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(Story on A4) FIVE LOCAL EALA TO FACE OFF WITH WIMBLEDON DEFENDING CHAMP HOLIDAYS IN OCT. The 20-year old Eala howAustralia. By Charles Dantes, Maricel Cruz
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ISRAEL CONTINUES TO POUND HEZBOLLAH WORLD / A6
ever has risen to no. 56 in the live rankings of the Women’s
T H E country’s tennis sensation Alexandra Eala faces off NO REST FOR TENNIS against defending champion PHENOM EALA Barbora Krejcikova in her VOL. XXXVIII • NO. 227• 3 SECTIONS 16 PAGES • P20 •MONDAY, SEPTEMBER Wimbledon debut tomorrow as SPORTS 30, / A82024 • the country’s leaders cheered her on despite her heart-breakTennis Association (WTA) deing loss in the Eastbourne spite losing 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (10) Open women’s singles finals. on Saturday to Maya Joint of
PNP resurrecting probe Go for the drug into PCSO official's slay lords — Pope Leo Alexandra Eala
Barbora Krejcikova
Speaker grateful for PMA Class '83 vote of confidence in Quad Comm policies that target poor drug victims By Rio N.Rebukes Araja By Vince HELopez Philippine
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National Police OPE Leo XIV (PNP) is reopening has calledinto on its investigation governments the 2020 murder of to focus on dismantling Philippine Charity criminal organizations Sweepstakes Office that profit from drug (PCSO) board secretary trafficking, instead of Wesley Barayuga. punishing the mostly On Sunday, PNPwho Chiefeither Police poor addicts, General Rommel Francisco Marend prison or wind bil saidup he in ordered the reopening of the cold case after whistleblower up dead in the streets.
Police Lt. Col. Santie Mendoza told the The HousePontiff Quad Committee he announcedthatthis helped out an the audience killing atwith the positioncarry during behest of ex-PCSO general anti-drug campaigners at manager the ApRoyina Garma. ostolic Palace courtyard in Vatinarrated canMendoza City as the worldbefore markedconthe gressmen how Day Garma allegedly faInternational Against Drug cilitated the PCSO official’s roadside Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. assassination on published July 30, 2020 by In a report by the providing the necessary information Catholic News Agency, Pope Leo about his schedule, detailsthat about his rebuked drug policies target vehicle and the funding necessary to the poor while powerful traffickcarry it out. ers go unpunished. The whistleblower also implicated “It is easier to fight their vicincumbent National Comtims. Too often, in thePolice name of semissioner Edilberto Leonardo in curity, war has been waged andthe is planning of the murder. waged against the poor, filling the Barayuga retiredarepolice prisons with was thosea who only general the lastand linklawyer in a who chainsupposedly of death. threatened to expose corruption withpage in the PCSO shortly before Next he was shot dead in Mandaluyong City. Garma, herself an ex-police Lt. Colonel, allegedly gained the top spot at the PCSO because of her in-
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In his message on X, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. said: “We’re already so proud, Alex. Just play your game and enjoy every moment. The whole Philippines is behind you. LABAN!” First Lady Liza AranetaMarcos also cheered Eala on. “You may not have taken the PAGASA
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Gov’t readies Taal fishers P1.48b aid as losing money 'over Julian'bad strengthens press THE government has readied P1.48 By Potworth Chavez billion of aid for communities that may be hit hard by typhoon FISHERMEN in Taal says Lake, no‘Julian’ which PAGASA could tablyintothose catching “tawilis” turn a supertyphoon. (Sardinella an endemic As of 5:00tawilis), PM on Sunday, PAspecies raised of fish Tropical there, areCyclone seeing GASA declining sales after newsBatanes got out Wind Signal No. 3 over thatthe thenortheastern sprawling body of of water and portion Bahas served as a dumping area for buyan Islands. murder victims. “’Julian’ is forecast to continue In an interview, town intensifying over theLaurel next 24-36 MayorasLyndon who leads hours it movesBruce, towards Batanes a coastal municipality in the the and/or Babuyan Islands. With fringes trend of the freshwater lake, current in its intensification, lamented that poor fish sales bethe possibility of reaching super gan shortly after isthe of out,” over typhoon category notcase ruled 100 missing PAGASA said“sabungeros” in its advisory.(cockfighting enthusiasts) reignited in Meanwhile, the National Disasthe Risk headlines. ter Reduction and Manage“The missing sabungeros isment Council (NDRRMC) said that is of currently dominating the asue total 1.9 million family food news. worth Of course, peopleother are packs P1.48 billion, thinking thoughts, and food itemsnegative worth P276 million, and are hesitating about buying fish non-food items (NFIs) worth P919 [caught were in Taal Lake],” he saidby in million already prepared Filipino. the Department of Social Welfare town chief said that the andThe Development (DSWD). page Some P171 million in Next standby fund is also available for utilization by the DSWD, including P123 million which can be allotted as Quick Response Fund (QRF) in the central office of the DSWD. In Batanes, the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) advised residents to secure their roofs and install window shutters as Typhoon Julian is expected to make landfall Next page
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.
