Rice prices are tipped to drop by as much as P9 a kilo in July after President Marcos ordered last week a drastic cut in the tariffs on imported rice from 35 percent to 15 percent to give Filipinos much-needed relief from soaring prices of basic commodities. A group of rice traders that had met Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez predict the following prices by July and August—P45 to P46 a kilo for well-milled rice consumed by
There was something symbolic about Leila de Lima achieving full vindication on the third death anniversary of former president Benigno S. Aquino III. As he himself recounted, she’d frankly told him that she hadn’t even voted for him for president, but that didn’t deter him from giving her the Justice portfolio on the best administrative principle of all: that she was the best person for the job. And it was in fulfillment of that job that she offended Rodrigo R. Duterte so that her imprisonment on trumped-up charges became one of the hallmarks of his presidency. Trumped-up is the only possible
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