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The ANC Brief: Hot weather, hot issues

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<p>More voices speaking out on Chinese workers in the country. These are the stories making the headlines on ANC today:</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/business/05/15/silkroad.jpg"/></figure></div><p><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/07/19/nancy-binay-wants-total-ban-on-chinese-construction-workers" target="_blank"><strong>Trying to score</strong></a><br/>Sen. Nancy Binay wants a ban on Chinese workers in the country. Candidates of the opposition Otso Diretso will be in Zambales to have breakfast with fishermen there in a bid to score points with the electorate on the South China Sea issue.</p><p><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/07/19/motorcycle-riders-hail-suspension-of-doble-plaka-law" target="_blank"><strong>Double take on double plates</strong></a><br/>In a speech over the weekend, President Rodrigo Duterte hit back at reports of his family’s wealth. He also said he is suspending the law he signed on double plates for motorcycles.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/10/17/20170324-duterte-robredo-rtr-1.jpg"/></figure></div><p><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/05/19/robredo-hits-duterte-tantrums-threat-of-revolutionary-war" target="_blank"><strong>Hornet’s nest</strong></a><br/>President Duterte really stirred the hornet’s nest after he threatened to declare a revolutionary government. Vice President Leni Robredo said she is ready to take over should the President make good his plan. Her critics said she was too eager. She clarified that she was ready, but not eager. The President has become a real expert in making shocking statements to stir things up.</p><p><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/video/news/04/07/19/metro-manila-temperature-hits-this-years-highest" target="_blank"><strong>Hot in the city</strong></a><br/>Weather bureau PAGASA said Saturday was the hottest day in Metro Manila so far. And there are hotter days ahead.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/news/01/25/vendor.jpg"/></figure></div><p><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/ancx/culture/books/04/04/19/on-mara-cosons-aliasing-a-sort-of-book-review" target="_blank"><strong>A novel idea</strong></a><br/>Mara Coson is the first Filipino — and non-westerner — to be included in Stewart Home&#x27;s atypical series Semina, which is inspired by Wallace Berman&#x27;s countercultural undertaking of the same name. Coson&#x27;s contribution to the series, Aliasing, is thoroughly unconventional to say the least, and yet presents an arrestingly sincere picture of the Philippines.</p>