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Journalist | Former bylines at @cnnphilippines @bworldph @verafiles
Feb 23, 2021 20 tweets 7 min read
Dito Telecommunity officials hold a media briefing a day after the National Telecommunications Commission announced they passed their first technical audit: We are ready for our March rollout. @cnnphilippines Chief administrative officer Adel Tamano says the telco will do its commercial launch in "less than two weeks." @cnnphilippines
Feb 21, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Empty pork stalls at Commonwealth Market this morning. Vendors go on a pork holiday as the price ceilings on kasim and liempo are on its third week. @cnnphilippines Amid pork holidays and calls to revoke the price caps in Metro Manila, Agriculture Secretary William Dar says: “We have enough supply.”

Additional hog shipments are scheduled to fill markets on the third week of the price ceilings on pork. @cnnphilippines
May 5, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
Lawmakers are now playing hero, threatening NTC for contempt as public sympathy (real, non-troll people) is with ABS-CBN. Truth is, they had months/years to renew the franchise but they didn’t. Here’s an admission back in February: bit.ly/2Wuji3J The drama over the 2016 political ads has been resolved. Authorities cleared the network from any tax, labor, corporate law violations. Still nothing.

Cayetano used Taal and even the first few COVID-19 cases as excuses. Here’s a throwback:
bit.ly/3b3kkJv