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Volume IX, No. 143
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Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Martin Andanar holds a briefing in Thailand to denounce sinister efforts of administration critics to humiliate President Rodrigo Duterte in the ongoing Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit. Malacanang photo
Demonizers to be exposed
THE stepped-up effort to humiliate President Rodrigo Duterte before the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit will be attended to and the purveyor of fake news will be exposed, Palace officials vowed yesterday. Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Martin Andanar
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Tornado destroys houses in Marawi By DIVINA M. SUSON Correspondent
By KEITH A. CALAYAG
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
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said the dissemination of the manipulated copy of the front page of Bangkok Post, which included a supposed story on Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn warning the President to behave during the regional assembly, will be the subject of investigation by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). “I will call the
See DEMONIZERS, page 19
BIMP-EAGA key to boosting Mindanao’s trade under New Globalization
THE Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA), a subregional economic cooperation in Southeast Asia, can help Mindanao reap the fruits of the so-called New Globalization. This was emphasized by Mindanao Development Authority’s (MinDA) Deputy Executive Director Romeo Montenegro at the Fifth Mindanao Policy Research Forum (MPRF) held in General Santos City recently. The BIMP-EAGA covers the entire sultanate of Brunei Darussalam; Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Maluku, and Papua in Indonesia; the federal states of Sabah and Sarawak and the federal territory of Labuan in Malaysia, See TRADE, page 19
ILIGAN City--A tornado struck Barangay Fort in Marawi City yesterday afternoon destroying houses and blown away portion of roofs of the Sangguniang Panlungsod. Jorome Maglahos, an executive assistant, said he was documenting
the meeting presided over by Marawi Mayor Majul Gandamra with the department heads of the local government when they heard a rumbling noise outside city hall building. Before they went outside to see the disturbing sound, a strong wind smashed the building and blew the roof away. “We heard a roaring sound of
strong winds but there was no rain, just drizzles but it did not last long,” Maglahos said. The meeting was interrupted but was resumed 15 minutes after. Inside the army headquarters, Col. Jose Maria Cuerpo, commander of 103rd Infantry Brigade, caught the water formation through his See TORNADO, page 19