Category: Philippines Daily Inquirer

The combined after-tax income of Vice President Sara Duterte and her husband, Atty. Manases Carpio, from 2007 to 2025 was nearly as high as Duterte’s declared net worth for 2025, the prosecution panel said on Thursday.

During Day 36 of Duterte’s impeachment trial, private prosecutor Erwin Matib asked Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) chief of staff Atty. Anne Loraine Garcia-Marquez what Duterte and Carpio’s income after taxes was from 2007 to 2025. The BIR official said it was P85,343,803.23.

Matib pointed out that the couple’s income after taxes was almost as high as the vice president’s declared net worth for 2025, which was P98,656,131.20.

‘So, Your Honors, we respectfully manifest that the total combined income after taxes of VP Sara and Atty. Carpio for the years 2007 to 2025 amounts to P85,343,803.23. However, their declared net worth in respondent’s 2025 SALN is P98,656,131.20,’ Matib said.

‘So just with this, there is a gap already; there’s a difference,’ he added.

Counsel for the respondent, Kristine Ferrer, objected, saying the SALN had not been testified to.

Senate Impeachment Court Presiding Officer Francis Escudero pointed out that Duterte’s SALN had been testified to, but by a different witness.

However, Escudero agreed that the witness was not competent to testify on Duterte’s SALN, urging Matib to avoid testifying on the witness’s behalf.

‘I think you have a witness; you will be calling a witness that will be testifying to that, if I get the definition of forensic analysis correctly,’ Escudero said.

‘But kindly avoid that insofar as this witness is concerned and similarly, a similar ruling was made by the chair in regard to the Honorable (Lordan) Suan’s direct examination referring to SALNs in relation to insurance officials,’ he added.

Ferrer also moved to strike Matib’s statements about the SALN of the vice president from the record, but Escudero allowed them to remain as long as the prosecutor would not do it again.

Garcia-Marquez was presented hours after the impeachment trial resumed at 10 a.m., as the prosecution initially asked that financial forensic analyst Atty. Alexander Cabrera be presented first rather than the BIR official.

Public prosecutor and Bicol Saro party-list Rep. Terry Ridon, co-team leader for Article II of the Articles of Impeachment, made the request as Matib, who was in charge of examining Garcia-Marquez, was sick.

Lead counsel for the respondent, Sheila Sison, questioned the prosecution panel’s apparent call for them to adjust.

Sison said it would be unfair if Escudero went ahead with his decision to allow the prosecution to present Cabrera first.

Several senator-judges urged Escudero to consider all manifestations, with Senator-judge Vicente Sotto III saying that the trial should be postponed for the meantime.

Escudero agreed, deciding that the Senate would hold its legislative session first before resuming the trial at around 2:30 p.m.

At the resumption, Escudero said the court would call on Ridon to ask whether Matib was available to present the BIR witness.

If Matib was still indisposed and the prosecution did not elect another lawyer to present the BIR representative, Escudero said they would suspend the trial early and resume on Friday with the BIR witness.

Matib showed up to conduct the direct examination of the BIR witness.

Duterte is being tried before the Senate Impeachment Court over four main allegations. The prosecution has finished discussing two of the Articles of Impeachment and is now focusing on presenting evidence for Article II, or her alleged unexplained wealth and failure to disclose these in her SALN.

Discussions have shifted to Duterte’s bank accounts after the prosecution’s witness, Anti-Money Laundering Council Executive Director Ronel Buenaventura, testified on Monday that the council had indeed flagged several transactions involving Duterte and her relatives worth P4.4 billion.

Jeus Yape expects life to return to the mundane.

‘It’s back to normal, and I have to catch up with my academic requirements,’ he said.

That means returning to University of Santo Tomas, back inside the classrooms of the Royal and Pontifical school’s Institute of Physical Education and Academics to chase grades and deadlines.

But Yape will no longer be ordinary.

As the unexpected gold medalist of Team Philippines in the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, Yape has found his name mentioned alongside Filipino Olympic heroes Carlos Yulo and EJ Obiena.

