La Midweek Edition -- May 18 -- 20, 2016

MANILA ndash Vice presidential candidates Rep Leni Robredo and Sen Ferdinand ldquoBongbongrdquo Marcos Jr were advised to wait for the official proclamation of the National Board of Canvassers (NBOC) instead of claiming that they both won the vice presiden-

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DATELINEUSAFROM the AJPReSS NEWS TEAM AcroSS AMEricA

DUTERTErsquoS VISITORS Presumptive President-elect Rodrigo Duterte with former Senate President Manny Villar wife Sen Cynthia Villar son Rep Mark Villar and brother Jojo Villar in Davao City as the Villarsrsquo Nacionalista Party joins PDP-Laban in the so-called Coalition of Change Also in photo are PDP-Laban president Sen Koko Pimentel Dutertersquos running mate Sen Alan Peter Cayetano former Transportation Secretary Pantaleon Alvarez former Manila International Airport Authority chief Alfonso Cusi and chief aide Bong Go Inquirernet photo by Marianne Bermudez

DAVAO CItY mdash At first blush Rodrigo Dutertersquos choices for prime positions in his First Family arenrsquot any different from the mold of that of his predecessor

Key posts are reserved for classmates and aides who have served Duterte as mayor of Davao City for two decades in the same mold of President Aquinorsquos KKK crowdmdashkaibigan kaklase kabarilan

the presumptive President-elect announced on Mon-day May 16 some names that would compose his Cabi-net at his first news conference since the elections last week gave him a record mandate to rule the nation for the next six years

Duterte said he had offered the finance portfolio to his childhood friend and class valedictorian Carlos ldquoSon-nyrdquo Dominguez III who served as agriculture secretary under President Cory Aquino

he said he wanted Arthur tugade his classmate at San Beda law school as transportation secretary tugade previously headed Clark Development Corp

Duterte said he offered the position of secretary of justice or foreign affairs to his running mate Sen Alan Peter Cayetano but he can assume either position after the one-year ban on appointment of losing candidates

Former Securities and exchange Commission Chair

Duterte names possible cabinet members

FILIPINOS who smoke and drink alco-hol as well as 17-year-olds or younger who love to party until the wee hours of the morning may have to make some adjust-ments in their lifestyle under the incoming administration

In an interview in Davao City Sunday night presumptive President-elect Rodrigo Duterte vowed to implement a nationwide curfew smoking and liquor ban to protect the welfare of the general populace

Just like in Davao City Duterte told re-porters he would set a 10 pm curfew for

unaccompanied minorshe then vowed to order the police to ar-

rest the parents for letting their children below the majority age of 18 to be out by themselves beyond the imposed curfew

ldquoMy order is this not to arrest the child the minorrdquo Duterte said adding that after placing the child into the custody of con-cerned agencies the police would then ar-rest the parents

Duterte cited the Revised Penal Code as his basis for arresting parents found al-lowing their underage children roam the streets during ungodly hours

Aside from the nationwide curfew

Duterte to implement curfew liquor ban no-smoking policy

Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) national chairperson Henrietta de Villa branded as ldquopsywarrdquo the early victory pronouncements of vice presidential candidates Rep Leni Robredo and Sen Ferdinand ldquoBongbongrdquo Marcos Jr Philstarcom Efigenio Toledo IV

Robredo Marcos urged to wait for official canvass

tial raceParish Pastoral Council for

Responsible Voting (PPCRV) na-tional chairperson henrietta de Villa branded as ldquopsywarrdquo the early victory pronouncements of Robredo and Marcos

Over the weekend the camps of Marcos and Robredo report-edly made separate announce-

OFFICIALS of poll technology provider Smartmatic on tuesday May 17 said it was staying put in the country to face any probe of the supposedly unsanctioned change in the data packet for a transparency server that fueled suspicions of fraud in the tally of votes especially for the tight vice presidential race

Smartmatic spokesperson Karen Jimeno said officials of the

Smartmatic Project Director and General Manager Elie Moreno listens as Project Manager Marlon Garcia explains how they change the script during press conference in Commission on Election Headquarters Philippine International Conventionn Center Pasay City Inquirer photo Richard A Reyes

Smartmatic execs ready to face probe

SeN Cynthia Villar was richer by over P15 billion in 2015 than the previous year with no liability at that allowing her to keep the distinction of being the wealthiest lawmaker in the 24-member Senate

Villar is the only billionaire in the Senateher net worth rose 77 percent to P35 billion as of

Dec 31 2015 from P1983 billion in 2014 accord-ing to her statement of assets liabilities and net worth (SALN)

She said her husband former Senate President Manuel Villar Jr chair of listed property firm Vista-land and Lifescapes Inc knew why they were P15 billion richer last year

Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food Chairperson Senator Cynthia Villar Inquirer photo Nino Jesus Orbeta

Villar is richest member of Senate

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A NeW comprehensive report examining Los Angeles Countyrsquos park needs revealed that nearly half of residents live more than half a mile away from a park the report comes as funding for County parks nears expiration in 2019

ldquoI donrsquot believe this type of needs assess-ment has ever been attempted anywhere in the country beforerdquo said Rita Robinson di-rector of the Los Angeles Countywide Parks amp Recreation Needs Assessment effort in a statement ldquothe wealth of data that we have accumulated and the feedback we have re-ceived from every community in the county will allow us to capitalize on future funding opportunities to expand our recreational and park resourcesrdquo

the LA County Board of Supervisors or-dered the parks-need assessment in February

Measures introduced to continue funding for LA County parks

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LOS ANGeLeS mdash thousands of low-in-come children in California regardless of their immigration status are now eligible for full-scope Medi-Cal coverage beginning this week

the health care expansion known as ldquohealth for All Kidsrdquo was rolled out on Mon-day May 16 and will benefit approximately 250000 children under 19 years old

An estimated 185000 undocumented chil-dren are expected to enroll this year

ldquoIt is sad that children mdash until Monday that is mdash had to worry about hospital bills instead of their gradesrdquo state Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) said during a press confer-ence on Friday May 13 at the eisner Pediatric amp Family Medical Center

Lara authored Senate Bill 4 which en-sures that undocumented children enrolled

Undocumented children in Calif now eligible for health care

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From the Front Page

COMING HOME Jose Maria Sison founding chair of the Communist Party of the Philippines is expected to return to the Philippines under a Duterte presidency after nearly 30 years of exile in The Netherlands Inquirernet photo

Perfecto Yasay would be foreign secretary in an acting capacity for a year although Yasay said he was currently handling class-es in a US university according to Duterte

Salvador Medialdea a lawyer and member of the transition committee has been offered the post of executive secretary Duterte said

Duterte said lawyer Salvador Panelo would take charge of the press as his spokesperson

For education secretary Duterte said he had chosen Peter Laurel the president of Lyceum of the Philippines University Laurelrsquos father was former Sen Sotero Laurel a brother of the late Vice President Salvador Laurel

Top public servantDuterte was also expected to

meet with former Defense Secre-tary Gilbert Teodoro Jr whose name was recently floated as among the choices for secretary of national defense Duterte has spo-ken highly of Teodoro even calling

him a top public servant Teodoro ran for President in 2010

On Sunday Duterte met with three former Davao City po-lice chiefs who were reportedly among those considered to be-come the next Philippine Nation-al Police director general under his administration

PNP Director General Ricardo Marquez has said he would sub-mit his courtesy resignation upon Dutertersquos assumption of office to give the new President a freehand in choosing the next police chief

Present at the dinner-meet-ing held at Hotel Elena was the Southern Luzon Command chief Lt Gen Ricardo Visaya whom Duterte said was being consid-ered as the next Armed Forces chief of staff

It was still not clear whom Duterte would pick between Se-nior Supt Rene Aspera Chief Supt Ramon Apolinario and Chief Supt Ronald dela Rosa as replacement for Marquez

But this early Dela Rosa ap-pears to be on top of the choices

HardworkingDela Rosa who was city po-

lice chief from 2011 to 2013 is a member of Class 1986 of the Phil-ippine Military Academy (PMA) and is known to be hardworking

He was largely credited for the drastic reduction in the volume of ldquoshaburdquo (methamphetamine hy-drochloride) in the city when he implemented Oplan ldquoTukhangrdquo (Tuktok-Hangyo) which saw po-lice authorities knocking on the doors of suspected drug pushers and asking them to stop

Aspera a member of PMA Class 1987 was Dela Rosarsquos im-mediate predecessor Under his command the city police reaped awards including best police of-fice under the city category

Apolinario a member of PMA Class 1985 was the city police director when authorities discov-ered 16-kilograms of high-grade cocaine in a container yard here in December 2009 Apolinario is currently police director of Mi-maropa and will be retiring on Aug 31 2018 n

Duterte names possible cabinethellipPAGE A1 t

Duterte to implement curfew liquor banhellipDuterte said he is also going to im-plement a liquor ban and no-smok-ing policy all over the country

He said the sale of alcohol could be prohibited as early as 10 pm

ldquoWe need legislation for that The Congress can give it to me helliprdquo Duterte stressed

Asked whether 10 pm was too early the tough-talking mayor said ldquoYou have the whole day [para bumili] ng isang truck ng beer (to buy a truck of beer)rdquo

He was quick to point out however that the liquor ban will start from 2 am

For the past 14 years Davao

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ments of victoryldquoThat is their strategy or their

psywar (psychological warfare) But if I am the one I caution both parties from claiming victory un-til it is pronounced Let us wait (for the official announcement of the NBOC) after all it would not be longrdquo said De Villa

Robredo earlier said she is leading by 257000 and even if she gets zero votes in the remain-ing nine towns she would still win the vice presidential race

Marcos on the other hand expressed optimism that he had won because of the support giv-en to him by the Filipino voters based abroad He reportedly got

176669 votes from the overseas Filipino voters (OAV) while Ro-bredo only received 89935

As of 245 pm on Monday May 16 the PPCRV electronic board showed that Robredo had 14022843 votes com-pared to Marcos who garnered 13803797 or a difference of 219046 votes

At that time only results from 90632 clustered precincts had been transmitted or 9613 percent out of 92509 local precincts and 1767 precincts from the OAV

De Villa said she does not know where both camps got their data ldquoI donrsquot want to say that they have the wrong computation Maybe they might have some computa-

tion different from us but what I would say is that what we receive (from the Comelec transparency server) is where we base our computationsrdquo

Vice presidential also-ran Sen Antonio Trillanes IV also advised Robredo and Marcos to just wait for the NBOC to complete their work and proclaim the winner

Trillanes said that the race between the two is too close to call

ldquoUltimately it is during the na-tional board of canvassers that we will see the truth because both parties can claim that they have won or one would claim that he has been cheatedrdquo he said

Robredo Marcos urged to wait forhellip

City has imposed a ban on the sale of liquors at 1 am

Duterte said he would also ban smoking in enclosed public ar-eas nationwide with ldquosmoking roomrdquo to be prohibited

Smoking will only be allowed on the street 50 meters away from establishments he added

Davao City has been imple-menting an anti-smoking ordi-nance since 2002

It may be recalled that toward the end of his campaign for the presidency Duterte had said in jest that he might give smokers two days to adjust before ban-ning smoking in public areas na-tionwide nMayor Rody Duterte

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SWEET CORN PRODUCTION TRAINING A visibly elated Senator Cynthia A Villar checks on the healthy corn produce as she confers with Syngenta Philippines Corporate Affairs Head Noel Borlongan (in blue shirt) and the companyrsquos Regional Training Manager Melanio Lardizabal (in pink shirt) on various aspects of corn production The Villar SIPAG (Social Institute for Poverty Alleviation and Governance) has partnered with Syngenta known not only in the Philippines but in other countries abroad in providing training and updates on producing corn to farmers and other stakeholders in the corn industry Senate photo

Venezuelan firm respected the move by Commissioner Rowena Guanzon of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to seek a hold-departure memorandum against Smartmatic executives but noted that such order was unnecessary

ldquoThey intend to fully cooper-ate with whatever investigation that the Comelec or any politi-cal party calls for They have no intention of leaving the country So itrsquos really unnecessary to [is-sue a memo]rdquo Jimeno said in an interview with reporters

On Friday Guanzon berated Smartmatic for breaching proto-col saying its actions which had no consent from the Comelec en banc warranted a formal inves-tigation

She also formally asked the full commission to prevent officials of the firm from leaving the country pending an investigation

ldquoSmartmatic is willing to par-ticipate and cooperate in what-ever investigation and whatever is necessary Whatrsquos really im-portant here is transparency and credibility of electionsrdquo Jimeno said

Typographical errorBut she said that before anyone

could allege a breach of protocol

it must be determined whether there was a protocol for making a minor correction like changing a typographical error

ldquoI think whatrsquos important here is first to look at whether there was a protocol for a minor change like the correction of a typographical error and what the protocol is Where is it contained and to determine if there is a breach and what the penalties arerdquo Jimeno said

Smartmatic project manager Marlon Garcia who was respon-sible for the adjustment ear-lier explained that the new script merely substituted the ldquordquo that appeared in the names of certain candidates with ldquoNtilderdquo

He said that a file system in English could not recognize or understand what the Spanish special character meant

Garcia also said the minor ad-justment caused the hash code to change but stressed that this was separate from the hash codes of the vote-counting machine the automated election system and other applications

ldquoBefore we make accusations we look at the facts First there would have not been a change if not for also a member of the Comelec putting in the pass-wordrdquo said Jimeno the head of

Smartmatic votersrsquo education committee

Probe setldquoOn the day the typographical

error was corrected a Comelec information technology depart-ment officer was also present and in fact it was the Comelec officer who typed in the pass-word in order for Smartmatic to make the changerdquo she added

In a separate interview Guan-zon on Tuesday said the formal investigation would begin early next week

ldquoIt should start after the procla-mation [of senators and party-list groups] Let us just give the di-rectors a few days to rest before they start with the investigationrdquo she said

She said the investigating com-mittee was looking to wrap up the probe in 15 days ldquofor speedy administration of justicerdquo

On Tuesday Guanzon repri-manded Garcia for an ldquounauthor-izedrdquo change in the transparency server during an encounter at the Philippine International Conven-tion Center (PICC) in Pasay City where the canvassing of votes for senators and party-list races is being held

ldquoWhile I was in d dining room Smartmaticrsquos Garcia approached

Smartmatic execs ready to facehellipPAGE A1 t

In a phone patch interview with reporters covering the Senate she said her SALN also reflected her husbandrsquos income and properties

The Villarsrsquo wealth is tied to the booming property busi-nessmdashfrom subdivisions high-rise condominiums and malls to convenience and home-building stores and coffee shops

The senatorrsquos son Las Pintildeas Rep Mark Villar has been named incoming public works secretary by presumptive President-elect Rodrigo Duterte whose PDP-La-ban has formed an alliance with the Villarsrsquo Nacionalista Party in the so-called Coalition for Change

PoorestThe ldquopoorestrdquo among the sen-

ators was Sen Chiz Escudero with a net worth of P5847 mil-lion based on his SALN

The Senate released on Tues-day copies of the SALNs of sena-tors who had until April 30 to submit their latest SALNs to the chamber

Escuderorsquos net worth in 2015 was P130000 less than the P5984 million Sen Sonny Trillanes the ldquopoorestrdquo senator in 2014

Trailing Villar with a net worth of P53167 million was Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto

He was followed by Senators Ferdinand Marcos Jr (P211 mil-lion) Jinggoy Estrada (P19316 million) Bong Revilla (P1733 million) Juan Ponce Enrile

