October 20, 2010


Vice Mayor given ultimatum in Maguindanao Gang Rape Case

MANILA, Philippines - Justice Secretary Leila de Lima is giving South Upi, Maguindanao Vice-Mayor Jordan Ibrahim up to today to voluntarily submit himself to buccal (oral) swabbing and taking of blood samples for DNA profiling in order to rule him out as suspect in the rape of 21-year-old volunteer nurse, "Florence" last September 25.

De Lima told reporters in a news conference that she has received reports linking the vice-mayor to the crime, but refused to give details.

"Initially, the Vice-Mayor volunteered to give samples but when he said that the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) chemists already came back to Manila. So I directed the NBI investigator-in-charge to find out within the day if the offer of the vice-mayor still stands. I have the details na may indication na baka may kinalaman ang vice-mayor. I have the details right now, but I cannot disclose at this point. In due time, I will disclose," de Lima said.

The justice chief said blood samples and buccal swabs taken from six suspects first rounded up by local police turned negative when compared to samples (vaginal smear, vaginal swab, anal swab) obtained from the victim.

Prosecutors have dropped the charges against Michael Calendario, Jeffrey Fernandez, Glen Saldua, Roscon Sanglap, Darwin Escalona, and Eugene Biscarra for lack of evidence.Another suspect, Melchor Fulgencio, remains in jail and is facing rape with frustrated homicide charges.De Lima however said Fulgencio also tested negative in the DNA profiling.

"Negative yung 7. But investigators are saying na si Fulgencio seems to be telling the truth partially. Kasi nag-polygraph test sila. Meaning, yung mga sinasabi niyang iba, totoo. Ang kwestyunable na lang, ang identity nung sinasabi niyang Edwin. It's possible Fulgencio knows kung sino exactly ang Edwin na yan only that he (Fulgencio) is not willing to say it," de Lima said.Two other males were subjected to DNA profile, including the owner of the videoke joint where Candelario's group was drinking. They, too, tested negative in the DNA profiling.

"The results of the test (on Florence) point only to a single DNA profile. So isang male lang daw," de Lima said.

The Justice chief said she will immediately send NBI chemists to South Upi should Vice-Mayor Ibrahim say he is willing to subject himself to the test."There are reports that he is hesitant. I was told his lawyers said they will accede to that only if he is officially considered a suspect," de Lima said.

Asked what the repercussions were should Ibrahim respond by refusing the test, de Lima said she will confer with the NBI and the Philippine National Police for the possibility of declaring him a suspect. The DOJ is also awaiting word from Florence's doctors as to when she can be accessed by investigators so she can shed light on the incident.The DOJ is also mulling transferring Florence to a hospital in Metro Manila to ensure her security.

Florence is currently being secured by the Davao police at the Southern Philippines Medical Center in Davao City where she is recuperating from blows to the head and body.

OPINION/COMMENT:

The police must give ultimatum to the Vise Mayor of the Maguindanao because even though they are in the government they have a power to do whatever they want. Florence is the victim of their evilness. They used their power to commit a mistake like raping an innocent nurse. That Vise Mayor must arrested because the evidence is so strong.



100 Days of President Benigno Aquino III

The name Benigno Aquino III was not even on the list of presidential aspirants until former President Cory Aquino—his mother—“succumbed to cancer in August 2009 [and] the country was overcome by a wave of nostalgia for the ‘yellow revolution,’” wrote Paul Hutchcroft, director for International, Political, and Strategic Studies at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. Analysts agree: circumstances have indeed catapulted the young Aquino into this country’s leadership helm as one of its most popular presidents. His mandate of more than 15 million votes is second to Gloria Arroyo’s 16 million in 2004 in terms of the most number of votes garnered by any national candidate; his winning margin of five million over closest rival Joseph Estrada is second to Estrada’s six-million margin over Jose de Venecia in 1998.

