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Government, International, Politics

Manny Pacquiao Set To Retire (Again) After Saturday’s Boxing Match With Jessie Vargas

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IMG_6803.JPGLAS VEGAS, Nevada (The Adobo Chronicles, Las Vegas Bureau) – Win or lose, Filipino boxer and Senator Manny Pacquiao will retire again after this Saturday’s fight against American Jessie Vargas for the welterweight title.

Pacquiao, who is ten years older than Vargas, announced his retirement shortly after his unanimous decision victory over Timothy Bradley just in April of this year.  He came out of retirement to fight Vargas.

When asked by The Adobo Chronicles why he has decided to retire again after Saturday, Pacquiao said that since becoming a Philippine senator, he has found his new calling to serve the Filipino people.

“I’m enjoying my work as a senator,” he said, “questioning witnesses at Senate hearings, delivering privilege speeches, ousting fellow senators from committee chairmanship, and occasionally preaching about God and religion right inside the Senate chambers.  He has also formed an intimate group of senators and staff for regular bible studies.

“I may have been the number one absentee congressman, but now as a senator, it is my intention to have an almost perfect, if not perfect attendance.  I cannot do that if I continue with my boxing career.”

How long will Pacquiao stay in retirement this time around?  Only time will tell.

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Beauty, Government, International

President Duterte To Ban All Philippine Beauty Pageants

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img_6784MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – While Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte is a known lover of women, he is just sick and tired of Filipinas winning international beauty pageants.  So he has issued an Executive Order banning all Philippine beauty pageants.

“The results are so predictable, Filipinas will win most of the international beauty crowns,” Duterte said.

Duterte issued the EO after yet another Filipina won an international beauty crown, that of Miss Diamond of the World 2016. The pageant was held in Algeria.

The Philippines holds both the incumbent titles of Miss Universe (Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach) and Miss International (Kylie Verzosa), not to mention other previous recent titles like Miss World (Megan Young), Miss Earth (Angelia Ong), Miss Globe (Ann Lorraine Colis).

Oh, and as far as male beauty pageants are concerned, we’re not even going to go there.

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Government, International, Law Enforcement, Social Media, Technology, The Media

Philippine Government To ‘Take Back The Internet’ From Maria Ressa And Rappler?

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img_6776MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Rappler CEO Maria Ressa’s widely-quoted statement, “Time to take back the Internet” might just come back to haunt her. Just in time for Halloween.

Ressa has been very vocal about the proliferation of “fake” news sites and trolls that have left her online news organization lagging behind in terms of followers and reader engagements.  She was particularly critical of entertainer-turned-political blogger, Mocha Uson, who has more than 4 million followers, twice that of Rappler.

Now, the Philippine government may soon ‘take back the Internet’ from Rappler because it appears it has violated the Philippine Constitution.

Article XVI, Section 11 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution specifically states that the mass media must be wholly-owned and managed by citizens of the Philippines.

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But Rappler is partly-owned by a foreign company, Omidyar Network.  How do we know? Rappler itself told us so way back on November 5, 2015:

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So, before Rappler can take back the Internet, it may first have to give it up!

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