June 12, 2008 Mind Bullet Inc.
I. BANNER STORIES
Tausug leaders talk to Drilon kidnappers
Another group takes captives
By Julie Alipala
Mindanao Bureau
First Posted 01:12:00 06/12/2008
ZAMBOANGA CITY—A team of Tausug leaders is negotiating with Moro bandits for the release of broadcast journalist Ces Drilon of ABS-CBN and her two cameramen who were abducted along with their guide in Maimbung, Sulu, on Sunday.
Ces, TV crew in JI custody
By Roel Pareño
Thursday, June 12, 2008
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A Malaysian Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) bomb expert with a $5-million bounty on his head is holding broadcast journalist Ces Oreña-Drilon and her two cameramen in a remote jungle base of the Abu Sayyaf in Sulu, military sources said yesterday.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080611110
3. Manila Times
ABS-CBN: ‘No to ransom’
Drilon, 3 other kidnap victims ‘alive’–police
ZAMBOANGA CITY: Executives of the television network ABS-CBN said they would not pay ransom to Abu Sayyaf militants who kidnapped their news crew.
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/june/12/yehey/top_stories/20080612top1.html
4. Malaya
ABS-CBN rules out ransom for Ces
Emissariesdispatched to secure TV crew's release
BY RAYMOND AFRICA
TELEVISION network ABS-CBN yesterday said it is strictly adhering to its "no ransom" policy as it confirmed that its news team led by Ces Drilon had been kidnapped in Sulu.
http://www.malaya.com.ph/jun12/news1.htm
Senate OKs 30 bills, adjourns session
Including nat’l priority measures of LEDAC
Senate OKs priority, including medicine, tax exemption bills
Hannah L. Torregoza
The Senate has passed more than 30 measures, including eight which have been outlined by the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Consultative Council (LEDAC) as priority bills, Senate President Manuel B. Villar Jr. said yesterday just before its adjournment sine die.
http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN20080612127080.html
ABS-CBN admits kidnap, vows no ransom payout
06/12/2008
Following a day of an appeal for a news blackout and another day of the ABS-CBN network official line of its news team going missing, the giant network admitted belatedly that Ces Oreña-Drilon and her two crew members, Jimmy Encarnacion and Angelo Valderama, have been abducted. The official statement did not point to the Abu Sayyaf as the TV team’s abductors, although it stated that the network will abide by its policy not to pay for ransom “as this would embolden kidnap for ransom groups to abduct other journalists.
http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/20080612hed1.html
7. Abante
PASAWAY NA TSUPER BIBITBITIN!
Ni TINA MENDOZA
Pisikal na bibitbitin pababa ng kanilang minamanehong bus ang mga pasaway na tsuper na hindi susunod sa “30-second loading policy” ng Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA).
http://www.abante.com.ph/issue/june1208/default.htm
MAID GINULPI, PLINANTSA NI PRINCESS REVILLA
Nina Dindo Matining at Rey Marfil
Binusalan sa bibig ng tsinelas, sinusuntok ang mukha at plinantsa pa ang braso.
Ilang lamang iyan sa pisikal na pang-aabuso na naranasan ng 17-anyos na katulong sa kamay ng dating actress-TV host na si Princess Revilla, Rebecca Bautista-Ocampo sa tunay na buhay, nakatira sa Casa Verde Lanuza St., corner C-5, Barangay Ugong, Pasig City at kapatid ni Senador Ramon “Bong” Revilla, Jr.
http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/june1208/news_story1.htm
No ransom!
Nina Joy Cantos at Rudy Andal
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Nanindigan ang pamunuan ng ABS-CBN na mahigpit nilang paiiralin ang “no ransom policy” matapos kumpirmahin na hindi nawawala kundi dinukot ng mga armadong grupo sa Sulu ang kanilang reporter na si Ces Drilon at dalawang crew nitong sina Jimmy Encarnacion at Angelo Valderama.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Bansa&p=50&type=2&sec=54&aid=2008061188
10. Journal
NO TO RANSOM
By: Alfred P. Dalizon
ABS-CBN won’t buy Ces Drilon’s freedom
VETERAN television journalist Ces Orena-Drilon and cameramen Jimmy Encarnacion and Angelo Valderama have been kidnapped for ransom, ABS-CBN management confirmed yesterday
http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-06-12&sec=1&aid=62891
11. Business World
Meralco cuts June power rates
Cites cheaper spot market power, reduced systems losses
CONSUMERS CAN LOOK FORWARD to receiving reduced power bills next month as Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) yesterday said lower spot market prices and reduced system losses had allowed it to cut rates for June.
http://bworldonline.com/BW061208/content.php?id=001
12. Business Mirror
‘Serious risks imperil growth’
RISKS to agricultural growth, a continued weakening of manufacturing, a decline in government consumption and the fragile state of exports and imports top the threats to the Philippine economy’s ability to sustain growth this year, as serious global challenges are seen to prevail, the congressional think tank has said in a report.
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/06122008/headlines01.html
II. POLITICAL
Powerless queue for power dole
By Jocelyn Uy
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:48:00 06/12/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Josefina Laforteza Wednesday braved the scorching heat, skipped lunch and waited in line for five hours to claim the P500 that the government started giving away to small electricity consumers early this week.