Unlike Arroyo, Aquino’s victory was not marred with allegations of electoral fraud but like Estrada, he had to contend with persistent questions on his “executive competencies.” So persistent were these that his official campaign Web site posted a lengthy essay entitled “Integrity over Competence.” The piece dichotomized integrity and competence as leadership attributes, with integrity supposedly the more essential of the two.That was four months ago. That was the campaign. Now, nearly a hundred days into his administration, the rude awakening is that an evaluation of Mr. Aquino’s performance will not subscribe to the pseudo-distinction “integrity over competence.”

“It takes more than 100 days to see what he can do,” “It would be wrong for him to say that he would be the opposite of Gloria (Arroyo) just as his mother (Cory) described herself in relation to Marcos.”In the same vein, political and public administration expert and professor Clarita Carlos asked Aquino to present his blueprint for governance during his first State-of-the-Nation Address.

None was presented in a SoNA that was criticized by both the opposition and Aquino’s political allies. For House Minority leader Rep. Edcel Lagman, the nation was waiting for a blueprint for development and policy direction. Instead, what was given was “partisan press release, which was no more than a compendium of motherhood statements.”

For Akbayan Rep. Walden Bello, “the SoNA was strong in condemning and revealing shocking cases of graft in the previous administration, but lacking on hard-headed solutions.”

Two days before Aquino hits his 100-day mark, yet another academic, economics professor and former Budget Secretary Ben Diokno asks: “where’s the roadmap?”Rating: “INC” (incomplete) for not having presented a governance blueprint or an economic roadmap

On September 19 , 81 days into the new leadership, Senator Joker Arroyo, Cory Aquino’s former Executive Secretary, called the Aquino administration as one “run like a student government.” The senator made the statement in criticism of supposed errors in the 2011 budget and the government’s decision to present the Incident Investigation and Review Committee report on the August 23 hostage-taking incident to the Chinese government before it has been seen by the Filipino people. Those following the Palace’s first 100 days, however, believe that the criticism extends to more issues than just the budget and the IIRC report.

On July 1 , barely a day into his term, Mr. Aquino’s first memorandum circular declaring all non-career executive positions vacant had to be redrafted because of legal ambiguities. Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda, a lawyer, said they had to “fine tune the memorandum circular since it was supposed to affect only political appointees and not all non-career officials in government.” The circular was signed by Executive Secretary Jojo Ochoa, also a lawyer.

On July 26 , the day of the first SoNA, Mr. Aquino said that what remained of the P1.54-trillion national budget for 2010 was only P100 billion, or 6.5 percent of the total annual appropriations owing to the overspending of the previous administration. The next day, the Department of Budget and Management made a correction. What remained was P591 billion, not P100 billion as Aquino had said. “It’s pathetic that the next day, we can repudiate the data he presented,” said Zambales Rep. Mitos Magsaysay of the opposition.

On August 12 , Reps. Lagman, Rodolfo Albano, Simeon Datumanong, and Orlando Fua filed a petition for certiorari and prohibition, asking the Supreme Court to nullify the creation of the “Truth Commission,” Aquino’s Executive Order No. 1, allegedly, for being unconstitutional. Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago had earlier advised MalacaƱang to withdraw the order “to save itself from embarrassment,” in the face of what she called its “very shallow legal preparation.” Executive Order No. 1 joins two other Aquino executive orders challenged before the High Court: Executive Order No. 2 nullifies alleged midnight appointments made by former President Arroyo and Executive Order No. 3 reverses an Arroyo EO which automatically grants career executive service officer (CESO) rank to lawyers in the Executive branch. Lagman called it a “record-setting feat.”

