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Anak pinatay ng ama dahil sa agawan sa mikropono

Arman B. Cambe
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Anak pinatay ng ama dahil sa agawan sa mikropono

Mulanay, Quezon. Pinagtataga hanggang sa mapatay ng kanyang ama ang isang 27anyos na anak dahil sa pag-aagawan sa mikropono ng videoke sa Sitio Pantay, Brgy. Ibabang Yuni sa ba­yang ito kamakalawa ng gabi.

Ang biktima na nagtamo ng malalalim na taga sa iba’t ibang parte ng katawan ay kinilalang si Reynante Tolda, magsasaka habang tinutugis ang suspek na tatay nito na si Wilfredo, 48 anyos, pawang residente ng nabanggit na lugar.

Ayon kay Police MSg. Arvyn Resullar, officer on case, bago naganap ang insidente, bandang 7:00 ng gabi ay nag-iinuman ang mag-ama at nang tumugtog ang kantang “Kung Sakaling Ikaw ay Lalayo” sa videoke ay magkasabay na hinawakan ng mga ito ang mikropono hanggang sa sila ay magtalo. 

Dumayo ang suspek at umalis sa inuman at nagbanta na may masamang mangyayari sa kanyang pagbabalik. 

Makalipas ang kalahating oras, bumalik ang suspek ay umupo sa dati nitong pwesto.

Nang tumayo ang biktima upang kantahin ang pinag aagawang awitin, lumapit ang suspek at inundayan ng sunud-sunod na taga ang anak hanggang mamatay.

Kasalukuyang tinutugis ng pulisya ang suspek na nakatakdang humarap sa kasong parricide.

3 Pinoy patay, 5 sugatan sa sunog sa Taiwan

EDGARDO HERNAL
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3 Pinoy patay, 5 sugatan sa sunog sa Taiwan

Taiwan. Tatlong Pilipino ang nasawi at lima ang nasugatan dahil sa sunog sa isang food factory sa Taiwan, ayon kay Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) Chair Silvestre Bello III kahapon.

Ang mga namatay ay kinilalang sina Renato Larua ng Cavite, Nancy Revilla ng Marinduque, at Aroma Miranda ng Tarlac.

Nasa maayos na kalagayan ang limang Pilipinong nasugatan sa sunog maliban kay Maricris Fernando na nasa ICU ngayon.

Kaugnay nito, nagbibigay ang MECO ng tulong sa mga pamilya ng mga biktima mula sa Philippine at Taiwanese governments.

Sinabi ni Bello na kasalukuyang isinasagawa ang  pakikipag-ugnayan sa mga awtoridad ng pulisya hinggil sa imbestigasyon at para sa mabilis na pagpapauwi sa labi ng mga nasawi.

Patch crowned ‘beautiful bulldog’ at Drake University event

Venus L Peñaflor
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Patch crowned ‘beautiful bulldog’ at Drake University event

Des Moines, Iowa. Patch, sporting a jean jacket as she strutted down the runway, was crowned the winner of Drake University’s Beautiful Bulldog Contest.

The 2-year-old English bulldog beat out 28 other contestants from six states Monday night to win the top prize. The bulldog is Drake’s mascot and the contest kicks off the Drake Relays track and field competition happening later this week. Events will take place at the university’s stadium just west of downtown Des Moines.

Patch’s entry seemed to get a boost when she carefully ambled through a hoop on the runway, bringing cheers from a crowd of spectators. Her owners, Jennifer Hinton and Joel Kornder of Johnston, Iowa, said they had worked on the hoop routine for months ahead of the competition.

“I heard about the contest when I moved to Des Moines this past summer, and I knew I had to enter Patch,” Hinton said. “She is the epitome of the bulldog breed, and we’re so proud of her all the time but especially today.”

After being named the winner, Patch traded in her denim for a satin cape and crown, befitting her role as the Drake Relays mascot and the university’s bulldog representative for the next year.

Patch is a rescue dog and was among nine rescues who competed.

Pope allows women to vote at upcoming bishops’ meeting

EDGARDO HERNAL
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Pope allows women to vote at upcoming bishops’ meeting

Vatican City. Pope Francis has decided to give women the right to vote at an upcoming meeting of bishops, an historic reform that reflects his hopes to give women greater decision-making responsibilities and laypeople more say in the life of the Catholic Church.

