October 2013 1 JOIN OUR GROWING NUMBER OF INTERNET READERS RECEIVE A FREE MONTHLY ONLINE OCTOBER 2013 COPY. Vol. 2 No.10 EMAIL US AT: wavesnews247 @gmail.com PDAF PANDAK PNOY DAP By a.f.soriano including a P900 Million supposedly with several of her former cabinet to be given to victims of typhoon secretaries. Public indignation over the “Pork “Ondoy” in 2009 but ended up in barrel” scandal and other alleged Mass protests held over the second some 20 fictitious NGOs (non- government fund misappropriations week of October at the financial dis- governmental organizations ) of sus- including those from President trict of Makati turned their ire and pected scam leader Janet Lim Na- Aquino’s executive department con- outrage not only against the Pork poles. tinue to mount. barrel but against the Disbursement Napoles is currently in a high securi- Acceleration program (DAP) of Pres- At the latest, probers have un- ty jail in Laguna after being charged ident Aquino which many legal ex- earthed some P21Bilion allegedly with plunder and abduction. perts termed as unconstitutional diverted or pocketed from the and illegal. Malampaya funds during the time of Former president Gloria Arroyo is 2010 photo of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino and outgoing PHL president Gloria President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo now charged with plunder along Macapagal Arroyo. REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo (Continued on page 7) 97 Dead, more casualties/destruction Editorial Historic churches & buildings ruined BREAKING PROUDLY FILIPINA NEWS >>> See Page 3 <<< After 47 years, a Filipina bagged the prestigious Miss World beauty pag- eant crown, the only world competi- tion that has not been won by the Philippines. 7.2 We have had victories in the Miss magnitude Universe Pageant in the persons of Gloria Diaz and Margie Moran. earthquake In 1964 Gemma Cruz Araneta became Front part of Loboc Church collapses due to the first Filipina and Asian to win the jolts Visayas, earthquake. Photo courtesy of Robert Mi- Miss International title after which Mindanao chael Poole via Twitter (Continued on page 4) 2013 Miss World Megan Young prepares to take her seat during the pre-season game between the Houston Rockets and Indiana Pacers Thursday, Oct.10, at the Mall of Asia Jollibee going to Indonesia, Arena in Pasay City. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez) Canada FEISTY FAYE | Pinay ex- By Neil Jerome C. Morales MANILA, Philippines - Fastfood gi- journalist gets hurt fighting ant Jollibee Foods Corp. (JFC) is ex- panding into new territories includ- off knife-wielding attacker ing Indonesia next year and Canada in 2015, catering to both the local during prayer rally population and Filipinos overseas. By: InterAksyon.com (Continued on page 23) MANILA - Never in her worst night- mares did Filipino-Canadian Faye Arellano, a former journalist now Inside Pages based in Toronto, imagine "that tak- ing a stand for the unborn on a Sun- Janet Napoles charged with tax evasion Page 5 day afternoon during a silent pro- Miriam brings house down with new jokes Page 5 test" would send her to the hospital. After the war, Zamboanga devasted by typhoon Page 5 Until now, Faye, her family and Justin Trudeau’s message to the Filipino people Page 6 friends are amazed--and grateful--- that she survived the vicious, unpro- Sir Chief-Maya wedding in November Page 20 voked attack of a knife-wielding, Faye Arellano (Continued on page 6) And more…. October 2013 2 October 2013 3 Breaking News TO ADVERTISE please email at [email protected] Killer quake jolts Visayas Prized Chocolate Hills Cebu and Bohol hardest hit damaged by quake By Mon Torralba with Wavesnews staff ABS-CBNnews.com An aerial shot of the Chocolate Hills in Bohol shows parts of the fa- mous tourist spot scarred by the magnitude 7.2 quake. Photo by Her- nel Tocmo, ABS-CBN News Davao MANILA - Some parts of Chocolate Hills, a top tourist destina- tion in the province of Bohol, were dam- COLLAPSED. People gather on the street next to damaged buildings in Cebu City, Philippines after a major aged after the prov- 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the region on October 15, 2013. AFP ince was hit by a A powerful earthquake has been declared in both Cebu city was left in ruins as strong earthquake struck the Visayas in the provinces while other Visa- its belfry totally collapse. Tuesday morning. canology and Seismology (Phivolcs) executive direc- early morning of Oct.14 yan areas in Leyte, A photo taken by Robert Mi- The Philippine Institute of tor Renato Solidum said Car- leaving a trail of death and Dumaguete, Bacolod and chael Poole, Japan bureau Volcanology and Seismology men is vulnerable to earth- destruction. Siquijor and as far as Pa- chief of Blouin Artinfo, or PHILVOCS said this latest quakes as it lies on the path gadian City and Bicol also showed a portion of one of Reports from Manila said earthquake was the strong- of the East Bohol Fault, felt the effects of the earth- the hills which gave way as a the tremor was a magnitude est and powerful in 25 years which triggered today's quake. result of the tremors. 