Saturday, November 5, 2022
Monday, October 31, 2022
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Saturday, October 22, 2022
Sunday, October 16, 2022
PLDT-DPC Metro Manila Telephone Directory Cover
2 - June 1988-May 1989, on the cover: "Epoch in Communication" by Jaime “Jim” Battad, Jr.
3 - June 1989-May 1990, on the cover: "A Rich Heritage of Race and Spirit" by Neil Manalo
4 - June 1990-May 1991, on the cover: "Aanhin Pa ang Damo kung Patay na ang Kabayo" by Mario Uy
5 - June 1991-May 1992, on the cover: "Magkabalikat sa Iisang Mithiin" by Rizal D. Maddela
6 - June 1992-May 1993, on the cover: "Sama-sama, Tulong-tulong, Kaunlaran Para sa Ating Lahat" by Modesto P. Saldana, Jr.
7 - June 1993-May 1994, on the cover: "Seal of the noble Filipino" by Rodrigo Clapano
8 - June 1994-May 1995, on the cover: "Paghubog at Paglinang sa mga Bagong Sibol Tungo sa Maunlad at Matatag na Kinabukasan" by Armando E. Flaviano
9 - June 1995-May 1996, on the cover: "Sa Pamilya Magmumula ang Pagbabago at Pag-asa" by Wesley Valenzuela of the University of Santo Tomas
10 - June 1996-May 1997, on the cover: "Sagisag ng Tagumpay" by Alberto Emmanuel Villavert III,
11 - June 1997-May 1998, on the cover: "Sama-sama sa Pagdiwang ng Kalayaan" by The Art of Marcial Pontillas
12 - June 1998-May 1999, on the cover: "Kasarinlan at iba pa (Ang Tagumpay ng Bayang Pilipinas)" by Resty A. Tica
13 - June 1999-May 2000, on the cover: "Transformation of Time Towards a Bountiful Life"
14 - June 2000-May 2001, on the cover: "Pagdiriwang" by Randolf Q. Tuazon, Far Eastern University
15 - June 2001-May 2002, on the cover: "Ang Ilog Pasig Noon, Ay Siya Na Muli Ngayon" 29" x 29", oil/acrylic entry of Ronnie T. Tres Reyes of the University of the East-Kalookan.
16 - June 2002-May 2003, on the cover: "I.T. An opening To A New World", 24" x 25", Tempera Watercolor entry of Jaime B. Gubaton
17 - June 2003-May 2004, on the cover: "I Belong to One Big Happy Family" Oil on Canvas entry by Allan Jay Ballisi
18 - June 2004-May 2005, on the cover: "Huwarang hangarin: kabataan pag-asa pa rin ang bayan", 29" x 29" oil on canvass entry of Jaypee Samson
19 - June 2005-May 2006, on the cover: "Manggawang Pinoy: pinagbuklod ng isang layunin, kaya't tawagin natin silang mga bagong bayani", 29" x 29" oil on canvass entry of Jermaine W. Alvarez
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Saturday, October 15, 2022
Saturday, October 8, 2022
Saturday, October 1, 2022
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Multiply Social Network Now A Go After 9 Year Deadlock
Wazzup Pilipinas!
The nine-year deadlock is finally over.
After nine years of being closed, Prosus N.V. has inked a consensus among shareholders to reopen Multiply as a social networking site.
Multiply was a platform where people uploaded various media such as photos, videos, and blog entries, but its real charm among many users was its unlimited photo sharing. With the unlimited photo sharing feature, people upload massive amounts of photos without losing so much of the photos’ quality. People had these photos sorted into different albums, and segregated into different dates.
An agreement with Prosus will be signed tomorrow, September 28 to finalize the re-opening of the Multiply.com social network.
