News: Senate panel asks SC: Junk Guo bid vs arrest

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August 19, 2024

LOCAL BREED Dog lovers wearing shirts marked "I love my aspin" bring their fur babies to Ayala Malls Vertis North Rain Garden in Quezon City, where the Philippine Animal Welfare Society organized an activity on Aug. 18, which it designated in 2021 as National Aspin Day. A total of 132 aspins were brought to the event that Sunday. —LYN RILLON

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NEWS

Senate panel asks SC: Junk Guo bid vs arrest

The Senate panel investigating the criminal activities involving Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogos) has urged the Supreme Court to deny the petition of dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo seeking to prevent the upper chamber from summoning her to appear in its hearings.

By Jane Bautista

NEWS

DFA: Most Filipinos in Lebanon don't want to leave

Despite an urgent advisory from the Philippine Embassy in Lebanon for all 11,000 Filipinos to leave immediately due to escalating tensions in the Middle Eastern country, only around 1,000 were willing to come home, a Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) official said in a radio interview on Sunday.

By Jane Bautista

REGIONS

3 'top NPA leaders' in Panay killed in clashes with Army

ILOILO CITY—Three alleged top leaders of the New People's Army (NPA) in Panay were killed in a series of military operations in the mountain village of Cabatangan in Lambunao town, Iloilo, on Aug. 15, the Philippine Army reported on Sunday.

By Ruchelle Denice Demaisip and Frances Mangosing

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OPINION

President, Congress, OMB, et al. vs Alice Guo

The President may act independently to safeguard the overarching public interest, as he had done in his recent Sona. Nonetheless, IMHO, he needs to issue an executive order detailing his ban. As chief executive, he has the power to modify or reverse the actions of his subalterns who issued the licenses of the Pogos.

By Artemio V. Panganiban

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Waste into gold: Oyster shells repurposed as magic 'Seawool'

TAINAN, TAIWAN—Growing up on Taiwan's west coast where mollusk farming is popular, Eddie Wang saw discarded oyster shells transformed from waste to function—a memory that inspired him to create a unique and environmentally friendly fabric called "Seawool."

By AFP

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