PHILIPPINE NEWS! AMERICAN SHOT! FILIPINO HAPPY RANK! MONEY EXCHANGE

PHILIPPINE NEWS! AMERICAN SHOT! FILIPINO HAPPY RANK! MONEY EXCHANGE

First off in the news we’re here in SIU City Foreigner shot by range 999 dies I guess he is a rapper and uh I haven’t been able to find a lot of information about this story uh there I’m told that on some of the groups and Facebook and such there’s

There’s a lot of discussions people talking about uh maybe this maybe this anyway murder charges were filed against sabano rapper Andrew salero also known as as range 999 as the Foreigner he shot during a scuffle on March 19th died Tuesday March 19th 2024 of the American national

Michael George riche 37 died past 6 PM Tuesday Ricky sustained gunshot wounds in his shoulder and thigh they will amend the case file against range 9999 from frustrated murder to murder following the death death of Richie police have also identified the man who was seen on CCTV kicking the American

National before the shooting happened story two pro7 will deploy cops to SEC secure Holy Week this Friday now Holy Week the uh Christian holidays of of Easter and the days before are some of the uh most important here in the Philippines you have Monday Thursday Good Friday Black Saturday Easter Sunday

And Easter Monday and uh one of the only times that you will find that malls are closed here in the Philippines on one or two of those days and it will vary by where you are in the Philippines different uh different malls will be closed on different days is what I’ve

Observed in the past anyway that will be in March 28th 29th 30th 31st and then uh Easter Monday is April 1st so just be aware of that there will be if you’re planning on travel traveling there will be millions of people traveling it’s one of those holidays where where millions of

Filipinos travel and spend time with their family and at church and those sorts of things so keep that in mind Story Three Delivery writer Suz man for replacing wine with water what a deal 44y old man was charged with a Stafa after tricking a delivery driver by

Filling a one liter Johnny Walker double black with water instead of alcohol he did this using the maxim delivery app Maxim is one of the motorcycle hobble hble motorcycle taxi delivery and and Rider uh systems here in the Philippines the booking was accepted by 25-year-old Rider uh Charles fencer

Uh he’s married and had it delivered to Shopwise mbling not sure what being married had anything to do with it but when he got there no one came out to take the package raising doubts that he had been tricked he looked into the bottle and saw that it was filled with

Colored water that had been uh colored and made to look like wine good news for those of you on the uh with the US dollar is that the exchange rate remains relatively high at 50 6.13 uh pesos per the US dollar when I came here 2015 was 48 and I get the

Texts and messages from people that they were here when it was in the lower 40s as well so we’re doing fairly well your money goes further and here’s a chart with other currencies if you want to go across and look at those from other countries um the bad news is that inflation

Remains relatively High especially if you’re purchasing imported goods with the uh issues in the Middle East with with the ships uh taking the long Route Around Africa takes much longer uh with the Panama Canal might have some issues with the lower water um they can’t haul

As much to go through the Panama Canal because of low water levels shipping costs have gone up substantially over the last several months and therefore it costs more to ship goods some of the goods that arrive here in the Philippines imported Foods coffees uh extra virgin olive oil just to name a

Few Story number three Philippines second happiest country in Southeast Asia according to recent poll in this report and uh you know there’s there’s a difference how we all we all find happiness in different ways so it’s interesting polls uh come out asks questions certain ways uh but anyway

Let’s get into that’s a discussion for another time let’s get into the uh the report here Philippines is the second happiest country in Southeast Asia according to the annual World happiness report released by the University of Oxford’s well-being Research Center in the UK of 143 States the Philippines uh

Standing improved to 53 from last year’s 7 6 out of 137 countries respondents evaluated their current Life as a whole from a score of 0 to 10 with 10 being the highest the latest ranking is almost similar to Philippines 52nd ranking in the 2020 report which included Data before covid-19

Pandemic in the seventh consecutive year Finland topped the list followed by Denmark Iceland Sweden and is Israel found to be the least happy can you believe it Afghanistan Lebanon uh Sierra Leon Congo Zimbabwe batswana Malawi EST wantin and Zambia in Southeast Asia Singapore ranked first or 30th overall following the Philippines were Vietnam

54th Thailand 58th Malaysia 59th Indonesia 80th Laos 94th Myanmar 118th and Cambodia 119th that’s interesting the report used three-year data from the Gallup World Poll published in partnership with Gallup and the UN sustainable development Solutions Network Global happiness inequality has increased by more than 20% over the past Dozen Years

In all regions and age groups to an extent that differs a lot by age and by region very key point there it’s going to differ a lot by by age group and uh by by region so you know in polls like this are somewhat meaning meaningless and then I guess

Another uh note that I would take is you know what um contentment contentment uh like Finland you know a lot of Finland a lot of the Scandinavian countries ranked very high uh contentment and happiness can be two different things so depends upon how you’re defining them and how you’re measuring them several of

The Scandinavian countries uh like Finland Sweden uh Norway I believe they have have relatively high taxes you pay into and uh then you get um free free medical free education free this and that and uh although it’s not really free obviously you’re paying in and that’s a choice the

The citizens make those choices do we want to pay in large amounts of our income and and have these things taken care of and not have to worry about it uh so that is that is a a system worth debating next Story another set of kush I think which is uh purified Mar

Marijuana something like that we’ll read read further about it worth 158 million pesos concealed in Bellic buying boxes has been seized in at Customs many of you have used Bell buying boxes and uh I know number of years 2016 I think they started opening a lot more of the boxes