Resolving the problem
Getting all parties to agree is among Multiply CEO Stefan Magdalinski's targets within the first 100 days of Marcos's administration, and it involved engaging all stakeholders in meetings in order to reach a consensus. In a meeting, last Sept. 8, Multiply founder Peter Pezaris and former country manager for the Philippines Jonathan Madrid agreed that the website is necessary to recover and retrieve blogs, photos, and videos from 2004 to 2013.
Legal tussle
The Enchong Dee feature project in UAAP Magazine started on September 23, 2012, during the first semester of UAAP Season 75 hosted by the National University, and has been on hold due to legal issues and scheduling conflicts.
On May 6, 2013, Multiply Philippines officially announced it will permanently shut down.
On May 31, 2013, Multiply had ceased its operations and shut down entirely.
The long closure of the website lasted for 9 years, to rehabilitate and resolve the issues surrounding Multiply, including financial problems as well as to recover and retrieve hosted blogs, videos, and photos.
However, when President Rodrigo Duterte came to power on June 30, 2016, the website remains closed.
According to the sources, the website would remain shuttered when the president was still in office until June 30, 2022.
On April 1, 2019, the company issued a bankruptcy court filing which stated that it would no longer auction off its intellectual property, since its controlling lender planned to "the business behind the Multiply brand name" with their new mobile app, delivering old accounts, photos and videos from the old Multiply from it's launch in March 2004 to March 15, 2013, and establishing new opportunities. The company evaluated that selling its brand at auction is "not reasonably likely to yield a superior alternative."
Magdalinski said he had proposed to the website’s board plans and strategies which would include another set of efforts that should bring the company to profitability in the next couple of years.
“I’ve actually presented to the board some of the things that I like to do and because of the current struggles of the business when it comes to views, and correspondingly revenues. So an important pivot that we will do is, of course, we will still continue to offer social networking, but we want to maximize the assets that we have, that have by putting in more shows that more and more people will use the computer,” Magdalinski said in an interview.
It is expecting to resume its operations next year, after it announced President Rodrigo R. Duterte lifted the closure on August 22.
“Hopefully, next week basta ma-comply nila lahat ng requirement (I hope net week for compliant operators),” Multiply.com Philippines president Katherine Chloe S. de Castro-Cruz told reporters in a briefing Friday.
On October 15, 2019, the response of Chief Presidential Legal Counsel and Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, when asked about the bankruptcy and potential demise of e-commerce and social networking site Multiply.
There was no direct response when asked if the President's previous statements were true that he would approve the reopening of a website, Panelo said.
Such statements by the president were simply out of frustration.
The management announced that it would engage in a decade-long rehabilitation effort, including the importation of old and new features such as similar to Facebook Live until Multiply is reopened by June 1, 2025; however, there were plans to partially re-open within 2021 depending on the social networking portion.
On December 30, 2019, Duterte again warned Multiply CEO Magdalinski that syndicated estafa charges “have no bail” and that he was determined to see them in jail.
On January 2, 2020, President Duterte doesn’t just make threats, he will pursue the filing of syndicated estafa charges against the CEO and owner of Indonesian E-commerce and global social networking giant Multiply over financial difficulties and corporate rehabilitation, Malacañang said on Thursday.
“Pag sinabi ni Presidente, tutuluyan niya iyan (When the President says something, he will really do it),” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a Palace briefing.
It then began the arduous task of resuming its operations.
To recall, according to Senator Grace Poe-Llamanzares, Chair of the Senate Public Services Committee, and Palawan Rep. Franz Alvarez on the process to reopen Multiply as a social networking site, to compete with Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and Twitter.
The Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines granted their application for an increase in capitalization and amendments to Multiply's articles of incorporation and by-laws.
| Imee Marcos |
Saturday, September 24, 2022
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Wednesday, September 7, 2022
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Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Monday, August 29, 2022
PLDT Art Contest now accepting entries
Every year, the PLDT-DPC Telephone Directory Cover Visual Arts National Competition has a theme that reflects the changing concerns of society.
