OpenPinas: Weekly Review

San Miguel closed out TNT 92–77 in Game 6 at MOA Arena for a second straight Philippine Cup, the franchise's 12th All-Filipino and 31st title. June Mar Fajardo had 29 points and 23 rebounds and won Finals MVP, the first Ramon Fernandez Trophy. Sunday, February 1, had sat in no edition's window; this Saturday-ending review is the first to carry it.

On the first day new complaints could be filed after the one-year bar, Makabayan and a Tindig Pilipinas–church coalition lodged two impeachment cases against Vice President Sara Duterte. Articles include confidential-fund misuse, bribery, unexplained wealth, and alleged tolerance of extrajudicial killings. House Secretary General Cheloy Garafil later confirmed both were transmitted to Speaker Bojie Dy.

The House Committee on Justice voted the de Jesus complaint insufficient in substance 42–1–3 and rejected the Makabayan complaint 39–7. Dismissal starts a one-year constitutional bar unless the plenary reverses with one-third. Critics said the speed may preview how the same committee will treat the new cases against the vice president.

Coast Guard divers found the ferry about 1.8 nautical miles off Baluk-Baluk Island as the confirmed death toll rose to 45, with 316 survivors. Investigators said Aleson Shipping is linked to at least 31 other maritime incidents. The company's operations stayed suspended under the national safety audit ordered after the January 26 sinking.

Basyang (Penha) made landfall in Bayabas, Surigao del Sur, at 11:50 p.m. on February 5 and completed five landfalls across Mindanao and the Visayas before weakening over the Sulu Sea on February 7. Nearly a dozen provinces saw 50–100 mm of rain. It was the year's second cyclone, arriving while Mayon remained at Alert Level 3.

PLA Navy hull 553 issued 28 radio challenges to a Philippine patrol aircraft on a morning maritime-awareness flight over Scarborough Shoal. Chinese vessels in the WPS had already doubled to 41 in January. Malacañang said the Philippines will keep asserting its rights and rejected calls to give up the Kalayaan Island Group.

Speaker Martin Romualdez and US Embassy Chargé Robert Ewing opened the 80th-anniversary year in Manila as the allies keep the Mutual Defense Treaty and more than 500 joint activities a year. The ceremony landed in the same week Trump invited Marcos onto a Gaza Board of Peace and a Chinese warship challenged a Philippine patrol aircraft 28 times.