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NOVEMBER 10-16, 2023 Volume 17 - No.5 • 16 Pages

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Marcos to visit LA, Hawaii after APEC DATELINE USA FROM THE AJPRESS NEWS TEAM ACROSS AMERICA

by JEAN MANGALUZ Inquirer.net

A Filipino educator is MANILA — President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is set to travel to the command of the United States California’s Teacher of the Year Indo-Pacific in Hawaii. EXTENDING his exceptional dedication beyond the four walls of the classroom made Joseph Alvarico deserving to be chosen as one of California’s Teacher of the Year. For this Filipino educator, teaching is more than just textbooks. As he puts it, “When the student comes into my classroom, I have to know what that student is feeling.” Though he feels like a rockstar when teaching, he shines the spotlight on the real stars: his students. He believes that “In order for the kids to shine, I actually have to step back.”

Marcos leaves for the U.S. on November 14. An official from Department of Foreign

Affairs (DFA) said the president has been invited. “The president is being invited to visit the Indo-Pacific Command and he will also have a roundtable discussion with the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for security studies,” DFA Undersecretary Charles Jose said. Marcos will be joined by the Philippine delegation during his visit to the Command.

Duterte denies hand in destabilization

MANILA — Former president Rodrigo Duterte is baffled on how his name got dragged into supposed destabilization moves against the government. Armed Forces chief Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. earlier disclosed destabilization moves against the Marcos administration by some retired generals, and there were insinuations that Duterte is behind the moves. “I really do not know how I was dragged into this,” Duterte said at the Gikan sa Masa Para sa Masa program aired early Tuesday morning, November 7 over Sonshine

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SC asked: Declare Sara’s secret funds unconstitutional by DAPHNE GALVEZ Philstar.com

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Photo taken in July 2017 shows then president Rodrigo Duterte delivering his second State of the Nation Address. While Duterte admitted to talking to some retired generals, he denied plotting a coup d’etat with them. Philstar.com photo

Jose also mentioned a security briefing on West Philippine Sea is likely. The DFA official believes the trip “adds a layer to the cooperation that we are trying to establish with like-minded states, in order to promote what we have been advocating all along – a rules-based order.” U.S. Indo-Pacific Command is a unified combatant command consisting of U.S.

HANDA PILIPINAS. President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. (center) presses the buzzer during the opening ceremony of the Visayas leg of the 2023 Handa Pilipinas, an annual exposition of innovations in disaster risk reduction and management, at the Summit Hotel in Tacloban City on Wednesday, Nov. 8. With him are House of Representatives Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez (left) and Science and Technology Secretary Renato Solidum Jr. PNA photo by Alfred Frias

MANILA — Legal experts and former government officials on Tuesday, November 7 filed a petition asking the Supreme Court (SC) to declare as unconstitutional the 2022 transfer of P125 million to the Office of the Vice President (OVP), which is under Sara Duterte, as a confidential fund. Petitioners also asked the High Court to order the OVP, which spent the fund in just 11 days in December last year, to return the P125 million to the government’s treasury. In their 49-page petition, petitioners argued that the decision of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to release the P125 million to serve as a confidential fund of the

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DOT chief highlights Philippines’ National Association of Filipino Priests tourism education approach holds historic assembly in Newark Archbishop Caccia leads mass for at World Travel Market 400 Filipino priests in cultural event by ROSETTE ADEL Philstar.com

TOURISM Secretary Christina Frasco is leading the Philippine delegation at the highly regarded World Travel Market Minister’s Summit being held in London, United Kingdom. On Monday, November 6, Frasco joined global tourism

leaders and ministers and discussed the role of education in transforming the world’s tourism industry. Tourism education Frasco underscored the Philippines’ approach toward tourism education and how the department is prioritizing it in its local tourism blueprint, citing

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IN a historic event, nearly 400 Filipino Catholic priests from across the United States came together in Newark for a cultural celebration on October 26. The gathering took place at Newark’s Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart and featured a Mass presided over by Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations.

This momentous occasion was part of the National Association of Filipino Priests (NAFP-USA)’s Fourth Assembly and marked the first time such a significant number of Filipino priests congregated in the U.S. The festivities commenced with a joyful procession of Filipino Catholics carrying symbolic items representing the religious traditions

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