INQToday: Signal No. 4 still up as Typhoon Julian keeps strength

Here’s a quick roundup of today’s top stories:

Signal no. 4 still up as Typhoon Julian keeps strength

Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal No. 4 remains hoisted over parts of extreme Northern Luzon as Typhoon Julian maintains its strength.

Diesel, gasoline prices up 90¢, 45¢ per liter in 1st week of October

Increases in petroleum products will welcome motorists in the first week of October, with oil companies hiking the per liter prices by as much as 90 centavos.

In separate advisories, Cleanfuel and Shell Pilipinas said diesel prices would climb by 90 centavos, while gasoline would increase by 45 centavos a liter.

PNP to reopen 2020 slay case of PCSO official

The Philippine National Police will reopen its investigation into the murder of retired general and Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) board secretary Wesley Barayuga in 2020 as new details came to light implicating high-ranking officials in the killing.

PNP chief Gen. Rommel Francisco Marbil issued the statement on Sunday after Lt. Col. Santie Mendoza of the PNP Drug Enforcement Group alleged last week during a House committee investigation on extrajudicial killings under the Duterte administration that National Police Commissioner Edilberto Leonardo and former PCSO General Manager Royina Garma—both retired police colonels—were the brains behind Barayuga’s murder.

AFP: No Chinese drills in WPS as Beijing claimed

The Armed Forces of the Philippines on Sunday said it had not monitored any Chinese military exercises near Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal, contrary to Beijing’s claim on Saturday, when the Philippines carried out joint drills with its allies in the West Philippine Sea (WPS).

Beijing said it had organized its air and sea forces to conduct maneuvers around the shoal after the Philippines, together with the United States, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, conducted the fourth multilateral maritime cooperative activity (MMCA).