I. BANNER STORIES
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!
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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