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1. #JUSTICEFORKAE CAR FOUND IN LAS PINAS
The family of Kae Davantes has confirmed that a Toyota Altis police found in Pamplona, Las Piñas, belongs to the 25-year-old advertising executive who was discovered dead in Cavite on Sept 7. According to Las Piñas City police chief Adolfo Samala, her car was recovered a week later after residents reported a car alarm blaring continuously, and there there was an attempt to burn the vehicle with clothes. She was laid to rest yesterday, with family and friends in white shirts that said “Justice for Kae Davantes”. [GMA News Online]
2. JAILED CANADIAN STUDENT FREED
A female Canadian student detained at a police camp on Friday for joining the State of the Nation Address protest has been ordered released, and was set to take a CebuPac flight to Hong Kong last night. Information received by rights group Karapatan and National Union of People’s Lawyers said that as of 4:45pm on Sunday, personnel of the Bureau of Immigration detention center in Taguig got a release order for Kim Chatillon-Meunier. “They (BI) already received Order of Release and they will escort her to NAIA 3. [ABS-CBN News]
3. AMBASSADOR TO MALAYSIA AS TOUR GUIDE
The country’s ambassador to Malaysia is personally leading a package tour to Metro Manila from Nov 21-25. Among the locations lined up are the Rizal National Monument and Park, Fort Santiago, Manila Cathedral and Casa Manila in the historic walled city of Intramuros. The package tour is jointly organised by the embassy and the Philippine Department of Tourism, and is priced at RM2,500 per person including round-trip airfare, accommodation, meals, basic tours, travel insurance, 15kg luggage allowance, airport taxes and transfers. [The Star Online]
4. PINOYS CYCLE TO SAVE THE PLANET
Over a thousand people peddled through the streets of Manila on Sunday to help promote clean public transportation in the congested Philippine capital and to raise awareness for climate change. Cyclists rode for 14 kilometers along main thoroughfares with flags attached to their bikes that read “Ice Ride” to highlight the need to protect the Arctic region. [ABS-CBN News]
5. MERALCO SEEKS P5.4-B REFUND
MANILA ELECTRIC CO. (Meralco) wants to recover over P5 billion from six generation firms for line loss overpayments that will in turn be refunded to consumers. In a petition dated Aug 27, the utility asked the Energy Regulatory Commission to order the refund. Meralco also asked the ERC to approve its “proposal to correspondingly refund to its customers the aforementioned line loss amounts … until such time that the said over-recoveries are fully refunded, by way of automatic deduction of the amount to refund to the computed monthly generation rate.” [Business World Online]
