00:00Today on Rappler
00:13It takes around 12 hours to rescue injured soldiers in a Yungin Shoal after the China
00:17Coast Guard rams a Philippine Navy vessel.
00:20Bamban Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo and 13 others are the subjects of a criminal complaint over
00:25alleged ties to illegal Tarlac pogo.
00:29Former Vice President Leni Robredo says she is not running for senator in the 2025 elections.
00:35The widow of assassinated Negros Oriental Governor Roel Begamo is frustrated that ex-governor
00:40Pride Henry Tevez walks free after arrest.
00:44A quote, data officer from the Manila Bulletin is arrested for alleged hacking.
00:49Actress Rufa Gutierrez confirms she and actor-politician Herbert Bautista are in a relationship for
00:54four years now.
00:56And Donald Sutherland, star of Ordinary People and The Hunger Games, dies Thursday, June
01:0120.
01:03It took the Philippine Coast Guard around 12 hours to rescue a wounded soldier of the
01:08Armed Forces of the Philippines after the China Coast Guard rammed a Philippine Navy
01:12vessel on Monday, June 17.
01:14PCG spokesperson Jay Terriella says, despite coordinating efforts with the CCG, the Chinese
01:20made it difficult for the medical evacuation to be completed.
01:24The military says the injured soldier lost his thumb as a result of Monday's incident.
01:30The aggression on Monday was all about China's efforts to disrupt Manila's resupply mission
01:34to Ayunginshol.
01:36The CCG officers used tear gas, brandished bladed weapons, and punctured the Philippine
01:40Navy's rigid-hull inflatable boats.
01:43The CCG also threw rocks at soldiers moored beside the BRP Sierra Madre, the dilapidated
01:48ship that serves as the Philippines' outpost in Ayunginshol.
01:52The Philippine military described China's actions as a, quote, "'brazen act of aggression
01:57and an act of piracy.'"
02:00Bamban Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo and 13 others are the subjects of a criminal complaint over
02:05alleged ties to illegal Pogo Zunyuan Technology, Inc.
02:10Led by the Philippine Anti-Organized Crime Commission, authorities filed a Qualified
02:14Trafficking Complaint against Guo and others on Friday, June 21.
02:19The others named in the complaints are as follows.
02:25Qualified trafficking is non-bailable and usually carries the penalty of life imprisonment.
02:30The complaint stems from evidence found in the raided illegal Pogo in Bamban.
02:35Respondent Dennis Kunanan, a former government official convicted of graft in 2023, transacted
02:41for the Pogos in Bamban and Porak, Pampanga.
02:44Government officials are now filing a request for an immigration lookout bulletin for Guo
02:49and the other respondents.
02:51The Bamban mayor, meantime, denies any involvement with the raided illegal Pogo.
02:57Former Vice President Lenny Robredo shuts the door on a Senate run in the 2025 elections.
03:03Robredo says she had informed the LP about her plan to run for Naga mayor, as well as
03:08some members of the political opposition.
03:10The former vice president also said that her preference to run for Naga mayor involved
03:15a lengthy balancing act.
03:17Robredo says her discussion with Naga City Mayor Nelson Legasion in April played a big
03:21part in her decision.
03:23Legasion's career as a Naga City official started when Robredo's late husband, then
03:28Naga Mayor Jesse Robredo, appointed him as city legal officer in 2001.
03:33Jesse Robredo, who served as Naga mayor for six terms, was the first Filipino mayor to
03:38receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award for government service.
03:43The widow of assassinated Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo expresses frustration
03:48that ex-governor Pride Henry Tevez managed to post bail for his terrorism financing case.
03:54Negros Oriental police say Tevez surrendered and posted P600,000 in bail for three terrorism
04:01financing charges against him.
04:03Authorities served the arrest warrant against Pride Henry Thursday morning in Dumaguete
04:07City.
04:08He was released at around 3 p.m. the same day.
04:11Mayor Janice Degamo of Pamplona, Negros Oriental, calls on the Justice Department to build non-bailable
04:17cases against the Tevezes.
04:19Degamo says prosecutors could have at least filed a case of illegal possession of firearms
04:24and explosives based on the outcome of a series of raids in March 2023.
04:28Henry, along with his brother, former Congressman Arnie Tevez, are allegedly involved in killings
04:33and harassment in Negros Oriental.
04:36Arnie is the alleged mastermind of the Degamo assassination.
04:41The National Bureau of Investigation's Cybercrime Division arrests a, quote, data officer from
04:46the Manila Bulletin for alleged hacking of Facebook accounts, banks, and government websites.
04:52Also arrested were a cybersecurity researcher from an unnamed company in BGC and a graduating
04:58student.
04:59They are presented in a press conference Friday but wore masks, dark glasses, hoodies, and
05:03caps.
05:04The NBI recommends charges for violations of the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 and
05:10the Data Privacy Act of 2012.
05:12The data officer points to Manila Bulletin technology editor and ICT head Art Samaniego
05:17Jr. as his handler.
05:19He claims Samaniego's most recent request was for him to look for vulnerabilities in
05:24the app of opposition group One Sambayan, which was hit by a data breach in June 2021.
05:30Samaniego denies the accusations while the Manila Bulletin, in a statement, claims fidelity
05:34to the laws of the land.
05:38Actress and beauty queen Rufa Gocheres confirms she has been in a relationship with actor-politician
05:43Herbert Bautista for four years.
05:46In an interview with Carindavila, Rufa admits this with her daughters Lauren and Venice.
05:51The two say they approve of Bautista as their mother's new partner.
05:55They are also hopeful about being bridesmaids if she decides to remarry.
05:59Rufa and Herbert's relationship has been kept relatively private from the public eye.
06:04The couple met on the set of the romantic comedy series House Arrest of Us in 2020.
06:09Rufa shares on their first date, Herbert made sure to include her daughters.
06:13Rufa was married to Turkish businessman Yilmaz Bektas.
06:17After her annulment, she dated actor John Lloyd Cruz and Jordan Muyal.
06:21Herbert was Quezon City Mayor from 2010 to 2019.
06:25He had a long-term live-in partner, Tates Gana, and had also dated Chris Aquino.
06:31Donald Sutherland, star of Ordinary People and The Hunger Games, dies at 88 years old,
06:36Thursday, June 20.
06:38His son, actor Kiefer Sutherland, says on social media,
06:41His father loved what he did and did what he loved.
06:44And one can never ask for more than that.
06:46A life well-lived.
06:48Known for his deep voice and piercing blue eyes and mischievous smile, Donald Sutherland
06:52switched effortlessly from character roles to romantic leads to oddballs and villains.
06:57He was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood in the 1970s.
07:01He remained in demand for film and TV projects even into his 80s.
07:05He won a new generation of fans with his glorious portrayal of a despotic President Coriolanus
07:10Snow in The Hunger Games movies.
07:12Ron Howard, who directed Sutherland in Backdraft, calls him one of the most intelligent, interesting,
07:18and engrossing film actors of all time.
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