Today’s News 28 July 2021 (Wednesday) A. NAVY NEWS/COVID NEWS/PHOTOS Title Writer Newspaper Page NIL NIL NIL NIL B. NATIONAL HEADLINES Title Writer Newspaper Page 1 Hero’s welcome awaits Hidilyn J Villar P Star 1 Killing of 2 activists hour before SONA J Palero PDI A1 2 condemned C. NATIONAL SECURITY Title Writer Newspaper Page North America firm may soon take over ops S Medenilla B Mirror A3 3 of Hanjin shipyard at Subic D. INDO-PACIFIC Title Writer Newspaper Page NIL NIL NIL NIL E. AFP RELATED Title Writer Newspaper Page 4 Grenade, IEDs found in terrorist liar F Sumangil M Times A7 5 PAO ensures’ aid assured A Murcia D Tribune A7 6 Spot promotion kay Hidilyn, giit sa AFP J Cantos Ngayon 2 F. CPP-NPA-NDF-LCM Title Writer Newspaper Page NIL NIL NIL NIL G. MNLF/MILF/BIFF/ASG Title Writer Newspaper Page NIL NIL NIL NIL H. EDITORIAL-OPINION-COMMENTARY-SPECIAL Title Writer Newspaper Page 7 The Sona A Masigan P Star 13 I. ONLINE NEWS Title Link NATIONAL NEWS How Hidilyn Diaz made Olympic history https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/ 8 as the Philippines' first gold medalist how-hidilyn-diaz-made-olympic-history- philippines-gold-medal-15303856 June budget gap leads to H1 deficit of https://businessmirror.com.ph/2021/07/27/june 9 P716.1 billion -budget-gap-leads-to-h1-deficit-of-p716-1- billion/ Independent foreign policy? Recto says https://globalnation.inquirer.net/198044/indepe 10 Duterte is ‘pro-China’ ndent-foreign-policy-recto-says-duterte-is-pro- china Back-and-forth evacuations and a year https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/t 11 of gut punches over Taal volcano's aal-volcano-philippines-back-and-forth- unrest evacuations-15291516 Government should pay for lives, https://businessmirror.com.ph/2021/07/27/gov 12 property lost during 2017 Marawi siege, ernment-should-pay-for-lives-property-lost- CSOs insist during-2017-marawi-siege-csos-insist/ Gov't to decide on PH quarantine level https://mb.com.ph/2021/07/27/govt-to-decide- 13 every 15 days on-ph-quarantine-level-every-15-days/ https://mb.com.ph/2021/07/27/pagasa- 14 PAGASA: ‘Habagat’ to pour more rains across PH habagat-to-pour-more-rains-across-ph/ Habagat dumped more than a month's https://news.abs- 15 worth of rain in NCR, nearby areas, says cbn.com/news/07/28/21/habagat-months- PAGASA worth-rain-ncr-pagasa NAVY NEWS Enforcing WPS arbitral win doesn’t mean https://businessmirror.com.ph/2021/07/27/rufu 16 war vs China s-enforcing-wps-arbitral-win-doesnt-mean-war- vs-china/ Maritime law expert calls out Duterte's https://news.abs- 'contradicting' SONA remarks on arbitral cbn.com/news/07/27/21/maritime-law-expert- 17 award calls-out-dutertes-contradicting-sona-remarks- on-arbitral-award North American firm may soon take over https://businessmirror.com.ph/2021/07/27/nort 18 ops of Hanjin shipyard at Subic h-american-firm-may-soon-take-over-ops-of- hanjin-shipyard-at-subic/ Zambales fishermen: Nobody wants to https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1465477/zambale 19 go to war with China s-fishermen-nobody-wants-to-go-to-war-with- china AFP RELATED Duterte vows to end armed communist https://mb.com.ph/2021/07/27/duterte-vows-to- 20 struggle ‘once and for all’ end-armed-communist-struggle-once-and-for- all/ AFP, PNP welcome Duterte’s call for https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/natio unified pension system, legal aid for n/797003/afp-pnp-welcome-duterte-s-call-for- 21 personnel unified-pension-system-legal-aid-for- personnel/story/ Simple AFP welcome for Hidilyn, for now https://businessmirror.com.ph/2021/07/27/simp 22 le-afp-welcome-for-hidilyn-for-now/ 'Strong Pinay': DND congratulates https://mb.com.ph/2021/07/27/strong-pinay- 23 Olympic hero Hidilyn Diaz dnd-congratulates-olympic-hero-hidilyn-diaz/ Lacson: Hidilyn Diaz deserves to be https://mb.com.ph/2021/07/27/lacson-hidilyn- 24 commissioned as AFP officer diaz-deserves-to-be-commissioned-as-afp- officer/ DND, AFP push military modernization https://mb.com.ph/2021/07/27/dnd-afp-push- 25 as Duterte's term nears end military-modernization-as-dutertes-term-nears- end/ Fil-Am group slams CPP- https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1148377 26 NPA’s recruitment, fundraising in US Duterte seeks probe into AK-47 imports https://mb.com.ph/2021/07/27/duterte-seeks- 27 now used by insurgents probe-into-ak-47-imports-now-used-by- insurgents/ Provision of legal assistance to https://businessmirror.com.ph/2021/07/27/prov 28 uniformed personnel covered by PAO– ision-of-legal-assistance-to-uniformed- Guevarra personnel-covered-by-pao-guevarra/ Legal assistance to PNP, AFP members https://mb.com.ph/2021/07/27/legal- 29 ‘not the same as legal protection’ — assistance-to-pnp-afp-members-not-the-same- Guevarra as-legal-protection-guevarra/ Armored vehicle hits closed van on https://mb.com.ph/2021/07/27/armored- 30 Nagtahan Bridge vehicle-hits-closed-van-on-nagtahan-bridge/ Redemptorists deplore red tagging of https://mb.com.ph/2021/07/27/redemptorists- 31 mission community deplore-red-tagging-of-mission-community/ INDO-PACIFIC NEWS Duterte slams intl. ruling on South China https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/2021 