There was kind of an uproar and protest against that and but they do I think they do x-ray all ballic bayin boxes that come in through customs B bayin uh is a relatively cheap way to ship boxes of a number of different sizes into the Philippines um and and people ship

Anything and everything in those boxes and I’ve done videos about B mine boxes and uh anyway the Bureau of Customs was able to seize kush or dried marijuana leaves again this time worth uh boxes coming from Thailand originally the shipment was declared as Consolidated Bellic buyan boxes and

Personal effects from Thailand but we’ve already seen this modus before so after vetting the information that we received we immediately went to work to thwart the smuggling activity apparently they were tipped off the next story from SIU digital news I believe part of the inquired uh government eyes 200 New

Ports 200 new Ferry ports by 2028 to connect remote Islands that’s something that I’ve seen evolving in the in the uh eight years that I’ve been here this is a row row Ferry what’s called roll on roll off and they’ve got a uh they’ve got a drop down either in the front or

The back or both and uh you can load vehicles on here and then they’ll often times not always have a passenger area as well the government plans to build 200 new SE ports by 2028 these ports aim to connect remote Islands boost their economies enh enhance disaster resilience we call it

Social tourism and Farm to Market ports we would like to connect these remote Islands to bigger island economies for their economic growth and at the present time uh if you want to visit the smaller Islands uh you usually have to take the smaller banka motor Bonas uh that have

Outriggers off to the side and uh you know I’ve done that and I kind of enjoy that as well jumping back over to Phil star digital um 82 11 typhoons to enter the P P stands for Philippine area of responsibility and that is that red box

You see the Philippines here and uh the red box is the Philippine area responsibility and what happens 99% of the time these typhoons come in from from the East and uh even if they just hit the corner up here the Philippines changes the name there’s an international name out here

And the Philippines changes the name and when it leaves this red box it goes back to the international name can be quite confusing but the Philippine area responsibility even includes Taiwan up here 8 to1 typhoons are expected to enter the enter the country this year according to the Phil Philip Philippine

Atmospheric Geo physical and ason astronomical service Administration pagasa pagasa weather specialist rui abastos told a press conference that one typhoon is expected in April 1 to two in May and June and two to three from July to September a slight delay of the rainy season is possible amid the uh

Developing linia we’re presently in an elino and then we’re going to go back to a l supposedly later this season next story gunman shoot at buor Chief’s car on Skyway this is up the Manila area metropolitan area looks like this is the uh they travel in vehicles with bulletproof glass looks

Like this is a where the bullet hit apparently and this is something you know there’s there are shootings in the Philippines my observation over eight years is that they’re they’re usually uh political related they’re um Grudge related um maybe drug related type things uh anyway un unidentified as salent shot at

A vehicle owned by Bureau of Corrections Chief Georgio katapang Jr as it was on its way to pick up bukar deputy chief Al peras of in queson City according to the bureau the salance fired at the Toyota Hilux as it was passing through the Skyway at around 6:30 a.m. kapang agreed with

Observations that the gunmen appeared to be professionals who appeared to have tested the type of ammunition that could penetrate the bulletproof vehicle the buor said the the salance in a great Toyota Vios overtook the backup car which was driven by two other security escorts and open fire well that takes

Takes balls rear windshield was hit and shattered but the bullet was not able to penetrate the vehicle and the next story da starts cloud seeding amid El Nino it’s called Uh weather it’s called man changing the weather and it’s been going on for decades and decades uh anyway Manila cloud seating operations have

Been conducted over Kagan Valley which is in the north of Luzan Island to cushion the effects of the strong El Nino sodium chloride was scattered on cloud formations 4500 ft above the ground in targeted areas this concussion the impact uh of El Nino crops need the precipitation and cooling effect of the

Rain and the last item I want to discuss here today I’ve I’ve seem to have noticed uh here it is the end of March almost and there’s uh a lot more foreigners in town than I can remember in previous years in March now we’re still in the high season uh it’ll start

Waning off uh April pretty much a lot of people will go go back home to the Northern Hemisphere where the spring is coming on but uh I’ve talked to a number of restaurant owners bar owners uh Hotel people and they they there’s still a a

Lot of vacancies and deals to be had out there but what what I’m hearing is that because of the travel restrictions for two years um there are more people are staying longer once they finally got to the Philippines they’re extending their vacation they’re staying longer and you know eventually they’re

Going to go home the the tourists you know the expats are one other thing but uh I know I’ve met a number of expats over the years and would see them regularly different places and uh and then uh I didn’t see them for a couple

Months and I I come across a couple the other day and they said well yeah we went to Bantan Island for a couple couple of months or so they they travel they they travel around the Philippines or maybe other Southeast Asian countries anyway um you know we’re

Going into our slower season and there should be more many good deals coming up in the resorts the hotels the Condominiums the airbnbs so anyway if you haven’t traveled here yet uh think about that there you know airfares is one thing uh other issues but it’s e so easy to come

In the Philippines stay on a tourist visa up to three years years 36 months and a lot to see and do here no reason to be bored here anyway thanks for coming along stay safe stay healthy safe travels and I’ll see you next time

Philippine news today. An American who had been shot by a rapper has died in Cebu City, Philippines. How do Filipinos rank in the world happiness ranking? Dollar to Peso exchange rates remain high but inflation takes a bite out of this advantageous rate. 200 more ferry ports are planned to connect smaller islands to larger islands in the Philippines. Man orders Johnny Walker but gets water instead.