By Noynoy Lacson
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Ministry of Interior and Local Government in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is spearheading the drafting of the Bangsamoro local government code, one of the priority legislations entrusted to the Bangsamoro Transition Authority.
BARMM Chief Minister Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim said that the Bangsamoro Local Government Code is one of the important codes that should be crafted and passed by the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) as it “will clearly define the relationship between the LGUs and the Bangsamoro government.
“The only way to realize the aspiration of the decade-struggle of the Bangsamoro people is to be able to achieve the changes we want in the governance,” he added.
He also recognized the importance of LGUs as they are the real face of governance to which constituents can easily relay their concerns.
Ebrahim recently issued a memorandum directing the BARMM agencies to align their plans, projects, and programs to the 12-point agenda of the Bangsamoro government.
The 12-point agenda of the BARMM published by the Bangsamoro Planning and Development Authority include the enactment of priority bills; integration of development plans; establishment of appropriate bureaucracy; continuity of existing government services; special programs for transitioning combatants; supporting the on-going Marawi rehabilitation; development of enabling policy environment; activation of job-generating industries; enhancement of security; maximizing synergistic partnerships; ensure environmental compliance; and exploration of Bangsamoro’s economic potentials.
Lawyer Naguib Sinarimbo, minister of interior and local government (MILG), emphasized the importance of the local government code as it will outline and define the mandate of the Bangsamoro government in its relations with the different local government units.
He said that, in 2022, the local government code will be enacted.
“Let us attempt to create a system that will allow us for the first time not just in the region but in the country to integrate service delivery and programming to the different LGUs,” he said, adding that the three-year opportunity given to the Bangsamoro should not be missed.
During the initial round of the drafting of the code, participants did a comparative analysis of the Muslim Mindanao Act No. 25 Local Government Code of ARMM and Republic Act No. 7160 Local Government Code of the Philippines, as well as challenges and opportunities on local planning and service delivery, local revenue generation, and local autonomy and innovations.
https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/07/17/barmm-local-government-code-being-drafted-by-bta/
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
SM Hotels and Conventions Corp. to open Lanson Place Hotel & Serviced Suites in MOA
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| Shown from left at the signing of the management agreement are: Lanson Place Hospitality Management Limited CEO Michael Hobson, Wing Tai Properties Limited Director for Corporate Development, Karen Li, SM Hotels and Conventions Corp President Elizabeth Sy and SM Prime Holdings Inc. Executive Committee Chairman Hans Sy. |
SM Hotels and Conventions Corp (SMHCC) and Lanson Place Hospitality Management Limited (LPHM) of Hong Kong signed a management agreement heralding the introduction of the Lanson Place brand in the Philippines.
The first Lanson Place in the Philippines will be located at the heart of SM Mall of Asia providing guests with direct access to extensive retail, F&B and entertainment facilities. The property which will feature a 250-room hotel and a 150-room serviced suites will also be within close proximity to the flagship SMX Convention Center Manila as well as the iconic eCom office buildings, making it ideal for business travelers and MICE delegates.
“We are delighted to be able to introduce Lanson Place’s contemporary lifestyle into The Philippines. This is an important milestone for our Group, as we establish our first foothold in the Philippines. Lanson Place Hotel and Serviced Suites will serve as an ideal setting for guests looking for quality accommodation and attentive service, whether for a short or long-term stay. We are very excited to be collaborating with SMHCC on this project and we can’t wait to receive our first guests,” says Lanson Place Hospitality Management CEO Michael Hobson.
“Lanson Place Hotel and Serviced Suites Mall of Asia will be an outstanding addition to the SM Hotels and Conventions Corp (SMHCC) portfolio. Its anticipated opening of the property underscores the expanding footprint of SMHCC and will be an added boost in the booming Philippine hospitality industry,” adds SMHCC President Elizabeth Sy.
Within 15 minutes away from the capital’s two international airports, Lanson Place Hotel and Serviced Suites Mall of Asia is strategically located near the city’s main commercial and entertainment districts as well as tourist attractions such as museums and historical landmarks. The hotel rooms as well as the well-appointed serviced apartments are designed in sleek, contemporary style. Facilities include an all-day dining restaurant, a fitness center and a rooftop swimming pool offering a full view of the picturesque Manila Bay.
It is also poised to be a choice venue for meetings and social events. Its ballroom can accommodate a maximum of 800 guests which makes it ideal for mid-sized events. An al fresco facility on the podium caters to relaxing intimate events.
Lanson Place Hotel and Serviced Suites Mall of Asia is slated to open in 2022.
Lanson Place is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wing Tai Properties Limited (Wing Tai), a publicly listed company in Hong Kong.
https://business.mb.com.ph/2019/07/16/sm-hotels-and-conventions-corp-to-open-lanson-place-hotel-serviced-suites-in-moa/
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Palace says Duterte’s fourth SONA to be ‘short’
By Genalyn Kabiling
The upcoming State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Duterte will just be “short” after his Cabinet members have already highlighted the government’s achievements in pre-SONA events, Malacañang said Tuesday.
“Because I asked him about the SONA this morning. He said, ‘Oh, it will be short,’” Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo said during a Palace press briefing.
“Ordinarily, the President will be discussing achievements of his administration on a particular year, and since the pre-SONAs are already doing that, so I do not think the President will have to repeat that,” he added.
The President is expected to deliver his fourth SONA before a joint session of Congress on July 29, Monday. The annual address is a venue for the President to highlight his accomplishments for the past year and present his plans for the coming year.
Prior to the SONA, concerned cabinet members conducted two public forums presenting achievements on the economy, infrastructure development, poverty alleviation, and other social protection programs. The third and last pre-SONA event focused on the government’s environmental protection and peace and order efforts will be held in Davao City on Tuesday.
Last year, the President’s SONA lasted for 48 minutes, considered his shortest so far. Duterte, known for his long impromptu speeches, opted to read an expletive-free speech after a House leadership scuffle delayed the SONA activity.
His 2016 SONA lasted for one and a half hour, while his 2017 speech went on for two hours.
According to Panelo, the President may tackle the West Philippine Sea issue in his forthcoming public address this Monday.
“He will ‘educate’ those critics that say that he’s violating the Constitution,” Panelo said.
Duterte earlier drew criticisms after supposedly allowing China to fish in the country’s territorial waters following a mutual pact with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The verbal deal, forged in 2016, included China’s commitment not to block Filipino fishermen sailing in Panatag Shoal.
https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/07/16/palace-says-dutertes-fourth-sona-to-be-short/
The upcoming State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Duterte will just be “short” after his Cabinet members have already highlighted the government’s achievements in pre-SONA events, Malacañang said Tuesday.
“Because I asked him about the SONA this morning. He said, ‘Oh, it will be short,’” Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo said during a Palace press briefing.
“Ordinarily, the President will be discussing achievements of his administration on a particular year, and since the pre-SONAs are already doing that, so I do not think the President will have to repeat that,” he added.
The President is expected to deliver his fourth SONA before a joint session of Congress on July 29, Monday. The annual address is a venue for the President to highlight his accomplishments for the past year and present his plans for the coming year.
Prior to the SONA, concerned cabinet members conducted two public forums presenting achievements on the economy, infrastructure development, poverty alleviation, and other social protection programs. The third and last pre-SONA event focused on the government’s environmental protection and peace and order efforts will be held in Davao City on Tuesday.
Last year, the President’s SONA lasted for 48 minutes, considered his shortest so far. Duterte, known for his long impromptu speeches, opted to read an expletive-free speech after a House leadership scuffle delayed the SONA activity.
His 2016 SONA lasted for one and a half hour, while his 2017 speech went on for two hours.
According to Panelo, the President may tackle the West Philippine Sea issue in his forthcoming public address this Monday.
“He will ‘educate’ those critics that say that he’s violating the Constitution,” Panelo said.
Duterte earlier drew criticisms after supposedly allowing China to fish in the country’s territorial waters following a mutual pact with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The verbal deal, forged in 2016, included China’s commitment not to block Filipino fishermen sailing in Panatag Shoal.
https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/07/16/palace-says-dutertes-fourth-sona-to-be-short/
Duterte signs law institutionalizing Seal of Good Local Governance
A law establishing an incentive program that recognizes local government units (LGUs) engaged in good local governance has been signed into law by President Duterte.
Republic Act No. 11292, signed by the President last April 12, institutionalizes the Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) for local government units in a bid to promote quality governance and delivery of public services. A copy of the law was posted on the government website Tuesday.
“It is hereby declared the policy of the State to recognize the good performance of local government units in transparency and accountability in the use of public funds, preparedness for challenges posed by disasters, sensitivity to the needs of vulnerable and marginalized sectors of society, implementation of health programs, investment and employment promotion, protection of constituency from threats to life and damage to property, and safeguarding the integrity of the environment,” the law read.
“In such recognition, the State hopes to encourage all LGUs to take on greater challenges, encourage outcome-based performance and to reward local governments for their effort in pursuing the general welfare of their constituency and in enforcing existing laws,” it added.
Under the law, the SGLC is now considered an award, incentive, honor and recognition-based program for all LGUs, as well as a continuing commitment for LGUs to continually progress and improve their performance.
The performance of LGUs will be reviewed in the areas of good fiscal administration, disaster preparedness, social protection and sensitivity programs, health compliance and responsiveness, education programs, business friendliness and competitiveness, public safety, environmental management, tourism and heritage development, and youth development.
A local government that qualifies and passes all assessment criteria will be conferred and awarded the SGLG and granted the corresponding incentive. The SGLG Incentive Fund has also been created under the annual national budget to bankroll the incentives wanted to winning lgus. It will be managed and administered by the Department of Interior and Local Government, the implementing agency of the law.
The new law has also created the Council of Good Local Governance that will serve as policy-making and advisory body to ensure the proper implementation of the SGLG. The council will be chaired by the DILG Secretary.
The members include the Department of Budget and Management, Department of Finance, Department of Health, Department of Social Welfare and Development, Department of Education, Department of Tourism, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, National Economic and Development Authority, Office of Civil Defense.
https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/07/16/duterte-signs-law-institutionalizing-seal-of-good-local-governance/
Republic Act No. 11292, signed by the President last April 12, institutionalizes the Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) for local government units in a bid to promote quality governance and delivery of public services. A copy of the law was posted on the government website Tuesday.
“It is hereby declared the policy of the State to recognize the good performance of local government units in transparency and accountability in the use of public funds, preparedness for challenges posed by disasters, sensitivity to the needs of vulnerable and marginalized sectors of society, implementation of health programs, investment and employment promotion, protection of constituency from threats to life and damage to property, and safeguarding the integrity of the environment,” the law read.
“In such recognition, the State hopes to encourage all LGUs to take on greater challenges, encourage outcome-based performance and to reward local governments for their effort in pursuing the general welfare of their constituency and in enforcing existing laws,” it added.
Under the law, the SGLC is now considered an award, incentive, honor and recognition-based program for all LGUs, as well as a continuing commitment for LGUs to continually progress and improve their performance.
The performance of LGUs will be reviewed in the areas of good fiscal administration, disaster preparedness, social protection and sensitivity programs, health compliance and responsiveness, education programs, business friendliness and competitiveness, public safety, environmental management, tourism and heritage development, and youth development.
A local government that qualifies and passes all assessment criteria will be conferred and awarded the SGLG and granted the corresponding incentive. The SGLG Incentive Fund has also been created under the annual national budget to bankroll the incentives wanted to winning lgus. It will be managed and administered by the Department of Interior and Local Government, the implementing agency of the law.
The new law has also created the Council of Good Local Governance that will serve as policy-making and advisory body to ensure the proper implementation of the SGLG. The council will be chaired by the DILG Secretary.
The members include the Department of Budget and Management, Department of Finance, Department of Health, Department of Social Welfare and Development, Department of Education, Department of Tourism, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, National Economic and Development Authority, Office of Civil Defense.
https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/07/16/duterte-signs-law-institutionalizing-seal-of-good-local-governance/
Explanatory Note on Multiply
Multiply Inc. was founded in 2004 by Peter Pezaris, Michael Gersh, and David Hersh. With headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida, United States, Multiply is the second largest social network in Southeast Asia, with millions of users in the US, Brazil, India and more. Multiply initially carried out the main function as a social network where users shared photos, blogs, videos, and others. In its development, Multiply changed its function to become an electronic trading site. On September 20, 2010, most of Multiply.com's shares were acquired by Naspers Limited (NPSN-JSE), an electronic trading expert company in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa.
Multiply Indonesia
PT Multiply Indonesia, also known as MulpID, was established on December 15, 2010. The Multiply office in Jakarta has become the largest Multiply office. In 2012, Multiply in Indonesia has 90,000 sellers (with 2,000 new sellers each month). At the end of the social networking era, Multiply had 2.3 million registered accounts and 7 million unique visits each month.
Since its establishment, Multiply Indonesia aims to establish strategic and comprehensive business cooperation to educate the Indonesian market regarding electronic commerce activities while strengthening the network of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesia. Multiply Indonesia is led by Country Manager Daniel Tumiwa.
Multiply Philippines
Multiply Philippines is based in Manila, led by Country Manager Jack Madrid. In 2012, Multiply Philippines had as many as 102,000 members.
Multiply social network
Multiply is a social networking site, where people share photos, writing, videos and even music. However, the exchange of music in recent years has been increasingly tightened due to encouragement from those who care about copyright.
Feature
On the Multiply social network, relationships with contacts are not only described as "friends", but users can choose a more suitable relationship, such as relatives, father, child, wife / husband, niece, professional contacts, online friends, and so on. Users can set content designation that is loaded on Multiply for certain contact groups. The contact group provided for the lowest authority is online buddy. Online buddy classification is usually applied to people who are just known online, so they cannot know each other too personally.
Some of the features available on the Multiply social network are:
Blog
Multiply provides word processing to compile a blog content in the WYSIWYG format. When sending blog entries to Multiply, users can automatically cross-post to Blogspot, Twitter, and or Facebook.
Photo
Multiply provides a means to share truly unlimited photos, both from the size of photos (in megapixels) and the size of photo files (in megabytes). There is no difference in quota in uploading photos whether users pay or not.
