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March 2020 Volume 12 No. 09 March 2020 Toyota President rides jeepneys and buses around Manila to experience the daily struggles of VIP Tour 2020 Filipino commuters Updates Page 18 Page 6 & 7 Merging pop culture Page 10 and Filipino heritage Houston’s Super Page 22 Realtor Page 2 DICK PHILS: DUTERTE: Billionaire GORDON: US terri- ‘No one Dennis Uy ‘Beware of tory or is fit to is looking the Fifth Chinese succeed for a Column’ province? me unicorn to Page 18 Page 19 Page 14 finance Page 23 02 March 2020 March 2020 03 De Numero Million US dollars, Opinions expressed herein are those amount hand-carried of the writers and do not necessarily reflect 160 into the country by the views of Chinese nationals ONE PHILIPPINES Texas edition for suspected laundering management and its editorial staff. Reproduction or use without permission of the publisher is stricly prohibited. “I will live and die with President Number of jobs lost Community news may be sent to ONE at Philippine Airlines PHILIPPINES Texas edition at Suite 170 Duterte. I will sink and swim with 300 as revenue losses 9898 Bissonnet Street, Houston TX. 77036. him…I am not plastic and say I This magazine is released once a month by continue to mount amid declining AZ Media Entertainment Services. don’t have any bias. I’m a real demand because of the COVID-19 person and say that I am biased outbreak. BHONG ZAUSA towards the president.” – Senator Publisher RONALD ‘BATO’ DELA ROSA, Billion pesos, on the issues of the Visiting Forces budget deficit of JAY R Agreement (VFA) abrogation and 660.2 the government Marketing Director the political destruction of ABS- last year, a result of spending more on CBN, making his position crystal education and services despite falling tax RAFAEL VIGILIA clear that he serves Duterte first and foremost and the collection Marketing Officer Constitution and the Filipino people only incidentally. This Number of blue is what Donald Trump meant by “absolute loyalty.” surgical mask- MYRA BAGUIO 269 wearing couples Marketing Manager “I’m not sure of the number, but I in Bacolod City that participated can say majority of the members in a mass wedding ceremony last JEFFREY ATIENZA of the Senate are not in favor of February 20, 2020 despite the Photographer the abrogation. That is my sense..” corona virus scare - Senator VICENTE ‘VIC’ MANNY ESPINOLA SOTTO on President Rodrigo Graphics Artist Duterte’s termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) HEADLINES Tel: 713-725-1407, with the United States. CHINESE MILLIONS 713-483-4783 ENTERING PH MAY BE FAX: 281-933-8697, “If there’s something that needs FUNNELED INTO POGO (Store) 281-933-1871 to be changed, it’s probably OPERATIONS to ensure that the atrocities NewsInfo.Inquirer Houston, Dallas, committed during the dictatorship Hello Fifth Column! Fort Worth, will be inculcated in each and Austin, San Antonio, every Filipino…That’s because Killeen, Corpus Christi, QC TRAINS VILLAGE Harlingen, McAllen, we allowed the Marcoses to HEALTH WORKERS IN Beaumont / reign again — meaning that we Port Arthur, Louisiana FIGHT VS CORONA VIRUS haven’t learned (the lessons of History)” – Vice President ABS-CBN LENI ROBREDO on Bongbong Marcos’ call to revise history Sige nga! 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Although Citira aims to gradually LABOR GROUP SEPARATE PROVINCES, reduce the corporate income tax rate from 30% to RAISES FEARS OF 20%, it also aims to “rationalize” or make stricter the ‘EMPLOYMENT’ CRISIS incentives received by foreign investors.Until Citira is signed AS MORE JOBS CUT into law, investors are reportedly – and understandably – postponing PHILIppINE STAR their investments in the Philippines.” - Analyst JC PUNONGBAYAN / Thought Leaders / Rappler OMG sama umpisa 2020 COVID-19 GLOBAL CASE TALLY: DRILON FEARS PH 83,861 cases, 2,867 deaths (As of February BECOMING ‘HAVEN FOR 28 2020) There are now a total of 83,861 MONEY LAUNDERERS’ cases of COVID-19 and at least 2,867 deaths, Manila Bulletin according to the latest figures from the Johns Friends ni bossing eh, anong Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering’s magagawa natin? Centers for Systems Science and Engineering. About 36,000 people have recovered. FILIPINOS FROM On March 11, 1966, the old Mountain Province was divided COVID-19 CRUISE SHIP into four separate provinces: “The Bureau of Immigration claims that the number of Chinese LAND AT CLARK Mountain Province - with Bontoc GMA NEWS as the capital, Benguet, with La nationals who are in the country has reached 1.8 million. Senator Trinidad as the capital, Hontiveros said that if 1 million of these entered the country with Welcome! Paki-face mask Kalinga-Apayao with Tabuk as a “service fee” of P10,000, the amount would reach P10 billion in lang po lahat ng bababa! the capital, and Ifugao - with bribes received by corrupt immigration personnel.” - REV. FR. Lagawe as the capital. CECILIO T. PASCUAL / Servant Leader / Business Mirror 04 March 2020 March 2020 05 doors, it helps if you greet a Filipino family opening the door in Tagalog,” she said. Like Latinos, Filipino-Americans tend to vote Democrat. “When Trump talks about not bringing in relatives and things like that, that same thing applies to Asians,” said Tick Segerblom, a commissioner for Clark County, where Las Vegas is located. “So Trump has really been a boon as far as organizing Asians.” (AFP News via Yahoo) FIRST FILIPINA HONGKONG DOMESTIC HELPER CORONA VIRUS FEARS LEAD HOLY LAND CONTRACTS CORONA VIRUS CATHOLIC CHURCHES TO GIVE COMMUNION BY HAND ONLY Filipina has become A the first domestic helper to contract the oman Catholic authorities in coronavirus in Hong RJerusalem have instructed Kong, and the Chinese- their priests to give communion ruled city’s 61st case by hand only, rather than placing overall, health authorities the wafers on worshippers’ said last February 18, tongues, and to empty holy water 2020. fonts - as precautions against the There are more than spread of the coronavirus. The 180,000 Filipinos in Hong Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem Kong, many working as announced the measures on helpers, according to the Philippine labor ministry. The Philippines Thursday, shortly after the start had imposed a travel ban on China and its special administrative of Lent, the 40-day season that regions, Hong Kong and Macau. The helper, who worked for one leads up to Easter. Millions of of the previous confirmed coronavirus cases, spent an hour out pilgrims frequent Jerusalem with over 10 friends who the health department is contacting, the and other holy cities such as Nazareth and Bethlehem each head of the communicable disease branch of the Centre for Health year. Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Vatican’s apostolic Protection, Chuang Shuk-kwan, said. (Reuters via Yahoo) administrator, said in a statement that with its many visitors the Holy Land is in a “unique situation”. The guidelines include “receiving Communion by hand only”, rather than placing the wafer TRILLIANES UNFAZED BY RELENTLESS POLITICAL directly on the recipient’s tongue, and avoiding “having the faithful PERSECUTION receive Communion from the chalice”.(ABS-CBN News) ormer Senator Antonio Trillanes IV Fsays he’s unfazed by multiple cases filed against him by the government, DELIMA WANTS EARLY CASH GIFTS TO SENIOR including a conspiracy to commit sedition CITIZENS WHO REACH 80, 90 YEARS charge in connection with the viral “narco list” videos that accused Duterte evout Duterte cheerleader and former allies of profiting from the drug trade. Dsinger Mocha Uson is back in hot In fact, Trillanes is so unbothered by his water after Vice President Leni Robredo legal woes that he says he turned down lashed out at her for spreading fake news offers of political asylum from at least again on her Facebook account. What two European countries. The former riled Robredo was an article shared by senator said on ANC News that the cases Uson last night from a pro-government were just President Rodrigo Duterte’s blog called Mindanation, where a certain tools “to silence the opposition and instill netizen named Artanacia Oallop, who fear in others so that they won’t follow purported to be a victim of the Taal suit. That’s just how they act…People are slowly realizing that our Volcano eruption, claimed that she earlier assertions and allegations about the government were true. received just five pieces of bread and a And I’ve seen how this administration got into power back in 2016, bottle of water from Robredo when the wherein he (Duterte) had an almost cult-like image and following, vice president met her at an evacuation and it’s very difficult to penetrate people’s hearts and minds at the site. Robredo’s team countered: “VP Leni time,” he said. did not give bread to our countrymen who (Coconuts Manila) were affected by Taal Volcano’s [eruption] but she gave food packs instead,” the FILIPINO-AMERICANS ‘FIRED UP’ AS TAGALOG ADDED statement reads. “These food packs contained rice, instant noodles, and canned goods. Aside from these, TO NEVADABALLOT she also gave away dust masks and drinking water.” (Coconuts With Kamayan (whole roast pig Manila) dinner) and prayer services, activists are using every tool PASTILLIAS KAYO DYAN! possible to get the booming Filipino-American community nder the “pastillas” in Las Vegas to the polls Uoperation, an arriving for Saturday’s Democratic Chinese reportedly shells out nomination vote.