Francis approved changes to the norms governing the Synod of Bishops, a Vatican body that gathers the world’s bishops together for periodic meetings, following years of demands by women to have the right to vote.

The Vatican on Wednesday published the modifications he approved, which emphasize his vision for the lay faithful taking on a greater role in church affairs that have long been left to clerics, bishops and cardinals.

Catholic women’s groups that have long criticized the Vatican for treating women as second-class citizens immediately praised the move as historic in the 2,000-year life of the church.

“This is a significant crack in the stained glass ceiling, and the result of sustained advocacy, activism and the witness” of a campaign of Catholic women’s groups demanding the right to vote, said Kate McElwee of the Women’s Ordination Conference, which advocates for women priests.

Ever since the Second Vatican Council, the 1960s meetings that modernized the church, popes have summoned the world’s bishops to Rome for a few weeks at a time to debate particular topics. At the end of the meetings, the bishops vote on specific proposals and put them to the pope, who then produces a document taking their views into account.

Until now, the only people who could vote were men. But under the new changes, five religious sisters will join five priests as voting representatives for religious orders. In addition, Francis has decided to appoint 70 non-bishop members of the synod and has asked that half of them be women. They too will have a vote.

The aim is also to include young people among these 70 non-bishop members, who will be proposed by regional blocs, with Francis making a final decision.

“It’s an important change, it’s not a revolution,” said Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, a top organizer of the synod.

The next meeting, scheduled for Oct. 4-29, is focused on the very topic of making the church more reflective of, and responsive to, the laity, a process known as “synodality” that Francis has championed for years.

The October meeting has been preceded by an unprecedented two-year canvassing of the lay Catholic faithful about their vision for the church and how it can better respond to the needs of Catholics today.

So far only one women is known to be a voting member of that October meeting, Sister Nathalie Becquart, a French nun who is undersecretary in the Vatican’s Synod of Bishops office. When she was appointed to the position in 2021, she called Francis “brave” for having pushed the envelope on women’s participation.

By the end of next month, seven regional blocs will propose 20 names apiece of non-bishop members to Francis, who will select 10 names apiece to bring the total to 70.

Cardinal Mario Grech, who is in charge of the synod, stressed that with the changes, some 21% of the gathered representatives at the October meeting will be non-bishops, with half of that group women.

Acknowledging the unease within the hierarchy of Francis’ vision of inclusivity, he stressed that the synod itself would continue to have a majority of bishops calling the shots.

“Change is normal in life and history,” Hollerich told reporters. “Sometimes there are revolutions in history, but revolutions have victims. We don’t want to have victims,” he said, chuckling.

Catholic Women’s Ordination, a British-based group that says it’s devoted to fighting misogyny in the church, welcomed the reform but asked for more.

“CWO would want transparency, and lay people elected from dioceses rather than chosen by the hierarchy, but it is a start!” said the CWO’s Pat Brown.

Hollerich declined to say how the female members of the meeting would be called, given that members have long been known as “synodal fathers.” Asked if they would be known as “synodal mothers,” he responded that it would be up to the women to decide.

Francis has upheld the Catholic Church’s ban on ordaining women as priests, but has done more than any pope in recent time to give women greater say in decision-making roles in the church.

He has appointed several women to high-ranking Vatican positions, though no women head any of the major Vatican offices or departments, known as dicasteries. (AP)

Mag ingat ang lahat sa”Basag Kotse Gang”

Arman B. Cambe
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Mag ingat ang lahat sa”Basag Kotse Gang”

Sto. Tomas, Batangas. Umatake na naman ang “Basag-Kotse Gang” matapos ang magkakasunod na kasong pagnanakaw sa kotse na naitala sa lalawigan ng Batangas. Huli nilang nabiktima ang isang city councilor nitong nakalipas na araw. 

Sa Sto. Tomas City, dumulog sa himpilan ng pulisya si Ta­nauan City Councilor Eric Manglo upang ireport na inabutan niyang basag ang bintana ng kanyang sasakyan habang nakaparada sa parking lot ng isang restaurant sa Poblacion 2, Sto. Tomas City bandang alas-7 ng gabi noong Linggo. 

Nawawala ang isang sling bag ni Konsehal Manglo kasama ang tatlong passbook, isang checkbook at mga susi sa insidente.