To facilitate photo uploading, Multiply also provides AutoUploader software. The photos uploaded via Multiply AutoUploader are stored in a place called Media Locker. Users who don't pay are given thirty days of saving photos in Media Locker. If the photo is not processed into a photo album shipment, the photos in Media Locker will be deleted automatically. While premium users can enjoy Media Locker without having to make a photo album while the premium membership period is valid.
Video
Users can directly upload videos to Multiply or retrieve from YouTube, Photobucket, Google Video, or Metacafe. Free users can upload up to 10 minutes of video or 100 megabytes. While premium users have a limit of 20 minutes or 200 megabytes.
Music
At first, Multiply allows users to upload music for up to ten song files in one upload. This ease increases Multiply's popularity. Many people are interested in using Multiply just to share music files.
As popularity increases, Multiply increasingly receives protests from parties who care about copyright. To counter the circulation of pirated music, Multiply then reduced the maximum upload limit to one in five, then reduced it to three. Multiply also revoked the ease of downloading, so music can only be played on the Multiply site. In the last year of the Multiply social network, uploading music was no longer possible by new users joining or in the newly formed group.
Development
In September 2005, or within 1 year and 5 months of its launch, Multiply gathered one million users worldwide.
In June 2007, Multiply staff through its blog stated that the number of users reached five million users.
In October 2008, Multiply was used by ten million members worldwide.
Based on the Alexa site record in December 2008, the majority of users of the Multiply site came from Indonesia, which was 21.7%. While the United States itself, where Multiply's head office is located, contributes 20% to Multiply's users.
On August 7, 2012, Multiply's CEO Stefan Magdalinski announced that Multiply's social network would be stopped, including hosting blogs, videos, photos and music, in order to focus solely on e-commerce.
Closing blog services and sharing files reaping protests from Multiply users. Users feel betrayed, mainly because Multiply's previous management guaranteed that these services will not be eliminated despite the changing focus on e-commerce.
Multiply at a glance (March 2013): 23 million members, 16 million photos and 33,000 videos
In March 2013, the Multiply International site was completely closed and inaccessible, after Multiply had previously only blocked access to Multiply.com from Indonesia's IP address. The promise of Multiply to repay Premium account holders was never fulfilled.
Many people see this decision as a big blunder, because Multiply's ability as an e-commerce site is still very doubtful. Users in Indonesia, for example, tend to prefer shopping on sites that provide a sense of familiarity between buyers and sellers, such as Kaskus for example. The beginning of the emergence of sellers on Multiply also originated from online friendships, and its main attraction was human interaction between buyers and sellers. This seems to be difficult for Multiply to understand. The security guarantee still looks weak on Multiply.
On the Multiply Indonesia Facebook account, this criticism was also conveyed. Many new buyers at Multiply do not understand what is a "Trusted Seller" and not. This happened because Multiply had been guerrilla on the social media outside Multiply without providing a complete explanation, so that many lay people were interested in shopping at Multiply. With secure shopping slogans on Multiply, laymen Multiply only knows shopping on Multiply without paying attention to the T (Trusted Seller) logo. While people who are accustomed to Multiply and understand the system, many even starts leaving Multiply because of various unilateral policies and making them disappointed.
Some "Trusted Sellers" who try to be able to understand Multiply and turn on sales at Multiply provide education to their buyers, something Multiply does not do themselves.
Indeed, many discount programs make many people interested and try to make a secure online shopping system, but not everyone understands how. Some parties suggest that Multiply does not need to provide opportunities to sellers who are not yet "Trusted Sellers" to make transactions if there is no guarantee of security. So, if indeed Multiply intends to become pure e-commerce, all sellers and buyers at Multiply should receive security guarantees without any distinctions on the T logo or not.
Facing these questions and complaints, Multiply can only delete comments or prevent people from sending comments through their Facebook page.
Beginning in April 2013, a group of ex-Multiply users in Indonesia created a like page on Facebook called AntiNewMultiplyMultilieIndonesia to accommodate the many complaints from users (both sellers and buyers) who felt aggrieved by Multiply.
On April 26, 2013, Multiply announced it will close Multiply Indonesia and Multiply International website as of May 6, 2013.
All business activities of Multiply will be terminated on May 31, 2013 at 11:59 p.m.
The cause of the closing of the Multiply site is because Multiply is expected to fail to reach the leading position in the e-commerce industry with a sustainable business model. Multiply CEO Stefan Magdalinski acknowledged that the total change of the Multiply business model from social networking to e-commerce sites was unsuccessful. That website no longer exists as a __________ in the _______.
It filed a petition to wind up the company to recoup his losses, told the court he was in discussions with an unnamed potential investor.
The hearing on the petition was adjourned until June 17, 2013 pending further discussion among the parties.
Multiply Investor Secretary Rong Rongbin pledged shares of Star Platinum Corporation, which holds 99% of its shares, to borrow HK$300 million from Xiesheng Xiefeng to save the Multiply website but did not repay on time; therefore, Xiesheng Xiefeng in July 2013, it acquired the full equity of Star Platinum. It was also reported that about HK$35 million in unpaid wages of 640 former employees and HK$18 million of Insolvency Fund were also paid after the company has acquired its majority stake.
Following years of closure and the announcement of the intent – which eventually fell through, Multiply's stock plummeted and its more than $11 billion in debt caused it to face bankruptcy in April 2016.
It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 21, 2016.
To continue its operations and pay staff, the company received $500 million in bankruptcy debt financing.
It will continue operations during bankruptcy.
The debt financing money came from first-lien and second-lien lenders. The bankruptcy court must approve the money.
The site will be fully reopened their operations 100 days after United States President Obama stepping down in the office on January 20, 2017 at 12 noon (EST) and keeping Facebook as the sole social networking site.
On April 30, 2017, the Indonesian Parliament approved the draft of re-opening Multiply.com, as well their operations, the international unit Multiply International and the social networking portion including 55 million users with hosted blogs, videos, photos and messaging would recover and also voted and approved the draft of re-opening this website.
It was set to be close down by the order of Securities and Exchange Commission.
It then began the arduous task of resuming their operations, when Stefan Magdalinski stays as owner and CEO of the website, and Jack Madrid is the country manager.
Many of former users who called for the website to reopen.
In January 2018, MediaQuest Holdings President and CEO Atty. Ray C. Espinosa stated in an interview that he would be willing to buy the old Multiply from Naspers and turned to became a independent, separate entity.
"Hi! Everyone we will announce soon the launching of the new Multiply! 😊😊😊" it said earlier, that the Multiply website will revert to it's original form as a social networking service and start to recover all hosted blogs, videos, photos and messaging.
"Sana nga maibalik sa orihinal na estado ang Multiply. Marami kaming naghihintay na bumalik ulit ang dating ganda ng Multiply."
Multiply inaugurated its Philippine office in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City in 2028 and began test launch by the end of 2029, officially returning their operations.
Naspers will conduct a partial reopening of Multiply to former users by January 2029.
It said the dry run, scheduled from January 6 to 16, will allow the parent company to assess what else needs to be done before the website will be reopened to users on July 1, 2029 at midnight Manila time.
Remember that House Bill has to be signed into Law.
And it has to go through the Senate first (first reading, committee approval, 2nd reading and 3rd reading) before being signed into law.
Bicam pa.
Seems the two Great Houses of the Congress are fast these days. Let us see how fast they will approve this.
You missed a step, Committee Hearings on either Houses of Congress.
The company obtained its congressional franchise in April 2029 and was granted a provisional authority to operate a social networking service in May 2029.
How to Reopen a Dissolved Company
A business has its own life cycle, starting from the infancy of a budding, new idea to the day when it must close its doors. Some businesses have longer life cycles than others, while some may find new life after dissolving. You might decide to reopen a business after dissolution based on opportunities and the experiences you had when the business was open. Perhaps the business never quite got off the ground because it was established before consumers were ready. Reopening the business may require reestablishing the existing information or reforming a new entity under the old name.
1. Review your original bylaws, business plan and marketing program to find what worked and what did not within the business. Adjust all documents, as needed, to help the business reopen and succeed.
2. Call the Secretary of State in the state where the business was originally established. Look up the business by name to confirm that it was officially dissolved.
3. Ask what is required to reestablish the company in the state. Most states require that the business be in good standing, with updated officer's listings, franchise tax fees and recent board meeting minutes. If the business was dissolved because it was suspended for filing or fee issues, these must be rectified prior to reestablishing the business.
4. Call the Department of Revenue in your state and confirm that your state tax identification number is valid and in good standing.
5. Check with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to update and activate your old Employer Identification Number (EIN) by calling 800-829-4933. Even after a company is dissolved, the EIN remains assigned to the original entity, just as a Social Security number is still the number assigned to a deceased individual.
6. Open a new business entity under the same name if you are unable to reestablish old tax identification numbers or activate your company profile through the Secretary of State. This will require new bylaws and tax identification numbers, but you should be able to get the same name since your business was closed.
7. Open your doors once all legalities are done. Secure work location leases, hire employees and market products and services to your target audience.
Things Needed:
Short-Term, Medium-Term & Long-Term Planning in Business
Business owners develop plans to reach their overall goals, and they usually find it useful to separate planning into phases. This allows you to track immediate improvements while evaluating progress toward eventual goals and targets. The different time frames of the planning process place the focus on time-sensitive aspects of the company's structure and environment. You can differentiate planning based on the time frames of the inputs and expected outcomes.
Strategic Planning Characteristics
Many businesses develop strategic planning within a short-term, medium-term and long-term framework. Short-term usually involves processes that show results within a year. Companies aim medium-term plans at results that take several years to achieve. Long-term plans include the overall goals of the company set four or five years in the future and usually are based on reaching the medium-term targets. Planning in this way helps you complete short-term tasks while keeping longer-term goals in mind.
Short-Term Planning
Short-term planning looks at the characteristics of the company in the present and develops strategies for improving them. Examples are the skills of the employees and their attitudes. The condition of production equipment or product quality problems are also short-term concerns.
To address these issues, you put in place short-term solutions to address problems. Employee training courses, equipment servicing and quality fixes are short-term solutions. These solutions set the stage for addressing problems more comprehensively in the longer term.
Medium-Term Planning
Medium-term planning applies more permanent solutions to short-term problems. If training courses for employees solved problems in the short term, companies schedule training programs for the medium term. If there are quality issues, the medium-term response is to revise and strengthen the company's quality control program.
Where a short-term response to equipment failure is to repair the machine, a medium-term solution is to arrange for a service contract. Medium-term planning implements policies and procedures to ensure that short-term problems don't recur.
Long-Term Planning
In the long term, companies want to solve problems permanently and to reach their overall targets. Long-term planning reacts to the competitive situation of the company in its social, economic and political environment and develops strategies for adapting and influencing its position to achieve long-term goals. It examines major capital expenditures such as purchasing equipment and facilities, and implements policies and procedures that shape the company's profile to match top management's ideas.
When short-term and medium-term planning is successful, long-term planning builds on those achievements to preserve accomplishments and ensure continued progress.
Multiply Indonesia
PT Multiply Indonesia, also known as MulpID, was established on December 15, 2010. The Multiply office in Jakarta has become the largest Multiply office. In 2012, Multiply in Indonesia has 90,000 sellers (with 2,000 new sellers each month). At the end of the social networking era, Multiply had 2.3 million registered accounts and 7 million unique visits each month.
Since its establishment, Multiply Indonesia aims to establish strategic and comprehensive business cooperation to educate the Indonesian market regarding electronic commerce activities while strengthening the network of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesia. Multiply Indonesia is led by Country Manager Daniel Tumiwa.
Multiply Philippines
Multiply Philippines is based in Manila, led by Country Manager Jack Madrid. In 2012, Multiply Philippines had as many as 102,000 members.
Multiply social network
Multiply is a social networking site, where people share photos, writing, videos and even music. However, the exchange of music in recent years has been increasingly tightened due to encouragement from those who care about copyright.
Feature
On the Multiply social network, relationships with contacts are not only described as "friends", but users can choose a more suitable relationship, such as relatives, father, child, wife / husband, niece, professional contacts, online friends, and so on. Users can set content designation that is loaded on Multiply for certain contact groups. The contact group provided for the lowest authority is online buddy. Online buddy classification is usually applied to people who are just known online, so they cannot know each other too personally.
Some of the features available on the Multiply social network are:
Blog
Multiply provides word processing to compile a blog content in the WYSIWYG format. When sending blog entries to Multiply, users can automatically cross-post to Blogspot, Twitter, and or Facebook.
Photo
Multiply provides a means to share truly unlimited photos, both from the size of photos (in megapixels) and the size of photo files (in megabytes). There is no difference in quota in uploading photos whether users pay or not.
To facilitate photo uploading, Multiply also provides AutoUploader software. The photos uploaded via Multiply AutoUploader are stored in a place called Media Locker. Users who don't pay are given thirty days of saving photos in Media Locker. If the photo is not processed into a photo album shipment, the photos in Media Locker will be deleted automatically. While premium users can enjoy Media Locker without having to make a photo album while the premium membership period is valid.
Video
Users can directly upload videos to Multiply or retrieve from YouTube, Photobucket, Google Video, or Metacafe. Free users can upload up to 10 minutes of video or 100 megabytes. While premium users have a limit of 20 minutes or 200 megabytes.
Music
At first, Multiply allows users to upload music for up to ten song files in one upload. This ease increases Multiply's popularity. Many people are interested in using Multiply just to share music files.
As popularity increases, Multiply increasingly receives protests from parties who care about copyright. To counter the circulation of pirated music, Multiply then reduced the maximum upload limit to one in five, then reduced it to three. Multiply also revoked the ease of downloading, so music can only be played on the Multiply site. In the last year of the Multiply social network, uploading music was no longer possible by new users joining or in the newly formed group.
Development
In September 2005, or within 1 year and 5 months of its launch, Multiply gathered one million users worldwide.
In June 2007, Multiply staff through its blog stated that the number of users reached five million users.
In October 2008, Multiply was used by ten million members worldwide.
