Here are today's headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:
- PDEA chief: Pharmally's Lin Weixiong is in our drug intel
- More than 40,000 affected in Cagayan as Typhoon Marce destroys homes, topples trees
- 1,627 ‘spurious’ birth certificates of foreigners blocked after exposé on Alice Guo
- Hazard-prone NCR falls behind in disaster preparedness — Harvard study
- 3 charged in One Direction singer Liam Payne's death
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/november-8-2024/
- PDEA chief: Pharmally's Lin Weixiong is in our drug intel
- More than 40,000 affected in Cagayan as Typhoon Marce destroys homes, topples trees
- 1,627 ‘spurious’ birth certificates of foreigners blocked after exposé on Alice Guo
- Hazard-prone NCR falls behind in disaster preparedness — Harvard study
- 3 charged in One Direction singer Liam Payne's death
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/november-8-2024/
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00:15Intelligence gathered by the anti-drug agency links a formerly executive to the illegal
00:19drug trade.
00:20Typhoon Marse, international name Yinsheng, affects more than 40,000 people in Cagayan
00:24province.
00:25The Philippine Statistics Authority blocks the spurious birth certificates of around
00:291,600 foreigners, including Alice Guo.
00:32A survey shows the national capital ranks 11th out of 17 regions in disaster preparedness,
00:37scoring below the national average.
00:40And Argentine authorities charge three people in the death of Liam Payne, a suspected drug
00:45dealer, a hotel employee, and a person close to the singer.
00:51Intelligence gathered by the anti-drug agency links an executive of the Duterte administration's
00:55pandemic contractor Farmally to the illegal drug trade.
00:59PIDEA chief Virgilio Lazo tells the House Quad Committee Thursday, November 7, a reliable
01:03informant had tagged Lin Weishong as a drug personality.
01:06Along with other Farmally executives, Lin Weishong faces graft charges over billions
01:11worth of alleged anomalous government transactions during the pandemic.
01:14Lazo says Lin Weishong is the same person as Alan Lin or Alan Lim, whom whistleblower
01:19Eduardo Acierto tagged in an earlier report on drug personalities.
01:23Acierto also implicated Michael Yang, one-time economic advisor to then-President Rodrigo
01:28Duterte.
01:29Yang was the alleged financier of Farmally, while Lin Weishong was its financial manager.
01:34Alan Lin's wife, businesswoman Rose Nono Lin, denies her husband and Lin Weishong are
01:38the same person.
01:40But the House panel notes she may not be aware of all of her husband's activities.
01:46Typhoon Marseille, international name Yinsheng, affects more than 40,000 people in worst-hit
01:50Cagayan province as it exits the Philippines Friday, November 8.
01:54Marseille's winds reached peak gustiness at 290 kilometers per hour.
01:59It toppled trees, shattered glass windows, and damaged rows of houses.
02:03The typhoon weakened as it moved westward over the Ilocos region, then reintensified
02:07as it left Luzon toward the West Philippine Sea.
02:10More than 30,000 people have evacuated and sought temporary shelter.
02:14The province's disaster response chief says no casualties have been reported.
02:17Marseille was the Philippines' 13th tropical cyclone for 2024 and the first for November.
02:24The Philippine Statistics Authority or PSA has blocked the spurious birth certificates
02:29of 1,627 foreigners, including dismissed Bamban Tarlac mayor Alice Guo.
02:34Senate Finance Committee Chairperson Grace Poe shares this during the Senate plenary
02:38session on Thursday, November 7.
02:40Of this number, only 18 birth certificates, including that of Guo, have been endorsed
02:45to the Office of the Solicitor General for cancellation.
02:47Regarding the proliferation of spurious birth certificates, Poe says that the names of government
02:52workers allegedly involved have been submitted to the mayor of the concerned town.
02:57In July, the NBI revealed the discovery of 1,200 fake birth certificates in Santa Cruz,
03:02Davao del Sur for 2018-2019.
03:05The Ontiveros-led Senate Investigation on Illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators
03:09or POGOs exposed Guo's link to one in her hometown and led to questions about her Filipino
03:14citizenship.
03:17A survey shows the National Capital Region or NCR ranks 11th out of 17 regions in Level
03:22of Disaster Preparedness, scoring slightly below the national average.
03:26The densely populated NCR is among the most vulnerable regions.
03:30The survey conducted by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative or HHI finds that Filipino self-reported
03:35disaster preparedness level increased by 42 percent, showing an average score of 19.2
03:41out of 50.
03:42Still, the HHI notes the score remains relatively low for a disaster-prone country.
03:48The Cordillera Administrative Region reports the highest level of preparedness with an
03:52average score of 24 out of 50, followed by Central Visayas with 21.5 and Western Visayas
03:58with 21.4.
04:00Filipinos score highest in information, but only a small percentage take steps to prepare
04:04for disasters, such as assembling go-bags, 27 percent, stocking up on medications, 32
04:11percent, and having adequate insurance, 25 percent.
04:16Argentine authorities say three people have been charged over the death of One Direction
04:20singer Liam Payne.
04:22Authorities say this includes a suspected drug dealer, a hotel employee who may have
04:26provided Payne with the cocaine, and a person who was close to the singer.
04:30All are accused of playing a role in giving Payne the drugs.
04:33The hotel employee is accused of giving Payne cocaine at least twice during his stay, and
04:37the alleged drug dealer, believed to have provided it twice more two days before his
04:41death.
04:42The person who was visiting with Payne is also charged with abandonment of a person,
04:46followed by death.
04:47Payne fell from his Buenos Aires hotel balcony last month.
04:50An autopsy reveals traces of alcohol, cocaine, and a prescription antidepressant in his system
04:55when he died.
04:56Payne's body has been flown back to his native England.
05:01And that's today's wrap.
05:02I'm JC Gotinga.
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