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Here are today's headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:
- Alice Guo's fugitive business partner had 5 passports, and COVID travel pass
- P15-million reward hangs over Quiboloy, aides’ heads
- Philippines rejects China’s accusation of environmental damage in South China Sea
- Old Davao rivalry resurfaces as Duterte, Nograles kids face off over DSWD funds
- Negros Occidental museum hires private sleuth to find stolen Amorsolo painting

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00:00Today on Rappler
00:13Authorities uncover five passports and COVID travel passes belonging to Alice Guo's fugitive
00:18business partner.
00:19The ILG announces a P15 million reward for intelligence that would lead to the arrest
00:24of Apolo Kibuloy and his associates.
00:27The Philippines rejects China's allegations that Filipinos damaged the environment in
00:31Ayungin Shoal.
00:32Davao Rep. Polong Duterte and Puersa ng Bayaning Atleta Rep. Migs Nugrales clash over DSWD
00:39funds.
00:40And, the Hofilena Museum hires a private detective to find a missing Fernando Amorsolo painting.
00:48Huang Ziyang, a fugitive running from Singapore's money laundering case and business partner
00:52of suspended Bamban Tarlac mayor Alice Guo, had five passports while he was in the Philippines.
00:58He has Taiwanese, Chinese, and Cyprus passports.
01:01Vaults opened from the June 27 raid in Clarkpampanga also show he could move around during the
01:06pandemic lockdown because of a travel pass issued by former Bamban mayor Jose Antonio
01:12Feliciano.
01:13Huang was Guo's co-incorporator for Baofu in 2019, a firm connected to Zunyuan Pogo
01:19in its alleged criminal activities like human trafficking and torture.
01:23Senator Risa Ontiveros says Huang is also wanted in China.
01:27Meantime, the Senate is ready to order the arrest of Mayor Alice Guo in case she snubs
01:32the hearing again on Wednesday, July 10.
01:34Guo and her alleged involvement in illegal pogo operations in Tarlac have been the subject
01:39of Senate hearings since May.
01:43Interior Secretary Benjuer Abalos announces a 10 million reward for anyone who can provide
01:47vital information leading to the arrest of fugitive doomsday preacher Apollo Quiboloy.
01:53Authorities also announced 5 million pesos more at 1 million pesos each for the arrest
01:57of five of Quiboloy's church associates, siblings Ingrid Crescente and Pauline Canada, Jacqueline
02:03Roy and Silvia Simanez.
02:05This as the Philippine National Police and Southern Mindanao ordered a major reshuffling
02:09at the Davao City Police Office, a police command that failed to arrest the fugitives.
02:15Quiboloy has been ordered arrested by two regional courts in connection with cases
02:19of sexual abuse of a minor and child abuse filed in Davao and human trafficking in Pasig.
02:25Quiboloy and two associates are also wanted in the United States for sexual abuse, money
02:29laundering, trafficking, fraud and other criminal cases.
02:35The Philippines rejects China's accusation that the BRP Sierra Madre has seriously damaged
02:39the diversity, stability and sustainability of the reef ecosystem in Ayung and Shoal.
02:45The National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea calls for an independent, third-party
02:49marine scientific assessment of the causes of coral reef damage in the South China Sea.
02:55Manila and Beijing have been embroiled in confrontations in Ayungin.
02:58Manila maintains rusting warship BRP Sierra Madre in the area, which it beached in 1999
03:04to reinforce maritime claims.
03:06China has in turn dredged sand and coral to build artificial islands in the South China
03:11Sea.
03:12China claims almost all of the South China Sea, including the West Philippine Sea, or
03:16areas that include the Philippines' Exclusive Economic Zone.
03:19This, despite a 2016 arbitral ruling that junks its nine-dash line as invalid.
03:26Davao's 1st District Rep. Polong Duterte and Migs Nograles of the party-list Puersa
03:31ng Bayaning Atleta clash over social welfare funds.
03:35Duterte announces his office's medical assistance program in Davao City was suspended for private
03:40hospitals allegedly due to lack of DSWD funds.
03:44Duterte alleges the DSWD favors Nograles' group.
03:49Nograles then cautions against misinformation and black propaganda.
03:52She insists if the DSWD had no funds, her party-list wouldn't be able to provide support
03:58to those in need.
03:59Duterte claps back, saying DSWD funds were being used for political purposes in favor
04:05of Nograles' party-list.
04:07The politicians' fathers, former President Rodrigo Duterte and late former Speaker Prospero
04:12Nograles, were bitter political rivals in Davao for at least 24 years, until the latter
04:17supported Duterte's successful presidential campaign in 2016.
04:23The family running the Jofileno Museum in Silay City, Negros Occidental, hires a private
04:28detective to help find a stolen painting by the late national artist Fernando Amorzolo.
04:33Rene Jofileno confirms to Rappler Tuesday, July 9, they contracted the services of a
04:38Manila-based detective to locate the 1936 Amorzolo art piece, Mango Harvesters.
04:44The painting was stolen from a private museum on 5 de Noviembre Street in Silay on July
04:493.
04:50Silay police say the suspects posed as tourists on July 3 and stole the painting while blending
04:55in with other visitors.
04:56Silay Mayor Jodith Gallego also offered a P25,000 reward for the immediate arrest of
05:02the suspects.
05:03Retired City Tourism Officer Ver Pasetes says the stolen painting is worth millions
05:08of pesos.
05:09And that's today's Wrap, I'm Cara Oliver, thank you for watching.
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