays.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080630-145546/Call-of-duty-prompts-Yano-to-settle-for-replay

No nukes on USS Reagan, says Kenney

‘Part of US-RP partnership’

By Nikko Dizon

Philippine Daily Inquirer

First Posted 07:01:00 06/30/2008

CABATUAN, ILOILO—There are no nuclear armaments on board the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, US Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney stressed Sunday

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080630-145550/No-nukes-on-USS-Reagan-says-Kenney

PCSO gives P13M in aid

Philippine Daily Inquirer

First Posted 07:01:00 06/30/2008

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office Sunday announced the release of some P13.25 million in financial assistance to provinces in the Visayas devastated by Typhoon “Frank” (international codename: Fengshen).

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080630-145551/PCSO-gives-P13M-in-aid

ARMM polls known in 36 hours, says automation firm

SMARTMATIC-SAHI Technology, one of the technology providers for the Aug. 11 automated elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) yesterday expressed confidence that they would come out with the results in 36 hours.

http://www.malaya.com.ph/jun30/news7.htm

RP ibinenta ni Gloria?

(Eralyn Prado at Rose Miranda)

Pinangangambahang binenta na naman ni Pangulong Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ang Pilipinas sa mga dayuhan sa pamamagitan na rin ng mga panibagong kasunduan na pinasok nito mula sa kanyang sampung araw na US trip.

http://www.abante.com.ph/issue/june3008/news03.htm

Kamara kikilos na sa trahedya ng Sulpicio

(Eralyn Prado)

Nagbigay na kahapon ng direktiba ang liderato ng Kamara para simulan na ang isang marathon investigation kaugnay sa nangyaring paglubog ng M/V Princess of the Stars.

http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/june3008/news_story3.htm