I. BANNER STORIES
MALACAÑANG:
All systems go for Charter change
Arroyo wants constituent assembly convened
By Christine Avendaño, Lira Dalangin-Fernandez
Philippine Daily Inquirer, INQUIRER.net
First Posted 01:53:00 08/13/2008
MANILA, Philippines—The Palace backed off two years ago from a “grand deception,” as the Supreme Court ruling put it.
Now, it’s all systems go for Charter change.
This was announced Tuesday by Press Secretary Jesus Dureza a day after President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo herself said that she favored federalism to resolve a bloody Moro war for self-rule in Mindanao.
'All systems go for Cha-cha'
By Paolo Romero
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Malacañang said yesterday it’s “all systems go for Charter change” as it declared its support for a pending Senate resolution calling for the creation of 11 federal states in the country.
Press Secretary Jesus Dureza made the announcement at a news briefing after attending a Cabinet security cluster meeting presided over by President Arroyo during which the decision to revive efforts to amend the Constitution was reached.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008081286
3. Manila Times
Peace talks in peril – MILF
Clashes continuing in North Cotabato
By Al Jacinto, Correspondent
SULU: Sporadic fighting between Philippine troops and Muslim rebels continued on Tuesday in Mindanao, threatening the seven-year old peace talks.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) said the weeklong fighting in North Cotabato could escalate to other areas and put at risk the peace talks with the Arroyo government.
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/aug/13/yehey/top_stories/20080813top1.html
4. Malaya
Military ‘liberates’
5 more barangays
‘Lost Command’ withdrawing to Maguindanao
BY VICTOR REYES
GOVERNMENT forces have "liberated" five more barangays in North Cotabato, which were forcibly taken over by Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebels last month, the military said yesterday.
http://www.malaya.com.ph/aug13/news1.htm
31 MILF rebels killed in fighting
1 soldier also slain in Cotabato clearing operations
MILF suffers heavy casualties in clashes
By MIKE U. CRISMUNDO
MIDSAYAP, North Cotabato – At least 31 members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and one government soldier were killed while 13 other soldiers were wounded on the third day of "clearing operations" in five towns in North Cotabato, a top official of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) reported yesterday.
http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN20080813132409.html
Palace: All systems go for Cha-cha
By Angie M. Rosales
08/13/2008
“It’s all systems go” for Charter change (Cha-cha), Malacañang yesterday said amid accusations from the political opposition that President Arroyo has “blood on her hands,” blaming her “selfish agenda” of political perpetuity for the resumption of armed hostilities in Mindanao.
http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/20080813hed1.html
7. Abante
WAR REFUGEES, KRISIS NA!
(NM/AJ/JBS/RM/AFP)
Nagsimula nang maging krisis ang ‘humanitarian mess’ sa North Cotabato makaraang lumobo sa 160,000-katao ang lumikas palayo sa tumitinding sagupaan ng tropa ng pamahalaan at ng umaatras na rebeldeng Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
http://www.abante.com.ph/issue/aug1308/default.htm
AYAW MAGSUSTENTO PINATAY NI BAYAW
Jethro Sinocruz
Mistulang inatadong parang karne ang isang ama ng tahanan matapos na pagtatagain ng kanyang bayaw dahil sa pagtangging magbigay ng sustento sa sarili nitong pamilya sa lungsod ng Quezon kahapon.
Ang biktima na tadtad ng taga sa iba’t ibang parte ng katawan ay kinilalang si Francisco Projas, 32-anyos, may-asawa, operation manager ng EPJ Bus Line at taga #0016 Leyte St., Area-5, Sitio Veterans Barangay Bagong, Silangan Q.C.
http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/aug1308/crime1.htm
31 MILF utas!
Ni Joy Cantos
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Umaabot na sa 31 rebeldeng Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) ang napapatay sa patuloy na bakbakan sa North Cotabato at panibagong pag-atake ng MILF sa dalawang bayan na sinakop ng mga ito sa Basilan.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Bansa&p=50&type=2&sec=54&aid=20080812110
10. Journal
WIDER WAR
By: Paul M. Gutierrez & Jerry Adlaw
Troop and rebel movements in North Cotabato stoke fears of bigger conflict
A WIDER war is feared in Mindanao after the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front vowed to support its military commander in North Cotabato earlier tagged as a “renegade” by police and military authorities.
http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-08-13&sec=1&aid=69904
11. Business World
BY BERNARD U. ALLAUIGAN and GERARD S. DELA PEÑA, Reporters
Credit bureau bill okayed by bicam
LAWMAKERS HAVE RECONCILED the Senate and House versions of a bill creating a centralized credit bureau, with both chambers expected to ratify a consolidated measure next week to pave the way for its signing into law.
http://bworldonline.com/BW081308/content.php?id=001
12. Business Mirror
Specific tax on oil ‘inflationary’
By Mia Gonzalez and Fernan Marasigan
Reporters
Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ralph Recto said on Tuesday that he is not against the proposed specific tax on oil, in particular, but warned against its potential inflationary impact that may push up prices.
