Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:
- Marcos’ trust rating in Mindanao drops by 32 points in March, says Pulse Asia
- Cyberattacks hit businesses linked to House Speaker Martin Romualdez
- Philippines transitions to online voting for most overseas Filipinos in 2025
- Israeli troops exit Gaza’s Shifa Hospital, leaving rubble and bodies
- Dogs can associate words with objects, study finds
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- Marcos’ trust rating in Mindanao drops by 32 points in March, says Pulse Asia
- Cyberattacks hit businesses linked to House Speaker Martin Romualdez
- Philippines transitions to online voting for most overseas Filipinos in 2025
- Israeli troops exit Gaza’s Shifa Hospital, leaving rubble and bodies
- Dogs can associate words with objects, study finds
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00:00 Today on Rappler
00:12 A recent survey shows President Marcos' trust rating dropped significantly in Mindanao.
00:18 Cyberattacks hit businesses linked to House Speaker Martin Numbaldes.
00:22 The Philippines transitions to online voting for most overseas Filipinos in 2025.
00:27 Military troops leave Gaza's Shifa Hospital in rubble.
00:30 And a study finds dogs can associate words with objects.
00:35 A survey by Pulse Asia shows President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. lost significant ground in Mindanao.
00:41 The pollster's March survey reports a 32-point drop in the president's trust rating in the
00:46 region.
00:47 His number suffered across all key geographic areas, losing 21 percentage points in Metro
00:52 Manila, 19 percentage points in the Visayas, and 5 points in Luzon.
00:57 Marcos' nationwide trust rating slides down to 57 percent from 73 percent in December.
01:03 The president's cousin, Speaker Martin Rumwaldez, is not spared.
01:06 His trust rating slides down to 31 percent in March from 40 percent in December.
01:12 Meantime, another Pulse Asia survey reports Sen. Rafi Tulfo and Vice President Sara Duterte
01:17 are top choices for the 2028 presidential race.
01:20 Other personalities in the list are former Vice President Lenny Robredo, Sen. Amy Marcos,
01:25 former Sen. Manny Pacquiao, Sen. Robin Padilla, Sen. Ysonte Veras, and Rumwaldez.
01:33 Cyberattacks defaced the websites for three businesses linked to House Speaker Martin
01:37 Rumwaldez, Prime Media Holdings, Mark Ventures Holdings, Inc., and Bright Kindle Resources
01:43 and Investments, Inc.
01:45 An online group, Deep Web Connect, posted about the attacks on Facebook last March 24.
01:50 The attacks were verified by a way of archived pages of the attacked sites on Wayback Machine.
01:56 The snapshots from March 24 for the three defaced sites showed a political message saying
02:01 it was seized by the Filipino people.
02:03 The defaced sites also had a message denouncing charter change and political dynasties.
02:08 The op-ed's hashtag on the defaced page linked to a longer text message against political
02:13 dynasties and oligarchy and called for political change.
02:17 As of Tuesday, April 2, the sites for the three businesses remain offline and inaccessible.
02:25 Online voting will be the primary mode of casting ballots for overseas Filipinos in
02:29 the 2025 midterm elections, except in countries with internet restrictions.
02:34 Commission on Elections spokesman Rex Laudianco says mail-in and physical voting will likely
02:38 be implemented in only around 17 countries, including China, Russia, Syria, and Israel.
02:44 Comelec is eyeing the use of a mobile application with identity authentication features, which
02:49 overseas Filipinos can download on their devices.
02:52 While the details of the exact technology are currently unclear, Laudianco assures the
02:56 app will have "authentication and enrollment features, which will confirm, audit, and record
03:01 not only one's registration and enrollment, but also the casting, counting, and canvassing
03:06 of votes."
03:07 Comelec says the move will save hundreds of millions of pesos since it would no longer
03:11 have to ship voting machines to countries.
03:13 Israeli forces leave al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza on Monday, April 1, after a two-week
03:20 operation by special forces who detained hundreds of suspected Hamas militants and left a wasteland
03:26 of destroyed buildings.
03:28 Palestinian officials call the raid on a hospital a war crime, while Israeli officials say special
03:32 forces units conducted a targeted strike against a Hamas stronghold deliberately located among
03:38 vulnerable civilians.
03:39 The Israeli military says 6,200 Palestinian civilians had been sheltering in the complex,
03:45 one of few locations in the north of Gaza with some access to electricity and water.
03:50 The Gaza Media office says Israeli forces had killed 400 Palestinians in and around
03:55 the hospital, including a woman doctor and her son, also a doctor, and put the facility
04:00 out of action.
04:01 A study finds, "Dogs are able to understand that some words refer to objects in a way
04:08 that is similar to humans."
04:09 The study, which analyzed brain activity in 18 dogs, provides evidence that dogs can activate
04:15 a memory of an object when they hear its name.
04:17 The study was carried out at the Otvos Loran University in Budapest and published in the
04:21 journal Current Biology.
04:23 During the study, dog owners said words for objects their pets knew.
04:27 In some cases, they would present the dog with an object that matched the word, while
04:31 in other cases, the object didn't match.
04:34 The results find that the patterns in the dogs' brains when the words matched the objects
04:38 were different compared to when they didn't.
04:40 The researchers plan to examine if this ability to understand referential language is present
04:45 in other mammals as well.
04:46 And that's today's Wrap.
04:49 I'm Neena Liu.
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