The Competition has given many young visual artists the opportunity to gain honors and see their works on the covers of telephone directories. The announcement of winners will be on February 4, 2023 at the Ayala Museum.
The Grand Prize-winning entry will be on the cover of PLDT Metro Manila Telephone Directory, which contains the White Pages and the Yellow Pages which come in two volumes, namely: Household and Business and Commercial and Industrial, while four remaining winning entries will be used for PLDT's provincial telephone directories. The entries are also judged by some of the country's top artists from the Artists Association of the Philippines Foundation Inc.
Almost PhP300,000 and trophies and plaques designed and executed by National Artist Napoleon Abueva are at stake. The Grand Prize Winner receives P60,000 and a trophy, while the School gets PhP25,000 and a plaque. The Second Prize Winner gets PhP50,000 and a plaque, while the School gets PhP20,000 and a plaque. The Third Prize Winner gets P40,000 and a trophy while the school receives PhP15,000 and a plaque. The Fourth and Fifth Prize Winners will receive PhP35,000 and PhP30,000, respectively; their schools get PhP10,000 and PhP8,000.
PLDT Telephone Directories
Metro Manila Telephone Directory - August Issue, 4-column book
Contains three volumes of directories included: White Pages - Alphabetical Listings, Yellow Pages - Household & Business (HB), and Yellow Pages - Commercial & Industrial (CI)
Delivered in: City of Manila, Caloocan City, Las Piñas, Makati, Malabon, Mandaluyong, Marikina, Muntinlupa, Navotas, Parañaque, Pasay, Pasig, Quezon City, San Juan, San Pedro, Taguig, Valenzuela and Pateros
Ilocos/Abra Telephone Directory - September Issue, 2-column book
Distributed and delivered in Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Abra, parts of La Union are San Gabriel, Santol, Sudipen, and Bangar and parts of Cagayan are Santa Praxedes, Claveria, Calayan, Sanchez-Mira, Pamplona.
Cagayan/Isabela/Nueva Vizcaya Telephone Directory - September Issue, 2-column book
Distributed and delivered in Santiago City, Isabela, Cagayan, Batanes, Quirino and Nueva Vizcaya
Pangasinan / La Union Telephone Directory - September Issue, 2-column book
Distributed and delivered in Pangasinan and La Union (San Fernando, Agoo, Aringay, Bacnotan, Bagulin, Balaoan, Bangar, Bauang, Burgos, Caba, Luna, Naguilian, Pugo, Rosario, San Juan, Sto. Tomas and Tubao)
CALABAR Telephone Directory - December Issue, 4-column book
Distributed and delivered in Cavite, Laguna, Batangas and Rizal
Palawan / Marinduque / Masbate / Occidental Mindoro / Oriental Mindoro / Romblon Telephone Directory - July Issue, 2-column book
Iloilo/Capiz Telephone Directory - February Issue, 4-column book
Distributed and delivered in Metro-Iloilo Guimaras (Iloilo City, Leganes, Oton, Pavia, San Miguel, Santa Barbara, Buenavista, Jordan, Nueva Valencia, San Lorenzo and Sibunag), Aklan, Antique and Capiz
Negros Telephone Directory - September Issue, 4-column book
Distributed and delivered in Bacolod City and Negros Occidental, Parts of Negros Oriental: Canlaon, Guihulngan, Jimalalud, La Libertad and Vallehermoso
Bohol/Leyte Telephone Directory - July Issue, 2-column book
Distributed in Bohol, Tacloban City, Samar Leyte, Eastern Samar, Northern Samar, Biliran and Southern Leyte
Cebu Telephone Directory - October Issue, 4-column book
Distributed and delivered in Cebu
Davao Telephone Directory - November Issue, 4-column book
Distributed and delivered in Metro Davao (Davao City, Tagum, Panabo, Digos, Samal, Carmen, and Sta. Cruz), entire provinces of Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, Davao Occidental, Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley.
