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Veteran radio broadcaster
Percival Mabasa, more popularly known as Percy Lapid, was shot dead in his
vehicle in Las Piñas City, police reported Monday evening.
According to Las Piñas City
Police, Lapid was gunned down by two armed and unidentified suspects at
the gate of a subdivision along Aria St., Barangay Talon Dos. In relation to
this, Canada
and European Union (EU) member states France, Netherlands, and Denmark on
Tuesday expressed “grave concern” over the killing of veteran radio broadcaster
Percival Mabasa, widely known as Percy Lapid. In a joint statement, Canada and
Netherlands, co-chairs of the Media Freedom Coalition, urged the Philippine
government for an immediate investigation on the incident, a call which France,
Denmark, and the EU backed. “Journalist killings strike at the very core of
media freedom & can create a chilling effect that curtails the ability of
journalists to report news freely & safely,” it added. After a
Philippine journalist Percy Lapid was shot in his vehicle in Las Piñas City on
Monday, October 3, Senate Minority Leader Koko Pimentel III said the prevailing
culture of violence and impunity in the Philippines remains a “serious
challenge to the Marcos administration.”
Pimentel noted there are still
at least 13 unresolved killings of journalists in the past 10 years.
Lapid, who was critical of both
Duterte and Marcos administration, is the second journalist killed under the
Marcos Jr. administration where attacks on journalists and press freedom
commonly happened. President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. said his
administration will "support and protect the rights of the media" as
he acknowledged its role in people empowerment and the nation's development.
North Korea fired two
ballistic missiles Thursday, Seoul's military said, as the UN Security Council
met to discuss Pyongyang's earlier, highly provocative launch of a missile over
Japan.
The launch is Pyongyang's
sixth in less than two weeks, and comes two days after it fired an
intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan, prompting Tokyo to issue a
rare evacuation warning.
South Korea's military said it
had detected two short-range ballistic missiles launched from the Samsok area
in Pyongyang towards the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan.
"Our military has
reinforced monitoring and surveillance and is maintaining utmost readiness in
coordination with the United States," Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said
in a statement.
Japan's coastguard also
confirmed the launch of two potential ballistic missiles, with Prime Minister
Fumio Kishida telling reporters that the recent testing spate was
"unacceptable".
Yet on Saturday night, the PCSO made
history — or rather became qualified to be cited by Ripley’s, the American
franchise dealing in events so unusual that people doubt the claims — after 433
bettors beat the odds to win and share the P236-million Grand Lotto jackpot.
Each winner from that draw will get
P545,245.24, which is subject to a final tax of 20 percent. Peter Julian
Cayton, associate professor of UP’s School of Statistics, said in an interview
that “over the past 20 years, we had only two or three winners, but the general
pattern of these numbers did not have a structure as compared to the most
recent multiples of 9 in a result.”
He said that combination, like other
seemingly ridiculous combinations like 05-15-25-35-45-55, 01-02-03-04-05-06,
“rarely happens, but [it] can.”
Workers with disabilities and senior citizens in the Department
of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) held a cleanup activity at the
Manila Baywalk Dolomite Beach on September 14 in support of the local
celebration of the International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) Day 2022.
With the theme “Where Coastal Cleanup, Special Treats and
Selling of PWDs Eco-Friendly Handicrafts Jam Together,” the cleanup activity
was part of a two-day event led by the Persons with Disability (PWD) Desk of
the DENR-Strategic Communication and Initiatives Service (SCIS).
NEXT HEADLINE:
Presidential Proclamation No.
273, series of 2002, declares October of every year as a "Special Month
for the Conservation and Protection of the Tamaraw in Mindoro."
The Proclamation urges all
government offices, agencies, and instrumentalities in the whole Island of
Mindoro to implement activities geared toward the conservation of the tamaraw
and its habitats.
Witha theme “Tamaraw na
Tinatangi, Pamana ng Lipi,” the annual observance highlights the importance of
bolstering unified and concerted efforts to protect and conserve the critically
endangered tamaraw (𝘉𝘭𝘭𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘭).
The tamaraw is the world's
rarest buffalo species endemic to the island of Mindoro.
NEXT HEADLINE:
The Philippines recorded 2,117
new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, according to the Department of Health (DOH),
raising the country's total to 3,953,886. Of the newly reported infections, 908
are from Metro Manila. Thirty-two new deaths were also recorded, raising the
total number of people in the country who succumbed to the respiratory disease
to 63,013. Active cases stood at 28,872, while the number of those who
recovered from the illness climbed to 3,862,001.
The positivity rate for the
week of September 25 to October 1 is at 15.1 percent, slightly lower than the
15.3 percent recorded the previous week, ABS-CBN Data Analytics Team head Edson Guido said. From
Sept. 19 to 25, the country recorded an average of 2,556 daily infections,
which is 22 percent higher compared to the previous week, the DOH said Monday. That
week logged the highest number of cases in 4 weeks, or since the week of Aug.
22 to 28, according to the ABS-CBN Investigative and Research Group.
DOH Officer-in-Charge Maria
Rosario Vergeire said the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in the country
can be attributed to multiple factors, including a person’s activities and
lifestyle, the characteristics of circulating variants, the environment, and
the opening up of different sectors. As of Sept. 27, some 73 million people in
the country have been fully vaccinated against the respiratory disease.
NEXT HEADLINE:
WEATHER
TODAY: Easterlies affecting the eastern sections of
Luzon and Visayas. Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) affecting the southern
portion of Mindanao. Cloudy skies with
scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. Please be extra cautious of probable flash
floods. We are on transition period to amihan season so we might feel cold
breeze mean holiday season is coming nearby.
WORLD NEWS YOU ARE AT: Hong Kong has approved an increase in the minimum allowable wage
(MAW) and food allowance of foreign domestic workers, including Filipinos, for
contracts signed on Oct. 1. The special administrative region of China raised
the MAW from HK$4,630 to HK$4,730, or more than ₱35,000 per month, which was a
2.2 percent pay hike, according to a statement released on Friday.
ENTERTAINMENT: Movie stars,
directors and fans descended on South Korea's port town of Busan Wednesday as Asia's
largest film festival returned at full power post-pandemic, with an Iranian
film opening the event.
Top Korean actors and Asian stars
including Hong Kong's legendary Tony Leung are set to attend the Busan
International Film Festival, which opened with a red carpet event and will run
until October 14.
South Korea has cemented its status
as a global cultural powerhouse in recent years, thanks in part to the
explosive success of the Oscar-winning film "Parasite" and the
Netflix series "Squid Game". But due to the Covid-19 pandemic,
the Busan festival was reduced to a fraction of its usual scale in 2020, while
last year's edition took place with a number of social distancing measures.
But the festival is back with no
restrictions for 2022, with high-profile guests such as Japan's famed filmmaker
Hirokazu Kore-eda flying in to discuss their latest projects.
"We feel fortunate to be able
to play the role of Asia's best film festival again," festival director
Huh Moon-young told reporters last month.
The festival will feature 243 movies
from 71 countries, including 89 that will have their world premiere. Leung,
60, is best known for his collaborations with famed director Wong Kar-wai, and
picked the six films himself -- which include Wong's "In the Mood for
Love" (2000) and "Happy Together" (1997).
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