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Customs, agriculture bigwigs avoiding Congress hearings
Summon Customs and Agriculture chiefs. Subpoena full records. Require video proofs of smashing of smuggled foods. Swear attendees to truth. Televise hearings.
Video disproves BBM: China still barring Filipino fishers
China still forbids Filipinos from fishing at Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal in the West Philippine Sea. A video nine days ago shows Chinese coastguards menacing them on approaching their traditional fishing ground.
JMSU emboldened China to aggress our seas
The Supreme Court verdict came 15 years late. Still, its voiding of the unconstitutional 2005 Joint Marine Seismic Undertaking is salient.
Why are smugglers left untouched?
Everything government does about pricey basic foods hurts little folk. But billionaire cartelist-smugglers benefit.
If not videoed, ‘destroyed’ contraband can be recycled
Customs men always trumpet interdictions of smuggled goods. Press releases quote top officials for the feats.
Paper ID cards,narco-generals: more signs of a broken
Republic Want more proofs of a broken Republic?
Breakdown of Philippines: only political elite benefits
Ex-President Gloria Arroyo joins Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s ill-timed China visit.
Malaysian Prime Minister extols Rizal ‘among greatest Malayans’
Not only Filipinos heroize Jose Rizal. Malaysians, Indonesians, Bruneians also study Rizal as central to their histories.
Marikina watershed quarries: 2 cancelled, 2 next – Loyzaga
Two of four dubious rock quarries inside Marikina watershed have been cancelled.
Normal for China to fight 27 neighbors
China aggresses 27 neighboring states. Beijing’s embassy in Manila claims that “it is only natural for neighbors to have differences.”
Decades of flood controls yet we’re still underwater
Congressmen budgeted P183 billion for “flood controls” in 2023. They’ll pocket most of it.
Selling smuggled foods unlawful, sickening
Distracted by his Maharlika fund, Marcos Jr. spun back Friday to agriculture.
Sapol
(Babasahing Pilipino)
Kalamidad kapag nagging presidente si Bongbong
IKINAKAILA ni Bongbong Marcos ang nakaw na yaman ng angkan niya.
Pag-ibig habang pandemya
“O, PAG-IBIG na makapangyarihan, kapag ika’y pumasok sa puso ninuman, hahamakin ang lahat masunod ka lamang.”
Mga sabik na botante kinakampanya si Robredo
Nu’ng ika-8 siglo ipinabitay ni Haring Shahryar ang kanyang reyna na natuklasang nangangaliwa.
Duterte pinahahabla dahil sa Pharmally
NANGUNGUNA si dating Chinese presidential adviser Michael Yang sa mga ipinahahabla ng Senate Blue-Ribbon Committee dahil sa Pharmally scam.
Isantabi ang ambisyon, pag-isahin ang Oposisyon
Napaniwala ang Pilipino sa mga pangako ni Rodrigo Duterte nu’ng 2016. Aniya buburahin niya ang korapsyon at droga.
Hindi tayo pinuprotektahan ng gobyerno kontra text scam
Malamya ang tugon ng National Telecommunications Commission kontra sa pagdagsa ng text scams.
Gobyerno ng China nagnanakaw ng datos
BABALA: nagnanakaw ang China ng impormasyong personal, sikretong pang-negosyo, at computer files ng mga NGO sa lahat ng bansa.
Audiobooks nauuso na
NU’NG lumabo ang mata ko sumubok ako ng audiobooks.
Mas episyente ngayong pumatay kung digmaan
Teknolohiya ang nagpapaepisyente sa army para pumatay kung digmaan.
Nagbabagong anyo dahil sa urbanisasyon
LAKING-siyudad ako, sa Quezon City na panandalian naging capital ng bansa.
Ibon napapaawit dahil sa kinakain
Nagtataka rin ba kayo kung paano inuubos ng iba’t ibang uri ng ibon ang tanim niyong sili?
Buhay mongha: Noon at ngayon
Marami sa atin nanatili sa bahay, nag-pandemic self-isolation nitong nakaraang 20 buwan.
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Jarius Bondoc is a multi-awarded journalist of 41 years. He writes two thrice-weekly columns, “Gotcha” for The Philippine Star and “Sapol” for Pilipino Star Ngayon. He also hosts a current affairs radio program, Sapol (Saturdays, 8-10 a.m.) on DWIZ 882-AM. Read more about him in this link.