Suspend 6-hour work, teachers ask Angara

The Teachers' Dignity Coalition (TDC) is calling on Education Secretary Sonny Angara to suspend the implementation of the guidelines for teachers' workload and overload pay, saying these have caused more burdens instead of easing them for public school teachers.

- NEIL JAYSON SERVALLOS

In a statement, the TDC said Department Orders 5 and 10, The pilots and crew of the NC-212i safely returned to Clark Air Base an hour after the incident.

"The President strongly condemns the air incident in Bajo de Masinloc (Panatag Shoal) earlier this week, and stands by our brave men and women of the AFP, especially the Philippine Air Force," the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) said in a statement.

Marcos said the actions of the People's Liberation Army Air Force aircraft were "unjustified, illegal and reckless, especially as the PAF aircraft was undertaking a routine maritime security operation in Philippine sovereign airspace."

"We have hardly started to calm the waters, and it is already worrying that there could be instability in our airspace," the PCO statement quoted the President as saying.

The Philippines, Marcos said, would remain committed to proper diplomacy and peaceful means of resolving disputes.