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⁃ Ex-LTFRB exec recants corruption allegations, apologizes to Bautista, Guadiz, OP
⁃ Senate panel approves Office of the President budget in under 30 minutes
⁃ Meralco rates up in October 2023 due to higher generation charge
⁃ ‘Most difficult phone call’: OFWs killed in Israel died on first day of Hamas attack
⁃ Australian journalist Cheng Lei back home after China release
⁃ juan karlos makes OPM history on Spotify Global chart with ‘Ere’
⁃ 'I did confess': Alden Richards admits past romantic feelings for Maine Mendoza
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/october-11-2023/
⁃ Ex-LTFRB exec recants corruption allegations, apologizes to Bautista, Guadiz, OP
⁃ Senate panel approves Office of the President budget in under 30 minutes
⁃ Meralco rates up in October 2023 due to higher generation charge
⁃ ‘Most difficult phone call’: OFWs killed in Israel died on first day of Hamas attack
⁃ Australian journalist Cheng Lei back home after China release
⁃ juan karlos makes OPM history on Spotify Global chart with ‘Ere’
⁃ 'I did confess': Alden Richards admits past romantic feelings for Maine Mendoza
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/october-11-2023/
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00:00 A former LTFRB executive recants allegations of corruption in the agency.
00:17 A Senate panel approves the budget of the Office of the President in less than 30 minutes.
00:22 Meralco will hike prices this October, citing higher generation costs.
00:27 Authorities confirm two Filipinos were killed in the Hamas attack in Israel.
00:31 Australian journalist Cheng Lei returns home after being detained in China for three years.
00:36 Filipino singer Juan Carlos makes OPM history with "Single Ere" on the Spotify Global Chart.
00:42 And Alden Richards admits he once had romantic feelings for Aldab fame partner Mayne Mendoza.
00:50 Former Lantransportation Franchising and Regulatory Board official Jeff Tombado recants his claims
00:55 of corruption in the office.
00:57 Just days after he boldly alleged corruption all the way to the Office of the President,
01:01 Tombado says his public declarations were, quote, "unintentional and misguided."
01:06 In an October 9 press conference organized by transport group Manibela, Tombado alleged
01:11 that suspended LTFRB chairman Teofilo Guadis III regularly accepted bribes of up to P5
01:16 billion in exchange for the speedy approval of special permits, franchises, and modification
01:21 of routes.
01:22 Tombado adds the sworn affidavit is a public apology to Guadis, Transportation Secretary
01:27 Jaime Bautista, and the Office of the President.
01:30 Bautista categorically denies involvement in any form of corruption since taking the
01:34 top position in the Transportation Department.
01:39 The Office of the President breezes through committee-level budget deliberations in the
01:43 Senate, with no lawmaker asking questions from Executive Secretary Lucas Persamin and
01:48 other representatives on the office's 2024 spending plan.
01:52 Senate Finance Committee Chairperson Sonny Angara terminates the hearing after only 21
01:57 minutes.
01:58 "They're no colleagues.
01:59 That means I think they have a vote of confidence in your budget.
02:02 So we will favorably endorse your budget for plenary consideration."
02:06 The topic of confidential and intelligence funds was not raised.
02:10 In the proposed 2024 budget, the OP is seeking P10.7 billion, including automatic appropriations,
02:17 higher by P1.6 billion from the current fiscal year.
02:21 Around 42 percent of the OP's proposed budget for 2024 falls under confidential and intelligence
02:26 funds.
02:27 This amounts to P4.56 billion.
02:32 The Manila Electric Company will raise power rates in October as higher generation charges
02:37 push up costs.
02:39 Meralco will adjust rates upward by P42 per kilowatt-hour in October, bringing the overall
02:44 rate for a typical household to P11.82 per kilowatt-hour from September's P11.39.
02:51 A typical household consuming 200 kilowatt-hours a month will see an increase of around P84
02:57 in their total electricity bill.
02:59 Meralco says independent power producers and power supply agreements inched up in September
03:03 due to higher costs of fuel.
03:06 Transmission charges for residential customers also increased due to higher ancillary service
03:10 charges.
03:13 Philippine Ambassador to Israel Pedro Lailo Jr. confirms two Filipinos are among those
03:18 killed in the surprise attack by Hamas in Israel.
03:21 One was killed when Hamas militants knocked on the door where the Filipino lived and opened
03:25 fire, while the circumstances of the death of the other Filipino who was captured by
03:29 Hamas remains unclear.
03:31 Lailo says he personally spoke to the wife of one of the two dead Filipinos, saying it
03:36 was the most difficult phone call in his career.
03:39 The embassy declines to identify the two dead, citing the request of their families.
03:43 One was a 42-year-old man from Pampanga, while the other was a 33-year-old who comes from
03:48 Pangasinan who had worked for six years in Israel.
03:51 Lailo says President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is set to speak to the wife of the Filipino
03:55 man who died.
03:58 Australian journalist Cheng Lei, who had been detained in China on national security
04:03 charges for more than three years, returns home on Wednesday, October 11.
04:07 Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Cheng, who was tried in secret in March
04:12 2022, arrives in Melbourne and reunites with her two children and family.
04:16 Cheng was a business television anchor for Chinese state television when she was detained
04:20 in August 2020 for allegedly sharing state secrets with another country.
04:25 In a letter to Australia released publicly in August, Cheng writes of missing her children
04:29 aged 11 and 14 who have been living in Melbourne with their grandmother while she was detained.
04:35 Australia had repeatedly raised concerns about her detention.
04:39 OPM pride is sky high as Juan Carlos' newest single "Ere" makes history as the first Filipino
04:45 song to appear on the Spotify Global Chart.
04:48 The track enters the top 100 at 87th place with 1.45 million streams, two days after
04:54 it debuted at 177th place on Saturday, October 8.
04:58 On top of securing a spot on the Global Charts, it is also the first Filipino song to make
05:03 the one million mark in a single day of streams.
05:06 The song also surpasses a record previously held by OPM band Lola Amores' "Raining in
05:10 Manila," the OPM song with the biggest single-day streams in the Philippines.
05:14 "Ere" is also the song, regardless of genre, with the biggest single-day streams in the
05:19 country, which was achieved earlier on by Taylor Swift's "Mine, Taylor's Version."
05:23 Juan Carlos, also known as J.K.
05:25 Labajo, rose to fame after placing third in the first edition of the competition show
05:30 The Voice Kids Philippines.
05:31 Alden Richards admits he once had romantic feelings for his on-screen love team partner,
05:38 Mane Mendoza.
05:39 In his guesting on Fast Talk with Boy Abunda, host Boy asks Alden if he had ever fallen
05:44 for Mane romantically throughout their years as Aldub, their love team formed on the noontime
05:48 show Eat Bulaga.
05:50 Alden confirms he had feelings for Mane, adding he had confessed to the actress.
05:54 Boy also asks Alden if he considered Aldub his biggest romance and breakup, which Alden
05:59 both agree to.
06:00 He adds he is very grateful to Eat Bulaga and says both him and Mane needed growth.
06:04 In the same interview, Alden also admits he had feelings for Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach,
06:10 as she would regularly come on set to visit her close friend Pauline Luna Soto, one of
06:14 Eat Bulaga's past hosts.
06:18 And that's today's wrap.
06:19 I'm Nina Liu.
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