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NEWS / A2
NEWS / A2 VOL. XXXVII • NO. 192• 3 SECTIONS 12 PAGES • P20 • SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 2023 • www.manilastandard.net • mst.daydesk@gmail.com
12 canned over laptop mess Gilas five fades, bows 87-81 to Dominican Rep.
Ombudsman orders suspension of DepEd, DBM execs for 6 mos. By Rio N. Araja
By Peter Atencio
HE Office of the Ombudsman has ordered a sixmonth preventive suspension of 12 current and ex-officials of the Department of Education and the Procurement Service office of the Department of Budget and Managem
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BOCAUE, Bulacan—The Philippines broke the attendance record in a FIBA game but got its heart broken hours later by a resilient Dominican Republic team, losing 87-81 Friday night at the Philippine Arena and dimming its chances to advance in the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup. It was a winnable game for Gilas Pilipinas, which gave the Dominicans hell for 37 minutes, before folding in the final three, where it lost its steadying presence with the fouling out of its NBA star Jordan Clarkson.
Ombudsman Samuel Martires, in a resolution, ordered the suspension of DepEd Undersecretary Annalyn Sevilla, former undersecretary Alain Del Pascua, former PS-DBM executive director Lloyd Christoper Lao, and other officials for a period not exceeding six months or until the cases were terminated. Martires cited Republic Act No. 6770 or the Ombudsman Act that says a preventive suspension may be imposed on a respondent if the evidence
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FIBA OPENER. Jordan Clarkson pulls up for a jumper against three Dominican Republic defenders in the Philippines' opening game in the 2023 FIBA World Cup on Friday at the Philippine Arena in Bulacan. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. arrives just before the match to encourage Gilas Pilipinas, and then stands with (from left) SBP president Al Panlilio, MVP Group chairman Manny V. Pangilinan, FIBA President Hamane Niang, and Speaker Martin Romualdez. Danny Pata, PPA Pool, and FIBA.basketball
38,115 PH fans at Arena break FIBA attendance record By Maricel Cruz
night, as 38,115 spectators marched to the Philippine Arena on Friday night to THE Philippines set a new attendance watch the FIBA Basketball World Cup record for a FIBA (International 2023 match between Gilas Pilipinas and Basketball Federation) game on Friday the Dominican Republic.
It broke the previous FIBA record "We all knew the FIBA Basketball set during the United States' final game World Cup 2023 was going to be special against Russia in the 1994 FIBA World and within the first day we already have Cup finals, which 32,616 fans watched in evidence of this, having witnessed this Toronto, Canada. Next page
HISTORIC MUGSHOT. This handout image released by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office on August 24 shows the booking photo of former US President Donald Trump. AFP
Trump mug shot first for any past, current US prez ATLANTA—Former US president Donald Trump was arrested at a Georgia jail Thursday on racketeering and conspiracy charges and released on a $200,000 bond after having a historic mug shot taken. Trump, who is accused of colluding with 18 other defendants to overturn the 2020 election result in the southern state, spent less than 30 minutes inside Atlanta's Fulton County Jail before leaving in a motorcade for the airport. Like the other defendants in the case who have surrendered so far, the 77-year-old Trump had his mug shot taken during the booking process—a first for any serving or former US president. In the photograph released by the sheriff's office, he scowled at the camera while dressed in a dark blue suit, white shirt, and red tie. Next page
AUSSIE-PINOY WAR GAMES. Philippine and Australian troops perform a Combined Amphibious Assault exercise -- one ending in a cloud of pink smoke -- as part of 'Exercise Alon' at Naval Station Leovigildo Gantioqui in Zambales on Friday. Armed Forces photos
Marcos hails ‘extremely important’ Aussie-Pinoy military drills in the South China Sea in a military drill that simu- exercises as “an extremely important” example of lated the retaking of an enemy-controlled island in close cooperation. the first major air, sea, and land exercises between the Some 1,200 Australian soldiers and 560 Filipino two countries. Marines took part in the beach landing, arriving AUSTRALIAN and Filipino troops stormed a beach President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. hailed the Next page
By Charles Dantes, Vince Lopez, Rey E. Requejo and Macon Ramos-Araneta
PBBM says rice supply ‘most critical problem’; Senator blames DA, NFA PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. on Friday said the country’s rice supply was the "most critical problem" as his administration continues to try to bring down prices. "That is something that we are attending to with all of the partners that we have both in government and in the
private sector," the President said on the sidelines of the military exercises in Zambales. Mr. Marcos, also concurrently the agriculture chief, last week said the government is "closely monitoring" rice prices, which already topped P65 per Next page
Another teen shot dead by cop in Rizal ANOTHER minor was allegedly killed by a police officer in Rizal province just weeks after a teenager died in a Navotas police operation, authorities said Friday. The latest incident on Aug. 20 involved a policeman who was conducting "Oplan Sita," a routine
anti-criminality inspection, in an area where several motorcycle robberies were reported in Barangay San Isidro, Rodriguez town, said Police Capt. Mariesol Tactaquin, public information officer of the Rizal police. The victim's brother was riding a motorcycle and allegedly zoomed Next page