Here are today's headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:
- 2 ex-PMA cadets convicted of murder, 1 guilty of hazing in Dormitorio death
- NEDA clarifies P21 food threshold not meant as budget for decent living standard
- Meta shuts down analytics tool CrowdTangle despite pleas from researchers
- EJ Obiena drops to world No. 3 after Paris Olympics
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/august-16-2024/
- 2 ex-PMA cadets convicted of murder, 1 guilty of hazing in Dormitorio death
- NEDA clarifies P21 food threshold not meant as budget for decent living standard
- Meta shuts down analytics tool CrowdTangle despite pleas from researchers
- EJ Obiena drops to world No. 3 after Paris Olympics
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/august-16-2024/
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00:00Today on Rappler
00:13Three former cadets of the Philippine Military Academy are found guilty of hazing and killing
00:18freshman cadet Darwin Dormitorio.
00:20The country's chief economist says the government's 21 pesos per meal figure is just a metric,
00:26not a budget recommendation.
00:28The data shuts down the analytics tool CrowdTangle despite researchers' pleas to keep it.
00:34And Filipino pole vault star Eje Obiana falls to number three in the sports global ranking
00:39after placing fourth in the Paris Olympics.
00:44Three former cadets of the Philippine Military Academy are found guilty of hazing and killing
00:48freshman cadet Darwin Dormitorio.
00:51On Friday, August 16, Branch 5 of the Baguio City Regional Trial Court convicts Shalimar
00:56Imperial Jr. and Felix Lumbag Jr. of murder and Julius Carlo Tadena of violating the anti-hazing
01:03law.
01:04All three were a batch ahead of 20-year-old Dormitorio when he died in September 2019
01:09from serious injuries inflicted by his fellow cadets.
01:12The incident exposed the long-entrenched culture of hazing in the country's top military school
01:17which is run by the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
01:20The court orders Imperial and Lumbag to each pay 3 million pesos in fines and Tadena to
01:25pay 2 million pesos.
01:27They are all sentenced to reclusion perpetua.
01:32Reacting to public backlash, the National Economic and Development Authority or NEDA
01:36says the government's 21-peso food poverty threshold is not a budget recommendation.
01:41Instead, NEDA chief Arsenio Balisacan says the government only uses such figures to measure
01:46food poverty and make policies.
01:49They were, quote, never intended to be prescribed budgets for a decent standard of living.
01:54The 21-peso per meal threshold stirred controversy after senators questioned it in a budget hearing
01:59earlier this week.
02:01People on social media said it was nowhere near the price of a decent meal.
02:05The latest report from the Philippine Statistics Authority says food poverty in the country
02:09fell from 5.9% in 2021 to 4.3% in 2023.
02:16MEDA shuts down the analytics tool CrowdTangle despite researchers pleased to keep it.
02:22The social media giant pushed through with the plan on Wednesday, August 14, despite
02:26a petition from researchers, interest groups, and journalists, including Rappler.
02:31The petitioners had asked MEDA to keep CrowdTangle until the end of the year and to maintain
02:36a similar approach with future tools.
02:39MEDA instead announced a replacement called Metacontent Library and its Application Programming
02:43Interface or API.
02:46Reports say access to Metacontent Library will be limited to only several hundred researchers.
02:51Researchers are ineligible to apply unless they're part of a non-profit or partnered
02:55with a research institution.
02:57CrowdTangle had been useful in tracking and understanding how information and disinformation
03:01spread through Facebook and Instagram.
03:06Fresh from his fourth-place finish in the Paris Olympics, Filipino pole vault star EJ
03:10Obiena falls to number three in the sports global ranking.
03:14In World Athletics' latest rankings released Tuesday, August 13, Obiena lost his number
03:19two position to the USA's Sam Kendricks.
03:22Kendricks bagged silver in the Olympics.
03:24World record holder Armand Duplantis of Sweden keeps the top spot, while Olympic bronze medalist
03:29Emmanuel Karalis of Greece climbs from number eight to number four.
03:34Obiena held on to number two for nearly a year.
03:37He later revealed he was bothered by back issues that affected not just his performance
03:41but also his Olympic preparations.
03:43But he already has plans to bounce back.
03:46Obiena is set to compete in the Lausanne leg of the Diamond League in Switzerland on
03:50August 21.
03:51He's also organizing a world-class pole vault meet in Makati on September 20.
03:58And that's today's wrap.
03:59I'm Michelle Abad, thank you for watching.
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