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AUG U ST 2 4-30, 2018 Volume 11 - No. 44 • 2 Sections – 16 Pages
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Duterte not in coma, vows to finish presidential term in Davao City. “I’m alive — fairly healthy and I’m having dinner with a PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo beautiful lady from Davao. She’s Duterte has responded to new ac- Bernice, she’s on leave from cusations about his deteriorating Harvard. I invited her to discuss health and that he has gone into some things along the way,” a coma. Duterte said. This comes after communist Duterte also responded to leader Jose Maria “Joma” Sison Sison by saying that the latter is claimed in a social media post the one who is sick after all. In that the president slipped into a the same video, he insisted that comatose state. Go show his dinner company live The president’s camp denied on camera. Sison’s allegations through a “I am still okay. He said I’m Facebook live video on Monday comatose? How can you be night, August 20. The video comatose with a beautiful lady? posted by Special Assistant to Kung comatose ako at makita ko the President (SAP) Bong Go si Bernice eh talagang babangon showed Duterte having dinner ako (If I were comatose and I see
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Bernice, I would really rise),” the president said. Referring to Sison, he added, “That’s it. You are the one who is comatose. You are the one who is sick.” Duterte compared Sison to the “Wandering Jew,” a fictional character who is destined to walk around the earth until the second coming as a punishment for taunting Jesus Christ. “I think you are the reincarnation of the guy, it’s biblical, I don’t know if it’s in a book in the Bible. He’s a guy who’s been around walking around planet Earth. And he’s not dying,” he added. The communist leader, who
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RARE ENCOUNTER. President Rodrigo Duterte and Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) Chair Nur Misuari discuss matters during a meeting at Matina Enclaves in Davao City on Wednesday, August 22. Joining the president are Sec. Bong Go of the Office of the Special Assistant to the President and Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza. Malacañang photo by Joey Dalumpines
Imee Marcos to martial law critics: ‘Move on’
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DATELINE Filipino priest in Texas disappears amid molestation claims
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FROM THE AJPRESS NEWS TEAM ACROSS AMERICA
DALLAS, Texas — A Texas priest who’s accused of molesting teens and stealing from his parish has gone missing. St. Cecilia Catholic Church officials believe the Rev. Edmundo Paredes may have fled to his native country of the Philippines, The Dallas Morning news reported. He’d been a pastor at the church for 27 years. Dallas police have found the sexual abuse allegations to be credible, said Bishop Edward Burns. Paredes is no longer allowed to function or present himself as a
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Man charged in road deaths of Filipino and Calif. highway patrol cop FAIRFIELD, California — A man was charged with gross vehicular manslaughter following a crash here Friday, August 10 that killed a Filipino man and a California Highway Patrol officer. Sean Walker, 36, of Rocklin was charged and was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday, August 16 in Solano County Superior Court in Fairfield. Walker was driving recklessly, speeding, and was distracted by his phone, according to a report by SFgate.com.
Ilocos Norte Governor Maria Imelda “Imee” Marcos (3rd from left) troops the police line with Police Senior Supt. Arthur Bisnar (left) for the arrival honors during the 122nd Anniversary celebration of the historic “Sigaw ng Pugad Lawin” held at the Dambana ng Pugad Lawin in Barangay Bahay Toro, Quezon City on Thursday, August 23. PNA photo by Joey O. Razon
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ILOCOS Norte Governor Imee Marcos on Tuesday, August 21 told the public to “move on” amid the 35th anniversary of the assassination of Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr., one of the staunchest critics of her father, former President Ferdinand Marcos. The governor said that the atrocities during Marcos’ regime should not be talked about by people “at [her] age” anymore. “The millennials have moved on, and I think people at my age should also move
on as well,” she said in a press conference during the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) Visayan Island Cluster at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Cebu City, as reported by the Philippine Daily Inquirer. She also denied that she was “being an apologist” as she recalibrated the discourse into glorifying the accomplishments of her father. “I’m not an apologist to my dad, and I think his work and his projects will have to speak for themselves,” she stated. She said that August 21 for her family is the birthday of her sister-in-law and
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Hidilyn Diaz strikes gold in Asian Games women’s weighlifting by DENISON
REY DALUPANG Philstar.com
MANILA — Hidilyn Diaz completed a storybook turnaround to her Asian Games arc after delivering the first gold medal for the Philippines in the 2018 Asian Games at the Jakarta International Expo on Tuesday, August 21. Diaz, who was unable to make the cut in the 2014 iteration of the meet in Incheon, South Korea, struck the top honors of the women’s 53kg division in weightlifting, edging Turkmenistan’s Kristina Shermetova. Representatives Edcel Lagman, Teddy Baguilat, and Gary Alejano file impeachment complaints One of the country’s top bets against Supreme Court Associate Justices who voted to oust ex-Chief Justice Maria Lourdes to take home a medal, Diaz liftSereno. Inquirer.net photo by Gabriel Pabico Lalu Rio Olympics silver medalist Hidilyn Diaz grabbed the spotlight on the third ed a total of 207 kilograms, just day of the 2018 Indonesia Asian Games by winning the Philippines’ first Asiad a hairline above Shermetova’s gold medal on Tuesday in the women’s weightlifting competition.
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Asian Games pool photo
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TALAVERA
Foreign arrivals in the first half of this year hit a record TOURISM Secretary Berna- high of 3.7 million, a 10.4 perdette Romulo-Puyat said she cent rise from the 3.35 million hopes the incident that para- in the same period last year. Last Thursday, August 16, lyzed the operations of the Ninoy Aquino International Air- Xiamen Air Boeing 737-800 port (NAIA) will not affect tour- skidded off the runway of the NAIA. It took authorities 36 ist arrivals in the country. “I hope (it won’t affect arriv- hours to remove the aircraft off als) because this only happened the strip. This paralyzed airport oponce and I believe that we will not allow this to happen again,” erations, affecting tens of thouPuyat said in a television inter- sands of passengers of delayed view Monday, August 20. u PAGE A2 Philstar.com
The Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1 check-in counters are back to normal operations after a Xiamen Airlines passenger plane that skidded off a NAIA runway last Thursday, August 16 causing flight cancellations and delays, stranding passengers over the weekend, had been towed off. PNA photo by Avito C. Dalan
by GABRIEL
PABICO Inquirer.net
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LAWMAKERS from the House of Representatives filed impeachment complaints against the seven Associate Justices of the Supreme Court (SC) who voted in favor of the quo warranto petition against ousted Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. Representatives Edcel Lagman, Tomas Villarin, Gary Alejano and Teddy Baguilat, Jr., filed complaints against Justices Teresita Leonardo de Castro, Diosdado Peralta, Lucas Bersamin,
Francis Jardeleza, Andres Reyes Jr., Alexander Gesmundo, and Noel Tijam, before the Office of the Secretary-General. “Seven out of the eight Associate Justices who voted to oust Chief Justice Sereno in a controversial petition, quo warranto, are now facing impeachment before the House of Representatives,” Lagman said in a press briefing after the filing. Lagman said the associate justices’ decision was not only errant and orchestrated but also
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