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Let’s Vote PINAS, a Vote Counting Machine (VCM) Demo and Experience offered to the public by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and SM Supermalls, was launched on April 18, 2022 at the SM Mall of Asia Music Hall. In attendance were COMELEC Chairman Hon. Saidamen B. Pangarungan, COMELEC Commissioners Hon. Socorro B. Inting, Hon. Marlon S. Casquejo, Hon. Aimee P. …

Mayor Luis Chavit Singson (of Narvacan, Ilocos Sur), who decided not to run for any public office in next month’s elections, predicts a landslide win for former Sen. Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos, Jr. (BBM) after recent survey results still showed a wide lead over Vice President Maria Leonor ‘Leni’ Robredo, three weeks before the polls. During today’s (April 18, 2022) Kapihan …

The approval and trust ratings of President Rodrigo Duterte are higher in April 2022 than at any point in 2021, according to the results of the PAHAYAG 2022 First Quarter Survey (PQ1 2022) conducted by PUBLiCUS between March 30 and April 6, 2022. 67.2% of the 1,500 respondents who participated in the survey said they ‘approve’ or ‘strongly approve’ of …

Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III intends to disclose the names of high-ranking government officials linked in the smuggling of agricultural products coming from China at the 3rd Senate hearing scheduled April 12, which “has been pestering the agricultural sector”, according to Sotto’s tandem, presidential candidate Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson. “We will validate the extent of vegetable smuggling and reveal …

“Chinatown is not a place,” declared journalist-author Jullie Yap Daza to her friends.   Now that sentence is the title of her latest book. Technically, Chinatown is only one square kilometer in size, an area surrounded by streets whose real estate values rival Makati’s. If it’s not a place, what is it? In Daza’s words, Chinatown is as much about …

While election surveys largely depict prevailing emotional preference of poll respondents, results do not necessarily translate to votes on election day as some respondents may not be eligible voters. This is according to Dr. Guido David, fellow of Octa Research, and Atty. Aureli Sinsuat, executive director of Publicis Asia, who were guests at the resumption of in-person Kapihan ng Samahang …

Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez committed assistance to the planned establishment of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) in the country, which will provide internet services in the Philippines using its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite network constellation called Starlink. The constellation consists of over 1,600 satellites in mid-2021, and will eventually comprise of thousands more of mass-produced small satellites in LEO, which …

While only motorcycles with 400 cc and above engine displacement are currently allowed entry into expressways, the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) is currently considering lowering the engine size limit to access major tollways. During the online Kapihan media forum, Atty. Alvin Carullo, TRB Executive Director, and Joz Carlos Ordillano, TRB Regulation Division chief, admitted studying the possibility of allowing motorcycles …

President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed familiar names as the ethnographic commissioner of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples or NCIP. Manobo tribe Princess Jennifer Limpayen Sibug-Las was once again appointed as the NCIP’s commissioner for Central Mindanao since taking over the same position in 2019. Sibug-Las lead the oplan bayanihan first stranded IPs during the surge of covid-19 pandemic in …

The Land Bank of the Philippines (LANDBANK) officially turned over 1.36 billion shares of common stock worth P136.2 billion to the National Government, following the unprecedented capital infusions extended to the Bank since June 2016.  President Rodrigo R. Duterte received the stock certification from Finance Secretary and LANDBANK Chairman Carlos G. Dominguez III, together with LANDBANK President and CEO Cecilia …