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February 24, 2014 Edition

Valerie Castro

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  1. Court approves Napoles medical exam

    File photo from PNP-SAF

    Janet Lim Napoles, the alleged pork barrel scam mastermind, was allowed by a Makati court to undergo medical tests on Wednesday, February 26, in Camp Crame, Quezon City. She earlier submitted an urgent motion for medical examination at St Luke’s Medical Center in Taguig following the discovery of an ovarian tumor and heightened CA-125 levels in her blood. Napoles is said to have also experienced “profuse menstrual bleeding.” The resolution approving Napoles’ medical exam in Crame was read on behalf of Judge Elmo Alameda before 5 pm Monday, February 24. Dr Elsie Badillo Pascua, an ob-gynecologist, told the court she recommended that Napoles undergo several tests, including a transvaginal ultrasound.

     
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  2. Russia celebrates as Winter Games close

    Armando Babani/EPA

    The US$50-billion Winter Olympics came to a close Sunday, February 23, with Russia topping the medals harvest. International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach declared the 22nd Winter Games closed. “In accordance with tradition, I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in PyeongChang to celebrate with us the 23rd Olympic Winter Games,” he said. Russia topped the Games with 13 golds and a total of 33 medals after 17 days of competition. Bach said what took decades in other parts of the world to mount “was achieved in just 7 years” under Russian President Vladimir Putin.

     
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    More details are on the BBC.

  3. Final decision will outlast the Aquino presidency

    The country’s biggest corruption case in recent history will likely be decided upon by the overloaded anti-graft court in 10-15 years. It will likely outlast the presidency of Benigno Aquino III and even his successor. Two lawyers who helped prosecute the country’s first plunder case that led to the conviction of former president Joseph Estrada said that all in all, the Estrada trial lasted 6 years despite continuous hearing by the Sandiganbayan. Thus far, the pork barrel scam case involves at least 30 respondents.

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  4. New PH cardinal will be Mindanao’s ‘prophet’

    Photo by Fabio Frustaci/EPA

    As someone who plays to win in basketball, the new cardinal from Mindanao faces new challenges in his own territory. Bishop Orlando Quevedo officially became cardinal on Saturday, February 22 after Pope Francis presented him and other new cardinals scarlet-red birettas and gold rings at a grand ceremony held at the Vatican. Quevedo, according to Fr Eliseo Mercado, will be like a prophet who will stand for righteousness but may end up neglected or persecuted. The new cardinal has been espousing an “unpopular” view on Mindanao that sees the conflict in the South as an “issue of justice.”


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  5. Speaker Turchynov named interim president

    Maxim Shipenkov/EPA

    Following the ouster of Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych on Saturday, February 22, newly appointed Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov took over as interim president. He told members of parliament they have until Tuesday, February 25, to form a new government. Yanukovych whereabouts are still unknown. Also on Saturday, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who had been sentenced to 7 years in jail for “abuse of power” after Yanukovynch’s election in 2010, was freed from prison. She, along with other opposition leaders, urged supporters to remain in Independence Square and continue protesting. The protests have left at least 88 people killed since February 18.

     
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    A related story is on the BBC.

  6. 2 SC justices: shift burden of proving malice to public officials

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    The legal burden of proving malice should be shifted from defendants to public officials. This is what the dissenting opinions of Senior Justices Antonio Carpio and Arturo Brion say on the controversial Cybercrime Prevention Act. The present “presumed malice rule” requires the defendant to prove that he or she had a justifiable motive in publicizing defamatory information and Carpio wanted this struck down when it comes to public officers or public figures. The Cybercrime law’s adaption of this rule is “a gross constitutional anomaly,” Carpio said, but he and Brion were outvoted. The Supreme Court ruled online libel to be constitutional where it pertains to the original author of libelous content.


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  7. Erap: Nobody above the law in Manila truck ban

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    Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada on Monday, February 24, declared that nobody is above the law and everybody is expected to comply with the city’s truck ban ordinance. The city government has put in place a modified daytime truck ban that allows trucks on Manila streets during a window period from 10 am to 3 pm. Otherwise, trucks are banned from entering the traversing the city’s streets from 5 am to 9 pm. The Integrated North Harbor Truckers Association led by president Teddy Gervacio staged a strike, saying the window period was insufficient. Estrada however remained steadfast and asked them to follow the law.


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  8. PMA cadets ordered to ostracize Cudia

    PMA Cadet Jeff Cudia

    The Honor Committee of the prestigious Philippine Military Academy has ordered the “ostracism” of cadet Aldrin Jeff Cudia. Among the reasons cited for the punishment of the cadet supposed to graduate with honors this March is breach of confidentiality by putting out documents on social media, lack of the initiative to resign, violation of the PMA honor code, and smearing the name of the Academy. Cudia was ordered dismissed by the PMA Honor Committee for being 2 minutes late for class, and his family made this known on Facebook. Ostracism means no one will talk to him and he will be made to feel he is not accepted by the cade corps.

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  9. Mobile World Congress 2014 opens in Barcelona

    PMA Cadet Jeff Cudia

    The world’s largest exhibition of mobile technology opened in Barcelona, Spain on Monday, February 24 and will run till the 27th. The Mobile World Congress is said to be the “blueprint for the next big innovation” as the largest mobile and tech companies in the world converge to pitch ideas on how technology will shape the future. Among others, Samsung is expected to unpack its waterproof Galaxy S5, while ZTE will launch its 6-inch phablet – the Grand Memo II LTE. Huawei has announced the world’s fastest mobile WiFi hotspot, the E5785 and has teased a wearable device it calls the TalkBand.


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  10. Last of ‘Sound of Music’s’ von Trapp singers dies

    Photo by Mike Vogl/European Pressphoto Agency

    The last surviving member of the Austrian musical family, the von Trapps, died on Tuesday, February 18, her half brother told American media on Saturday. Maria Franziska von Trapp was 99 when she died in her Vermont home from natural causes. The story of her family’s escape from the Nazis was immortalized in the movie, “The Sound of Music.” Starring Christopher Plummer and Julie Andrews in the lead roles, the movie won 5 Academy Awards and is one of the highest-grossing films of all time.

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    More details are on CNN.

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