TODAY’S TOP STORIES (from online monitoring)
As of 05 August 2025, Tuesday, 5:00 p.m.
1. Inflation cooled to near 6-year low of 0.9% in July
[ABS-CBN News, BusinessMirror, BusinessWorld, Daily
Tribune, DZRH, GMA News, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Manila Standard, Manila
Times, News5PH, NewsWatchPlus, Philstar, Rappler]
https://business.inquirer.net/539343/inflation-cooled-to-near-6-year-low-of-0-9-in-july
2. Marcos welcomed by India’s top officials, hopes
to ‘explore opportunities’ on tech, geopolitics
[ABS-CBN News, BusinessMirror, GMA News, Inquirer,
Manila Bulletin, Manila Standard, News5PH, NewsWatchPlus, Philstar, Rappler]
3. PBBM VLOG:
-Marcos firm on reenacted budget if NEP deviations
made
-Heads will roll in faulty flood control works,
warns Marcos
[ABS-CBN News, BusinessMirror, BusinessWorld, GMA
News, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Manila Standard, Manila Times, News5PH,
NewsWatchPlus]
4. VP DUTERTE IMPEACHMENT CASE:
-House appeals SC ruling on VP Sara impeachment
-VP Duterte case up for debates on August
6—impeachment court
-PBA: SC ruling on Sara Duterte impeachment alters
constitutional norms
-Groups back House bid to reverse SC ruling on Sara
Duterte impeachment
[ABS-CBN News, Daily Tribune, GMA News, Inquirer,
Manila Bulletin, Manila Standard, News5PH, NewsWatchPlus, Philstar]
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2025/08/05/2463153/house-appeals-sc-ruling-vp-sara-impeachment
5. Marcos signs law optimizing government
operations
[ABS-CBN News, BusinessWorld, DZBB, Inquirer,
Manila Bulletin, News5PH, Philstar]
6. Hontiveros, Pangilinan want presidential power
to modify rice tariffs removed
[ABS-CBN News, Daily Tribune, GMA News, Inquirer,
Manila Bulletin, News5PH, NewsWatchPlus, Rappler]
7. House to scrap 'small committee' amid budget
transparency reforms
[ABS-CBN News, GMA News, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin,
Philstar, Rappler]
8. Medical societies question removal of Vergeire,
2 other DOH officials
[Malaya, Inquirer, News5PH, NewsWatchPlus,
Philstar, Rappler]
9. PCG: Loud explosions that rattled Palawan folk
traced to China's rocket launch
[ABS-CBN News, Daily Tribune, GMA News, Inquirer,
Manila Bulletin, Manila Standard, News5PH, NewsWatchPlus, One News]
10. NGCP raises yellow alert over Visayas grid
[ABS-CBN News, Daily Guardian, Daily Tribune, GMA
News, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Manila Times, News5PH, NewsWatchPlus,
Philstar]
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