TODAY’S TOP STORIES (from online monitoring)
As of 22 October 2025, Wednesday, 5:00 p.m.
1.Palace: Request for ICI probe into Liza Marcos ‘fishing expedition’
[ABS-CBN News, BusinessWorld, GMA
News, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, News5PH, NewsWatchPlus]
2. FLOOD CONTROL PROBE:
-ICI to livestream flood control
probe after transparency calls
-Ombudsman to start preliminary probe
on flood control mess Thursday
-DTI bars PCAB members from owning
construction firms; 15 contractors under probe
[ABS-CBN News, BusinessWorld, Daily
Tribune, DZRH, GMA News, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Manila Times, News5PH,
NewsWatchPlus, Philstar, Rappler]
https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/10/22/ici-to-livestream-probe-after-transparency-calls-1439
3. Fire hits DPWH office; No papers
relating to flood control mess probe burned in office fire
[ABS-CBN News, DZBB, DZRH, GMA News,
Inquirer, Malaya, Manila Bulletin, Manila Standard, News5PH, NewsWatchPlus,
Philstar, Rappler, Sunstar]
4. Marcos: Irresponsible mining has
no place in PH
[ABS-CBN News, Daily Tribune, GMA
News, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Manila Standard, Manila Times, Philstar]
https://mb.com.ph/2025/10/22/marcos-irresponsible-mining-has-no-place-in-ph
5. Maynard Ngu no longer works as
special envoy—Palace
[ABS-CBN News, GMA News, Manila
Bulletin, Manila Standard, News5PH, NewsWatchPlus]
https://manilastandard.net/news/314658410/maynard-ngu-no-longer-works-as-special-envoy-palace.html
6. Ombudsman: Government lost P600
billion in junked cases; Remulla pushes 60-day limit for graft probes
[ABS-CBN News, Daily Tribune, GMA
News, Inquirer, Malaya, Manila Bulletin, News5PH, NewsWatchPlus, Philstar]
7. ‘Nawili sa flood control’: DepEd laments only 22 classrooms built so far in 2025
[ABS-CBN News, BusinessMirror, Daily
Tribune, DZRH, GMA News, Inquirer, Malaya, Manila Bulletin, Manila Standard,
Manila Times, News5PH, NewsWatchPlus, Philstar, Sunstar]
8. Most Filipinos say Marcos should
focus on lowering food prices: SWS
[ABS-CBN News, BusinessWorld, Daily
Tribune, Inquirer, Malaya, Manila Bulletin, Sunstar]
9. Ex-Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez
now NCSC chair — Palace
[ABS-CBN News, GMA News, Inquirer,
Manila Bulletin, Manila Times, News5PH, NewsWatchPlus]
10. 3 areas under Signal No. 1 as Salome remains over Batanes
[ABS-CBN News, BusinessWorld, DZBB,
DZRH, GMA News, Inquirer, Manila Bulletin, Manila Times, News5PH,
NewsWatchPlus, Philstar, Rappler]
© Philippine Information Agency Monitoring Unit