General Santos / Maguindanao / North & South Cotabato / Sarangani / Sultan Kudarat Telephone Directory - November Issue, 2-column book
Distributed in General Santos City, South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, Maguindanao and North Cotabato
Zamboanga Telephone Directory - February Issue, 2-column book
Distributed and delivered in Zamboanga City, Basilan, Zamboanga Sibugay, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi
PLDT Telephone Directories fatter-thin for 2023
PLDT Metro Manila:
- White Pages - Alphabetical Listings (merger of Government and Business Listings and Residential Listings)
- Yellow Pages - Household and Business
- Yellow Pages - Commercial and Industrial
- PLDT Iloilo / Capiz
- PLDT Misamis Occidental / Misamis Oriental
- PLDT Zamboanga
- PLDT Maratel
- PLDT Philcom
- PLDT Palawan / Marinduque / Masbate
- PLDT Bohol / Leyte
- PLDT Quezon / Albay / Camarines Norte and Sur / Catanduanes / Sorsogon
- PLDT Benguet / Mountain Province
- PLDT Negros Occidental / Negros Oriental
- PLDT Pangasinan / La Union
- PLDT Ilocos Norte / Ilocos Sur / Abra
- PLDT Cagayan / Isabela / Nueva Vizcaya
- PLDT Bulacan / Nueva Ecija
- PLDT Pampanga / Clarktel / Tarlac
- PLDT Bataan / Zambales / Subictel
- PLDT Cebu
- PLDT Davao / Surigao del Norte
- PLDT General Santos / Maguindanao / North and South Cotabato / Sarangani / Sultan Kudarat
- PLDT Cavite
- PLDT Laguna
- PLDT Batangas
- PLDT Rizal
Saturday, August 27, 2022
Friday, August 19, 2022
Senate on ‘total lockdown’ on Monday following COVID-19 infections
Jauhn Etienne Villaruel, ABS-CBN News
The Senate building in Pasay City will be on “total” lockdown on Monday to undergo “thorough cleaning and disinfection” following the COVID-19 infections of several senators and some staff, Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri announced Friday.
“I have instructed the Secretariat to conduct a thorough cleaning and disinfection of all Senate offices. For this reason, there will be a total lockdown of our Senate building, and all Senate employees shall work from home and need not report to the Senate on Monday,” Zubiri said.
Zubiri said Senate sessions would resume on Tuesday.
Senators JV Ejercito, Nancy Binay, and Joel Villanueva are the latest members of the Senate to catch COVID-19 this month.
Senators Alan Peter Cayetano, Imee Marcos, Cynthia Villar and Grace Poe were earlier infected with the virus.
Comelec urges Maguindanao residents to vote with plebiscite preparations underway
The Commission on Elections has designated September 17 of this year for the holding of the Maguindanao plebiscite to determine whether or not the province will be divided into two.
At the Maguindanao Plebiscite Coordinating Conference in Cotabato City earlier this week, Comelec chair George Garcia urged residents of Maguindanao to exercise their right to vote in the upcoming plebiscite. Residents are voting to ratify Republic Act 11550, which President Rodrigo Duterte signed in May last year, dividing the province into Maguindanao del Norte and Maguindanao del Sur.
The commission is also set to print 818,790 ballots for the plebiscite.
"We're calling on Maguindanaoans to go out and vote. This is for your future, not just one person. It's for your future... I believe that because of the love of Maguindanaoans in their province, because these are your aspirations, whether you really want to divide, or if you really don't want it, the important thing is always to be able to vote."
"It is not enough for Yes to win or for No to win enough. We should make sure that the people can vote... We will remember, always, sovereignty resides on the people."
Garcia also appealed to the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines to ensure the security of poll workers and remain vigilant against election-related violence and other violations.
A gun ban has since been implemented in the province as part of the government's security preparations ahead of the plebiscite.
"Sometimes, the electoral exercises that we know will be quiet are the ones that suddenly doesn't go well. So, let's not ignore that it's just a plebiscite... That's why I'm asking all of you, how can we came together in 2022 May [elections], that would be our coming together, our coordination for this in the upcoming plebiscite," Garcia said.
