TODAY’S TOP STORIES (from online and print media monitoring)
5 January 2023, Friday, as of 5:00 p.m.
1. PH December inflation eases to 3.9%
[ABS-CBN News, CNN Philippines, GMA
News, Rappler, Manila Bulletin, Rappler, Inquirer, Manila Times]
https://business.inquirer.net/439710/ph-december-inflation-eases-to-3-9
2. Indonesian leader Widodo to visit PH next week
[ABS-CBN News, Abante,Manila
Bulletin,Daily Tribune, Manila Times, BUsiness Mirror, Philstar, Manila
Standard]
3. Military, police dispel ouster plot vs Marcos
[Manila Times, Manila Bulletin, Daily
Tribune, GMA News]
https://www.manilatimes.net/2024/01/05/news/military-police-dispel-ouster-plot-vs-marcos/1926832
4. Marcos orders gov't agencies, LGUs to observe community
development week, day
[GMA News, Manila Bulletin, Manila
Times] https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/893203/marcos-orders-gov-t-agencies-lgus-to-observe-community-development-week-day/story/
5. Bato dela Rosa holding on Marcos’ ‘solid rock’ assurance that
ICC probers won’t enter PH
[Philstar, Daily Tribune, Inquirer,
Manila Bulletin, GMA News] https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/893113/bato-dela-rosa-holding-on-marcos-solid-rock-assurance-that-icc-probers-won-t-enter-ph/story
6. Two senior execs leave DA amid reshuffle of officials
[ABS-CBN News, Manila Times, Manila
Bulletin, Daily Tribune, Philstar, Manila Standard, Inquirer, Rappler, People's
Journal]
https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/05/24/2-senior-execs-leave-da-amid-leadership-reshuffle
7. PANAY POWER OUTAGE
- Romualdez proposes use of Maharlika
funds in NGCP amid Panay power outage
- NGCP: Panay sub-grid fully restored
- Solons to push probe on Panay outages
- Energy chief blames NGCP for Panay
blackout
-Gov't wants daily P2-M fine for Panay
Island power outage
[CNN Philippines, ABS-CBN News, Business
Mirror, Manila Bulletin, GMA News, Inquirer, Philstar] https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/893207/romualdez-proposes-use-of-maharlika-funds-in-ngcp-amid-panay-power-outage/story/
8. PUV MODERNIZATION:
- Speaker seeks DOTr’s PUVMP review,
House probe of ‘corruption’
- DOTr: P50 minimum jeepney fare due to
PUV modernization is 'baseless'
- LTFRB says operators, drivers to
choose where to buy modern PUVs
[Business Mirror, CNN Philippines,
ABS-CBN News, Philstar, Daily Tribune, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Manila Times,
Manila Standard]
https://businessmirror.com.ph/2024/01/05/speaker-seeks-dotrs-puvmp-review-house-probe-of-corruption/
9. FEAST OF BLACK NAZARENE
- Man arrested for making bomb joke
during mass in Quiapo
- PNP fields 15000 cops for 'Traslacion'
- Traslacion participants required to
wear masks
[Manila Bulletin, Manila Times, Daily
Tribune, Inquirer] https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1884371/bomb-joke-at-quiapo-church-police-arrest-42-year-old-man
10. China says PH-US joint sail in SCS 'provocative'; NSC
maintains PH-US drills done inside WPS
[Manila Bulletin, Rappler, GMA News]
11. 4 Filipinos named to
Permanent Court of Arbitration
[Manila Times, Inquirer, GMA News,
Philstar, ABS-CBN News] https://www.manilatimes.net/2024/01/05/news/4-filipinos-named-to-permanent-court-of-arbitration
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