No to child porn. Children, accompanied by parents, students and religious leaders, stage a picket at the Senate to express support for the passage of the anti-child pornography bill.
PHOTO BY ANDY VALLE
Cha-Cha express
about to roll: Binay ‘Time is running out; they have
to do it now’
MAKATI Mayor Jejomar Binay, president of the
United Opposition, yesterday said President Arroyo’s allies in
the House of Representatives are raring to again introduce the
issue of Charter change.
"Time is running out on the administration.
By middle of 2009, people will be talking about the 2010
elections. If they (majority congressmen) are going to embark on
a last-ditch effort for Charter change for Mrs. Arroyo’s
benefit, they have to do it now," he said.
He said he has information that pro-Arroyo
local executives and her House allies conducted public
consultations on the issue of amending the Constitution while
Congress was on a month-long recess.
THE Marikina regional trial court has ordered
food and beverage conglomerate San Miguel Corp. to pay P133
million in damages to Asia Brewery Inc. for removing over a
million of the latter’s empty bottles and plastic cases from the
market.
In a 47-page decision, Judge Alice Gutierrez
of the Marikina RTC found SMC guilty of unfair trade acts that
made it liable for damages for loss of profits incurred by ABI,
a company owned by taipan Lucio Tan.
The court said it was convinced that ABI,
through its witnesses and documentary evidence, established that
SMC engaged in systematic schemes to pull out the beer products
of ABI from stores and other trade outlets, and that these
schemes involved the withdrawal not only of the empty bottles
and cases, but even the contents of the ABI beer products.
