Corrections: August 2018

This is Rappler’s corrections page for August 2018. Please read the Editor’s Note in each of these reports:

• Is Naga a shabu hotbed? PNP misreads crime data 
• VIRAL: School official burns students’ bags as punishment
• Apple inches closer to $1-T market value with earnings on the horizon

• We took down a story on a journalist who was hurt while covering a joint military-police operation in Masbate, published past 11 am on August 3. The incident happened in 2015, and was being cited as backgrounder to an August 3 encounter where two Cafgu members were killed.

• After 6 years, court lifts P3 billion tax sanction on Pacquiao 
• PNP sacking spree: 13 Ilocos police chiefs fired for underperforming
• Declare state of calmity in Basilan – local officials
• Fewer anti-flood projects under cash-based 2019 budget
• Two bodies found dumped in Baguio City 
• HOAX: Duterte is ‘first Philippine president to import galunggong’
• LOOK: Ilocos Norte placed under state of calamity due to flooding