Sa lungsod ng Tanauan, nabiktima rin ng basag-kotse ang 23-anyos na estudyante na si Don Angelo Joson habang nakaparada sa kahabaan ng JP Laurel National Highway, Poblacion 5 noon ding Linggo bandang alas-8:40 ng gabi. Nawawala sa kotse ni Joson ang isang Apple Macbook Pro laptop at Sony DSLR camera. 

Batay sa nakalap na CCTV footage, tatlong suspek na sakay ng dalawang motorsiklo ang pawang nagbasag at nagnakaw sa gamit ng biktima.

Kasalukuyang pinag aaralan ng mga awtoridad ang mga cctv footages upang makilala ang mga suspek.

DFA: Nailikas na sa Sudan ang mahigit na 300 Pinoy

Venus L Peñaflor
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DFA: Nailikas na sa Sudan ang mahigit na 300 Pinoy

Inilikas na ang mahigit na 300 Pinoy sa Sudan habang sinasamantala ang ceasefire na ikinasa ng US.

Inireport ni Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Undersecretary Eduardo de Vega na sakay sa pitong bus ang mga repatriates na umalis ng Sudan na patungong Egypt.

Bukod ito sa 50 Filipino na nauna nang inilikas noong Martes.

Ayon kay De Vega, isa sa mga suliranin na nakikita nila ay ang mahabang pagproseso ng mga dokumento sa Egyptian border na inaabot ng isang araw.

Sa kabila nito, nagpadala na ang Embahada ng Pilipinas ng mangangasiwa para dito.

Samantala, naaksidente naman sina Philippine Ambassador to Egypt Ezzedin Tago at Vice Consul Bojer Capati “while in their rush to get to border by car to help incoming Filipinos cross through,” ayon sa ulat.

Sinabi ni De Vega na gumulong ng dalawang beses ang sasakyan ng dalawang diplomats, ngunit sa kabutihang-palad ay nakaligtas naman ang mga ito at papunta na sa border.

“This is the DFA’s commitment to our overseas Filipinos and we hope the public can be advised and reassured that we are doing what we can,” ayon sa kanya.

Matatandaan na nagsimula ang bakbakan  at tensyon sa Sudan noong nakaraang linggo dahil sa power struggle sa pagitan ng Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) at paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Inaapela ng PAO ang pag abswelto sa mga dentista na tumanggi sa pasyenteng may HIV

Carlo Juancho Funtanilla
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Inaapela ng PAO ang pag abswelto sa mga dentista na tumanggi sa pasyenteng may HIV

Isinampa ng Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) kahapon sa Supreme Court ang isang discrimination suit sa ngalan ng isang indibidwal na infected ng human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) na tinanggihang gamutin ng kanyang mga dentista.

Sa isang petisyon, hiniling ng PAO sa High Tribunal na repasuhin ang desisyon ng Court of Appeals (CA) na tumanggi sa apela ng complainant sa desisyon na ibinigay ng Taguig City Metropolitan Trial Court (MeTC) hinggil sa criminal complaint na inihain niya laban kay Dr. Sarah. Jane Mugar at Dr. Mylene Guevarra-Igrubay.

Nagsampa ng reklamo ang lalaking residente ng Makati dahil sa diumano ay paglabag sa Sec. 40 ng RA 8504, o mas kilala bilang Philippine AIDS Prevention and Control Act, sa harap ng Taguig court, na nagpawalang-sala sa dalawa.

Ipinapakita ng mga rekord ng korte na ang nagrereklamo, noong Valentine’s Day ng 2017, ay nagsadya ang pasyente upang ipagamot ang kanyang kaliwang molar, at pagkatapos ng paunang pagsusuri ay natukoy na ang molar ay kailangang bunutin. Gayunpaman, ipinaalam sa kanya na kailangan muna niyang sumailalim sa clotting o bleeding diagnostic test.

Sa kanyang pagbabalik, pagkatapos makumpleto ang mga test,sinabi sa kanya ng mga dentista na hindi sila maaaring magsagawa ng molar extraction dahil wala silang ultraviolet-type sterilization equipment.

“Obviously, mahirap paniwalaan ang excuse na binigay ni Dr. Mugar at Dr. Guevarra-Igrubay considering that EDC (the dental clinic) boasts of advance dental equipment on its website. (The complainant) were even asked to secure a clearance so that Ang isang appointment ay maaaring gawin. Ang dahilan para sa pagtanggi ay maliwanag – ito ay dahil (ang nagrereklamo) ay may HIV,” ayon sa PAO.

