SEPTEMBER 25, 2008 Mind Bullet Inc.
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I. BANNER STORIES
DOH refuses to issue ban list of China food
By Edson C. Tandoc Jr., Ronnel Domingo
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:33:00 09/25/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Neither the Department of Health nor the Bureau of Food and Drugs, agencies which have called on the public to avoid consuming China-made milk and milk products, issued any list of the banned products.
US plows $30 B into overseas money markets
Thursday, September 25, 2008
WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve, in coordinated action with foreign central banks, plowed $30 billion into money markets overseas yesterday, part of an ongoing effort to fight a global credit crisis.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080924145
3. Manila Times
Thursday, September 25 2008
DOH examines sick infants
Official testing if Chinese milk downed babies
The Department of Health is checking infants hospitalized with kidney ailments to see if they were exposed to contaminated milk products from China, an official said Wednesday.
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/sep/25/yehey/top_stories/20080925top1.html
4. Malaya
Ping: Manny must go
‘He is not doing his job as Senate President’
SEN. Panfilo Lacson yesterday said Senate President Manuel Villar is being remiss in his duties by intentionally skipping sessions, an act which he said does not befit a man aspiring to be president.
http://www.malaya.com.ph/sep25/news1.htm
Bread prices increase today
Pan de sal up by 5 centavos each; loaf bread, P1
Bakers increase prices of bread by P1 today
By BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT
A P1 price increase in loaf bread and 5-centavo increase per piece of "pan de sal’’ will take effect today after flour millers refused appeals to reduce prices of wheat flour by P27 to P930 per bag from the current P957.
http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN20080925136174.html
6. The Daily Tribune
7. Abante
CHINA MILK, KUMPISKAHIN!
Nina Eralyn Prado, Noel Abuel, Rose Miranda, Tina Mendoza, Juliet de Loza at Rey Marfil
Ipinag-utos kahapon ng Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) ang pagkumpiska sa mga pamilihan ng mga gatas at iba pang dairy products na mula sa bansang China na pinaghihinalaang kontaminado ng nakakalasong kemikal na ‘melamine’.
http://www.abante.com.ph/issue/sep2508/default.htm
SHABU COP, HULI SA AKTO!
Ni Dindo Matining
Nanganganib na masibak sa tungkulin ang isang bagitong pulis na nakatalaga sa Pasig City matapos mahuling sumisinghot ng shabu sa loob ng kubeta sa umano’y lungga ng mga drug pushers sa Mandaluyong city kahapon ng umaga.
http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/sep2508/news_story1.htm
Pinoy babies biktima na!
Nina Ludy Bermudo At Doris Franche
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Iniimbestigahan na ngayon ng Department of Health (DOH) ang ilang kaso ng mga sanggol na nagtataglay ng sakit sa kidney na posibleng bunga ng nainom na gatas na nagmula sa bansang China.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Bansa&p=50&type=2&sec=54&aid=2008092466
10. Journal
SICKER BABIES PROBED
By: Lee Ann L. Pattugalan
DoH checking infant kidney cases in one hospital
THE Department of Health is investigating babies hospitalized for kidney problems to see if their ailments have been caused by contaminated milk formulas from China.
http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-09-25&sec=1&aid=73894
11. Business World
BY JESSICA ANNE D. HERMOSA
FDI outlook not promising
THE OUTLOOK for foreign direct investments (FDI) to Asia remains favorable despite a worldwide forecast of a 10% decrease next year, but the Philippines may not be able to ride the wave as its market size and a current fund outflow tell of the country’s limited attractiveness.
http://www.bworldonline.com/BW092508/content.php?id=001
12. Business Mirror
‘Bare GSIS global foray’s details’
EMBOLDENED by congressional signals of a planned inquiry, regular contributors to the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), led by public-school teachers, are pressuring GSIS president and general manager Winston Garcia to disclose the status of the GSIS’s $1-billion foreign-investment program amid fears it could be burned in the meltdown on Wall Street.
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/09252008/headlines01.html
II. POLITICAL
Arroyo launches ‘charm offensive’ for Santiago’s bid
By Fe Zamora
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 02:10:00 09/25/2008
UNITED NATIONS—President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo unleashed a “charm offensive” here on Tuesday to push the candidacy of Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago for a seat in the United Nations International Court of Justice.
Army has P1.6B in unliquidated cash advances
By Christian V. Esguerra
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 02:11:00 09/25/2008
MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine Army still has to account for almost P1.6 billion in unliquidated cash advances since 2003, according to party-list representative Satur Ocampo, citing the Commission on Audit.
Palace: What humanitarian crisis?