Based on the Alexa site record in December 2008, the majority of users of the Multiply site came from Indonesia, which was 21.7%. While the United States itself, where Multiply's head office is located, contributes 20% to Multiply's users.
On August 7, 2012, Multiply's CEO Stefan Magdalinski announced that Multiply's social network would be stopped, including hosting blogs, videos, photos and music, in order to focus solely on e-commerce.
Closing blog services and sharing files reaping protests from Multiply users. Users feel betrayed, mainly because Multiply's previous management guaranteed that these services will not be eliminated despite the changing focus on e-commerce.
Multiply at a glance (March 2013): 23 million members, 16 million photos and 33,000 videos
In March 2013, the Multiply International site was completely closed and inaccessible, after Multiply had previously only blocked access to Multiply.com from Indonesia's IP address. The promise of Multiply to repay Premium account holders was never fulfilled.
Many people see this decision as a big blunder, because Multiply's ability as an e-commerce site is still very doubtful. Users in Indonesia, for example, tend to prefer shopping on sites that provide a sense of familiarity between buyers and sellers, such as Kaskus for example. The beginning of the emergence of sellers on Multiply also originated from online friendships, and its main attraction was human interaction between buyers and sellers. This seems to be difficult for Multiply to understand. The security guarantee still looks weak on Multiply.
On the Multiply Indonesia Facebook account, this criticism was also conveyed. Many new buyers at Multiply do not understand what is a "Trusted Seller" and not. This happened because Multiply had been guerrilla on the social media outside Multiply without providing a complete explanation, so that many lay people were interested in shopping at Multiply. With secure shopping slogans on Multiply, laymen Multiply only knows shopping on Multiply without paying attention to the T (Trusted Seller) logo. While people who are accustomed to Multiply and understand the system, many even starts leaving Multiply because of various unilateral policies and making them disappointed.
Some "Trusted Sellers" who try to be able to understand Multiply and turn on sales at Multiply provide education to their buyers, something Multiply does not do themselves.
Indeed, many discount programs make many people interested and try to make a secure online shopping system, but not everyone understands how. Some parties suggest that Multiply does not need to provide opportunities to sellers who are not yet "Trusted Sellers" to make transactions if there is no guarantee of security. So, if indeed Multiply intends to become pure e-commerce, all sellers and buyers at Multiply should receive security guarantees without any distinctions on the T logo or not.
Facing these questions and complaints, Multiply can only delete comments or prevent people from sending comments through their Facebook page.
Beginning in April 2013, a group of ex-Multiply users in Indonesia created a like page on Facebook called AntiNewMultiplyMultilieIndonesia to accommodate the many complaints from users (both sellers and buyers) who felt aggrieved by Multiply.
On April 26, 2013, Multiply announced it will close Multiply Indonesia and Multiply International website as of May 6, 2013.
All business activities of Multiply will be terminated on May 31, 2013 at 11:59 p.m.
The cause of the closing of the Multiply site is because Multiply is expected to fail to reach the leading position in the e-commerce industry with a sustainable business model. Multiply CEO Stefan Magdalinski acknowledged that the total change of the Multiply business model from social networking to e-commerce sites was unsuccessful. That website no longer exists as a __________ in the _______.
It filed a petition to wind up the company to recoup his losses, told the court he was in discussions with an unnamed potential investor.
The hearing on the petition was adjourned until June 17, 2013 pending further discussion among the parties.
Multiply Investor Secretary Rong Rongbin pledged shares of Star Platinum Corporation, which holds 99% of its shares, to borrow HK$300 million from Xiesheng Xiefeng to save the Multiply website but did not repay on time; therefore, Xiesheng Xiefeng in July 2013, it acquired the full equity of Star Platinum. It was also reported that about HK$35 million in unpaid wages of 640 former employees and HK$18 million of Insolvency Fund were also paid after the company has acquired its majority stake.
Following years of closure and the announcement of the intent – which eventually fell through, Multiply's stock plummeted and its more than $11 billion in debt caused it to face bankruptcy in April 2016.
It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 21, 2016.
To continue its operations and pay staff, the company received $500 million in bankruptcy debt financing.
It will continue operations during bankruptcy.
The debt financing money came from first-lien and second-lien lenders. The bankruptcy court must approve the money.
On April 30, 2017, the Indonesian Parliament approved the draft of re-opening Multiply.com, as well their operations, the international unit Multiply International and the social networking portion including 55 million users with hosted blogs, videos, photos and messaging would recover and also voted and approved the draft of re-opening this website.
It was set to be close down by the order of Securities and Exchange Commission.
It then began the arduous task of resuming their operations, when Stefan Magdalinski stays as owner and CEO of the website, and Jack Madrid is the country manager.
Many of former users who called for the website to reopen.
In January 2018, MediaQuest Holdings President and CEO Atty. Ray C. Espinosa stated in an interview that he would be willing to buy the old Multiply from Naspers and turned to became a independent, separate entity.
"Hi! Everyone we will announce soon the launching of the new Multiply! 😊😊😊" it said earlier, that the Multiply website will revert to it's original form as a social networking service and start to recover all hosted blogs, videos, photos and messaging.
"Sana nga maibalik sa orihinal na estado ang Multiply. Marami kaming naghihintay na bumalik ulit ang dating ganda ng Multiply."
Multiply inaugurated its Philippine office in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City in 2028 and began test launch by the end of 2029, officially returning their operations.
Naspers will conduct a partial reopening of Multiply to former users by January 2029.
It said the dry run, scheduled from January 6 to 16, will allow the parent company to assess what else needs to be done before the website will be reopened to users on July 1, 2029 at midnight Manila time.
Remember that House Bill has to be signed into Law.
And it has to go through the Senate first (first reading, committee approval, 2nd reading and 3rd reading) before being signed into law.
Bicam pa.
Seems the two Great Houses of the Congress are fast these days. Let us see how fast they will approve this.
You missed a step, Committee Hearings on either Houses of Congress.
The company obtained its congressional franchise in April 2029 and was granted a provisional authority to operate a social networking service in May 2029.
How to Reopen a Dissolved Company
A business has its own life cycle, starting from the infancy of a budding, new idea to the day when it must close its doors. Some businesses have longer life cycles than others, while some may find new life after dissolving. You might decide to reopen a business after dissolution based on opportunities and the experiences you had when the business was open. Perhaps the business never quite got off the ground because it was established before consumers were ready. Reopening the business may require reestablishing the existing information or reforming a new entity under the old name.
1. Review your original bylaws, business plan and marketing program to find what worked and what did not within the business. Adjust all documents, as needed, to help the business reopen and succeed.
2. Call the Secretary of State in the state where the business was originally established. Look up the business by name to confirm that it was officially dissolved.
3. Ask what is required to reestablish the company in the state. Most states require that the business be in good standing, with updated officer's listings, franchise tax fees and recent board meeting minutes. If the business was dissolved because it was suspended for filing or fee issues, these must be rectified prior to reestablishing the business.
4. Call the Department of Revenue in your state and confirm that your state tax identification number is valid and in good standing.
5. Check with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to update and activate your old Employer Identification Number (EIN) by calling 800-829-4933. Even after a company is dissolved, the EIN remains assigned to the original entity, just as a Social Security number is still the number assigned to a deceased individual.
6. Open a new business entity under the same name if you are unable to reestablish old tax identification numbers or activate your company profile through the Secretary of State. This will require new bylaws and tax identification numbers, but you should be able to get the same name since your business was closed.
7. Open your doors once all legalities are done. Secure work location leases, hire employees and market products and services to your target audience.
Things Needed:
- Old bylaws
- Employer Identification Number
Short-Term, Medium-Term & Long-Term Planning in Business
Business owners develop plans to reach their overall goals, and they usually find it useful to separate planning into phases. This allows you to track immediate improvements while evaluating progress toward eventual goals and targets. The different time frames of the planning process place the focus on time-sensitive aspects of the company's structure and environment. You can differentiate planning based on the time frames of the inputs and expected outcomes.
Strategic Planning Characteristics
Many businesses develop strategic planning within a short-term, medium-term and long-term framework. Short-term usually involves processes that show results within a year. Companies aim medium-term plans at results that take several years to achieve. Long-term plans include the overall goals of the company set four or five years in the future and usually are based on reaching the medium-term targets. Planning in this way helps you complete short-term tasks while keeping longer-term goals in mind.
Short-Term Planning
Short-term planning looks at the characteristics of the company in the present and develops strategies for improving them. Examples are the skills of the employees and their attitudes. The condition of production equipment or product quality problems are also short-term concerns.
To address these issues, you put in place short-term solutions to address problems. Employee training courses, equipment servicing and quality fixes are short-term solutions. These solutions set the stage for addressing problems more comprehensively in the longer term.
Medium-Term Planning
Medium-term planning applies more permanent solutions to short-term problems. If training courses for employees solved problems in the short term, companies schedule training programs for the medium term. If there are quality issues, the medium-term response is to revise and strengthen the company's quality control program.
Where a short-term response to equipment failure is to repair the machine, a medium-term solution is to arrange for a service contract. Medium-term planning implements policies and procedures to ensure that short-term problems don't recur.
Long-Term Planning
In the long term, companies want to solve problems permanently and to reach their overall targets. Long-term planning reacts to the competitive situation of the company in its social, economic and political environment and develops strategies for adapting and influencing its position to achieve long-term goals. It examines major capital expenditures such as purchasing equipment and facilities, and implements policies and procedures that shape the company's profile to match top management's ideas.
When short-term and medium-term planning is successful, long-term planning builds on those achievements to preserve accomplishments and ensure continued progress.
Noynoy to skip Duterte's SONA anew
Former President Benigno Aquino III has not confirmed his attendance to President Rodrigo Duterte's fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) this July 22.
This was relayed to GMA News Online by the House of Representatives Task Force SONA 2019 - Committee on Invitations, Reception and Protocol.
The House has traditionally been sending out invitations to former Presidents and other government officials to attend the incumbent chief executive's SONA.
However, it is not the first time that Aquino would not be attending Duterte's SONA, as he also skipped the previous three.
Meanwhile, the Office of the Vice President has confirmed that Vice President Leni Robredo will attend Duterte's SONA this year.
Members of the two houses of Congress, as well as officials from the executive, judiciary and even local government units, are set to converge at the House of Representatives on Monday to hear the President's report to the nation. —KG, GMA News
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/701158/noynoy-to-skip-duterte-s-sona-anew/story/
This was relayed to GMA News Online by the House of Representatives Task Force SONA 2019 - Committee on Invitations, Reception and Protocol.
The House has traditionally been sending out invitations to former Presidents and other government officials to attend the incumbent chief executive's SONA.
However, it is not the first time that Aquino would not be attending Duterte's SONA, as he also skipped the previous three.
Meanwhile, the Office of the Vice President has confirmed that Vice President Leni Robredo will attend Duterte's SONA this year.
Members of the two houses of Congress, as well as officials from the executive, judiciary and even local government units, are set to converge at the House of Representatives on Monday to hear the President's report to the nation. —KG, GMA News
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/701158/noynoy-to-skip-duterte-s-sona-anew/story/
Monday, July 15, 2019
First representative of lone district of Mandaue City to be elected in 2022
By Leslie Ann Aquino
The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) said the election for the representative of the Lone District of Mandaue City shall be held in the next national and local elections which are in 2022.
“The first regular elections in the new 6th Legislative District of Cebu and the Lone Legislative District of Mandaue City shall be held in the next national and local elections which is in 2022,” the poll body said this in Resolution No. 10546 promulgated on July 3, 2019.
It was last April 5 when President Duterte approved Republic Act No. 11257, entitled, “An Act Separating the City of Mandaue from the Sixth Legislative District of the Province of Cebu, to constitute the Lone Legislative District of the City of Mandaue.”
Left with the 6th Legislative District of Cebu are the municipalities of Consolacion and Cordova.
In the same resolution, the Comelec said the incumbent Representative of the present 6th Legislative District of Cebu which includes Mandaue shall continue to represent the said district until the noon of June 30, 2022.
“There shall be District Representatives in the House of Representatives for the Sixth Legislative District of the Province of Cebu and the Lone Legislative District of the City of Mandaue,” read the resolution.
https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/07/15/first-representative-of-lone-district-of-mandaue-city-to-be-elected-in-2022/
The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) said the election for the representative of the Lone District of Mandaue City shall be held in the next national and local elections which are in 2022.
“The first regular elections in the new 6th Legislative District of Cebu and the Lone Legislative District of Mandaue City shall be held in the next national and local elections which is in 2022,” the poll body said this in Resolution No. 10546 promulgated on July 3, 2019.
It was last April 5 when President Duterte approved Republic Act No. 11257, entitled, “An Act Separating the City of Mandaue from the Sixth Legislative District of the Province of Cebu, to constitute the Lone Legislative District of the City of Mandaue.”
Left with the 6th Legislative District of Cebu are the municipalities of Consolacion and Cordova.
In the same resolution, the Comelec said the incumbent Representative of the present 6th Legislative District of Cebu which includes Mandaue shall continue to represent the said district until the noon of June 30, 2022.
“There shall be District Representatives in the House of Representatives for the Sixth Legislative District of the Province of Cebu and the Lone Legislative District of the City of Mandaue,” read the resolution.
https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/07/15/first-representative-of-lone-district-of-mandaue-city-to-be-elected-in-2022/
Duterte OKs law creating social welfare attaché for OFWs
President Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law creating the social welfare attaché for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).
Duterte signed Republic Act 11299, amending Republic Act no. 8042 or the “Migrant Workers Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995.”
The law, signed on April 17, was only released to the media on Monday.
Under the new law, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is mandated to deploy social welfare attachés “in countries with large concentration” of OFWs.
The law stated that the social welfare attaché would “manage cases of OFWs and other overseas Filipinos in distress needing psychosocial services.”
The attaché would also “undertake surveys and prepare official social welfare situationers on the OFWs in the area of assignment.”
It also mandated the attaché to “establish a network with overseas-based social welfare agencies and/pr individuals and groups which may be mobilized to assist in the provision of appropriate social services.”