Sinabi sa reklamo na “sa Pilipinas, ang mga batas tungkol sa anti-discrimination ay nakalatag na. Ngunit maliban kung ang batas ay nagpapatupad at kinikilala ng estado ang mga pagkilos sa diskriminasyon, ang diskriminasyon ay hindi matatapos.”

Ang HIV ay isang impeksyon na nakukuha sa pakikipagtalik ngunit maaari ding kumalat sa pamamagitan ng pakikipag-ugnayan sa nahawahang dugo at paggamit ng mga nahawahang karayom ​​gayundin mula sa ina hanggang sa anak sa panahon ng pagbubuntis, panganganak o pagpapasuso.

On the Marcoses and historical revisionism

DC Alviar
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On the Marcoses and historical revisionism

Is the current president eligible for estate tax amnesty? He is not eligible according to law, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) replies. The hashtag #NeverForget is advanced yet again, but this time by the government itself in a House of Representatives hearing last Monday. 13 months ago the BIR confirmed that they sent out a written demand letter to the Marcos family to settle the estate tax.

The propaganda for the Marcoses has been run for decades and it seems that it is more of the same in the coming years. Even if another Marcos won the Philippine presidential election in 2022, there is no stopping the revisions of Marcos’ history of bad governance, poor economics, abysmal human rights records, and historical distortions that go with it. (Amnesty International, 2022)

Fortunately, though not enough, fact-checkers and the business of truth-telling are very assisting. Courageous journalists from the tri-media and the top 3 broadsheets in the Philippines – Inquirer, Bulletin, and Star – continue to let their readers know what transpired during the Marcos dictatorship, the Imeldific lifestyle of the Marcoses then and now, and how their PR manipulators distort history. Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and Rappler followed suit, leading the international print and online media in unearthing more lies about and from the Marcoses in the last decade.

That the Marcoses stole money from the Filipino people is an understatement. The Filipinos suffered economically, and emotionally, and even lost lives as a result of the almost non-stop and notorious 20-year rule. Unluckily for the Marcoses, the international community does not buy the idea that the Marcoses are “just humans born to make mistakes” like anybody else. In the course of some 50 years, they lied in order to perpetuate themselves in power. There is truth to the saying that power corrupts and that absolute power corrupts absolutely (Lord Acton, n.d.). Marcos loyalists abound and that critically hurts the democratic processes, institutions, and law and order. Even Jovito Salonga’s votes were smaller than Imelda Marcos’ in the 1992 presidential election. Ferdinand Marcos Jr. may have lost twice – in the Senate in 1995 and in the VP derby in 2016 – but he continues to tell people that the Marcoses have just been judged unfairly and did not even concede his defeat with Leni Robredo, but instead filed a very costly electoral protest eventually to add to his list of defeats. The Supreme Court, like any other unbiased institutions, had other things in mind: “He who comes to court must come with clean hands. Otherwise, he not only taints his name, but ridicules the very structure of established authority.” That’s “FERDINAND R. MARCOS II, PETITIONER, VS. COURT OF APPEALS, THE COMMISSIONER OF THE BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUE AND HERMINIA D. DE GUZMAN, RESPONDENTS” in the SC decision on June 5, 1997.

Another significant legal defeat the Marcoses encountered here (here, meaning, there were court defeats abroad) was in an SC decision which read in part, “The admission of respondent Imelda Marcos only confirmed what was already generally known: that the foundations were established precisely to hide the money stolen by the Marcos spouses from petitioner Republic. That’s “REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, PETITIONER, VS. HONORABLE SANDIGANBAYAN (SPECIAL FIRST DIVISION), FERDINAND E. MARCOS (REPRESENTED BY HIS ESTATE/HEIRS: IMELDA R. MARCOS, MARIA IMELDA [IMEE] MARCOS-MANOTOC, FERDINAND R. MARCOS, JR. AND IRENE MARCOS-ARANETA) AND IMELDA ROMUALDEZ MARCOS, RESPONDENTS” on July 15, 2003.

Marcos Jr., by the way, ran a successful presidential campaign last year via massive dis/misinformation, according to scholars. Simply put, the academe is entirely Anti-Marcos per the incisive analysis of a DLSU professor/columnist who was not a Robredo supporter anyway.

Without telling some backgrounder knowledge of the Marcoses in the narrative above, it would be quite difficult to enlighten people – the Filipino people – what historical revisionism is and what historical distortions are.

