Philippine Daily Inquirer articles from August 2008

Philippine Daily Inquirer archives from August 2008

4 Marines slain in Abu Sayyaf ambush.
August 31, 2008... ZAMBOANGA CITYFOUR MARINE SOLDIERS were killed while 10 others were injured during an early morning ambush by Abu Sayyaf gunmen in Patikul, Sulu, yesterday. Earlier, the Western Mindanao Command reported that the soldiers were killed or...

Air Force honors the 9 men it lost in Davao plane crash.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Tarra Quismundo THE GRIEF WAS PALPABLE IN THE HEAVY afternoon air as nine caskets were unloaded from a C-130 plane to the somber sound of trumpets and drums at Villamor Air Base, as the military yesterday honored the airmen it...

Albay boys drawing bests 1,676 worldwide.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Ephraim Aguilar, Inquirer Southern Luzon GUINOBATAN, ALBAYBRYLE NAPAYS mind is etched with memories of rainy days when he would set aside his black leather shoes and wade to school on slippers as floods would rise fast in their...

You cant serve 2 masters, Panlilio told.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Kristine L. Alave A SENIOR OFFICIAL OF THE CATHOLIC Bishops Conference of the Philippines has again asked embattled priest turned Pampanga Gov. Ed Panlilio to choose between the priesthood and politics. Pangasinan Archbishop...

Change in behavior, not condoms, will stem AIDS.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Kristine L. Alave THE CATHOLIC CHURCH wants the Department of Health to stop promoting the use of condoms to prevent the spread of the AIDS-causing HIV virus. Pangasinan Archbishop Paciano Aniceto, chair of the Catholic...

Coaches see Fil-Ams going 1-2-3.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Cedelf P. Tupas COACHES CALOY GARCIA OF RAIN OR Shine and Bo Perasol of Air 21 have tipped Fil-Ams Gabe Norwood, Jared Dillinger and Solomon Mercado to emerge as the first three picks in the PBA draft today at the Market! Market!...

Eagles clinch sfinal bonus; Tams prevail.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Jasmine W. Payo ATENEO RODE A THREE-POINT surge to overpower National University, 83-58, yesterday and clinch the first semifinal incentive in the UAAP mens basketball competition at the PhilSports Arena. The Eagles closed...

RP Olympiad bronze shines even brighter.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Florencio Campomanes THE THIRD PLACE TROPHY won by the four-man Philippine team in Mersin, Turkey, last week was no pushover. We finished behind India and Russia, the behemoths of world youth chess. We were in contention...

Evacuees consistent life with war.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Jeffrey M. Tupas, Pikit, North Cotabato IN 1973, A TEENAGER AND HIS family in Barangay Kudal in Pagalungan, Maguindanao, had to leave their home for fear of meeting the same fate that befell their neighbor, who happened to be one...

A first for Pinoy filmmaker in Venice.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Ruben V. Nepales, Correspondent JAY, FRANCIS XAVIER E. PASIONS FILM, opened the Orizzonti (Horizons) sidebar section of the Venice Film Festival on Friday. It was the first time a debut work by a Filipino filmmaker was screened in...

Fiba Asia: Lebanon squeaks past RP Youth.
August 31, 2008... LEBANON EXPLOITED A LOUSY call slapped on the Philippines and extracted an 87-84 win yesterday in the Fiba-Asia Championship for junior men at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran, Iran. Filipino-Canadian Matthew Wright was assessed an offensive...

Geologist to use Benguet traditional mining practices.
August 31, 2008... BAGUIO CITYA DANISH GEologist has been visiting the mining towns of Itogon and Tublay in Benguet since last week to study small-scale mining practices that preserve the residents environment and health. Dr. Peter Appel, senior research...

Good government is key.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Edson C. Tandoc Jr. ASIA HAS SEEN THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW SPIRIT OF partnership and sharing in coming to grips with the regions problems but good government is urgently needed for such efforts to succeed, according to the two-day...

