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OFW, Mutineers' Groups Are House First-Timers www.inquirer.net HH Text INQ ON BREAKING to 4467 Radyo Inquirer DZIQ 990AM Saturday, May 25, 2013 12 sections / Vol. 28 / No. 166 P18 Mobile Alert: Twitter: @inquirerdotnet Twitter: @dzIQ990 MANDY NAVASERO/CONTRIBUTOR PHOTOGENIC A colorful kite flutters over Marlboro Hill in this breathtaking land and sea scape in Batanes province, a favorite destination of photographers and nature lovers. According to American photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams: You don’t make a photograph with just a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved. 14 party-lists win seats Kin of slain OFW, mutineers’ groups are House first-timers By Philip C. Tubeza fisherman A CONTROVERSIAL group representing overseas Filipino workers (OFW) and another formed by unaware of former military mutineers yesterday made it to the PH apology first batch of winners of the party-list election. In a two-page resolution, the the other groups winners pro- By Nancy C. Carvajal Commission on Elections (Com- claimed were Buhay Hayaang elec) proclaimed OFW Family Yumabong (Buhay), Advocacy PINGTUNG, Taiwan—The cap- Club Inc. (OFW), whose first for Teacher Empowerment tain of a Taiwanese fishing boat nominee is former Ambassador Through Action Cooperation whose father was shot and Roy V.Señeres, and the Magda- and Harmony Toward Educa- killed by the Philippine Coast lo Para sa Pilipino (Magdalo), tional Reforms (A-Teacher), Guard in disputed waters headed by Sen. Antonio Tril- Bayan Muna, 1st Consumers Al- claimed yesterday he and his lanes IV,winners of the May 13 liance for Rural Energy (1-Care), men were fired upon without party-list election along with 12 Akbayan Citizens’ Action Party provocation, and his family ac- other groups. (Akbayan), Ako Bicol Political cused the Filipinos of murder. The Comelec said the 14 Party (AKB), Abono Party-List Denying that his boat had en- groups were guaranteed one (Abono), Gabriela, Cooperative croached on Philippine waters, seat each in the House of Repre- 14 PARTY-LISTS/ A6 Hung Yue-chien, 39, insisted at sentatives, as each of them gar- a press conference here that the nered at least 2 percent of all Of 6 incumbents, Cayetano, May 9 incident occurred in a the votes cast in the party-list Trillanes, Pimentel are the “public fishing area.” ACTIVISTS in hazmat (hazardous material) suits from the environmentalist group Greenpeace election. In Manila, Justice Secretary uproot genetically engineered Bt eggplant, locally known as ‘‘talong,” from a field trial site in Bay Besides OFW and Magdalo, biggest gainers /A6 Leila de Lima said National Bu- Laguna province, in this 2011 photo. ARNOLD ALMACEN reau of Investigation (NBI) agents assigned to go to Taiwan UNA wants explanation to help in the investigation said Court of Appeals stops field trials the group was ready to “leave anytime” as soon as arrange- of ‘60-30-10’ pattern KIN OF/ A15 of genetically modified eggplant By Christian V.Esguerra experts called attention to the By DJ Yap and Jerome Aning In a 26-page decision dated the Philippines in Los Baños supposed returns pattern on May 17 but released only yes- and various government and INSTEAD of telling the opposi- Wednesday, though they made GREENPEACE Southeast terday, the appellate court private agencies. tion to concede defeat in the clear they were not suggesting a Asia (Philippines) yesterday granted the petition sought by At the time of the filing of senatorial election, the admin- manipulation of the May 13 welcomed a ruling issued by Greenpeace and other groups the suit, field testing had al- istration should ask the Com- vote, which the administration the Court of Appeals (CA) to against the planting of Bt (Bacil- ready been done in Pangasi- mission on Elections (Comelec) Team PNoy dominated, win- permanently put a stop to lus thuringiensis) talong (egg- nan, Laguna and Camarines to investigate the supposed ning nine of the 12 Senate seats the field trials of genetically plant). Bt is a soil bacterium in- Sur provinces while others “60-30-10” pattern in the re- at stake. modified eggplant, which serted into crops to develop in- were still being conducted in turns so the public will know Navotas Rep. Toby Tiangco, the environmentalist group secticidal properties. Kabacan, North Cotabato what really happened, the Unit- secretary general and believes is harmful to hu- The trials were being jointly province. ed Nationalist Alliance (UNA) spokesperson for UNA, yester- mans and the environment. conducted by the University of COURT/ A15 said yesterday. day said that even before the Information technology (IT) UNA WANTS / A6 Here’s why cockroaches Boy Scouts now open to gay scouts won’t go away GRAPEVINE, TEXAS—The Boy voted in favor of ending the chair of California’s Orange Scouts