“President Benigno Aquino very early in his incumbency has chalked up a record which is far from enviable... he has now immortalized himself as the only President of the Philippines whose first three executive orders have all faced constitutional challenge before the Supreme Court... if he strikes out on all three, it’s back to the dugout for him.” On September 23 , Ochoa told the House budget committee that he and Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Ed de Mesa “were in no way authorized to make recommendations on the IIRC report.” Ochoa’s revelation was made after Aquino had announced that the IIRC report was given to his legal team (Ochoa and de Mesa) to assess the degree of culpability of those named in the report, so that only “appropriate cases (most likely) to prosper” are filed. Ochoa revealed that the legal committee was constituted so that the report “may be simplified” for the President.

Asked when the undisclosed portions of the report will be made accessible to Congress and the public, Ochoa replied: “the IIRC report was really intended to be submitted to the President only.” In the same hearing, Communications Secretary Ricky Carandang admitted that he was not promptly able to communicate with the President on the unfolding jueteng controversy because the President “had left his phone in Manila.” Recently, amid threats of excommunication and heated debates on the reproductive health bill, the Palace declared: “the President has yet to read the bill.” Rating: “failed”—dismal even for a “student government.

Despite the absence of an economic roadmap, however, there were positive strides in the country’s economy during the President’s first three months in office. The economy grew by 7.9 percent in the second quarter, mainly due to spending during what has come to be known as the most expensive presidential elections in Philippine history, and partly due to increased exports. The country’s strong economic performance in the first half prompted the Asian Development Bank to revise its 2010 Philippines growth forecast to 6.2 percent, up from the 5.0 percent July projection. A Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas survey in August showed the country’s overall business confidence index at 45 percent in the third quarter, higher than this year’s second quarter index, and more than double of last year’s 18.9 percent covering the same period.

The influx of foreign portfolio investments in September amounting to nearly $1 billion pushed the stock index to a record high and partially lifted the peso against the dollar. Economists have pointed to a number of factors to account for the upsurge—higher corporate earnings, better-than-expected growth, higher exports, favorable expectations on the new government, and renewed investor confidence. But amid the upsurge in business optimism and rosy economic outlook remain challenges that are yet to be hurdled. The Philippines recorded a dismal ranking in Transparency International’s corruption-perception index, placing 139th out of 180 countries. The country was listed by the World Bank as among the world’s most restrictive countries in facilitating foreign investments here—alongside Thailand and Ethiopia.

Another WB report released in August concluded that the country’s poor do not necessarily benefit from the country’s economic growth. This was confirmed by the recent Social Weather Stations survey on poverty. SWS findings have indicated that despite the robust growth in the country’s economy in the second quarter, about half of its population (up by 38 percent) consider themselves poor during the same period.Still in its infancy, much of the current administration’s economic initiatives have focused on boosting government revenues by running after tax cheats, shaking up collection agencies, and attempts at implementing new tax measures, the effects of which are yet to be measured. As of September 24, the BIR has filed nine tax evasion cases before the Justice Department, involving about P10 billion in forgone taxes and duties.

According to lawyer Jethro Sabariaga, chief-of-staff of BIR Commissioner Kim Henares: “the biggest is a case for P7 billion for tax fraud. Macario Gaw, taxi owner.” Sabariaga, who started in the bureau 13 years ago as a security guard, rose from the ranks to be at the forefront of the bureau’s two-pronged thrust of raising revenue through more efficient tax collection while curbing corruption. A few days before Mr. Aquino’s administration turns 100 days, he swears “this is the cleanest the BIR has been.” “ I had been assistant chief for litigation, so I know that first hand,” he adds. “We’re filing at least two (tax fraud and evasion) cases a month (now) and we’re confident of convictions,” he said. Rating: “passed” for not bungling management of the economy; “4.0” (conditional), pending the results of cases filed against tax evader

Aquino has received failing marks from progressive groups for not being able to prevent and solve alleged extra-judicial killings during his first 100 days in office.He too, has been widely criticized for blunders in management, supposedly fit only for a “student government.”None of these however compare to the amount of denigration his administration has received on two issues, which now arguably define his first three months as Chief Executive: the hostage- taking crisis of August 23 and the still-unfolding jueteng controversy. The first revived questions on his competence; the second raised doubts on his integrity. Both issues revealed cracks of partisan infighting from within the Palace walls.

