JEDDAH, 27 July — Find out the answer to this question in this week's issue of The Correspondents on TFC. The report, filed by the hard-hitting Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), says the scam was perpetrated by certain officials of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). "The report explains how more than 50 percent of the UN compensation money, paid to the Filipino victims of the war, have ended up in DFA officers' pockets," said a press statement by ABS-CBN, the mother company of The Filipino Channel. "It's been nearly a decade since the Gulf War ended, but even today, there are still people taking advantage of its victims," said the press statement sent to Arab News. The Correspondents will be shown in the Kingdom by TFC at 9:05 on Monday. A replay is scheduled at 6:45 a.m. on Saturday. Another segment of the show will deal on the controversial "bangkang papel" (paper boat) moments of President Gloria Arroyo's State of the Nation Address, Three children from the garbage dump of Payatas came into the president's speech as unknowns and they have since become unwitting political stars. Correspondent Jim Libiran investigates the so-called "gimmick of the year" and asks if the three children who supposedly caught the president's attention by floating their letters as "bangkang papel" along Pasig River were a stunt or the real thing. In the third portion of the program, Jade Lopez answers an unprecedented number of viewer responses to the "Gutom" episode of July 16 by returning to the families The Correspondents visited.
