Poor Sen. Cynthia Villar. She was well meaning, I’m sure, when she made that controversial remark last week about prohibiting unlimited rice servings in restaurants. One cannot disagree with her ...

The world might have just witnessed the shortest global war on record – 12 days, from June 13, 2025 to June 25, 2025. World War I lasted four years, 1914-1918.

To say Filipinos love their rice is an understatement. Following Senator Cynthia Villar’s concern on the over-consumption of rice and her desire to ban “unli rice” promotions, Filipinos took ...

A recent pronouncement by Sen. Cynthia A. Villar raising the possibility of banning unlimited-rice promos in various fast-food chains in the country led to a thunderstorm of criticism from ...

If a senator had her way, “unlimited” rice servings in restaurants should be banned and Filipinos should be swayed into switching to brown rice to help the country truly achieve self ...

If unlimited rice serving is banned, a customer order needs to pay extra P20 for one rice serving. Enriquez said the promo contributes huge factor in their profit since customers are looking for it.

The unli rice challenge You don’t have to be a rocket scientist or an agriculture secretary to see what needs to be done. Long term solutions are actually contained in countless policy papers, ...

Sen. Cynthia Villar perhaps didn’t anticipate how Filipinos will react when she said that “unlimited rice” orders should be banned during her committee’s inquiry of the Nat… ...

After her admonition against eating too much white rice sparked furor in social media, the head of the Senate committee on agriculture and food on Thursday sought to correct what she said was a ...

Bantay Bigas, an alliance for safe, sufficient and affordable rice, is opposing the Duterte administration’s plan for rice imports “tariffication,” saying such doesn’t provide enough ...

Rice, a political commodity and the staple of Filipinos and most Asians, is the cheapest on the dining table compared with viands. Most Filipinos cannot consider their meal complete without a cup of ...