(P1221 million) Sonny Angara (P11825 million) and TG Guin-gona (P10388 million)

The ninth richest senator was Serge Osmentildea whose net worth was P90525 million

He was followed by Senators Grace Poe (P891 million) Mir-iam Defensor Santiago (P859 million) Senate President Frank Drilon (P79 million) JV Ejercito (P786 million) Pia Cayetano (P733 million) Tito Sotto (P668 million) Nancy Binay (P613 mil-lion) Lito Lapid (P4315 million) Loren Legarda (P40545 million) Bam Aquino (P28751 million) Senate Majority Leader Alan Pe-ter Cayetano (P23564 million) Gringo Honasan (P20944 mil-lion) and Koko Pimentel (P17920 million) n

Villar is richest member ofhellipPAGE A1 t

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Trillanes said that he under-stood how the two candidates are both claiming victory since they have their respective monitoring and tally of the results coming in from the Comelec server

ldquoIt is possible that based on their respective count they are winning But of course that all means nothing because it is not yet officialrdquo he said

Zero vote possible Meanwhile the camp of Ro-

bredo claimed yesterday that it is possible for a candidate to get zero votes in a polling precinct as proven when Marcos bagged all the votes in 18 precincts in last weekrsquos polls

Robredorsquos lawyer Romulo Ma-calintal said that based on their tally Marcos got all the votes in 18 clustered precincts

ldquoAll the 6828 or 100 percent of the votes (were) for Marcos and zero vote for Robredo and other candidates This only shows that having a zero vote as claimed by Senator Marcos is very much possiblerdquo he told reporters at the

canvassing center of the Com-mission on Elections at the Phil-ippine International Convention Center in Pasay City

The 18 precincts are Baran-gay Langil Basilan (563) San Praxedes Cagayan (63) New Era Dasmarintildeas City (672) New Era Dasmarintildeas City (714) Macupit Elementary School Ilocos Norte (364) Pias-Gaang Pias Ilocos Norte (105) Apatut-Lubong Pinili Ilocos Norte (189) Puzol Elementary School Pinili Ilocos Norte (154) Sitio Nagtenga Ilo-cos Norte (327) Bannawag An-ganadan Isabela (306) Bagong Buhay Palayan City Nueva Ecija (325) Barangay Maligaya Nueva Ecija (449) Barangay Maligaya Nueva Ecija (346) Tagumpay Compound San Jose Rizal (576) Bilaan Talipao Sulu (420) Bi-laan Talipao Sulu (394) Pantao Talipao Sulu (204) and New Era Elementary School Tandang Sora Quezon City (657)

Macalintal added that Robredo and other vice-presidential bets Sens Alan Peter Cayetano Gre-gorio Honasan and Francis Escu-

dero did not get a single vote in the 18 precincts

Last week Marcos had insinu-ated cheating as he claimed that Robredo bagged all the votes in some poling precincts in Lanao del Sur Cotabato City and other provinces in the Autonomous Re-gion in Muslim Mindanao

Former Comelec chairman Sixto Brillantes the lawyer of Marcos assailed Robredo for claiming victory and urging the senator to concede in the vice presidential race based on a ldquosmall unofficial leadrdquo

In his tweet ChairmanBril-lantes the former Comelec chief said Robredorsquos runningmate for-mer interior secretary Mar Rox-as who lost more than 700000 votes during the May 2010 elec-tions never conceded even after the official count by Congress

ldquoNow Robredo wants BBM (Bongbong Marcos) to con-cede over unofficial small lead She could not be that presump-tuousrdquo Brillantes said (With Sheila Crisostomo Perseus Echeminada Marvin Sy)

Robredo Marcos urged to wait forhellipPAGE A2 t

2015 as a way to build support for the next parks bond

On May 3 the Board of Super-visors and LA County Regional Park amp Open Space District dur-ing its regular meeting presented two options for a 35-year park parcel tax measure for the No-vember ballot One would assess a 3-cent parcel tax per square foot while the other would as-sess 5 cents The smaller tax

would generate $189 million per year and the higher rate would bring in $390 million per year

The comprehensive study took 16 months to complete Among metrics used in the study includ-ed an examination of how many acres of park there are per 1000 people what amenities are avail-able in each park and how much park land is available to residents in the area around each park

A total of 188 areas were stud-

ied and the report which is the first time such a report has been done in the county found that there is an average of 33 acres of parkland per resident in the County However a number of areas were reported to have less than 1 acre of parkland per 1000 residents including El Monte (04) Huntington Park (07) Compton (06) Baldwin Park (03) and Universal City (08)

Measures introduced to continue fundinghellip

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to get water 2 feet away from me Told him stay away he is under investigationrdquo Guanzon posted on her official Twitter account

Garcia supposedly entered the commissionersrsquo dining area to get a glass of water prompting Guanzon to confront him

Guanzon said the Smartmatic executive was not supposed to be in the area because he was being investigated for effecting the ldquocosmeticrdquo change in the transparency server

No-contact policyldquoIrsquom surprised that he could

still loiter in the commission-

ersrsquo hallway and dining room On the day that we ordered the investigation we have already told Smartmatic not to go to the commissionersrsquo hallways because they are not invited in that area You know we talk about things there that we donrsquot want other people to knowrdquo Guanzon told reporters in a chance interview

ldquoSo I was really surprised when Marlon Garcia entered the room while I was talking to a lawyer I asked him lsquoWhat are you doing here You stay away from me Yoursquore under investiga-tionrsquo He was probably shocked

too because he was just getting a glass He probably meant to say that he was just going to get waterrdquo she added

Guanzon said Smartmatic of-ficials and employees should observe the ldquono-contact policyrdquo with poll commissioners pending the result of the investigation on the tweaked script

Comelec Commissioner Chris-tian Robert Lim earlier issued an order prohibiting Smartmatic from accessing the consolida-tion and canvassing system be-ing used by the NBOC (national board of canvassers) at the PICC n


Cynthia Buiza executive director of the California Immigrant Policy Center AJPress photos by Ding Carreon

California State Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) who pushed for providing health care coverage to undocumented youth speaks during a press conference on Friday May 13 at the Eisner Pediatric amp Family Medical Center in Los Angeles

A 69-year-old Filipina was killed after being struck by a car at an intersection in San Ysidro a district of the City of San Diego Wednesday night May 11

San Diego police said Cecilia Quenery Valdez of San Ysidro was struck by a northbound Maz-da Miata driven by a 22-year-old man

The collision occurred on Dairy Mart Road at San Ysidro Boulevard about 9 pm Valdez was walking across Dairy Mart Road when she was hit by the car

Valdez was bleeding from head injuries and did not have a pulse when police and medics got there Medics were unable to revive her (Inquirernet)

Filipina 69 struck by car and killed in San Diego

in restricted-scope ldquoemergencyrdquo Medi-Cal will be automatically transitioned to the full-scope ver-sion Last year Governor Jerry Brown signed that bill along with Senate Bill 75 which includes an investment to expand full-scope comprehensive Medi-Cal to all low-income undocumented chil-dren under the age of 19

Currently 114981 children are receiving restricted-scope bene-fits according to the Department of Health Care Services

ldquoHere [in California] we value immigrants We understand that immigrants are an essential fab-ric of our society The roof is not going to fall if we give undocu-mented immigrants health carerdquo Lara said ldquoWersquore actually go-ing to save money in the state Wersquore actually going to be able to have preventative services so that people donrsquot end up in our emergency roomsrdquo

Cynthia Buiza an immigrant from the Philippines who now serves as executive director of the California Immigrant Policy Center added that this health care initiative is ldquoan investment in the future of the staterdquo

ldquoAs a member of the Filipino community I understand how important health coverage is to keep immigrant families healthyrdquo Buiza said ldquoAs we celebrate this historic step to-wards Health for All we will continue to work to include un-documented adults and families who remain excluded from cov-

erage so that all Californians have the opportunity to access coverage no matter where they were bornrdquo

Under full-scope Medi-Cal coverage children can receive services such as annual check-ups regular doctor visits vacci-nations mental health care and dental care and treatment

To qualify undocumented chil-dren younger than 19 must come from families whose incomes are at or below 266 percent of the federal poverty line The income eligibility varies depending on family size For a family of four the income is $5387 per month or $64638 annually

Families can apply in person at their local county human servic-es office over the phone online with a mail-in application or at a local health center

The state-funded program is projected to cost $40 million in the first year and $132 million annually after that

Some families may be hesitant to apply for the program because they fear that they will be vulner-able to deportation However community health organizations assure that information provided during enrollment will not be shared with immigration offi-cials

In a push to get ethnic commu-nities to apply for the program Asian Americans Advancing Jus-tice-Los Angeles is working with 22 other organizations to provide ldquoculturally competent outreach education and enrollment ser-

vices targeting undocumented children [ages] 0-19rdquo

ldquoWhen people think of the undocumented community they often do not recognized the diversity of immigrants in California There are thousands of Asians and Pacific Islanders to Africans to Middle Eastern immigrants who contribute so much to our country but whose children have no access to criti-cally important health carerdquo said Stewart Kwoh executive director of Advancing Justice - Los Angeles

The organization encourages community members to call its helplines for additional informa-tion at 888-349-9695 for English or 855-300-2552 for Tagalog

More health care options for undocumented adults are also under consideration in the Leg-islature

Lara is sponsoring SB 10 which would allow undocumented adult immigrants and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) re-cipients to purchase a Covered California health plan without subsidies and SB 1418 which would widen Medi-Cal benefits to adults regardless of immigra-tion status

California is now the fifth and largest state in the country to expand state-funded health care to undocumented children fol-lowing Massachusetts New York Washington and Washing-ton DC (Christina M Oriel AJ-Press)

Undocumented children in Calif nowhellipPAGE A1 t

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So we need to bring the parks to themrdquo he said

Current funding for LA County parks was approved by voters in 1992 and 1996 when Proposition A ndash the Safe Neighborhood Parks Act ndash passed which authorized an annual assessment on almost all parcels of real property in the County The measure that was passed in 1992 has expired The smaller amount of funding ap-proved in 1996 will end on June 30 2019 said James Beesley district administrator for the Open Space Project according to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Funds from Proposition A have funded well-known open spaces including Griffith Park and the Hollywood Bowl (Agnes Con-stante AJPress)

Dateline USa

THE neuromuscular program at the Childrenrsquos Hospital of Los An-geles (CHLA) became recognized as a certified Duchenne Care Cen-ter making it one of only 10 in the United States and the only one in Southern California

On Friday May 13 in a small ceremony on the hospital grounds 11-year-old Ian Saur Sunga a Filipino-American with a progressive muscle degenera-tive disorder called Duchenne presented Dr Leigh Maria Ra-mos-Platt a neurologist and the director of the hospitalrsquos Muscu-lar Dystrophy Association (MDA) clinic to recognize CHLArsquos cer-tification

ldquo[We] are so privileged and honored and also proud to have this certification given to the neurology clinic because they definitely deserve itrdquo said Sun-garsquos mother Lois

Growing up Lois Sunga said her son who spent his early childhood in the Philippines had developed more slowly compared to other boys his age and showed muscle weakness When he was 9 years old a video of him get-ting up from the floor was sent to his uncle who works at CHLA Ramos-Platt viewed the video and suspected he had Duchenne muscular dystrophy

ldquoI could tell what it wasrdquo Ra-mos-Platt said ldquoI gave them a call to run some tests They sent me the results of the test then we knew what it wasrdquo

Duchenne is a progressive genetic disorder that is charac-

Childrenrsquos Hospital Los Angeles recognized as certified Duchenne Care Centerby Agnes ConstAnte

AJPress

terized by muscle degeneration and weakness according to the MDA a non-profit health agency dedicated to curing muscular dystrophy ALS and related dis-eases through funding research around the globe The disorder mainly affects boys with about 20000 new cases diagnosed an-nually worldwide or 1 in every 3500 males

CHLA has anywhere from 100 to 120 patients with Duchenne Ramos-Platt said and receives a new referral every two weeks The hospital provides care for these patients until they reach 21 years old then transitions them to local adult care programs

Sunga now moves around in a wheelchair after his diagnosis

ldquoHe got one more good year out of walking because thatrsquos usually what happens when we

with Duchenne Wersquore trying to slow down the progression so that he can live into adulthood and that he can be productive because hersquos a smart kidrdquo

Most boys who have Duchenne do not survive beyond their mid-20s and Ramos-Platt said 70 percent of patients with the con-dition have normal intelligence including Sunga Ramos-Platt pointed out how he won second place in a spelling bee despite the fact he did not speak much English when he first arrived in the United States in 2014

ldquoWe try to slow down the com-plications Lately our boys have been living into their 20s and sometimes into their 30srdquo she said

CHLA currently serves the Los Angeles County area and more than 111000 children annually but is seeking to expand access in the coming years It is a non-profit institution and is the larg-est pediatric hospital in Southern California n

among othersldquoWe hear a lot of talk about

creating a sustainable healthy Los Angeles and local neighbor-hood parks play a critical role in thatrdquo said Viviana Franco exec-utive director of non-profit orga-nization From Lot to Spot which transforms old lots in Los Ange-les into greenspace ldquoParks are a communityrsquos social cultural and economic center a resource for health and way to give residents safe access to nature We must invest in our parks if we want our communities to thriverdquo

Andrew Yip program coor-dinator at BikeSGV a project under non-profit public charity Community Partners that aims to support a more bicycle pedes-

trian and transit-friendly San Ga-briel Valley said many commu-nities are losing open space and park space During a roundtable hosted by New America Media he talked about a park in the San Gabriel Valley that had been con-verted to housing

Yip further noted that commu-nities of color have some of the highest rates of obesity and dia-betes

ldquoWhen therersquos a lack of park space therersquos a lack of opportu-nity for people to exercise and play and we canrsquot expect all them to spend money to drive to national parks We canrsquot expect them to go elsewhere This is where they live A lot of our com-munity residents theyrsquove never been outside this 10-mile radius

Measures introduced to continue fundinghellipPAGE A3 t

treat [these patients]rdquo Ramos-Platt said ldquoNow wersquore watching him for his heart and lungs all of the complications that happen

CHLArsquos Muscular Dystrophy Association Neuromuscular Clinic staff with Ian and his mother -- Top row right to left Wendy Mitchell MD neurologist Kathy Soltani clinical dietician Rebecca Jorne physical therapist Adan Vallejo clinic representative Phoebe Scott-Wyard DO Rehabilitation doctor Elvira Sanchez medical assistant Lois Saur patient mother Leigh Ramos-Platt MD neurologist and director of CHLA Muscular Dystrophy Association Neuromuscular Clinic Arlene Deseo RN MDA Neuromuscular Clinic coordinator Medical Student (unknown) Bottom row right to left Marielle Pascual occupational therapist Laurie Miller social worker Ian Saur Sunga Duchenne patient

Ian Saur Sunga 11 presents Dr Leigh Ramos-Platt with the PPMD plaque announcing Childrenrsquos Hospital Los Angeles a nationally Certified Duchenne Care Center

Photos courtesy of Childrenrsquos Hospital Los Angeles

Recognition as a Certified Duchenne Care Center means CHLA maintains the highest standards of care applies proven techniques and technology works towards accurate and meaningful research and complied with ideals established by the CDC Care Considerations


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ldquoTHOSE who kill my country will be killed Simple as that No mid-dle ground No apologies No excusesrdquo incoming President Rodrigo Duterte warns as he is bent on giving the country the facelift it needs as soon as he is sworn into office on June 30