On August 23, former police officer Capt. Rolando Mendoza took a busload of tourist hostage for nearly 11 hours. Eight tourists from Hong Kong died in the botched rescue operation.During the period, the President did not see it fit to intervene on a police matter. Conflicting advisories were issued by Palace Communications officials Sonny Coloma and Ricky Carandang. Reports would later say that this was because one belonged to the “Samar” faction of Aquino supporters; the other, to “Balay.”

What followed was a slew of calls for the resignation of Coloma, Carandang and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo, for “palpable incompetence and culpable indifference”—as oppositionist Rep. Edcel Lagman calls it. The President later admitted that Robredo was appointed only in an acting capacity and that direct management of police matters had been assigned to DILG Undersecretary Rico Puno—this, despite the legal mandate of the DILG Secretary (not an undersecretary) to exercise administrative supervision over the PNP. Yet again, reports later revealed that it was because one belonged to “Balay” and the other to “Samar.” Robredo eventually sat as a member of the Incident Investigation and Review Committee panel headed by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima. Undisclosed portions of the report which was leaked to the media said that Puno was named as one of those liable for the operation. The panel allegedly recommended for the filing of administrative charges, and a review of probable criminal liabilities against the undersecretary.

One hundred days do not suffice for a comprehensive assessment of any administration, but it does provide a sneak peek of what lies ahead. Serious issues require serious solutions, and more importantly, a serious President to implement them. With an overwhelming mandate, Aquino should not have problems parlaying political capital into tangible results for the benefit of his bosses—the Filipino people. But first, he should abandon the notion that leadership is a choice between integrity and competence. He should be both—competent and sincere—without any demarcation. So should those that surround him. His speech on his 100th day in office should now detail the long-delayed economic and governance roadmap. So do we now look at Mr. Aquino’s first 100 days as half-full or half-empty? Neither and both. They were half-full of promises and half-empty of an actual plan.

OPINION/COMMENT:

2010 has been kind of a rough year for you and your presidency. But it's got 100 days left, and that's plenty of time to turn things around and change the way this year and your administration is remembered by history. I hope you make them count. I salute Mr. President Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III i believe in your promise and simplicity. I trust you with all my heart!

Makati threatens to revoke West Tower License

MANILA, Philippines - The Makati City Engineer’s Office has ordered the management of the West Tower Condominium in Barangay Bangkal to siphon all traces of gasoline and flood water in its basement or risk the revocation of its license. The management was given until Thursday. The management, however, doubts they could do the job. Claret Valera, vice president for operations and business development, denied they had been inefficient in ensuring the safety of its residents. Unit owners have complained of toxic fumes emanating from the basement of the condominium. The leakage supposedly started more than 2 weeks ago. The local government has already ordered unit owners and residents leaving nearby to evacuate. It has yet to determine the source of the gas leak The First Philippine Industrial Corp. said indications already show that its pipeline near the condominium is not the culprit. Local government officials also have not seen any leaks there. The Bureau of Fire Protection suspects the gas leak may have come from a nearby lot, where an oil and bus station used to operate.

OPINION/COMMENT:

I am agree that the license of West Tower must revoke because they are tardy in resolving this problem. They must hasten to eliminate the gasoline and flood water in its basement to avoid hassle in the people environment because it can cause contaminated in water supply and for the health of residents near in West Tower.


Balancing between Fuel or Food

In some areas in the country, farmers who have abandoned planting coconut and cassava are now cultivating these crops again because of increasing demand for biofuels. Governor Rolando Yebes of Zamboanga del Norte said that farmers in his region are now going back to planting these crops because of the surging and the entity of companies interested in the production of biofuels.

