Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:
- VP Sara Duterte resigns as DepEd secretary
- Gatchalian asks: Did Alice Guo enter the Philippines as a Chinese child?
- Chinese coast guard boarded PH ship, seized rifles, punctured boats off Ayungin Shoal, says Brawner
- Justin Timberlake arrested for drunken driving in the Hamptons
- How SB19’s Stell wowed the audience at David Foster concert
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/june-19-2024/
- VP Sara Duterte resigns as DepEd secretary
- Gatchalian asks: Did Alice Guo enter the Philippines as a Chinese child?
- Chinese coast guard boarded PH ship, seized rifles, punctured boats off Ayungin Shoal, says Brawner
- Justin Timberlake arrested for drunken driving in the Hamptons
- How SB19’s Stell wowed the audience at David Foster concert
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/june-19-2024/
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00:00Today on Rappler
00:13Vice President Sara Duterte resigns as DepEd Chief and Vice Chair of NTF-ELCAC
00:18Senator Gatchalian obtains documents fueling allegations that Bamban Mayor Alice Guo might
00:23be Chinese
00:25The Philippines demands that China return confiscated arms and pay for damages to Navy
00:29assets
00:30Pop singer Justin Timberlake gets arrested for drunk driving
00:35And SB19's Stell wows at the David Foster concert
00:40Vice President Sara Duterte resigns from President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s Cabinet as Education
00:45Secretary and Vice Chairperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict
00:51on Wednesday, June 19
00:53Malacanang says Marcos accepted the resignation
00:56The move puts the final nail in the coffin of the Uniteam political alliance that won
01:01the 2022 elections in a landslide
01:04In a press conference after her resignation, Duterte did not provide a reason for her exit
01:08from the Marcos cabinet, but says her resignation did not come from a place of weakness
01:13Senator Shirowin Gatchalian obtains documents bolstering allegations that Mayor Alice Guo
01:37of Bamban, Tarlac may be Chinese and not Filipino
01:41Gatchalian says the controversial mayor might be Guo Huaping, who entered the Philippines
01:46on January 12, 2003
01:48A document from the Board of Investments shows the Guo family applied for a Special Investor's
01:53Resident Visa, or SIRV
01:56Lin Wenyi is Guo Huaping's registered mother in the SIRV
02:01The senator reveals the birthdate listed is August 31, 1990
02:05This makes the Chinese child 12 years old at the time of her arrival
02:10From the mayor's supposed birth certificate, her birthday is listed as July 12, 1986
02:15Gatchalian and fellow Senator Risa Ontiveros suspect Lin is Guo's biological mother
02:21The mayor claims she's Filipino because her mother, Amelia Leal, is Filipino, but there
02:26are no birth, marriage, or death certificates of Leal on record
02:32Philippine Armed Forces Chief Romeo Bronner Jr. demands that China return arms taken from
02:36the Philippines on June 17, and pay for the Navy's rigid-hulled inflatable boats they
02:41damaged
02:42For me, this is piracy. Piracy. Because they boarded our boats illegally, they got our
02:52equipment. Again, it's like they're being punished for their actions
03:01This after the military confirmed the Chinese Coast Guard severely injured a Philippine
03:05Navy soldier after the CCG intentionally rammed a Philippine vessel during a resupply
03:11mission to Ayungin Shoal on June 17
03:14The AFP awards the Wounded Soldier Personnel Medal to the Navy personnel who lost a thumb
03:19during the mission
03:21The Philippine Foreign Affairs Department says peace cannot be achieved if China's words
03:25do not match its behavior in the disputed waters
03:31Pop singer Justin Timberlake is arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated after
03:35failing to obey a stop sign and twice veering from his lane in Hamptons, New York on Tuesday,
03:40June 18
03:42Police say Timberlake was spotted driving a 2025 Gray BMW shortly after midnight
03:48When stopped by police, his eyes were bloodshot and glassy, and a strong odor of an alcoholic
03:53beverage was emanating from his breath
03:56Police also say Timberlake performed poorly on all standardized field sobriety tests
04:02Representatives for Timberlake did not immediately respond to requests for comment
04:06Timberlake rose to fame as a member of 1990s boy band NSYNC before starting a solo career
04:13His hits include Can't Stop the Feeling, Suit and Tie, and Sexy Back
04:19P-pop band SB19's Stell wows the audience at the David Foster and Friends' Manila concert
04:25in Quezon City Tuesday night, June 18
04:32In an Instagram post Wednesday, Stell shares he is still in shock over the reception of
04:42his singing all by myself at the concert
04:45He reveals he was asked by Foster to sing the Celine Dion ballad during soundcheck and
04:50was surprised when a supposed audition makes it to the main show
04:54Foster plays the piano while the pop star belts out the difficult ballad
04:58After the number, Foster compliments Stell, saying,
05:01Wow, what a voice!
05:03During his performance's front act, Stell captures the audience with Adele's All I Ask,
05:08Wicked Musical's Defying Gravity, and his debut single, Room
05:12And that's today's Wrap, I'm Kara Oliver, thank you for watching.
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