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Oil price hike seen to breach P4/l FIVE LOCAL HOLIDAYS IN OCT. NEWS / A3
ISRAEL CONTINUES IMF warns ‘more severe consequences’ if Iran-Israel tensions disrupt supply TO POUND HEZBOLLAH WORLD / A6
VP SARA: NO SHOW AT SONA
VOL. XXXVIII • NO. 227• 3 SECTIONS 16 PAGES • P20 •MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2024 •
By Alena Mae S. Flores and Maricel V. Cruz
W PNP resurrecting probe Gov’treadies NEWS / A3
PESO PLUMMETS TO P57.45/ DOLLAR
into PCSO official's slay PBBM launches expanded PhilHealth package BUSINESS / B2
THAI PM FACES RESIGN CLAMOR
VOL. XXXIX • NO. 124 • 3 SECTIONS 16 PAGES • P20 • FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2025 •
By Charles Dantes
ration (PhilHealth) benefits package, with increased support for patients battling kidney disease and plans to boost preventive health education among the youth.
WORLD / grateful A6 Speaker for PMA Class '83 vote of confidence in Quad Comm
Marcos open HE Philippine National Police to talks about (PNP) is reopening its investigationICC into rejoining the 2020 murder of
By Rio N. Araja
PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Thursday launched an expanded Philippine Health Insurance Corpo-
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By Charles Dantes Philippine Charity Sweepstakes MALACAÑANG Office on Thursday said the government is open to studying (PCSO) board secretary recommendations from the United NaWesley Barayuga. tions Special Rapporteur (UNSR) on
human rights, including the ratification On Sunday, PNP Chief Police of key international treaties and the General Rommel Francisco Marpossibility of rejoining the Internationbil said he ordered the reopening of al Criminal Court (ICC). the cold case after whistleblower Meanwhile, Davao City Rep. Paolo Police Lt. Col. Santie Mendoza told Duterte said the pain he feels as a son the House Quad Committee that he with detention of his father at the ICC helped carry out the killing at the in The Hague is "immeasurable." behest of ex-PCSO general manager Presidential Communications Office Royina Garma. (PCO) Undersecretary Claire Castro said Mendoza narrated before conthe Marcos administration appreciates gressmen how Garma allegedly fathe international attention drawn to the cilitated the PCSO official’s roadside government's current efforts to uphold assassination on July 30, 2020 by Next page providing the necessary information about his schedule, details about his vehicle and the funding necessary to carry it out. The whistleblower also implicated incumbent National Police Commissioner Edilberto Leonardo in the By RamofSuperable planning the murder. Barayuga was a retired police and Vito Barcelo general and lawyer who supposedly threatened to exposearound corruption withGOVERNMENTS the world in PCSO shortly before he was arethe evacuating thousands of their nashot dead in Mandaluyong City. spitionals caught up in the rapidly Garma, herself an ex-police Lt. Colonel, allegedly gained the top spot at the PCSO because of her in-
EXPANDED PACKAGE. President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. visits the National Kidney Transplant Institute in Quezon City for the launch of PhilHealth’s enhanced benefit package for adult and pediatric postkidney transplant patients. He was joined by Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa and PhilHealth President and CEO Edwin M. Mercado.
P1.48b aid as 'Julian' strengthens
THE government hashas readied P1.48 “Crude oil trading been volatile billion worth of remained aid for communiand prices have elevated. ties that(Mean may beofhitPlatts) hard byprices typhoon MOPS are ‘Julian’ which PAGASA could seen to continue their rallysays in today’s turn into a supertyphoon. (Thursday) trading, possibly closing As of PM onJetti Sunday, PAhigher than5:00 yesterday,” Petroleum GASA Tropical Cyclone presidentraised Leo Bellas. Wind Signal No.prices 3 over He said diesel are Batanes now exand thetonortheastern portion of Bapected go up by P3.80 to P4.10 per buyan liter andIslands. gasoline by P2.60 to 2.80 per “’Julian’ is forecast to continue liter. intensifying next 24-36 Oil firms over adjust the domestic pump hours as it moves prices every Tuesday.towards Batanes and/or Babuyan the Prevailing retailIslands. prices With of petrocurrent trend in leum products in its theintensification, National Capithe possibility of reaching tal Region from June 10 to 16,super 2025 typhoon category is not showed that gasoline nowruled sells out,” from PAGASA said in advisory. P44 to P72.23 peritsliter, diesel from theand National DisasP44Meanwhile, to P67 per liter kerosene from ter Risk Reduction and ManageP67.69 to P82.75 per liter. ment Council (NDRRMC) saidNews that In an interview with Channel aAsia, totalInternational of 1.9 million family Fund food Monetary packs worthmanaging P1.48 billion, first deputy director other Gita food items worth million, and Gopinath said: “AsP276 of now, the movenon-food worth P919 ments in oilitems prices(NFIs) have been fairly ormillion were gone already prepared by derly. They've up some, but there the Department of Social Welfare has not been a dramatic increase in oil and Development prices. At the levels(DSWD). at which they are Some million in be standby right now, P171 the impact should fairly fund is also for utilization contained foravailable the world.” by However, the DSWD, including P123 milmarkets are bracing for lion which can beifallotted as Quick supply disruption the conflict escaResponse Fund in the cenlates further, with(QRF) Iran threatening to tral office of theofDSWD. block the Strait Hormuz, a critical In Batanes, the Provincial Dichannel for oil trade. saster Risk Reduction andscale Manage“A lot depends upon the of this ment (PDRRMO) conflictOffice and whether it becomesadvised a broadresidents securecase, their er conflict, to in which of roofs course,and the install window shutters as Typhoon consequences could be much more sepage Julian is expected to make Next landfall vere,” Gopinath added. Next page
Govts scramble to evacuate citizens from Israel, Iran
A WEB OF CRIME? House leaders Aurelio Gonzales and David Suarez presented this matrix during the last QUAD Comm hearing which shows the operations of a criminal syndicate allegedly led by fugitive Michael Yang, then economic adviser of former President Rodrigo Duterte, that controlled the illegal activities of the POGOs and was involved in the drug trade and extrajudicial killings.
