INQUIRER: BOBI TIGLAO: Smuggling at its worst under Aquino, Wednesday
- Smuggling in the Philippines is at its worst under Pres Aquino's administration, with the smuggled value averaging $19.6 billion annually, an explosion from the comparable figures of $3.1 billion and 3.8 billion yearly during the terms of President Joseph Estrada and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, respectively. In Mr. Aquino's first two years in office, the value of smuggling totaled $39.2 billion, more than the $35.6 billion during Arroyo's nine years in office. (Based on IMF's Direction of Trade Statistics)

INTERESTING READ today Thursday Novemver 15 - R. Tiglao's "SMUGGLING AT ITS WORST UNDER AQUINO" PDI pA15 (tuwid na daan??) pls pass

http://opinion.inquirer.net/40814/smuggling-at-its-worst-under-aquino

ANC: Sandiganbayan hearing ex-PCSO Chairman Manoling Morato's motion for house arrest. His lawyers tell the court that Morato is ill and he is not a flight risk.

BUSINESSWORLD: Jobless rate up anew November 15, 2012 12:10 AM
UNEMPLOYMENT GREW in the third quarter, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said in a new report, reversing a steep fall seen three months earlier. The latest rate of 29.4% - recorded in an August survey and up from May's 26.6% -- is equivalent to 11.7% jobless Filipinos. The government's official figure is 7.0%, or some 2.8 million unemployed, as of July.

GMA News: SWS: Unemployment worsens in 3rd quarter at 29.4%
- Unemployment WENT UP in the third quarter of 2012, to 29.4 percent from 26.6 percent last May, according to a survey conducted by pollster Social Weather Stations last August.

GMA NEWS TV Kape at Balita: Senate Juan Ponce Enrile says Sin Tax Reform Bill to favor imported cigarettes. Tobacco farmers stage coffin protest in front of the Senate yesterday.

INQUIRER: 'Sin tax' bill favors imports - Enrile
The sin tax bill being debated in Congress tends to favor imported cigarettes as it appears the proposed tax increases on tobacco products do not cover foreign brands, Sen Pres Juan Ponce Enrile said Wednesday. According to Enrile, the problem is a question of equity. "My impression is that the bill tends to favor the entry of foreign manufactured tobacco products to the detriment of local products that use material grown in the country," he said.

House minority files a resolution to probe alleged anomalies in npo awarding of ballot printing contract to holy family; martial law victims challenge aquino to pass indemnification bill on or before dec 10; militants to hold nationwide protest vs high power rates and privatization of power utilities, protest in 50 cities, municipalities; kmu calls fro vfa junking amid waste dumping controversy; Farm workers kick off 3 day protest for 7 luisita massacre victims.