00:02A splendid Monday evening to all. Proud Filipino, Patrick Dezus here, who's pleased to bring you PTV News Now.
00:10We kick off the stories on the second day of Easter, beginning with...
00:15A Chinese research vessel was monitored operating inside the Philippines' exclusive economic zone
00:22and sailed into the Philippine or Benham Rise on the eastern seaboard.
00:27Based on monitoring by maritime think tank SEALITE, the Tansu Airhouse Research Vessel allegedly enroached and conducted surveys from March
00:3821 to 31 along the edge of the Philippine EEZ.
00:43It was later seen passing through the Luzon Strait and briefly loitered 50 nautical miles from the Batanes Islands on
00:52April 1.
00:53The activity, let alone its presence, of the said Chinese research vessel in the area is illegal.
01:01As the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea or UNCLOS states that marine scientific research in a
01:09coastal state's EEZ requires its express consent.
01:14People learn more from failure and defeat more than in winning and victory.
01:20Nowhere is this more true than in the field of play, team sports in particular.
01:26And from the embarrassment and disappointment from last year's trouncing by the University of Connecticut Huskies in the Final Four
01:35semifinals,
01:37the wiser and more determined UCLA Bruins put their stamp in today's national championships by a crushing 79-51 domination
01:47in the title game.
01:48And it was a fitting send-off to graduating Bruin players Gabriela Hakes and Lauren Betts who led the team
01:57in both offense and defense,
02:00respectively with a resounding thumping of fellow No. 1 seed South Carolina which shot its third NCAA championship in four
02:09years.
02:10South Carolina on good Friday won convincingly against prohibitive favorite and perennial title contender University of Connecticut 62-48,
02:22eliminating the Huskies in their first ever defeat in this year's tournament.
02:28Their spot to celebrate in UCLA's Westwood Campus in the following days after this historic victory.
02:35Their first ever NCAA title as opposed to the legendary men's hoops team which won 10 NCAA titles,
02:46the winningest men's college basketball team in tournament history.
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