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PBBM: Ask China to explain Orders DFA to file note verbale regarding rocket debris incident in SCS By Vince Lopez
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RESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered the Department of Foreign Affairs to send a note verbale to China to ask Beijing to explain its “more benign” account of an incident involving Chinese coast guard taking rocket debris from Filipino soldiers in the disputed waters of the South China Sea.
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“Yes, I think that that’s what we need to do,” President Marcos said in an interview with reporters Tuesday. “We’ll have to find a way to
resolve this...With the way that the region—Asia-Pacific—is heating up, if someone messes up, if many Next page
Harris urges nations to honor The Hague decision on EEZ By Rey E. Requejo ALL nations must respect the 2016 Permanent Court of Arbitration decision that rejected China’s expansive claims in the South China Sea and upholding the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone in the area, US Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday. Harris issued the statement in a speech on board the Philippine Coast Guard vessel BRP Teresa Magbanua. “The United States is proud of our longstanding ties with the people of the Philippines. I am here in Palawan to underscore the importance of our partnership in order to create economic opportunities, protect coastal ecosystems, maintain peace and stability, and uphold international rules and norms here in the South China Sea and around the world. To the Philippine Coast Guard, you are on the frontlines of standing up for the international rules-based order,” said Harris, the highest ranking US government official to visit Palawan.
SHOW OF SUPPORT. United States Vice President Kamala
Harris observes the monitoring system used by the Philippine Coast Guard on board the BRP Teresa Magbanua docked at Puerto Princesa Port in Palawan, the province closest to the disputed waters of the South China Sea. Harris, together with her husband Douglas Emhoff, left Puerto Princesa Tuesday afternoon on her way to Yokota Air Base in Japan. P/Ens Berbigal / CGPA
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Gov’t to review ‘gray zone’ in defense pact with US THE government has formed a study group to review the country’s 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT) with the United States, National Security Adviser Secretary Clarita Carlos said Tuesday. The group is composed of officials from the National Security Council
(NSC), the Department of National Defense (DND), and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Carlos told Dobol B TV. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. gave the directive, Carlos said. “I will lead this (group). The NSC,
the DND, and the DFA, we have already formed a study group that will clarify and review the MDT,” she said. There is no “automaticity” under the treaty for either country to extend assistance in case of an attack on the other, Next page
MARCOS TO DENR: GET TOUGHER ON MINING FIRMS NEWS / A5
PH to pursue talks with US on climate loss and damage By Vince Lopez PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. explored possible cooperation with the United States on climate loss and damage during his meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday. In a statement issued Tuesday, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Marcos is interested in partnering with Washington D.C. beyond climate mitigation and relief. “(President Marcos) expressed in-
terest in pursuing further discussions and possible cooperation with the US on the damage and loss concept, beyond mitigation and relief, to build on the discussions at the COP27,” the agency said. Loss and damage refers to climate change’s negative impact that cannot be avoided by mitigation and adaptation, such as extreme weather events, sea level rise, and glacial retreat among others. Next page
Finance chief on way out? Fake news, says President MINING DIRECTIVES. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday directs officials of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to bolster the DENR’s regulatory powers on small and large-scale mining.
Mr. Marcos to look into ‘conflict’ in NIA THE operations of the National Irrigation would find out first what happened to Administration (NIA) will not be dis- Antiporda and why he was suspended by rupted despite the suspension of its chief, the Office of the Ombudsman. Benny Antiporda, President Ferdinand The President, who is concurrently Marcos Jr. guaranteed on Tuesday. Next page Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an event at the Philippine International Suspended National Irrigation Administration chief Benny Antiporda Convention Center, Mr. Marcos said he
‘BANTAG’S FATE UP TO PBBM AMID MURDER RAPS’
DMW CREATES BLACKLIST OF OFW RECRUITERS
NEWS / A5
NEWS / A5
REPORTS that Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno would be replaced by Albay Rep. Joey Salceda are “fake news,” President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Tuesday. “I don’t know where it comes from. Why will I do that? We have assembled a great team,” Mr. Marcos told reporters. “We’re trying to go down a certain direction...it’s a very, very poor time to, as they say, change horses in midstream.” Diokno, who also served as Socioeconomic Secretary in the previous Du- Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno terte administration, has said he maintains good relations with the President, as finance chief. Diokno said he has since spoken with adding he is “old enough in this game to Salceda, whom he described as a friend. even bother” about such rumors. “Oh no. Hindi po,” Salceda, the Salceda, touted as the economist of the House of Representatives, earlier chairman of the House Committee on denied that he would succeed Diokno Next page
Bonoan gets past CA, Tulfo grilled on citizenship By Macon Ramos-Araneta THE powerful Commission on Appointments on Tuesday suspended deliberations on the appointment of Social Welfare Secretary Erwin Tulfo after CA member-congressmen Oscar Malapitan and Rodante Marcoleta raised issues on his previous service in the American military and his libel cases Next page
DSWD Sec. Erwin Tulfo
DPWH Sec. Manuel Bonoan