The attaché, the new law added, should “respond to and monitor the resolution of problems and complaints or queries of OFWs and their families.”
The law also ordered the attaché to “establish and maintain a databank and documentation of OFWs and their families so that appropriate social welfare services can be more effectively provided.”
The DSWD is mandated to include in the agency’s programs the implementation of the new law, while the funding should be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.
Villanueva thankful
Sen. Joel Villanueva, principal author of the bill, thank the President for the signing of the law.
“We thank the President for enacting this bill which stands to benefit OFWs, whose contribution to our economy entails personal sacrifice. Umaasa po tayo na sa bisa ng batas na ito, regular na pong magkakaroon ng mga social welfare attache sa ating mga tanggapan sa ibang bansa,” Villanueva said in a statement.
“Now that the SWA has been institutionalized, we are confident that the psycho-social needs of our OFWs will be addressed better,” he added.
Citing data from the Department of Labor and Employment, the senator said there are four million OFWs worldwide.
He said “the government set aside P90 million in the 2019 national budget for the SWA office.”
Villanueva said seven SWAs are in Saudi Arabia (Riyadh and Jeddah), United Arab Emirates (Dubai), Qatar, Kuwait, Malaysia, and Hong Kong.
He added that five posts are expected to be opened this 2019 in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Jordan, Lebanon, Italy, and South Korea. /je
https://globalnation.inquirer.net/177940/duterte-oks-law-creating-social-welfare-attache-for-ofws
Duterte signed Republic Act 11299, amending Republic Act no. 8042 or the “Migrant Workers Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995.”
The law, signed on April 17, was only released to the media on Monday.
Under the new law, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is mandated to deploy social welfare attachés “in countries with large concentration” of OFWs.
The law stated that the social welfare attaché would “manage cases of OFWs and other overseas Filipinos in distress needing psychosocial services.”
The attaché would also “undertake surveys and prepare official social welfare situationers on the OFWs in the area of assignment.”
It also mandated the attaché to “establish a network with overseas-based social welfare agencies and/pr individuals and groups which may be mobilized to assist in the provision of appropriate social services.”
The attaché, the new law added, should “respond to and monitor the resolution of problems and complaints or queries of OFWs and their families.”
The law also ordered the attaché to “establish and maintain a databank and documentation of OFWs and their families so that appropriate social welfare services can be more effectively provided.”
The DSWD is mandated to include in the agency’s programs the implementation of the new law, while the funding should be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.
Villanueva thankful
Sen. Joel Villanueva, principal author of the bill, thank the President for the signing of the law.
“We thank the President for enacting this bill which stands to benefit OFWs, whose contribution to our economy entails personal sacrifice. Umaasa po tayo na sa bisa ng batas na ito, regular na pong magkakaroon ng mga social welfare attache sa ating mga tanggapan sa ibang bansa,” Villanueva said in a statement.
“Now that the SWA has been institutionalized, we are confident that the psycho-social needs of our OFWs will be addressed better,” he added.
Citing data from the Department of Labor and Employment, the senator said there are four million OFWs worldwide.
He said “the government set aside P90 million in the 2019 national budget for the SWA office.”
Villanueva said seven SWAs are in Saudi Arabia (Riyadh and Jeddah), United Arab Emirates (Dubai), Qatar, Kuwait, Malaysia, and Hong Kong.
He added that five posts are expected to be opened this 2019 in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Jordan, Lebanon, Italy, and South Korea. /je
https://globalnation.inquirer.net/177940/duterte-oks-law-creating-social-welfare-attache-for-ofws
BARMM starts drafting the Bangsamoro Local Government Code
The Bangsamoro Government’s Ministry of Interior and Local Government is spearheading the drafting of the Bangsamoro local government code, one of the priority legislations entrusted to the Bangsamoro Transition Authority.
Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim, BARMM chief minister noted that the Bangsamoro Local Government Code is one of the important codes to be passed by the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) as it “will clearly define the relationship between the LGUs and the Bangsamoro government.”
“The only way to realize the aspiration of the decade-struggle of the Bangsamoro people is to be able to achieve the changes we want in the governance,” he added.
He also recognized the importance of LGUs as they are the real face of governance to which constituents can easily relay their concerns.
In his speech, Ebrahim said he had issued a memorandum directing the BARMM agencies to align their plans, projects, and programs to the 12-point agenda of the Bangsamoro government.
The 12-point agenda of the BARMM published by the Bangsamoro Planning and Development Authority include the enactment of priority bills; integration of development plans; establishment of appropriate bureaucracy; continuity of existing government services; special programs for transitioning combatants; supporting the on-going Marawi rehabilitation; development of enabling policy environment; activation of job-generating industries; enhancement of security; maximizing synergistic partnerships; ensure environmental compliance; and exploration of Bangsamoro’s economic potentials.
Lawyer Naguib Sinarimbo, minister of interior and local government (MILG), emphasized the importance of the local government code as it will outline and define the mandate of the Bangsamoro government in its relations with the different local government units. He said that by 2022 the local government code will be enacted.
“Let us attempt to create a system that will allow us for the first time not just in the region but in the country to integrate service delivery and programming to the different LGUs,” he said, adding that the three-year opportunity given to the Bangsamoro should not be missed.
During the initial round of the drafting of the said code, participants did a comparative analysis of the Muslim Mindanao Act No. 25 Local Government Code of ARMM and Republic Act No. 7160 Local Government Code of the Philippines, as well as challenges and opportunities on local planning and service delivery, local revenue generation, and local autonomy and innovations.
https://bangsamoro.gov.ph/latest-news/barmm-starts-drafting-the-bangsamoro-local-government-code/
Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim, BARMM chief minister noted that the Bangsamoro Local Government Code is one of the important codes to be passed by the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA) as it “will clearly define the relationship between the LGUs and the Bangsamoro government.”
“The only way to realize the aspiration of the decade-struggle of the Bangsamoro people is to be able to achieve the changes we want in the governance,” he added.
He also recognized the importance of LGUs as they are the real face of governance to which constituents can easily relay their concerns.
In his speech, Ebrahim said he had issued a memorandum directing the BARMM agencies to align their plans, projects, and programs to the 12-point agenda of the Bangsamoro government.
The 12-point agenda of the BARMM published by the Bangsamoro Planning and Development Authority include the enactment of priority bills; integration of development plans; establishment of appropriate bureaucracy; continuity of existing government services; special programs for transitioning combatants; supporting the on-going Marawi rehabilitation; development of enabling policy environment; activation of job-generating industries; enhancement of security; maximizing synergistic partnerships; ensure environmental compliance; and exploration of Bangsamoro’s economic potentials.
Lawyer Naguib Sinarimbo, minister of interior and local government (MILG), emphasized the importance of the local government code as it will outline and define the mandate of the Bangsamoro government in its relations with the different local government units. He said that by 2022 the local government code will be enacted.
“Let us attempt to create a system that will allow us for the first time not just in the region but in the country to integrate service delivery and programming to the different LGUs,” he said, adding that the three-year opportunity given to the Bangsamoro should not be missed.
During the initial round of the drafting of the said code, participants did a comparative analysis of the Muslim Mindanao Act No. 25 Local Government Code of ARMM and Republic Act No. 7160 Local Government Code of the Philippines, as well as challenges and opportunities on local planning and service delivery, local revenue generation, and local autonomy and innovations.
https://bangsamoro.gov.ph/latest-news/barmm-starts-drafting-the-bangsamoro-local-government-code/
Campaign on finding lifetime partners launched
Piolo Pascual, Inigo Pascual, Enchong Dee, Matteo Guidicelli, and Charo Santos-Concio have revealed who their lifetime partners are in a deeply personal campaign, which they co-created with Sun Life Financial.
Dubbed “Kaakbay: Stories of Lifetime Partnerships,” the campaign is a set of videos which shows how their lives were made brighter with the help of their respective lifetime partners, who believed in them, supported them, and inspired them.
“It was a very emotional experience developing my video with Sun Life,” Enchong confessed. “When I saw the finished product, I couldn’t help but cry.”
Matteo had the same sentiment. “This is as real as it gets. The authenticity of emotions was clearly captured in the videos, and I look forward to sharing it with everyone,” he said.
Meanwhile, Charo marveled at the experience of sharing her own story. “Seeing an important part of my life immortalized through the video brought back so many memories that I share with my lifetime partner,” she said. “It was unnerving at first but in the end, it was a beautiful way to pay tribute to someone who impacted my life in so many ways.”
Embodying lifetime partnerships
Through the stories of lifetime partnerships shared by Piolo, Inigo, Enchong, Matteo, and Charo, Sun Life hopes to encourage Filipinos to find that partner who will help them shine to their full potential. “Their stories exemplify the kind of partner Sun Life aims to be for every Filipino pursuing his financial journey,” Sun Life Chief Marketing Officer Mylene Lopasaid. “We are committed to helping them make life brighter.”
Lopa emphasized that all the brand ambassadors are long-time Sun Life clients as well. “This brings truthfulness to their testimonies of having found a lifetime partner – a ‘kaakbay’ – in Sun Life in their financial journey. We’re thankful that they supported our vision and permitted us to share their stories to Filipinos,” she said.
The “Kaakbay” videos will be posted on Sun Life’s Youtube channel, @SunLifePH, with a new one premiering every week beginning July 13. Those who will watch the videos will get a chance to win a trip for two to Singapore by sharing their own stories of lifetime partnership on @SunLifePH on Youtube or Facebook. Consolation prizes will also be given away. The full mechanics are available on Facebook.
Meanwhile, the soundtrack for the campaign, also entitled “Kaakbay” which was written and performed by Inigo himself, will soon be hitting airwaves nationwide, while its music video will be shown on Myx. “It’s a song you can dedicate to an important person in your life,” he said. “We don’t always tell our loved ones how much we appreciate them, but I hope that this song and our own ‘Kaakbay’ videos will inspire everyone to express just how much their loved ones mean to them.”
Providing lifetime financial security
“Kaakbay” is Sun Life’s latest effort geared towards renewing its commitment to becoming the Filipinos’ lifetime financial partner and its purpose of providing its clients with lifetime financial security, which it has been championing since it introduced life insurance in the Philippines in 1895.
“Providing our clients with lifetime financial security is the core of our mission. In fact, Sun Life pioneered life insurance in the Philippines 124 years ago so that Filipinos can enjoy its benefits. This advocacy is complemented by our products and services, which we have diversified through the years to serve even their health and wealth needs,” Lopa said. “And we will not stop there. As our clients’ lifetime partner, Sun Life will continue to innovate and improve so we may serve our clients better.”
Piolo, a long-time client and brand ambassador of the company, highlighted that his own relationship with Sun Life is truly one that can be defined as a lifetime partnership. “Sun Life has been my lifetime partner in every step of my journey. A ‘kaakbay’ in every way. With their help, I’ve been able to secure a brighter future not just for myself, but for my family as well,” he said. “I hope that my story, as well as that of my fellow ambassadors, will encourage more Filipinos to pursue financial security and live healthier lives with Sun Life as their lifetime partner.”
http://manilastandard.net/showbitz/celebrity-profiles/299758/campaign-on-finding-lifetime-partners-launched.html
Dubbed “Kaakbay: Stories of Lifetime Partnerships,” the campaign is a set of videos which shows how their lives were made brighter with the help of their respective lifetime partners, who believed in them, supported them, and inspired them.
“It was a very emotional experience developing my video with Sun Life,” Enchong confessed. “When I saw the finished product, I couldn’t help but cry.”
Matteo had the same sentiment. “This is as real as it gets. The authenticity of emotions was clearly captured in the videos, and I look forward to sharing it with everyone,” he said.
Meanwhile, Charo marveled at the experience of sharing her own story. “Seeing an important part of my life immortalized through the video brought back so many memories that I share with my lifetime partner,” she said. “It was unnerving at first but in the end, it was a beautiful way to pay tribute to someone who impacted my life in so many ways.”
Embodying lifetime partnerships
Through the stories of lifetime partnerships shared by Piolo, Inigo, Enchong, Matteo, and Charo, Sun Life hopes to encourage Filipinos to find that partner who will help them shine to their full potential. “Their stories exemplify the kind of partner Sun Life aims to be for every Filipino pursuing his financial journey,” Sun Life Chief Marketing Officer Mylene Lopasaid. “We are committed to helping them make life brighter.”
Lopa emphasized that all the brand ambassadors are long-time Sun Life clients as well. “This brings truthfulness to their testimonies of having found a lifetime partner – a ‘kaakbay’ – in Sun Life in their financial journey. We’re thankful that they supported our vision and permitted us to share their stories to Filipinos,” she said.
The “Kaakbay” videos will be posted on Sun Life’s Youtube channel, @SunLifePH, with a new one premiering every week beginning July 13. Those who will watch the videos will get a chance to win a trip for two to Singapore by sharing their own stories of lifetime partnership on @SunLifePH on Youtube or Facebook. Consolation prizes will also be given away. The full mechanics are available on Facebook.
Meanwhile, the soundtrack for the campaign, also entitled “Kaakbay” which was written and performed by Inigo himself, will soon be hitting airwaves nationwide, while its music video will be shown on Myx. “It’s a song you can dedicate to an important person in your life,” he said. “We don’t always tell our loved ones how much we appreciate them, but I hope that this song and our own ‘Kaakbay’ videos will inspire everyone to express just how much their loved ones mean to them.”
Providing lifetime financial security
“Kaakbay” is Sun Life’s latest effort geared towards renewing its commitment to becoming the Filipinos’ lifetime financial partner and its purpose of providing its clients with lifetime financial security, which it has been championing since it introduced life insurance in the Philippines in 1895.
“Providing our clients with lifetime financial security is the core of our mission. In fact, Sun Life pioneered life insurance in the Philippines 124 years ago so that Filipinos can enjoy its benefits. This advocacy is complemented by our products and services, which we have diversified through the years to serve even their health and wealth needs,” Lopa said. “And we will not stop there. As our clients’ lifetime partner, Sun Life will continue to innovate and improve so we may serve our clients better.”