‘I’m super honored because I [just] used to watch them on TV,’ Yape, who gave the country its fourth and final gold in the Games with his victory in the virtual taekwondo event, said on Monday.

If anyone needed more proof about how his status as a college student will change, they can find it in a photo of the three Filipino gold medalists in the recent Asian Games, taken during an event that gathered some of the winners of the continental showcase.

Yape, Obiena and Yulo are the three champions who produced the four gold medals won by Team Philippines in Japan.

‘There was a time when I watched the Olympics and would say, ‘Oh, there is Philippines’,’ he said. ‘I [never expected] that I would be able to talk to them and join them as among the gold medalists in the Asian Games.’

‘I really looked up to them, especially Caloy because gymnastics has a close resemblance to freestyle taekwondo,’ added Yape.

The 22-year-old standout actually collected two medals in the Asiad; his other was a bronze in poomsae. His golden moment was in the obscure taekwondo event, which Yape won by beating Vietnam’s Chau Ngoc Tuyet Sang in the final.

His victory also raised awareness of the new taekwondo event, in which two players do not face each other physically but instead wear virtual reality headsets and motion trackers while fighting on separate mats.

‘I’m super happy that I was able to introduce [virtual taekwondo] to Filipinos who are not aware that there’s some kind of sport that can be played,’ Yape said.

So how difficult is it to play virtual taekwondo?

‘It’s tough to figure out because there are times that you have to find a way,’ he said. ‘Like in the first round of one of my matches, I had a hard time because when I always go for a head kick, I didn’t know that my opponent was protecting his head. So we had to make adjustments and go for body shots.’

‘And the other difficult thing is that you don’t hit anything and that no one is absorbing the impact,’ he added.

For now, Yape is back to juggling national team duties with academics. But as he walks within the hallowed walls of España’s most venerable institution, nothing is ever going to be normal for the country’s newest sporting hero.

Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva pushed through two tie-breaks to beat her compatriot Ekaterina Alexandrova 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (7/3) at the China Open on Thursday, powering into a semi-final clash with Nikola Bartunkova.

Andreeva, the 19-year-old fourth seed, is the favorite for the tournament in Beijing now that a series of upsets have knocked out her more esteemed rivals.

The French Open champion dropped just three points to grab a two-game lead but still needed a tie-break to edge 28th-ranked Alexandrova in the first set.

Both players struggled to extend rallies in a sparsely populated stadium as they tumbled into another tie-break.

Andreeva found the breakthrough with a masterful forehand to go 3-2 ahead, then held her nerve, dropping just one more point before crossing the finish line.

‘I am very happy that we finished this match, because I knew if it (went) to the third set it’s going to be really tough for both of us,’ Andreeva said.

‘She played unbelievable,’ the teenager said of her 31-year-old opponent. ‘What a match.’

Earlier, Bartunkova stunned her Czech compatriot Karolina Muchova 6-3, 6-0.

On Friday, China’s Zheng Qinwen plays Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina, and Poland’s Iga Swiatek faces Belgium’s Elise Mertens, each gunning for a semi-final spot.

The country’s jobless rate dropped from a four-year high in August as fresh graduates started to find jobs, bringing some relief to a labor market that had come under mounting pressure in recent months.

Unemployment in the country eased to 5.3 percent in August from the four-year high of 6 percent in July, ending three straight months of increases.

This put the number of jobless Filipinos at 2.77 million, down from 3.14 million in the previous month.

According to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), the month-on-month decline was partly due to fewer new entrants to the labor force, with August seeing 897,000 compared with July’s 1.5 million.

Of the August figure, 470,000 were absorbed into employment, while 427,000 remained unemployed.

Still, the jobless rate remained elevated and among the highest recorded this year.

It was also much higher than the 3.9 percent recorded in the same month last year.

Meanwhile, the labor force participation rate increased to 64 percent from 63.6 percent, representing 52.56 million Filipinos in the labor force, up from 52.36 million.

The employment rate also rose to 94.7 percent during the month from 94 percent, bringing the number of employed Filipinos to 49.79 million from 49.21 million.