I-TEAM REPORT: EDUCATION
Parents help turn chicken coops into real classrooms
By Volt Contreras, Fernando del Mundo
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 02:09:00 06/12/2008
Read Part 1: Only in RP: 10-year basic school cycle
Read Part 2: It’s back to school, error-filled books
Read Part 3: Lots of money for computers, none for rulers, microscopes
(Fourth of a series)
SAN ISIDRO, NUEVA ECIJA—Quite often, the day’s lesson just wouldn’t sink in, especially if you attend classes caged like a chicken.
For over a decade, students at TA Dionisio National High School in Barangay Malapit packed four makeshift classrooms that would otherwise pass for a poultry house. The structures, good for up to 200 students at a time, made do for classes that could not be accommodated in the other buildings.
Int’l media groups deeply concerned for hostages’ safety
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 03:40:00 06/12/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Local and foreign media organizations have voiced concern over the continuing dangers endured by Filipino journalists and called on the government to work for the safe release of Ces Drilon and her three companions.
Kidnap victims safe, may be freed soon, says Ermita
By Michael Lim Ubac
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 03:42:00 06/12/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita Wednesday said Ces Drilon, her crew and a professor of Mindanao State University were safe for now and would be released soon.
House defers vote on CARP extension amid raging protest
By TJ Burgonio, Jerome Aning
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 03:43:00 06/12/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Outraged farmers jumped from the gallery and yelled at lawmakers on Tuesday night in protest of the move to defer putting to a vote a certified bill extending a key component of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).
5 Cabinet members, 96 others confirmed
By Gil C. Cabacungan Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 06:17:00 06/12/2008
MANILA, Philippines -- The Commission on Appointments was unusually generous in its last session day Wednesday as it gave the green light to five Cabinet members, the Comelec chief, eight ambassadors, 47 diplomatic officials, and 40 military officers led by AFP Chief of Staff Alexander Yano in a marathon session which was marred by separate walkouts by Senators Maria Ana Consuelo “Jamby” Madrigal and Panfilo Lacson.
Meralco rate down P0.48/kWh
Drop in demand, temperature, WESM cited
By Abigail L. Ho
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 06:19:00 06/12/2008
MANILA, Philippines -- Customers of the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) will enjoy a reduction of almost 50 centavos per kilowatt-hour this month largely because of the huge drop in the price of power sourced from the wholesale electricity spot market (WESM).
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080612-142204/Meralco-rate-down-P048kWh
Magdalo still solid, insists Trillanes bloc
By Nikko Dizon
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 06:21:00 06/12/2008
MANILA, Philippines -- The Trillanes faction of the Magdalo group of rebels who changed their plea to guilty in their court-martial case remains solid against the government and have not abandoned the cause that they supposedly fought for in the July 2003 failed coup, said a lawyer of Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, the acknowledged leader and spokesperson of the Magdalo group.
Congress questions ‘Noah’s Ark’ subsidy program
By Aurea Calica and Jess Diaz
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Congress will scrutinize the government’s three-year P316-billion “Noah’s Ark” subsidy program as some lawmakers expressed doubt that this would help the poor cope with runaway prices of food and fuel.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080611111
‘Mercy’ mission to go on despite shooting
By Pia Lee-Brago
Thursday, June 12, 2008
The USNS Mercy’s goodwill and outreach mission will go on as scheduled in Mindanao and Samar despite the shooting of one of its helicopters in Cotabato on Monday, the US embassy said yesterday.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080611113
Lower Meralco rates this month
By Donnabelle Gatdula
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Customers of Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) will enjoy a rate cut of up to 48.72 centavos per kilowatt-hour (kWh) this month, a company official said.
Meralco vice president for corporate communications Elpi Cuna said the drop could be attributed to a reduction in generation cost and systems loss charges.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080611114
In lieu of CARP extension, House okays land acquisition, distribution
By Jess Diaz
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Failing to extend the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, which expired last Tuesday, the House instead approved late Tuesday night a resolution authorizing land acquisition and distribution under CARP up to the end of this year.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080611115
Joker hits back at Ping over grilling of foreign investors
By Christina Mendez and Aurea Calica
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Sen. Joker Arroyo lashed out yesterday at Sen. Panfilo Lacson and the other senators who had criticized him and Senators Juan Ponce Enrile and Miriam Defensor-Santiago for grilling officials of the Joint Foreign Chambers of Commerce (JFC) last Friday.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080611118
5 Cabinet members, Melo, Yano hurdle CA
By Christina Mendez
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Before sine die adjournment, the Commission on Appointments (CA) has confirmed the regular nominations and ad interim appointments of five Cabinet secretaries, two constitutional officials, eight ambassadors, 47 diplomats, and 40 military officials including the Armed Forces’ chief of staff.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080611119
No mini skirts, hip-hop pants in DepEd’s new school attire guidelines
By Rainier Allan Ronda
Thursday, June 12, 2008
The Department of Education (DepEd) has issued guidelines on the prescribed school attire after the removal of the school uniform requirement in public schools.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080611128
EC appeals CA ruling on Meralco stockholders TRO
By Zinnia de la Peña
Thursday, June 12, 2008
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) asked the Court of Appeals (CA) yesterday to allow implementation of its cease and desist order (CDO) on grounds that the law empowers the regulatory agency to stop officials of the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) from counting proxies in favor of pro-management directors. Commenting on the CA’s TRO, the SEC said Meralco’s assertion that the CDO had disenfranchised the affected stockholders has no factual and legal basis.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080611129
Court rejects TRO petition vs CHED’s new nursing curriculum
By Rainier Allan Ronda
Thursday, June 12, 2008
The Pasig City Regional Trial Court denied the petition of the Coordinating Council of Private Educational Associations (Cocopea) urging for a temporary restraining order against the revised nursing curriculum of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080611130
ILO: Failure to educate more costly
By Mayen Jaymalin
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Despite the rising cost of tuition, it would be costlier in the long run not to invest in education, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said.
