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Leni Robredo Very Concerned About The (Larry) Gadon Coup!

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by Melchor Vergara

NAGA CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Naga Bureau) – Ex-Vice President Leni Robredo has expressed deep concern over reports that Larry Gadon has figured in a coup!

Robredo was reacting to news that military officers in oil-producing Gabon said they had seized power on Wednesday, placing President Ali Bongo under house arrest and naming a new leader after the Central African state’s election body announced Bongo had won a third term.

Saying they represented the armed forces, the officers declared on television that the election results were cancelled, borders closed and state institutions dissolved, after a tense vote that was set to extend the Bongo family’s more than half century in power.

Robredo asked: who now will be the new Presidential Adviser on Poverty Alleviation?

International, Media

Maria Ressa Admits: Rappler Doesn’t Have Integrity Of Facts! (Video)

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GENEVA, Switzerland (The Adobo Chronicles, Berlin Bureau) – For the first time since her (and her financiers’) systematic and fraudulent campaign to bag the Nobel Peace Prize, Maria Ressa admitted that her online news portal Rappler doesn’t have the integrity of facts.

Ressa’s admission all but confirms the consistent results of local and international polls naming Rappler the least-trusted news brand in the Philippines.

Ressa justified Rappler’s disinformation campaign, saying all she wanted was to influence and tarnish the results of the country’s elections to favor her chosen candidates.

Mea Culpa!

Food, International, Media

Market Supply: Move Over Sili, Will Salt Be Next? (Video)

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(Adobo Chronicles’ senior geopolitical correspondent Brian Neyra contributed to this report.)

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – The irony of ironies! The Philippines is surrounded by sea water, yet it imports 80-90% of its supply of this basic commodity. The country imports at least 850,000 metric tons of salt from mainly Australia and China every year.

Then there are calls to boycott commercial goods from China because of the South China Sea territorial conflict. But then, that boycott may not even be necessary when it comes to salt as there may not be any to import from China.

There is panic over salt in China — people are emptying supermarket shelves and buying out all salt in online stores

The “salt rush” (抢盐潮) started after Japan began dumping radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The Chinese are worried that food-grade sea salt will soon be contaminated with radiation.

So is Philippine news media gearing up for its next salty “price and supply” narrative?

“Salt rush in China”