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I. BANNER STORIES
Arroyo scraps peace panel
Says she won’t sign MOA at gunpoint
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:45:00 09/04/2008
MANILA, Philippines—President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has ended 11 years of peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), dissolving the government panel of negotiators and declaring that her administration cannot be forced to sign a deal on an expanded Bangsamoro homeland at gunpoint.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080904-158542/Arroyo-scraps-peace-panel
GMA dissolves gov’t peace panel
By Edith Regalado
Thursday, September 4, 2008
President Arroyo has disbanded the government panel negotiating with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) following the controversy over the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) that was supposed to be forged with the separatist rebels.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080903112
3. Manila Times
Thursday, September 04. 2008
Palace dissolves GRP panel
Esperon lost credibility–lawmakers
In a major shift in policy, President Gloria Arroyo announced on Wednesday that she was dissolving the government peace panel seeking to end in particular a festering Muslim rebellion in southern Mindanao.
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/sep/04/yehey/top_stories/20080904top1.html
4. Malaya
Peace panel dissolved
Palace parries charge team members are scapegoats
BY WENDELL VIGILIA and VICTOR REYES
PRESIDENT Arroyo has dissolved the government peace panel with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front after legal issues hounding the memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain mired the peace negotiations with the secessionist rebels, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said yesterday.
http://www.malaya.com.ph/sep04/news1.htm
Peace panel with MILF dissolved
To be replaced with new peace panel when rebels show sincerity
By DAVID CAGAHASTIAN
President Arroyo dissolved yesterday the government’s peace panel negotiating with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), saying she would replace it with a new panel when the MILF rebels show sincerity in pursuing the talks.
http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN20080904134206.html
7. Abante
DOJ: JOCJOC HINDI DADAMPUTIN!
Nina ERALYN PRADO, REY MARFIL at ROSE MIRANDA
Hindi aarestuhin si da-ting Agriculture Sec. Jocelyn ‘JocJoc’ Bolante sa napipintong pagbabalik nito sa Pilipinas dahil wala namang rason at basehan para gawin ito.
Ito ang nilinaw kahapon ni Justice Sec. Raul Gonzalez kaugnay ng muling pag-ugong ng pagbabalik-Pilipinas ni Bolante matapos na pinal na ibasura ang inihain nitong petition for political asylum sa Estados Unidos.
http://www.abante.com.ph/issue/sep0408/default.htm
KILLER HUSBAND LUMAKLAK NG ZONROX
Ni Juliet de Loza
Sa kagustuhang matakasan ang nakaambang parusa sa ginawang pagpatay sa asawa noong Linggo, naisipang mag-suicide ng isang janitor sa pamamagitan ng pagtungga ng zonrox, isang uri ng kemikal na gamit na pang-alis ng mantsa ng labahin, kahapon sa Sta. Cruz, Manila.
Ganunpaman, nabigong mamatay ang suspek na si Noel Peralta, nasa hustong gulang dahil agad itong nasagip ng mga aarestong pulis na sina P03s Jay Santos at Jonathan Ruiz sa harap ng isang gasolinahan sa kanto ng Rizal Ave., at Pampanga St., sa nabanggit na lungsod, dakong alas-siyete ng umaga at isinugod sa Jose Reyes Memorial Medical Center(JRMMC) bago tuluyang dinala sa MPD-Headquarters.
http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/sep0408/news_story1.htm
Peace panel binuwag
Nina Rudy Andal, Joy Cantos at Doris Franche
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Matapos pumalpak sa pinasok na kasunduan sa Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), tuluyan nang binuwag ni Pangulong Arroyo ang GRP peace panel na pinamumunuan ni (ret.) Gen. Rodolfo Garcia.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Bansa&p=50&type=2&sec=54&aid=20080903135
10. Journal
SCRAPPED
By: Tess Bedico
Peace panel dissolved as gov’t tries new tack
NOT only will the government no longer sign the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, it has dissolved its panel negotiating peace with the MILF.
http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-09-04&sec=1&aid=71895
11. Business World
Katas ng VAT out next year
Lower oil prices to prevent gov’t from funding pro-poor initiatives
SUBSIDIES AND OTHER PRO-POOR initiatives under the Katas ng VAT program will be discontinued next year under the assumption that world oil prices will go down, the government yesterday said.
http://bworldonline.com/BW090408/content.php?id=001
12. Business Mirror
‘GDP formula prone to error’
By Cai U. Ordinario
Reporter
THE government must seriously consider adopting a new method of computing for the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) if it wants to avoid casting doubt on economic data produced through a method that is prone to “cheating” and anomalies, according to a visiting senior fellow of state-owned Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS).