‘The labor market improved in August from the previous month, as the entry of fresh graduates into the labor force appears to have been partly absorbed,’ economists at Chinabank Research said in a commentary.

‘However, labor market conditions remain considerably weaker than a year ago, with both unemployment and underemployment still elevated,’ they added.

Underemployment, which covers workers seeking additional jobs or longer working hours to increase their income, eased to a six-month low of 11.9 percent from 12.9 percent.

This was equivalent to 5.9 million underemployed Filipinos, down from 6.33 million in July.

Chinabank noted that underemployment could pick up again as rising commodity prices might push workers to seek additional sources of income.

State statisticians, meanwhile, also pointed to the decline in average hours worked, which fell to 39.2 hours in August.

This was the first time the average dipped below the 40-hour mark since May 2025, as back-to-back weather disruptions weighed on business operations.

The average unemployment rate since the start of the year now stands at 5.6 percent, still within the revised 5.3-percent to 5.8-percent projection of the Marcos administration.

For Chinabank, this could be an early indication that economic growth will remain subdued in the third quarter as the rate stays elevated.

For Michael Ricafort, chief economist at Rizal Commercial Banking Corp., the labor market could see some relief in the fourth quarter.

‘Going forward, catch-up spending by the national government, especially on infrastructure, could help pump-prime the economy, create more jobs and other business opportunities,’ he said.

The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Eastern Visayas has warned the public against gathering, selling, and eating shellfish from several coastal areas after seawater samples tested positive for a red tide organism.

BFAR is referring to Pyrodinium bahamense, a microorganism associated with red tide and toxins that can cause paralytic shellfish poisoning.

In an advisory issued Wednesday, BFAR said seawater samples from Irong-Irong Bay in Catbalogan City, Samar, and Carigara Bay, covering the waters of Babatngon, San Miguel, Capoocan, Barugo and Carigara in Leyte, tested positive for Pyrodinium bahamense.

BFAR also reiterated the existing shellfish ban in Matarinao Bay in Eastern Samar, covering the municipalities of General MacArthur, Quinapondan, Hernani and Salcedo, after shellfish meat samples collected from the area tested positive for red tide toxins.

The ban remains in effect under Shellfish Bulletin No. 23.

Red tide refers to the high concentration or bloom of certain microscopic algae and other microorganisms in seawater. Some species produce toxins that accumulate in shellfish such as mussels, oysters, clams, and other bivalves.

Water may sometimes appear reddish or discolored during an algal bloom, although a harmful algal bloom does not always visibly turn the water red. This is why laboratory testing is necessary to determine whether seafood harvested from affected waters is safe for consumption.

Pyrodinium bahamense is an organism known to produce paralytic shellfish toxins. Shellfish can accumulate these toxins as they filter-feed in contaminated waters without necessarily becoming visibly spoiled.

BFAR advised the public to refrain from gathering, selling, and eating all types of shellfish and Acetes species, or alamang, harvested from the affected areas.

BFAR clarified that fish, squid, shrimp, and crab from the affected waters may still be consumed, provided they are fresh and properly prepared.

The agency advised consumers to remove the internal organs, including the intestines and gills, and thoroughly wash these seafood products before cooking.

BFAR stressed that the shellfish ban should be observed while the affected waters remain positive for red tide toxins because cooking does not destroy the toxins accumulated by contaminated shellfish.

The agency continues to monitor the affected coastal areas through regular water and shellfish sampling. The public is advised to await further BFAR advisories before resuming the gathering and consumption of shellfish from areas covered by the ban.

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Balut Island in Sarangani, Davao Occidental on Thursday afternoon, with strong tremors felt in several areas, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported.

In its earthquake information no. 2, Phivolcs said that the magnitude 5.6 quake struck 42 kilometers (km) south of Balut Island around 4:07 p.m.

It warned the public to expect aftershocks.

Phivolcs initially recorded the earthquake at magnitude 6.4.

The tectonic quake has a reported depth of 26 km.

In Koronadal City, the shaking lasted several seconds, with the ground appearing to sway in a rocking motion.

