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ASEAN MEET Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian (Asean) Nations link arms as they pose for a group photo during the Asean Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand on Saturday. From left, Laos Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith, Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah, Myanmar’s Union Minister for International Cooperation U Kyaw Tin, Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Singapore’s Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, Thailand’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Don Pramudwinai, Vietnam’s Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh, Brunei’s Second Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Erywan Yusof, Cambodia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn, Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and Asean Secretary-General Lim Jock Hoi. AP PHOTO

Trade war, sea row in Asean spotlight BANGKOK: Southeast Asian leaders will commit to conclude a long-delayed regional trade pact this year despite lingering odds to fend off risks from a protracted US-China trade war during a summit in Thailand.

The Chinese sinking of a Philippine boat, which endangered 22 Filipino kSHERS IS ALSO EXPECTED TO PUT THE 3OUTH China (West Philippine) Sea territorial CONlICTS UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT IN THE !Ssociation of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) meetings. The two-day summit started on Saturday in the Thai capital of Bangkok, where Asean was founded in 1967 in the Cold War era.

Other key issues include the planned repatriation of more than 700,000 RoHINGYA -USLIM REFUGEES WHO HAVE lED A military crackdown in Buddhist-majority Myanmar since August 2017 to neighboring Bangladesh in a crisis that has tested the Asean.

Critics have hit the regional bloc for failing to address the abuses in Myanmar’s Rakhine state that the United Nations has called “ethnic cleansing.â€? ! CONkDENTIAL DRAFT OF A POST SUMMIT communiquĂŠ, which is expected to be issued by the host, Thailand’s junta leader and newly proclaimed Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, would commit Asean to conclude the negotiations for the massive

Duterte links Trillanes’ mom to helmet ‘scam’

BY CATHERINE S. VALENTE

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RESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has linked the mother of Sen. Antonio Trillanes 4th to the supposedly anomalous purchase of P3.8-billion Kevlar helmets for the military, a deal that reportedly involved alleged “pork barrel� scam mastermind Janet Lim Napoles.

Q President Rodrigo Duterte attends the plenary session of the 34th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit in Bangkok on June 22.

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In his speech during the oath-taking OF LOCAL OFkCIALS IN $AVAO #ITY ON &RIDAY

Duterte claimed that both parents of 4RILLANES ONE OF HIS kERCEST CRITICS WERE involved in graft and corruption at the Philippine Military Academy (PMA). “Ang No. 1 na graft and corruption diyan noon sa PMA, ‘yung tatay niya pati ‘yung nanay niya (The number one in graft and corruption in PMA was his father, even his mother),� the President said. “Remember ‘yung Kevlar?

It’s a helmet na matigas na hindi matamaan ng‌

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Laggard, laggard SUNDAY STORIES MARLEN V. RONQUILLO

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HAT the Philippines has had accomplished the rigorous work to make itself attractive to foreign investments has been a constant narrative. You hear IT FROM GOVERNMENT THE OFkCIAL VERSION You hear this from the ever-bullish pundits writing on business and economics.

You hear this from the academics with impeccable creds, lecturing from their towering ivory perches. The pitch has a common thread, PH is now an investment-grade country that is one of the best places in the world for investments.

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kung bala hindi masyado maka-penetrate (that a bullet cannot fully penetrate).

That’s Kevlar. Ang nag-deliver noon ang nanay ni Trillanes pati si Napoles. ‘Yan ang totoo diyan (The ones who delivered them were the mother of Trillanes and Napoles.

That’s the truth),� he added.

In 2001, Napoles, her husband retired Marine Maj. Jaime Napoles and 16 others were charged with graft and malversation of public funds in relation to the alleged anomalous purchase of 500 Kevlar helmets worth P3.8 million.

Trillanes, however, said if his parents were really involved in anomalous deals, they would have been charged years ago.

He said Duterte resurrected the Kevlar helmet deal because it was one of the issues raised against him in the aftermath of the Oakwood incident in 2003 “Komo tameme si Duterte sa Recto

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Water lack to hit 7M users, Angat level critically low ALL 6.8 million customers of Manila Water will be affected by a water shortage that may last for 17 hours daily, as water level at the Angat Dam had dropped below the critical level on Saturday.

Manila Water spokesman Jeric Sevilla said rotational service disruption would include “100 percent� of its customers,

regardless of their location.

Last Friday, the water concessionaire announced the implementation of the water interruption schedule for Saturday.

The water crisis will also affect customers of Maynilad, which would also impose its own service interruption schedule.

Residents of Metro Manila and the

provinces of Rizal and Cavite will have no water for 7 to 17 hours because the National Water Resources Board (NWRB) had further reduced the amount of water to be released for the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS).

From 40 cubic meters per second (cms), the MWSS is now getting 36 cms.

Sevilla said its customers would feel the reduced water allocation.

Some customers would experience longer water interruptions, from the previous 8 to 12 hours to 12 to 17 hours a day, he added.

Sevilla also said Manila Water needed

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STARS PAY TRIBUTE TO EDDIE GARCIA Duterte agrees to joint probe of ‘accident’

BY IZA IGLESIAS

IN 2012, veteran actor Eddie Garcia expressed the wish to be cremated after his death and his ashes scattered on Manila Bay. He also said he did not want a wake.

He got his wish. His remains were cremated hours after he breathed his last after succumbing to multiorgan failure.

However, given his stature in Philippine entertainment, there was no escaping a wake. His family, friends, colleagues and fans had to say goodbye. An outpouring of SYMPATHY GRATITUDE AND PRAYERS lOODED three chapels at Heritage Memorial Park in Taguig City the moment Garcia’s wake was opened to the public.

Among the celebrities who arrived early to pay their respects were Gloria Romero and Tony Mabesa, Garcia’s co-stars in his critically acclaimed Metro Manila Film

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REMEMBERING EDDIE

Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission Chairman Dante Jimenez talks with actress Dina Bonnevie during the wake of veteran actor Eduardo ‘Eddie’ Garcia at the Heritage Park in Taguig City. Jimenez and Garcia are adopted members of the Philippine Military Academy Marangal Class of 1974. PHOTO

BY ENRIQUE AGCAOILI

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte had agreed to conduct a joint and impartial investigation with China to determine the truth and accountability on the supposed ramming by a Chinese boat of a Filipino kSHING VESSEL AT 2ECTO 2EED "ANK IN THE South China (West Philippine) Sea, his spokesman said on Saturday.

In a statement, MalacaĂąang spokesman Salvador Panelo said Duterte accepted China’s proposed joint inquiry and suggested the creation of a committee to investigate the incident to reach a “satisfactory closure.â€? “The Palace wishes to inform our

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