X factor

Despite his snarky remarks and unconventional approach to politics rendering good public service is no laughing matter for the tough-talk-ing Duterte He has vowed to bring Davao Cityrsquos internationally-acclaimed peace and order to the national scale by alleviating criminal-ity and corruption in the country within three to six months in his leadership And he will stop at nothing to get there

Duterte admitted that he will resurrect the death penalty for heinous crimes such as drug peddling rape murder kidnap-for-ransom and robbery He said he preferred death by hanging rather than a firing squad because he did not want to waste bul-lets on criminals

For people who commit two major crimes they will be hanged twice ldquoAfter you are hanged first there will be another ceremony for the second time until the head is completely severed from the body I like that because I am madrdquo he added

And because Filipinos have long desired for a more open and accountable government his vi-sion may not be far from reality anymore as the implementation of the Freedom of Information (FOI) through an executive order will be among his top agenda

ldquoKung ayaw ng Congress I will start progres-

sively para walang sat-sat yak-yak (If Congress does not want to pass it I will start progressively so that we donrsquot talk too much)rdquo Duterte told Inquirernet

The proposed FOI bill people will have access to information regarding the governmentrsquos transac-tions and processes It grants citizens the access to any information held by a government agency on matters of public concern state policy of full public disclosure of all its transactions involving public in-terest including documents on government expen-ditures and the bidding of government projects

It was among the priority bills under outgoing Pres Benigno Aquino IIIrsquos administration but was later relegated to the back burner towards the end of his term

Duterte who also intends to push for the amend-ment of the Constitution to ease the transition to the federal form of government already has his plates full Before he bites off more than he can chew his excellency must be reminded that there are multitude of ills in the country that also de-serves his attention

Being the president is no cakewalk A president is the Head of State and Head of Government and functions as the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines As chief executive the

Editorial

ManilaTimesnet photo

President exercises control over all the executive departments bureaus and offices

Duterte and his cohorts must successfully adopt these duties and responsibilities before concoct-ing drastic measures just to affect change Like-wise it is the Filipinos undertaking to transcend from the latest poll results and aid the incoming

President to a successful transition of power As constituents they must help Duterte in address-ing the countryrsquos other problems such as poverty unemployment overpopulation education and the degrading environment This rapport will ensure the Philippines and its people of a brighter future in the next six years (AJPress)

THE problem with some Big City people is they think they have all the answers

Take for instance the latest opinions of a handful of people belittling the pronouncements of Presumptive President Rodrigo Duterte concerning curfew for mi-nors time limits for serving alco-hol in commercial establishments no smoking in public speed limits on EDSA shoot to kill orders for drug manufacturers gun for hire rapists and 10 pm limit on Karaoke parties

Out of nowhere we now hear critics saying that Dutertersquos declarations are the sort of plans or so-lutions that they expect from a mayor and not a presumptive President These same people were obviously expecting Duterte to talk about the mass transit system traffic on EDSA and other problems that are generally problems of people in Imperial Manila or as they say on Facebook ldquoRich People problemsrdquo Economists and academicians want to hear sophisticated plans and terminologies while their dotting friends in media want ldquoprogramsrdquo

Tough Every President that played along with that game never got anywhere and failed to get people behind them simply because they tried to please people instead of getting people to tow the line or follow the law through simple political will None of them even managed to get everyone to have one national ID If we canrsquot make people fol-low simple laws of the small town sort how will they appreciate the big-ticket items that only ben-efit the top richest families and corporations in the Philippines

Our national epidemic is we have become a na-tion of self-entitled individuals who demand more than we contribute We are a nation of know it alls who have an opinion on just about everything that goes on in the country and in media in fact people even pay money everyday just to hear their opin-ion on radio or TV without realizing that every text message they send in sends money to the station We are citizens who demand change and want to dictate the change we want from others but not from ourselves ldquoOur opinionrdquo is all that matters especially compared to the opinion of the lower class less educated less sophisticated

There is nothing ldquoSmall Townrdquo about address-ing our drug epidemic

The PNP has said time and again that the major-ity of Barangays in the Philippines are already af-fected or infested by drug users and drug dealers The war on drugs fails because no Commander In

Chief of the Philippines has ever declared war on drug manufactur-ers drug pushers and drug users specifical-ly Declaring war on drugs is key because it is the primary agent of criminality It cre-ates addicts who rob

steal kill and rape It destroys families marriages ruins professionals and em-ployees and affect productivity in the work place It disperses and depletes law enforcement agents and resources of government that could otherwise be focused more on fighting other criminal elements

If all our neighbors in Asia impose the death penalty for illegal drug manufactur-ers pushers and drug mules they must know something that our leaders donrsquot or are in denial of Past political leaders have always sang and danced to western influence and pressure but never got any-thing in return to fight our national drug epidemic It takes more than ldquosmall town thinkingrdquo to defy global pressure and hang enemies of the people and the re-public and lest someone starts using the religious flash cards even God and the Bible has given the state and the King or DU30 the authority to punish those who defy divine and earthly law

Just like drugs smoking is a major health issue in the Philippines

It is a leading cause of cancer and cardiac arrest as well as lung related illnesses such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease pneumonia etc The national cost is tremendous and could be de-voted to other medical concerns but are used up in a growing epidemic especially with the growth of the call center industry where smoking in public places has become a public nuisance and health hazard for pedestrians who have to share the space with large groups of smokers

Once you count the deaths and the trail of medi-cal bills you begin to appreciate that cutting back cigarette smoking is not small town thinking but an added level of difficulty for smokers in order to convince them to give it up The fact is smokers do obey such laws when in effect and enforced

With the changing lifestyle of the 247 gen-eration comes the binge drinking loud Karaoke

parties and drunk driving as well as the regular rumbles bar fights and alcoholism How can we classify limiting alcohol sales to 1 pm as a ldquosmall townrdquo solution when Big Cities and towns in the United States were already implementing the same solution back in 1984 and earlier when I was living in the United States

What is ldquosmall town thinkingrdquo about reducing the incidence of DUI or Driving Under the Influ-ence of alcohol and alcoholism What is small town thinking about making people respect peace and order by putting a cap or time limit to use of those loud and disturbing Karaoke machines used by out of tune singers who rob neighbors of their sleep Why is it ldquosmall town thinkingrdquo if you put a stop to acts that qualify as ldquocausing alarm and scandalrdquo Whatrsquos wrong in making thousands of people regain their sense of neighborly conduct and manners

For the longest time Filipinos all over the country have complained about all of these problems but

none of the presidents vice presidents even sena-tors acted on these with passion and political will Now we have an incoming President with a proven track record for implementing the solutions and they call his declarations ldquosmall town thinkingrdquo

Quite honestly it is those who criticize and la-bel Dutertersquos ideas who are probably suffering from degenerative diseases such as Presumptive Pre-disposition to Critique psychotic episodes of taking themselves too seriously or a degenera-tive disorder affecting vision otherwise known as narrow mindedness Give the guy a chance letrsquos try his solutions and if they donrsquot work they donrsquot work But please donrsquot call his ideas ldquosmall town thinkingrdquo because yoursquore not just criticizing the size of his ideas you are insulting many small towns and leaders and that is the ARROGANCE of Imperial Manila that people from out of town seriously dislike

Email utalk2ctalkgmailcom

lsquoSmall-town thinkingrsquo addresses national epidemics

Cito Beltran

CTalk

CREATING a lot of buzz in the United States these days is a law in North Carolina which forbids trans-gender people from using public rest-rooms that comport with their gender identity If a person is born male then he should go to the boysrsquo bathroom and conversely those born female should go to the girlsrsquo bathroom

This law does not factor in how transgenders feel about themselves and their gender identities They may

be born male but as they were growing up they knew they were female deep inside Some are born female but they do not identify with that gender con-tending that all their life they know they are male This is why

they dress up act think and feel in accordance with the gender they iden-tify with not with the gender stated in their birth certificates

This makes the North Carolina law very contentious because according to transgenders themselves and their

advocates it violates anti-discrimina-tion laws They explain that making a transgender use the bathroom that does not match with the gender they identify with exposes them to risks of being bullied and harrassed not to mention the traumatic experience they go through being in a bathroom or locker room designated for the op-posite sex

In support of the civil rights of trans-genders the Education and Justice de-partments of the Obama Administra-tion issued a directive that mandates ALL public schools (from kindergarten to grade 12) all over the US to allow transgenders use the bathroom that

match their gender identity or risk losing funding from the federal gov-ernment

Defending the directive Pres Barack Obama said in an interview ldquoWersquore talking about kids and anybody whorsquos been in school been in high school whorsquos been a parent I think should re-alize that kids who are sometimes in the minority mdash kids who have a differ-ent sexual orientation or are transgen-der mdash are subject to a lot of bullying potentially they are vulnerablerdquo

Obama added ldquoI think that it is part of our obligation as a society to make sure that everybody is treated fairly and our kids are all loved and that

theyrsquore protected and that their dignity is affirmedrdquo

The Filipino Channelrsquos daily news-cast ldquoBalitang Americardquo asked its viewers in an online poll if they agree with the Obama administrationrsquos direc-tive A big majority of those who voted mdash 73 percent mdash disagreed

What do you think about this direc-tive

Gel Santos Relos is the anchor of TFCrsquos ldquoBalitang Americardquo Views and opinions expressed by the author in this column are are solely those of the author and not of Asian Journal and ABS-CBN-TFC For comments go to wwwTheFil-AmPerspectivecom httpswwwfacebookcomGelSantosRelos

Should transgenders be allowed to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity

Gel SantoS-reloS

The Fil-Am Perspective

OpiniOn Features


Dateline PhiliPPines

MANILA mdash Several politicians facing plunder or graft charges before the Sandiganbayan or the Office of the Ombudsman are among the winners in the con-gressional race in their respec-tive districts

Most prominent among them are Pampanga Rep Gloria Ma-capagal-Arroyo who ran unop-posed and Imelda Marcos of Ilocos Norte

Arroyo is under hospital arrest for plunder at the Veterans Me-morial Medical Center in Quezon City The case stemmed from the alleged misuse of more than P300 million in Philippine Char-ity Sweepstakes Office funds

Marcos is facing charges in connection with the recovery of the ill-gotten wealth her family allegedly amassed during martial law

Another detained reelected lawmaker is Abdullah Dimaporo of Lanao del Norte who is ac-cused of diverting P5 million in public funds to ghost projects in 2004

Based on the complaint the

Politicians facing plunder raps among poll winners

by Jess DiazPhilstarcom

money went to the Lanao Foun-dation Inc which Dimaporo or-ganized in 1994

He represents Lanao del Nortersquos second district His wife incumbent first district Rep Imelda switched posts with son Khalid the outgoing governor

The Dimaporos have been rul-ing the province since before martial law The governor then was the late Ali Dimaporo

Reelected Zamboanga del Sur Rep Aurora Cerilles is facing graft charges in connection with the alleged overpriced medical supplies worth P7 million pro-cured when she was governor

Her husband Antonio is incum-bent governor They have alter-nately switched posts

At least three former congress-men who have pending plunder or graft cases have reclaimed their congressional seats

They are former Customs com-missioner Ruffy Biazon who is succeeding his father former senator and incumbent Muntinlu-pa Rep Rodolfo Biazon Prospe-ro Pichay Jr who is taking over from his brother Philip as repre-sentative of Surigao del Surrsquos first district and Ricky Sandoval of

Malabon who beat former sena-tor Tessie Aquino Oreta

Biazon is among several for-mer and incumbent lawmakers accused of misusing their pork barrel funds

The most prominent among them are incumbent senators Juan Ponce Enrile Jinggoy Es-trada and Ramon Revilla Jr who are facing plunder and graft cases

Charged with them is alleged pork barrel scam mastermind Ja-net Lim-Napoles

Sandoval is facing charges in connection with the P728-million fertilizer fund scam during the Arroyo administration

As for Pichay former Local Wa-ter Utilities Administration chief the Office of the Ombudsman has indicted him and other LUWA officials for allegedly spending P15 million in agency funds for a chess tournament

In Davao del Sur former con-gressman Douglas Cagas was elected governor despite facing charges for the murder of jour-nalist Nestor Bedolido in 2011

Cagasrsquo wife Mercedes won a new term as lone representative of the province n

FORMER senators Richard Gordon and Panfilo ldquoPingrdquo Lac-son are the leading senatorial candidates among overseas Fili-pino voters

According to the consolidated audit report on overseas and local voting released by Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Tues-day May 17 Gordon copped the top spot among overseas voters with 40121 votes

Lacson is in second place with 35287 votes or 4834 votes less than what Gordon got

Following them are reelec-tionist senator Ralph Recto with 34672 votes Francisco ldquoKikordquo Pangilinan with 33567 votes and Senate President Franklin Drilon

Former senator Richard Gordon File photo

Gordon Lacson top senatorial choices among overseas voters

with 31 953 votesMaking up the top 12 list are

reelectionist Senator Sergio ldquoSergerdquo Osmentildea III Sarangani Rep and boxing champion Em-manuel ldquoMannyrdquo Pacquiao Sen-ator Vicente ldquoTitordquo Sotto III for-mer senator Juan Miguel ldquoMigzrdquo Zubiri former Akbayan party-list representative Risa Hontiveros former Justice Secretary Leila de Lima and Senator Teofisto ldquoTGrdquo Guingona III

There are a total of 59 posts all over the world where 432706 Filipinos showed up to vote

The Comelec has recorded a voter turnout of 3145 percent during the April 9 to May 9 over-seas voting the highest since the overseas absentee voting was in-troduced in 2004

The total number of regis-tered overseas Filipino voters is 1376067 n

MALACANtildeANG on Tuesday May 17 denied allegations of the camp of Vice President Je-jomar Binay that the Aquino ad-ministration engaged in ldquorushed spendingrdquo in the past months to be able to get votes for its candi-dates in the May 9 elections

ldquoAllegations of the govern-mentrsquos lsquomad rush to spend dur-ing the election seasonrsquo leaving the incoming administration with lsquoonly 16 percent of the national budgetrsquo are untrue and without factual basisrdquo Presidential Com-munications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr told reporters in a news conference

ldquoThese statements only reflect a lack of knowledge and under-standing on how the national budget is actually spent The Aquino administration has al-ways adhered to the principles of sound fiscal management in handling the peoplersquos funds and shall pass on to the incoming ad-ministration a robust liquid and financially-stable national cof-fersrdquo he said

The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) according to Coloma had already released about P25 trillion to government agencies which represent 835 percent of the total P3002-tril-lion 2016 national budget as embodied in the General Appro-priations Act (GAA)

He however said that the P25 trillion ldquoreleaserdquo based on na-tional budgeting process simply

Malacantildeang denies last-minute spendingby Catherine s Valente

ManilaTimesnet

UP FOR SALE The BRP Pangulo docks at Pier 13 in South Harbor Manila Presumptive President Rodrigo Duterte planned to sell the presidential yatch with the proceeds will go to war veterans and Veterans Memorial Medical Center Inquirernet photo by Richard Reyes

means ldquoauthority to obligaterdquo what is in the GAA

ldquoIt does not equate to dis-bursements or actual spending as the funds still need to be ob-ligated first before these can be disbursed by the government agencies The complete budget-ing process involves three steps 1) Release 2) Obligation and 3) Disbursementrdquo Coloma said

