Tuesday, September 2, 2008

I. BANNER STORIES

1. Philippine Daily Inquirer

Davao bus blast kills 6

PNP eyes extortion gang linked to Abus

By Orlando Dinoy, Allan Nawal

Philippine Daily Inquirer

First Posted 00:54:00 09/02/2008

DIGOS CITY, Philippines —The improvised explosive device appeared to have the signature of an extortion gang suspected to have links with the dreaded Abu Sayyaf bandit group.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080902-158108/Davao-bus-blast-kills-6

2. The Philippine Star

6 dead in Digos bus bombing

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

A powerful homemade bomb blew up inside a parked bus at a terminal in Digos City, Davao del Sur yesterday, killing at least six people and injuring 28 others.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080901173

3. Manila Times

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Critical MILF caucus on peace talks flops

Military readies major attack

By Al Jacinto, Correspondent

ZAMBOANGA CITY: Muslim rebels failed to reach an agreement on their next move regarding stalled peace talks with the government.

The rebels from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) held a caucus over the weekend about the suspended negotiations but fell short of arriving at a consensus.

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/sep/02/yehey/top_stories/20080902top1.html

4. Malaya

Guns silent on first day of Ramadan

Ramadan cooling off urged

BY VICTOR REYES

NO skirmishes between government forces and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front were reported in Central Mindanao yesterday at the start of the Muslims’ holy month of Ramadan.

http://www.malaya.com.ph/sep02/news1.htm

5. Manila Bulletin

Comelec vows full automation in 2010

Melo cites successful use in ARMM elections

Full automation of 2010 elections assured by Comelec

By HANNAH L. TORREGOZA

Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Jose Melo yesterday assured that voters will experience a fully automated May, 2010 elections following the successful conduct of the computerized elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) last month.

http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN20080902134039.html

6. The Daily Tribune

7. Abante

RAKET SA OJT NURSES TINALUPAN

Nina AL JACINTO, JB SALARZON, ROSE MIRANDA, NILO MARASIGAN at REY MARFIL

Tinalupan kahapon ng Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) kung bakit lumobo sa 400,000 ang bilang ngayon ng mga jobless o tambay na lisensyadong nurses.

http://www.abante.com.ph/issue/sep0208/default.htm

8. Abante-Tonite

MANG PANDOY NAMATAY PA RING MAHIRAP

Ni JETHRO SINOCRUZ

Nakadilat at may luha sa kanyang mga mata nang mamatay sa sakit dala ng kahirapan ang minsang tinulungan ni dating

http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/sep0208/news_story1.htm

9. Pilipino Star Ngayon

Jemaah aatake; AFP alerto

Nina Joy Cantos at Butch Quejada

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Inalerto kahapon ni Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff Gen. Alexander Yano ang tropa ng militar hinggil sa posibleng sympathy attacks ng dayuhang teroristang grupong Jemaah Islamiyah dahil sa patuloy na pagtugis ng militar sa mga renegades na Moro Islamic Liberation Front sa Mindanao.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Bansa&p=50&type=2&sec=54&aid=2008090176

10. Journal

BUS BOMBED

By: Alfred P. Dalizon & Fernando Cariaso

6 killed, 26 injured in Davao blast

A POWERFUL bomb ripped through a packed bus about to leave its terminal in Digos, Davao del Sur yesterday afternoon, killing at least six persons and wounding 26 others, police said.

http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-09-02&sec=1&aid=71737

11. Business World

ASEAN-India pact to benefit RP

Draft deal opens up markets for exporters

INDIA WILL SLASH TARIFFS for more goods than the Philippines under a pending free trade agreement (FTA) between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the South Asian economic powerhouse, giving Filipino exporters an opportunity to make more inroads into the one-billion strong Indian market.

http://bworldonline.com/BW090208/content.php?id=001

12. Business Mirror

Tax dims appeal of BSP IOUs

By Jun Vallecera

Reporter

A NEW tax regime has blunted the appeal of the usually higher, yielding instruments of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).

The new stars in the financial markets are the short-dated instruments of the Bureau of Treasury whose six- and one-year rates were 47.4 and 17.8 basis points lower on Monday from their respective levels six weeks earlier.

http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/09022008/headlines01.html

II. POLITICAL

Senate given say in drafting new peace pact

By Gil C. Cabacungan Jr.

