SEPTEMBER 2, 2008 Mind Bullet Inc.
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I. BANNER STORIES
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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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