The government is doing something new in the perennial efforts to reduce corruption by arresting former senior politicians. Thus former president Gloria Arroyo was arrested for electoral fraud, a charge that can result in a life sentence. She was earlier prevented from leaving the country for medical care. This arrest will lead to a major political battle, which could be accompanied by gunfire and bombs.
The latest update HERE.
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The NEJournal reports our local rice harvest is down 40 percent.
This is a bit misleading: We managed to harvest some rice before the typhoon/floods hit, but the crops were damaged: Our post typhoon harvest was down 20 to 30 percent, and much of what was harvested after the typhoon hit was poor quality.
The gov't is busy giving out hybrid seeds to local small farmers for the "dry season" crop, hoping to keep the farmers from going broke.
We had land reform, so a lot of those whose grandfathers worked for our grandfather own their land, and this increased prosperity so their kids now are educated and work in Manila or Saudi instead of breaking their backs farming...so as the older folks retire, they want to sell the land. By law, we can only own a limited amount of land, sp have bought back some of the farms we used to own, but the increase in fancy homes along the now paved roads suggests a lot of the land near the roads being sold to folks from Manila etc. who want weekend homes in the country.
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