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/09042008/headlines01.html
II. POLITICAL
Batanes governor survives ambush
By DJ Yap, Beverly T. Natividad
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:41:00 09/04/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Batanes Gov. Telesforo Castillejos and his driver were shot and seriously wounded in a pre-dawn attack by unidentified men Wednesday while they were on their way to the Manila Domestic Airport in Pasay City.
RAMON MAGSAYSAY AWARDEE
Sri Lankan cited for services to disaster survivors
By Ma. Ceres P. Doyo
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:55:00 09/04/2008
MANILA, Philippines— For some time he entertained the thought that he might have been a victim of a hoax.
When 33-year-old Ananda Galappatti of Sri Lanka received a phone call in July and was told that he won the 2008 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership, he couldn’t believe what he heard.
Solons divided on Bolante; old issue, says DoJ
By Leila Salaverria, Edson C. Tandoc Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 03:38:00 09/04/2008
MANILA, Philippines—An old issue, the Department of Justice secretary Wednesday said of former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn Bolante and his alleged fertilizer fund scam.
Aid agencies accuse military of mounting food blockades
By Jeoffrey Maitem, Grace Cantal-Albasin
Mindanao Bureau
First Posted 03:41:00 09/04/2008
KORONADAL CITY—Local aid agencies have accused the military of mounting “food blockades” and depriving displaced people of urgently needed relief assistance.
Proposed budget for 2009 is election ‘war chest’ -- Golez
By Christian V. Esguerra
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:34:00 09/04/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Minority House members on Wednesday expressed alarm over the P188.3-billion increase in the proposed budget for 2009, saying they feared the amount would go to the administration’s “political war chest” for the 2010 elections.
Noynoy Aquino tells Joker Arroyo off
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 04:35:00 09/04/2008
MANILA, Philippines—A case of a junior rebelling against his better?
Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III was left fuming after an encounter Wednesday with the elderly Sen. Joker Arroyo, the lawyer and good friend of his father, the martyred opposition leader Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr., and one of the most loyal advisers and officials of his mother, President Corazon Aquino.
Editor’s libel conviction affirmed
By DJ Yap
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 05:21:00 09/04/2008
MANILA, Philippines—A Makati judge has dismissed a motion for reconsideration filed by Tribune publisher Ninez Cacho-Olivares, affirming her libel conviction for her reports about the purported corrupt practices of a top law firm.
Incumbent lawmakers can’t get pay hike either
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 05:21:00 09/04/2008
MANILA, Philippines—When will the country’s lawmakers get their salary increases under the executive branch’s proposed third edition of the Salary Standardization Law?
Union doubts competence of MARINA OIC
By Riza T. Olchondra
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 05:22:00 09/04/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Employees of the Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) have raised questions regarding the qualifications of their new officer in charge, transportation undersecretary Elena Bautista.
Palace unfazed by CHR report on Peninsula siege
By Michael Lim Ubac
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 05:47:00 09/04/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Malacañang appeared unfazed by charges that police had violated human rights when it handcuffed and arrested journalists who had covered the siege of the Manila Peninsula hotel by rebel soldiers on Nov. 30, 2007.
Fish for knowledge and win prizes in writing, art contests
By Chelo Banal-Formoso
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 05:48:00 09/04/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Young readers, not to mention the young-at-heart, are in for a treat within the pages of the Philippine Daily Inquirer in the next eight weeks.
MILF’s Kato faces terror raps
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Commander Ameril Umbra Kato, whose men pillaged a dozen barangays in Cotabato province last month, will be charged in court with the crime of terrorism as defined under the Human Security Act.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080903113
Batanes gov survives ambush in Pasay
By Rhodina Villanueva
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Batanes Gov. Telesforo Castillejos and his driver were shot and wounded in a pre-dawn attack by unidentified men in Pasay City yesterday.
Gunmen opened fire at Castillejos while he was in a Mitsubishi Pajero with his driver Albert Patimo at the tollgate of South Luzon Expressway in Merville Subdivision, police said.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080903114
UNO to consult public on Cha-cha
By Michael Punongbayan
Thursday, September 4, 2008
The United Opposition (UNO) plans to conduct its own public consultation on the issue of amending the Constitution.