Piolo, a long-time client and brand ambassador of the company, highlighted that his own relationship with Sun Life is truly one that can be defined as a lifetime partnership. “Sun Life has been my lifetime partner in every step of my journey. A ‘kaakbay’ in every way. With their help, I’ve been able to secure a brighter future not just for myself, but for my family as well,” he said. “I hope that my story, as well as that of my fellow ambassadors, will encourage more Filipinos to pursue financial security and live healthier lives with Sun Life as their lifetime partner.”
http://manilastandard.net/showbitz/celebrity-profiles/299758/campaign-on-finding-lifetime-partners-launched.html
Friday, July 12, 2019
Parañaque City, Anchor Land Holding Inc. inaugurate SID buildings for satellite office
By Dhel Nazario
The P2.7 billion three-tower commercial mixed-used buildings that will serve as the Paranaque City government’s satellite office at the Pagcor Entertainment City along Coastal Road was formally inaugurated Wednesday by city and private land developer officials.
The project was entered into by the city government and Anchor Land Holding Inc. (ALHI), which will finance and construct the complex at no cost to the city, recently signed a public-private partnership for the Special Investment District (SID) buildings.
Construction of the building is expected to start in the last quarter of this year.
About 2,434 square meters of land will be devoted to the nine-story satellite office, which will have four floors with 4,884 square meters of space for the city government and five floors with 6,785 square meters of space for lease, according to Parañaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez.
Olivarez said the two other buildings will be leased for office and bed-spacing use by ALHI, who shall return possession of the property including all improvements to the city after a certain period.
“The Satellite City Hall is basically an office building and the project will be a new landmark in this part of the city,” the mayor said.
Under the agreement, the PPP project will have a period of 50 years, renewable for another 25 years’ at ALHI’s option.
“The project will bring value to the city’s property. It will create jobs for city residents, who may be employed by the various businesses that will lease space at the commercial area,” the mayor pointed out.
Olivarez said the satellite office would include the extension offices of the city’s business permit and licensing office (BPLO) as well as the assessor’s office, where local and foreign investors can process their city permits.
He said this would make it easier for businesses to apply for their respective business requirements instead of going to the main city hall in Sucat district.
Those who intend to work in establishments at the Entertainment City may also secure their work and health permits as well as police and National Bureau of Investigation clearances from the satellite city hall, Olivarez said.
With businesses booming in Entertainment City, he said there is a need for an SID building to make it convenient for investors and businessmen to transact and process documents that are usually done at the main city hall.
Olivrez said once the satellite city hall office is operational, they will designate additional volunteers to supervise the traffic in the area, and assign police to secure hundreds of local and foreign tourists who will visit the newly-constructed five-star hotel casinos.
https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/07/12/paranaque-city-anchor-land-holding-inc-inaugurate-sid-buildings-for-satellite-office/
The P2.7 billion three-tower commercial mixed-used buildings that will serve as the Paranaque City government’s satellite office at the Pagcor Entertainment City along Coastal Road was formally inaugurated Wednesday by city and private land developer officials.
The project was entered into by the city government and Anchor Land Holding Inc. (ALHI), which will finance and construct the complex at no cost to the city, recently signed a public-private partnership for the Special Investment District (SID) buildings.
Construction of the building is expected to start in the last quarter of this year.
About 2,434 square meters of land will be devoted to the nine-story satellite office, which will have four floors with 4,884 square meters of space for the city government and five floors with 6,785 square meters of space for lease, according to Parañaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez.
Olivarez said the two other buildings will be leased for office and bed-spacing use by ALHI, who shall return possession of the property including all improvements to the city after a certain period.
“The Satellite City Hall is basically an office building and the project will be a new landmark in this part of the city,” the mayor said.
Under the agreement, the PPP project will have a period of 50 years, renewable for another 25 years’ at ALHI’s option.
“The project will bring value to the city’s property. It will create jobs for city residents, who may be employed by the various businesses that will lease space at the commercial area,” the mayor pointed out.
Olivarez said the satellite office would include the extension offices of the city’s business permit and licensing office (BPLO) as well as the assessor’s office, where local and foreign investors can process their city permits.
He said this would make it easier for businesses to apply for their respective business requirements instead of going to the main city hall in Sucat district.
Those who intend to work in establishments at the Entertainment City may also secure their work and health permits as well as police and National Bureau of Investigation clearances from the satellite city hall, Olivarez said.
With businesses booming in Entertainment City, he said there is a need for an SID building to make it convenient for investors and businessmen to transact and process documents that are usually done at the main city hall.
Olivrez said once the satellite city hall office is operational, they will designate additional volunteers to supervise the traffic in the area, and assign police to secure hundreds of local and foreign tourists who will visit the newly-constructed five-star hotel casinos.
https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/07/12/paranaque-city-anchor-land-holding-inc-inaugurate-sid-buildings-for-satellite-office/
Ferrer to sing anthem at President's 4th SONA
Theater actor and tenor Arman Ferrer is expected to sing the national anthem at during the opening of the 18th Congress and during the SONA.
With all the controversies surrounding the rendition of “Lupang Hinirang” during previous fights of Manny Pacquiao from 2004 to 2010, Ferrer vowed to sing the anthem correctly.
He said tries to sing the national anthem every morning so she can be more familiar with its tempo and lyrics. He also jogs every day to improve his breathing.
Sorsogon Governor Francis Escudero and Senate President Vicente Sotto III, meanwhile, said they will give Ferrer references on the proper way to sing the national anthem.
Ferrer is set to meet with the National Historical Commission of the Philippines on July 19 to give his tips on how to sing the anthem correctly.
According to Section 37 of Republic Act (RA) 8491, the rendition of the national anthem, whether played or sung, shall be in accordance with the musical arrangement and composition of Julian Felipe.
When the national anthem is played, the public is required to sing and do so “with fervor.”
But the anthem may be played during the following: international competitions where the Philippines is the host or has a representative; national and local sports competitions, during the “signing off” and “signing on” of radio broadcasting and television stations, before the initial and last screening of films and before the opening of theater performances; Provided, that the owners and management of the establishments shall be mandated to enforce proper decorum and implement the pertinent provisions of this act; civic activities, cultural shows or presentations and other occasions as may be allowed by the NHCP.
With all the controversies surrounding the rendition of “Lupang Hinirang” during previous fights of Manny Pacquiao from 2004 to 2010, Ferrer vowed to sing the anthem correctly.
He said tries to sing the national anthem every morning so she can be more familiar with its tempo and lyrics. He also jogs every day to improve his breathing.
Sorsogon Governor Francis Escudero and Senate President Vicente Sotto III, meanwhile, said they will give Ferrer references on the proper way to sing the national anthem.
Ferrer is set to meet with the National Historical Commission of the Philippines on July 19 to give his tips on how to sing the anthem correctly.
According to Section 37 of Republic Act (RA) 8491, the rendition of the national anthem, whether played or sung, shall be in accordance with the musical arrangement and composition of Julian Felipe.
When the national anthem is played, the public is required to sing and do so “with fervor.”
But the anthem may be played during the following: international competitions where the Philippines is the host or has a representative; national and local sports competitions, during the “signing off” and “signing on” of radio broadcasting and television stations, before the initial and last screening of films and before the opening of theater performances; Provided, that the owners and management of the establishments shall be mandated to enforce proper decorum and implement the pertinent provisions of this act; civic activities, cultural shows or presentations and other occasions as may be allowed by the NHCP.
P4.7 M allocated for Duterte’s SONA 2019
Around P4.7 million has been allocated for the fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Duterte.
House Acting Secretary-General Dante Roberto Maling said this year’s SONA budget is P200,000 less than last year’s P4.9 million appropriations.
“Basically, the preparation has been the same through the years, we only introduced minor details,” he said in a press conference Thursday.
He said the public can brace for a “simple” SONA, which will be attended by 1,500 guests, including former Presidents, members of the diplomatic corps, former local government officials, and invitees of the members of Congress.
Maling said the dress code for the President’s SONA will be simple business or Filipiniana attire.
He said they have yet to receive the confirmation from former Presidents and former government officials. The attendance of the members of the Presidential Family will only be known on the SONA day itself, he said.
Theater actor and tenor Arman Ferrer is expected to sing the national anthem at during the opening of the 18th Congress and during the SONA, he said.
Maling also said that they are still finalizing the menu and is expected to be decided next week. “Varied Filipino foods, may nag submit ng European foods, konting Caribbean, konting salad. Wala pang final choice talaga,” Maling said.
On security concerns, House Sergeant-at-Arms Romeo Prestoza, a retired AFP major general, said they are prepared for any eventuality and they are in constant and close coordination with the Armed Forces and other security agencies.
“Wala pa naman substantial [security threat]. Wala pa namang nakakarating na actual threat. We have a very good coordination with the Armed Forces,” he said after the military identified that one of the two perpetrators of the twin explosions in Indanan town, Sulu, last June 28 as Filipino suicide bomber Norman Lasuca.
“If meron man, we would be prepared [to address it],” he added.
Prestoza, an intelligence officer for 27 years, said they are “considering” such security concern in their preparations.
“We consider those things, we initiate direct contact with NICA (National Intelligence Coordinating Agency), ISAFP (Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines) and other intelligence units,” he said.
https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/07/11/p4-7-m-allocated-for-dutertes-sona-2019/
House Acting Secretary-General Dante Roberto Maling said this year’s SONA budget is P200,000 less than last year’s P4.9 million appropriations.
“Basically, the preparation has been the same through the years, we only introduced minor details,” he said in a press conference Thursday.
He said the public can brace for a “simple” SONA, which will be attended by 1,500 guests, including former Presidents, members of the diplomatic corps, former local government officials, and invitees of the members of Congress.
Maling said the dress code for the President’s SONA will be simple business or Filipiniana attire.
He said they have yet to receive the confirmation from former Presidents and former government officials. The attendance of the members of the Presidential Family will only be known on the SONA day itself, he said.
Theater actor and tenor Arman Ferrer is expected to sing the national anthem at during the opening of the 18th Congress and during the SONA, he said.
Maling also said that they are still finalizing the menu and is expected to be decided next week. “Varied Filipino foods, may nag submit ng European foods, konting Caribbean, konting salad. Wala pang final choice talaga,” Maling said.
On security concerns, House Sergeant-at-Arms Romeo Prestoza, a retired AFP major general, said they are prepared for any eventuality and they are in constant and close coordination with the Armed Forces and other security agencies.
“Wala pa naman substantial [security threat]. Wala pa namang nakakarating na actual threat. We have a very good coordination with the Armed Forces,” he said after the military identified that one of the two perpetrators of the twin explosions in Indanan town, Sulu, last June 28 as Filipino suicide bomber Norman Lasuca.
“If meron man, we would be prepared [to address it],” he added.
Prestoza, an intelligence officer for 27 years, said they are “considering” such security concern in their preparations.
“We consider those things, we initiate direct contact with NICA (National Intelligence Coordinating Agency), ISAFP (Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines) and other intelligence units,” he said.
https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/07/11/p4-7-m-allocated-for-dutertes-sona-2019/
Monday, July 8, 2019
Rizal congressman wants 2nd District split into three
Rizal 2nd District Rep. Juan Fidel Felipe Nograles has filed a bill that will split Rizal’s second legislative district into three new districts to “ensure proper representation for Rizaleños.”
In a statement Monday, Nograles said that while Rizal is among the most populous provinces in the country, the province has “only four legislators representing close to 2.9 million” residents.
“On average, the ten most populous provinces in the country have six representatives each in the House of Representatives,” Nograles said, citing the province of Cebu which has 10 congressmen representing 4.6 million people, or a ratio of around 1:460,000.
“In Rizal, you have four legislators representing around 2.9 million people, or a ratio of one for every 721,000 people. In terms of population, Rizal has roughly the same population as Pangasinan and Batangas, but these provinces have six legislative districts each. The disparity, I believe, is self-evident,” Nograles stressed.
Citing data from the Philippine Statistics Authority, Nograles said the population of Rizal’s second district doubled between 2000 and 2015, from 533,299 to 1,070,852.
In House Bill No. 336, the lawyer proposed that his current district, consisting of the municipalities of Baras, Cardona, Jala-Jala, Morong, Pililla, Rodriguez (Montalban), San Mateo, Tanay, and Teresa be split into three separate legislative districts.
Under the bill, the new First District would be composed of the towns of Rodriguez and San Mateo and Second Legislative District would be composed of the town of Taytay.
The municipalities of Angono and Binangonan would be the Third Legislative District, while Cardona, Baras, Tanay, Morong Jala Jala, Pililia and Teresa would be the province’s Fourth Legislative District.
The additional districts would give the province of Rizal a total of seven legislative districts.
The province currently has four districts: Antipolo First District, Antipolo Second District, Rizal First District and Rizal Second District.
Aside from demographic issues, Nograles explained that the 2nd district is composed of “non-contiguous areas with characteristics, features, and qualities different from each other.”
“Different characteristics mean different constituents will have different needs. These will be better addressed if they have proper representation––representation that will be possible with the redistricting of Rizal’s second district,” he argued.
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1139070/rizal-congressman-wants-2nd-district-split-into-three
In a statement Monday, Nograles said that while Rizal is among the most populous provinces in the country, the province has “only four legislators representing close to 2.9 million” residents.
“On average, the ten most populous provinces in the country have six representatives each in the House of Representatives,” Nograles said, citing the province of Cebu which has 10 congressmen representing 4.6 million people, or a ratio of around 1:460,000.
“In Rizal, you have four legislators representing around 2.9 million people, or a ratio of one for every 721,000 people. In terms of population, Rizal has roughly the same population as Pangasinan and Batangas, but these provinces have six legislative districts each. The disparity, I believe, is self-evident,” Nograles stressed.
Citing data from the Philippine Statistics Authority, Nograles said the population of Rizal’s second district doubled between 2000 and 2015, from 533,299 to 1,070,852.
In House Bill No. 336, the lawyer proposed that his current district, consisting of the municipalities of Baras, Cardona, Jala-Jala, Morong, Pililla, Rodriguez (Montalban), San Mateo, Tanay, and Teresa be split into three separate legislative districts.