Measured intensities and affected areas

Intensity V – Kiamba, Sarangani; City of General Santos

Intensity IV – Alabel, Glan, Maasim, Malapatan, and Malungon, Sarangani; Lake Sebu, Polomolok, T’Boli, and Tupi, South Cotabato

Intensity III – Antipas, City of Kidapawan, and Matalam, Cotabato; Maitum, Sarangani; Banga, City of Koronadal, and Tampakan, South Cotabato; Kalamansig, and Lebak, Sultan Kudarat

Intensity II – City of Zamboanga; City of Davao; M’lang, Cotabato; Norala, Santo Niño, Surallah, and Tantangan, South Cotabato; Bagumbayan, Columbio, Esperanza, Lambayong, President Quirino, Senator Ninoy Aquino,and City of Tacurong, Sultan Kudarat

Instrumental intensities (measured strength of the ground shaking) and affected areas

Intensity IV – Alabel and Malapatan, Sarangani; Lake Sebu and T’Boli, South Cotabato; City of General Santos; Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat

Intensity III – City of Digos and Matanao, Davao del Sur; Jose Abad Santos, Santa Maria, and Sarangani, Davao Occidental; City of Kidapawan, Cotabato; Maitum, Sarangani; Banga, South Cotabato; Lebak, Sultan Kudarat

Intensity II – Magsaysay, Davao del Sur; City of Davao; M’lang and President Roxas, Cotabato; Maasim, Sarangani; Santo Niño, and Surallah, South Cotabato; Esperanza, Isulan, Kalamansig, and President Quirino, Sultan Kudarat; Carmen, Surigao del Sur

Intensity I – City of Zamboanga; Kalilangan, Bukidnon; Nabunturan, Davao de Oro; Bansalan, Davao del Sur; Magpet, and Pikit, Cotabato; Tantangan, South Cotabato

Phivolcs said the tremor was an aftershock of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake off Sarangani and the magnitude 6.5 earthquake off Davao Occidental recorded last June.

Residents were advised to remain alert for possible aftershocks and observe earthquake safety precautions.

Veronica Burton hit a deep 3-pointer that put Golden State ahead with 41 seconds left and converted two free throws in the closing seconds, Tiffany Hayes had 21 points, and the Valkyries held off the Las Vegas Aces 83-81 on Wednesday night for a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five WNBA semifinal series.

‘I think I held my breath the whole time the ball was in the air,’ Hayes said about watching Burton’s clutch shot.

In a wild finish, Jackie Young missed the second of two free throws with six seconds left to give Las Vegas one last chance, then Chelsea Gray grabbed the rebound and drove under the basket for a layup attempt. Kiah Stokes blocked the shot and Burton corralled the ball.

Gabby Williams had 20 points and five rebounds and Kayla Thornton scored 16 points as the Valkyries moved one win away from reaching the WNBA Finals in just their second season. Golden State became the first expansion team in league history to make the playoffs in its inaugural season last year.

She gives the Valkyries the lead with 41.5 seconds left in Game 2 of the WNBA Semifinals!

Hayes missed that postseason run because of a left knee injury, and now she’s shining against her former team.

‘It felt amazing to be able to go out there and get a win with the team that I’m with now,’ she said.

A shot-clock violation gave Golden State the ball back with 1:01 to play and Burton delivered with her lone basket of the night.

‘That Burton 3 was massive,’ Aces coach Becky Hammon said. ‘We battled back and gave ourselves a shot after a really abysmal first half.’

The series now shifts to Las Vegas for Game 3 on Friday with the defending champions trying to stave off elimination. Hammon said before Wednesday’s game how important it would be to go home with a split – but the Valkyries have been too good in front of their rocking home crowd and now Hammon’s team is on the brink of the season ending without a repeat title.

ronica Burton, bottom middle, watches as she makes a 3-point basket during the second half of Game 2 of the WNBA basketball semifinals against the Las Vegas Aces, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026, in San Francisco

‘I can’t convince them that this is not a must-win, because if we lose we go home, and we stay home,’ she said. ‘The goal is to get one quarter at a time and we’ve got to string it together. We know we’re capable of stringing three in a row.’