GMA vs JDV: Whose shrimp is better?
August 31, 2008... Byline: Yolanda Sotelo-Fuertes, Inquirer Northern Luzon DAGUPAN CITYITS A TOUGH choice: Hipon ni Gloria (Glorias shrimp) or Hipon ni JDV (JDVs shrimp)? The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) research center here is...

The crustacean diaspora in Surigao del Sur.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Romel M. Oribe, Tago, Surigao del Sur AS A CHILD, I ALWAYS BELIEVED that crabs would never run out in Tago, my hometown in Surigao del Sur, even if they were peddled in the streets morning, noon and night. Back then crabs...

When a secret wedding is an immigration issue.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Lourdes Santos Tancinco MARIO IS A GREEN CARD holder. His parents petitioned him as a single adult child 10 years ago. Unknown to his parents, Mario was actually married to his childhood sweetheart, Anna. Mario also has a child...

Dubai rumble caps SLR trip.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Beth Celis DUBAITWO WINS, TWO LOSSES. This was the record by the Sta. Lucia Realtors going into the third and last leg of their three-city tour of The Gulf. The Realtors swept their first two games in Bahrain against commercial...

The Cha-cha zombie.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Isagani A. Cruz THE CHA-CHA IS STILL ARTIFICIALLY ALIVE, but nobody is afraid of it now as some people were until the Supreme Court killed it in no less than three decisive executions, the last one only two years ago. We thought...

Hawk eagle freed.
August 31, 2008... RAINS due to tropical depression Lawin provided the path to freedom for a lost female Philippine hawk eagle (Spizaetus philippensis), after it was released at a forested ridge on Ambuklao Road here on Wednesday. The Department of...

Ninoy Aquinos Final March.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Eusebio San Diego, Contributor TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGOon Aug. 31, 1983the world through the wonders of electronic media witnessed a huge funeral procession that lasted for almost 12 hours. This event was Sen. Benigno Ninoy S....

2 robberies in the city.
August 31, 2008... ROBBERS took cash and assorted items totaling about P700,000 in two incidents Sunday night here. Two armed men wearing bonnets robbed businessmen-spouses Salamuddin and Jamaica Damiano at their house in Barangay Balogo. Taken were 80...

2 rebels yield.
August 31, 2008... TWO COMMUNIST rebels surrendered to the Castilla town police in Sorsogon province Tuesday morning. Roger Lerio, 37, and Robert Bien, 20, turned themselves in unarmed through the coordination of village and town officials. Lerio and...

Mom suspect in sons murder.
August 31, 2008... POLICE have detained a woman for allegedly killing her 10-year-old son in Amadeo, Cavite, last Friday. Police said said Joel Rosales, a Grade 5 pupil, was found dead by his father along the road near their nipa hut in Barangay Halang on...

Woman slain in attack.
August 31, 2008... A WOMAN was killed late Tuesday night when an undetermined number of suspected New Peoples Army rebels attacked an Army detachment in Del Gallego town, Camarines Sur. The rebels fired upon the detachment in Barangay Sta. Rita hitting...

The cross.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Fr. Jerry M. Orbos, SVD THE STORY IS TOLD ABOUT AN ELDERLY woman who called 911 on her cell phone to report that her car had been broken into. She was hysterical as she explained her situation to the dispatcher: They have stolen...

More violence seen in Mindanao.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Norman Bordador and Jeoffrey Maitem, Inquirer Mindanao THE HIGHEST-RANKING MUSLIM LEADER IN Congress yesterday warned of peace becoming more elusive in Mindanao if the government scraps the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral...

Other lives lived like my lolo Monching.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Paco Magsaysay IT WAS ON THIS DAY, AUG. 31, EXactly 101 years ago, that my grandfather Ramon Magsaysay was born. The little, quiet town of Iba in Zambales witnessed his birth at past midnight, just as the earth welcomed the...