Under the bill, the new First District would be composed of the towns of Rodriguez and San Mateo and Second Legislative District would be composed of the town of Taytay.
The municipalities of Angono and Binangonan would be the Third Legislative District, while Cardona, Baras, Tanay, Morong Jala Jala, Pililia and Teresa would be the province’s Fourth Legislative District.
The additional districts would give the province of Rizal a total of seven legislative districts.
The province currently has four districts: Antipolo First District, Antipolo Second District, Rizal First District and Rizal Second District.
Aside from demographic issues, Nograles explained that the 2nd district is composed of “non-contiguous areas with characteristics, features, and qualities different from each other.”
“Different characteristics mean different constituents will have different needs. These will be better addressed if they have proper representation––representation that will be possible with the redistricting of Rizal’s second district,” he argued.
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1139070/rizal-congressman-wants-2nd-district-split-into-three
SEN. BONG REVILLA JR. SPEAKS UP ABOUT ALLEGED NON-RENEWAL OF ABS-CBN’S FRANCHISE
- During the Thanksgiving party of Senator Bong Revilla Jr., he was asked about the franchise renewal of ABS-CBN
- According to the Senator, the issue will be tackled and there will be no problem with the renewal if the network didn’t violate anything
- Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) Secretary Lito Yabut formerly explained that it will be impossible to shut down the network giant just because of an expired franchise
- Together with the other pending bills, the ABS-CBN franchise bill will be re-filed once the 18th Congress opens on July 22, 2019
With the news about the alleged freezing of the renewal of the ABS-CBN franchise, the media didn’t let the chance slip to get the insight of Senator Bong Revilla Jr. regarding the issue.
During his thanksgiving party, the Senator was asked his opinion about the problem that ABS-CBN is currently facing.
Senator Revilla stated, “Well, una magsisimula naman yan sa lower house. Pagkatapos yan sa lower house, sasampa yan sa upper house, sa Senate. So, sa akin, wala naman akong nakikitang problema. I just hope na maging maayos ang lahat ng bagay.”
The Senator affirmed that the case of ABS-CBN will be tackled and he sees no problem for the bill to pass and for any amendments to happen especially when the network didn’t violate anything.
” Siyempre, wala namang siguro na violate ang ABS-CBN but tignan naten… Pag-uusapan naman yan and ibig sabihin ita-tackle yan sa floor. So, I dont see any problem na.
“Basta ako as I said, I’m for the people tandaan ninyo, ‘di ako maapektibong tao. Wala akong tanim kahit kanino man. Politika lang yan.. Masaktan ako, okay lang. Pero umasa kayo patas si Bong Revilla,” he added.
He was also asked about the death of Eddie Garcia who met an accident on the set of his series. According to the Senator-actor, what happened was an accident and it’s hard to just point out who is to blame.
He said, “Wala naman may gusto nun eh, so accidente yon. Pero mahirap naman tayo mag pinpoint kung sinong may kasalanan. Pero siyempre lahat tayo nagmamahal kay Tito Eddie. Pero aksidente, basta I’m sure masaya na rin si Tito Eddie ngayon. Sana ‘wag nalang mahaluan ng intriga yung pagkamatay niya. Siyempre ayaw naman natin magka watak-watak, mapapag piestahan pa yung pagkamatay.”
Earlier, Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) Secretary Lito Yabut had already stated that it is impossible to shut down the network giant just because of an expired franchise.
The Congress has also cleared up that there’s no ‘freezing’ of the bill that happened in the House Of Representative despite the vivid “disgust” of the President Rodrigo Duterte with the network whom he thought sabotaged him during his Presidential campaign in 2016.
Nonetheless, the Congress will see to it that the pending bills, including ABS-CBN’s franchise bill, will be re-filed once the 18th Congress opens on July 22, 2019.
Celebrities have been vocal with their sentiments and dismay with what’s happening to their home network through social media. Some of them even signed a petition to appeal to the Congress to approve the franchise renewal of ABS-CBN that will be expiring in the year 2020. Coco Martin, Lea Salonga, Piolo Pascual, Jaime Fabregas, John Arcilla, Angel Aquino, Ricky Lee, and Joel Lamangan to name a few.
Sunday, July 7, 2019
IRR on law creating Mandaue district out
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has issued the implementing rules and regulations of Republic Act 11257, which creates the lone legislative district of Mandaue City in Cebu.
In Resolution 10546 promulgated on July 3, the Comelec said Mandaue City is now separated from the sixth legislative district of Cebu, to be composed of the towns of Consolacion and Cordova.
The poll body said the incumbent representative of the sixth district of Cebu would continue to represent the district until the election of the representative of Mandaue on June 30, 2022.
The present allocation of members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan shall be maintained, the Comelec added.
President Duterte signed Republic Act 11257 creating the lone district of Mandaue City on April 5.
Last year, the President signed laws reconstituting Isabela from four to six districts, creating the lone district of Calamba City in Laguna, splitting Aklan into two legislative districts and creating the eighth legislative district of Cavite.
This year under the 18th congress, the President would signed laws reconstituting Bacoor City in Cavite from one to two districts, creating the lone districts of Malolos City in Bulacan and Cabuyao City in Laguna, splitting Nueva Vizcaya, Aurora, Antique, Eastern Samar, Davao Occidental and Sarangani into two legislative districts.
Critics said the creation of additional legislative districts or gerrymandering, means additional burden to taxpayers.
https://www.philstar.com/nation/2019/07/07/1932560/irr-law-creating-mandaue-district-out
In Resolution 10546 promulgated on July 3, the Comelec said Mandaue City is now separated from the sixth legislative district of Cebu, to be composed of the towns of Consolacion and Cordova.
The poll body said the incumbent representative of the sixth district of Cebu would continue to represent the district until the election of the representative of Mandaue on June 30, 2022.
The present allocation of members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan shall be maintained, the Comelec added.
President Duterte signed Republic Act 11257 creating the lone district of Mandaue City on April 5.
Last year, the President signed laws reconstituting Isabela from four to six districts, creating the lone district of Calamba City in Laguna, splitting Aklan into two legislative districts and creating the eighth legislative district of Cavite.
This year under the 18th congress, the President would signed laws reconstituting Bacoor City in Cavite from one to two districts, creating the lone districts of Malolos City in Bulacan and Cabuyao City in Laguna, splitting Nueva Vizcaya, Aurora, Antique, Eastern Samar, Davao Occidental and Sarangani into two legislative districts.
Critics said the creation of additional legislative districts or gerrymandering, means additional burden to taxpayers.
https://www.philstar.com/nation/2019/07/07/1932560/irr-law-creating-mandaue-district-out
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
ABS-CBN, GMA report ratings lead
GMA Network Inc. held on to its lead in urban ratings in Luzon while rival ABS-CBN Corp. said it enjoyed the top spot in nationwide audience share during the month of June.
Both companies use different third-party firms to measure their TV ratings—a measure closely followed by advertisers.
GMA, which uses data from Nielsen TV Audience Measurement, claimed an average total day people audience share of 35.3 percent against ABS-CBN’s 30.7 percent in urban Luzon. It also claimed a lead in mega Manila with a share of 36.3 percent versus ABS-CBN’s 28.8 percent.
Kapuso shows again dominated Urban Luzon’s list of top-rating programs in June with Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho (KMJS) remaining unbeatable in the number one spot. KMJS was likewise the most watched program in National Urban Philippines.
Included in the list as well were “Sahaya,” “KaraMia,” “24 Oras,” “Daddy's Gurl,” “Magpakailanman,” “StarStruck,” “Pepito Manaloto,” “Love You Two” and “Daig Kayo ng Lola Ko.”
“Eat Bulaga,” “Studio 7,” “Kapuso Movie Night,” “Wish Ko Lang,” “Imbestigador,” “Amazing Earth,” “The Boobay and Tekla Show,” “Dragon Lady,” “Tadhana,” “Bihag,” “Dahil sa Pag-ibig,” “Wowowin,” “Bubble Gang” and “Saksi” also made it to the top programs list.
ABS-CBN, armed with data from Kantar Media, said its nationwide average audience share hit 44 percent versus 32 percent for GMA in June.
Moreover, ABS-CBN said it led in urban and rural areas. Among these, Metro Manila and even GMA’s stronghold in mega Manila. In the latter, ABS-CBN said it was No. 1 with a 36-percent share versus GMA’s 32 percent.
ABS-CBN said it was also ahead in total Visayas, 53 percent against GMA’s 24 percent and in total Mindanao, with 52 percent versus GMA’s 28 percent.
ABS-CBN also claimed a lead in all time blocks, including the coveted prime-time hours, where it was ahead with 39 percent versus GMA’s 28 percent.
The list of top ten shows continued to be occupied by ABS-CBN in June with “FPJ’s Ang Probinsyano” continuing its streak as the country’s number one show, with 37.3 percent.
ABS-CBN also claimed lead in the noontime segment with its “It’s Showtime” which, ABS-CBN said, had regained the top slot from “Eat Bulaga,” which airs on GMA.
ABS-CBN said “It’s Showtime” had an audience share of 36.5 percent against “Eat Bulaga”’s 32.9 percent.
“The General’s Daughter” follows with 30.8 percent; “Sino ang May Sala?” with 29.5 percent, “Pinoy Big Brother: Otso” with 28.7 percent, “Tonight with Boy Abunda” with 28.2 percent, “Bandila” with 26.3 percent, “Search for Idol Philippines” with 28.3 percent; “TV Patrol” with 27.7 percent; “Maalaala Mo Kaya” with 26.8 percent; “Nang Ngumiti ang Langit” with 25.6 percent; “Kadenang Ginto” with 23.7 percent; “Los Bastardos” with 22.8 percent; “Hiwaga ng Kambat” with 22.2 percent; “Home Sweetie Home” with 21.8 percent; “Rated K” with 19.6 percent and “Gandang Gabi Vice” with 17.5 percent.
https://business.inquirer.net/273783/abs-cbn-gma-report-ratings-lead
ABS-CBN dominates nationwide TV ratings — Kantar Media
ABS-CBN Corp. reported leading nationwide television ratings in June with an average audience share of 44% during the period, besting its rival GMA Network, Inc.
In a statement Tuesday, the Lopez-led media giant said it beat its rival which tallied a 32% audience share on the national scale last month, based on data from Kantar Media that surveyed 2,610 urban and rural homes.
But for the battle to capture the audience in urban areas, both companies claimed to dominate the ratings, citing different measurement providers.
In its statement, GMA said it maintained a 35.3% average total day people audience share in Urban Luzon from June 1 to 29, beating ABS-CBN’s 30.7%, based on data from Nielsen TV Audience Measurement.
GMA added that its average total day people audience share in Mega Manila from June 1 to 22 was at 36.3%, versus ABS-CBN’s 28.8%.
But ABS-CBN, citing Kantar, said it dominated the television audience in both urban and rural homes last month. The Lopez-led firm grabbed a 42% audience share in Metro Manila against GMA’s 26%, and a 36% share in Mega Manila versus GMA’s 32%.
Including rural areas, ABS-CBN said it gained the bigger audience share in Total Luzon at 40% against GMA’s 35%, in Total Visayas at 53% against GMA’s 24% and in Total Mindanao at 52% against GMA’s 28%.
In terms of time slots, both companies again claimed to lead TV ratings at different times of the day.
GMA said it led the afternoon block with 36.3% audience share beating ABS-CBN’s 32.9%, and the evening block with 38.1% audience share to win against ABS-CBN’s 30%.
Kapuso shows again dominated Urban Luzon’s list of top-rating programs in June with Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho (KMJS) remaining unbeatable in the number one spot. KMJS was likewise the most watched program in National Urban Philippines.
Included in the list as well were Sahaya, KaraMia, 24 Oras, Daddy's Gurl, Magpakailanman, StarStruck, Pepito Manaloto, Love You Two, and Daig Kayo Ng Lola Ko.
Eat Bulaga, Studio 7, Kapuso Movie Night, Imbestigador, Amazing Earth, The Boobay and Tekla Show, Dragon Lady, Tadhana, Bihag, Dahil sa Pag-ibig, Wowowin, Bubble Gang and Saksi also made it to the top programs list.
On the other hand, ABS-CBN said it led time block ratings across-the-board, with a morning block rating of 39% versus GMA’s 28%, a noontime block rating of 44% versus GMA’s 33%, afternoon block rating of 48% versus GMA’s 31% and primetime block rating of 45% versus GMA’s 33%.
The list of top ten shows continued to be occupied by ABS-CBN in June with FPJ’s Ang Probinsyano continuing its streak as the country’s number one show, with 37.3 percent.
For the month, ABS-CBN also claimed lead in the noontime segment with its It’s Showtime which, ABS-CBN said, had regained the top slot from Eat Bulaga which airs on GMA.
ABS-CBN said It’s Showtime had an audience share of 32.5 percent against Eat Bulaga’s 31.6 percent.
The General’s Daughter follows with 30.8 percent; Sino ang May Sala? with 29.5 percent, Pinoy Big Brother: Otso with 28.7 percent, Tonight with Boy Abunda with 28.2 percent, Bandila with 26.3 percent, Search for Idol Philippines, with 28.3 percent; TV Patrol, with 27.7 percent; Maalaala Mo Kaya, with 26.8 percent; Nang Ngumiti ang Langit with 25.6 percent; Kadenang Ginto with 23.7 percent; Los Bastardos with 22.8 percent; Hiwaga ng Kambat, with 22.2 percent; Home Sweetie Home, with 21.8 percent; Rated K, with 19.6 percent and Gandang Gabi Vice with 17.4 percent. — Denise A. Valdez
https://www.bworldonline.com/abs-cbn-dominates-nationwide-tv-ratings-kantar-media/
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
GMA NETWORK HOLDS TOP SPOT IN URBAN LUZON, MEGA MANILA
GMA Network continued its stronghold in the key areas of Urban Luzon and Mega Manila in June, according to the latest data from ratings service provider Nielsen TV Audience Measurement.
From June 1 to 29 (with June 23 to 29 based on overnight data), GMA posted an average total day people audience share of 35.3 percent, which outscored ABS-CBN’s 30.7 percent in Urban Luzon. The viewer-rich area accounts for 72 percent of all urban TV viewers in the country.
