TOP STORIES – Wednesday, March 29, 2023

TODAY’S TOP STORIES (from online news monitoring)

29 March 2023, Wednesday, as of 5:00 p.m.

1. Marcos leads launch of Philippine Multisectoral Nutrition Project

-PBBM cites need to address malnutrition to aid socioeconomic development

-Marcos: Gov’t addressing food inadequancy head on

-Marcos urges lawmakers to craft laws vs. malnutrition

[Manila Bulletin, Inquirer, GMA News Online, ABS-CBN News Online, Business Mirror, PhilStar, CNN PHL Online, Manila Times]

https://mb.com.ph/2023/3/29/pbbm-cites-need-to-address-malnutrition-to-aid-socioeconomic-development

2. MMDA allows personnel to have 30-minute 'heat stroke break' amid hot weather

[ABS-CBN News Online, GMA News Online, Manila Bulletin, PhilStar, News5, Manila Times, Inquirer, Pilipino Star Ngayon]

https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/03/29/23/traffic-enforcers-street-sweepers-to-get-30-minute-heat-stroke-break-mmda

3. HOLY WEEK EXODUS

-CAAP expects over 2M passengers in April amid Holy Week break

- NAIA expects 1.2 million travelers during Holyweek exodus

-MMDA to deploy over 2,000 personnel for Holy Week

[Rappler, News 5, ABS-CBN News Online, PhilStar, BusinessWorld, GMA News Online]

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/865385/caap-expects-over-2m-passengers-in-april-amid-holy-week-break/story/?just_in

4. ICC DRUG WAR PROBE

-SolGen Guevarra to explain to Marcos that PH appeal to ICC is still pending

- Guevarra to clarify with Marcos move to 'disengage' from ICC

-Hontiveros hits move to disengage from ICC: It will isolate PH from world

-Callamard: Marcos gov’t must probe Duterte’s responsibility in drug war killings

-ICC’s probe on PH’s illegal drugs operations a chance for victims to be heard – NUPL

- Disengaging with ICC disadvantageous for PH government – lawyer

- Tolentino wants BI to bar ICC prosecutors from entering PH

[Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, News5, ABS-CBN News Online, CNN PHL Online, GMA News Online, Rappler]

https://globalnation.inquirer.net/213044/solgen-guevarra-to-explain-to-marcos-that-ph-appeal-to-icc-is-still-pending

https://mb.com.ph/2023/3/29/a-mistake-hontiveros-slams-marcos-decision-to-disengage-from-icc

5. Tolentino to serve as Sen. Bato’s counsel in ICC case

[Rappler, PhilStar, Manila Bulletin, ABS-CBN News Online, CNN PHL Online, News5, GMA News Online]

https://www.rappler.com/nation/tolentino-legal-counsel-dela-rosa-international-criminal-court/

6. Tolentino eyes showdown between Duterte and ICC in Senate hearing

[Inquirer, PhilStar, CNN PHL Online, GMA News Online]

https://globalnation.inquirer.net/213091/tolentino-eyes-showdown-between-duterte-and-icc-in-senate-hearing

7. Padilla urges Senate leaders to hold cha-cha talks with House counterparts

[GMA News Online, DZBB, ABS-CBN News Online, Rappler, Manila Bulletin, Inquirer]

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/865376/padilla-urges-senate-leaders-to-hold-cha-cha-talks-with-house-counterparts/story/?just_in

8. DepEd to retain current academic calendar, floats blended learning option during summer

-Bring back April-May summer break, senator suggests

[PhilStar, GMA News Online, ANC, Inquirer, ABS-CBN News Online, CNN PHL Online]

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2023/03/29/2255358/deped-retain-current-academic-calendar-floats-blended-learning-option-during-summer

9. DepEd-ACT ISSUE

-Wag puro red-tagging': Castro gives DepEd advice amid education sector woes

-Rep. Castro fires back at Sara Duterte: It’s DepEd diverting us from education issues

-VP Sara insists hiring 30K teachers a year impossible; ACT Teachers says it is logical

-‘Fake representative’: VP Duterte calls out ACT Party-list after suggestions to DepEd

[Manila Bulletin, Inquirer, GMA News Online]

https://mb.com.ph/2023/3/29/wag-puro-red-tagging-castro-gives-dep-ed-advice-amid-education-sector-woes

10. DEGAMO SLAY CASE

-Arnie Teves' lawyer: Trial over Degamo slay a ‘kangaroo court’

-Pryde Teves: I have limited control over 52-hectare property raided by authorities

-Teves brother to cooperate in arms probe

-3 arrested in Teves compound raid claim police pressure, eye complaint

[GMA News Online, Manila Times, CNN PHL Online]

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/865369/arnie-teves-lawyer-trial-over-degamo-slay-a-kangaroo-court/story/?just_in

11. Authorities seize 300 kilos of shabu in Baguio barangay

[PhilStar, ABS-CBN News Online, DZBB, Inquirer, GMA News Online]

https://www.philstar.com/nation/2023/03/29/2255369/authorities-seize-300-kilos-shabu-baguio-barangay

12. DFA: 81 Filipinos abroad on death row, 135 acquittals secured in 2022

[CNN PHL Online, GMA News Online, Inquirer]

https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2023/3/29/DFA-81-Filipinos-abroad-on-death-row.html

13. UKRAINE-PH RELATION

-Ukraine seeks to tap Filipino labor in reconstructing war-torn nation

-Ukraine plans foreign minister's Philippine visit, embassy opening

- Ukraine proposes 'grain bank' to PH

[Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, PhilStar, ABS-CBN News Online]

https://globalnation.inquirer.net/213070/ukraine-eyes-filipino-workers-in-rebuilding-war-torn-nation

14. Sen. Revilla undergoes gallbladder removal

[Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, ABS-CBN News Online]

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1749717/revilla-undergoes-removal-of-gallbladder

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