of America scores for gay ban, effective Jan. 1, 2014, the County Boy Scout Council who NEW YORK—People have been rights. group said in a statement. A voted to end the ban. “The pro- getting rid of cockroaches for The largest youth organiza- prohibition on openly gay adult cess was a very civil debate ... decades by setting out bait mixed tion in the United States voted leaders remains in place. There wasn’t any uncivilized with poison. But in the late 1980s, on Thursday to lift a century- The decision followed weeks behavior. People stated their in an apartment test kitchen in old ban on openly gay scouts in of intense lobbying by gay case, passionately and from Florida, something went very what is considered a major vic- rights activists and members of many different angles.” wrong. tory for gay rights activists. conservative organizations, He said that by Thursday it A killer product stopped work- But the decision means a sea many of them church groups had become clear that there ing. Cockroach populations there of change for an organization that have traditionally formed was a generation change in the kept rising. Mystified researchers that depends heavily on faith- the backbone of one of the na- organization and that “the tested and discarded theory after based groups. tion’s largest youth organiza- younger generation of scouting theory until they finally hit on the More than 60 percent of the tions. just don’t see it the way the old explanation: In a remarkably rapid group’s National Council, com- “I’m a happy camper,” said guard did.” HERE’S / A14 prised of some 1,400 delegates, Mike Harrison, 71, a former BOY SCOUTS/ A15 WHAT’S INSIDE NEWS NEWS METRO ENTERTAINMENT Dick tells Bong DOH bats Stars’ ‘shameful’ secrets revealed /F3 Comelec: Don’t Revilla backs for ‘SEX’ in call LIFESTYLE remove PCOS /A2 down /A2 centers / A19 You can’t sink in the Dead Sea /D5 HH PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2013 NEWS A15 GRIEVING DAUGHTER Hung Tzu-chien, daughter of slain Taiwanese fisher Hung Shih- chien, says her family was not angry with the Filipino people but would ask for compensation. She said the death of her father was “murder.” Her brother, Hung Yue- chien, skipper of the ill-fated boat, says the family is unaware of the Philippine government’s apology to the family. NANCY CARVAJAL Kin of slain fisherman ... From page A1 sued an apology and that this was employee whom they described as a rejected by Taipei. “good person.” ments had been finalized through “No, I did not know about the The sister insisted that the Philip- the Manila Economic and Cultural apology,”Hung said. He also said he pine government should call for an Office (Meco). did not know that some Filipinos “international” press conference Meco is the office in charge of had been the target of “attacks” by and apologize for the death of her handling relations between Manila Taiwanese “gangsters” as a result of father. and Taipei, which have no diplo- the shooting incident. She also said her family would matic ties. not allow an NBI team of investiga- Meco representative Antonio On autopilot tors to conduct a “reautopsy” of her Basilio told the INQUIRER by phone Hung said he and his men did not father’s remains. A GREENPEACE activist places genetically engineered Bt eggplants uprooted from a field that it was just a matter of time be- often fish in the area where the trial site in Laguna into a hazardous material (hazmat) container to prevent contamination of fore the NBI team leaves for Taiwan. shooting occurred and insisted it Meco clearance neighboring fields and the environment. This photo was taken in 2011. ARNOLD ALMACEN “There are technical details— was a public fishing zone. An NBI source said the eight-man technical but important de- “We were traveling slowly at team that will conduct its own tails—that are still being sorted north territorial waters about 19 probe of what happened would in- out,” Basilio said. degrees and in the east about 129 clude NBI–Foreign Liaison Office Court of Appeals stops field ... [degrees] when we heard gun- head agent Daniel Deganzo, team 8-man NBI team shots,” Hung said. He said that leader James Castro, medico-legal From page A1 vor of the petitioners based on compelling The eight-member NBI team is before he ran and hid in the officer Dr. Ruperto Sombilon, ballis- grounds, including the “irreversibility” of re- expected to leave this weekend, boat’s cabin, “I put the boat on tics expert Hiyasmin Abarrioentos, The respondents in the case were: the en- leasing GMOs into the environment even said an NBI source, who asked not autopilot.” agent Eduardo Ramos and artist vironment department’s Environmental during field trials, and the fact that current to be identified because of a gag or- He said that aside from his father, Ligaya Banawan.
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