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/08132008/headlines01.html
II. POLITICAL
FVR: Gov’t shift only after 2010
By Katherine Adraneda
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Former President Fidel Ramos said moves to amend the Constitution and change to a federal form of government must come only after 2010 to dispel speculations that President Arroyo is bent on staying in power beyond her term.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008081287
Rebels gone, evacuees returning, says N. Cotabato gov
By Edwin Fernandez, Jeoffrey Maitem, Nikko Dizon
Mindanao Bureau, Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 02:37:00 08/13/2008
MIDSAYAP, NORTH COTABATO—All the villages in North Cotabato province have been cleared of Moro rebels and the more than 100,000 people displaced by weeks of fighting have started to return home, according to Gov. Jesus Sacdalan.
AFP: 7 N. Cotabato villages cleared, 31 MILF rebels killed
By Jaime Laude And John Unson
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Renegade forces of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have pulled out from seven villages in North Cotabato, as 31 of their members have been killed and five others wounded as the fighting intensified yesterday.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008081288
MILF using landmines
By Edith Regalado
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
DAVAO CITY – Landmines that have been planted by Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels are hampering the safe return of over 130,000 villagers to their respective barangays that have been occupied by the separatist rebels in certain parts of North Cotabato and Maguindanao.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008081289
Comelec: More than half of ARMM poll results in
By Kristine L. Alave
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 02:45:00 08/13/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Politicians and voters can say goodbye to the suspense and the long wait for election results.
Less than 24 hours after precincts closed, the Commission on Elections had received more than half of the results from Monday’s automated balloting in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)—an experiment for the 2010 national polling.
Senators: PCGG chief should quit
By Christina Mendez
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Senators called yesterday for the resignation of Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) Chairman Camilo Sabio over an attempt to influence the decision of his younger brother, Court of Appeals (CA) Justice Jose Sabio, on the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) case.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008081290
Court of Appeals presiding judge also under fire
By Jerome Aning
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 03:01:00 08/13/2008
MANILA, Philippines—The Supreme Court panel investigating improprieties and an alleged bribery attempt in the Court of Appeals (CA) Tuesday called into question the leadership itself of Presiding Justice Conrado Vasquez Jr.
TV reporter witnesses 4-hour dying of a Marine
By Nikko Dizon
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 03:13:00 08/13/2008
MANILA, Philippines—What this TV reporter witnessed on Monday in Tipo-Tipo, Basilan, echoes yet again the tragedy of soldiers dying in the battlefield because of the limitations of the Armed Forces itself.
More oil price cuts coming
By Jess Diaz
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Oil companies are expected to further cut the prices of gasoline, diesel, and other petroleum products in the coming weeks.
“If the cost of crude in the world market does not go up or if it goes down, expect more fuel price rollbacks in the coming days,” Fernando Martinez, head of the association of small oil industry players, told lawmakers yesterday.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008081291
300 Moro rebels attack Basilan town
Soldier, civilian killed
By Julie Alipala
Mindanao Bureau
First Posted 05:59:00 08/13/2008
ZAMBOANGA CITY—A civilian and a Marine were killed when 300 suspected Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels attacked Tipo-Tipo town in Basilan province on Monday.
Exit polls show imminent re-election of ARMM governor
By John Unson
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
COTABATO CITY ‑ The six provincial governors and 114 mayors in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao are rejoicing over what for them is the very imminent re-election of ARMM Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan based on their own exit poll surveys and unofficial data obtained from local poll personnel.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008081292
Mayon alert level raised
By Cet Dematera
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
LEGAZPI CITY – Disaster control authorities here yesterday again alerted residents living inside the six-kilometer permanent danger zone surrounding Mayon volcano against possible eruption after it spewed ashes up to 200 meters above the crater on Sunday morning.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008081293
‘We are MILF, we are not a lost command’
By Arlyn dela Cruz
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 05:58:00 08/13/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Commander Ombra Kato, head of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) 105th Base Command, said on Monday that he did not violate any orders from his superiors and that he was not a renegade.