“We fear that we will see a rehash of the spurious people’s initiative campaign undertaken by President Arroyo’s political operators in 2006,” Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay, UNO president, said yesterday.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080903116
Power rates up this month
By Donnabelle Gatdula
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Customers of Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) will pay an additional 2.45 centavos per kilowatt-hour (kWh) starting this month after the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) granted a provisional authority for the utility firm to recoup P1.96 billion worth of under-recoveries incurred from August 2006 to May 2007.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080903117
DOJ: No charges mean no arrest for Bolante
By Mike Frialde
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Former agriculture undersecretary Jocelyn “Jocjoc” Bolante is not facing arrest on his possible deportation from the United States since there are no charges filed against him, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said yesterday.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080903118
‘JDV’s idea of new coalition with Villar all his own’
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Speaker Prospero Nograles rejected yesterday the concept of his predecessor Jose de Venecia Jr. to coalesce their dominant Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats party with the Nacionalista Party of Senate President Manny Villar.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080903119
Pichay takes LWUA post, Manalili gets POEA
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Former lawmaker Prospero Pichay has finally accepted the post of board member of the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA), Malacañang said yesterday.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080903120
Group demands P7 rollback in oil prices
Thursday, September 4, 2008
The militant Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) yesterday demanded oil companies to roll back pump prices by at least P7 per liter as world crude prices steadily decrease.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080903121
Senators likely to pass bill scrapping 12% VAT on systems losses
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Senators Edgardo Angara, Panfilo Lacson, Aquilino Pimentel Jr. and Pia Cayetano welcomed the proposal of their counterparts at the House of Representatives to remove the 12-percent value added tax (VAT) from systems losses and lifeline subsidies.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080903122
Yano tells troops: Brace for MILF all-out war
By Edith Regalado
Thursday, September 4, 2008
DAVAO CITY – The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is now bracing for an all-out war against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) after the government decided to cancel the proposed Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD).
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080903123
PMA amends code to prohibit doctors from endorsing products
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Alarmed over the number of doctors endorsing food supplements and personal care products, the Philippine Medical Association (PMA) has amended its Code of Ethics to prohibit this practice.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080903125
GMA scraps trip to US
By Paolo Romero
Thursday, September 4, 2008
President Arroyo will not push through with her scheduled trip to the United States later this month owing to continued fighting in Mindanao between government troops and Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebels and other security concerns in the region.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080903126
GMA seeks 3 new tax measures to back proposed 2009 budget
Thursday, September 4, 2008
President Arroyo is asking Congress to pass three revenue bills that would infuse P25 billion into the national treasury and boost next year’s proposed national budget of P1.415 trillion.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080903145
‘Reopening of Erap plunder case impossible’
By Edu Punay
Thursday, September 4, 2008
There is no way deposed President Joseph Estrada would get his wish of clearing his name through a re-trial of his plunder case even with an ally sitting as president in 2010, administration lawyer Romulo Macalintal said yesterday.
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080903146
DSWD provides burial assistance to Mang Pandoy’s family
Thursday, September 4, 2008
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has provided burial assistance to the family of the late Felipe Natanio, popularly known as “Mang Pandoy.”
http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Headlines&p=49&type=2&sec=24&aid=20080903147
Congress seeks strict regulation of bottled water
A lawmaker filed a measure before the House of Representatives that will establish the quality standards for mineral, carbonated and bottled water, to see it that such products are safe for human consumption.
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/sep/04/yehey/metro/20080904met6.html
Gov’t allots P3.23 B for full automation of elections in 2010
By EDMER PANESA and E. T. SUAREZ
The government is allocating P3.23 billion for the Commission on Elections (Comelec) next year to finance the planned full automation of the 2010 polls, Budget Secretary Rolando G. Andaya Jr. said yesterday.
http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN20080904134209.html
‘Pacquiao, ’di puwedeng kumandidatong senador’
By: Ryan Ponce Pacpaco
PINAWI kahapon ng isang kongresista ang pangamba ng “worried fans” ng 29 taong gulang na si people’s champion Manny ‘Pacman’ Pacquiao na mapapahamak ang boksingero kung tatakbong senador dahil hindi naman ito kuwali-pikadong kandidato sa Se-nado sa ilalim ng Konstitus-yon.
http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-09-04&sec=4&aid=71893
Lakas under Nograles open to options for president
By: Raul S. Beltran
LAKAS-CMD, under the presidency of Speaker Prospero Nograles Jr., is open to all “options and possibilities” in the 2010 national elections as it has not yet made a definite decision on whom it will field as standard-bearer, the House leader said yesterday.
http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-09-04&sec=4&aid=71903
JDV pinitik sa maagang pagporma
(Rey Marfil/Bernard Taguinod)
Pinitik kahapon ni Sen. Francis ‘Chiz’ Escudero si dating House Speaker Jose De Venecia Jr., dahil sa maagang pagporma sa pulitika katulad ang pagpapalutang sa mga tambalan at susuportahang presidentiable ng kanyang organisasyon sa 2010 national election.http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/sep0408/news_story5.htm
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