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©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...

             ©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...

©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...

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...

©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...

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...

                             SEC. ALFONSO G. CUSI   ©2022 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (PM correspondent)   Instead of explaining away why he did not oppose the acquisition of Malampalaya Project by a  crony of President Duterte, Philippine Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi went on an offensive by w...

BEN ROSARIO, WIFE RECOVER, LEAVE HOSPITALS   © 2020 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (Journal GlobaLinks)   CHICAGO (JGL) – Ben Rosario, Chief of Reporters of Manila Bulletin, who covers the House of Representatives, and his wife, Nelia, were rushed to the Chinese General Hospital in Manila, Philippin...