Solons so low
The Bicam, tasked with reconciling differences between the House and Senate versions of the budget, operates with significant discretion.
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The Bicam, tasked with reconciling differences between the House and Senate versions of the budget, operates with significant discretion.
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Suddenly, Mr. Clean doesn’t merely govern Pasig; he governs the country’s moral spin. The one who controls the credibility of information controls the war.
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The Department of Education (DepEd) emphasized the importance of transparency in improving learning outcomes by making education data more open, accessible and…
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Advocacy group Philippine Business for Education (PBEd) called on lawmakers to prioritize investment in education as they tackle the 2026 budget, demanding…
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‘We believe that great design should be accessible and this range is proof of that.’
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‘In the Philippines, we know the importance of staying within one’s budget to make every peso count. That is why we have permanently reduced our prices on 400…
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‘There can be a higher wage rate, of course, depending on the host country, but this is a step that will establish a floor level.’
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The budget was thus manipulated through insertions and substitutions by both the House and Senate, reaching almost P450 billion.
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The debate on the 2026 national budget has exposed a recurring dilemma: the Philippines continues to allocate less for education, health, and social protection…
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The Department of Migrant Workers in Central Visayas (DMW-7) distributed more than P3 million in financial assistance Thursday to overseas Filipino workers and…
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Corruption has been institutionalized; it is so pervasive that when the House of Romualdez passed the 2025 budget bill it contained several pages with blank…
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The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) announced Tuesday that 39 Filipinos who were arrested in Nigeria for alleged involvement in online fraud have been…
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‘We must fix what happened in the past. And if cases have to be filed, let’s file the cases.’
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Outlawing the pork barrel in the yearly budget, however, resulted in the unlimited creation of discretionary funds hidden in budget insertions.
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