A’ja Wilson had 24 points on 9-for-16 shooting and seven rebounds for Las Vegas, which trailed 66-55 going into the final 10 minutes and made it interesting down the stretch.

Gray’s jumper with 4:46 to go pulled the Aces to 73-68 then Dana Evans’ 3-pointer made it 74-71 before Gray hit a tying 3 with 2:10 left.

Burton, who sat down with 7:29 left in the third quarter of a 71-60 Game 1 win Sunday and didn’t return, was thrilled to have the ball in her hands this time.

‘I was just saying I had to do something out there,’ she said. ‘I appreciated Gabby trusting me in that moment, obviously a big moment. We trust her with the ball in her hands as well and so for her to pass it up to me not just once in that possession but twice … the second one I knew that had to go up.’

It is simple to assume that there must be fire where there is smoke when public figures are accused. However, the presumption of innocence, the need for proof, and the distinction between association and complicity-principles that safeguard common people-do not vanish just because the accused are public officials. This is the core of what Atty. Tony La Viña, defending Senator Loren Legarda and her son, Batangas 1st District Representative Leandro Legarda Leviste, in the controversy involving the latter’s solar energy ventures. The most crucial information that is frequently overlooked in public discourse is procedural: neither Senator Legarda nor Representative Leviste have been formally charged. The matter is still under preliminary investigation, with authorities determining whether there is sufficient basis to file a case on court. It’s not a technicality. It is a legal protection designed specifically to keep people from being tried and found guilty in public opinion before they have had an opportunity to respond to formal charges, let alone defend themselves in court. Public declarations that imply certainty of guilt prior to the completion of this process undermine a right that all citizens, regardless of political affiliation or family name, are entitled to.

Senator Legarda’s public suspicion seems to rest on no other fact but that Leviste is her son. But kinship does not mean complicity. La Viña has a point-there are no corporate papers showing the Senator as a shareholder, officer or beneficiary of Solar Para sa Bayan Corporation or any of its related entities. If they existed they would have been found by now with the level of scrutiny. Otherwise, the argument is guilt by association: a parent is considered guilty of a child’s business because they are relatives. That’s not how criminal or administrative liability works in any fair legal system. It’s personal responsibility. Just because a public official has a family member running a private business, even a controversial one, does not automatically implicate the official unless there is concrete proof of participation, control or benefit.

Several details are important when it comes to the case’s actual content. Since the Solar Para sa Bayan franchise was non-exclusive, rivals were not barred. It didn’t have any government subsidies, so no public money was used for it. The Department of Energy had to designate operational areas and issue implementing rules in order for it to be fully implemented, but these actions are said to have never taken place. It becomes challenging to accuse a businessman who owns a franchise of defrauding anyone if the franchise could not be operationalized due to a regulatory agency failing to fulfill its own obligations. A scheme to deceive is not a scheme that cannot be executed because there are problems in regulation.

The difference between the various corporate entities and government instruments being discussed is also worth mentioning. The allegations, which tag Solar Para sa Bayan Corporation, other Solar Philippines-branded companies, congressional franchises, and renewable energy service contracts as if they are one interchangeable mass, sound broader and more damning than the facts indicate. Accuracy matters in judging allegations of misconduct. Sometimes entrepreneurs who try bold and unconventional approaches – especially in a complex and heavily regulated industry like renewable energy – won’t see their vision all the way through. That’s business risk’. The question is not whether every idea was a winner, but whether the public or the government was damaged. Most accounts agree that Leviste’s solar projects contributed power to the grid instead of subtracting from it, and that no public funds were lost in the process. There is nothing inherently criminal about making money from a legitimate business that helped increase the nation’s renewable energy supply.

The timing of the scrutiny, coming hard on the heels of Leviste’s public concerns over corruption, is a fair point for the public to consider, not as a charge against any institution, but as context. When criticism is outspoken and investigations are close on its heels, fairness demands that the process be more transparent and evidence-based, not less.