Historical revisionism is not entirely wrong – that “the earth is flat” is a thing of the past thanks to that kind of revisionism. Most of the time, however, historical revisionism is an effort exerted by individuals so that they get benefited from it, never mind social consequences, including the common good. Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and Jr., Imelda, Imee, and Irene, and their supporters, including the so-called Marcos cronies and loyalists, and lately their troll armies, are widely perceived to be utilizing historical revisionism. Marcos Jr.’s absences in presidential debates are a proof he and the Marcoses have so many things to hide.

Which now leads us to the more accurate term, historical distortion. Movie and press people can, in one way or another, distort history. Maid in Malacanang, for instance, was written and directed by a movie director who gets a lot of funding from Imee Marcos, the movie executive producer. What is entirely wrong in this “art,” according to historians, lies in the control of the narrative. It rests on the idea that when movie people are out to destroy others’ reputations and/or spin-doctor a family’s image, chances are that some may believe in them. All in the name of the art of the one who backs and produces it.

Dale Russakoff wrote in 1986: “Other preconceptions about the Marcos era also crumbled under the weight of the documents. While Philippine observers had said corruption began in earnest when Marcos declared martial law in 1972, the documents dated it earlier.

“In 1968, two years after he took office on a vow to fight corruption and capital flight, Marcos and his wife had set up Swiss and U.S. bank accounts to hide assets, according to documents obtained by Salonga and others.

 “’They were depositing money in Swiss banks using code names such as Jane Ryan and William Saunders,’ Salonga said in an interview. ‘They authorized the practice under the signature of both Imelda Marcos and Ferdinand Marcos.’”

Russakoff’s “The Philippines: Anatomy of a Looting” hit the nail on its head in Filipino parlance: “Ang sinungaling ay kapatid ng magnanakaw.” Fast forward to 2023, the lies and deceptive historical revisionism and historical distortions continue; the tax evasion conviction is nothing but a suggestion, not something to be paid nor executed legally; and the ill-gotten wealth are all upon us no thanks to the very influential and dynastic families, particularly that of Ferdinand E. Marcos.

The scripture says that the truth shall set us free, which also means that it will be beneficial for our generation and generations to come if we value our sense of history and fight for it, rather than doing nothing or being on the safe side of neutrality.

(I thank a group of students from Liceo de San Pedro for interviewing me last April 21, 2023. Everything I believed and felt during the interview is summed up above.)

The saga of a great writer and poet

Melinda Bagsic Evangelista
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The saga of a great writer and poet

(7th of a series)

Prior to the involuntary dissolution of TIKBALANG, the original members were able to elect officers and had their grand induction at the Tierra de Oro Resort owned by Sps. Marius and Mila Zabat.  It was an affair to remember for all the members because there was so much fun – drinking, dancing and singing up to the wee hour of the night.  The off-key duet rendered by Nelson Cornista and Tony Valencia who sadly are both in heaven now brought everybody on their knees laughing out loud. 

Without me knowing it, the top officers headed by the then City Councilor Dante B. Amante, Brgy. Chairman Macario ‘Ayong’ Almario and Dr. Edgardo ‘Egay’ Adajar already had a plot to match me with Palasig who was then too shy to dance with me.  Dr. Egay announced that there had to be a dance competition and the winners shall receive a gift of sorts to which everybody agreed.  When the soft music played, Palasig approached me in a gentleman’s manner and asked if I could be his partner.  I was a bit adamant at first but I was pushed by Joy Cabrera Gonzales, the beauteous wife of Fiscal Ante Gonzales to go ahead and dance.

When we were already dancing in the middle of the ballroom, everybody gathered around us clapping their hands and chanting “Yehey!  Kasalan na!”.  I slightly pushed Palasig away from me but he pulled me closer to him and held me tightly.  He then touched my hair and whispered “hayaan mo mga ‘yan…inggit lang sila”.  I knew I blushed yet I managed to smile and finished dancing with the music.  I did not dance again till we went home.

The following day, Palasig visited me at the office accompanied by Teresita “Tita Tikya”Pacia with a half gallon of ice cream which I shared with the staff of the Assisting Court under the late Judge Adelardo S. Escoses to whom I was the Acting Clerk of Court. That was the beginning of his regular visit at the office which I simply took as a gesture of friendship because he just lost his wife. We became close friends sharing personal stories about our past and some plans for the future. From his words I can honestly say that he was a good family man – a loving father and a doting grandfather to his grandchildren, Francis Ferdine and Florence Ferdinelli ‘Dindin’ Rosete.