The Kapuso Network led in the afternoon block with 36.3 percent audience share, versus rival network’s 32.9 percent.
GMA Network also posted winning numbers in the evening block with 38.1 percent as against ABS-CBN’s 30 percent.
Kapuso shows again dominated Urban Luzon’s list of top-rating programs in June with Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho (KMJS) remaining unbeatable in the number one spot. KMJS was likewise the most watched program in National Urban Philippines.
Included in the list as well were Sahaya, KaraMia, 24 Oras, Daddy's Gurl, Magpakailanman, StarStruck, Pepito Manaloto, Love You Two, and Daig Kayo Ng Lola Ko.
Eat Bulaga, Studio 7, Kapuso Movie Night, Imbestigador, Amazing Earth, Bihag, Dahil sa Pag-ibig, Wowowin, Bubble Gang and Saksi also made it to the top programs list.
Similarly, GMA Network ruled in Mega Manila, which accounts for 60 percent of all urban viewers in the country.
Based on official data from June 1 to 22, GMA recorded 36.3 percent average total day people audience share, beating the 28.8 percent of ABS-CBN. In Mega Manila’s list of top-rating programs, 21 out of the top 30 shows were from GMA.
Nielsen TV Audience Measurement's client pool covers a total of 32 clients/subscribers consisting of 6 local TV networks including ABS-CBN, TV5, Aksyon TV, and CNN Philippines, among others; 3 regional clients; 2 blocktimers; and 21 agencies (17 media agencies, 3 consulting agencies, and 1 digital agency).
From June 1 to 29 (with June 23 to 29 based on overnight data), GMA posted an average total day people audience share of 35.3 percent, which outscored ABS-CBN’s 30.7 percent in Urban Luzon. The viewer-rich area accounts for 72 percent of all urban TV viewers in the country.
The Kapuso Network led in the afternoon block with 36.3 percent audience share, versus rival network’s 32.9 percent.
GMA Network also posted winning numbers in the evening block with 38.1 percent as against ABS-CBN’s 30 percent.
Kapuso shows again dominated Urban Luzon’s list of top-rating programs in June with Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho (KMJS) remaining unbeatable in the number one spot. KMJS was likewise the most watched program in National Urban Philippines.
Included in the list as well were Sahaya, KaraMia, 24 Oras, Daddy's Gurl, Magpakailanman, StarStruck, Pepito Manaloto, Love You Two, and Daig Kayo Ng Lola Ko.
Eat Bulaga, Studio 7, Kapuso Movie Night, Imbestigador, Amazing Earth, Bihag, Dahil sa Pag-ibig, Wowowin, Bubble Gang and Saksi also made it to the top programs list.
Similarly, GMA Network ruled in Mega Manila, which accounts for 60 percent of all urban viewers in the country.
Based on official data from June 1 to 22, GMA recorded 36.3 percent average total day people audience share, beating the 28.8 percent of ABS-CBN. In Mega Manila’s list of top-rating programs, 21 out of the top 30 shows were from GMA.
Nielsen TV Audience Measurement's client pool covers a total of 32 clients/subscribers consisting of 6 local TV networks including ABS-CBN, TV5, Aksyon TV, and CNN Philippines, among others; 3 regional clients; 2 blocktimers; and 21 agencies (17 media agencies, 3 consulting agencies, and 1 digital agency).
ABS-CBN tops nationwide ratings in June
ABS-CBN remained at the top of national TV ratings as it attracted more viewers in June, registering an average audience share of 44 percent, data from Kantar Media showed.
This was more than 10 points higher than GMA’s 32 percent, its closest competitor.
Global audience measurement provider Kantar Media uses a nationwide panel size of 2,610 urban and rural homes that represent 100% of the total Philippine TV viewing population.
ABS-CBN kept its firm hold of urban and rural areas, as it won in Metro Manila with 42 percent compared to GMA’s 26 percent.
It also won in Mega Manila, with 36 percent over GMA’s 32 percent; in Total Luzon, with 40 percent versus GMA’s 35 percent; while claiming dominance in Total Visayas with 53 percent, more than twice GMA’s 24 percent; and in Total Mindanao with 52 percent versus GMA’s 28 percent.
ABS-CBN also led in all time blocks, claiming victory during primetime with an average audience share of 45 percent versus GMA’s 33 percent.
It topped the morning block (6 a.m.-12 noon) with 39 percent, compared to GMA’s 28 percent; the noontime block (12 p.m. -3 p.m.) with 44 percent versus GMA’s 33 percent; and the afternoon block (3 p.m -6 p.m.) with 48 percent versus GMA’s 31 percent.
The list of top ten shows continued to be occupied by ABS-CBN in June with “FPJ’s Ang Probinsyano” continuing its streak as the country’s number one show, with 37.3 percent and “It’s Showtime” with 35.8 percent.
“The General’s Daughter” follows with 30.8 percent; “Sino ang May Sala?” with 29.5 percent, “Pinoy Big Brother: Otso” and “Tonight with Boy Abunda” with 28.9 percent, “Bandila” with 28.5 percent, “Search for Idol Philippines,” with 28.3 percent; “TV Patrol,” with 27.7 percent; “Maalaala Mo Kaya,” with 26.8 percent; “Kadenang Ginto,” with 23.7 percent; “Hiwaga ng Kambat,” with 22.2%; “Home Sweetie Home,” with 21.8 percent, and “Rated K,” with 19.6 percent.
Sales of the company's digital TV set top box, ABS-CBN TVplus, meanwhile had already reached 7 million as of February this year.
ABS-CBN TVplus has also added five new channels to its current line-up, namely the Asianovela Channel, Movie Central, MYX, Jeepney TV, and O Shopping in Metro Manila, Rizal, Cavite, Laguna, and Metro Cebu.
In June, the company launched the mobile version of ABS-CBN TVplus in the form of a dongle, the ABS-CBN TVplus Go, giving mobile Filipinos the chance to watch shows available on networks broadcasting in digital anytime, anywhere.
The company launched its new streaming service, iWant, which immediately became the most in-demand app for Filipino iOS and Android users.
iWant had more than one million mobile app downloads on the first day of its official release on November 17, 2018.
The network also had successful narrative format buys this 2019, including “The Blood Sisters” in Kazakhstan and “Ngayon and Kailanman” in Myanmar.
ABS-CBN is also transitioning into digital with the biggest online presence among all Filipino media companies, and a growing list of digital properties.
It recently received the Diamond Creator Award from YouTube as its entertainment channel surpassed ten million subscribers, becoming the first ever channel in the country and the third in Southeast Asia to do so.
News.abs-cbn.com is the official news website of ABS-CBN Corp.
https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/07/02/19/abs-cbn-tops-nationwide-ratings-in-june
This was more than 10 points higher than GMA’s 32 percent, its closest competitor.
Global audience measurement provider Kantar Media uses a nationwide panel size of 2,610 urban and rural homes that represent 100% of the total Philippine TV viewing population.
ABS-CBN kept its firm hold of urban and rural areas, as it won in Metro Manila with 42 percent compared to GMA’s 26 percent.
It also won in Mega Manila, with 36 percent over GMA’s 32 percent; in Total Luzon, with 40 percent versus GMA’s 35 percent; while claiming dominance in Total Visayas with 53 percent, more than twice GMA’s 24 percent; and in Total Mindanao with 52 percent versus GMA’s 28 percent.
ABS-CBN also led in all time blocks, claiming victory during primetime with an average audience share of 45 percent versus GMA’s 33 percent.
It topped the morning block (6 a.m.-12 noon) with 39 percent, compared to GMA’s 28 percent; the noontime block (12 p.m. -3 p.m.) with 44 percent versus GMA’s 33 percent; and the afternoon block (3 p.m -6 p.m.) with 48 percent versus GMA’s 31 percent.
The list of top ten shows continued to be occupied by ABS-CBN in June with “FPJ’s Ang Probinsyano” continuing its streak as the country’s number one show, with 37.3 percent and “It’s Showtime” with 35.8 percent.
“The General’s Daughter” follows with 30.8 percent; “Sino ang May Sala?” with 29.5 percent, “Pinoy Big Brother: Otso” and “Tonight with Boy Abunda” with 28.9 percent, “Bandila” with 28.5 percent, “Search for Idol Philippines,” with 28.3 percent; “TV Patrol,” with 27.7 percent; “Maalaala Mo Kaya,” with 26.8 percent; “Kadenang Ginto,” with 23.7 percent; “Hiwaga ng Kambat,” with 22.2%; “Home Sweetie Home,” with 21.8 percent, and “Rated K,” with 19.6 percent.
Sales of the company's digital TV set top box, ABS-CBN TVplus, meanwhile had already reached 7 million as of February this year.
ABS-CBN TVplus has also added five new channels to its current line-up, namely the Asianovela Channel, Movie Central, MYX, Jeepney TV, and O Shopping in Metro Manila, Rizal, Cavite, Laguna, and Metro Cebu.
In June, the company launched the mobile version of ABS-CBN TVplus in the form of a dongle, the ABS-CBN TVplus Go, giving mobile Filipinos the chance to watch shows available on networks broadcasting in digital anytime, anywhere.
The company launched its new streaming service, iWant, which immediately became the most in-demand app for Filipino iOS and Android users.
iWant had more than one million mobile app downloads on the first day of its official release on November 17, 2018.
The network also had successful narrative format buys this 2019, including “The Blood Sisters” in Kazakhstan and “Ngayon and Kailanman” in Myanmar.
ABS-CBN is also transitioning into digital with the biggest online presence among all Filipino media companies, and a growing list of digital properties.
It recently received the Diamond Creator Award from YouTube as its entertainment channel surpassed ten million subscribers, becoming the first ever channel in the country and the third in Southeast Asia to do so.
News.abs-cbn.com is the official news website of ABS-CBN Corp.
https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/07/02/19/abs-cbn-tops-nationwide-ratings-in-june
Over 200 bills filed in House on first day of 18th Congress
By Ben Rosario
Over 200 bills swiftly clogged the House of Representatives docket of legislative measures on the first working day of congressmen belonging to the 18th Congress.
Majority of the bills are re-filed measures that either did not pass committee approval or on second or third reading stages of approval during the 17th Congress. Others were passed on final reading but failed to get the Senate’s nod.
Cebu Rep. Raul Del Mar filed the first four bills but were officially listed in the legislative docket as House Bills (HB) Nos. 11, 12, 13 and 14.
The first 10 in the list of bills filed are reserved for the speaker, who will be elected by his colleagues when the 18th Congress officially opens on July 22.
Other early birds include Reps. Edcel Lagman (LP, Albay), Michael Romero (1Pacman Partylist), and Ruffy Biazon (PDP-Laban, Muntinlupa City).
Biazon filed at least 100 bills on the first day of the 18th Congress, majority of which were re-filed measures from the 17th Congress. A number of the bills were legislative proposals that he had co-authored with his father, former Senator Rodolfo Biazon.
Filed by Del Mar was HB 11 or the “Mega Cebu Development Authority (MCDA) Act.” It seeks to create a special body to coordinate and promote socio-economic growth and sustainable development within Metro Cebu and the Cebu province.
Del Mar’s HB 12, “Freedom of Information Act,” seeks to provide citizens access to official records, documents, and papers pertaining to official acts, transactions or decisions, and government research data used as basis for policy development.
A consolidated version of the measure hurdled third and final reading by the House and Senate during the 14th Congress and was further approved by the bicameral conference committee during that time, according to him. But the bicameral report was only ratified by the Senate as the House failed to have a quorum on the last session day of the 14th Congress.
Romero filed the Actors Occupational Safety and Health Standard Law providing for stricter measures for the prevention of accidents and other occupational hazards on the movie or television set and the imposition of stiff penalties for violations.
Romero, president of the Party-list Coalition Foundation, Inc., said he expects more than 100 of his colleagues in the House of Representatives to co-author the measure that will be known “The Eddie Garcia Law.”
On the other hand, Lagman re-filed three major legislative proposals that were passed on third and final reading during the 17th Congress but failed Senate approval due to lack of time.
These bills are: (1) the Human Rights Defenders Protection Bill, which is now HB 015; (2) the Absolute Divorce Bill (HB 100); and (3) HB 101, staying the execution pending appeal of the orders of dismissal/suspension by quasi-judicial bodies like the Office of the Ombudsman and the Civil Service Commission.
Lagman said HB 015 proposes guarantees for the protection from harassment and assault of human rights advocates and defenders.
HB 100 or the granting of absolute divorce is a sequel of the Reproductive Health Act that Lagman authored.
HB 101, whose precursor was co-authored by 153 members in the 17th Congress, seeks to stop the practice of execution pending appeal of decisions or orders of quasi-judicial bodies suspending or dismissing public officials.
Meanwhile, at least 60 neophyte district and party-list representatives on Monday attended the first day of the House of Representatives Executive Course on Legislation that will orient them on their role and functions as House Members of the 18th Congress and help them fulfill their constitutional mandate as legislators.
The attendees comprise the third and last batch of lawmakers to undergo the legislative course. Most of them either come from political families or were former local chief executives in their districts. Based on their self-introduction, the lawmakers have a common advocacy which is to help uplift the lives of the Filipino people.
https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/07/01/over-200-bills-filed-in-house-on-first-day-of-18th-congress/
Over 200 bills swiftly clogged the House of Representatives docket of legislative measures on the first working day of congressmen belonging to the 18th Congress.
Majority of the bills are re-filed measures that either did not pass committee approval or on second or third reading stages of approval during the 17th Congress. Others were passed on final reading but failed to get the Senate’s nod.
Cebu Rep. Raul Del Mar filed the first four bills but were officially listed in the legislative docket as House Bills (HB) Nos. 11, 12, 13 and 14.
The first 10 in the list of bills filed are reserved for the speaker, who will be elected by his colleagues when the 18th Congress officially opens on July 22.
Other early birds include Reps. Edcel Lagman (LP, Albay), Michael Romero (1Pacman Partylist), and Ruffy Biazon (PDP-Laban, Muntinlupa City).