Twenty-three.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Patricia Evangelista WHEN I WAS A KID, ID GO TO MY GRANDMOTHER EVERY time I had a tooth that needed taking out. She was a nurse, my laughing grandma whose predilection for pornography, pretty pink dresses and...

Paintings, photos reveal world as persons with autism see it.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Cyril L. Bonabente, Inquirer Research USING CRAYON, PAINT AND camera, persons with autism (PWAs) are taking us on a personal tour of the world they have created. Paintings and photographs by people with autism spectrum...

Reality bites on RH.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Rina Jimenez-David WOMEN KNOW WHAT THEY NEED. BUT THE problem is that theyre not getting it anywhere, said Gina Conde, president of the Apelo (Pasay) Womens Health Association, in reaction to what some participants at a recent...

Salvation through conversion.
August 31, 2008... As gasoline prices rose to high heavens, widespread soul-searching swept across the land. Motorists experienced personal epiphanies. Many vowed to change their ways by using cars less often and by taking commuter trains, buses or jeepneys....

RM laureate wants Japan to face truth of war atrocities.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Lito B. Zulueta, Arts and Books Editor LAMENTING THE CULTURE OF SIlence that has made Japan ignore its stigmatized communities and keep a stony silence about the atrocities it committed in East Asia during the Second World War,...

SC: Being gay not grounds for annulment.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Jerome Aning BEING GAY IS NOT VALID GROUND FOR having ones marriage annulled, hiding the fact is. The Supreme Court has reversed the decision of the Las Pinas City Regional Trial Court that broke up a couples 11-year marriage...

Pacquiao-Hoya clash looms as global spectacle.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Marc Anthony Reyes BY ALL INDICATIONS, THE SUPERFIGHT between Manny Pacquiao and Oscar De La Hoya wont be just another blockbuster boxing event, but a global spectacle as well. Top Rank president Bob Arum, who represents...

South Korean falls to death in Lapu-Lapu hotel.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Jhunnex Napallacan, Inquirer Visayas CEBU CITYA 27-YEAR-OLD South Korean national fell to his death on Friday from the terrace of his room in the sixth floor of the Crown Regency Hotel in Gun-ob, Lapu-Lapu City. The police...

Still No. 1: Inquirer leads broadsheets, says Nielsen.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Kate Pedroso, Inquirer Research THE PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER has sustained its leadership among Filipino broadsheet readers nationwide, according to the latest survey conducted by Nielsen Media Research. The Inquirer was the...

Tboli kill 5 MILF men, say police.
August 31, 2008... KORONADAL CITYARMED TBOLI NAtives killed five Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels, including a field commander, during a clash in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato, police said yesterday. Senior Supt. Robert Kiunisala, South Cotabato...

Tagaytay 5 go back to interrupted lives.
August 31, 2008... CALAMBA CITYAFTER THEIR RELEASE on Thursday afternoon, the five men detained for two years and four months for rebellion case are going back to normal life again. Enrico Ybanez, who will turn 61 next week, said that on the day he was...

Govt unfazed by threat of suit over junked MOA.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Michael Lim Ubac AMID A WARNING THE GOVERNMENT could be haled before the International Court of Justice, Malacanang yesterday said it was standing by its top lawyer, Solicitor General Agnes Devanadera, who has said the proposed...

Welcome to Saudi Village in Rizal.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Jo Javan Calinao-Cerda, Contributor MORE THAN TWO decades ago, residents called this nondescript place southeast of Manila as out there. At daytime, farmers, along with their carabaos, could be seen walking through patches of...

GMA wants early Olympic buildup.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Marc Anthony Reyes MONEY WONT BE A PROBLEM AS long as there is a sound sports development program. The assurance came from President Macapagal-Arroyo during the courtesy call made by the winning wushu team in Malacanang...

