RICE SMUGGLING HEARING: Senator Cynthia Villar, chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Food, talks to Solicitor-General Francis Jardeleza, Customs Commissioner John Philip Sevilla and Alyansa Agrikultura chairman Ernesto Ordoñez before the start of the Senate hearing on rice smuggling Monday. Villar asked the guests to update the senators on the government’s efforts to curb illegal rice importation in the country. (PRIB Photo Albert Calvelo, February 24, 2014).