Author: Izel Abanilla

MANILA, Philippines – THE Department of Migrant Workers on Wednesday said the country was poised to resume sending Filipino migrant workers to Kuwait after the latter imposed a visa suspension last year over reports of domestic abuse to OFWs in the Arab country.Filipino workers this time were assured of stronger protection and enhanced monitoring of their conditions as a result of an agreement between the two nations. In a press briefing last June 26, DMW Sec. Hans Leo J. Cacdac confirmed that the Gulf State will be reversing the restrictions it imposed on Filipinos last May 2023. Deployment is expected to…

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OH shux! It’s BINIverse era, and Google proves it. The BINI fever shows no sign of stopping just yet as the trending eight-girl group BINI tops YouTube searches of Filipinos in June 2024 beating Hollywood A-listers Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenters.  Based on the data aggregated by Google Trends, BINI tops the most searched artists in the Philippines leaving behind Swift and Carpenters by a significant margin. Thanks to their irresistible infectious summer dance hit “Pantropiko” and “Salamin Salamin,” BINI gained massive search tallys in resulting in impressive rankings in key regions such as Calabarzon, Bicol, MIMAROPA, Region XII and Central Luzon…

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UNLESS one gets carnal fix from fresh flesh, people, then and now, seek to satisfy their salacity through visual alternatives – sex videos.  Save for some Jurassic technology, filming sex videos pre-internet involved manual effort, bulky hand cameras, big tapes and cds of all variations. And there wasn’t today’s one click magic; one must get up his feet, go to nearby sidewalks and buy from sellers who discreetly market pornographic movies.  This was how they made business in porn then.  Now is a totally different infrastructure given the internet and social media. What was then an effortful, penny-requiring process to…

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