But this is not to say that legitimate scrutiny should be spared Senator Legarda or Representative Leviste. It is worth looking at the business dealings of all public officials and their family members, especially in industries that intersect with public infrastructure like energy. However, scrutiny must be based on proof of actual misconduct, such as falsified documents, misappropriated public funds, or abuse of office, rather than on familial ties or the failure of a business endeavor. And until such evidence is forthcoming, the presumption of innocence should apply to them as it would to anyone else.

The House of Representatives shuffled roughly P200 billion within the proposed P7.2-trillion 2027 national budget.

This is equivalent to about P80 billion more than what was publicly disclosed by a select committee of ranking lawmakers, a watchdog assessment showed on Thursday.

The House hiked 123 budget bill line items by P198.9 billion, with more than half of the additions streamed toward infrastructure, health and healthcare aid programs.

The information comes from People’s Budget Coalition Co-convener Adolfo Jose ‘AJ’ Montesa’s technical assessment.

The funding for those increases were likely carved out from 87 line items, whose combined reductions matched the total amount of realigned spending added across other agencies, Montesa added.

Bulk of the reductions were drawn from foreign-assisted projects, flagship railway developments, pension and gratuity funds and calamity response funding.

House Committee Report against the National Expenditure Program

A bar chart from People’s Budget Coalition Co-convener AJ Montesa’s technical analysis detailing the top 20 gainers from the budget tweaks made by the House to the P7.2-trillion spending plan for 2027.

Montesa’s review of the reallocations attempts to shed light on how the Budget Amendments Review Sub-committee (BARSc) altered the spending bill.

This evaluation is contained in the report sent to the plenary, and subsequently approved by the House floor on Wednesday,

The BARSc convened last week to finalize tweaks to the spending plan.

The sub-committee did not issue a formal report showing how it made the amendments that totaled to about P116 billion, based on a projected spreadsheet during a public livestream of its meeting.

‘The BARSc tables read into the livestream on 1 October summed to P116.3 billion of additions. The committee report shows P199 billion,’ Montesa’s report read.

‘Of the 8,835 lines in the workbook, 210 changed,’ it said.

The report said about P98 billion in extra funding was lodged under the budget line items of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), far from the P11.49 billion the BARSc showed last week.

‘The difference is almost entirely DPWH, where the subcommittee announced an P11.5 billion net increase. But the bill shows P98 billion added to some lines and P86 billion taken from others,’ it said.

Montesa’s report showed that 61 percent of the P198.9 billion were directed mainly to DPWH’s multi-purpose buildings (+P42.7 billion) and access roads (+P29.2 billion), the social welfare department’s cash aid scheme (+P24.8 billion), and the health department’s financial aid for indigent patients (+P24 billion).

On the other hand, most of the line items that took a cut to fund the line item increases were sourced from foreign-assisted bypass roads (-P53.5 billion), the Metro Manila Subway project and the North-South Commuter Railway (-P34.7 billion), pension and gratuity fund (-P10 billion), calamity fund (-P9.5 billion), and the health department’s immunization and family-health commodities (-P4.9 billion).

The DPWH’s budget seemed to have undergone a funding decentralization for some of its projects too, after its central office lost P42 billion, as 158 district engineering offices nationwide gained a combined P54 billion.

The top local engineering offices took roughly P24.9 billion, while middle pack offices gained P151 million on average.

Though the DPWH’s total budget ‘barely’ moved, the report said, the agency’s total funding rose by 1.7 percent to P654.1 billion.

Most of the reshuffled funding includes P54.6 billion slashed from the network development program and P7.4 billion from flood infrastructure works to direct P74.1 billion into the agency’s convergence program.

‘This is the pattern of every recent year: The executive proposes a national network. Congress rebuilds the department around locally identified projects,’ the report analyzed.

Sen. Joel Villanueva on Thursday filed several resolutions commending and honoring Filipino athletes who participated in the 2026 Asian Games.

