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Wednesday 1 May 2024

PCG: China used water cannons that could kill

May 2, 2024

Hi, reader! Today's newsletter covers China's use of deadly water cannons in its recent WPS aggression, Marcos' directive to review minimum wage rates, and a reminder to drug firms on financial ties disclosure.

PCG: China used water cannons that could kill

IT WAS THAT STRONG A railing bent out of shape on the BRP Bagacay of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) shows the force of the water cannon blast coming from the China Coast Guard vessel that harassed it on Tuesday. PHOTO COURTESY OF PCG

China Coast Guard (CCG) ships for the first time fired potentially deadly high-pressure water cannons on two government vessels which were sailing to Bajo de Masinloc (Scarborough Shoal) to deliver aid to Filipino fishermen this week, a Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) official said on Wednesday.

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China's action's amid 'Balikatan' calls for PH-US rethink – experts

The latest water cannon attacks by China Coast Guard (CCG) ships against Philippine vessels in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) while Manila and Washington carried out their large-scale military exercises called "Balikatan" were intended by Beijing to test their alliance, according to maritime security experts.

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Marcos orders wage review, cites 'impact of inflation'

As Filipino workers observed Labor Day, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday ordered a review of minimum wage rates across the country to consider the impact of inflation on goods and services.

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Drug firms reminded to disclose 'financial relationships' with doctors

While investigations are ongoing into a local drug company's alleged prescriptions for incentives marketing scheme for doctors, the Department of Health (DOH) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reminded pharmaceutical firms that they are required to regularly disclose their "financial relationships" with hospitals and physicians.

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SC: HIV-positive status not ground for firing

Even if a Filipino is working abroad, simply testing positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cannot be used as the sole basis for termination of employment, the Supreme Court said in a recent landmark decision.

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EDITORIAL: Doctors turned mercenaries

Going after doctors who have tweaked the Hippocratic Code to their advantage is not going to be easy. Unless a patient is brave enough to come out and complain that his or her medical prescription was made based on an "exchange deal" with a pharmaceutical company, that practice will continue.

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Tuesday 30 April 2024

China hits PH boats anew with water cannon blasts

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May 1, 2024

Good morning, reader! Today, we covered China's latest water cannon blasts in the West Philippine Sea, Marcos' message on Labor Day, and the Supreme Court ruling on illegally dismissed probationary employees.

China hits PH boats anew with water cannon blasts

'NOT ONLY SHOCKING BUT APPALLING' A frame grab from video footage released by the Philippine Coast Guard shows its ship, the BRP Bagacay, being hit by water cannon from Chinese coast guard vessels near the Chinese-controlled Scarborough Shoal in the West Philippine Sea. Also hit on its way to the shoal was the BRP Bankaw of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

For the seventh time since August last year, China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels used water cannons in an attempt to block two Philippine civilian vessels in the vicinity of Scarborough Shoal, or Bajo de Masinloc, in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said on Tuesday.

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Not 1 but 4 Chinese research vessels — on both sides of PH

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has spotted three more Chinese research vessels making an unauthorized entry into the West Philippine Sea (WPS), in addition to a similar craft found lingering on the eastern side of the archipelago.

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Marcos vows to continuously support working class on Labor Day

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. pledged on Labor Day that the government will continue to support the working class.

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SC tackles back pay for illegally dismissed probationary workers

The Supreme Court has ruled that illegally dismissed probationary employees are entitled to back wages from the time their compensation was withheld up to their actual reinstatement.

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Grassfire hits Chocolate Hills in Bohol

The hot weather was considered the cause of the grassfire that hit two mounds of the famous Chocolate Hills in the town of Carmen, Bohol on Tuesday night.

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EDITORIAL: Beyond 'hollow' Labor Day rituals

The government had come under fire for harshly criticizing the private sector for hiring contractual workers when it turned out to be a major user of contractual and job order employees. Indeed, up to 29.7% of government workers — or 832,812 of the total government workforce — are either contract-of-service or job-order workers.

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BELL-KENZ PHARMA CONTROVERSY: Drug firm exec says 50 shareholders are doctors, some with gov't hospital

A top official of a homegrown drug distributor on Tuesday admitted that the company has been "incentivizing" doctors for prescribing their medicines, a practice that Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa flagged as a breach of ethical standards in the medical profession.

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