“Before farmers cut their coconut trees and sold them for lumber. Now, they are planting coconuts for biofuels,” he told abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak adding that cassava, which has shown growth in previous years, is expected to increase further due to investments from biofuel companies like Basic Energy Corp., which is reportedly eyeing an ethanol plant in the region using cassava as feedstock.

Constancio Alama, assistant regional director for agriculture of Region IX, said that despite the promise of biofuels, there is a need to ensure that local government units should prioritize the production of food over biofuels. “Bakit uunahin ang sasakyan kung may nagugutom? (Why should we prioritize vehicles when people are hungry?)”

Zamboanga del Norte is not alone. In many parts of the world, with the unprecedented rise in oil price, a tug of war is taking place over using land for fuel or food.

The passage in the Philippines of the Biofuels Act in January 2007 generated a lot of interest about this renewable source of energy. The law aims to break the Philippine’s dependence on imported fuel particularly oil. Two years after the enactment of this law, liquid fuels for vehicles and engine are required to contain at least five percent of biofuel.

Among the examples of biofuels are bioethanol and biodiesel. Bioethanol is produced by fermentation of starch or sugar from cassava, sugarcane and corn while biodiesel can be extracted from plants like coconut, palm and jathropa or tuba-tuba.

OPINION/COMMENT:

There are farmers who are abandoned planting coconut and cassava are now cultivating these crops again because of increasing demand for bio fuels. The government haven't enough supply to help the farmer to plant more coconut and cassava. They must insure the demands of the farmers because it cause a lot to us and its for our own benefits.The farmers should focus the demand of coconut and cassava so that they are still farmer planting this seeds.

October 14, 2010

CASE NO. 8



Additional Two (2) Years in Elementary and in High School

MANILA, Oct. 11 (PNA) -- A group composed of the country’s leading businessmen and education personalities championing education reforms has expressed its support to the plan of the Department of Education (DepEd) to add two more years or “senior high school” to the current 10-year basic education curriculum. In a statement, the Philippine Business for Education (PBEd) said the plan unveiled by Education Secretary Armin Luistro during the World Teachers Day celebration was long overdue as it called on education stakeholders, including the business community, to support the plan.


“We at Philippine Business for Education or PBEd welcomes the government’s strong resolve to finally put in place a decades-old proposal for a K+12 basic education cycle. PBEd reiterates that the additional years in basic education cannot be separated from the issue of poor quality of the education system,” the group’s statement said.

The group said the current 10-year basic education cycle has only resulted to poor performance of students.

“Forcing into 10 years a curriculum that is learned by the rest of the world in 12 years has resulted in poor performance by our students. This, over and above the poor quality and lack of teachers, textbooks and workbooks and facilities, continues to make learning a growing challenge for more and more of our students,” PBED added.

Earlier, Secretary Luistro said that despite the measures implemented by the department in recent years, the poor quality of basic education is reflected in the low achievement scores of Filipino students. He cited the 69.21 percent passing rate of Grade 6 students in last year’s National Achievement Test (NAT) as still needing reform measures though it is already a 24 percent improvement rate over the 2005-2006 NAT passing rate. Likewise, the NAT for high school was 46.38 percent last year, a slight decrease from 47.40 percent in 2008-2009. International education surveys like the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMS) ranks the Philippines 34th out of 38 countries in Math and 43rd out of 46 countries rated in Science. In 2008, even with only the science high schools participating in the Advanced Mathematics category, the country ranked lowest. PBEd said these reasons are more than enough to convince those opposed to the plan to rally around the DepEd.

“PBEd calls on the various education sector stakeholders to rally around the K+12 effort. It shall be no easy task and it shall most certainly make the necessary reforms even more complex, requiring even larger investments. However, K+12 coupled with other systemwide reforms like those under the Basic Education Sector Reform Agenda (BESRA) are essential if we want our children to learn to learn and learn to achieve,” the statement said.