Having used to seeing him everyday at the office or at the Capitol site, I started to miss his funny anecdotes or shalI I say, his presence  when he was not around. I felt some sort of invisible attachment to him which I could not explain. It was like a magnetic pole pulling me towards him then suddenly both of us found out that we were into a mutual understanding that we were meant for each other.  To avoid gossip, we would spend our lunch time and coffee breaks together at the house of his bosom friend Venus Penaflor which was just a stone throw away from my office. 

(To be continued)

Tokyo company: ‘High probability’ spacecraft crashed on moon

Venus L Peñaflor
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Tokyo company: ‘High probability’ spacecraft crashed on moon

A Japanese company’s spacecraft apparently crashed while attempting to land on the moon Wednesday, losing contact moments before touchdown and sending flight controllers scrambling to figure out what happened.

More than six hours after communication ceased, the Tokyo company ispace finally confirmed what everyone had suspected, saying there was “a high probability” that the lander had slammed into the moon.

It was a disappointing setback for ispace, which after a 4 1/2-month mission had been on the verge of doing what only three countries have done: successfully land a spacecraft on the moon.

Takeshi Hakamada, founder and CEO of ispace, held out hope even after contact was lost as the lander descended the final 33 feet (10 meters). Flight controllers peered at their screens in Tokyo as minutes went by with only silence from the moon.

A grim-faced team surrounded Hakamada as he announced that the landing likely failed.

Official word finally came in a statement: “It has been determined that there is a high probability that the lander eventually made a hard landing on the moon’s surface.”

If all had gone well, ispace would have been the first private business to pull off a lunar landing. Hakamada vowed to try again, saying a second moonshot is already in the works for next year.

Only three governments have successfully touched down on the moon: Russia, the United States and China. An Israeli nonprofit tried to land on the moon in 2019, but its spacecraft was destroyed on impact.

“If space is hard, landing is harder,” tweeted Laurie Leshin, director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “I know from personal experience how awful this feels.”

Leshin worked on NASA’s Mars Polar lander that crashed on the red planet in 1999.

The 7-foot (2.3-meter) Japanese lander carried a mini lunar rover for the United Arab Emirates and a toylike robot from Japan designed to roll around in the moon dust for about 10 days. That’s how everything else on the mission was supposed to last.

Named Hakuto, Japanese for white rabbit, the spacecraft had targeted Atlas crater in the northeastern section of the moon’s near side, more than 50 miles (87 kilometers) across and just over 1 mile (2 kilometers) deep.

It took a long, roundabout route to the moon following its December liftoff, beaming back photos of Earth along the way. The lander entered lunar orbit on March 21.

Flight controllers were able to ascertain that the lander was upright as it used its thrusters to slow down during Wednesday’s final approach. Engineers monitoring the fuel gauge noticed that as the tank approached empty, the lander picked up speed as it descended and communication was then lost, according to ispace. That’s what leads them to believe the lander crashed.

Founded in 2010, ispace hopes to start turning a profit as a one-way taxi service to the moon for other businesses and organizations. The company has already raised $300 million to cover the first three missions, according to Hakamada.

“We will keep going, never quit lunar quest,” he said.

For this test flight, the two main experiments were government-sponsored: the UAE’s 22-pound (10-kilogram) rover Rashid, named after Dubai’s royal family, and the Japanese Space Agency’s orange-sized sphere designed to transform into a wheeled robot on the moon. The UAE was seeking to extend its presence to the moon, already in orbit around Earth with an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, and in orbit around Mars.

The moon is suddenly hot again, with numerous countries and private companies clamoring to get on the lunar bandwagon. China has successfully landed three spacecraft on the moon since 2013, and U.S., China, India and South Korea have satellites currently circling the moon.

NASA’s first test flight in its new moonshot program, Artemis, made it to the moon and back late last year, paving the way for four astronauts to follow by the end of next year and two others to actually land on the moon a year after that. Pittsburgh’s Astrobotic Technology and Houston’s Intuitive Machines have lunar landers waiting in the wings, poised to launch later this year at NASA’s behest.

Hakuto and the Israeli spacecraft named Beresheet were finalists in the Google Lunar X Prize competition requiring a successful landing on the moon by 2018. The $20 million grand prize went unclaimed.

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