Yang's lawyer mocks probers amid heated inquiry
PH lobbies UN for Security Council seat
THE Philippine government on Sunday publicly called for the UnitTHE legal counsel of Chinese adviser of former President Rodrigo of illegal drugs and illegal activities ed Nations (UN) to give it a seat on businessman Tony Yang sought to Duterte. associated with POGOs,” Suarez said the UN Security Council, highlightdisparage lawmakers’ conclusions Fortun, a lawyer who often finds in a mixture of Filipino and English. ing the country’s strong record and Next page about his client’s supposedly himself at the center high-profile The solons explained how the dedication to upholding the rule of sketchy past and his alleged ties cases, apparently sought to mock matrix details Yang’s connections to law. with Philippine Overseas Gaming congressmen, calling their probe other individuals involved in illicit WORLD/ A6 Department of Foreign Affairs Operators (POGOs) and even “unacceptable.” activities, including the operations of (DFA) Secretary Enrique Manalo in organized crime. However, House members argued illegal POGOs. a speech delivered at the UN GenLawyer Raymond Fortun they did not come by their suspicions Among the companies implicated eral Assembly in New York said the questioned the House Quad about Yang recklessly. are Brickhartz Technology Inc. Philippines continues to emphasize Committee’s andfor its On Friday, Senior Deputy Speakerof former andPresident Xionwei Technology Ltd., FOR impartiality SALE. A house sale sign is posted at the gate of the residence Rodrigo DuterteCo. where two standees of the detained leader the “importance of upholding the ability toremain pin Chinese national Yang Aurelio Pampanga which are being linked to alleged for visitors to have their photo ops in Gonzales his absence.Jr.FBof of John Fortich rule of law and the integrity of the down for ay wrongdoing in a real and Deputy Speaker David Suarez of kidnapping. multilateral system in the face of toBUSINESS/ B1 criminal court. Quezon presented a matrix showing The two firms supposedly day’s global challenges.” “I am very interested in how they Yang’s first appearance and his have connections with the Baofu Quoted by reports, Manalo also [Quad Comm members] can prove subsequent activities at the Quad Compound in Bamban, Tarlac, said: “The Philippines has consisthis criminal network in court. In Comm hearing. which, in turn, can be directly traced tently pursued peace, the sovereign Congress, lawmakers act as both “We saw a pattern, and we tracked to disgraced ex-mayor Alice Guo. equality of states, the rights and digprosecutor and judge,” he said. it to the top of these corporations... During Friday’s Quad Comm nity of all persons.” Yang, who already admitted we stripped it of its layers , to get to hearing, lawmakers cited Tony Yang He added that the country is also having a fake Philippine birth the top and through it all, we have in contempt for “lying” to about his recognized as the “first Asian Recertificate, is the brother of Michael discovered and identified at least two businesses and business partners. Yang, a presidential economic main actors or players in the issue Next page Next page Avanceña explained that By Rex Espiritu she finds it painful to enter the By Pot Chavez home alone, as no member of the THE Davao City residence of Duterte family currently resides former President Rodrigo Duterte A REGIONAL trial court (RTC) there. is now up for sale. in Manila has voided the term of “It hurts every time I go inThis was confirmed over the controversial figure Alice Guo side. I was the only one going weekend by Duterte’s commonas mayor of Bamban, Tarlac after BAUTISTA there. There were four helpers, law wife, Honeylet Avanceña, granting the quo warranto peticent Trinidad told reporters but the master was not around. and their daughter, Veronica.that By Rex Espiritu tion filed against her over issues Manila did she not said monitor We abandoned it after what hapIn an troops interview, that concerning her citizenship and By Darwin Amojelar any activity, adding that Beipened,” she said. the such house has remained vacant THE Philippine Navy debunked identity. jing’s statement was meant Next page and unused for some time. only on Sunday the recent announceIn a decision penned by preTRANSPORTATION Secretary Jaime for its internal audience. ment by China that it conducted