TODAY’S TOP STORIES (from online and print media monitoring)
As of 4:00 p.m., Saturday, 17 February
2024
Filipino fishermen fetch MV Kapitan Felix Oca at a designated rendezvous point in the West Philippine Sea on December 11, 2023. Michael Varcas / The Philippine STAR
-More PCG, BFAR vessels to be deployed
in Bajo De Masinloc to protect fishers vs China
-BFAR: China using cyanide to
‘intentionally destroy’ Bajo de Masinloc
-PH, China exchange radio challenges in
WPS anew
-Chinese ships block passage to Ayungin
Shoal as PH holds another resupply mission
[ABS-CBN News, GMA News, Philstar,
Business Mirror, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Manila Times, Manila Standard]
2.
SC nixes WPS oil pact with China, Vietnam
[Manila Standard, Daily Tribune,
Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Remate]
https://www.manilastandard.net/news/314417544/sc-nixes-wps-oil-pact-with-china-vietnam.html
3.
PBBM signs new laws on state universities' upgrading, new medical school
[GMA News, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin,
News5PH]
4.
PBBM vows to finish land reform program started by dad
[Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Philstar,
Manila Times, Abante Tonite, People’s Tonight]
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1905687/marcos-fears-ghosts-if-land-reform-idled
5.
PIRMA head faces Senate contempt raps
[Philstar, Manila Bulletin, Daily
Tribune]
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2024/02/17/2334033/pirma-head-faces-senate-contempt-raps
6.
Military personnel banned from using TikTok
[Philstar, Abante, GMA News, Manila
Times]
7.
Prosecutors push arson charge vs director Jade Castro, companions
[GMA News, Rappler, ABS-CBN News]
https://www.rappler.com/philippines/prosecutor-pushes-arson-charge-director-jade-castro-companions
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