Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Law, rights groups see ‘cover-up’ in Du30 memo

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Law, rights groups see ‘cover-up’ in Duterte memo

A national lawyers’ organization and a human rights group on Tuesday denounced President Duterte’s order barring his Cabinet members from participating in a Senate inquiry on the government’s allegedly irregular transactions with Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp., saying it was unconstitutional and an attempt to cover up corruption.

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Farmers seek gov't shield vs smuggling

An alliance of farmers' groups in the Cordillera is demanding stronger government action against vegetable smuggling, as they blame trade liberalization policies for the unchecked entry of "cheap” and “unsafe" imports.

BREATH OF FRESH AIR The crowd of bikers and joggers on University Avenue on the University of the Philippines campus in Diliman, Quezon City, appears to be growing every weekend, thanks to eased pandemic curbs and reduced personal anxiety as the government ramps up mass vaccination. --NINO JESUS ORBETA

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Facebook outage hits 3.5B users

Facebook blamed a “faulty configuration change” for a nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company’s 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.

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Opinion: Legal maneuvering

The lawyer Rodrigo Duterte, speaking as President, has ordered his Cabinet members not to attend the Senate blue ribbon inquiry into the highly irregular use of pandemic response funds and, for good measure, ordered the police and military not to aid the Senate in seeking the arrest of officials held in contempt for not cooperating in the probe.