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MMDA Wants To Make Metro Manila A Walled City

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – We already have the walled Intramuros, but if the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) had its way, it would like to convert the entire Metro Manila into a walled city.

MMDA has already taken steps to make this happen.

Beginning this April, it will conduct a dry run of its new policy banning all provincial buses from plying the entire stretch of EDSA. Passengers traveling from or to the Northern, Central and Southern Luzon provinces will have to take city buses in order to ride provincial buses at terminals in Bocaue, Bulacan and Santa Rosa, Laguna. Provincial bus terminals along EDSA will all be eventually closed.

Phase 2 of the MMDA plan is to build a wall around Metro Manila to prevent provincial buses from entering the Metropolis.

A la Donald Trump’s border wall.

 

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Rappler’s Maria Ressa Crowdsourcing For New Memes To Use Against The Duterte Government

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85E74EC0-AE6D-482F-AA8F-84BD2FF1C488MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Rappler CEO and executive editor Maria Ressa and members of the company’s 2016 board have been charged in court for alleged violation of the Anti-Dummy Law.

In information filed before the Pasig Regional Trial Court on Tuesday, Senior Assistant City Prosecutor Randy Esteban accused Ressa and six others of allowing Omidyar Network Fund, a foreign corporation, to intervene in Rappler operations by issuing Philippine Depository Receipts (PDR) to the investment firm in 2015. 

Ressa, who is reportedly out of the country, has run out of memes to counter this latest case. She has alleged that all the cases against her including violation of the Constitution, tax evasion, and cyber libel are all part of the Duterte government’s  efforts to weaponize the law to silence her and Rappler. She has been mouthing memes like ‘suppression of Press Freedom,’ ‘Political harassment,’ and ‘intimidation’ to counter the charges against her. But the memes are getting old, tired and ineffective.

If you have new memes that Ressa and Rappler could use, please send an email to Rappler or post a comment on its website, Facebook or Twitter accouts. Ressa would be so appreciative.

Board members Manuel Ayala, Nico Jose Nolledo, Glenda Gloria, James Bitanga, Felicia Atienza, and James Velasquez have each posted bail of P90,000. Ressa is out of the country.

They have also been reportedly charged for violation of the Securities Regulation Code, but the case has yet to be assigned to another judge.