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Is the Philippine tobacco industry dying?
By Mar T. Supnad SANTIAGO, Ilocos Sur — If you’d ask me, being a tobacco farmer myself, the tobacco industry is gradually dying brought about by government’s gross neglect for quite some time. Is the tobacco price controlled and manipulated by big-time businessmen? I would say, yes, since time immemorial! These vultures controlled it and…
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Empowering LGUs thru digital transformation
By Mar T. Supnad AFTER successfully launching of what he referred to as the world’s first-ever visa and multi purpose cards with automatic bank account, Mayor Luis ‘Chavit’ Singson, national president of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines, mulls on financially empowering the local government units (LGUs) all over the country through digital transformation.…