HEADS UP: Duterte vs Pacquiao Heats Up, What You Need to Know (June 30)

Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on news that you need to know today, June 30.

DUTERTE VS. PACQUIAO

• President Rodrigo Duterte chastised Sen. Manny Pacquiao for saying corruption in government still exists. The boxer turned lawmaker must prove his claim, otherwise, the President said he’d expose him as a liar.
• What’s next for the Pacman in the 2022 elections? Should he fall completely out of the President's good graces, he would need to run a national campaign independently.
• Pacquiao took up Duterte on his dare to prove corruption in government. "I'm not a liar," he told the President.
• A PDP-Laban official who is pushing for Duterte to run for vice president likened Pacquiao’s critique to burning one’s house.

POLITICS EXPLAINED

• There’s Mayor Erap, Speaker GMA and Citizen Noynoy. As Duterte hints at a possible run for VP, we look back at life after Malacanang for its most recent former occupants.

2022 ELECTIONS

• It’s “not at all a bad idea,” President Duterte said on calls for him to run for vice president in 2022, as long as there’s “space” for him in the race.

TRENDING NEWS

• A factory worker in Valenzuela got a P1,058 payday all in centavo coins and sought help from authorities. Coins are legal tender, but the Bangko Sentral limits the use of one, five, 25 and 50-centavo coins for payments not exceeding P100.
• Model Jess Wilson recounted her near-death experience just one day after her dream wedding. She was stung by a stonefish, the world’s most venomous fish.
• Would you try this to lose weight? Scientists have developed a “lockjaw” contraption to fight obesity.

NEWS YOU CAN USE 

• Here are the guidelines for all fully vaccinated travelers upon arrival in the Philippines. Facility-based quarantine is still required.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• There’s not enough evidence to show that the haze in Metro Manila is caused by the volcanic smog event at the Taal Volcano.
• Meet Daniel Bernas, the 18-year-old Arnis master who is introducing Filipino martial arts to his fellow Gen Zs on TikTok.
• Japan is donating one million AstraZeneca COVID vaccines to the Philippines, arriving July 8.
• GCash told subscribers that their funds are safe after the app was fully restored from an unscheduled downtime.
• Billiards halls and arcades can reopen in MGCQ areas.
• The travel ban on seven countries is extended until July 7 as part of efforts against the Delta COVID variant.
• Manila paused vaccinations for the second day in a row yesterday.
• Samsung unveiled its new smartwatch interface that it co-developed with Google. Finally, an Apple Watch killer?
• A U.S. court has cleared Facebook in an antitrust case, sending its market value soaring to $1 trillion.