Exporter sees glossy life in marble after tragedies.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Madonna Virola, Inquirer Southern Luzon ROMBLON, RomblonRocked by a typhoon and the tragedy of the Sulpicio Lines MV Princess sinking in its waters, Romblon folk, especially Sibuyanons, are still groping for economic recovery. ...

Theres better life, fortune in ornamental plants.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Anselmo Roque, Inquirer Central Luzon TALAVERA, Nueva EcijaLorenzo Inos went through various jobs and ventures in his search for a better life. For many years, he was an illustrator-cartographer in the provincial office of...

Project rejected for years improves Carcar folks lives.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Irene R. Sino Cruz, Inquirer Visayas CARCAR CITY When the farmers of several mountain barangays here learned about a proposed irrigation project in their area, they disliked the idea so much it took the National Irrigation...

Pilgrimage in Spain: An engineers dream come true.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Josephine Darang WHEN ENGINEER PAUL CRUZ was chosen through a raffle as president of the fiesta of St. Ildephonsus in San Ildefonso, Bulacan on Jan. 18, 1984, he wished that he would one day visit the church of the saint in...

Tapas Night caps month-long Spanish festival.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Jaime Picornell CASINO ESPANOL DE CEBU recently celebrated Spanish month and culminated it with a Tapas Night on Dia de Santiago, at the clubs grand ballroom. Spains Ambassador Luis Arias graced the occasion, accompanied by his...

What Korina might do for the love of Mar.
August 31, 2008... DO WE STILL need greater proof that Sen. Mar Roxas and TV celeb Korina Sanchez are two people in love? For the love of Senator Roxas, Korina is said to be willing to put her career on hold, to help him get to Malacanang in 2010. The two...

Gems for the gentlemen.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Cheche V. Moral RARE IT IS TO FIND A MAN WHO LOVES jewelry. But it is not so rare to find a man who buys them. In truth, mens role has largely been buyers of jewelry for the women in their life. And it is perhaps for this...

Running for fashion, charity and planet Earth.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Tessa Prieto-Valdes TODAY, THE HUMAN RACE IS UNITED IN A RUN for fitness. So many people are joining the worldwide 10K Nike+ Human Race that our earth is spinning just a wee bit faster from all the running. In fact, over a...

Peninsula gets its first Filipino general manager.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Rowena C. Burgos THE FIRST FILIPINO TO BE APPOINTED general manager of The Peninsula Manila, Vlad Reyes began his tenure last Aug. 23, succeeding David Batchelor, who has moved to the Pens head office in Hong Kong as general...

The city you must see before you leave.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Constantino C. Tejero YOU KNOW YOURE IN BEIJING WHEN you sit for dinner a la carte and read the menu describing the herb-encrusted steak as fragrant wonderful fat cow. So you see, it isnt really hard to communicate in this...

Pinoy pride in Beijing.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Pam Pastor IT WAS A BUSY WEDNESDAY night at Beijings Workers Gymnasium, the venue of the Olympics boxing matches. There was a lot to see: the Olympic mascots leading a cheer, the noisy boy wearing a Ukraine shirt, Kobe Bryant...

Graceful portrait of Hanoi.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Anne A. Jambora THE RUSTIC CHARM OF Hanoi, Vietnam, is depicted in images of graceful wit in Good Morning Vietnam, a photo exhibit-workshop by photography group Travel Light, on Sept. 8 to 13, at SM The Block, Quezon City. ...

She wants to break up with BFbut not quite.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Emily A. Marcelo DEAR EMILY, How do I break up with my boyfriend without making it sound like it is the end of our relationship? I am still bothered that he used to be physically and emotionally involved with his...

Meet the alpha female.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Margie David Collins, Contributor IM SORRY, HE TOLD New Hampshire voters, I cant make her younger, taller, male! Bill was campaigning early this year for his wife Hillary, who had just lost Iowa. The United States...

Granddaddy heaven (not for the queasy).
August 31, 2008... Byline: Gilda Cordero-Fernando, Contributor WHEN I WAS MUCH YOUNGER, A feature writer asked me what kind of a funeral I would like for myself. I was game enough to answer a horrible question like that so I said I fancied a burial like...

