Here’s a quick roundup of today’s top stories:
Marcos on Sara Duterte’s talk about unburying dad: No comment
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. opted not to comment on Vice President Sara Duterte’s remarks about exhuming his father’s body and then throwing it into the West Philippine Sea.
In an ambush interview after attending a Mass for his dead father on All Saints’ Day at the Libingan ng mga Bayani in Taguig City, Marcos was asked to react to Duterte’s pronouncements that drew criticisms, especially from administration allies.
Leon weakens into storm, exits PAR
Leon (international name: Kong-Rey) has weakened from a typhoon to a severe tropical storm and exited the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR) early Friday morning, according to the state weather bureau.
In its 5:00 a.m. bulletin, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said that Leon was last located some 550 kilometers (km) north-northwest of Itbayat, Batanes, with a maximum wind speed of 100 kilometers per hour (kph) near the center, gusts of up to 140 kph and moving north at 20 kph.
Undas 2024: Visitors flock to Manila North Cemetery on November 1
Over one million Filipinos are expected to arrive at the Manila North Cemetery on November 1 and 2 in observance of All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day or Undas.
Gov’t shuts down 2 more Pogos for defying ban
Law enforcement authorities shut down two suspected illegal Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogos), one in Bataan and the other in Metro Manila, this week as the year-end deadline set by President Marcos to stop this business drew near.
On Thursday, the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) and the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) raided a suspected Pogo compound for alleged human trafficking inside a freeport supposedly being run by a Malaysian in the village of Parang in Bagac, Bataan.