TOP STORIES - Friday, 05 July, 2024

TODAY’S TOP STORIES (from online and print media monitoring)

As of 5PM, Friday, 07 July 2024

1. WEST PHILIPPINE SEA:

-AFP demands P60-M damage from China over June 17 'illegal' acts at Ayungin Shoal

-China says it is committed to upholding defensive posture amid hypersonic missile claims

-China to PH: Face the consequences of your actions

-Marcos' order to AFP: De-escalate tensions in WPS

-China says it is 'not threat to any country' amid hypersonic missile claim from Imee

[ABS–CBN News, GMA News, Manila Bulletin, Manila Standard, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Pilipino Star NGAYON, Rappler, The Manila Times]

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/912256/afp-demands-p60m-damages-china-june-17-ayungin-incident/story/

2. EDUCATION:

-Marcos wants Angara to focus on improving K-12 program

-Marcos to Angara: We have to take care of teachers

[ABS-CBN News, GMA News, Manila Bulletin, Manila Standard, News5, Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Manila Times]

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1958233/as-k-12-fails-to-boost-employability-several-changes-being-eyed-in-deped-marcos

3. Inflation rate eased to 3.7% in June —PSA

[GMA News, Rappler, Inquirer, ABS-CBN News, Manila Bulletin, Manila Standard, News5, Philstar, The Manila Times]

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/money/economy/912340/inflation-rate-june-2024-psa/story/

4. AFP: Marcos OKs purchase of multirole fighter jets

[ABS-CBN News, GMA News, Inquirer, Manila Standard, The Manila Times]

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/7/4/afp-marcos-oks-purchase-of-multirole-fighter-jets-1818

5. PBBM distributes aid to farmers, fisherfolk in Eastern Visayas

[ABS-CBN News, BusinessMirror, GMA News, Manila Bulletin, The Manila Times]

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/7/4/marcos-jr-distributes-aid-in-leyte-1737

6. Marcos to issue EO on enforcing nomad visas without tax incentives

[GMA News, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin]

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/912352/marcos-nomad-visas/story/

7. DA to sell rice at P29 per kilo under 'Program 29 in Metro Manila, Bulacan

[ABS-CBN News, BusinessMirror, GMA News, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Manila Standard, Philstar]

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1958053/govt-rolls-out-p29-per-kilo-rice-program-for-low-income-folk

8. POGO-RELATED CONCERNS:

-OSG will file a petition for the cancellation of the birth certificate of suspended Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo

-Speaker Romualdez seeks probe on POGO-linked crime

[ABS-CBN News, GMA News, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Philstar, The Manila Times]

https://mb.com.ph/2024/7/5/osg-set-to-file-in-court-petition-to-cancel-guo-s-birth-certificate

9. Trillanes files plunder complaint vs. Ex-Pres. Duterte, Sen. Bong Go

[ABS-CBN News, GMA News, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, News5, Philstar, Rappler]

https://www.rappler.com/philippines/trillanes-plunder-graft-complaint-duterte-go-davao-contracts/

10. Marcos lauds Gilas Pilipinas after win in FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament

[BusinessMirror, Daily Tribune, GMA News, Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Manila Times, The Philippine STAR]

https://tribune.net.ph/2024/07/04/marcos-congratulates-gilas-pilipinas-after-fiba-win-over-latvia

11. PCG evacuates injured Chinese ship crew

[ABS-CBN News, GMA News, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Philstar]

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2024/07/05/2367951/pcg-rescues-injured-chinese-seafarer

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