Biazon filed at least 100 bills on the first day of the 18th Congress, majority of which were re-filed measures from the 17th Congress. A number of the bills were legislative proposals that he had co-authored with his father, former Senator Rodolfo Biazon.
Filed by Del Mar was HB 11 or the “Mega Cebu Development Authority (MCDA) Act.” It seeks to create a special body to coordinate and promote socio-economic growth and sustainable development within Metro Cebu and the Cebu province.
Del Mar’s HB 12, “Freedom of Information Act,” seeks to provide citizens access to official records, documents, and papers pertaining to official acts, transactions or decisions, and government research data used as basis for policy development.
A consolidated version of the measure hurdled third and final reading by the House and Senate during the 14th Congress and was further approved by the bicameral conference committee during that time, according to him. But the bicameral report was only ratified by the Senate as the House failed to have a quorum on the last session day of the 14th Congress.
Romero filed the Actors Occupational Safety and Health Standard Law providing for stricter measures for the prevention of accidents and other occupational hazards on the movie or television set and the imposition of stiff penalties for violations.
Romero, president of the Party-list Coalition Foundation, Inc., said he expects more than 100 of his colleagues in the House of Representatives to co-author the measure that will be known “The Eddie Garcia Law.”
On the other hand, Lagman re-filed three major legislative proposals that were passed on third and final reading during the 17th Congress but failed Senate approval due to lack of time.
These bills are: (1) the Human Rights Defenders Protection Bill, which is now HB 015; (2) the Absolute Divorce Bill (HB 100); and (3) HB 101, staying the execution pending appeal of the orders of dismissal/suspension by quasi-judicial bodies like the Office of the Ombudsman and the Civil Service Commission.
Lagman said HB 015 proposes guarantees for the protection from harassment and assault of human rights advocates and defenders.
HB 100 or the granting of absolute divorce is a sequel of the Reproductive Health Act that Lagman authored.
HB 101, whose precursor was co-authored by 153 members in the 17th Congress, seeks to stop the practice of execution pending appeal of decisions or orders of quasi-judicial bodies suspending or dismissing public officials.
Meanwhile, at least 60 neophyte district and party-list representatives on Monday attended the first day of the House of Representatives Executive Course on Legislation that will orient them on their role and functions as House Members of the 18th Congress and help them fulfill their constitutional mandate as legislators.
The attendees comprise the third and last batch of lawmakers to undergo the legislative course. Most of them either come from political families or were former local chief executives in their districts. Based on their self-introduction, the lawmakers have a common advocacy which is to help uplift the lives of the Filipino people.
https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/07/01/over-200-bills-filed-in-house-on-first-day-of-18th-congress/
ABS-CBN SHUTDOWN IMPOSSIBLE DESPITE FRANCHISE EXPIRATION? KBP SEC. LITO YABUT EXPLAINS
- In 2018, President Rodrigo Duterte strongly disapproved of the renewal of ABS-CBN’s franchise that will expire by 2020
- Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) Secretary Lito Yabut cleared that it’s impossible for ABS-CBN to shut down just because its franchise expired
- For the record, there hasn’t been any broadcast station that was shut down because of an expired franchise
The issue regarding the franchise renewal of ABS-CBN has been in the headlines of newspapers and news sites for weeks now.
President Rodrigo Duterte had earlier issued a statement highly disapproving the renewal of the ABS-CBN franchise that is about to terminate in the year 2020.
His reason? Instead of airing his political advertisements during the 2016 Presidential Election, the network aired an advertisement critical of Duterte which was paid by former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV.
“Hindi ko palusutin. Iyong franchise niyo matatapos. But let me ask you questions first. Kasi ako talaga mag-object na ma-renew kayo. Alam mo bakit? Magnanakaw kayo, estapador,” the President stated.
Because of this, many celebrities who will be affected raised their sentiments on social media. Some of them even signed a petition urging the House of Representatives to renew the franchise of the network. Coco Martin, Lea Salonga, Piolo Pascual, Jaime Fabregas, John Arcilla, Angel Aquino, Ricky Lee, and Joel Lamangan- to name a few.
However, Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) Secretary Lito Yabut clarified that it’s impossible for the network to shut down just because its franchise has expired. And to date, there has not been any broadcast station that was shut down because the franchise expired.
In an interview with One News, the KBP Secretary said, “There never was a broadcast station that was shut down because the franchise expired — never in the history of the Philippines. My father knows that, Gabby Lopez’s father knows that. Wala, wala. No such thing.”
(Wala pang istasyong naipasara dahil lamang sa isang expired na prangkisa, wala pa sa kasaysayan ng Pilipinas. Alam ‘yan ng tatay ko, alam ‘yan ng tatay ni Gabby Lopez. Wala, wala. Walang ganyan.)
Eugenio Gabriel “Gabby” L. López III is the former chairman of ABS-CBN whom Duterte called a “swindler” after Duterte falsely accused him of stealing billions from people.
https://www.lionheartv.net/2019/07/abs-cbn-shutdown-impossible-despite-franchise-expiration-kbp-sec-lito-yabut-explains/
Monday, July 1, 2019
First House bills filed under 18th Congress tackle FOI, motorcycle regulation, HRDs, Cebu development
House bills seeking to allow the use of motorcycles as public transport, strengthen citizen’s right to government-held data, and protect human rights defenders were among the first five measures filed at the lower chamber on the first day of the 18th Congress.
Cebu City Rep. Raul del Mar filed House Bill No. 13 on Monday seeking to amend Section 7 (c) of the Land Transportation and Traffic Code.
Del Mar said in the bill’s explanatory note that amending the said provision “will resolve the existing inadequacies in our laws and shall promote the safety and welfare of people who patronage motorcycles-for-hire known as habal-habal or Angkas.”
“The absence of any law regulating the operation of motorcycles-for-hire…runs counter to the policy of the State to ensure the safety and of the public,” he said.
Del Mar noted that the bill was approved on third and final reading in the House of Representatives in the 17th Congress but was not approved by the Senate “for lack of time upon congressional adjournment.”
The lawmaker from Cebu also filed House Bill No. 12 or “An Act Strengthening the People’s Right to Information.”
The said measure seeks to “put in place the enabling law necessary to implement a provision in the Philippine Constitution which states that “[t]he right of the people to information on matters of public concerns shall be recognized.”
Del Mar, who refiled the bill, said it was already approved on third and final reading by both chambers of Congress and was further approved by the Bicameral Conference Committee in the 14th Congress.
However, while the bicam report was ratified by the Senate, it could not be ratified by the House due to lack of quorum during the last session day of the 14th Congress.
Meanwhile, Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman filed House Bill No. 15 or the “Human Rights Defenders Protection Act.”
In filing the measure, Lagman said it is “imperative for the Philippine government to enact a law guaranteeing the protection of rights and fundamental freedoms of HRDs (human rights defenders)” amid the “continuing intimidation, reprisal, harassment and vilification of HRDs and the growing culture of impunity.”
Del Mar filed two other bills that focused on the development of Cebu.
House Bill No. 11 or the Mega Cebu Development Authority Act which seeks the creation of a “permanent, appropriate, and responsive institutional platform that commits to and is reflective of the principles and framework of inter-local and city-region collaboration, public-private sector partnership, citizen and civil society engagement, and evidence-based and expert-assisted planning and development.”
Meanwhile, House Bill No. 14 is an “an act providing a Light Rail Transport (LRT) or Metro Rail Transport (MRT) or Monorail in Cebu City or Metro Cebu.
“The common perception is that the traffic situation in the City of Cebu and Metro Cebu, considering the economic growth trends, population explosion rates, and migration factors, has already reached the level where a modern mass transit system must be put in place,” Del Mar said in his explanatory note.
A staff from the House of Representatives told reporters in a Viber message that 890 House bills and 24 House resolutions have so far been filed as of 7 p.m. (Editor: Eden Estopace)
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1136186/first-house-bills-filed-under-18th-congress-tackle-foi-motorcycle-regulation-hrds-cebu-development
Cebu City Rep. Raul del Mar filed House Bill No. 13 on Monday seeking to amend Section 7 (c) of the Land Transportation and Traffic Code.
Del Mar said in the bill’s explanatory note that amending the said provision “will resolve the existing inadequacies in our laws and shall promote the safety and welfare of people who patronage motorcycles-for-hire known as habal-habal or Angkas.”
“The absence of any law regulating the operation of motorcycles-for-hire…runs counter to the policy of the State to ensure the safety and of the public,” he said.
Del Mar noted that the bill was approved on third and final reading in the House of Representatives in the 17th Congress but was not approved by the Senate “for lack of time upon congressional adjournment.”
The lawmaker from Cebu also filed House Bill No. 12 or “An Act Strengthening the People’s Right to Information.”
The said measure seeks to “put in place the enabling law necessary to implement a provision in the Philippine Constitution which states that “[t]he right of the people to information on matters of public concerns shall be recognized.”
Del Mar, who refiled the bill, said it was already approved on third and final reading by both chambers of Congress and was further approved by the Bicameral Conference Committee in the 14th Congress.
However, while the bicam report was ratified by the Senate, it could not be ratified by the House due to lack of quorum during the last session day of the 14th Congress.
Meanwhile, Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman filed House Bill No. 15 or the “Human Rights Defenders Protection Act.”
In filing the measure, Lagman said it is “imperative for the Philippine government to enact a law guaranteeing the protection of rights and fundamental freedoms of HRDs (human rights defenders)” amid the “continuing intimidation, reprisal, harassment and vilification of HRDs and the growing culture of impunity.”
Del Mar filed two other bills that focused on the development of Cebu.
House Bill No. 11 or the Mega Cebu Development Authority Act which seeks the creation of a “permanent, appropriate, and responsive institutional platform that commits to and is reflective of the principles and framework of inter-local and city-region collaboration, public-private sector partnership, citizen and civil society engagement, and evidence-based and expert-assisted planning and development.”
Meanwhile, House Bill No. 14 is an “an act providing a Light Rail Transport (LRT) or Metro Rail Transport (MRT) or Monorail in Cebu City or Metro Cebu.
“The common perception is that the traffic situation in the City of Cebu and Metro Cebu, considering the economic growth trends, population explosion rates, and migration factors, has already reached the level where a modern mass transit system must be put in place,” Del Mar said in his explanatory note.
A staff from the House of Representatives told reporters in a Viber message that 890 House bills and 24 House resolutions have so far been filed as of 7 p.m. (Editor: Eden Estopace)
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1136186/first-house-bills-filed-under-18th-congress-tackle-foi-motorcycle-regulation-hrds-cebu-development
Pascual, Pastor at Galleria South opening
Nowadays for PR practitioner and talent manager Keren Pascual and Bench head architect Miguel Pastor would attend Robinsons Galleria South opening on July 19, as a tribute to Enchong Dee's appearances in two events - Bench "Uncut: A Bold Look at the Future" denim and underwear show at the Araneta Coliseum last July 2, 2010 and Inquirer Lifestyle series "Fitness Fashion" at the Rigodon Ballroom of the Peninsula Manila in Makati City last July 31, 2008.
Masters of ceremonies to be led by showbiz talk show host Butch Francisco of GMA and business news anchor Cathy Yang of ABS-CBN and ANC.
Also spotted during the opening day mass and blessing are Maja Salvador, Alden Richards, Darren Espanto, Noel Manapat and Robby Carmona.
To recall that Mr. Dee is being part of Bench, Bench Body, Bench Skin Expert, Jins and Timex.
Besides next to Pascual and architect Pastor is Ben Chan, chairman and founder of Suyen Corporation and executive creative director of Bench will be here.
Chan added that Mr. Dee would wear JINS Airframe U377 (Spider), 2009 adidas DLSU cap (Unisex, Fairway/White) and hoodie (fairway/white), 2011 Nike exclusive De La Salle Dri-Fit tee (white), BENCH/ body Hipster Brief - Black (BUB2032BK3), BENCH/ Skinny Jeans - Black (LAM6000B) and DC Shoes Men's AT-3 Mid Sneaker (Royal Blue/Armor) would be exhibited during the mall's grand opening because he was in Bench Uncut 2010 denim and underwear show got wild cheers from the audience and he shows his athletic side with these dance moves, and doing workouts at Bodyworx Spa & Fitness Club instead of Anytime Fitness Dona Hemady before doing a photo shoot at BENCH/ Tower.
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| JINS Airframe U377 (Spider) |
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| 2009 Adidas DLSU hoodie (green) |
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| 2011 Nike exclusive De La Salle tee (white) |
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| BENCH/ Skinny Jeans - Black (LAM6000) |
While for Robi Domingo is wearing JINS Airframe U377 (Faded Charcoal), 2008 Adidas Ateneo sesquicentennial jacket (blue/white) and teamwear tees (blue with three white stripes) with the words "1987. 1988. 2002. 2008. Bring the pride back", Technomarine Men's MoonSun Quartz Watch with Stainless-Steel Strap, Silver, 16 (TM-117029), BENCH/ Furne One’s Far East collection men’s costume white sando and denim pant and DC Shoes Men's AT-3 Mid Sneaker (White/Black/Athletic Red) and it appeared in the said show when he ripped his sando in the Furne One's Far East segment.
A Twitter user who said "Nakakatawa yung ginawa ni Robi Domingo sa Bench Uncut."
Again, Robi wears 2008 adidas Ateneo Sesquicentennial jacket (Blue/White, with three stripes), arena ARN-4091 BLK silicone swimming cap, AGL-1400 EMBL swimming glass (mirror Swedish type) and ARN-6013 ABLU Long Spats nux-F along with other members of FAST Ateneo Swimming Team batches 2006-2007 to 2018-2019.
It followed by a song dedicated to Mr. Dee sung by the Bukas Palad Music Ministry, followed by a speech by Sen. Pia Cayetano, the founding mother of Inquirer Lifestyle and Samsung's fashion show Fitness Fashion.
It followed by a song dedicated to Mr. Dee sung by the Bukas Palad Music Ministry, followed by a speech by Sen. Pia Cayetano, the founding mother of Inquirer Lifestyle and Samsung's fashion show Fitness Fashion.
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