Hello, reader! Today, we bring you updates regarding the West Philippine Sea, Quiloboy's followers after 3 days of standoff, and Shiela Guo (the sister of dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo) being turned over to Senate. |
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 | Chinese vessels on Monday blocked and surrounded Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) ships to stop them from reaching Escoda (Sabina) Shoal in the West Philippine Sea for a supply run, the latest confrontation in an emerging flashpoint between Manila and Beijing. | | |
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| | | | Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos on Monday called on fugitive televangelist Apollo Quiboloy to surrender, as police that day dispersed hundreds of his followers in Davao City and dismantled their barricades on the highway leading to the compound of his Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KJC) sect. | | |
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| | | | Shiela Guo, the sister of dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo, was turned over to the Senate on Monday by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation, where she was held after she and Katherine Cassandra Li Ong, representative of a raided illegal Philippine offshore gaming operator (Pogo) hub in Porac, Pampanga, were arrested by Indonesian authorities and sent back to the Philippines on Aug. 22. | | |
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| | | | According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mpox is a viral illness caused by the monkeypox virus, which belongs to the Orthopoxvirus genus. The disease was first identified in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1970, but WHO noted that it was largely neglected there. While mpox is endemic in Central and West Africa, it later triggered a global outbreak in 2022. | | |
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| | | | The singular message of the recently concluded IBM Think 2024 conference in Singapore to corporate chief executives could not be any clearer: Start adopting artificial intelligence (AI) into your operations or risk the very real possibility of losing parts — perhaps even the whole — of your customer base to the more bold and agile competitors who want to thrive amid the new technological world order. | | |
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| | | | Under the new system, the hotline has been receiving 700 legitimate calls out of a total of 30,000, Delos Santos said. Presidential Decree No. 1727 punishes any person who willfully passes on false information "by word of mouth or through the use of the mail, telephone … and other instrument or means of communication" with imprisonment of not more than five years or a fine not exceeding P40,000, or both. But it's painfully obvious that enforcement has been lax or nonexistent, as pranks continue to dominate calls made to the hotline. | | |
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