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North Korea fired a missile eastwards over Japan at around 6:06 am Philippine time (2206 GMT). Reports said it came down around 2,000 kilometers east of Hokkaido.
Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales denied the appeal of former president Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III and affirmed his graft indictment over the death of 44 elite cops in Mamasapano in 2015.
Commission on Human Rights (CHR) commissioner Roberto Eugenio Cadiz criticized a House of Representatives plan to use the budgets of the CHR, the Energy Regulatory Commission, and the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples to fund free college education.
Former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr, meanwhile, is no longer planning to present testimonial evidence or witnesses to support his allegations of cheating in 36,465 clustered precincts.
BTCC – one of the largest bitcoin exchanges in China and the world – said it was stopping all trading on September 30, sending the cryptocurrency tumbling down to $3,640 after peaking at around $4,359 on Tuesday.
Rappler, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is holding #HackSociety, a two-day hackathon on September 14 and 15 that aims to crowdsource “hacks” or innovative solutions. Check out our roundup of the first day’s activities.
The launch, from near Pyongyang, comes after the United Nations Security Council imposed an 8th set of sanctions on the country over its ballistic missile and atomic weapons programs
Akbayan Representative Tom Villarin hits the idea, saying, ‘You can’t cut the budget of a constitutional body then to soften criticism, bestow it [on] a supposed loftier cause like free tuition’
‘I think that kind of a statement or a narrative is meant to confuse the people,’ says Commission on Human Rights (CHR) Commissioner Roberto Eugenio Cadiz
(2ND UPDATE) Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales again junks the complaint for 44 counts of reckless imprudence resulting in homicide against former president Benigno Aquino III
(UPDATED) Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s lawyer George Garcia says this does not mean they are abandoning their accusations of electoral fraud against Vice President Leni Robredo, which he said can be proven through a ballot recount
BTCC – China’s second bitcoin platform in terms of volume and the world’s third largest – says on its Twitter account that ‘after carefully considering’ the announcement by Chinese regulators, it will ‘stop all trading’ on September 30
The two-day ideathon aims to crowdsource ‘hacks’ or innovative solutions to today’s pressing social problems
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