After the budget is released he added the concerned govern-ment agency must submit and secure approval for a work and financial plan from the Budget department

ldquoThis serves as the basis for obligating certain amounts for specific projects Once these projects have been deemed obli-gated the agency will secure No-tices of Cash Allocation or NCAs from the DBM which they would present to the Bureau of Treasury to obtain checksrdquo Coloma said

Out of the total national budget he added about P1336 trillion or 45 percent are allotted for Per-sonnel Services (P8118 billion) and Miscellaneous and Other Op-erating Expenses (P524 billion) which are disbursed monthly

This Coloma said was based on existing work and financial plans of government agencies that passed through the scrutiny of Congress during budget deliberations

ldquoWhile it is true that releases have reached more than P2 tril-lion total funds obligated and covered by NCAs or Notices of Cash Allocation reached only P46433 billion as of the first quarter of the yearrdquo he noted

ldquoOut of this amount P4114 billion was utilized to get checks from the Treasury while the re-maining P53 billion is still with the agenciesrdquo Coloma said

In terms of capital outlay ac-cording to him the GAA requires all government agencies to com-ply with existing rules on pro-curement

These he said include a sched-ule of payments for payroll items and a schedule of payments for capital outlay based on the per-centage of completion of a par-ticular project

ldquoOne of the budgetary reforms implemented by the Aquino ad-ministration in 2014 is to treat the GAA itself as the release doc-ument which enabled govern-ment agencies to fast-track the implementation of vital projects and programs and sustain the growth momentum All disburse-ments from the national budget are subject to stringent auditing and accounting rules and regula-tionsrdquo he added

When asked about the El Nintildeo fund releases Coloma said ldquoContrary to the claims of United Nationalist Alliance [UNA] the government has already released P8425 million to augment the Quick Response Fund for El Nintildeo-related programsrdquo

The funds cover the ldquopurchase of family food packs for pre-po-sitioning and disaster augmenta-tion cash or food for work pro-grams shelter assistance and additional relief suppliesrdquo for communities affected by El Nintildeo he explained n

by aries Joseph heginaInquirernet


(818) 502-0651 bull (213) 250-9797 bull httpwwwasianjournalcom LA MIDWEEK ASIAN JOURNAL bull MAY 18-20 2016 B

BUSINESSampCOMMUNITY J o u r n a l

THE honeymoon period has started for Rodrigo Duterte the unorthodox Davao City mayor who is bound to be the next CEO of the land with economic and business lead-ers optimistic that the newly unveiled eco-nomic agenda would allow the country to remain in the sweet spot

ldquoThe initial announcement of [Dutertersquos] eight-point [economic] program promises a continuity of the resilient economic growth that we have seenrdquo BSP Deputy Governor Diwa Guinigundo told reporters Monday May 16

ldquoFrom our monetary policy perspective the general public can expect continued consistency of monetary policy with price stability financial stability and of course balanced and sustainable economic growth

This will also be supportive of the new administrationrsquos emphasis on the need to achieve 7 to 8 percent economic growth for 2016 and beyond Itrsquos a big challenge but I think itrsquos doablerdquo Guinigundo said

ldquoWe are very upbeat I think the incoming President and his team are going to inherit a government thatrsquos in very good financial position and an economy which is probably the envy of other economies in the world

MANILA mdash Taxing high-in-come earners more than their middle and poor counterparts is feasible but the incoming Duterte government will need to be careful not to discourage them from investing

Duterte mulls tax hike for high earnersSimilar to Chinarsquos tax system

Mayor Rodrigo Duterte File photo

ldquoThatrsquos feasible and you can calibrate it in such a way that you will not incur revenue lossesrdquo Fi-nance Undersecretary and chief economist Gil Beltran said in an interview

Incoming president Rodrigo Duterte bared yesterday he in-tends to raise tax rates for those earning high and lower those for

the rest He did not give detailsAs it is the current tax system

is already ldquoprogressiverdquo and sim-ply reflects what Duterte wants to achieve Internal Revenue com-missioner Kim Henares said

The difference Henares said would be on how he plans to re-form the tax rates and brackets

MANILA mdash Yuchengco-led Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) has tapped Devel-opment Bank of the Philippines president Gil Buenaventura as its new president replacing Lorenzo Tan who tendered his resignation after being cleared from the $81 million bank heist

Buenaventura a seasoned banker would become presi-dent and chief executive officer of RCBC starting July 1

ldquoSoft spoken and a quiet worker Buenaventura brings with him a wealth of experi-ence in universal banking and large operations that is criti-cal to RCBCrsquos further growthrdquo RCBC said in a statement after the bankrsquos Board of Directors approved the appointment

Buenaventura 63 steered DBP to unprecedented growth

RCBC names Buenaventura new president

in terms of income and total re-sources DBP is among the top 10 banks in the country

DBP Is the countryrsquos seventh largest bank in terms of assets with P50846 billion and 10th in terms of capital with P3766 billion last year

President Aquino has issued

MANILA mdash Gokongweirsquos Cebu Pacific has formed an alli-ance with seven other low cost carriers in Asia Pacific to pro-vide more choices and enhance services to customers

In a statement on Monday May 16 Cebu Pacific said it has joined forces with Jeju Air Nok Air NokScoot Scoot Tigerair Singapore Tigerair Australia and Vanilla Air to create the Val-ue Alliance or the worldrsquos largest low-cost carrier (LCC) alliance

Value Alliance seeks to pro-vide customers of each airline

Cebu Pacific forms alliance with 7 low-cost carriers

more destinations more rout-ing options and greater conve-nience

In particular customers of the members of the alliance will be able to view select and book the best-available airfares on flights from any of the airlines in a single transaction direct-ly from each partner website through the technology devel-oped by Air Black Box (ABB)

Through ABB an airline can connect its products to a part-ner airlinersquos brand

Unlike typical interline tech-nologies ABB allows guests to enjoy the full suite of ancillary

by Lawrence agcaoiLiPhilstarcom

by LoueLLa D DesiDerioPhilstarcom

by Prinz P MagtuLisPhilstarcom

by Ben o De VeraDoris DuMLao-aBaDiLLa

Inquirernet

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Gil Buenaventura

MAY 18-20 2016 bull LA MIDWEEK ASIAN JOURNAL httpwwwasianjournalcom bull (818) 502-0651 bull (213) 250-9797B Business news

We are very positiverdquo Aboitiz Equity Ventures president Er-ramon Aboitiz said in a briefing Monday

Aboitiz said his group which is in the power banking food real estate cement and infrastructure businesses was well-positioned across all sectors

Last week businessman Carlos Dominguez who is expected to be part of Dutertersquos economic team disclosed the economic priorities in the next six years namely ac-celerating infrastructure spend-ing addressing land administra-tion and management attracting

foreign direct investment (FDI) flows expanding and improv-ing the conditional cash transfer program improving government revenue collection efforts making tax administration more progres-sive modernizing the agriculture sector and strengthening the ba-sic education system

ldquoI think the eight-point program translates to more growth be-cause it says there that macroeco-nomic policies will be continued and will impact on [government] spendingrdquo Guinigundo said He added that Dutertersquos economic blueprint would also translate to more jobs citing that the incom-

ing administration wants to at-tract more FDI by enhancing the countryrsquos competitiveness

The Aboitiz group for its part is hoping to get the biggest percentage of growth from its fledgling infrastructure business given that this was coming from a low base Aboitiz noted that the governmentrsquos plan to boost infra-structure spending to 5 percent of gross domestic product was likely to stimulate more invest-ments and new projects ldquoAs you all know we are bursting in our seams in all infrastructure sec-tors Our airports are full our trains are full our roads are full

BSP execs welcome Duterte economic hellip

similar to botched legislative proposals last year

Under the National Internal Revenue Code there are seven tax brackets with the lowest charged a rate of 10 percent while the biggest ndash at more P500000 annual income-taxed 32 percent

Beltran said Dutertersquos plan could be similar to Chinarsquos tax system where the highest indi-vidual tax rate is pegged at 45 percent

The country also has seven brackets but unlike the Philip-pines where rates increase five percent every step China has varying increases of five seven and 10 percent

ldquoThis is consistent with what is required in the Constitution which is a progressive tax rate This is not discriminatoryrdquo Bel-tran said

But he added that one prob-lem he is seeing is the potential the proposal could deter invest-ments

ldquoThese earners are those who have businesses here The trend now is to lower tax rates so if they see that ours are higher they could easily go outrdquo Beltran said

Henares agreed adding even these high-earners can easily claim deductions which in ef-fect lower their taxable income down the bracket

ldquoThis is the reason why we

want a comprehensive tax re-form Ideally you reduce income taxes across-the-board and get additional revenues elsewhererdquo she said

But industry group Tax Man-agement Association of the Phil-ippines has an opposite view

ldquoI donrsquot think it will deter in-vestments so long as your top rate is competitive with those of the rest in the regionrdquo said president Benedict Tugonon in a phone interview

According to Department of Finance data the Philippinesrsquo top individual tax rate of 32 per-cent is higher than those in Indo-nesia (30 percent) Malaysia (25 percent) Singapore (20 percent) and Hong Kong (15 percent) n

Duterte mulls tax hike for highhellip

Executive Order 198 last Feb 4 approving the merger between Land Bank of the Philippines and DBP to create the countryrsquos sec-ond largest bank

Buenaventura was a former senior executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) and president and chief ex-ecutive officer of Prudential Bank when it was acquired by BPI

He also served as executive vice president of Citytrust Bank-ing Corp and a Citibanker for 18 years where he started as chief of staff to the country head and rose to become vice president group head and senior credit officer

Buenaventura obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of San Fran-cisco and his MBA in Finance from the University of Wisconsin

At BPI he was in charge of the bankrsquos major revenue-generating businesses and was either chair-man or a member of the board of directors of BPIrsquos various subsid-iaries

He also managed the bankrsquos special business units and sev-eral subsidiaries and exercised direct oversight over non-rev-enue areas including information systems human resources and central operations

Tan who was dragged into the money laundering scan-dal by dismissed RCBC Jupiter branch manager Maia Santos-Deguito tendered his resig-

nation last May 5 after being cleared by the bank owned by taipan Alfonso Yuchengco of any wrong doing in the $81 mil-lion bank heist

Tan ended his almost a decade term at the listed universal bank after the culmination of RCBCrsquos Board Committee-led investiga-tion on the recent money laun-dering incident

Tan tendered his resignation to give its Board of Directors a free hand to direct the course of its business moving forward He went on leave last March 23

RCBC chair Helen Yucheng-co-Dee together with vice chair Cesar Virata and director Ara-mando Medina would continue to oversee the bankrsquos day to day operations

RCBC treasurer Raul Victor Tan also tendered his resignation last April 21

RCBCrsquos investigation headed by its external lawyers and SGV amp Co cleared Tan of any knowl-edge involvement or participa-tion in the unauthorized transfer to RCBC of $81 million stolen from Bangladesh Bank

The Senate Blue Ribbon Com-mittee is set to resume the hear-ing on the money laundering scandal on May 19

Tan has filed civil and criminal cases against Deguito and lawyer Ferdiand Topacio for libel and perjury after she and Topacio implicated him as the master-mind in the money-laundering activity n

RCBC names Buenaventurahellip

choices they have come to appre-ciate from LCCs such as seat and meal selection variable baggage allowances and other inflight fea-tures ndash across all partner airline sectors in a single itinerary

Members of the Value Alliance cover a third of the earth and serve more than 160 destina-tions with a collective fleet of 176 aircraft across the Asia Pacific region

The formation of an alliance is expected to strengthen the mem-bersrsquo distribution in their non-home markets expand their sale-able networks via the provision of interline itineraries retain their ancillary revenue opportunities and offer their customers a better one-stop-shop experience

ldquoAll of our airline partners are champions in their local markets and well regarded for their value and service regionally and na-

tionally The Value Alliance is a clear example of how LCCs can accomplish more by working together than we could do indi-viduallyrdquo Cebu Pacific president and chief executive officer Lance Gokongwei said

With more than 500 million visitors expected in Asia Pacific

by 2020 there are opportunities for the alliance to connect travel-lers to more of the unique desti-nations usually found in second-ary cities

Cebu Pacific currently serves over 90 routes on 64 destinations in Asia Australia the Middle East and the US n

Cebu Pacific forms alliance with 7hellip

I think therersquos going to be a lot of investment in this sectorrdquo

Kingson Sian president of Al-liance Global Group Inc said Dutertersquos economic agenda has been welcomed by the market

ldquoYou donrsquot need rocket science to know that this country needs agricul-ture infrastructure tourism Those are the strengths of the economyrdquo Sian said noting that AGImdashgiven its big presence in tourismmdashwould benefit from such growth

ldquoWhat I even like is itrsquos about time that Mindanao gets the at-tention that it needs Itrsquos good for the country Thatrsquos whatrsquos excit-ing about this new administra-tionmdashfocus on areas that were less focused on beforerdquo he said

Meanwhile the Foundation for Economic Freedom said it was looking forward to the reforms that the next President had prom-ised to undertake particularly in removing the foreign ownership restrictions in the Constitution and improving competition in key sectors of the economy

ldquoWe support his proposed measures that will improve the investment climate in the coun-try by improving peace and order cutting bureaucratic red tape reforming the tax system and vastly improving infrastruc-turerdquo FEF said

ldquoFinally we applaud his reach-ing out to his political rivals Na-tional unity is vital in solving our problems of widespread poverty national security and peace and orderrdquo the group said n

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Atty Kenneth UrsUA reyes

Barristerrsquos Corner

AN action under the DVPA (Domestic Violence Protection Act) seeking a restraining or-der often is necessary to protect parties from abuse or domestic violence perpetrated by the other spouse or significant other At times it is effective in preventing harm to one of the parties At the same time this process is sometimes abused by family law litigants as a strategy for obtain-ing an advantage in a child custo-dy case The basis for this is the presumption against sole or joint custody under California family code section 3044

California Family Code Section 3044 (a) provides ldquoUpon a find-ing by the court that a party seek-

Will a domestic violence finding affect my claim for sole or joint custody of our children ing custody of a child has perpe-trated domestic violence against the other party seeking custody of the child or against the child or the childrsquos siblings within the previous five years there is a rebuttable presumption that an award of sole or joint physi-cal or legal custody of a child to a person who has perpetrated domestic violence is detrimental to the best interest of the child pursuant to Section 3011 This presumption may only be rebut-ted by a preponderance of the evidence

In determining whether the presumption in family code 3044(a) has been overcome the court shall consider all of the fol-lowing factors(1) Whether the

perpetrator of domestic violence has demonstrated that giving sole or joint physical or legal cus-tody of a child to the perpetrator is in the best interest of the child In determining the best interest of the child the preference for frequent and continuing contact with both parents as set forth in subdivision (b) of Section 3020 or with the noncustodial parent as set forth in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 3040 may not be used torebut the pre-sumption in whole or in part(2) Whether the perpetrator has suc-cessfully completed a battererrsquos treatment program that meets the criteria outlined in subdivi-sion (c) of Section 1203097 of

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(818) 502-0651 bull (213) 250-9797 bull httpwwwasianjournalcom LA MIDWEEK ASIAN JOURNAL bull MAY 18-20 2016 BCommunity Journal

MonetteAdevA MAglAyA

ImmigrantLiving 101 and Beyond

(Part 1 of 2)WE now live in an age of ex-

treme self-absorption Many al-ready believe they have become legends in their own minds They believe the world revolves around them and that their per-sonal happiness is paramount

