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Business, National News, Politics

Philippine Election Day 2025: 50% Discount At Malls!

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Thanks to the indelible ink on your finger, you can now avail of a 50% discount on all items sold and services offered at malls in the Philippines on election day 2025 and beyond.

The Commission on Elections has revealed plans to use malls instead of schools starting with the midterm elections in 2025.

The National Coalition of Shopping Malls of the Philippines (NCSMP) has thrown its full support for the Comelec plan. Coalition members don’t mind opening their malls at 6am on election day.

What’s more, the mall owners and concessionaires have agreed to offer 50% discount to Filipinos who can show proof that they have voted on that day — as proven by the indelible mark on their finger.

Will the turnout for the 2025 elections reach 100%?

Business, Finance

PAGCOR For Sale: Let The Bidding Begin!

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) is up for privatization, as officials say the sale of the agency could, at best, fetch P60-P80 billion!

Well, that could just be spare change for some of the country’s richest billionaires.

The combined wealth of the top 50 richest Filipinos is estimated at $80 billion — that’s U.S. dollars — or a peso equivalent of P4.4 trillion.

So who among the Pinoy billionaires will bid to acquire PAGCOR?

Some say the Sy siblings with an estimated net worth of $14 billion are in the best position to purchase the gaming corporation. After all some of their SM malls already host PAGCOR’S BINGO parlors.

But nothing is set in stone. It boils down to who among the billionaires is willing to GAMBLE on this investment opportunity.

Let the bidding begin!

Business, Food, Technology

Jollibee To Go Fully-Automated, Tens Of Thousands Stand To Lose Jobs!

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – The business competition between America’s McDonald’s and the Philippines’ Jollibee continues unabated.

McDonald’s has acknowledged that its the world’s No. 1 fast food chain, except in the Philippines where it can’t beat that “fat, stupid, happy bee.”

Early this year, McDonald’s opened its very first fully-automated location in Settlement, Texas, where there are no employees — just machines, robots, and an interactive system for ordering from the menu.

Well, Jollibee won’t be beaten by that red-haired clown.

Today, the popular Filipino fast food chain said that by the year 2025, all of its outlets in the Philippines and abroad will be fully automated, and that all of its employees will be terminated and given a separation pay.

Those skilled and qualified will be offered position as ITs, computer programmers and online customer service representatives.

So here’s an unsolicited advice to all Jollibee employees. Enroll in computer classes and be certified by TESDA!

(Adobo Chronicles’ chief geopolitics correspondent Brian Neyra contributed to this report.)