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                    [ArticleID] => 338653
                    [Title] => Court stops firm from selling HI-TI products
                    [Summary] => The Quezon City Regional Trial Court has stopped a trading company from promoting and marketing digital imaging technology in the local market.


In a four-page order, Judge Ralph Lee of QCRTC Branch 83 barred Aperture Trading Corp. from "promoting, marketing and selling" High Touch Imaging Technologies (HI-TI) products consisting of multi-combination digital photo printers used for the taking and printing of ID and passport size pictures.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 315028 [Title] => PSA, Photokina renew partnership [Summary] => A long-time partner of local sports is again lending a big hand when the Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) honors the top sports achievers of 2005 during its Annual Awards Night on Jan. 14 at the Manila Pavilion.

For the nth time, Photokina marketing, the company behind top energy drink product Red Bull, renewed its partnership with the country’s sportswriting fraternity, which made the victorious Team Philippines in the recent 23rd Southeast Asian Games as its Athlete of the Year for 2005. The company is headed by sportsman George Chua.
[DatePublished] => 2006-01-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 237716 [Title] => Namfrel files graft complaint against Tancangco [Summary] => Retired Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioner Luzviminda Tancangco faces graft charges before the Office of the Ombudsman after the National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) held her accountable for the non-automation of the May 10 national elections.

Namfrel executives Guillermo Luz, Augusto Lagman and former executive director Telibert Laoc said Tancangco, who retired on Feb. 2, should also be indicted for awarding the Voters’ Registration and Identification System (VRIS) project to Photokina Marketing Corp.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 205166 [Title] => Dagupan couple sued for bouncing checks [Summary] => The Quezon City prosecutor’s office has found sufficient cause to recommend the filing of criminal charges for alleged violation of Batas Pambansa Blg. 22, also known as the Bouncing Check Law, against a Dagupan City-based businessman and his wife.

Assistant city prosecutor Raniel Cruz charged businessman Alfredo Quinto Sr. with seven counts of violation of the Bouncing Check Law, which has been criminalized by BP 22, and his wife, Placida, with two counts of the same violation.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 179376 [Title] => Photokina to SC: Reverse ruling on voters’ ID system [Summary] => It was messy dealing, not a bad contract.

Photokina Marketing Corp. asked the Supreme Court yesterday to reverse its ruling nullifying the company’s multibillion-peso contract to computerize the country’s election system.

In a 31-page motion for reconsideration, lawyers for Photokina Ramon Esguerra and Rommel Cuison said the SC should set aside its Sept. 18 ruling, since it was the negligence of former Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman Alfredo Benipayo that made hash out of the planned Voters’ Registration Identification System (VRIS).
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 178484 [Title] => Supreme Court apologizes to Photokina [Summary] => The Supreme Court’s public information office admitted yesterday it misled the public by releasing a news bulletin that mistakenly claimed that Photokina Marketing Corp. could no longer participate in the government’s Voter Registration and Identification System (VRIS) project.

"I agree that (the news bulletin’s) contextual background could have been more accurately and better understood by the public if our writer had instead quoted verbatim from the decision itself," SC-PIO chief Ismael Khan Jr. said in a letter to Photokina’s lawyers.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 177963 [Title] => What now, more elections with padded voters lists? [Summary] => A funny thing happened on the way to the press office. Fourteen justices of the Supreme Court made a definitive decision on a long-disputed government project. In announcing it, though, the Tribunal’s public information bureau rendered its own version way beyond the magistrates’.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134276 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805283 [AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 177605 [Title] => Photokina: Supreme Court release misleading [Summary] => Lawyers of Photokina Marketing Corp. sought a clarification yesterday from the Supreme Court, which they said tried to "mislead" the public on the real score on the Commission on Elections (Comelec)’s proposed P6.5-billion ID computerization project.

In a two-page letter, the Castillo, Laman, Tan, Pantaleon and San Jose Law Office inquired from the high court’s public information office chief Ismael Khan whether news that Photokina’s deal was "null and void" came from his office.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 176959 [Title] => Oreta urges Comelec to pursue VRIS with care [Summary] => The Commission on Elections should persist in modernizing the country’s "antiquated" electoral process despite a recent Supreme Court order, Sen. Tessie Aquino-Oreta said yesterday.

The opposition solon said that the Comelec should not be disheartened by the SC decision nullifying the P6.5-billion contract with Photokina to implement a voters registration and identification system (VRIS).
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 169785 [Title] => Comelec allots P3.8B for VRIS [Summary] => The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has allotted P3.8 billion for the implementation of the Voters’ Registration and Identification System (VRIS), the long-delayed project to automate the country’s electoral system.

In an interview, Comelec Commissioner Resurreccion Borra said the amount would come from the poll body’s P10.7-billion total budget proposed for year 2003-2005.

He said the total budget for the Comelec modernization program has been set at P6 billion.
[DatePublished] => 2002-07-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1735838 [AuthorName] => Sandy Araneta [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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