Vin Diesel not fast, not boring in interviews.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Ruben V. Nepales LOS ANGELES You ask Vin a question and hell keep you here for two days. Vin Diesel may have been wrong in choosing some film projects in the past but boy, was he right on the above self-assessment. Speaking...

Getting it right the first time.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Jayson B. Brizuela, Contributor NOT MANY LOCAL MOVIES live up fully to their promise, but for the first time in a long time, one has done just that. Directed by Joyce Bernal and written by Vanessa Valdez, Star Cinemas For the...

RP Gossip Girl on TV5.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Marinel R. Cruz IT PAYS TO HAVE GOOD LOOKS AND show biz genes. For her uncanny resemblance to Gossip Girl actress Leighton Meester, Maxine Eigenmann easily bagged a major role when she auditioned for the local youth drama...

Three dads and a KC.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Nestor U. Torre MOST OF US HAVE ONLY ONE father but KC Concepcion, by her own account, has had three. Well, that goes to further prove, in addition to all her other plus factors, that KC is different from you and me! It all...

10 Food Remedies Ripe for the Picking.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Tessa Salazar AN apple a day keeps the doctor away, true, but people of age-old cultures believe that other nature-grown stuff are all one needs to keep healthy. Looking for a natural vaccine against cervical cancer? Eat...

Arnel Pineda: The Journeymans Tale.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Eric S. Caruncho I NEVER stopped believing that someday, somehow I would make it. But I never thought it would be this big! My biggest dream was that I would make it with my band Zoo, and that someday we would be as big as...

Grand Designs.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Ruel S. De Vera THE world according to Dindo Bernardo would be wide, but it would also make sensein a very eye-catching way. Thats because the 39-year-old graphic designer has taken his vibrant vision to the world via his...

Everybody Loves Leila!
August 31, 2008... Byline: C.H. Pardo HE reigned at a time when Queen was a title that carried with it an air of regality and sophistication, a gentility and grace not necessarily dependent on pulchritudeand certainly not on brashness or daring. Leila...

Against All Odds.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Araceli Z. Lorayes PEOPLE Power may be a catalyst for change, but it still needs a rallying figure to embody the aspirations of the people. In 1986, that figure was Corazon Aquino. In recent years, the political maelstrom has...

Blood is Thicker than Charity.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Menchu Sarmiento FILIPINOS can rightly be proud of many things, among them our warm and close family ties. But as foremost Filipino child psychologist and family therapist Dr. Honey Carandang notes, many Filipino families are...

Out of the Way.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Margaux Salcedo DAN was in love with Carrie. He wanted to sweep her off her feet. He wanted to treat her to a beautiful, sumptuous, romantic dinner that would blow her away and make her fall in love with him. Have you been to...

Myths & Hisses.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Margarita Holmes HOW often have you heard these medical lore? Dont have vigorous sex after youve had a stroke. If youre bipolar, its better not to take medication and just take care of your health. Even if its...

Insufficient safeguards.
August 31, 2008... Byline: Artemio V. Panganiban WITH THE GRP-MILF-MOA IN LIMBO AND THE Republic of the Philippines at war with rogue MILF forces, President Macapagal-Arroyos partisans could no longer use the peace process to show the alleged urgency of...

Did Galman do it?
August 31, 2008... THOSE WHO WANT TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF the countrys crime of the century, the assassination of anti-Marcos opposition leader Ninoy Aquino on Aug. 21, 1983, may have been perplexed by two recent initiatives in long-form journalism. A new...

Fear of bigger war hurting traders.
August 30, 2008... DIPOLOG CITYTRADERS AND BUSINESSMEN in Mindanao are starting to hurt from the effects of continuing clashes between government forces and separatist Moro guerrillas, calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities to save business on the...