By Christine Avendaño
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 02:12:00 09/25/2008
MANILA, Philippines—What humanitarian crisis? No such thing in Mindanao.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita Wednesday insisted the government had resources to deal with over 500,000 people affected by the raging conflict in Central Mindanao and did not need help from international aid agencies.
Palace blames inflation for travel budget hike
By Michael Lim Ubac
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:48:00 09/25/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Malacañang has an additional P1 billion allocation in its proposed travel expense budget for 2009 to account for inflation and the rising cost of domestic and international trips, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita explained Wednesday.
SPECIAL REPORT
Aid workers see anger in the hungry
By Fernando del Mundo
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:49:00 09/25/2008
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'I saw my grandkids die in air strike'
Zayda yearns for peace, says war taking too long
500,000 evacuees need food aid
GUINDULUNGAN, MAGUINDANAO—As a humanitarian worker, it isn’t often that Norayda Karim, 38, finds herself in a potentially explosive situation.
The distressed people she has helped are generally appreciative.
But for one tense hour last week, she faced an agitated crowd of internally displaced people (IDPs)—those forced to flee their homes in the current fighting between government forces and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
Janjalani brothers raked in millions but pa dies poor
By Julie Alipala
Mindanao Bureau
First Posted 04:50:00 09/25/2008
ZAMBOANGA CITY—His sons in the Abu Sayyaf had made millions of dollars from kidnappings, but Abubakar Janjalani died a poor man at 79.
The Janjalani patriarch, whose sons Abdurajak, Hector and Khadaffy became notorious for their involvement in high-profile kidnappings, died from a lingering illness inside his dilapidated shanty in Tabuk village in Isabela City on Tuesday.
Rescuers inch closer to miners
By Vincent Cabreza, Elmer Kristian Dauigoy
Northern Luzon Bureau
First Posted 04:51:00 09/25/2008
ITOGON, BENGUET—Rescue teams Wednesday braved mud and water and inched closer to 14 miners trapped in an old mine tunnel at the height of Typhoon “Nina” (international codename: Hagupit).
World leaders seek unity to fight financial crisis
Thursday, September 25, 2008
UNITED NATIONS – World leaders called Tuesday for international action to stem the financial crisis, urging cooperative solutions over US steps to counter a credit crunch that has spilled outside US borders to engulf global markets.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080924146
GMA at UN: RP can’t do it alone
By Paolo Romero
Thursday, September 25, 2008
President Arroyo sought yesterday closer international cooperation in addressing the global economic slowdown, saying the Philippines and other developing economies “cannot do it alone.”
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080924147
Amid slowdown, RP won’t need IMF intervention
By Des Ferriols
Thursday, September 25, 2008
The Philippines will survive the global slowdown without seeking intervention from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) even if oil prices were to return to record 2008 levels next year.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080924148
Bread prices to go up this week
By Ma. Elisa Osorio
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Prices of bread products are scheduled to increase any time this week despite pronouncements of millers to roll back the price of flour.
Lucito Chavez, vice president of the Philippine Association of Bakers, said the price of loaf bread is expected to go up by P1 and the size of the breakfast favorite pan de sal would likely shrink.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080924149
DPWH welcomes ‘insertion’ probe
By Evelyn Macairan
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Officials of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) expressed readiness yesterday to face any investigation into the alleged P11.5-billion “insertion” in public works projects.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080924150
US House OKs veterans bill
Thursday, September 25, 2008
WASHINGTON – The US House of Representatives passed legislation Tuesday to reward more than 18,000 Filipinos belatedly for their service with US forces in the Philippines during World War II.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080924151
12 countries ban Chinese dairy as scandal fans fears of imports
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Further tarnishing the reputation of the “Made in China” label, at least 12 countries – as far away as Kenya – have banned Chinese dairy imports in response to a widening tainted milk scandal that has claimed the lives of four Chinese babies.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080924153
DOH orders hospitals to monitor kidney consultations
By Sheila Crisostomo
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III has ordered government hospitals to check whether children who have kidney ailments were exposed to contaminated milk products from China.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080924152
DA suspends funding to NGOs
Thursday, September 25, 2008
The Department of Agriculture has suspended fund releases to private beneficiaries such as non-government organizations (NGOs) and people’s organizations (POs) pending the DA investigation into the issues raised by the Commission on Audit (COA) with regard to last year’s implementation of certain food security programs.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080924155
RP’s all-time low in corruption rating a wake-up call, Palace admits
By Paolo Romero
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Malacañang admitted the drop in the Philippines’ corruption rating in the latest Transparency International (TI) survey was a wake-up call for the administration.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080924154
Absentee voters can register from Dec. 1 to Aug. 31
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Filipinos overseas can register from Dec. 1, 2008 to Aug. 31, 2009 to enable them to vote in the 2010 general elections.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) issued Resolution 8458 allowing overseas absentee voters to exercise their rights of suffrage and instructions on how to cast their votes from abroad.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080924156
Jamby, Ping still at it
By Aurea Calica and Christina Mendez
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Senators Jamby Madrigal and Panfilo Lacson continued yesterday their tirades against Senate President Manuel Villar Jr. over the alleged double entry for the same stretch of C-5 Road Extension in the 2008 national budget.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080924157
Gov’t doctors, nurses to get pay hike once 2009 budget bill OK’d
By Delon Porcalla
Thursday, September 25, 2008
The government has allocated P20 billion to cover salary increases of all state workers, especially nurses and doctors, Budget Secretary Rolando Andaya Jr. said yesterday.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080924158
Arrest of drug couriers highlights security lapses at NAIA
By Edu Punay
Thursday, September 25, 2008
The arrest this month of two Filipinos caught smuggling heroin into China has put the spotlight on security lapses at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080924159
Massive PNP revamp looms
By Cecille Suerte Felipe
Thursday, September 25, 2008
A massive revamp in the national police force looms as Deputy Director General Jesus Verzosa takes over the helm as chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP).