In Senate Resolution No. 704, Villanueva noted the Philippine delegation’s historic achievement at the 20th Asian Games in Japan, where they earned 29 total medals – four gold, nine silver and 16 bronze – marking the country’s largest Asian Games medal haul since 1966.

‘These achievements reflect the dedication of the medalists and the entire Philippine delegation, as well as the contributions of their coaches, trainers, medical and support personnel, families, the Philippine Olympic Committee, the Philippine Sports Commission, and the national sports associations,’ the proposed resolution read.

‘The Philippine team’s performance inspires young Filipinos to pursue excellence in sports and underscores the value of sustained athlete development, quality training, accessible facilities, and support for athletes’ health, welfare, and competitive opportunities,’ it further stated.

Among the athletes specifically mentioned in the resolution were:

Carlos Yulo, who won two gold medals in men’s artistic gymnastics floor exercise and vault

Karl Eldrew Yulo, who won a bronze medal in men’s horizontal bar

EJ Obiena, who won his second consecutive gold medal in pole vaulting

John Cabang Tolentino and Victoria Bossong, who won bronze medals in the men’s 110-meter hurdles and women’s 800 meters, respectively

Jeus Gabriel Derick Yape, who won gold in taekwondo and bronze in men’s individual poomsae

Juliana Mykhail Candelaria, Tachiana Keizha Mangin and Kurt Bryan Barbosa, who earned silver medals in women’s individual poomsae, the women’s 49-kilogram division and the men’s 58-kilogram division, respectively

Gilas Pilipinas Women, composed of Kacey dela Rosa, Amyah Espanol, Kennan Ka and Maria Victoria Pasilang, who won silver in women’s 3×3 basketball

Jean Marie Sucalit, Abegail Sinogbuhan and Nelly Jay Salon, who earned the silver medal in sepak takraw

Jason Huerte, Jom Lerry Rafael, Reynaldo Asilum Jr., Glindel Phori and Ronsited Gabayeron, who secured a bronze medal in regu

Jean Claude Saclag, who won the silver medal in the men’s traditional 65-kilogram division, and Carlos Alvarez, who earned a bronze medal in the men’s traditional 77-kilogram division, both in mixed martial arts

Amaya Amparo Cojuangco, who secured the silver medal in the women’s individual compound event in archery

Carlo Paalam, who won the silver medal in the men’s 55-kilogram division in boxing

Alexandria Luz Enriquez, who claimed the silver medal in the women’s 63-kilogram division in jiu jitsu, and Jenna Kaila Napolis, who clinched a bronze medal in the women’s 52-kilogram division

The Philippine women’s soft tennis team, composed of Bien Zoleta, Princess Catindig, Christy Sañosa, Shyryn Salazar and Hilary Paas, who won bronze in the women’s team event

Samantha Emmanuelle Veguillas, Ysabielle Arrogante and Rebecca Cyril Torres, who won a bronze medal in women’s team kata in karate, as well as Marie June Adriano, who earned a bronze medal in the women’s individual kumite 50-kilogram division

Albert Ian Delos Santos, who captured a bronze medal in the men’s 70-kilogram division in weightlifting

SIBOL, which earned two bronze medals in esports: one in Pokémon UNITE, with a team composed of Kim Rey Salazar, Michael Vaughn Ocio, Ducke Harnold Leoncio, Lawrence Anthony Gatmaitan, Robert Jon Mempin and Lance David; as well as another in Honor of Kings, with a team composed of Chammy Paul Nazarrea, Justine Ritchie Tan, Dragon Hart Dajao, Golden Hart Dajao, Charles Roman Esguerra and Jhon Mike Tungol

Jayuard Alciso, who claimed a bronze medal in men’s shortboard in surfing

Alexandra Eala, who won a bronze medal in tennis women’s singles

Khylem Progella and Sofiah Pagara, who secured the bronze medal in women’s beach volleyball

Villanueva also filed separate resolutions commending gold medalists Carlos Yulo, EJ Obiena and Jeus Gabriel Derick Yape, as well as the Gilas Pilipinas Women’s 3×3 basketball team, which earned a silver medal.