Esperon fails to mollify solons on MoA
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 06:01:00 08/13/2008
MANILA, Philippines—House legislators scrutinizing the government’s controversial agreement on ancestral domain with the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) said they could not get any satisfactory answers from either the presidential adviser on peace, Hermogenes Esperon, or the head of the government’s negotiating panel, Rodolfo Garcia.
Senators: Arroyo riding on Pimentel’s federalism bill
By Gil C. Cabacungan Jr., Norman Bordadora
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 06:05:00 08/13/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Senators Tuesday expressed wariness over the move by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to ride on a bill filed in April by Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. pushing for a federal form of government that had won majority support.
Senators want Sabio sacked from PCGG
By Gil C. Cabacungan Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 06:22:00 08/13/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Senators Tuesday called for the ouster or resignation of Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) Chair Camilo Sabio for purportedly intervening in the case being handled by his brother at the Court of Appeals (CA) while failing to account for the missing $34 million from the Marcos Swiss deposits.
With success of ARMM polls, Comelec moving toward nat’l automation in 2010
By Sheila Crisostomo
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
With the successful automation of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) polls, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is now headed towards the modernization of the 2010 presidential polls.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008081294
PNB: $34-million Marcos Swiss deposits all accounted for
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
The Philippine National Bank (PNB) yesterday gave assurances that the $34 million in Marcos Swiss deposits recovered by the Philippine government remains fully accounted for and continues to be held in escrow at the bank with the full knowledge and agreement of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG).
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008081295
UN begins airlifting food aid to Mindanao
By Pia Lee-Brago
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
The United Nations has begun airlifting food to Mindanao to avert a major humanitarian crisis as thousands flee fighting between Muslim rebels and troops, officials said yesterday.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008081297
Swiss leader urges RP Congress to approve HR bill
By Marvin Sy
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Swiss President Pascal Couchepin said during a meeting with President Arroyo in Malacañang yesterday that his government expects the Philippine Congress to pass the human rights compensation bill for victims of the Marcos dictatorship.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008081298
Ombudsman vows fair probe on graft complaint vs Lacson
By Edu Punay
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
The Office of the Ombudsman confirmed yesterday that it is looking into a graft complaint against opposition Sen. Panfilo Lacson, but assured him of an impartial and fair investigation.
Assistant Ombudsman Jose De Jesus Jr., spokesman of the constitutional body tasked to prosecute erring public officials, said their investigation on the records of Lacson is part of fact-finding procedures on the complaint and “not a fresh vilification move.”
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=2008081299
President pushes constituent assembly to start ‘Cha-Cha’
Malacañang said it supports a Senate resolution seeking the creation of constituent assembly to start Charter change initiatives that would tackle federalism not only for Mindanao, but for the whole country.
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/aug/13/yehey/top_stories/20080813top4.html
Big slab of Quedancor P5B swine fund lent to employees
A huge slab of the P5-billion swine project of the Quedan and Rural Guarantee Corp. (Quedancor) went to the pockets of the state agency’s employees in the form of salary loans while swine growers managed to get measly sums.
http://www.malaya.com.ph/aug13/news7.htm
Senators question Quedancor decision on P2.16-B loan
By MARIO B. CASAYURAN
Senators questioned yesterday the decision of state-owned Quedan and Rural Credit Guarantee Corp. (Quedancor) to set aside only 10 percent of the P2.166 billion it borrowed from Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) for farmers before the May 2004 presidential elections.
http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN20080813132410.html
Senate panel claims ‘smoking gun’ in swine scam
08/13/2008
More alleged smoking guns were uncovered by Senate probers in the misuse of over P2 billion worth of swine program, with traces of purported pre-arranged loan structure benefiting the lending institutions similar the “PEACe bonds” controversy several years ago.
http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/20080813hed6.html
Last update: August 13 2008, 10:42 AM
Breaking News - NATION
Jamby Madrigal: I have proof
Gil C. Cabacungan Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
August 12, 2008
MANILA, Philippines—Senator Maria Ana Consuelo “Jamby” Madrigal on Tuesday flashed a document she said proved Speaker Prospero Nograles’ brother and the little-known ONL Consultancy firm were behind the P5-billion sovereign loan to swine farmers, part of which was allegedly diverted to the administration’s election campaign in 2004.
http://services.inquirer.net/mobile/08/08/13/html_output/xmlhtml/20080812-154253-xml.html
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