“Certainly, with K+12, business shall be able to open its doors to hiring high school graduates as is the practice in almost all other countries in the rest of the world. Consequently, K+12 also further opens up doors to global opportunities for our young Filipinos. We also call on the members of the legislature to support this program, to be guided by a real concern with what is best for our youth rather than what is merely popular. Those who insist on throwing obstacles in the way of K+12 are condemning our kids to poverty and sabotaging their opportunities for a better life,” the group added.

At the same time, the group junked the arguments raised by those who are against the plan that it would make life difficult for the poor who have to bear two more years of schooling of their children. PBEd believes that making Kinder and an additional two years available to all in the public basic education system is another pro-poor and poverty-combating initiative of the Aquino Government. K+12 gives to the masses the extra years of schooling that for many years has only been available in private elite education institutions. Studies have shown that every additional year of schooling improves the income potential of a student as she/he enters the world of work,” they said.

Among the leading personalities at PBEd are Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II, Jose Cuisia, Manuel Pangilinan, Ricardo Romulo, Ramon Del Rosario Jr., Oscar Lopez, Washington Sycip, George Yang and Tony Tann Caktiong. Luistro said the two years of senior high school intend to provide time for students to “consolidate acquired academic skills and competencies.”

“The curriculum will allow specializations in science and technology, music and arts, agriculture and fisheries, sports, business and entrepeneurship and subjects for advanced placements,” the official said. But he added the program will not sidetracked the DepEd’s effort in addressing the problems besetting the basic education sector such as the lack of classrooms, textbooks, teachers and other facilities.

The department has already included a provision for substantial physical requirements for the 2011 budget, and Luistro said they are looking to introduce in subsequent years a budget that will constitute a significant increase not just in nominal terms but also in real terms.The DepEd will get a P207 billion budget next year, up from this year’s P172 billion. Of the amount, the department has allocated P12 billion for the construction of new classrooms nationwide. (PNA)
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OPINION/COMMENT:

The purpose of
Additional 2 years in Elementary and in High School to enhance the basic knowledge of the student for oncoming in college. If they in college they will only enhance their knowledge on their major subjects concerning in their degree. I am agree if that will happen lots of parents or guardians will suffer in difficulty of life. would translate to added burden to parents who could barely send their children to school. For a poverty-stricken country such as ours, the proposal to add two years to basic education is a question of survival. Quality should be the point for education even in small span of time in learning in school still it benefits much.






September 17, 2010

CASE NO. 7

Ways to Secure Computer Systems from being Compromised


1. Regularly scan your computer system

Regular Scanning of your Computer System is one of the important things to do because it helps a lot in maintaining the security to avoid losing of information stored on your computers or important files and other data.

2. Cleaning Up of your computer system

It is important to get in the habit of running a computer clean up to protect yourself against hackers that can exploit your operating system and view all of your files and where you have been on the Internet.

3. Use UPS to protect your hard disk failure and data loss due to the power failure

Uninterpretible Power Supply (UPS) is an electrical apparatus that provides emergency power to a load when the input power source, typically the fails. It provide instantaneous or near-instantaneous protection from input power interruptions by means of one or more attached batteries and associated electronic circuitry for low power users, and or by means of diesel generators and flywheels for high power users.

4. Install software programs that is compatible to your computer system

Installing software programs that is compatible to your computer system is better to avoid avoid errors in running that particular programs. And it lessen the time in installing it because it easy for the computer system to adapt that said software programs.

5. Verify File Integrity

The integrity of the file is just as important as anything in it -- both to guard against tampering and to ensure that files aren't corrupted during downloads or from being transported on bad media. Such things are rare, but they do happen, and they contribute in their own small way to what might be the only available copy of something becoming unusable.

6. Install proper Tools

Good tools make tieing off the top rail much easier and faster. Its better to use proper tools to avoid the destruction of your computer system because using unappropriate tools it tends breaks the parts of the computers.

