MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – The Philippine Star is reporting that Senator Raffy Tulfo has slammed the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s “anti-poor” plan to impose taxes on junk food next year.
In a statement, Tulfo said that poor families would even eat chips as viands to feed their hungry stomachs.
But an AC investigation found out that a 180g pack of potato chips costs about P278 at Lazada, and that’s even on sale!
The Daily Price Monitoring report by the Department of Agriculture further shows that for that amount of money, or less, “poor Filipinos” can buy a whole chicken, a kilo of pork, or fish.
So where does Tulfo get his information? Perhaps from unpaid interns who don’t even know how to do simple things as Google check?
OUR VERDICT: Senator Tulfo’s statement has no basis in fact and is trying to play on emotions.
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – The Philippines’ Department of Tourism may have found the perfect comeback from its embarrassing tourism video clip taken by its contractor ad agency DBB from stock images that are not of the Philippines.
Tourism Secretary Christine Garcia Frasco proudly unveiled the new video clip to be used in the “Love The Philippines” branding. And this time, the video clip was filmed entirely in the Philippines.
With this new clip, DOT said it is hitting two birds with one bullet.
“It is not only a tourism video, but also an environmental video,” Frasco told The Adobo Chronicles.
When you fall, rise up! It’s not the end of the world!
(The Adobo Chronicles’ senior geopolitical correspondent contributed to this report.)
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – The botched tourism video produced by ad agency DBB for the Philippines Department of Tourism may work after all.
After the flak from the promo video using stock images from countries other than the Philippines, “Love The Philippines” may have unintended positive consequences, according to travel experts.
Foreign tourists may shun the Philippines because news about the deceptive video has reached the international community.
Consequently, the Philippines will see a decline in tourist arrivals which means there will be no queues at immigration and customs kiosks at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
Experts conclude that one of the most effective tourism gimmicks are photos or videos of airport arrivals showing no crowds or queues.
Love prevails. Love The Philippines.
(The Adobo Chronicles’ senior geopolitical correspondent BRIAN NEYRA contributed to this report.)
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