siding judge Liwliwa HidalgoBautista denied an online news report “Our troops did not observe military exercises off Bajo de Bucu, the Manila RTC Branch 34 claiming that Malacañang was angry any exercise, we have to underMasinloc, also known as Scarborruled that Guo is a Chinese nawith the increase in airport fees without READY ASSISTANCE. Malabon City’sough disasterShoal, relief personnel stand that sometimes, China is in thedeliver Westassistance Philiptional, known by the name Guo the to approval of the Cabinet members. residents of neighboring Navotas City after flooding occurred when a wall collapsed doing this for their internal audipine Sea (WPS). Hua Ping, and was therefore not “The Bilyonaryo article is malifects of the LPA and habagat will during heavy rain in Barangay San Jose, in Navotas. Malabon City DRRMO By Rio N. Araja ence, right? For them not to look China reportedly made the anqualified to hold a public office. cious and unfounded,” Bautista said bring cloudy skies with scaterred weak and embarrassed,” Trinidad nouncement coinciding with the Guo has been dismissed as in a Viber message, referring to the rainshowers and thunderstorms across A POSSIBLE Low pressure area (LPA) said. fourth Multilateral Maritime Comayor afterofshe was linked in the website that published the said story. AWARD. Hans Sy,Mimaropa, Chairman ofBicol the Executive Committee SM Prime Holdings, Visayas, Mindanao, is expected to move closer to Bicol ReTwo Chinese warships were operative Activity between the 2024 Philippine offshore gaming was honored by the Philippine Retailers Association (PRA) with its Outstanding “Bilyonaryo is inconsistent,” he added. and Quezon until Monday. gion and Eastern the state weathmonitored at Visayas, a distance ranging Philippines, Australia, Japan, Filipino Retailers President Award for his visionary leadership(POGO) in retail development. operations scandal and Bilyonaryo reported online that Metro Manila and the rest of Luer bureau advised on Sunday. from eight to 14 nautical miles. (From left to right): PRA Director and Director of SM Retail Jorge T. evidence Mendiola, PRA New Zealand, and the United overwhelming of her “Bautista and his long-time protege in zon, meanwhile, will experience Atmospheric GeoOneTheof Philippine these went up to 1,000 FOUR major fuelUndersecretary companies have Garin. within Manila’s exclusive Vice President and President and COO of Golden, Inc. (The Penshoppe Group) States realABC, identity came to light during Philippine Airlines, for partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isophysical and MMCA Astronomical Alice T. Liu, SM Prime Holdings Chairman of the Executive congressional Committee Hans T.hearings. Sy, yards at the site butServices evenagreed to P1 peso “We were able(EEZ) to talkinto the Petron, economic zone reprevious Aviation andprovide AirportsaBobby Lim,disare lated thunderstorms. Administration (PAGASA) attributed PRArainshowers President andand Chairman of Quorum International, Inc. (Toby’s Sports) Roberto tually went away. “It was not count per liter Caltex, waters Shell, and Every gional overCleanfuel. the weekend. “As alleged therein, the instant at the center of to thepublic stormutility after itvehiwas From Tuesday to Friday, thePresident LPA of Sportshouse S. Claudio, and PRA Director and Int’l. Leisure, Inc. and potential rains next week to this weaththreatening, just normal,” accordcle (PUV) drivers to help them cope day, we meet Navy with Spokesperson each of them. Philippine Petition is forecast to move northwestward toproponent of PRA OFR President’s Award Mars C. Chua was prepared upon diser system and the prevailing southwest with recent price increasesNext accordThey have at least a P1 discount per for WPS Rear Admiral Roy Vinpage Next page covery of the wealth of evidence ward the eastern section of Northern monsoon (habagat). ing to Department of Energy (DOE) Next page Luzon. Next page PAGASA said the combined efofficer-in-charge Secretary Sharon
AI LEARNING TO LIE, SCHEME, THREATEN
DOTr’s Bautista MAYNILAD IN TALKS says online news WITH TWO INVESTORS report‘unfounded'
Honeylet puts home with Rody up for sale amid heartache
Navy spokes debunks China claim of military exercises in Scarborough shoal
PAGASA eyes potential LPA near Bicol, EV
Oil firms agree to P1 cut for PUVs
Court declares Guo an alien, not qualified to run for election