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LPG PRICES GO UP, PUMP PRICES TO FOLLOW ARNEL Ty, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Marketers Association president, said that retailers implemented another P3 a kilogram increase in LPG prices on Monday as suppliers again jacked up their prices. The increase brought the price of the group’s 11-kilogram cooking gas tank to between P640 and P650. Initial reports indicate an up to P1.50 a liter hike in fuel prices. EUAN PAULO C. AÑONUEVO


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Next are Binay, Enrile, says Pulse Asia survey


BY JOVEE MARIE N. DELA CRUZ REPORTER


RESIDENT Benigno Aquino 3rd is the most popular government official among


Filipinos, the latest Pulse Asia


survey revealed on Monday. The survey showed that the President, who scored a 79- percent approval rating, is the most popular government offi- cial followed by Vice President Jejomar Binay who got 78 per- cent and Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile with 61 percent. It said that House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. got nearly the same approval or indecision percentages, with 45 percent and 43 percent, while Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona got a 45-percent indecision rating. But Corona got the highest disapproval rating with 18 per- cent, while single-digit disapproval scores were recorded for President Aquino and Binay who both got 3 percent, while


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Amnesty move takes absurd turn


BY EFREN L. DANAO SENIOR REPORTER


FIRST, Malacañang issued a flawed Amnesty Proclamation 50 that had to be amended by Amnesty Proclamation 75. On Monday, it committed another boo-boo when it sub- mitted to the Senate a list of potential amnesty applicants that includes Sen. Gregorio Honasan and suspected mem- bers of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New Peo- ple’s Army (CPP-NPA). The alleged CPP-NPA members on the list of potential am- nesty applicants are Prudencio Calubid a.k.a. Ka (short for “kasama,” or comrade) Pablo, Leo Velasko a.k.a. Ka Ili, Edelberto


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■ President Benigno Aquino 3rd listens to Vice President Jejomar Binay during the 2010 Model OFW Family of the Year Award ceremonies at Sofitel Philippine Plaza in Pasay City on Monday. MALACAÑANG PHOTO


Palace sets aside $23M for returning OFWs


THE government has set aside P1 billion ($22.7 million) for the “reintegration” of returning overseas Filipinos in their home country, President Benigno Aquino 3rd said on Monday.


Dubbed as the “reintegration fund,” President Aquino said that the money will


be part of a loan program for the Filipinos who have worked abroad and are preparing to come home.


The loan will be offered at a low inter- est rate and is meant to create an alterna- tive livelihood opportunity for returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), the


MERALCO TO REDUCE ELECTRICITY RATES IN DECEMBER


BY EUAN PAULO C. AÑONUEVO REPORTER


ELECTRICITY rates of Manila Electric Co. (Meralco), the country’s largest private power distributor, will go down this month as a result of a reduction in the utility’s power cost.


From P5.29 a kilowatt-hour in Novem-


ber, the utility’s generation charges will decrease by P0.32 a kilowatt-hour to P5.29


Young Pinoy game maker lives out dream in cyber space


INSIDE a brightly painted red and green building in the Philippines’ financial hub, work is more like play for a young team making funky electronic games. Niel Dagondon may be the boss, but the 30-year-old is living out his boyhood dream running a company that creates games for iPods and iPads, smartphones and websites such as Facebook, as well as game consoles and personal computers. “I’ve always wanted to make


computer games for a living,” Dagondon told Agence France-Presse in his office that looks more like a children’s play center. Yet in his playpen, Anino Games designs and tests game concepts using some of the most expensive three-dimensional graphics software in the business and packed with brilliant young minds. Anino, the Filipino word for


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The generation charge is the single big- gest component of monthly power bills, accounting for 60 percent of Meralco cus- tomers’ electricity bills.


The tariff is the cost of power that Meralco collects from its customers on behalf of its suppliers, which include in- dependent power producers (IPP), state- owned National Power Corp. (Napocor) and the Wholesale Electricity Spot Mar-


Filipinos free to look for jobs in South Korea


BY CRIS G. ODRONIA REPORTER


THE Labor department on Monday an- nounced lifting of a deferment order on deployment of the overseas Filipino work- ers (OFWs) to South Korea. Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said that she got advance information from Roy Cimatu, the Philippine special envoy to South Korea, that it is now safe for the OFWs to be deployed to that country. During a chance interview, Baldoz an- nounced that 160 OFWs are scheduled to leave for South Korea today. She said that the 160 OFWs were allowed


to leave because, according to Cimatu, there are no security risks to Filipinos there. “He [Cimatu] gave the go-signal to deploy


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A DAY after upsetting host and reigning champion Vietnam, the Philippine men’s squad shoots for a victory against Myanmar on Wednesday to enter the semifinal phase of the 2010 Asian Football


ket (WESM).


Meralco said that the primary reason for the reduction in the generation charge was the lower price of electricity in the WESM, which went down by P4.99 a kilowatt-hour this month.


WESM prices for the supply month of


November were at P6.35 compared to P11.34 of the preceding supply month. The reduction in WESM prices more than offset the slightly higher prices from


other suppliers.


Napocor rates increased by P0.44 from P4.85 to P5.29 a kilowatt-hour. Meanwhile, average IPP rates also jumped by P0.14 from P4.23 to P4.37 a kilowatt-hour because of the weakening of the peso-dollar exchange rate and lower dispatch. In particular, one unit of the 500-mega- watt San Lorenzo natural gas plant, which


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He said that his administration will push for improvement of skills of OFWs on fi- nancial literacy and money management, among others that will help them manage their finances.


Sen. Honasan presses for new Lacson inquiry


SENATE President Juan Ponce Enrile had opposed the move but Sen. Gregorio Honasan on Monday said that he would still seek the opinion of other senators on adopt- ing a resolution seeking reinvestigation of a case filed against fugitive Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson for the murder of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and Dacer’s driver Emma- nuel Corbito. “I would be remiss of my duty to the fam- ily of Sen. Lacson if I will not pursue the resolution,” Honasan said.


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Nachura,Ochoa among top bets to replace Melo


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■ Inmates wearing Santa Claus hats and gloves rehearse a dance on Monday at the Makati City Jail for their Christmas presentation. PHOTO BY RENE H. DILAN


Philippine booters seek semifinal slot in Suzuki Cup


Federation’s Suzuki Cup in Hanoi. The Filipino booters, unfazed by wildly cheering Vietnamese fans holding up portraits of local revolutionary hero Ho Chi Minh, stunned the defenders of the Suzuki Cup, 2-0, on Sunday at My Ding Stadium.


Their shock triumph earned them millions of


congratulatory messages from various social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The apparently few fans supporting the


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ANOTHER Supreme Court justice is one of the most likely frontrunners to replace Commis- sion on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Jose Melo, himself a former High Court magistrate. Comelec Commissioner Lucenito Tagle said during a recent interview that High Tri- bunal Associate Justice Antonio Eduardo Nachura’s name was floated in legal circles


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