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What used to be a P200 fare for a 15-kilometer trip can now set you back around P800. We’re sure you noticed it too. What is the LTFRB doing about this? For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms: Facebook Instagram Twitter Tiktok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Completely unacceptable.” Some members of the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations called the government out over how long former senator Leila de Lima has been incarcerated even without a verdict, and the plight of thousands of other persons deprived of liberty. For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms: Facebook Instagram Twitter Tiktok See omnystudio.com/listener f...

The first 100 days of a presidency are watched carefully because they often set the tone for the rest of the term. We listen in as the Stratbase ADR Institute holds a forum to discuss the wins and the missteps of the current administration.  For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms: Facebook Instagram Twitter Tiktok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. heralded his hundredth day in office by inviting controversy and questions over his decision to fly to watch the F1 Grand Prix in Singapore in the middle of a crisis. In this op-ed podcast, Roby Alampay reflects on why it should all matter to Filipinos.  For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms: Facebook Instagram Twitter Tiktok See omnystudio.c...

Dressed in her Sunday best for a plane ride, an older lady would tell a stranger through her limited English what was going on back home in Iran. "Iranian people, very good. Government bad." But the winds of change are blowing. For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms: Facebook Instagram Twitter Tiktok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See...

Another day, another journalist killed with impunity. It’s gotten to a point where the embassies of Canada and the Netherlands have had to issue statements warning of a “chilling effect” on local media. For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms: Facebook Instagram Twitter Tiktok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...

In this excerpt of Catch Me If You Can, sociologist Andoy Evangelista and film director Rod Singh talk about the role of the LGBTQIA+ community in the 2022 elections.  For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms: Facebook Instagram Twitter Tiktok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

WEnergy Global has a dream: use smart microgrid systems to bring clean, reliable electricity to more than 30,000 people in Palawan. Kids want to keep studying, and mothers want to open their sari-sari stores a little longer. Except…red tape is getting in the way. For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms: Facebook Instagram Twitter Tiktok See omnystudio.com/listener for privac...

Amid acclaim for her recent Time100 Impact Award, Broadway star Lea Salonga urged more support for pandemic-hit creative industries. For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms: Facebook Instagram Twitter Tiktok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So many questions, but we home in on the two biggest ones: Can a president just up and leave without informing the country or leaving someone in charge? And were public funds or resources used for this trip? For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms: Facebook Instagram Twitter Tiktok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

New data aggregated by Packworks from sari-sari stores tells an interesting story about why sales of hygiene and self-care products–and not canned food–spike immediately after major disasters. For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms: Facebook Instagram Twitter Tiktok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...

Researchers warn that a subvariant of Omicron is demonstrating an alarming ability to dodge immunity.  For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms: Facebook Instagram Twitter Tiktok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this excerpt of Catch Me If You Can, we hear from the person behind the Twitter alter account @supernegatrona as he talks about how he influenced the presidential bid of VP Leni Robredo. For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms: Facebook Instagram Twitter Tiktok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...

Time and time again, the Sierra Madre breaks the megastorms rolling in from the Pacific Ocean before they hit us in Luzon. Super Typhoon Karding was just the latest example. For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms: Facebook Instagram Twitter Tiktok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A panel of history professors sounds the alarm over what students are learning – or not learning – about Martial Law.  President Marcos Jr. attended the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week, marking a triumphant return to the city – and his mother’s extravagant ways.  For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms: Facebook Instagram Twitter Tiktok See omnystudio.c...

President Marcos Jr. attended the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week, marking a triumphant return to the city – and his mother’s extravagant ways.  For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms: Facebook Instagram Twitter Tiktok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Former Executive Secretary Vic Rodriguez is now presidential chief of staff, after resigning in the wake of the sugar fiasco. Wait, what’s the difference? Won’t he be doing the same job, more or less?  For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms: Facebook Instagram Twitter Tiktok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

We go behind the scenes of an outfit that was creating attack memes against Bongbong Marcos during the 2022 elections. Listen to excerpts of the new episode of Catch Me If You Can with Jonathan Ong. Listen to Catch Me If You Can Episode 4: Trolls for Leni Spotify Apple podcasts       See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The victim was arrested shortly after the declaration of Martial Law in September 1972. He was ordered to give his captors information about the CPP/NPA which he didn't have, under threat of being beheaded just like a man in another cell; and of his friend being killed. "I demanded to have a lawyer represent me, but they claimed they were the law since martial law was already declared then," he wr...

The victim, an engineering student, had been called to the school president's office one afternoon in 1982. Little did he know that this would deliver him into the hands of the police. He would be in prison for more than a year on charges of rebellion and inciting to sedition, which would later be dismissed for lack of evidence. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast....

"...I was still in Brgy Binanggaran, Calbiga, Samar, a military operation consisting of 11 people passed by our house. They called me to come down from our house. They proceeded to investigate me about the NPA's whereabouts and where they were hiding. They kept on insisting even when I told them I had no idea, and since they were not convinced of my denials they eventually beat me up." See omnystu...

"Hindi ako makakain at napasuka pa dahil sa ginawa nilang pambabastos at pagyurak sa dangal ng aking pagkababae," reads the affidavit of this victim who was detained from 1972 to 1973. "Labis na galit, takot (na ma-rape), gutom, puyat, pananakit ng katawan, at pagkahabag sa sarili ang naramdaman ko noon." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...

In some parts of the world, Queen Elizabeth II’s death has sparked not grief and sympathy–but demands for the return of prized jewels and artifacts, which they say the British looted. For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms: Facebook Instagram Twitter Tiktok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At Silingan Coffee, the staff will serve you their bestselling hazelnut latte along with–if you’re willing to listen–a story or two about how their family members were killed mercilessly in the name of Duterte’s drug war.  For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms: Facebook Instagram Twitter Tiktok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast...

On the 50th anniversary of Martial Law, the daughter of detainees and torture survivors tells her family’s story.  For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms: Facebook Instagram Twitter Tiktok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.