Following the lead of celebri-ties in the sports and entertain-ment world we are being led by the media to believe that life is all about I Me and Myself at center stage The songs and sto-ries in popular media all amplify and sell the story of self-love as the highest form of love

We have all the electronic tools for self-absorption at hand camera phones computers tab-lets Facebook Twitter and oth-er forms of social media and the unceasing unrelenting advertis-ing messages that prick our van-ity We have become the stars in our own firmament

Itrsquos not a new phenomenon though Advanced wealthy civi-lizations in history have fallen for the same trap Maybe itrsquos time to dredge out those stories from mythology told and retold from the distant past so we can bet-ter understand how to deal with this disconcerting trend and see how too much self-absorption eventually lead to despondency and unhappiness

The antidote to self-absorp-tion like for many ills that plague our world today is still the same as it was in the past mdash love and concern for others interest in the well-being of someone or being involved in something bigger higher loftier than onersquos

An old tale on self-absorptionlsquoVanity of vanities ALL is vanityrsquo mdash From Ecclesiastes

self The idea of sacrifice still re-mains the most concrete visible form of love for another

In the end happiness finally comes with the humble aware-ness and quiet appreciation of what was what is and what is yet to come mdash right now right here where we live our days and nights

Long ago when enchanted creatures peopled the earth there was a nymph called Echo She probably rated a nine and a half on a 10 point-attractive-ness scale gorgeous knowl-edgeable and perfect in every way except for one thing mdash she was a chatterbox nonpareil She liked to hear herself talk far too much and perhaps with a tinge of hubris would insist on hav-ing the last word in every con-versation

Juno the queen of the Gods was so irked by Echorsquos habit that she meted out a punishment just for her Echo will no longer be able to talk except for one tiny concession mdash she will be able to say only the last word

In the same forest where the nymphs lived there was a young man named Narcissus who was so classically handsome and perfectly proportioned that all the nymphs oohed and ahhed and fell in love with him at first sight

Picture Michelangelorsquos mar-ble sculpture of ldquoDavidrdquo in flesh and blood or a composite be-tween diCaprio and Brad Pitt If he were real person today he would have made the cover of People Magazinersquos ldquoSexiest

Man of the Yearrdquo His fans be-came legion that all that adula-tion got into his head He be-came extremely vain No nymph was good enough for him

One day Echo espied Narcis-sus while he was hunting with his peers and fell like a ton of bricks in love with him She longed to tell him of her feelings but in her afflicted state she became painfully shy and simply con-tented herself silently watching him from a distance shadowing Narcissusrsquo every move Narcis-sus however became aware of her shadowy presence and talk-ed her out of her hiding place Echo could only repeat the last words of what Narcissus was saying in their conversation so she may have came out sound-ing like a mindless idiot vexing Narcissus

Besotted with love for the hunk however and believing Narcissusrsquo plea that she come out so they can be joined to-gether she finally overcame her crippling shyness and revealed herself However Narcissus felt she wasnrsquot good enough for him and scorned her for her bold presumptuousness and repudi-ated her total being He sent her away devastating Echo in the most cutting words slashing and burning her very existence swearing he would rather die than be with Echo (To be con-tinued)

Nota Bene Monette Adeva Maglaya is SVP of Asian Journal Publications Inc To send comments e-mail monettemaglayaasianjournalinccom

Atty LAwrence yAng

Debt Relief

I GOT my seniorrsquos week last week Two different seniors both over 80 came to see me for different reasons The first was 83 He was in good health just a little stooped Still works full time and receives social security Wife receives a small social security He and his wife live with their son so they have no mortgage or rent expense which is good He has a new car and pays a car loan of $400 He wants to keep the car He has an old car that he used as collateral for a high interest loan He does not want to keep the old car be-cause the high interest loan re-quires $500 a month at 50 an-nual interest Yes thatrsquos pretty high interest for a secured debt His problem is $35000 of credit card debt that he has kept cur-rent for the last 15 years paying $1000 a month He though it wasnrsquot such a great idea keep-ing them current in the last 15 years because he already forked over $180000 in the last 15 years to keep them current and surprise He still owes the same $35000 now He thought he certainly would have been hap-pier now if he had that $180000

One gets rid of debt while the other attempts to collect monies lent

in his pocket He could take his wife his sweetheart of 60 years cruising all over the world and pay cash for those cruises

His wife wanted to take a cruise to the Greek isles and the Mediterranean coast maybe spend a couple of days in Bar-celona enjoying the artwork of Dali and the whimsical archi-tecture of Gaudi He wanted to see the office of the Philippine tobacco company which was in Barcelona when the Spaniards were still lording it over the is-lands I asked him whatrsquos your connection with the Philippine tobacco company anyway He said his grandfather worked for that company his whole life and all he got from it was a gold plat-ed watch and a gold plated cigar Not even a good pension that he could live with Why was your grandfather a Spaniard I asked He was an illustrado he said with a moustache that made him look like Pancho Villa I asked him if he could still speak Span-ish and he said ldquoClaro que si senor abogadordquo In fact he told me that he still had many rela-tives in Barcelona thatrsquos why he wanted to bring his sweetheart to visit and he wanted to meet all his Spanish relatives Well I told him that if you had gotten

rid of your $35K of credit card debt 15 years ago with a Chap-ter 7 petition then today you could actually buy a condo in the south coast of Spain and re-tire there with your sweetheart for a quarter of the cost of liv-ing in LA Instead of being able to retire there with a fully paid condo overlooking the tranquil Mediterranean you now have to get rid of your $35K of credit card debt and live in a tiny room with your son Think about the opportunity you missed to live in the South coast of Spain now just because you wanted to keep your $35K of credit cards cur-rent for 15 years And even if you prefer to live here in LA the $180K of cash in your pocket well managed can give you an extra $700 of income a month which you can use to indulge what you and your wife want to do now Otherwise you wake ip everyday and just stare at each other or watch TV the whole day Not really an exciting way of living your golden years is it

He chooses to file a Chapter 7 to get rid of $35K credit cards even though itrsquos way late Better late than never

The second senior is 80 His

Seniors plan their golden years

A SIGNIFICANTLY revised and broadened STEM optional prac-tical training (OPT)program will take effect on May 10 under a final regulation published in the Federal Register on March 11

Under the new rule more F-1 STEM students will be eligible for an extension of their OPT and those who qualify will be granted a longer period of employment authorization But their employ-ers will be subject to stringent new requirements including the obligation to prepare a detailed training plan for each STEM OPT candidate comply with more ex-tensive reporting requirements and undergo worksite inspections conducted by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) These requirements apply only to extensions of OPT for F-1 students with a qualifying US science technology engineering or math degree the standard 12-month OPT program is unchanged

The new regulation permits the program to continue without interruption following a federal court decision holding that cur-rent STEM OPT rules did not meet procedural requirements The court stayed its decision to invalidate the current program and granted the Department of Homeland Security additional time to promulgate replacement rules The lawsuit challenging the STEM OPT program is on-going The existing STEM OPT regulation will remain in place until May 9

A summary of the key points of the revised STEM OPT pro-gram is below

Eligibility for a STEM exten-sion of OPT

Under current rules a 17-month extension of OPT is avail-able to F-1 students who have earned a qualifying US degree in a designated STEM field The new regulation will broaden the eligibility criteria for a STEM ex-tension of OPT and lengthen the duration of STEM employment authorization as follows

bull A more extensive list of US STEM and related degrees will qualify F-1 students for an OPT extension As under prior rules the F-1 studentrsquos degree must be directly related to the STEM OPT job The student must have com-pleted all degree requirements to be eligible for a STEM extension with the exception of any thesis or comparable requirement

bull The STEM extension of OPT will be 24 months in dura-tion Qualifying F-1 students will thus be eligible for a total of 36 months of OPT employment au-thorization including the initial 12-month OPT period

bull Students who were granted a 17-month STEM OPT extension under earlier rules can seek a fur-ther 7 months of work authoriza-tion subject to the requirements and obligations of the new rules as discussed below

bull F-1 students who earn an additional qualifying STEM de-gree can apply for a second 24 months of OPT but this period cannot immediately follow the first STEM OPT extension There must be an intervening degree and a period of 12-month OPT before the foreign national can obtain a second period of STEM OPT No student can obtain more than 2 periods of STEM OPT

bull F-1 students with a previ-ously obtained STEM degree can qualify for the OPT extension as long as their prior degree is directly related to the position For example an F-1 student whose most recent US degree was an MBA could qualify for a STEM OPT extension on the ba-sis of her US bachelorrsquos degree in chemistry The earlier degree must have been conferred within 10 years before the application for the OPT extension and have been issued by a US school that is duly accredited and is certified by the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) at the time of the application Under previous rules an OPT extension was available only to those whose most recent US degree was in a qualifying STEM field

New employer obligations Employers must meet signifi-

cant new obligations in order to employ an F-1 student during the STEM OPT period

Training plan Before an appli-cation for a STEM OPT employ-ment authorization document (EAD) can be filed the employer and the F-1 student must prepare and sign a formal training plan and submit it to the studentrsquos des-ignated school official (DSO) DHS is expected to issue a new Form I-983 the Training Plan for STEM OPT Students before the new regulation is implemented

The plan must state the specif-ic goals for the STEM OPT period and how they will be achieved detail the specific knowledge skills or techniques the employer will impart to the student explain how the training is directly relat-ed to the studentrsquos STEM degree and describe how the student will be supervised and evaluated The final rule clarifies that employers

the Penal Code (3) Whether the perpetrator has successfully completed a program of alcohol or drug abuse counseling if the court determines that counsel-ing is appropriate (4) Whether the perpetrator has successfully completed a parenting class if the court determines the class to be appropriate (5) Whether the perpetrator is on probation or parole and whether he or she has complied with the terms and conditions of probation or parole (6) Whether the perpetrator is re-strained by a protective order or restraining order and whether he or she has complied with its terms and conditions (7) Wheth-er the perpetrator of domestic vi-olence has committed any further acts of domestic violence

A person has ldquoperpetrated do-mestic violencerdquo when he or she is found by the court to have in-tentionally or recklessly caused or attempted to cause bodily in-jury or sexual assault or to have placed a person in reasonable apprehension of imminent seri-ous bodily injury to that person or to another or to have engaged in any behavior involving but not limited to threatening striking harassing destroying personal property or disturbing the peace of another for which a court may issue an ex parte order pursuant to Section 6320 to protect the other party seeking custody of the child or to protect the child and the childrsquos siblingsThe re-quirement of a finding by the court shall be satisfied by among other things and not limited to evidence that a party seeking

custody has been convicted with-in the previous five years after a trial or a plea of guilty or no contest of any crime against the other party that comes within the definition of domestic violence contained in Section 6211 and of abuse contained in Section 6203 including but not limited to ac-rime described in subdivision (e) of Section 243 of or Section 261262 2735 422 or 6469 of the Penal CodeThe requirement of a finding by the court shall also be satisfied if any court whether that court hears or has heard the child custody proceed-ings or not has made a finding pursuant to subdivision (a) based on conduct occurring within the previous five years

In Christina L v Chauncey B 229 Cal App 4th 731 (2014)the Court of appeal held that because a Domestic Violence restraining order must be based on a finding that the party being restrained committed one or more acts of domestic abuse a finding of do-mestic abuse sufficient to sup-port a DVPA restraining order necessarily triggers the rebut-table statutory presumption that an award of sole or joint physi-cal or legal custody of a child to a person who has perpetrated domestic violence is detrimental to the best interest of the child Cal Fam Code sectsect 3044 The pre-sumption that an award of sole or joint physical or legal custody of a child to a person who has per-petrated domestic violence is detrimental to the best interest of the child changes the burden of persuasion but may be over-come by a preponderance of the

evidence showing that it is in the childrsquos best interest to grant joint or sole custody to the offending parent Cal Fam Code sect 3044 In that case the father had a history of perpetrating domes-tic violence against the mother Domestic Violence restraining orders has been issued multiple times over the years including within the last 5 years The trial court ignored both the existing restraining order the legal effect of such a judicial finding and failed to apply the family code 3044 presumption and instead awarded joint custody to father The Court of appeal reversed and remanded the case back to the trial court (copyright 7715) at Kenreyeslawcom

Attorney Kenneth Ursua Reyes is a Certified Family Law Specialist He was President of the Philippine American Bar Association He is a member of both the Family law section and Immigration law section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association He has extensive CPA experience prior to law practice LAW OFFICES OF KENNETH REYES PC is located at 3699 Wilshire Blvd Suite 747 Los Angeles CA 90010 Tel (213) 388-1611 or e-mail kureyeslawgmailcom or visit our website at Kenreyeslawcom

Please note that this article is not legal advice and is not intended as legal advice The article is intended to provide only general non-specific legal information This article is not intended to cover all the issues related to the topic discussed The specific facts that apply to your matter may make the outcome different than would be anticipated by you This article does create any attorney client relationship between you and the Law Offices of Kenneth U Reyes PC This article is not a solicitation (Advertising Supplement)

Will a domestic violence finding affect myhellipPAGE B2 t

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Revised STEM OPT Program now in effectcan rely on their e x i s t i n g t r a i n i n g policies to satisfy the evaluation and su-pervision r e q u i r e -ments as long as their poli-cies meet the re-

quirements of the rule DHS originally sought to re-

quire employers to establish a formal mentoring process for F-1 students on STEM OPT but dis-pensed with this requirement in the final regulation

Employer attestations Em-ployers must certify the follow-ing in the training plan

bull The terms and conditions of the STEM OPT employment ndash in-cluding compensation ndash are com-mensurate with those provided to similarly situated US workers Compensation information must be disclosed in the training plan

bull The STEM OPT student will not ldquoreplacerdquo a full- or part-time temporary or permanent US worker The proposed regulation would have required the employ-er to attest that no US worker would be terminated laid off or furloughed a US worker

bull The employer has sufficient resources and personnel to train the student in the position

bull The training is directly relat-ed to the STEM degree and the offered position will achieve the objectives of the training plan

Evaluations The employer and the F-1 student must com-plete a performance evaluation after the first 12 months of STEM OPT and at the conclusion of the STEM program Evaluations must be signed by the student and employer and the student must submit the evaluation to the DSO within 10 days after the conclusion of the review period DHS originally planned to re-quire evaluations every 6 months during STEM OPT but opted for a reduced evaluation require-ment in response to feedback from stakeholders

Employment termination The employer is required to no-tify the DSO within 5 business days if the F-1 student is termi-nated or departs the STEM OPT job under prior rules the em-ployer had 48 hours to make this notification

Changes in the training plan Employers and students are obligated to notify the DSO ldquoat the earliest available opportunityrdquo if there are material changes to or deviations from the training plan Material changes include a decrease in the F-1 studentrsquos compensation that is not tied to a reduction in work hours a sig-nificant decrease in work hours any decrease in work hours below the minimum 20 hours per week (excluding time off pursuant to the employerrsquos leave policy) a change in the employerrsquos EIN due to corporate restructuring or any change or deviation that renders the employerrsquos attestations invalid or the training plan inaccurate

E-Verify As under prior rules employers must be enrolled and participating in E-Verify to em-ploy an F-1 student in STEM OPT The new regulation does not change this obligation but commentary to the rule speci-fies that the employer must par-ticipate in E-Verify at the location where the student will work

Agency enforcement The new regulation gives US

Immigration and Customs En-forcement (ICE) the authority to conduct on-site reviews to verify whether employers are adhering to their training plans and other-wise complying with STEM OPT program requirements The agen-cy will give employers 48 hoursrsquo notice of a site visit unless the visit is triggered by a complaint or oth-er evidence of noncompliance

