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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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Beauty, International, Social Media, The Media, Tourism

Filipinos Love Their Beauty Queens, But This One?

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img_6759MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Strike one: she asked fellow contestant Miss Austria if Adolf Hitler was from her country. Strike two: she said of Miss Ecuador: her nose, chin and breasts were all fake.

“She” is Miss Philippines Earth Imelda Bautista Schweighart who was the country’s representative to the recently concluded 2016 Miss Earth Beauty Pageant held in Manila. 

Schweighart who didn’t make it to the pageant’s semi-finals was heard and seen on video tape asking Miss Austria the dreaded question, and telling fans about Miss Ecuador’s “fakery.”

Miss Ecuador, Katherine Espin, won the title.

Filipinos love their beauty queens, but when a beauty queen embarrasses them, that’s a different story.

Schweighart has since tendered her resignation as Miss Philipines-Earth.

We hope this unfortunate incident will be buried beneath the earth.

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