"That is my request, especially to the PNP and the ace AFP that I hope our election officers, election assistants and all election workers will be protected... I hope no lives will be lost or hurt because of this plebiscite."
A similar plebiscite was held in Palawan in March 2021, wherein a majority voted not to divide the province into three.
Thursday, August 18, 2022
Comelec asks PNP, AFP to secure poll workers in Maguindanao plebiscite
Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman George Erwin Garcia on Thursday led the coordinating conference for the Maguindanao plebiscite next month.
Garcia was joined by Comelec commissioners Aimee Ferolino and Marlon Casquejo during the event held in Cotabato City.
According to the Office of the Comelec Chairman, security and preparations for the Sept. 17 plebiscite were discussed.
The plebiscite seeks to ratify the division of the Province of Maguindanao into two, to be known as Maguindanao del Norte and Maguindanao del Sur.
The Maguindanao plebiscite will use 818,790 ballots.
Garcia appealed to the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines to ensure the security of poll workers.
“Yun pong kahilingan ko lang, lalo na po sa ating PNP at sa ating AFP, na sana naman po ang ating mga election officers, election assistants, at lahat ng manggagawa sa eleksyon ay ma-protektahan," he said.
"Kahit paano po, ang kanilang security ay masiguro natin. Kahit paano, na sana walang buhay na mawawala o masasaktan dahil sa plebesito na ito,” he added.
The printing for the first batch of official ballots has commenced at the National Printing Office (NPO) in Diliman, Quezon City, Comelec said.
The poll body said the manual election system is used for the conduct of plebiscites, and ballots are accomplished manually by the voters by writing the answer for the approval or rejection of the proposed measure.
Former President Rodrigo Duterte last year approved Republic Act 11550 which divided the southern province.
The two provinces will be created upon approval by the majority of residents in a plebiscite, the charter reads.
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Comelec prints ballots for Batangas, Maguindanao plebiscites
By: John Eric Mendoza - Reporter
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) started Tuesday the printing of ballots and other forms for the plebiscites to be held this September in Batangas and in Maguindanao.
The Batangas plebiscite on Sept. 3 is to ratify the conversion of Calaca town into a component city. The Maguindanao plebiscite on Sept.. 17 is to ratify the division of the province into Maguindanao del Norte and Maguindanao del Sur.
The printing is being done at the National Printing Office, which has so far printed 58,881 ballots for Calaca.
Comelec said it would print 818,790 ballots for Maguindanao.
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1647934/comelec-prints-ballots-for-batangas-maguindanao-plebiscites
Saturday, August 13, 2022
Maguindanao plebiscite: Gun ban starts August 16
A gun ban will be implemented from Aug. 16 to Sept. 24 as part of the security measures for the holding of a plebiscite in Maguindanao on Sept. 17.
In a resolution promulgated on Aug. 3, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said checkpoints would be set up in the province during the same period.
The plebiscite will ratify the division of Maguindanao into Maguindanao del Norte and Maguindanao del Sur, as provided under Republic Act 11550 signed by former president Rodrigo Duterte in May 2021.
The resolution was published in The STAR on Wednesday.
The poll body ordered its information department to furnish copies of the resolution to the Department of Justice, Cotabato City prosecutor’s office, Maguindanao provincial prosecutor’s office, Department of National Defense, Armed Forces of the Philippines, Philippine National Police, Cotabato City police officers and 36 local government units in Maguindanao.
The Comelec regional director in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, provincial election supervisor and election officers in the province should also be furnished copies of the resolution, the poll body said.
Comelec acting acting spokesman John Rex Laudiangco said Maguindanao allotted P89.14 million for the plebiscite.
https://www.philstar.com/nation/2022/08/12/2202052/maguindanao-plebiscite-gun-ban-starts-august-16