TODAY’S TOP STORIES (from online and print media monitoring)
As of 4:00 p.m., Monday, 19 August
2024
Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) ship BRP Cape Engaño sustains a hole with a diameter of 1.10 meters located on the starboard quarter after colliding with a China Coast Guard vessel in Escoda Shoal on Aug. 19, 2024. (Photo: PCG)
1. WEST PHL SEA DISPUTE:
- PH says latest WPS collisions due
to China's 'dangerous, illegal maneuvers'
- China says Philippine vessel
‘deliberately collided’ with Chinese vessel in Escoda Shoal waters
- US envoy condemns ‘dangerous’
maneuvering of China coast guard in Escoda
Shoal
[ABS-CBN News, Daily Tribune, GMA
News, Inquirer, Philstar, Rappler, Manila Bulletin, Manila Standard, Manila
Times, Reuters] https://mb.com.ph/2024/8/19/ph-china-trade-barbs-over-collision-of-coast-guard-ships-in-escoda-shoal
2. TAAL VOLCANIC SMOG:
- Over 40 LGUs suspend face-to-face
classes due to Taal smog
- Haze in Metro Manila due to local
pollutants, not Taal vog: Phivolcs
- DENR: Up to ‘very unhealthy’ air
observed in some Metro Manila areas
- OCD: Limit outdoor activities due
to Taal vog
- Planes told to avoid flying over
Taal
[ABS-CBN News, Daily Tribune, GMA
News, News5, Manila Times, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Philstar]
3. HEALTH ISSUES:
-DOH logs first mpox case in the PHL
for 2024; total caseload rises to 10
-DOH likely to declare dengue
outbreak in PH amid rising cases
[ABS-CBN News, Manila Bulletin,
Inquirer, Manila Times, Daily Tribune, Philstar, GMA News] https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1974250/mpox-case-in-the-philippines
4. Alice Guo has left the Philippines – Hontiveros
[ABS-CBN News, GMA News, Philstar,
Daily Tribune, Inquirer] https://globalnation.inquirer.net/245750/alice-guo-has-left-the-philippines-hontiveros
5. Sara Duterte on possible impeach rap: ‘That is expected’
[Inquirer, Rappler, Philstar] https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/inside-track/sara-duterte-possible-impeach-case-expected/
6. HOUSE QUAD-COMM HEARING:
-Acop lashes back at ‘Bato,’ calls
senator a ‘lapdog’
-Dela Rosa to Acop: Sorry, you’re not
the one I was hitting for opportunism
-House quad-comm leaders stand by
convictions amid implication of Duterte kin
-VP Duterte told: Nothing personal
with House probe into drug links
-Mans Carpio echoes wife VP Sara,
says drug allegations are political attacks
[Inquirer, ABS-CBN News, Manila
Standard, Daily Tribune, Manila Bulletin, GMA News] https://tribune.net.ph/2024/08/18/acop-lashes-back-at-bato-calls-senator-a-lapdog
7. DFA assures contingency plan in place if war breaks out in Lebanon;
monetary aid to returning OFWs from Lebanon increases to P150,000
[ABS-CBN News, Manila Bulletin, GMA
News, Inquirer, Philstar] https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/pinoyabroad/dispatch/917520/dfa-contingency-plan-in-place-if-war-breaks-out-in-lebanon/story/
8. 'I was never informed': Levi Ruivivar rues missing homecoming for
Olympians
[Philstar, GMA News, Rappler, ABS-CBN
News, Daily Tribune, News5] https://www.philstar.com/sports/2024/08/19/2378986/i-was-never-informed-levi-ruivivar-rues-missing-homecoming-olympians
9. Magnitude 5.7 quake hits off Northern Samar; aftershocks possible
[ABS-CBN News, GMA News, Philstar,
Manila Bulletin, News5, Daily Tribune] https://www.philstar.com/nation/2024/08/19/2378994/magnitude-6-quake-jolts-northern-samar-aftershocks-expected
10. Tropical storm Dindo exits PAR
[ABS-CBN News, News5, Inquirer, Manila
Bulletin, GMA News]
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1974230/tropical-storm-dindo-exits-par
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