Here are today's headlines – the latest in the Philippines and around the world:
- Alice Guo arrested in Indonesia
- Marcos: No politics in House scrutiny of Sara Duterte’s budget
- What is ‘shimenet’? Sara Duterte’s answers during OVP budget talks spark memes, discussions online
- Why Cardinal Tagle is part of Pope Francis’ Asia-Pacific tour
- Glimpse of potential: Angel Otom claims 6th in Paris Paralympics backstroke final
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/september-4-2024/
- Alice Guo arrested in Indonesia
- Marcos: No politics in House scrutiny of Sara Duterte’s budget
- What is ‘shimenet’? Sara Duterte’s answers during OVP budget talks spark memes, discussions online
- Why Cardinal Tagle is part of Pope Francis’ Asia-Pacific tour
- Glimpse of potential: Angel Otom claims 6th in Paris Paralympics backstroke final
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/september-4-2024/
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00:00Today on Rappler
00:13Philippine officials are working to get custody of Alice Guo, who was arrested in Indonesia.
00:18President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. denies criticism.
00:21His allies are politicizing the vice president's budget hearings.
00:25What is Shimanet and why is it all over Philippine social media?
00:29Find out why Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle is traveling with Pope Francis to Asia.
00:34And Filipino Paralympic swimmer Angel Autumn shows promise as she finishes 6th in the 50-meter
00:39women's backstroke S5 in Paris.
00:44The National Bureau of Investigation says dismissed Bamban Mayor Alice Guo has been
00:48arrested in Indonesia and is now under the custody of its authorities.
00:53Indonesian police apprehended Guo close to midnight on Tuesday, September 3, in Tanggerang
00:58City, part of the Greater Jakarta area.
01:01Philippine authorities are working with their Indonesian counterparts on Guo's transfer
01:04to the Philippines.
01:06She faces qualified human trafficking and money laundering complaints at the DOJ.
01:10Guo is wanted by the Senate, which hopes to question her when it resumes investigating
01:15illegal Pogos on Thursday, September 5.
01:18Meanwhile, President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. says government officials who helped Guo leave
01:22the Philippines will be fired and prosecuted.
01:27While Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. denies his allies at the House of Representatives are politicizing
01:31hearings on the budget of Vice President Sara Duterte's office, Marcos tells reporters
01:36Wednesday, September 4, there's no politics in it, we do it every year.
01:49The accusation came from Duterte's camp following a hearing on August 27.
01:54During the hearing, Duterte refused to answer questions on her requested budget worth over
01:57two billion pesos and her past confidential funds.
02:01The House is led by Speaker Martin Romualdez, who is Marcos' cousin.
02:07What's all the fuss about Chimenet?
02:09The word has been all over Philippine social media ever since an August 27 hearing on the
02:13budget of the office of the Vice President.
02:15VP Sara Duterte gave flippant answers on questions about her use of confidential funds and her
02:20proposed budget of over two billion pesos.
02:23According to lawmaker Arlene Brosas, Duterte said,
02:26Chimenet like my answer.
02:30Chimenet like how I answer.
02:33Chimenet like the content of my answer.
02:36But I am answering.
02:39Critics like national artist for literature Virgilio Almario used Chimenet in a satire
02:43of her intransigence.
02:45Journalist Danilo Arao and politician Erin Taniada say the focus should be on the budget,
02:49not the way Duterte pronounces words.
02:51But Carlos Conde of Human Rights Watch says poking fun at Chimenet is an expression of
02:55political dissent.
02:59Why is Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle traveling with Pope Francis as he visits Asia-Pacific
03:03countries?
03:04Many Filipino Catholics asked this when they saw Tagle photographed with the Pope aboard
03:08the Papal Plane.
03:09The answer?
03:10Tagle is part of the Vatican bureaucracy.
03:13He is, in fact, its third highest official.
03:16In December 2019, Pope Francis named Tagle one of two pro-prefects of the Dicastery for
03:20Evangelization, now the Vatican's most important department.
03:24This has many Filipinos thinking Tagle could become the next pontiff, but Tagle is known
03:28to shrug off these speculations.
03:31Pope Francis is visiting Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, and Singapore.
03:35The local bishop's council says he is skipping the Philippines because he already came in
03:392015, and the object of the trip are countries where Catholics are a minority.
03:46Filipino Paralympic swimmer Angel Autumn shows promise as she finishes sixth overall
03:50in the 50-meter women's backstroke S5 in Paris on Wednesday, September 4, Manila time.
03:55The Olongapo native was off to an exceptional start when she appeared to close in on the
03:59third place in the heat's first 25 meters.
04:02She then fell back and clocked in at 44 seconds.
04:05Athletes from China swept the podium.
04:08The seven-time ASEAN Paragames gold medalist was born with no left arm and an underdeveloped
04:12right arm.
04:14She has one last shot for a Paris medal in the women's 50-meter butterfly event on Friday,
04:18September 6, Manila time.
04:22And that's today's wrap.
04:23I'm JC Gotinga.
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