7.
Make sure your computer is physically secure

When the computer isn't being used make sure it's switched off to minimize electricity. It also protected from all unauthorized changes that are undetectable to authorized users. In most of the hacking cases, integrity of resources is compromised.

8. Defragmentation

It is a process that reduces the amount of fragmentation in file system. It does this by physically organizing the contents of the disk to store the pieces of each file close together and contiguously It also attempts to create larger regions of free space using compaction to impede the return of fragmentation. Some defragmenters also try to keep smaller files within a single directory together, as they are often accessed in sequence.

9. Know your processes

Knowing what is running on your computer will increase your ability to identify potentially harmful processes. To make things easier, break things down into simple parts. I know it may sound silly, but your first part should be on how to turn on a computer if you know that simple process then you know how to use the computer system.

10. Know your Registry

Residual files, unused or undeleted drivers, and corrupt or bad entries in registry settings will quickly litter even the newest of computers causing a loss of performance and general PC instability. If you keep your registry clean and know what is inside, you will be in a better position to realize immediately when performance has taken a downturn. Therefore it is advisable to invest in a good registry cleaner: one that allows you to scan your registry thoroughly and fix all errors. Moreover, the cleaner must be able to backup your registry.


September 2, 2010

CASE NO. 6


Republic Act No. 7394. The Consumer Act of the Philippines it is the policy of the state to protect the interests of consumer, to promote his general welfare and to establish standards of conduct for business and industry. The state implemented this Law to measure the following objectives: protection against hazards to health and safety; protection against deceptive, unfair and unconscionable sales acts and practices; provision of information and education to facilitate sound choice and the proper exercise of rights by the consumer; provision of adequate rights and means of redress; and involvement of consumer representatives in the formulation of social and economic policies.

Through this Republic Act No. 7394 it helps the consumers to expand their business. If their are any consumer who violates the Law their are appropriate penalties to the violation. The best interest of the consumer shall be considered in the interpretation and implementation of the provisions of this Act, including its implementing rules and regulations. It is very useful in our lives now a days because it purpose to provide advertisement to endorsed the product to become more popular to other people. It also help the financial aspects of the business. encourage fair, honest and equitable relations among parties in consumer transactions and protect the consumer against deceptive, unfair and unconscionable sales acts or practices. Grossly inimical to the interests of the consumer or grossly one side in favor of the producer, manufacturer, distributor, supplier or seller. A deceptive act or practice by a seller or supplier in connection with a consumer transaction violates this Act whether it occurs before, during or after the transaction. An act or practice shall be deemed deceptive whenever the producer, manufacturer, supplier or seller, through concealment, false representation of fraudulent manipulation, induces a consumer to enter into a sales or lease transaction of any consumer product or service. The State shall adopt measures designed to protect the consumer against substances other than food, drugs, cosmetics and devices that are hazardous to his health and safety.

A deceptive act or practice by a seller or supplier in connection with a consumer transaction violates this Act whether it occurs before, during or after the transaction. An act or practice shall be deemed deceptive whenever the producer, manufacturer, supplier or seller, through concealment, false representation of fraudulent manipulation, induces a consumer to enter into a sales or lease transaction of any consumer product or service. Without limiting the scope of the above paragraph, the act or practice of a seller or supplier is deceptive when it represents. An unfair or unconscionable sales act or practice by a seller or supplier in connection with a consumer transaction violates this Chapter whether it occurs before, during or after the consumer transaction.

An act or practice shall be deemed unfair or uncionscionable whenever the producer, manufacturer, distributor, supplier or seller, by taking advantage of the consumer's physical or mental infirmity, ignorance, illiteracy, lack of time or the general conditions of the environment or surroundings, induces the consumer to enter into a sales or lease transaction Grossly inimical to the interests of the consumer or gross one-sided in favor of the producer, manufacturer, distributor, supplier or seller.