The Philippines and other developing countries lose $92 billion annually because fewer girls are being sent to school as they often suffer discrimination in education, according to ILO.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080611131
EC appeals CA ruling on Meralco stockholders TRO
By Zinnia de la Peña
Thursday, June 12, 2008
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) asked the Court of Appeals (CA) yesterday to allow implementation of its cease and desist order (CDO) on grounds that the law empowers the regulatory agency to stop officials of the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) from counting proxies in favor of pro-management directors. Commenting on the CA’s TRO, the SEC said Meralco’s assertion that the CDO had disenfranchised the affected stockholders has no factual and legal basis.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080611135
Bicam okays creation of PERA fund
By Aurea Calica
Thursday, June 12, 2008
The bicameral conference committee of Congress approved yesterday the bill creating a Personal Retirement Account (PERA) fund to ensure financial stability and added opportunities for retirees and overseas Filipino workers.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080611135
Villar satisfied with Senate’s performance despite criticisms
By Christina Mendez
Thursday, June 12, 2008
The Senate passed yesterday Senate Bill 2213, declaring a national policy for tourism as an engine of investment, employment, growth and development.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080611137
Effectivity of CARP component approved
By Sammy Martin Reporter
After Congress failed to pass a bill on extending the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, or CARP, the House of Representatives approved on third and final reading a joint resolution “maintaining” the effectivity of the Land Acquisition and Distribution component of the program until the end of the year.
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/june/12/yehey/metro/20080612met3.html
Gov't lines up more grants from 'Katas ng VAT'
BY JOCELYN MONTEMAYOR
FINANCE Secretary Margarito Teves yesterday said the government is amenable to giving more subsidies to the poor to be sourced from value added tax (VAT) collections on oil as proposed by the House committee on ways and means.
http://www.malaya.com.ph/jun12/news2.htm
No need for special session on CARP – DAR
By DAVID CAGAHASTIAN
Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Secretary Nasser Pangandaman said yesterday that there is no need to call a special session of Congress to extend the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) because it will expire in December instead of June 15, 2008.
http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN20080612127081.html
Meralco cuts rates 48c, eyes P21B in meter refunds
By Riza Recio
06/12/2008
Besieged power distributor Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) tried to cover lost ground yesterday by announcing a 48.47 centavos per kilowatthour (kWh) reduction in electricity bills this month and a plan to refund P21.4 billion it collected as meter and bill deposits.
http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/20080612hed2.html
Open books on IPPs, solons urge Meralco
By: Ryan Ponce Pacpaco
TWO lawmakers yesterday pressed the Manila Electric Company to make a full accounting in public of all independent power producers (IPP) that it transacted with, particularly the Lopez-owned First Gas Power Corp., to determine if debts of some of power generation firms were allegedly passed on to consumers.
http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-06-12&sec=1&aid=62864
Ordinaryong Pinoy walang pakinabang sa amyenda ng Epira
By: Paul M. Gutierrez
WALANG dapat asahang pakinabang ang ordinaryong Pinoy sa ilalim ng isinusulong na amyenda ni Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile sa EPIRA o RA 9136.
Ang EPIRA ay ipinasa ng Kongreso noong 2001 upang maibaba ang presyo ng kuryente sa bansa na pinakamataas na ngayon sa buong Asya subalit hindi ito nangyari matapos mabigo ang pamahalaan na maipatupad ang mga probisyon nito.
http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-06-12&sec=4&aid=62859
Gloria pinababantayan sa pamumudmod ng pera
Nina Bernard Taguinod, Boyet Jadulco at Rey Marfil
Dahil marahil sa masamang record ng administrasyon pagdating sa pera, pinababantayan ng isang kongresista ang pamumudmod ni Pangulong Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ng subsidiya sa mga mahihirap.
http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/june1208/news_story2.htm
Publiko walang aasahan sa EPIRA amendments
(Rey Marfil)
Walang dapat asahang pakinabang ang ordinaryong Pilipino sa ilalim ng Electric Power Industry reform Act (EPIRA) amendments na isinusulong ni administration senator Juan Ponce Enrile.
http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/june1208/news_story6.htm
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