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No respite from oil price hikes
DOE warns of heavy impact of OPEC production cuts by next month By Alena Mae S. Flores and Macon Ramos-Araneta
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ONSUMERS can expect pump prices to continue rising as a result of the decision by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies to cut production by 2 million barrels per day starting next month.
China ‘blacklists’ PH as tourist site due to POGOs
“Oil prices will continue to go up. The only way that will be reversed is if OPEC+ cannot fulfill its announcement to cut production,” Department of Energy director for the oil industry management bureau Rino Abad said. OPEC+ decided to cut production on prospects of slower global economic growth. Sources said diesel prices are estimated to go up P5 per liter as of Monday. This follows the oil price hike imposed by oil companies on Tuesday of P6.85 per liter for diesel, P3.50 per liter for kerosene, and P1.20 per liter for gasoline. The increase ended five consecutive weeks of rollbacks. Malacanang said it expects to announce specific plans to address the Next page
DOE OKS SURVEY IN CADLAO OIL FIELD IN PALAWAN NEWS / A4
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COURTESY CALL. Chinese Ambassador
Huang Xilian pays a courtesy call on Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri, together with Senators Sherwin Gatchalian and Robinhood Padilla at the Senate on October 10, 2022. Offshore gaming, renewable energy, e-commerce, and people-to-people exchanges were among the important topics discussed. Office of the Senate President
By Macon Ramos-Araneta and Vince Lopez and Maricel V. Cruz CHINA has warned its nationals to stay away from countries that host online gambling for Chinese nationals due to safety and security concerns, Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri said Tuesday, quoting Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian.
“Because of the problem of Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations (POGOs), the Philippines now is blacklisted and tourists now are discouraged to go to the Philippines,” Zubiri said. “Ambassador Huang said the Philippines now is part of a blacklist of tourist sites because they do not know if the tourist will be joining POGO operations and they do not
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PBBM orders upgrade of maritime, aviation sectors to boost tourism By Vince Lopez PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday ordered the creation of a Maritime Industry Development Plan to develop and broaden the country’s maritime sector and directed the Department of Transportation to rehabilitate the country’s ports. This was as the President and his Cabinet met to discuss the administration’s plans to develop and upgrade the maritime and aviation industries. In a Facebook post, the Office of the Press Secretary (OPS) said the improvement of the two sectors topped the agenda of the 11th Cabinet meeting convened by Mr. Marcos at Malacañang Palace on Tuesday morning. The President “ordered the crafting of a maritime industry development plan to improve the maritime sector,” Press Secretary officer-in-charge Cheloy Garafil said in a briefing. Mr. Marcos also emphasized the Next page
By Macon Ramos-Araneta
PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVES. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. seeks to boost the maritime and aviation sectors during the 11th Cabinet meeting at the Palace Tuesday. Revoli Cortez
Appellate court upholds conviction of Ressa, reporter for cyber libel By Rey E. Requejo
THE Court of Appeals has turned down the appeal by Nobel laureate and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa and former Rappler reporter Reynaldo Santos Jr. seeking reconsideration of their cyber libel conviction.
Zubiri vows 6 priority bills for Congress okay
In a 16-page resolution dated October 10, the CA’s Fourth Division said the motion for reconsideration is “unmeritorious” as the accused-appellants did not present new arguments nor evidence to warrant a reversal of its decision. The appellate court had upheld the
June 15, 2020 decision of the Manila Regional Trial Court convicting Ressa and Santos of cyber libel filed by businessman Wilfredo Keng. “A careful and meticulous review of the motion for reconsideration reveals that the matter raised by the accused-appellants
had already been exhaustively resolved and discussed in the Assailed Decision,” stated the resolution penned by Associate Justice Roberto Quiroz. CA Associate Justices Ramon Bato Jr. and Germano Francisco Legaspi Next page
Palace hands off on home furlough for De Lima, to let court rule on it PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will let the courts decide on whether former senator Leila de Lima will be given a home furlough after she was taken hostage at the Philippine National Police (PNP) Custodial Center on Sunday, a Palace official said Tuesday. At a press briefing, Office of the Press Secretary officer-in-charge Un-
dersecretary Cheloy Garafil was asked for the Palace reaction on the suggestion of Senator Imee Marcos to offer home furlough for the former lawmaker. Garafil said the President would not intervene in any case that is already being handled by the courts. “De Lima’s cases are already with the Next page
SENATE President Juan Ponce Zubiri said Congress would pass six laws before the end of the year. During the first Legislative Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) meeting in Malacanang, Zubiri said they had agreed to pass the following measures by the end of 2022: 1. Medical Reserve Corps; 2. National Disease Prevention Management Authority/Center for Disease Prevention and Control; 3. Virology Science and Technology Institute of the Philippines; 4. Mandatory Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and National Service Training Program; 5. Amendments to the Build-Operate-Transfer Law; and 6. Condonation of Unpaid Amortization and Interest on Loans of Agrarian Next page
WEATHER ‘Maymay’ moving north, Signal 1 over six areas By Rio N. Araja TROPICAL Depression “Maymay” on Tuesday remained stationary over the Philippine Sea but is forecast to maintain strength prior to its landfall in the vicinity of the southern portion of Aurora or the northern portion of Quezon on Wednesday. Due to the frictional effects, “Maymay” may be downgraded to “remnant low” while traversing over the landmass, the state weather bureau said. Next page
Pulse Asia: 9 in 10 Pinoys see fake info a ‘problem’ BEACON OF HOPE. The facade of the Manila City Hall clock tower is lit in blue to mark
World Mental Health Day. The Philippine Mental Health Association Inc. (PMHA) observes its third year of the ‘Light Up Blue for Mental Health!’ campaign. Norman Cruz
AT LEAST 9 in 10 Filipinos said they have read or watched fake political news, and believe that the proliferation of false information is a problem, results of a Pulse Asia survey released Tuesday showed. The survey, conducted from Septem-
ber 17 to 21, also showed that 26 percent of the respondents have encountered false news about government and politics a few times a week, 25 percent a few times a month, and 21 percent at least once a day. This was more pronounced in Metro
Manila at 87 percent and the rest of Luzon at 92 percent, compared to respondents from the Visayas and Mindanao at 77 and 81 percent, respectively. “A tenth of Filipino adults (10 percent) are not aware of untrue news Next page