Philippines will allow use of dirtier, cheaper fuel amid US-Iran war

The ‌Philippines has taken steps such as shortening the work week and providing ⁠fuel subsidies to counter the impact of rising costs.

South China Morning Post

John Sherwin Felix, known online as Lokalpedia, calls out errors in government-funded book on Filipino cuisine. But gets sued for cyberlibel.

#Philippines #Asian #TootSEA #Food #Cuisine #MakanApaToday

https://www.spot.ph/eatdrink/the-latest-eat-drink/lokalpedia-kayumanggi-errors-a2931-20260319-bsc

How Criticism Over Book on Filipino Cuisine Sparked a Cyber Libel Complaint

"My criticism did not come from malice," says John Sherwin Felix a.k.a. Lokalpedia.

Spot.ph

Hold your weak cowardly white folks accountable when they support wankerbutternoodles in public.
It is literally one of the lowest level of asking for white privileged bravery, online. Some folks cannot even step-up to that basic plate of online humanity.

I judge them on both actions & lack of actions.

#AsianMastodon #POC #BIPOC #TootSEA #LoudPOCVoices #POCWomen #WeWontBeQuietForWhiteMen

Indonesia has so many excellent female music groups that it seems pointless to even call them a female music group

https://youtu.be/pEv0bHdmJJc

#Music #Indonesia #TootSea

FLEUR! - Lagu Lama (Official Music Video)

YouTube

The ever prescient @kixes:

“Nobody ever told me that the hardest part of living under authoritarianism—especially Singapore’s insidious, “soft” version that seems to be becoming attractive to other governments around the world—is not what they do to you, but what they make you do to yourself and to the people around you”

https://adimagazine.com/articles/no-free-labor-for-authoritarians/

#Singapore #TootSea #Authoritarianism #Government

The certificate you need to get to have the right to own a car in Singapore is now S$111K (US$85K). That’s on top of the price of the car.

To be clear, I support this. You do not need a car in Singapore. It’s 30 miles wide

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/coe-prices-up-across-all-categories-cat-a-premium-rises-3-4-to-111890

#Singapore #TootSea

COE prices rise across all categories in Singapore

Singapore COE prices increase across all categories, with Category A rising 3.4% to $111,890 in the latest tender. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Straits Times

Selamat Eid al-Fitr !

#TootSEA

Old people in Singapore are up to criminal activities

#Singapore #Tootsea

lol i have a community of 'fans' in a singapore subreddit who love to hate on my posts about my immigration journey

(not everyone... but some of them there tried to report me to ICE a few months ago. I found out later it was a public school teacher)

https://www.reddit.com/r/SingaporeRaw/comments/1rw0s2p/singaporean_migrated_to_usa_with_then_gf_now_wife/

#Singapore #TootSea #LGBTQ

Is it true that "bawang" means onion everywhere in SEA but it means garlic in the Philippines?? What is wrong with us 😭 🤣

#TootSEA #Philippines