Palace hopes more Filipinos will believe China’s good motives
Malacañang is hopeful that more Filipinos will come to believe that China has good intentions for the Philippines, after a poll found that the majority of Filipinos think otherwise.
Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the public must be informed of the country’s expanding relations with nontraditional allies such as China.
Reacting to a Social Weather Stations poll that showed 44 percent of Filipinos disagreed that China had good intentions for the country, Panelo said 29 percent were undecided about the matter.
“While we note that 27 percent of adult Filipino respondents believe that most of what the Chinese government wants to happen in the Philippines are good for the Filipinos, we also understand that there is a higher percentage, 29 percent, who remain undecided about the matter,” he said in a statement. —Julie M. Aurelio
Student council deplores presence of Irene Marcos at Ateneo
Months after the presence of Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos on the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman campus roiled the school community, Ateneo de Manila University found itself faced with the same predicament.
Sanggunian, the student council of Ateneo, released a statement on Monday condemning the presence of dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ second daughter, Irene, at the launch of an amphitheater in the school on Sunday.
Describing it as a “grave insult and vehement mockery to martial law survivors and martyrs,” the student officials called on the administrators of the Areté — Ateneo’s “creative hub” — to apologize and explain why Marcos had been invited.
In August last year, Imee enraged the UP community when she joined the reunion on the campus of the defunct Kabataang Barangay. —Matthew Reysio-Cruz
DOH: Avoid packing cream-based food that spoil easily
The Department of Health (DOH) is urging the public to avoid packing cream-based food for their trips and other activities this summer to prevent food poisoning.
According to Health Undersecretary Rolando Enrique Domingo, the bacteria that causes salmonella and staphylococcal infections often thrive in food prepared with cream, milk, eggs and mayonnaise.
Domingo said that due to the intense heat, meals that used these ingredients easily spoil especially if consumed hours after these were cooked or if these were improperly packed. Such meals include spaghetti and carbonara. —Jovic Yee