7.2 whose strength was to hit the Philippines. earthquake. equivalent to 32 atomic Bohol had the most number A 6.8 magnitude earthquake A viewing deck was also de- bombs similar to the kind of of fatalities at 84 persons Aside from the Chocolate occurred in 1990 in the Bo- stroyed, another photo tak- nuclear explosive dropped killed but the death toll is Hills, Bohol's prized centu- hol Sea that killed some 25 en by Poole showed. in Hiroshima near the end expected to rise as authori- ries-old churches were also persons but this Oct.14 of World War II. ties gets a clearer picture of The Chocolate Hills, dome- destroyed. earthquake also originated shaped hills made of lime- the devastation. ABS-CBN Bayan Patroller Initial reports said 97 peo- in the East Bohol Sea. stone which turn brown ple died while the extent of The quake’s epicentre was photos also showed Bohol's Luckily, said the PHILVOCS, during the dry season, is damage to properties could located 2 kilometers south- Loboc, Baclayon, Dauis and the quake’s epicentre was situated in Carmen town run to million and millions east of Carmen town, Bohol, Loay churches badly dam- located in land and was 30 where the epicenter of the of pesos and exact figures where the famous tourist aged, while the one in Loon kilometers deep. Had it hap- magnitude 7.2 was located. have yet to be determined attraction, the Chocolate was completely destroyed. pened at sea, a tsunami as communications facilities hills are located. Some of Philippine Institute of Vol- could have been triggered were either destroyed or the hills were partially de- and more deaths and devas- cut off. stroyed as the tremor trig- tation would have hap- gered landslides in the Power, including water sup- pened. mountain areas. ply systems, was cut off as The Philippines lies on the vital infrastructures such as The quake also destroyed so-called “Pacific ring of fire bridges, roads, private and centuries old churches in “where earthquakes are en- public buildings suffered Bohol and Cebu as well as demic but unlike typhoons structural damage some of famous landmarks. These or storms, they cannot be them either collapsing or include the oldest known predicted or forecasted. totally destroyed. church in the Philippines, the Baclayon church in At least 20 earthquakes or Some 445,000 people were Dauis, said to be 418 years tremors of various affected and rendered old and the Loboc church. strengths are recorded in homeless in the provinces the Philippines every day. of Bohol and Cebu, the two In Cebu the 18th century areas hardest hit by the Minor Basilica de Santo quake. A state of calamity Nino, a famous landmark in Chocolate Hills viewing tower collapsed rubble from the damaged mains of its belfry. chief and his wife to Catholi- became majority Catholic Priest urges: Basilica Minore de Santo cism, making them the first over that time. The limestone bell tower of Nino (Basilica of the Child Christian Filipinos. To mark the church, the latest ver- The Philippines has since Don't use Jesus) to make amulets. their conversion, he gave sion of which was built in remained the Church's most them a statue of the infant A report fom CBCPNews 1735, was destroyed in the important outpost in Asia, church Jesus. said Fr. Toti Sioquino, OAR, quake. with Catholics making up has called on the military The statue is kept in the Ba- nearly 80 percent of the Cebu is regarded as the rubble for and police to prevent ordi- silica and the people of Ce- country's 100 million peo- birthplace of Catholicism in nary people from gathering bu, whose patron saint is the ple. the Philippines because it amulets "anting-anting" or amulets infant Jesus, continue to ven- was there that Portuguese Another two popular from the damaged church erate the icon. explorer Ferdinand Magel- churches in Cebu, built in ABS-CBNnews.com belfry. lan, sailing for Spain, arrived The Spaniards went on to 1860 and 1909, were dam- He said he fears aftershocks in 1521. rule the Philippines until the aged on Tuesday. With A Catholic priest is urging may also affect what re- late 1800s, and the country Agence France-Presse Cebu residents not to use He converted a friendly local October 2013 4 EDITORIAL TO ADVERTISE please email at [email protected] COUNTERPOINT A.F. Soriano “CROOKS IN BARONGS AND BUSINESS SUITS” For pork barrel-weary Fili- trada delivered his privilege bursement Acceleration pinos fed up with the daily speech before his col- program (DAP) .