raling Israel-Iran conflict, organizing buses and planes and in some cases assisting people crossing borders on foot. Foreigners have rushed to leave both countries after Israel launched an unprecedented THE legal counsel of Chinese businessman Tony Yang sought to disparage lawmakers’ conclusions Next page about his client’s supposedly sketchy past and his alleged ties with Philippine Overseas Gaming Operators (POGOs) and even organized crime. Lawyer Raymond Fortun questioned the House Quad Committee’s impartiality and its ability to pin Chinese national Yang down for ay wrongdoing in a real criminal court. “I am very interested in how they [Quad Comm members] can prove this criminal network in court. In Congress, lawmakers act as both prosecutor and judge,” he said. Yang, who already admitted having fake poses Philippine birth REMEMBERING RIZAL. Manila Mayor Honeya Lacuna with young students who joined her in offering ofcertificate, flowers yesterday the monument is theatbrother of Michael of the country’s national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, in celebration his birthday. economic Yang, a of presidential
DOTr’s Bautista says online news report‘unfounded'
orld oil prices PAGASA continued to remain volatile with domestic pump prices seen rising to over P4 per liter next week as tensions between Iran and Israel sent markets into a tailspin.
bombing campaign Friday last week, targeting Iran's nuclear and military facilities, sparking retaliation from Tehran. The Philippines is preparing to repatriate 28 Israel-based Filipino
Yang's lawyer mocks probers amid heated inquiry Next page
adviser of former President Rodrigo Duterte. Fortun, a lawyer who often finds himself at the center high-profile cases, apparently sought to mock congressmen, calling their probe “unacceptable.” However, House members argued they did not come by their suspicions about Yang recklessly. On Friday, Senior Deputy Speaker Aurelio Gonzales Jr. of Pampanga By Deputy Charles Dantes and Speaker David Suarez of Quezon presented a matrix showing PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Yang’s first appearance and his has retained activities several top in subsequent at officials the Quad key government Comm hearing. posts while accepting“We the saw courtesy resignations of three a pattern, and we tracked Malacañang itpresidential to the top appointees, of these corporations... announced we strippedon it Thursday. of its layers , to get to a Palace press briefing, the Intop and through it all, Presidenwe have tial Communications Office discovered and identified atUndersecleast two retary actors Claire Castro confirmed Mr. main or players in thethat issue
Six key officials retained, three others removed
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Navy spokes debunks China claim
PH lobbies UN for Security Council seat
THE Philippine government on Sunday publicly called for the Unitof illegal drugs and illegal activities ed Nations (UN) to give it a seat on associated with POGOs,” Suarez said the UN Security Council, highlightin a mixture of Filipino and English. ing the country’s strong record and The solons explained how the dedication to upholding the rule of matrix details Yang’s connections to law. other individuals involved in illicit Department of Foreign Affairs activities, including the operations of (DFA) Secretary SUPERMAN CAST IN TOWN. The lead stars of the Enrique upcomingManalo film in illegal POGOs. a speech delivered at the UN ‘Superman’ yesterday implicated with Filipino fans at the Bridgetowne Open Grounds GenAmong themet companies eral in New York said the to participate in the biggest human formation of Assembly the Superman's symbol in the are Brickhartz Technology Inc. Philippines continues to emphasize andPhilippines. Xionwei Technology Co. Ltd., the “importance of upholding the which are being linked to alleged rule of law and the integrity of the kidnapping. multilateral system in the face of toThe two firms supposedly day’s global challenges.” have connections with the Baofu Quoted action by reports, upcoming film. Manalo also Compound in Bamban, Tarlac, By Angelica Villanueva said: “The Philippines has consisThe team was welcomed by Filiwhich, in turn, can be directly traced tently pursued peace, the sovereign pino fans at the Bridgetowne Open “SUPERMAN” stars David Coto disgraced ex-mayor Alice Guo. equality rights and digGroundsofinstates, Pasigthe City, where they renswet and Rachel During Friday’s QuadBrosnahan, Comm nity of aallspecial persons.” made appearance. Director along with directorcited James Gunn and hearing, lawmakers Tony Yang He added that the country also Frasco Mortiz shared a videoisreel of Safran,to arrived in producer contempt Peter for “lying” about hisin recognized as the “first Asian ReCorenswet and Gunn meeting fans Manila yesterday as part of the “Subusinesses and business partners. on social media. perman World Tour” to promote the Next page
‘Superman’ stars, director meet PH fans
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