TODAY’S TOP STORIES (from online and print media monitoring)
11 September
2023, Monday, as of 5:00 p.m.
1. 106th BIRTHDAY OF EX PRES. MARCOS SR.
-PBBM
pays tribute to late father, former President Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr., on 106th
birthday
-Bongbong
Marcos on his father’s birthday: He fought for peace and order
-Marcos
calls his father 'true Filipino, an Ilocano icon' on 106th birth anniversary
-Marcos
to execs, leaders: May Apo Lakay's ideals spur you to aspire for greater roles
[CNN
Philippines, ABS-CBN News, GMA News, Daily Tribune, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin,
PhilStar]
2. Rice subsidy distribution resumes
[Daily
Tribune, Pilipino Mirror, GMA News, CNN Philippines, Manila Bulletin, Malaya]
3. Economic team shocked by rice
price cap – Diokno
[GMA
News, ABS-CBN News, Manila Bulletin, The Philippine STAR, Rappler]
https://www.rappler.com/business/diokno-says-rice-price-cap-surprised-even-economic-team/
4. Economic team backs PBMM's
rice price ceiling
-Pangandaman
throws weight behind rice price cap
-DTI
studies lifting of rice price ceiling in two weeks
[Manila
Bulletin, GMA News, ABS-CBN News, The Philippine Star]
https://mb.com.ph/2023/9/11/economic-team-backs-pbmm-s-rice-price-ceiling
5. DOF eyes zero tax on imported rice
-Economists
back move to reduce rice import tariffs
[Manila
Bulletin, Manila Standard, Business Mirror, Manila Times, ABS-CBN News]
6. Bongbong Marcos: New tech
needed to tackle unstable rice prices
-Agritech
from the lab must reach the ricefield—PBBM
[Inquirer,
Daily Tribune, Manila Bulletin]
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1829785/bongbong-marcos-new-tech-needed-to-tackle-unstable-rice-prices
7. DepEd memo on 'dictatorship':
-No 'Marcos dictatorship?' Lawmaker slams move to revise textbooks
- DepEd
told: Stick to historical facts on ‘Diktaduryang Marcos’
- Marcos
Sr. ‘cannot be Voldemort’
[ABS-CBN
News, GMA News The Philippine STAR, Philippine Daily Inquirer]
8. Gasoline prices up for 9th
straight week; diesel and kerosene for 10th
[GMA
News, ABS-CBN News, Inquirer, CNN Philippines, PhilStar, Manila Times]
9. LTFRB sets fare hike petition
hearing as another round of oil price increase to start Tuesday
[ABS-CBN
News, The Manila Times, Philstar]
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2023/09/11/2295426/ltfrb-sets-fare-hike-petition-hearing
10. Journalist Atom Araullo files P2-million damage suit vs red-taggers
-Araullo:
Red-tagging more worrisome for less protected journalists
[Rappler,
ABS-CBN News, GMA News, DZBB, PhilStar, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin]
https://www.rappler.com/nation/atom-araullo-files-damage-suit-vs-red-taggers/
11. Sara Duterte calls criticisms vs secret fund lies; thanks backers
-Risa to
VP Sara: ‘I thought OVP can live without confi, intel funds?’
[Inquirer,
Manila Bulletin, ABS-CBN News, GMA News, CNN Philippines]
12. Ombudsman: No law against red-tagging, case vs Parlade, Badoy, Esperon dismissed
[CNN
Philippines, Inquirer, GMA News]
https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2023/9/11/No-law-against-red-tagging.html
13. HOUSE HIGH RATINGS
-Speaker
vows to continue hard work amid high rating
-House
vows to curb price spikes amid better ratings
-‘Satisfaction
rating shows House on right track’
[Manila
Standard, Business Mirror, The Philippine Star]
https://manilastandard.net/news/314369157/speaker-vows-to-continue-hard-work-amid-high-rating.html
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