MB Daily News Update: Engage with PH ‘based on facts’, DFA tells China


The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) launched a broadside at China as it maintained that a Chinese Coast Guard vessel had beamed military-grade laser at a passing Philippine Coast Guard vessel that caused temporary blindness on some Filipino sailors.

President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. disclosed that the pledges from the nine trips he had taken overseas to attract investments to the country is already starting to bear fruit.

Cold weather continued to be experienced in parts of the country with Baguio and Metro Manila recording their lowest temperatures during the “amihan” or northeastern monsoon.

About 20,000 daily commuters will be affected when the Philippine National Railways (PNR) shuts down operations to make way for the construction of the South Commuter Railway Project later this year.

Important details of these major stories, as well as reports from our National, Metro, Provincial, and World coverages, are but a click away in the MB Daily News Update this Friday afternoon, Feb. 17, 2023.

LESSONS FROM THE PAST -- Young folk take photos at the shrine of Filipino priests Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora, or popularly known as Gomburza, in Intramuros, Manila, across the National Museum on Padre Burgos Stret, on Friday, Feb. 17, 2023, which was the 151st anniversary of their martyrdom. Officials from the National Museum, National Historical Commission of the Philippines, the Manila City government, and Intramuros Administration marked the event with a wreath-laying ceremony at the shrine. (Juan de Vela)
 
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