INQToday: Marcos eyes radical solution in West PH Sea row | Inquirer

INQToday: Marcos eyes radical solution in West PH Sea row

/ 06:01 PM December 19, 2023

Here’s a quick roundup of today’s top stories:

President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is calling for a paradigm shift in the West Philippine Sea dispute, said the Palace on Tuesday.

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“It’s time that the countries that feel that they have an involvement in this situation, we have to come up with a paradigm shift,” Marcos told Japanese media.

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ACT Teachers Rep. France Castro has maintained that the suspension of two Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI) programs — including Gikan Sa Masa, Para Sa Masa which features former president Rodrigo Duterte — has been long overdue.

Nevertheless, Castro said on Tuesday that this is still a welcome development, hoping that the suspension orders handed down by the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) earlier would be the start of extracting accountability from the network.

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Senator Francis Tolentino formally announced he is leaving his post as the chairperson of Senate committee on accountability of public officers and investigations.

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The panel is also known as the blue ribbon committee.

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Actor Jonathan Majors, a rising Hollywood star who had been set to play the leading role in an upcoming Marvel superhero film, was found guilty by a New York jury on Monday on charges he attacked his ex-girlfriend in the back of a car.

Shortly after the verdict, a spokesperson for Walt Disney- owned Marvel said the studio had dropped the actor from future projects. Majors portrayed a villain known as Kang the Conqueror in this year’s “Ant-Man” movie and was scheduled to play the lead role in 2026 release “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty.”

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TAGS: Bongbong Marcos, France Castro, Francis Tolentino, SMNI, West Philippine Sea

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