Student obligations All F-1 students on STEM OPT

will be required to bull Report to the DSO within 10

days after starting a new STEM OPT job If there is a job change from the original STEM job the student must submit the new employerrsquos training plan to the DSO who must make a new rec-ommendation for STEM OPT

bull Report to the DSO within 10 days of a change in their le-gal name residence address employerrsquos name and address or loss of employment

bull Report to the DSO any mate-rial changes to the training plan ldquoat the earliest available opportu-nityrdquo as described above

bull Report to the DSO every 6 months to confirm the accuracy of information in their SEVIS re-cord including their legal name and residence address employer name and address and the status of their current employment

As under prior rules F-1 stu-dents on STEM OPT are subject to limits on unemployment but those limits will increase The new rule allows STEM OPT students a maximum of 150 days of unem-ployment during their entire post-

completion OPT period ndash 90 days for the initial 12-month grant and an additional 60 days once grant-ed a STEM extension Previously F-1s granted STEM OPT were limited to a maximum of 120 days of unemployment during the post-completion OPT period

Application procedures USCIS will begin to accept ap-

plications for a STEM extension of work authorization under the new rule on May 10 2016 Be-fore an application can be sub-mitted the following steps must be completed

bull STEM OPT employer and the F-1 student must prepare and sign the training plan

bull The student must submit the training plan to the DSO

bull The DSO must review the plan to ensure that it is complete and signed and that it addresses program requirements

bull The DSO must approve the training plan and recommend STEM OPT extension by endors-ing the F-1rsquos Form I-20

bull USCIS Form I-765 the ap-plication for employment autho-rization and supporting docu-mentation must be submitted during validity of F-1rsquos initial OPT EAD and within 60 days of the DSOrsquos recommendation The training plan need not be submit-ted with the application but US-CIS has the authority to request for a copy of the plan

If the current OPT EAD ex-pires while the STEM extension is pending the F-1 studentrsquos em-ployment authorization is auto-matically extended for up to 180 days while the application is adju-dicated as under current rules

Transitional rules for STEM OPT applications filed before may 10

Between now and May 9 2016 USCIS will continue to accept STEM OPT EAD appli-cations under existing rules A STEM OPT EAD that is granted before May 10 will be valid for 17 months and will be subject to earlier program requirements However if the application is pending on or after May 10 US-CIS will adjudicate it under the new regulations and will issue a request for a training plan that meets the new requirements If approved the EAD will be issued for 24 months

Transitional rules for f-1 stu-dents already on STEM OPT

F-1 students who hold a valid 17-month STEM OPT EAD issued and valid before May 10 2016 can continue to work through their EAD expiration unless their EAD is withdrawn or revoked They and their employers will be subject to earlier program rules

F-1 students in a period of 17-month STEM OPT can file for a 7-month extension between May 10 2016 and August 8 2016 pro-vided that the student has at least 150 days remaining on their cur-rent EAD at the time the applica-tion is filed and the requirements of the new regulation ndash including an approved training plan ndash are met If the studentrsquos OPT EAD ex-pires while the new application is pending he or she receives an au-tomatic extension of work autho-rization for up to 180 days or until the application is adjudicated

F-1 students who have com-pleted their OPT period and are in the 60-day grace period are not el-igible to file for a STEM extension under the new or current rules

CAP-GAP benefits for F-1 students awaiting a change of status to H-1B

The new regulation maintains ldquocap gaprdquo protections for F-1 stu-dents who are awaiting a change of status to H-1B As under prior rules an F-1 student who is the beneficiary of an H-1B cap peti-tion and a request to change sta-tus to H-1B filed while his OPT EAD is valid receives an automat-ic extension of status and work authorization from the expiration of the EAD through October 1 the date that the change of status takes effect A student in valid F-1 status without OPT or with an expired OPT EAD when the cap petition is filed receives an ex-tension of stay only

In commentary to the final reg-ulation the agency reaffirms that cap-gap protections are available only when the F-1 student is the beneficiary of an H-1B petition that is subject to the annual cap a peti-tion for cap-exempt H-1B employ-ment will not confer these interim benefits The agency also clarifies that F-1 students in the cap-gap period may change employers

What the new regulation means for employers and F-1 students

The rule broadens employ-ment opportunities for F-1 STEM students but the significant new obligations on students em-ployers and schools will require prompt planning Employers and F-1 students who will pursue STEM OPT employment must act quickly so they can meet ad-ditional requirements in time to file applications when the new rule takes effect Timely filing is particularly critical for those with an OPT EAD that expires soon and for those who want to seek a 7-month extension of their cur-rent STEM OPT n

by Atty CArl ShuStermAn

Attorney Carl Shusterman

MAY 18-20 2016 bull LA MIDWEEK ASIAN JOURNAL httpwwwasianjournalcom bull (818) 502-0651 bull (213) 250-9797B Community Journal

Arlene Al-osCPA MBA

Whatrsquos New

THE exclusion from gross in-come of discharged qualified principal residence indebted-ness is extended for two years through December 31 2016 It applies to discharge occurring before January 1 2017 or sub-ject to an arrangement entered into and evidenced in writing before January 1 2017 code sec-tion 108(a)(1)(E) amended by the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act of 2015 The exclusion however does not ap-ply to the amount of gain recog-nized from foreclosure short sale or deed in lieu of fore-closure

1 As a general rule cancella-tion-of debt (COD) results in tax-able income code section 61(a) (12) The COD income is general-ly equal to the difference between the amount of indebtedness can-celled and the amount used to satisfy the debt There is no COD income if you are not personally liable for a debt or non-recourse

10 facts on debt forgiveness on your main residence mortgageloan where the lenderrsquos only re-course is the property secured by the debt

2 Under the Mortgage For-giveness Debt Relief Act of 2007 you may be able to exclude debt forgiven on your principal resi-dence

3 Refinanced debt proceeds used to improve your principal residence

4 The debt must have been used to buy build or substan-tially improve your principal resi-dence

5 Refinance debt proceeds used for other purposes (travel buy a car or pay off credit card debt) does not qualify for the ex-clusion

6 The debt must be secured by your main residence

7 For this tax relief provision debt forgiven on second homes rental property and business property do not qualify (but may qualify for other tax relief)

8 The exclusion is limited up to $2 million ($1 million for mar-ried filing separate taxpayers) This exclusion was set to expire in 2013 but was extended to De-cember 31 2014 This was again extended to December 31 2016

with the signing of the PATH Act by President Obama

9 If you meet the require-ments complete Form 982 and reduce tax attributes as required for the exclusion method It is important to check the appro-priate box indicating the type of exclusion This form is attached to your federal income tax re-turn for the tax year in which the qualified debt was discharged

When basis is required to be reduced (but not below zero) un-der code section 1017 a list of the property and the amount of basis reduction for each property much be attached to your fed-eral tax return as a supplemental worksheet to your Form 982

10 If your debt is eliminated or reduced you would normally receive a year-end statement Form 1099-C Cancellation of Debt from your lender The form shows the fair market value of any property foreclosed and the amount of debt forgiven Care-fully examine Form 1099-C If any of the information shown is incorrect please notify the lend-er immediately You should pay extra attention to the amount of debt discharged in Box 2 amount

of interest included in Box 2 and is reported in Box 3 as well as the fair market value listed for your home in Box 7

In accordance with IRS Cir-cular 230 this communication is

not to be considered a ldquocovered opinionrdquo or other written tax advice and should not be relied upon for IRS audit tax dispute or any other purpose

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wife passed away recently They have no children but have a lot of relatives who owe him mon-ey He and his wife were gener-ous in lending a helping hand to their relatives when they were younger $50K to a cousin who wanted to buy a UPS store $40K to a brother who wanted to buy a restaurant You know what I mean The money lent has stacked up over the years and have not been repaid He feels unsecure now because he has maintenance expenses now which are escalating Just the caregiver costs $2K a month Well the problem of course is that itrsquos easy to lend out money but itrsquos very difficult to collect First off would be to file law-suits to collect So at least you end up with money judgments

that accrue legal interest at 10 yearly In addition placing judgment liens on real property can enforce these money judg-ments wages can be garnished and bank accounts can be levied This is a lot better than waiting for his beloved relatives to start paying him back which knows when The truth is which is bet-ter left unsaid beloved relatives are probably waiting for client to kick the bucket so they can forget about paying him back After all he wonrsquot need cash in heaven would he Nope

The third client is a young se-nior at 58 She is a single mom with a good paying job as a reg-istered nurse She has two kids in college who need support Her problem is $50K of credit card debt The choice is making minimum payments of $1500 a

month to visa and MasterCard or giving the $1500 to her col-lege kids to help them pay their rents in out of state colleges Itrsquos a no brainer Client decides to discharge her $50K of credit card debt with a Chapter 7 peti-tion

ldquoThis poor man cried out and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles The angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him and delivers themrdquo mdash Psalm 346-7

Lawrence Bautista Yang specializes in bankruptcy business real estate and civil litigation and has successfully represented more than five thousand clients in California Please call Angie Barbara or Jess at (626) 284-1142 for an appointment at 1000 S Fremont Ave Mailstop 58 Building A-1 Suite 1125 Alhambra CA 91803 (Advertising Supplement)

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The Asian Journal

MDWKMAGAZINEWednesday May 18 2016

The Asian Journal MDWK MAGAZINE - May 18 2016

2 cover story

by MoMar G Visaya AJPress

Ambassador Jose L Cuisia Jr asks Fil-Amcommunity to be more engaged united

AFTER almost six years as the top diplomat of the Philippines to the United States Ambassador Jose L Cuisia Jr will be retiring this June

President Benigno S Aquino III appointed Ambassador Cuisia to his post in November 2010 and was confirmed by the Commission on Appoint-ments three months later He formally assumed his post at the Philippine Embassy in Wash-ington DC on April 2 2011 and presented his credentials to President Barack Obama on July 7 2011

ldquoIrsquom gonna be busy but not the same way because Irsquom not going to have a 9-to-6 jobrdquo the ambassador told Balikbayan Magazine as we sat down with him for an interview on the side-lines of the Philippines Business and Investment Forum in New York recently

Ambassador Cuisia a well-respected figure in Philippine business with over 32 years in

financial services most recently as the president amp CEO of the largest and most profitable non-bank financial institution in the Philippines brought with him to Washington his savviness in politics and business

Cuisia said he has a number of board memberships - four publicly-listed companies ndash Ma-nila Water SM Prime Phinma Corporation and Century Properties Group and other non publicly-listed companies such as AIG Shared Services The Covenant Car Company and Phinma Inc

ldquoThere are many things for me to do in the private sectorrdquo he remarked ldquoI hope to be more involved in NGOs like Ga-wad Kalinga I hope to go back to maybe some of the edu-cational institutions that I was involved with like AIM I was chairman there for a number of yearsrdquo

In his first few years in Washington DC Ambassador

Cuisia dedicated his time to promoting trade and invest-ment opportunities in the Philip-pines strengthening the military and security alliance with the US and providing assistance to Philippine nationals while further cementing the already robust relationship between the two countries

ldquoState Department Sec Kerry and Sec Clinton have said that our relations have never been better Of course thatrsquos not only to my credit but it is Secre-tary Albert del Rosario Presi-dent Aquino the entire Depart-ment of Foreign Affairs team and of course my colleagues at the embassy and the consulates here in the US have all contrib-uted to thatrdquo he shared

Mr Cuisia has received numerous awards and acco-lades In 2011 during his tenure as ambassador he received the Joseph Wharton Lifetime Achievement Award from the Wharton Club of Washington

DC the first Filipino to receive such an award from the Club He earned his MBA in finance at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1970 just three years after fin-ishing his degree in Commerce magna cum laude from De La Salle University

He was the 2007 lsquoManage-ment Man of the Yearrsquo of the Management Association of the Philippines in 2007 the Manuel L Quezon Awardee for Exem-plary Governance in 2006 the Asia Insurance Personality of the Year in 2005 and the Philip-pine CEO of the Year in 2004 He was also one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines in 1982

Ambassador Cuisia has been described by some Fil-Am community members as a ldquocon-summate diplomatrdquo and he is leaving his post with legacy projects that are not only uplift-ing the profile of the Philippines as a country but enriching the

image of the Filipino as wellThe following are excerpts

of our interviewBalikbayan Magazine (BM)

What are you going to miss most when you retire

Ambassador Jose L Cuisia Jr (JLC) I am going to miss the opportunity to meet a lot of people from different countries thatrsquos one of the advantages perks of being an ambassa-dor You get to meet so many important people from different countries I am able to of course promote our country to these various representatives I am able to talk about our country and the opportunities there

BM How would you de-scribe your experience with the Filipino community in the United States

JLC Interacting with the Fili-pino community here in the US is very gratifying because I see what they have been able to contribute in terms of uplifting the image of the Philippines Our nurses our doctors health care professionals computer technicians accountants law-

yershellipit has been very gratify-ing

BM What legacy would you like to leave here

JLC We have played a major role in strengthening the relationship between the US and the Philippine society I am proud to say that I had a very key role in setting up the US-Philippines Society which we hope will continue even beyond 2016 when Irsquom no longer around We established FYLPro or the Filipino Ameri-can Young Leaders Program in 2012 and wersquove had now about 40 alumni and we hope that it will continue [The US- Philip-pines Society is a private sector initiative organized to elevate the profile of the Philippines in the United States Its goal is to broaden and expand interaction and understanding in the areas of security trade investments tourism the environment history education and culture between the United States and the Philippines which would benefit the American public and

Ambassador Jose L Cuisia Jr gives a summary of events leading up to the return of MacArthur and the liberation of the Philippines in his opening remarks for ldquoKeeping the Promiserdquo an exhibit that explores the liberation of the Philippines through unique artifacts and documents from Filipino American and Japanese sources in February last year PH Embassy photo by Majalya Fernando

Ambassador Cuisia and Agriculture Commissioner of Georgia Gary Black meet in Atlanta as part of an Economic Diplomacy Mission last March 8 PH Embassy photos

Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose L Cuisia Jr receives the Joseph Wharton Award for Lifetime Achievement from Mr Alan Schlaifer President and CEO of the Wharton Club of Washington DC in May 2011 Continued on Page 3

entertainment 3The Asian Journal MDWK MAGAZINE - May 18 2016

Meet the cute baby on the Belo billboard

the people of the Philippines FYLProrsquos Immersion Program selects 10 of the most out-standing young Filipinos in the United States for an all-expense paid trip to the Philippines to engage in insightful and inspir-ing dialogue with dignitaries in government business and nonprofit leaders]

BM You were able to successfully engage with the second-generation Filipino-Americans

JLC Irsquom very happy about that but I have to give credit to my wife Vicky who urged me to reach out to the younger gener-ation so every opportunity I get I try to meet with them because they have tremendous potential and we want to muster that potential for them to be able to contribute to the strengthen-ing of US-Philippine relations They are going to be the future leaders of the Filipino-American community

BM Part of the culture among Filipinos in the US is giving back not only to their families back home but to any-one who needs help particu-larly during time of calamities

JLC Yes and we have the Philippine Humanitarian Coali-tion for that This is a group of about 33 leaders from differ-ent Fil-Am organizations that we put together principally for lsquoAfter the Stormrsquo concert which was meant to raise funds for the victims of typhoon Haiyan but they worked so well together

