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Manila: Grandmaster Julio Catalino Sadorra stunned super GM Vladimir Fedoseev as the Philippines beat Slovenia, 2.5-1.5, in the fifth round to enter the Top 10 of the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad at the BOK Sports Hall in Budapest, Hungary on Sunday. The US-based Sadorra, ranked No. 51, prevailed over the No. 26 Fedoseev after 53 moves of the Queen’s Gambit Declined defense. His victory put the Philippines in a tie with 21 countries at seventh place in the team standings with eight points each. Daniel Quizon, who will receive PHP100,000 from the National Chess Federation of the Philippines president Butch

Manila: The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) is investigating a Philippine-flagged dredging vessel with six purportedly undocumented Chinese crew members. In an incident report Monday, the PCG said MV Sangko Uno, a hopper dredger ship, was anchored at Navotas Port on Sunday when they received a report alleging that the ship’s crew were undocumented Chinese. A PCG response team confirmed that there were five Chinese nationals and one Filipino-Chinese national aboard the ship. The crew claimed their legal documents and passports were with their company office. ‘The PCG has collected relevant documents, including the crew list, ship’s logbook, and other available

Manila: The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said Monday it has processed more than half a million applications for voter reactivation. Citing its latest data, the poll body said it has received 556,231 applications for reactivation from Feb. 12 to Sept. 11. Of the number, 342,991 applicants have sought for their voter registration to be reactivated. There are 102,410 individuals applied for reactivation with correction of entries while 81,649 people applied for transfer with reactivation. A total of 29,181 applicants sought a transfer with reactivation and correction of entries. The number of reactivation applications is only 10 percent of the number

Manila: Senators unanimously approved on Monday Senate Bill No. 2568 or the Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency and Accreditation Program (ETEEAP) Act, which seeks to enable senior high school and technical vocational school graduates to obtain college degrees through relevant work experience. In his manifestation, Senator Joel Villanueva said through ETEEAP work experience — whether formal, informal, and non-formal learning — will have an equivalent credit for an individual to acquire a bachelor’s degree or higher in a shorter period of time. “Sa panukalang ito, nais nating higitan pa ang 3,000 na graduates kada taon na nakakatapos sa programa (With this

TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Tourism (DOT) is confident of attracting more tourists to Eastern Visayas through the launching of tour programs that will link islands in the Visayas. DOT-Eastern Visayas Regional Director Karina Rosa Tiopes said officials and tour operators from the three regions have been meeting to come up with a tourism program for the three regions as part of the ‘One Visayas’ initiative. ‘There have been exploratory meetings, and we have identified tour operators willing to do the costing as we come up with thematic tour programs for the three Visayas regions. This will be revealed

Manila: The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) is poised to start its own Narcotics Detection Dog Breeding Program (NDDBP) to enable the agency to breed and train its own K-9 units. During Monday’s budget deliberations at the Senate, PDEA Director General Moro Virgilio Lazo said they proposed PHP8.790 million to fund the program next year. Out of the 156 narcotic detection dogs spread nationwide, PDEA has deployed 16 within the National Capital Region, particularly at airport terminals, Port of Manila, and the Manila International Container Port. Lazo said the dogs, which were trained for six months and procured from service