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Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:   - DA lowers maximum SRP for imported rice to P55 - DSWD, DOLE admit AKAP has no list of beneficiaries - Pro-Duterte personalities snub House hearing on 'fake news' spread - Pepsi Paloma movie’s scheduled screening not pushing through – Darryl Yap - 'Thankful for meeting you': Jerry Yan bids farewell to 'Meteor Garden' partner Barbie Hsu  https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/february-4-2025/

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00:00Today on Rappler

00:12The Agriculture Department lowers the maximum suggested retail price for imported rice

00:17to P55 from P58

00:20The Labor and Social Welfare Departments admit there is no official list of qualified ACAP

00:25beneficiaries

00:26Pro-Duterte personalities who snubbed the House Tri-Committee's hearing are slapped

00:30with show-cause orders

00:32Filmmaker Daryl Yap announces the cancellation of The Rapist of Pepsi Paloma screening on

00:36February 5

00:38And Meteor Garden actor Jerry Yan posts a farewell message to his on-screen partner

00:42Barbie Shu

00:45The Agriculture Department lowers the maximum suggested retail price for imported rice from

00:49P58 to P55 starting Wednesday, February 5

00:54This in an attempt to curb the rise of imported rice prices, which remained high despite the

00:59tariff cut from 35 to 15 percent

01:01Starting tomorrow, the MSRP for imported rice, 5 percent, will now be sold at P55 per kilo.

01:14And then by February 15, the MSRP will now be nationwide

01:19DA spokesperson Arnel de Mesa says the agency plans to further lower the MSRP following

01:24periodic reviews

01:26This comes just two days after the DA announced a food security emergency on rice, which enabled

01:31the National Food Authority to release its rice buffer stocks

01:35As of February 1, imported rice prices ranged from P38 for regular milled rice to P61 for

01:40special rice

01:41In his 2022 campaign, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. promised to lower the price of

01:46rice to P20 per kilo

01:51The Labor and Social Welfare Departments admit in a Senate hearing on Monday, February 3,

01:55no official list exists to determine who qualifies as beneficiaries of the controversial Ayuda

02:00sa Kaposangkita program, or ACAP

02:02ACAP, a one-time cash assistance program administered by the Department of Social Welfare and Development,

02:08gives up to P5,000 to workers earning below the minimum wage

02:12In the hearing, Senator Aimee Marcos calls out DSWD and DOLE officials for lacking a

02:16clear list of beneficiaries that involves billions of pesos in public funds

02:21She also says the criteria for beneficiaries were vague, with only workers affected by

02:25inflation or earning below the minimum wage qualifying

02:29Meantime, Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong raises concerns about the ACAP's similarities

02:33to pork barrel and notes it is plagued with many irregularities

02:38President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. had placed the P26 billion ACAP budget for 2025 under

02:43conditional implementation

02:47The House of Representatives Tri-Committee Investigating Fake News and Online Disinformation

02:51issues show-cause orders to social media personalities who failed to show up in the committee's first hearing

02:57The committee invited 40 social media personalities, with some submitting excuse letters to justify

03:02their absence, including former Marcos Press Secretary Trixie Cruz Angeles

03:07To Attorney Trixie Cruz Angeles, I respectfully decline this invitation as I question the

03:11legality of the inquiry for being violative of the constitutional guarantee of his speech

03:15Aside from Angeles, the following are slapped with show-cause orders despite submitting letters

03:20This means they will be cited in contempt and ordered arrested should they fail to attend

03:24the next hearing

03:27Among those invited and had failed to appear but were not issued show-cause orders were

03:31National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict officials Lorraine Badoy and

03:36Jeffrey Celis, former broadcaster Jay Sonza, and bloggers Sassasot and Banatbay, among others

03:44Filmmaker Daryl Yap says the screening of his film The Rapist of Pepsi Paloma, originally

03:48set for February 5, will not push through

03:52In a statement on Yap's Facebook page, he says his team failed to submit the required

03:56documents to the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board, or MTRCB

04:01He also mentions the possibility of premiering the film abroad or focusing on streaming platforms

04:05instead

04:06The MTRCB said that the film was not under review due to incomplete requirements

04:11Comedian Vic Soto had filed a cyber-libel complaint against Yap for the teaser of the

04:15film, where Soto's name was mentioned in connection with an alleged crime

04:19The complaint includes 19 counts of violating the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2022 and

04:24seeking 35 million pesos in moral and exemplary damages

04:28Soto also filed a writ of habeas data petition against Yap, which was granted on January

04:3324, requiring Yap to delete the teaser from all platforms

04:39Former Meteor Garden star Jerry Yan shares an emotional farewell message for his on-screen

04:43love interest Barbie Xu on Chinese social media site Weibo

04:47This, after Xu's sudden death at 48 due to pneumonia caused by influenza

04:52Yan says in a translated message, quote

05:03Yan played the lead role of Da Ming Sa in Meteor Garden in 2001 and was the love interest

05:15of Xu's character San Chai

05:17Former Meteor Garden cast member Ken Chu also honors the late actress on Instagram

05:24And that's today's wrap. I'm Cara Oliver. Thank you for watching

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