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DEADLINE FOR OVERSEAS FILIPINOS TO VOTE EXTENDED TO SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2025 AT NOON!

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (PhilaMessenger.net) CHICAGO (PM) – If you are a Filipino or dual Filipino-American citizen and at least 18 years of age and are not disqualified by law and a registered voter, you have until 12 noon Central Time Saturday, May 10, 2025, or 12 Midnight Saturday P...

FILIPINO JOURNALISTS FACE NOT ONLY CRIMINAL LIBEL BUT ALSO DEATH THREATS

The Straphanger ©2025 By BOBBY M. REYES (PhilaMessenger.net) PART II OF 'PROTECTING FILIPINO JOURNALISTS" SERIES HOW CRIMINAL LIBEL CHILLS JOURNALISTS LOS ANGELES (PM) -- One of the biggest threats to freedom of the press -- and freedom of speech -- in the Philippines is the fa...

QUAINT PH COFFEE SHOP BUCKS ODDS, MARKS 100 YEARS!

©2025 By MILDRED FAJARDO DENIEGA* TIA TINAY’s: A Sorsoganon Coffee Original That Endures HOW CARINDERIA GOT ITS NAME (This write-up, Sundays with Cha Sonia, will appear on this week's issue of Sorsogon Today. If anyone is interested in hard copies, Sorsogon Today's editorial office i...

VP SARA, REP. PAOLO FOLLOW DUTERTE IN THE HAGUE

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA AND TRACY CABRERA (PhilaMessenger.net) DAVAOENOS OUTRAGED OVER DUTERTE’S ARREST MANILA (PM) -- Vice President Sara Duterte departed for the Netherlands Wednesday morning, March 12, following yesterday's International Crimina...

DUTERTE ARRESTED!

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA & TRACY CABRERA (PhilaMessenger.net) AIDE SAYS DUTERTE’S ARREST ILLEGAL! PPRD ON HIS WAY TO ICC IN THE HAGUE! MANILA (PM) – THE IMPROBABLE HAPPENED! FORMER PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte was arrested Tuesday (March 11...

DAMAGE OF TYPHOON KRISTINE IN BIKOL SHOCKING AND DEVASTATING!

A Facebook video circulating online shows a shocking devastation wrought by Typhoon Kristine (international code name: Trami). It can be compared to the destruction brought by Super Typhoon Yolanda in 2013. According to Associate Press report from Manila, Philippines posted by CNN, a widespre...

DISMISSAL OF DE LIMA’S DRUG CASE PUTS DUTERTE IN A BIND!

©2024 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (PhilaMessenger.net) AS TRUMPED-UP CASES UNRAVEL MANILA, Philippines (PM) — The last of the three drug charges filed against former senator Leila de Lima has been dismissed last June 25 by a Muntinlupa, Metro Manila regional trial court, putting an icing...

GUNMAN IN LAPID SLAY GETS 16 YEARS

THE TRIGGERMAN in the cold-bloodied murder of webcaster Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa less than two years ago was sentenced Tuesday (May 7), Manila Time, to a maximum of 16 years in prison,according to Philippine Daily Inquirer. Joel Escorial, 40, was sentenced by Judge Harold Cesar Huliganga o...