Amulets found in shootout suggest link with rob groups.
August 30, 2008... Byline: DJ Yap and Beverly T. Natividad THE SUSPECTED ROBBERS who engaged the police in a gunfight Thursday in Makati City have yet to be named but the police said they have several clues about their identities. PO2 Warren Balang of...

From Olympic fatigue to Pacquiao mania.
August 30, 2008... Byline: Recah Trinidad NO CONTEST AND NO NEED TO DIG into prizefight records, either. Manny Pacquiao yesterday scored his biggest, quickest off-ring knockout when he formally agreed to fight the fight of the decade against a bigger,...

Blue crabs need sanctuary in Negros.
August 30, 2008... Byline: Carla P. Gomez, EB Magalona, Negros Occidental BARANGAY TOMONTONG IN EB MAGALONA town in Negros Occidental has long been known for its bounty of blue crabs, but its residents are now feeling the pinch. The lucrative incomes...

Cardinals upset Knights.
August 30, 2008... Byline: Cedelf P. Tupas GAMES MONDAY (Cuneta Astrodome) 11:30CSB-LSGH vs. Perpetual (Jrs) 2 p.m.St. Benilde vs. Perpetual (Srs) 4 p.m.JRU vs. PCU (Srs) WITH NEWFOUND CONFIDENCE and a little old school trickery, the...

Olympic gold not built on prayer.
August 30, 2008... Byline: Juan Miguel Luz ANOTHER FORGETTABLE OLYMPICS. NO medals. Third in a row. You would think that by now we would have learned that Olympic gold is not built on prayer, signature campaigns, cash incentives, presidential orders or...

Cory says use people power to fight poverty.
August 30, 2008... Byline: Tina G. Santos EVEN IN THE FACE OF A MAJOR ILLness, former President Corazon Aquino continues to be an inspiration. Clad in her signature color yellow, Aquino underscored the importance of rekindling the spirit of partnership...

DFA confirms death of Pinoy off Somalia.
August 30, 2008... Byline: Tarra Quismundo THE DEPARTMENT OF FOReign Affairs (DFA) confirmed yesterday the death of one of 26 Filipino seamen seized by pirates in separate ship hijacks off Somalia earlier this month. DFA Migrant Workers Affairs...

Dureza says govt to refocus talks on disarmament, demobilization, rehabilitation.
August 30, 2008... Byline: Christine Avendano and Edson C. Tandoc Jr. PRESS SECRETARY JESUS Dureza said the government now intends to refocus the peace talks with the secessionist Moro Islamic Liberation Front on the issues of disarmament, demobilization...

Eagles eye semifinal incentive.
August 30, 2008... FAVORED TO PUT A LOCK ON THE TOP spot, the Ateneo Blue Eagles still find no reason to be too confident. We understand were one of the better teams in the league, theres no question about that, but we have to come and play every night,...

East Visayas fights calamity effects, hikes rice yields.
August 30, 2008... Byline: Vicente S. Labro, Inquirer Visayas TACLOBAN CITYDESPITE CALAMITIES that struck Eastern Visayas early this year, palay and fishery production in the region increased during the first semester of 2008. The production of palay...

Keeping the peace.
August 30, 2008... THE LAST THING THE TROUBLED AREAS OF Mindanao need is another army roaming the countryside and terrorizing citizens. But here we have not one but two groups threatening to rear their ugly heads, one newly resurrected, the other still...

Extra funds for Defense eyed.
August 30, 2008... Byline: Norman Bordadora BUDGET SECRETARY ROLANDO ANDAYA JR. has asked Congress to re-align some of the allocations in the proposed P1.415-trillion national budget for 2009 to increase the share of the Department of National Defense. ...

Palace: 4.6% growth still respectable.
August 30, 2008... Byline: Michael Lim Ubac THE 4.6-PERCENT GROSS domestic product (GDP) recorded in the second quarter is still respectable given the threats to the global economy, Malacanang said yesterday. Press Secretary Jesus G. Dureza said the...