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Amid acclaim for her recent Time100 Impact Award, Broadway star Lea Salonga urged more support for pandemic-hit creative industries. For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So many questions, but we home in on the two biggest ones: Can a president just up and leave without informing the country or leaving someone in charge? And were public funds or resources used for this trip?For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

New data aggregated by Packworks from sari-sari stores tells an interesting story about why sales of hygiene and self-care products–and not canned food–spike immediately after major disasters.For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Researchers warn that a subvariant of Omicron is demonstrating an alarming ability to dodge immunity. For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this excerpt of Catch Me If You Can, we hear from the person behind the Twitter alter account @supernegatrona as he talks about how he influenced the presidential bid of VP Leni Robredo.For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Time and time again, the Sierra Madre breaks the megastorms rolling in from the Pacific Ocean before they hit us in Luzon. Super Typhoon Karding was just the latest example.For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A panel of history professors sounds the alarm over what students are learning – or not learning – about Martial Law. President Marcos Jr. attended the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week, marking a triumphant return to the city – and his mother’s extravagant ways. For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

President Marcos Jr. attended the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week, marking a triumphant return to the city – and his mother’s extravagant ways. For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Former Executive Secretary Vic Rodriguez is now presidential chief of staff, after resigning in the wake of the sugar fiasco. Wait, what’s the difference? Won’t he be doing the same job, more or less? For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We go behind the scenes of an outfit that was creating attack memes against Bongbong Marcos during the 2022 elections. Listen to excerpts of the new episode of Catch Me If You Can with Jonathan Ong.Listen to Catch Me If You Can Episode 4: Trolls for LeniSpotifyApple podcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The victim was arrested shortly after the declaration of Martial Law in September 1972. He was ordered to give his captors information about the CPP/NPA which he didn't have, under threat of being beheaded just like a man in another cell; and of his friend being killed. "I demanded to have a lawyer represent me, but they claimed they were the law since martial law was already declared then," he wrote. He was freed in 1973, but by the 1990s, when he executed his affidavit, he said he still carried the scars of torture. "All that I seek now is truth and justice, just like the fate of my fellow ex-detainees, dead and alive."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The victim, an engineering student, had been called to the school president's office one afternoon in 1982. Little did he know that this would deliver him into the hands of the police. He would be in prison for more than a year on charges of rebellion and inciting to sedition, which would later be dismissed for lack of evidence.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"...I was still in Brgy Binanggaran, Calbiga, Samar, a military operation consisting of 11 people passed by our house. They called me to come down from our house. They proceeded to investigate me about the NPA's whereabouts and where they were hiding. They kept on insisting even when I told them I had no idea, and since they were not convinced of my denials they eventually beat me up." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Hindi ako makakain at napasuka pa dahil sa ginawa nilang pambabastos at pagyurak sa dangal ng aking pagkababae," reads the affidavit of this victim who was detained from 1972 to 1973. "Labis na galit, takot (na ma-rape), gutom, puyat, pananakit ng katawan, at pagkahabag sa sarili ang naramdaman ko noon."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In some parts of the world, Queen Elizabeth II’s death has sparked not grief and sympathy–but demands for the return of prized jewels and artifacts, which they say the British looted.For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At Silingan Coffee, the staff will serve you their bestselling hazelnut latte along with–if you’re willing to listen–a story or two about how their family members were killed mercilessly in the name of Duterte’s drug war. For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the 50th anniversary of Martial Law, the daughter of detainees and torture survivors tells her family’s story. For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee 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:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee 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 information.

"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/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more 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:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee 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:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee 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:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee 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 omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"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 dictatorship.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"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 for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee 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:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee 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:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 ko ay wala akong kasalanan."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"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 privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“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 bereaved wife. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"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 omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktok 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:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On August 12, 2022, a decades-old religious order to kill renowned author Salman Rushdie was almost realized when he was repeatedly stabbed in front of a live audience in upstate New York. For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At the first meeting of the Senate public information and mass media panel, Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles gives us a glimpse of what state media might look like in the coming years. For more from the PumaPodcast team, find us on these platforms:FacebookInstagramTwitterTiktok See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An expose by VICE alleged a “culture of sexual abuse that thrived for decades” at the Philippine High School for the Arts. But they are far from the first school to have been thrust into the spotlight over harassment. What can we do about it?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Labing-isang pilay lahat ang kanyang nakamtan na hanggang ngayon ay kanyang pinagdurusahan. Dahil dito hindi nila maayos-ayos ang kanilang pamumuhay," reads a Cotabato farmer's affidavit. He had been captured in in 1984, and though he was freed after five days, his wounds lasted for over a decade.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"The twenty residents and celebrants of a wedding festival were simultaneously shot to death inside a mosque of Ganta, Datu Piang, Maguindanao," reads this affidavit of two celebrants who had survived a massacre of Muslim Filipinos in 1974. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Nakaranas ako ng suntok, sampal, tadyak, hampas ng baril at sinturon at kahoy. Naranasan ko rin ang ilublob ang aking ulo sa maruming inidoro sa kasilyas, ang kumain ng katakut-takot na sili, ang lumuhod sa monggo, ang maging alipin nila, at iba't iba pang uri ng pagmamalabis na nakapagpapababa ng pagkatao ko," reads the affidavit of an activist who was detained for three months and put on community confinement for another six in 1972. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The 16-year-old girl was just washing her family's clothes near a deep well in their barangay in Maguindanao when military men snatched her away. Neighbors heard pleas for help, then gunshots. It was only when the perpetrators had left that they were able to rush to her "dead naked body... with some knife and several bullet wounds".See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The silence rang loud on August 21 as Ninoy Aquino Day came and went with no acknowledgment from President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. But this is just one of many awkward dates that the dictator’s son will have to face in his term. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.