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080924160
Thursday, September 25 2008
Villar attackers staging a media play – Cayetano
The critics of Senate President Manuel Villar are staging a media play, Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano said Wednesday after Sen. Jamby Madrigal hogged the day’s session with a lengthy speech on the Circumferential Road-5 extension project that had already been referred to the Senate Committee on Finance for investigation.
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/sep/25/yehey/metro/20080925met2.html
Thursday, September 25 2008
Senate probe powers now in limbo
The Senate’s power to investigate is now in limbo because of the chamber’s failure to publish its rules in accordance with a Supreme Court ruling, Sen. Mar Roxas said Wednesday.
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/sep/25/yehey/metro/20080925met4.html
Take corruption survey report seriously, bishop tells gov’t
By ANGIE CHUI
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) Public Affairs Committee head Bishop Deogracias Iñiguez yesterday said the dismal ranking of the Philippines in the Transparency International (TI) report was depressing at best, and urged officials to take the matter seriously.
http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN20080925136178.html
Senate coup won’t prosper — senators
Hannah L. Torregoza
Senators yesterday said any plan to unseat Senate President Manuel B. Villar Jr. will not prosper because those who are opposing the leadership of the Senate do not have the numbers to mount a coup.
http://www.mb.com.ph/MTNN20080925136192.html
Tatak corruption sa RP ‘di nakakagulat
(Rey Marfil/Boyet Jadulco/Nilo Marasigan/Bernard Taguinod)
Hindi ikinagulat ng mga miyembro ng Senado ang paglala ng corruption sa Pilipinas, sa ilalim ng administrasyon ni Pangulong Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, katulad ng lumabas sa pag-aaral ng Transparency International.
http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/sep2508/news_story3.htm
Sulat ni Villar ebidensya sa tongpats
(Rey Marfil/Boyet Jadulco)
Isa umanong sulat ni Senate President Manuel Villar Jr., ang magdidiin at magsisilbing ebidensya sa P200 milyong double insertion sa C-5 Road project, ayon na rin mismo kay opposition Sen. Panfilo ‘Ping’ Lacson.
http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/sep2508/news_story5.htm
Lacson ‘ninong’ sa kasal ni Noynoy
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Naging sentro kahapon ng kantiyawan sa Senado ang umano’y planong pagpapakasal ni Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino Jr. dahil sa napapabalitang bagong girlfriend nito.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Bansa&p=50&type=2&sec=54&aid=2008092470
Lacson to Villar: Quit!
By: Jeffrey C. Tiangco
SENATOR Panfilo Lacson urged Senate President Manuel Villar Jr. to step down in the wake of budget insertion controversy that apparently prompted the latter to skip attending the session leaving the senate as “leaderless.”
http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-09-25&sec=4&aid=73880
Jamby: Villar got P400-M from C5 project
By: Paul M. Gutierrez
SENATE President Manuel Villar earned more than P414 million from the sale of lands and right of way for the construction of the C5 road, Sen. Jamby Madrigal said yesterday.
http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-09-25&sec=4&aid=73899
Two foreign-funded infrastructure projects incurred cost overruns, says NEDA
TWO FOREIGN-FUNDED projects have substantially exceeded their projected costs, according to the project monitoring of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), but concerned agencies said there was nothing irregular in the additional expenses.
http://www.bworldonline.com/BW092508/content.php?id=074
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