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Ahead of his return to Manila, ESPN’s NBA insider Brian Windhorst sat down with PumaPodcast to talk about Filipinos’ love for basketball, as well as the most compelling storylines for the upcoming NBA season: the new-look Los Angeles Lakers, Lebron James’ move to Philadelphia, the world champion New York Knicks, and the young superstar Victor Wembanyama.

This is the second episode in Teka Teka’s four-part mini series on the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, following its historic first parliamentary elections

In this episode, we invited Sesille Nava and her husband Itch, a vasectomized man, to talk about navigating married life post-vasectomy. How do they handle the misconceptions about sex, manhood, and parenthood? How did it affect their relationship? And how would they encourage others to take the path to a spermless future?

In 1977, after publishing "The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos", Primitivo Mijares went missing while his youngest son Boyet was kidnapped and brutally murdered. Mrs. Priscilla Mijares wrote in her affidavit, "Information reaching my family were to the effect that during the torture of my son, the father was made to appear by torturers to witness his son's agony."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao or BARMM held its first parliamentary elections this week. In an interview with Georgi Engelbrecht, senior analyst on the Philippines for the International Crisis Group, independent journalist Buena Bernal looks at the political parties who took part in the process, examines who they represent, and asks about what a future could look like under this new leadership.

Apart from parents, who are the other adults who need to keep children safe from harm online? And how can we start conversations with children about digital literacy?These are the questions independent journalist Nica Hanopol seeks answers to in the second episode of our mini-series on children’s rights in the digital age. Family life and child development experts Keisha Constantino and Edgar Belda Jr. return to explain the role teachers, policymakers, and Big Tech executives play in creating safer digital spaces for the youth. Keisha proposes expanding digital literacy to include “structural literacy,” which teaches children not only what to avoid online but also how to think critically about algorithms, platform design, and the attention economy. Drawing from their children’s book @Alpha, Edgar shares practical ways adults can start conversations about online risks with young people. If you are interested in reading their storybook, @Alpha is available for download on Sigla Research Center’s website.

The Philippines is betting on renewable energy, critical minerals, and high-tech industries like AI and semiconductors. But much of the land and resources needed for this transition overlap with Indigenous territories. As the proposed Pax Silica industrial hub in Tarlac faces resistance from Aeta leaders, what does a truly “just” energy transition look like, and can the Philippines avoid repeating its extractive past?

The impact of violent content on Filipino kids has become a national conversation. At the same time, online sexual abuse or exploitation of children (OSAEC) is becoming widespread. Lawmakers are calling for tighter restrictions on social media and other digital platforms. But can an outright ban protect our youth from the most dangerous corners of the internet? What does it take to make the internet safer for one of the most vulnerable groups in our society, anyway?  Independent journalist Nica Hanopol speaks with two early childhood development experts, Keisha Constantino and Edgar Belda Jr., about what children are seeking online and why restrictions may not fully solve the problem. This is the first episode in a mini-series on children’s rights in the digital age.