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Philippines investigates Chinese funds to VP Duterte's firm

Rank
Running: 24h
Updated: 2h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 9
Regions: 2
Countries: 4
Languages: 2

GMA News Philippines · English 6 Oct, 04:39 UTC

The earliest of 8 English reports

Read it also in 中文 (1)

Read at GMA News

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: GMA News, 6 Oct, 04:39 UTC.
Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 6 Oct, 06:40 UTC.
Second country: United States, with Bloomberg.
Second region: Americas, with Bloomberg.
Now: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

89%

Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
Asia-Pacific 8 outlets · 3 countries · 89%

First movers

GMA News 6 Oct, 04:39 UTC
SunStar +2h 1m
Daily Tribune +2h 27m
Rappler +2h 32m
Bloomberg +4h 54m

Latest arrivals

The Manila Times 6 Oct, 16:16 UTC
Philstar 6 Oct, 16:00 UTC
Liberty Times 6 Oct, 13:59 UTC
Free Malaysia Today 6 Oct, 10:44 UTC
Bloomberg 6 Oct, 09:33 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 9 outlets in 4 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 9 outlets, 9 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 1: United States. Asia-Pacific 3: Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article GMA News, 6 Oct 2026, 04:39 UTC. First seen 6 Oct 2026, 04:40 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 03:07 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Asia-Pacific, Philippines. Topic Politics. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 0.33, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

6 Oct 2026 301 3.39 9 4 9 4 4.6

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Started 6 Oct, 04:40 UTC · Updated 7 Oct, 03:07 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

Bloomberg United States 6 Oct, 09:33 UTC
China Money Linked to Philippine VP Duterte’s Spouse Under Probe

Asia-Pacific 8 outlets

Philstar Philippines 7 Oct, 03:07 UTC
Security Council to probe China funds linked to Sara Duterte
+2 more articlesHide 2 more articles
- Chinese state firms remitted P319 million to Sara Duterte-linked company — Hontiveros 6 Oct, 23:50 UTC
- NSC to probe alleged Chinese funding of Duterte-linked firms 6 Oct, 16:00 UTC
The Manila Times Philippines 6 Oct, 16:16 UTC
NSC to probe money flow to Duterte-linked firm
Liberty Times Taiwan 6 Oct, 13:59 UTC
菲副總統杜特蒂家族驚爆「紅色金流」！疑收中港1.6億衝擊國家安全
Free Malaysia Today Malaysia 6 Oct, 10:44 UTC
Philippines looking into China-linked remittances to Sara Duterte family firm
Rappler Philippines 6 Oct, 07:11 UTC
Hontiveros: China state-owned businesses remitted funds to Sara Duterte-linked Cale88
Daily Tribune Philippines 6 Oct, 07:06 UTC
NSC flags possible security implications of China-linked fund flows
SunStar Philippines 6 Oct, 06:40 UTC
NSC to look into Chinese financial inflows to Duterte, husband’s account
GMA News Philippines 6 Oct, 04:39 UTC
NSC to probe alleged China money sent to Sara Duterte-linked firm