September 11, 2012 Edition

Justino Arciga Jr.

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  1. 11 years since 9/11 attacks

    9/11 MEMORIAL. The reflective pool at The National September 11 Memorial Museum is viewed on September 7, 2012 in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP
    At the Ground Zero in New York, a low key ceremony will be held to mark the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in various areas of the United States. Names of the 2,983 people killed will be read out again by relatives against a backdrop of mournful music. The passage of time appears to have cooled public attention to 9/11, particularly after the huge media coverage of the 10th anniversary, which many saw as a suitable moment for allowing commemorations to peak. The killing by American troops of al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in May 2011 has helped draw a line under 9/11, as has the opening of the Ground Zero memorial, which opened for 2011’s ceremonies. A skyscraper at One World Trade Center is near completion and is again the tallest building in New York, as were the Twin Towers before they fell down.


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  2. Singapore not on Philippines’ side in sea dispute


    No, the Singapore government is not on Philippines’ side in the issue of the West Philippine Sea/South China Sea territorial disputes with China. The island state is not taking any side at all, the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. This statement comes after President Aquino himself said in his arrival speech on September 9, after the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Russia where he met with the leaders of these nation-members, that Singapore, together with Malaysia and Vietnam, support the Philippines over the dispute. The Singapore ministry said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong simply called on all claimants to exercise restraint and for disputes to be resolved peacefully and in accordance with international law.”


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  3. Global woes and Philippine exports: up and down


    A key indicator of how the Philippine economy will perform this 2012 showed a 7.8% increase in July. Exports receipts for the month reached US$4.8 billion. This is a good start for the 3rd quarter following the strong 5.9% economic growth of the Philippines in the second. The slower global demand for Philippine products was the main reason the country grew only by 3.7% in 2011 from a robust 7.6% the year before. This year, however, we see electronics, the single biggest export product of the country, registering sharp drops, which still shows the global economic woes have not spared the Philippines.


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  4. Philex faces “double or triple” the initial P325-M fine for leaks


    The country’s poster firm for responsible mining face fines that could be “double or triple” than the initial assessment of P325 million, Environment Secretary Ramon Paje said. Philex Mining Corp, which has thrown in even cement mixers, tractors, and container vans to plug its leaking tailings pond in Padcal mine, faces fines for reportedly violating the Mining Act and Clean Water Act.


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  5. Harvesting organs and gruesome details in Kosovo


    Gruesome details on organ harvesting in Albania during the 1998-99 conflict in Kosovo are emerging at a war crime court proceeding in Belgrade. In an interview broadcasted live, a witness who was haphazardly trained for medical procedures said that organs were taken from the bodies of prisoners, many of them Serbs, held by the former rebel Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in Albania. He explained the graphic procedure of cutting throats or chests, and pulled out hearts and other organs that they then put in cooling boxes that were taken to some Albanian army officials at the airport in Albania’s capital in Tirana. The box was given to a “foreigner” coming out from a “small private plane” with a Turkish flag, the witness said. The wartime organ harvesting case is believed to be linked to the so-called Medicus affair, another case of organ trafficking at a hospital in Pristina, another city in Kosovo. Several doctors are on trial before an EU-run court there on charges of illegally transplanting organs at the Medicus Clinic.


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  6. What if S.Korea takes over N.Korea?


    Allies South Korea and United States have been practicing for a war scenario that would involve an occupation of North Korea, a report by Dong-A Ilbo newspaper said. Dubbed “Wind of Freedom,” the joint military drill last August 20 to 31 has upgraded the previous “stabilization exercise” in 2010 to include emergency situations, including humanitarian assistance for North Koreans. The drill assumes that South Korea would occupy the communist state and restore administrative services with the US backing it up. The North has habitually condemned the drill as a provocative prelude to war.


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  7. Malacañang hands off in Puno probe


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    Malacañang said it will not stand in the way of a planned Senate investigation on outgoing Interior Undersecretary Rico Puno. Deputy Presidential Spokesman Abigail Valte said the Palace will respect the “prerogative” of the Senate Committee on Constitutional Amendments, Revision of Codes and Laws, led by Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago, that will begin the investigation on Puno on September 14. Puno is under fire for a botched firearms deal that his former boss, the late Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo, reportedly investigated, and for attempting to enter Robredo’s condominium unit a day after Robredo’s plane crashed off the waters of Masbate.


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  8. Pope reaches out to Catholics in majority-Muslim Lebanon

    HELLO LEBANON. A poster welcoming Pope Benedict XVI appears under an billboard advertisement for a retail shop on the Dbayeh highway, north of Beirut, on September 9, 2012. AFP PHOTO / PATRICK BAZ
    Pope Benedict XVI’s 3-day visit to Lebanon will demand a papal high-wire act in a Middle East country riven by sectarian tensions as fighting rages next door in Syria. The 85-year-old pontiff, who has spent much of the year battling a leaks scandal at the Vatican, faces a packed schedule in the majority-Muslim country. Religious pluralism and the welfare of Christians in the Middle East is likely to top the agenda, as well as calls for an end to the conflict in Syria. The pope will reach out to the 13 million or more Catholics in the Middle East, asking them to work for peace and democracy alongside moderate Islamists, particularly in a period fraught with fears of a rise of fundamentalism. He will also tackle concern over the exodus of Christians from the region during a presentation of results from the 2010 synod with Middle East bishops.


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  9. Nigerian shoppers rule!


    Visitors from the west African nation are the UK’s fourth biggest foreign spenders, ringing up an average £500 in each shop where they make purchases – four times what the average UK shopper spends. Middle class Nigerians holidaying or visiting relatives abroad have been increasing, with those UK-bound hiking by more than 50% to 142,000 a year in the decade ending 2011. In a country projected to become Africa’s biggest economy next year, and the world’s fifth most populous by 2050, businesses at home and abroad are cashing in. In Debenhams’ Oxford Street branch, a signage is in Hausa, one of the official Nigerian languages in the country’s largely impoverished north. It said that Nigerian customers were its biggest overseas spenders. Daily flights plying the lucrative route between Nigeria and the UK have ballooned in the last decade. British Airways permits almost double the normal baggage allowance for the 6-hour haul.


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  10. Historic tennis win for Murray

    MURRAY RULES. Andy Murray during the US Open Men's Singles Final in Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York City, September 10, 2012. Photo by Rob Loud/USTA
    After 5 hours and 5 sets, Andy Murray finally got the first Grand Slam title of his career to win the US Open final on September 10. Murray ended Britain’s 76-year wait for a men’s Grand Slam champion when he beat 2011 winner Novak Djokovic 7-6 (12/10), 7-5, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2 in an epic game. Murray became Britain’s first major male champion since Fred Perry claimed his third American title in 1936, the year the Spanish Civil War started and Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected US president. It was Murray’s 24th career title and his win denied Djokovic the chance to claim the biggest pay-day in the history of the sport, $2.9 million for winning the trophy as well as having the best record in the lead-up tournaments. Djokovic admitted Murray was a worthy winner.


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