TODAY’S TOP STORIES (from online and print media monitoring)
As of 4:00
p.m, Saturday, 10 August 2024
1. VP SARA DUTERTE TIRADES
-‘No
description’: Sara Duterte says she and Marcos no longer talk, see each other
-VP Sara:
I'm using my position, platform to show gov't officials how to command
-Budget
issues force me to resign, Sara reveals
-VP
PhilHealth criticism ‘inaccurate,’ says Gadon
-Solons
tell VP: Stop bitter blaming spree
-Lawmakers
not yet done lashing back at Sara
-Sara
Duterte's security budget should be scrutinized: lawmaker
[Manila
Bulletin, Daily Tribune, Manila Standard, The Manila Times, Philippine Daily
Inquirer, GMA News, Rappler, ABS-CBN News]
2. SWS: VP Sara’s net satisfaction drops in Q2
2024
[PhilStar,
GMA News, Rappler, Manila Bulletin]
3. Marcos creates Presidential Office for Child
Protection
[Manila
Bulletin, Manila Standard, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Rappler, Pilipino Star
Ngayon]
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1971337/presidential-office-for-child-protection-created
4. US-PHL RELATION
Marcos
thanks American lawmakers for supporting PH-US alliance
-Phl
grateful over U.S. CODEL support
[Manila
Bulletin, Daily Tribune, Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Philippine Star, GMA
News]
5. Merger of UCPB, LBP leasing, financing units
okayed
[Philippine
Daily Inquirer, BusinessMirror]
https://business.inquirer.net/474034/merger-of-ucpb-lbp-leasing-financing-units-okayed
6. ILLEGAL DRUGS
-Generals
send feelers to testify on drug war EJKs
-PNP: No
efforts to coax officials to be ICC witnesses monitored
[GMA
News, Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Philippine Star]
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1971341/generals-send-feelers-to-testify-on-drug-war-ejks
7. At sea, the PCG finds a ‘friend’ in co-claimant
Vietnam
[Rappler,
GMA News, Inquirer, PhilStar]
https://www.rappler.com/philippines/coast-guard-vietnam-joint-exercise-august-2024/
8. PASTOR QUIBOLOY CASE
-NBI
serves another arrest warrant vs. Quiboloy, others
-PNP
braces for long battle to get Quiboloy
-Quiboloy's
camp questions order freezing his bank accounts
[GMA
News, The Philippine Star, Inquirer]
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