Ambassador Jose L Cuisia Jr asks

AmbassadorCuisia introduces Justice Antonio T Carpio (center) during the Banyan Tree Leadership Forum on last October 2015 The lecture was moderated by Mr Ernest Z Bower (right) senior adviser and Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies at CSIS

and they have never done that before so they decided that they want to continue so I said lsquosure go aheadrsquo They helped victims of the Nepal earth-quake and theyrsquore looking at how the coalition can continue to help not just the Philippines but other countries too

BM Wersquore here in New York attending a historic and momentous event celebrat-ing Philippine business and investments What are your thoughts about this event

JLC Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima gave a very good talk and the panels covered a lot of ground The important thing here is the story about Philippine reform and that it will continue even beyond 2016 because I think whoever will be in Mala-canang will see the dividends that we have reaped through the

good governance program of President Aquino the economic reforms that were undertaken by his administration

BM What should the next president do in order to sustain the growth that the Philippines has seen in the past few years

JLC Continuity is important Good governance the reforms must continue The government must insure that it uses its re-sources efficiently and prudent-ly We are confident that the next president ndash whoever he or she might be ndash will see that pre-cisely it is on the interest of his or her administration to ensure that that continuity remains

BM What is your message to the Filipino-American com-munity

JLC It is important for the Filipinos in the United States to be more united We can have a tremendous influence on US policy but we have to be more united Second the community has to be more engaged in poli-tics they have to register and vote because if they donrsquot vote the politicians wonrsquot listen to them We have that tremendous potential which we have not yet achieved so my message to all of them whenever I go to all of these cities is for us to have a more unified community in the US and they must register and vote (A version of this interview previously appeared in the April-May 2016 issue of Balikbayan Magazine the Asian Journalrsquos travel and lifestyle publication)

Last March 9 Amb Cuisia was awarded as Global Hero by World Chamber of Commerce In photo with him are (L-R) John Lemley WCC Master of Ceremonies radio hostproducer Philippine Honorary Consul General Raoul Donato and WCC Co-Chair and founder Solange Warner

by Ricky Lo Philstarcom

ldquoCUTe Cute baby cuterdquoSo whorsquos the cutie on the

Belo baby billboard at the top of a building at the Timog-Morato Rotunda in Quezon City that gets our three-year-old equally cute grandson excited every time we pass by that area

I guess you too must be wondering who that baby is with a smile so endearing that you want to pinch her Yes the baby is a she and if you look closely you will notice that she bears a striking resemblance tohellipDr Hayden Kho

Well itrsquos because that baby is really the daughter of Hayden (who is turning 36 on May 20) not with his beloved ldquoforever loverdquo Dr Vicki Belo but with a surrogate mother whom neither Hayden nor Vicki has ever met

Now 14 months old the baby is named Scarlet Snow born in March last year in the US where she was conceived through In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) to the tune of according to Funfare sources $200000 (roughly P8 million) Itrsquos the same procedure used by Joel Cruz who wanted one baby but got twins by a surrogate mother from Russia (ldquoWho looks like Julia Robertsrdquo said Joel) So satisfied was Joel that he did it with the same woman (whom he hasnrsquot met) and again got twins

Snowrsquos mother is Mexican-American whom Hayden never met

How is it doneYou choose your ldquopartnerrdquo

from a roster of prospects (via the Internet) who are listed com-plete with their backgrounds qualifications traits and what-nots According to a medical re-port IVF is a procedure in which eggs (ova) from a womanrsquos ovary are removed They are fertilized with sperm in a laboratory pro-cedure and then the fertilized egg (embryo) is returned to the womanrsquos uterus

Vicki has two children by her ex-husband Atom Henares Cristalle (who is getting married to her foreigner boyfriend in Italy in September) and Quark (one of the countryrsquos finest young direc-tors) Hayden wanted so much to

have a baby with Vicki to whom he proposed in a style straight from a Cathy Garcia-Molina rom-com

It happened after Vicki deliv-ered a talk at a medical confer-ence in Houston Hayden was with her on the trip together with Vickirsquos make-up artist Marife Mordido who travels with her anywhere she goes Vicki would soon discover why Hayden was in a tizzy always busy with the computer that he kept away from Vicki

ldquoI thought he was having problems againrdquo Vicki told Fun-fare ldquoand I was a bit concerned It turned out that he was cook-ing up a big surpriserdquo

Yes the proposalInitially Hayden wanted to

do it in Morocco (thatrsquos why he was arranging the side trip there via the computer) which was the only place that Vicki had not been to until the Houston trip changed Haydenrsquos ldquosecretrdquo plan

On the night of Haydenrsquos proposal he invited the still unsuspecting Vicki to check out an aquarium

ldquoSuddenlyrdquo recalled Vicki ldquoI saw Hayden in the aquarium holding a card with the words lsquoWILL YOU MARRY Mersquo writ-ten on it No wonder he briefly disappeared from beside me When I turned again he was beside me na and a scuba diver appeared in the aquarium hold-ing another card with a lsquoSAY YeSrsquo on itrdquo

Then Hayden hired an ex-pensive car to drive them round the city which was aglow with

Christmas decors and lights It was a cold December night remember so the ldquobedroom weatherrdquo was conducive to romancehellip

But the wedding never hap-pened The slight age gap you know

ldquoeven if Hayden was vocal about being ready for mar-riagerdquo Vicki said then ldquoI really doubted itrdquo

Then came Scarlet Snow (listed as Scarlet Snow Belo on the birth certificate) whom Vicki treats as her own flesh and blood a cute ldquogiftrdquo that to paraphrase Vicki relating how her adoptive parents described how she came into being ldquomay not have come from my tummy but straight from my heartrdquo

Now it can be told In July last year Lolit Solis and I got an invitation from Vicki to an ldquoim-portant eventrdquo which we would know later was Snowrsquos baptism at the Santuario de San Antonio a few blocks from Vickirsquos house in Dasmarintildeas Village Makati City Among the godparents were Manny V Pangilinan and Anne Curtis

Snow was then a carefully hidden ldquosecretrdquo Lolit and I were among the few that not only saw Snow who was four months old at that time but also cuddled her at Vickirsquos house which was being set up for the exclusive re-ception Vicki and Hayden let us took pictures but requested us to keep them ldquooff the recordrdquohellipthat is until now

Here are excerpts from

Dr Vicki Belo and her beloved Dr Hayden Kho are proud parents of Scarlet Snow Belo shown (top right) at four months old and as cute endorser on the billboard advertising Vickirsquos baby products

John Lloyd Cruz Union will help the industryby MaRineL R cRuz

Inquirernet

ACTOR John Lloyd Cruz is not one who turns a blind eye to the plight of his coworkers in the show biz industry

John Lloyd is vocal about his support for calls to form a union in show biz

ldquoProducers and network people think of it (union) as something negativerdquo he observed ldquoItrsquos actually a good thing From the word itself it will unite the industry It will pro-tect not just the actors and crew members but also writers and members of the creative teamrdquo

He added that he was pleased that industry leaders have been actively propos-ing change particularly on the length of working hours in the industry

The Department of Labor and employment recently issued a labor advisory upholding the 8- to 12-hour work schedule for people working on film and television

ldquoItrsquos all about moving forward Wersquore way behind in terms of labor standards in Asia Nothing is impossible if we work as onerdquo he declared

ldquoIn the past Irsquod go home feeling like a jerk because I would leave everyone on the set at my cut-off timerdquo he con-fessed ldquoAside from campaign-

ing for the implementation of [more humane] working hours we should also let the law pro-tect us If not we will just keep blaming each otherrdquo

On his love life John Lloyd said he wasnrsquot dating anyone ldquoIrsquom taking my time I donrsquot want to date randomly Irsquod rather get busy with workrdquo he pointed out ldquoLove is not my pri-ority right now Irsquom enjoying (be-ing single) because I have more time now to focus on things that truly interest merdquo

Former girlfriendThe actor claimed he and

former girlfriend Angelica Pan-ganiban have remained good friends saying the actress even helped promote ldquoJust the 3 of Usrdquomdashhis latest romantic comedy flick with Jennylyn Mercado ldquoThatrsquos what friends do they support each other Wersquove man-aged to maintain respect for each other and we still com-municatemdashthose are important elements needed for friendship to workrdquo

That is why he said he does not feel offended by Angelicarsquos ldquohugotrdquo lines on the ABS-CBN gag show ldquoBanana Sundaerdquo

ldquoHugotrdquo means to draw from a specific emotional expe-rience such as a recent breakup Angelica who publicly admit-ted to calling it quits with John Lloyd only in April would often deliver her now-famous ldquohugotrdquo lines in the programrsquos segment called ldquoHugot Classrdquo

ldquoItrsquos a gag show It would be too arrogant of me to think that these lines were all directed at me In my mind I hear her say-ing lsquoNot everything is about you John Lloydrsquo Whatrsquos important is that both Angelica and I know the truth [about what happened between us] Thatrsquos enough rea-son for me not to think that shersquos doing this just to hurt merdquo the actor explained

Kris Aquino back in Hawaii with Josh BimbyKRIS Aquino returned to Hawaii with her sons Josh and

Bimby for an enjoyable and relaxing two-month vacation after campaigning for former Interior Secretary and Presiden-tial candidate Manuel ldquoMarrdquo Roxas and Representative Maria Leonor ldquoLenirdquo Robredo

Aquino flew to the exquisite island after she voted on May 9 The TV personality posted photos of the Waikiki Beach and Diamond Head on social media site Instagram

Another recent Instagram post shows the three of them dining at Aquinorsquos favorite Japanese cuisine restaurant at Hilton Hawaiian Village Benihana

Before she aided the lsquoRo-Rorsquo tandem in their exhausting nationwide campaign she visited Hawaii with Bimby and Josh last December and stayed there for almost a month Aquino is taking a lsquovacation leaversquo and will not return to the limelight until July (Gianna Francesca CatolicoInquirernet)Continued on Page 5

From Page 2

Kris Aquino with son Joshua and James

John Lloyd Cruz

4The Asian Journal MDWK MAGAZINE - May 18 2016

entertainment Aiko sees herself marrying Persian boyfriend

Celebs who won the elections and a pair of former schoolmates in one network who arenrsquot friendly with each other

Aiko Melendez and her Persian boyfriend shahin Ali-mirzapour are so sweet to each other Members of the press who saw them at the blessing of bG Films Internationalrsquos new office noticed how they would often hold otherrsquos hand during unguarded moments

Aiko admits that shahin really makes her happy Their romance which started at a casual meeting at a mutual friendrsquos party is getting stron-ger Never mind that Aiko is 12 years shahinrsquos senior

ldquoI believe age is just all but numbers What matters is how you get along When you have the same wave length and when you see things together the same way [thatrsquos what mat-ters]rdquo Aiko enthused

by Lhar SantiagoManilaTimesnet

shahin for his part admits that she was smitten by Aikorsquos beauty the first time he saw her Thatrsquos why he approached her at once and introduced himself not knowing that shersquos an ac-tress before he knew it he was already asking for her handle on Facebook

ldquoFrom there we just started going out with a group with her friends and lsquoyun dahan-da-han we started getting to know each otherrdquo shahin said

The last time Aiko was in a relationship was seven years ago and itrsquos only now that she decided to give a love life another try And with the way their relationship is going the actress feels she made the right decision she finds shahin very loving

shahin is involved in a trading business while taking up Dentistry at Centro escolar University in Manila He said he has already told his family about Aiko and the two of them are planning to visit his family in Iran within the year

Do they see themselves eventually marrying each other

ldquoOf course I am only 40 and itrsquos every womanrsquos dream to settle down and be with someone whorsquos gonna take care of you and grow old with you Thatrsquos really our goalrdquo said Aiko

The evolution of Shaina as an actressby BiBSy M CarBaLLo

Philstarcom

sHAINA Magdayao began her acting career when she was cast in the drama series ldquolyrardquo she became part of ldquoAng TVrdquo later joined ldquoKaybolrdquo before starring on Abs-CbNrsquos after-noon drama series ldquoMarinellardquo along with Camille Prats and serena Dalrymple

she received various awards as a child in many films which include ldquoTanging Yamanrdquo that won her best Child Actress from FAMAs and Most Popu-lar Child Actress Award from Guillermo Mendoza Founda-tion Awards in 2002 she also starred in Ang Tanging Ina and her character has also been award winning Among her other awards are best Child Performer from the Parangal ng bayan in 1999 and best New TV Personality in the 1999 star Awards

she has been part of many TV shows and primetime series among them ldquoIkaw Ang lahat

sa Akinrdquo ldquoTil Death Do Us Partrdquo ldquoAsAP Fanaticrdquo ldquoAsAP Komiks Presentsrdquo ldquoYour song star Magic Presentsrdquo ldquolove spellrdquo ldquoRouninrdquo ldquoMaalaala Mo Kayardquo ldquolobordquo ldquoKambal sa Umardquo ldquoMay bukas Pardquo ldquoRubirdquo ldquoPrecious Hearts Romances Presents Alynardquo ldquo100 Days To Heavenrdquo and ldquoKung Akorsquoy Iiwan Mordquo

Movies she appeared in are ldquoPagdating ng Panahon Hilingrdquo ldquoHinahanap-hanap Kita Wansapanataym The Movierdquo ldquoTanging Yamanrdquo ldquoMga batang lansanganNgayonrdquo ldquoAgimat Ang Anting-Anting ni lolordquo ldquoAng Tanging Inardquo ldquoHappy Heartsrdquo ldquobahay Kubordquo ldquoKatas ng saudirdquo ldquoAng Tanging Ina Ninyong lahat Villa estrellardquo ldquosa lsquoyo lamang shake Rattle amp Roll 12rdquo and ldquoAng Tanging Ina Mo (last na lsquoTo)rdquo

shaina is now busy doing her latest series ldquosinglesinglerdquo season Two with Matteo Guidi-celli airing on Cinema One

ldquosinglesinglerdquo Cinema

One and The Philippine starrsquos first project is the cable chan-nelrsquos first TV series that focuses on issues ranging from quar-ter-life crises to relationship dilemmas in a digital world The series combines engaging com-edy with relevant messaging targeted to the urban singles coping with the demanding lifestyle of a more complicated world

Shaina Magdayao is busy doing her latest series SingleSingle

Coleen Garcia shares lessons on loveCOleeN Garcia has the

charms of a child-woman she sizzles anew in star Cinemarsquos ldquolove Me Tomorrowrdquo with Piolo Pascual and Dawn Zulueta

The romantic drama is a generational love story anchored on the journey of a young man named JC (Piolo) a conflicted young woman Janine (Coleen) and Christy (Dawn) a woman on the verge of renewal

It is a celebration of love that surpasses the frivolities of flirta-tion and physical attraction One love fits all

Herersquos my tecircte-agrave-tecircte with Coleen

On behalf of the millennials whatrsquos your unsolicited advice to incoming President Rodrigo Duterte

To focus on everybody who believes in him and try not to prove people wrong I am one of those who believes in him We are pinning our hopes on him I hope he wonrsquot let us down

How has your boyfriend Billy Crawford redefined love for you

I used to perceive love differ-ently Now I see it as something thatrsquos unconditional I realize that the person you love the person

by DoLLy anne CarvajaLInquirernet

yoursquore with brings out the best in you

If your relationship is healthy the best version of yourself will manifest and the same goes with your partner billy has made me believe that when yoursquore in love you are inspired and motivated

Whatrsquos the silliest or craziest thing that you and Billy have done together

We were already dating that time but we wanted to keep things low-key When we attended the event of a friend I made him wear a girl mask all night so nobody recognized him He was sweating like crazy

