Category Archives: Travel

Aquino Family To Launch New Company To Replace Uber In The Philippines

D51330EA-9188-4159-B2CC-90C14D10D7A7MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – It’s the law of supply and demand.  Consumers of goods and services will benefit when there is competition.

Uber’s decision to close down its operations in the Philippines left Grab with the monopoly of providing alternate transportation for Filipino commuters.

Enter the Aquino family.

Senator Bambam Aquino, in partnership with his cousins NoyNoy and Kris, is establishing a new company that is expected to fill the vaccum created by Uber and provide stiff competition to Grab. B91E5900-9528-4139-A319-EC965B41935A

The Aquinos are naming their new company CreditGrab.

 

Jim Paredes Mistakenly Deported

0DC58C4D-9375-4F76-AA5A-EFF2762DA910MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) –Subject to fact-checking by Rappler and Vera Files – Anti-Duterte retired entertainer Jim Paredes was deported back to Australia at dawn this morning.  But it was all in error.

The Bureau of Immigration (BI) arrested Paredes and put him on the first available flight from NAIA to Sydney.

Apparently, overly-eager BI employees mistook Paredes as the Australian who was reported to be engaged in anti-government activities in violation of the Philippine Constitution. Foreign citizens are expressly prohibited to engage in such activities while in the country. Paredes holds Australian citizenship.

The real Australian concerned in the report turned out to be a 71-year-old nun, Sister Patricia Fox.

As he was being escorted to his plane, Paredes kept on shouting, “Look at me, look at me. Do I look like a 71-year-old nun?”

 

Leni Robredo On Group Photo At Holocaust Memorial: Wala Namang Nakalibing Doon

8885B64B-1A12-493A-A9E1-2ED641427B3C.jpegMANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Subject to fact-checking by Rappler and Vera Files – Back from her junket to Europe, with other politicians including Senator Kiko Pangilinan, Vice President Leni Robredo defended the viral group photo showing her and her group posing and smiling at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Germany.

Robredo said she sees nothing wrong with the photo, first posted online by Ifugao Representative Teddy Baguilat, Jr.

“Eh wala namang nakalibing doon, so anong problema?” (Nobody’s buried there, so what’s the problem?)

“What so disrespectful about that,” she added.

Dear Madam, that’s why it’s called Holocaust Memorial, not Holocaust Cemetery.