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Local basketball officials are copping criticism over their insistence that Filipino talent playing for overseas teams hurts the local leagues.  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.

We’ll give it away: the POGO companies. They’re back, and more ruthless than ever. But why are they kidnapping each other’s workers?  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.

Told to cooperate unless he wanted the same fate as others to befall him - like having to "eat and drink the contents of a toilet bowl and being electrocuted" - a man from Angeles City nevertheless received beatings from members of the Philippine Constabulary when they captured him in 1973.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...

"Sa pagbaba ko pa lamang ng aming hagdanan ay naramdaman ko na lamang na may biglang pumalo sa aking batok at ako ay napasubsob sa lupa. Habang patungo kami sa mga nakaparadang sasakyan nila ay may sumipa sa akin, may sumuntok, at pinompyang ang aking tenga. Pilit din na sinubo sa aking bibig ang dulo ng baril," reads the affidavit of a man who was imprisoned from 1973 to 1974. See omnystudio.com/...

This mediaman didn't just suffer broken ribs and burns and wounds on his face and ears. After his 1983 arrest in Cagayan de Oro City, his captors "even let me urinate in a litro bottle of Coke and poured it on my head," his affidavit says. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1977, after publishing "The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos", Primitivo Mijares went missing while his youngest son Boyet was kidnapped and brutally murdered. Mrs. Priscilla Mijares wrote in her affidavit, "Information reaching my family were to the effect that during the torture of my son, the father was made to appear by torturers to witness his son's agony." See omnystud...

At just 17 years old, Alex Eala became the first Filipino to bag a singles Grand Slam. Like many Filipino athletes looking to make their country proud, the government offered little help – but she dedicated her win to Philippine tennis all the same.  For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms: Facebook Instagram Twitter Tiktok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information...

We started the year at around the 51 levels against the dollar, and now 58 is very much a reality. What is going on? 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.

The “human resources manager” who keeps texting about a job offer now knows your name. Was there another data leak? Are the telcos selling our information? 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.

The school that went viral for announcing its closure on the very first day of classes proves once more that the business of education can be brutal. 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.

By now we are familiar with what happens to Martial Law victims in captivity. But what about after they're released? This man who was imprisoned from 1982 to 1984 was eventually found innocent of charges against him. Freedom, however, meant living in poverty. "Our children were not able to attend school and I could not find any good job anymore... [it was] very hard to start a new life again." See...

"CHDF Cuevas punched me on the chest several times, then pulled his 38 caliber pistol and whipped me on the stomach, then on the mouth. My mouth was already bleeding and my two front tooth dropped to the ground. It was so painful that I almost fainted," reads this affidavit of a farmer who was accused of being a member of the New People's Army, and jailed for four months in 1983, under the Marcos...

"He just threatened me by saying that there were drugs which could make me talk. Then he removed his revolver, a .45 caliber, and loaded it. And I prayed, 'This is it Lord. Let me die right away. Make it quick'," reads this affidavit from a priest in Quezon City, who would be detained on and off for from 1973 to 1977 after being captured by the Philippine Constabulary.  See omnystudio.com/listener...

A Cotabato farmer was picked up by the military in 1976, killed, then thrown into the river. His relatives found his corpse three days later. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Renowned historian Ambeth Ocampo talks us through how he settled a long-running debate over Rizal’s height (and penchant for weightlifting!)–and the value of continuing to learn about our national hero after all these years.  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 ac...

Restrictive school haircut policies that affect mostly LGBTQIA+ students have stirred up debate in recent months. We speak to Ryan Silverio, executive director of the ASEAN SOGIE Caucus, about how this has impacted the community. 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. Se...

Are we really in the throes of a sugar crisis, or is this just an “artificial” shortage caused by hoarding? The government and sugar industry groups can’t seem to agree.  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.

An exiled Afghan journalist reflects on the Taliban's takeover of her country and the challenges posed by her new life as a refugee.  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.

As you sit in the car waiting out Monday rush-hour traffic, are you looking around to see where the cameras are? Don’t worry, the No Contact Apprehension Policy is suspended for now. This is why it’s been so contentious. 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.c...

The victim spent her loneliest Christmas and New Year behind bars. Her affidavit reads, "Nakatulong din kahit papaano ang snap election [ng 1986] sa akin. Nang pumunta si Marcos noong kampanya sa Lucena ay ako ang parang ginawa niyang kasangkapan upang ipakita na may mabuti siyang kalooban. Sinabi niya mismo sa stage na pinalalaya na ako kahit ako'y nagkasala. Nakikinig ako noon sa radyo at sabi k...

"Pinagbubugbog siya... magmula noon ay nagkasakit na ang tatay ko at nagsuka ng dugo at binigyan siya ng first aid treatment ng Philippine Red Cross.... Magmula noon ay hindi na siya nakapagtrabaho at nanghina na ang kanyang katawan," reads this affidavit of a son whose father was taken by authorities while they were having dinner in their Pampanga home in 1976. See omnystudio.com/listener for pri...

“I recalled there must have been hundreds of them inside the gymnasium. So day and night until December 22, 1974, he stayed in that filthy, cramped, unhealthy condition; while his wife and five younger children suffered too at home, deprived of his income during the eight months he was incarcerated…his condition deteriorated and he died on October 30, 1980,” reads the affidavit of a banker’s berea...

"Hindi nila ako nilubayan ng katatanong kung ako'y kaanib sa subersibong organisasyon, at samantalang ako'y tinatanong ay dinanas ko ang halos lahat ng uri ng pagpapahirap. Kasama na rito ang paglubog sa akin sa drum na puno ng tubog na patuwad akong inilulubog, at kapag ako'y halos patay na ay saka lamang ako iaahon," reads the affidavit of a man who was imprisoned for nine months in 1978. See om...

We already know that climate change is a threat to the way we live. So how can we design the spaces we move around in so that future generations can still enjoy the same resources we do? 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.

As the Philippines marks its first-ever National Press Freedom Day, we ask: How free is the Philippine press exactly? 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.