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KFC Launches Chicken Adobo-Scented Sunscreen

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Iimage.jpegMANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Kentucky Fried Chicken recently announced that it was launching an unexpected new product: fried chicken-scented sunscreen.

Starting Monday, KFC is giving away 3,000 free bottles of Col. Sanders’ Extra Crispy Sunscreen. U.S. residents can receive the SPF 30 by visiting ExtraCrispySunscreen.com. “Suntan lotion always smells like lotion,” KFC CMO Kevin Hochman told Business Insider. “So we thought — why not make it smell like fried chicken?”

Today, KFC Philippines announced a local version of the new chicken-scented sunscreen.  It smells like the popular Filipino dish, chicken adobo.

KFC officials are confident that the new product will do very well in the Philippine market considering the abundance of beach resorts in this country of more htan 7,000 islands.

“The sunscreen will protect your skin while smelling like the mouth-watering aroma of soy sauce, vinegar and garlic,” the officials said.

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Economy, Health & Medicine, International

BREAKING: GlaxoSmithKline Announces New Powerful Weight Loss Pill

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imageLONDON, United Kingdom (The Adobo Chronicles, Berlin Bureau) – The U.K.-based pharmaceutical giant, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) — the world’s fifth largest — announced today that it has developed the most powerful weight loss pill ever.

GSK expects to start marketing the new drug in the next few weeks, starting in Europe.

The new drug, called Brexit, is said to guarantee significant loss of pounds.

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Government, Health & Medicine, Politics

In the Philippines, It Pays To Be 100 Years Old, But Not To Be A Nurse

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – In the Philippines, it literally pays to be 100 years old, but it doesn’t pay to be a nurse. Thanks to the brilliance of outgoing President NoyNoy Aquino.

On June 23, Aquino signed into law Republic Act 10868, granting a P100,000 cash incentive and other benefits and privileges to Filipinos who reach the age of 100.

The law, authored by Albay Representative Edcel Lagman, also provides that Filipino centenarians will receive a “letter of felicitation” from the president of the Philippines.

However, many believe that few will benefit from the law because of another proposed measure that Aquino vetoed recently.

Aquino vetoed a bill that would have raised the entry-level salaries of Filipino nurses.

Critics of the outgoing president said that it is unlikely that any Filipino will reach the age of 100 since there will be no nurses to take care of them in their twilight years. “The exodus of nurses will all the more increase in the coming years because of low salaries. And that is assuming they will not already have switched jobs from nursing to call center agents,” they said.

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