Philippine Daily Inquirer

First Posted 01:08:00 09/02/2008

MANILA, Philippines -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has agreed to give the Senate a direct hand in the drafting of a new peace accord with Moro rebels after the memorandum of agreement (MOA) on ancestral domain got shot down for lack of consultation with a broad sector.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080902-158109/Senate-given-say-in-drafting-new-peace-pact

It’s final: MILF won’t turn in Bravo, Kato

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will not surrender two of its commanders who carried out brutal attacks on civilian communities in Lanao del Norte, North Cotabato and Sarangani.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080901174

Esperon downplays land deal

By Paolo Romero

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Filipino Muslims may still realize their aspirations for self-determination despite the scrapping of a controversial land deal or even without a formal agreement with the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), officials said yesterday.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080901175

CHR: Media rights violated in Pen siege

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Police officers who arrested and jailed journalists covering the six-hour siege at the Peninsula Manila Hotel in Makati City last year have been found to have commited various human rights violations.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080901176

Cheap rice pulled out of markets

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

The government has finally pulled out the P18.25 per kilo rice from the markets but President Arroyo assured the public that there will be no shortage in the supply of rice and every household will have food on the table.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080901177

‘Mang Pandoy’ dies of TB

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Remember Mang Pandoy?

Once known as “the face of the poor” during former President Fidel Ramos’ administration, Felipe Natanio or “Mang Pandoy” succumbed to tuberculosis Sunday, leaving nary a trace of the better life that was promised him.

He was 63.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080901178

Pacquiao to retire in August 2009, joins Kampi

By Abac Cordero and Cecille Suerte Felipe

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Boxing idol Manny Pacquiao is looking at two more fights after Oscar dela Hoya in December, and possibly many more in the political ring in the coming years as he made a surprise announcement yesterday that he will retire by August next year after being sworn in as member of President Arroyo’s political party.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080901179

Nurses now opting to work in RP call centers, as medical transcriptionists

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Many Filipino nurses are now opting to stay in the country, not to work in hospitals but in call centers.

The local recruitment industry reported yesterday that a number of licensed nurses are now employed either as call center agents or medical transcriptionists, which offer higher salaries than government-run or even private-owned hospitals in the country.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080901180

UN: RP among 8 countries with rising number of disappearances

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

A United Nations agency tasked to assist families determine the fate or whereabouts of disappeared relatives has identified the Philippines among the eight countries with a growing number of cases of disappearances.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080901181

Opposition: Early retirement incentive, not pay hike, for GMA

By Michael Punongbayan

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

The United Opposition (UNO) yesterday junked the idea of giving President Arroyo a pay increase due to her consistently high disapproval ratings, saying an early retirement incentive would probably be more suitable.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080901182

Scout Rangers ferried before C-130 crash face questioning

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

DAVAO CITY – An independent body investigating the crash of a C-130 military plane in the Davao Gulf shortly after takeoff last Aug, 25 will get the testimony of more than 70 Scout Rangers that the aircraft flew from Fort Magsaysay in Nueva Ecija to Davao International Airport.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080901183

SSS pensioners to get P500 anniversary bonus

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

The Social Security System (SSS), the pension fund for private employees, announced yesterday that all its pensioners would receive an anniversary bonus of P500 on top of their regular pension as part of the agency’s 51st anniversary celebration.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080901184

SC to IBP: Wait for recommendation of justices on CA mess

By Mike Frialde

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

The Supreme Court advised the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) to just wait for the recommendation of the panel of retired SC justices who investigated alleged anomalies in the Court of Appeals.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080901185

Lozada to Joey de V: Good luck

By Aurea Calica

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Senate witness Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr. wishes national broadband network (NBN) deal controversy whistleblower Jose de Venecia III good luck in the latter’s plan to enter politics in 2010 but stresses he cannot follow suit because of lack of money and mobility.

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080901186

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

JdV: Lakas-Kampi merger doomed to fail

By Sammy Martin, Reporter

FORMER House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. said Monday the planned merger between Lakas- Christian Muslim Democrats and the Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino or Kampi is just a dream and would not prosper.

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/sep/02/yehey/metro/20080902met1.html

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Senators slam pay hike for high public officials

Senators Francis Escudero, Panfilo Lacson and Juan Miguel Zubiri favored Monday the proposed increase in the pay of ordinary government workers. Escudero and Lacson, however, slammed the “illegal and immoral” plan to almost double the pay of congressmen, senators, Cabinet members, the vice president and the president as proposed in the 2009 national budget.

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/sep/02/yehey/metro/20080902met2.html

JDV says no to party merger

By BEN R. ROSARIO

Former House Speaker Jose C. de Venecia Jr., Lakas-CMD president emeritus, yesterday said that party ideological differences is a strong reason to reject the proposed merger of Lakas-CMD and the Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino (Kampi), stressing that a strong coalition of all major political parties should instead be pursued to prepare for 2010.

http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN20080902134049.html

Pagtakbo ni Joey okey sa Senado

(Rey Marfil/Boyet Jadulco/Bernard Taguinod)

Binasbasan ng ilang senador ang planong pagtakbo ni NBN-ZTE whistle blower Joey de Venecia III sa 2010 elections -- kongresista ng Pangasinan o senador ng republika.

http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/sep0208/news_story4.htm

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