In what ways will your movie make us look at relationships

differentlyThis movie will teach us that

love is not just for lovers and youth is not just for the young No matter what stage you are in your life yoursquore always learning something new

Any funny anecdote during the shoot

What I can tell the viewers is to watch out for the drunken scene of the Titas of Manila Itrsquos one solid laugh trip

If you were single would you fall for a younger or older man

Itrsquos the maturity not the age that matters Irsquom lucky billy and I are on the same level of maturity

If you could be a man for a month who would you want to be

Ryan Reynolds because hersquos very funny and interesting

Whatrsquos on your bucket list To go skydiving and learn a

new language Whatrsquos your hashtag for

yourself right now learningIf you could only be one of

the following what would you choose smart powerful rich or happy

Happymdasheven if you are smart powerful or rich yoursquod still feel empty if you are not happy

Baron Geislerrsquos lsquoassault videorsquo taken out of context -PR manager

THe PR manager of actor baron Geisler said Monday May 15 the video showing the actor cursing and confronting a UP student was ldquotaken out of contextrdquo

In a text message sent to Inquirernet Tinnie esguerra said Geisler also plans to con-sult his lawyers for an apparent legal action against the person who posted the video on Face-book over the weekend

ldquoThe video was taken out of context and because of that I plan to consult my law-yers for the possible liabilities of the person who uploaded

the video whose apparent intention was to exploit my already damaged reputationrdquo the message quoted Geisler as saying

The video which became viral after it was posted by a certain Khalil Versoza showed Geisler cursing and threatening a Viacom-Fine Arts UP student after the actor allegedly got angry over the late delivery of the script for a project he was supposed to do with the student

Versoza said in his Fb post that the delay was due to their tight school work This appar-

ently did not appease Geisler who was also shown in the vid-eo locking his hand on the neck of the student while cursing him and telling whoever was shoot-ing the video to stop (Clarizel AbanillaInquirernet)

Aiko MelendezColeen Garcia

Baron Geisler


featuresThe lsquopausersquo every woman enduresMoonlighting

by Mylah de leon

They call it hormonal mischief It is the new perspec-tive coming into view in every womanrsquos major life passage A midlife agitation literal and poi-gnant mdash first the gushing like the reddening of a dying tree as it blazes out in the funeral autumn with a flowing canopy then reduced to basics forced to lie fallow in an emptiness watered by tears over the sur-render of the magical powers of birthing and breeding

Then it was like some pow-erful switch had been thrown The little bouts of blues in a fog of indeterminate sadness then little crashes of fatigue when one counted on abundant energy It was profound to find onersquos self crawling home from a day of writing then falling into the nearest sofa for a nap only to wake up dancing around an unexplained depression

The normal preamble to this malaise is sometimes treated with a casualness bordering on the criminal in a despond

that doesnrsquot lift or dissipate for days I always ask Will it be permanent mellowing perma-nent anything or simply be an erratic activity playing mischief with a womanrsquos equilibrium Is it all in their minds or perhaps is it mostly because of a loose-ness of termination of subjec-tive flaws

Women deal with this ldquopauserdquo in hundred variations There are the periods of mag-nificent energy and acute men-tal functioning even brilliance when one was never tired pro-ducing like crazy going through the temporary phenomenon After spending five decades of focusing on their children and husbandsrsquo lives she is now filled with a sense of unease or disequilibrium This is some-thing women feel a thought that becomes incomprehen-sible at times while enduring hormonal mischief cycles With the spiritual energy of fully evolved womenwho are beyond being objects defined by the male gaze they found distinctive charm and disci-plined intellect and celebrate within themselves

The transition in their lives change had become for most of them the best mdash physically emotionally and spiritually

In my own odyssey (oh

years ago) I was so sure I would just sail right through it Instead I veered (like most of us) off course lost some of the wind in my sails and almost capsized thrown into widow-hood

But I realized women who no longer belong to somebody now can belong to everybody mdash the community a chosen circle of friends a worship group or even the world mdash as their source of experience and wisdom

I started by giving up the futile gallantry of trying to remain the same younger self and reach a new plateau of contentment and self accep-tance and find a potent new burst of energy

Take the ldquopauserdquo as a liberation After my liberation from keeping this four long-legged daughters filed up the empty nest did not leave me feeling useless and lacking in self concept but with relief or relish

One of the girls asked ldquoMother what are you going to do with yourself now that wersquore all gonerdquo I said ldquoBaby I donrsquot know but count on ithellipI am going to have funrdquo

E-mail Mylah at moonlightingmdl

aolcom

Funfarersquos exclusive interview with Vicki and hayden

How did you feel the first time you saw Snow and the first time you held her in your arms

hayden Joy The feeling is indescribable and incompara-ble I felt no fear at all just pure love pouring out profusely from me to her

Vicki I felt that she was Godrsquos gift to me The moment I saw her I loved her

How did the coming of Snow change your life the way you look at life and at your-self

hayden and Vicki We feel like our lives and relationship have more meaning now that Scarlet is here The greatest challenge really is the inner work that it requires for both of us to be good and godly role models to her That requires a lot of strength discipline self-confidence and most importantly prayer and faith because at the end of the day we know that really arenrsquot the ones in control of her life It is Jesus Christ

Have you learned how to prepare her feeding bottle (what formula) and to change her diapers

Vicki hayden is the one whorsquos very good at it but we were very grateful that for the first six months Scarlet was 100 percent breastfed Thanks to the friends of hayden and Cristalle who donated breast milk to our Scarlet Snow

hayden Definitely I learned how to do everything hellipfeeding swaddling changing diapers monitoring sleep etc I knew even before she was born that I was going to be a hands-on Dad In fact my main worry about being her father is that I might become over-protective of her I am thankful to Jojie (Dingcong) Lianne (Bautista) and my parents who are so involved in the bringing up Scarlet I am also very grateful that Quark Atom Cristalle and of course Vickirsquos mother Nena immediately

accepted Scarlet Snow as part of the family

How do you see Snow 10 years from now

hayden I see Scarlet Snow as someone who knows deeply in her heart and soul that she is loved cherished and worthy of interest I want her to learn at a very early age to spread her

wings with courage and confi-dence because it is through her eyes that I will live mine

Vicki She is daring and will-ing to try new adventures and experiences because whenever she looked behind her both her father and mother were there to support her fully and catch her if she fell

Meet the cute baby on the BeloFrom Page 3

Gigi Hadid Lena Headey praise Paolo Ballesteros makeup transformations

ldquoeAT Bulagardquo star Paolo Ballesteros has gained new hollywood celebrity admirers due to his viral makeup transformations

Model Gigi hadid and ldquoGame of Thronesrdquo star Lena headey both took notice of Ballesterosrsquo talent

In a comment on the actorrsquos post hadid said that Ballesteros was amazing

ldquoLol woww this is crazy yoursquore amazingrdquo the fashion it girl said

Meanwhile headey praised Ballesteros for an awesome job of turning into ldquoCersei Canisterrdquo a spin on headyrsquos character in ldquoGame of Thronesrdquo Cersei Lannister

ldquoThis is fantasticrdquo she said on her Twitter accountBallesteros has previously turned himself into vari-

ous personalities such as Tyra Banks Angelina Jolie and Ariana Grande just by the use of makeup

his works on Instagram have garnered thousands of likes and have been featured in various websites worldwide (Inquirernet)

Paolo Ballesteros as Lena Headeyrsquos Cersei Lannister from the ldquoGame of Thronesrdquo

Paolo as supermodel Gigi Hadid

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COMING HOME Jose Maria Sison founding chair of the Communist Party of the Philippines is expected to return to the Philippines under a Duterte presidency after nearly 30 years of exile in The Netherlands Inquirernet photo

Perfecto Yasay would be foreign secretary in an acting capacity for a year although Yasay said he was currently handling class-es in a US university according to Duterte

Salvador Medialdea a lawyer and member of the transition committee has been offered the post of executive secretary Duterte said

Duterte said lawyer Salvador Panelo would take charge of the press as his spokesperson

For education secretary Duterte said he had chosen Peter Laurel the president of Lyceum of the Philippines University Laurelrsquos father was former Sen Sotero Laurel a brother of the late Vice President Salvador Laurel

Top public servantDuterte was also expected to

meet with former Defense Secre-tary Gilbert Teodoro Jr whose name was recently floated as among the choices for secretary of national defense Duterte has spo-ken highly of Teodoro even calling

him a top public servant Teodoro ran for President in 2010

On Sunday Duterte met with three former Davao City po-lice chiefs who were reportedly among those considered to be-come the next Philippine Nation-al Police director general under his administration

PNP Director General Ricardo Marquez has said he would sub-mit his courtesy resignation upon Dutertersquos assumption of office to give the new President a freehand in choosing the next police chief

Present at the dinner-meet-ing held at Hotel Elena was the Southern Luzon Command chief Lt Gen Ricardo Visaya whom Duterte said was being consid-ered as the next Armed Forces chief of staff

It was still not clear whom Duterte would pick between Se-nior Supt Rene Aspera Chief Supt Ramon Apolinario and Chief Supt Ronald dela Rosa as replacement for Marquez

But this early Dela Rosa ap-pears to be on top of the choices

HardworkingDela Rosa who was city po-

lice chief from 2011 to 2013 is a member of Class 1986 of the Phil-ippine Military Academy (PMA) and is known to be hardworking

He was largely credited for the drastic reduction in the volume of ldquoshaburdquo (methamphetamine hy-drochloride) in the city when he implemented Oplan ldquoTukhangrdquo (Tuktok-Hangyo) which saw po-lice authorities knocking on the doors of suspected drug pushers and asking them to stop

Aspera a member of PMA Class 1987 was Dela Rosarsquos im-mediate predecessor Under his command the city police reaped awards including best police of-fice under the city category

Apolinario a member of PMA Class 1985 was the city police director when authorities discov-ered 16-kilograms of high-grade cocaine in a container yard here in December 2009 Apolinario is currently police director of Mi-maropa and will be retiring on Aug 31 2018 n

Duterte names possible cabinethellipPAGE A1 t

Duterte to implement curfew liquor banhellipDuterte said he is also going to im-plement a liquor ban and no-smok-ing policy all over the country

He said the sale of alcohol could be prohibited as early as 10 pm

ldquoWe need legislation for that The Congress can give it to me helliprdquo Duterte stressed

Asked whether 10 pm was too early the tough-talking mayor said ldquoYou have the whole day [para bumili] ng isang truck ng beer (to buy a truck of beer)rdquo

He was quick to point out however that the liquor ban will start from 2 am

For the past 14 years Davao

PAGE A1 t

ments of victoryldquoThat is their strategy or their

psywar (psychological warfare) But if I am the one I caution both parties from claiming victory un-til it is pronounced Let us wait (for the official announcement of the NBOC) after all it would not be longrdquo said De Villa

Robredo earlier said she is leading by 257000 and even if she gets zero votes in the remain-ing nine towns she would still win the vice presidential race

Marcos on the other hand expressed optimism that he had won because of the support giv-en to him by the Filipino voters based abroad He reportedly got

176669 votes from the overseas Filipino voters (OAV) while Ro-bredo only received 89935

As of 245 pm on Monday May 16 the PPCRV electronic board showed that Robredo had 14022843 votes com-pared to Marcos who garnered 13803797 or a difference of 219046 votes

At that time only results from 90632 clustered precincts had been transmitted or 9613 percent out of 92509 local precincts and 1767 precincts from the OAV

De Villa said she does not know where both camps got their data ldquoI donrsquot want to say that they have the wrong computation Maybe they might have some computa-

tion different from us but what I would say is that what we receive (from the Comelec transparency server) is where we base our computationsrdquo

Vice presidential also-ran Sen Antonio Trillanes IV also advised Robredo and Marcos to just wait for the NBOC to complete their work and proclaim the winner

Trillanes said that the race between the two is too close to call

ldquoUltimately it is during the na-tional board of canvassers that we will see the truth because both parties can claim that they have won or one would claim that he has been cheatedrdquo he said

Robredo Marcos urged to wait forhellip

City has imposed a ban on the sale of liquors at 1 am

Duterte said he would also ban smoking in enclosed public ar-eas nationwide with ldquosmoking roomrdquo to be prohibited

Smoking will only be allowed on the street 50 meters away from establishments he added

Davao City has been imple-menting an anti-smoking ordi-nance since 2002

It may be recalled that toward the end of his campaign for the presidency Duterte had said in jest that he might give smokers two days to adjust before ban-ning smoking in public areas na-tionwide nMayor Rody Duterte

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Before she aided the lsquoRo-Rorsquo tandem in their exhausting nationwide campaign she visited Hawaii with Bimby and Josh last December and stayed there for almost a month Aquino is taking a lsquovacation leaversquo and will not return to the limelight until July (Gianna Francesca CatolicoInquirernet)Continued on

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44

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46

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Pork Spare Ribs

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$299SAVINGS

33

$199lbP esyon Suli


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$12lbsfor Roma

Tomato

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$050SAVINGS

60

$15pcsfor

CilantroWAS

$050SAVINGS

60

$15pcsfor Green

OnionsWAS

$050SAVINGS

50

$14lbsfor Brown

Onions

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58

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Jicama

WAS

$099SAVINGS

67


Eggplant

WAS

$129SAVINGS

61

$12lbsfor Green

Papaya

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$199SAVINGS

50

99centGreen Beans

lbsWAS

$899SAVINGS

44

$499Mexican Mango

box

WAS

$599SAVINGS


$499lb

WAS

$199SAVINGS

35 Norway Mackerel

$129lbWAS

$199SAVINGS

35 Pike Mackerel


WAS

$239SAVINGS

46

$129lbP esyon Suli

Beef Shoulder Clod

WAS

$549SAVINGS

36

$349lbP esyon Suli

Pork Spare Ribs

WAS

$299SAVINGS

33

$199lbP esyon Suli


Presy

ongSulit


Fresh Seafood

Fresh oduce

Pantry Favor es

Fresh Meat



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SAVINGS34

79cent


WAS$139

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89cent

$2999WAS

$3999SAVINGS25


$3199WAS

$4199SAVINGS24


$1399WAS

$1799SAVINGS22



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$42for

IP Sweet Rice 2lbs

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$299WAS

$399SAVINGS25


$599WAS

$799SAVINGS25


$199WAS

$249SAVINGS20



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$799SAVINGS25



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$329SAVINGS46



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$099SAVINGS

49

$12lbsfor Roma

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$050SAVINGS

60

$15pcsfor

CilantroWAS

$050SAVINGS

60

$15pcsfor Green

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$050SAVINGS

50

$14lbsfor Brown

Onions

WAS

$079SAVINGS

58

99cent3lbsfor

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WAS

$099SAVINGS

67


Eggplant

WAS

$129SAVINGS

61

$12lbsfor Green

Papaya

WAS

$199SAVINGS

50

99centGreen Beans

lbsWAS

$899SAVINGS

44

$499Mexican Mango

box

WAS

$599SAVINGS


$499lb

WAS

$199SAVINGS

35 Norway Mackerel

$129lbWAS

$199SAVINGS

35 Pike Mackerel


WAS

$239SAVINGS

46

$129lbP esyon Suli

Beef Shoulder Clod

WAS

$549SAVINGS

36

$349lbP esyon Suli

Pork Spare Ribs

WAS

$299SAVINGS

33

$199lbP esyon Suli


Presy

ongSulit


Fresh Seafood

Fresh oduce

Pantry Favor es

Fresh Meat

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