32 Sea 0727_03/ Philippine Leader Defends China https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/speech 33 Diplomacy in Last State of Nation -07262021155327.html Speech US says China's sea claims have 'no https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/de basis' in international law fence/us-says-chinas-sea-claims-have-no- 34 basis-in-international- law/articleshow/84790663.cms China is seen as topping agenda as https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south- 35 Antony Blinken begins India visit asia/article/3142780/china-and-afghanistan- top-agenda-united-states-antony-blinken US calls India ‘leading global power’ and https://www.hindustantimes.com/world- Indo- news/us-calls-india-leading-global-power-and- 36 Pacific ‘front and centre’ indo-pacific-front-and-centre- 101627404800174.html Biden cites pride in Korea-US friendship, https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2021 37 calls it key to peace and stability /07/120_312839.html Biden Warns of Russian Efforts to https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202 38 Interfere in 2022 Election 1-07-27/biden-warns-of-russian-efforts-to- interfere-in-2022-election?srnd=premium-asia Senators, White House in talks to finish https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden- 39 infrastructure bill government-and-politics-business- f47d9ae3305a185fbe1e3dd7dd72dc36 At first Jan. 6 hearing, police to detail https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden- violence, injuries government-and-politics-race-and-ethnicity- 40 capitol-siege-racial-injustice- 96fd6e07e1d2700417575880df2fde69 US lawmakers urge IOC to postpone, https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/07/us- 41 relocate Beijing Olympics over treatment lawmakers-urge-ioc-to-postpone-relocate- of Uyghurs beijing-olympics-over-treatment-of-uyghurs/ US conveys to China concerns about https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/2021 42 Taiwan 0727_02/ US and Japan counter China with https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/U 43 powerful IBM quantum computer S-and-Japan-counter-China-with-powerful- IBM-quantum-computer US committed to ‘constructive, stable’ https://www.scmp.com/week- 44 ties with Beijing, US defence chief says asia/politics/article/3142739/us-committed- stable-constructive-ties-china-despite-asia China, Britain relations ‘sour’ due to https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/ 45 warship and possible end of energy article/3142746/china-britain-relations-sour- deals due-warship-and-possible-end China Media Says U.K. Still in 'Colonial https://www.newsweek.com/china-says-uk- 46 Days' as Navy Enters Contested Waters still-colonial-days-navy-enters-contested- waters-1613549 https://asiatimes.com/2021/07/china-gaining- 47 China gaining ‘near monopoly’ on rare earths near-monopoly-on-rare-earths-chomsky/ More intl voices opposing US politicizing https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202107/1229 48 virus origins probe 689.shtml Stay away from separatist forces, https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/artic 49 China’s ‘official’ Panchen Lama says le/3142774/chinas-official-panchen-lama-tells- tibetan-buddhists-stay-away https://asiapost.live/they-have-my-sister-as- 50 They Have My Sister’: As Uyghurs Speak Out, China Targets Their Families uyghurs-speak-out-china-targets-their-families/ First person charged under Hong Kong https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/27/asia/hong- 51 national security law found guilty on two kong-nsl-trial-tong-ying-kit-intl-hnk/index.html charges Hong Kong Has Gotten Seriously Risky https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/26/hong- 52 for International Business kong-risky-international-business-national- security-law/ Taiwan rejects China's claim over it https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4259 53 257 Japan Signals an Opening for US in https://www.hudson.org/research/17125-japan- 54 Countering China signals-an-opening-for-us-in-countering-china Japan: Panel to resume discussions on https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/2021 55 Imperial succession 0727_06/ Tropical storm nears Japan, disrupting https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/sport/ 56 Tokyo Olympics tropical-storm-nears-japan-disrupting-tokyo- olympics-15306252 Commercial quantum computer debuts https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/2021 57 in Japan 0727_24/ Japan seeks bigger Pacific bluefin tuna https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/2021 58 catch 0727_13/ Japan-Russia row over Kuril Islands in https://www.scmp.com/week- spotlight with free-trade zone plan asia/politics/article/3142705/japan-and- 59 russias-kuril-islands-dispute-spotlight-putins- special South, North Korea have restored https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/s 60 hotlines as leaders seek to rebuild ties outh-north-korea-restore-hotline- communications-15305498 Cheong Wa Dae says no plan yet to http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=202 61 send special envoy to N.