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The Bicameral Conference Committee amended the budget bill and left blanks in its report, thereby offering what amounted to a blank check for pork barrel…
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The Bicameral Conference Committee amended the budget bill and left blanks in its report, thereby offering what amounted to a blank check for pork barrel…
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said artificial intelligence (AI) will increase demand for workers rather than make people redundant, arguing that the technology…
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The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has granted temporary regulatory relief to banks and quasi-banks to help cushion the impact of financial market…
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The study found that most Filipinos have only about P50,000 in emergency savings, a level that may be insufficient to cover unexpected medical costs.
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The Philippine government is seeking up to $1.5 billion in emergency financing from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to help cushion the economy from the…
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The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) said Monday that the country’s Unified 911 Emergency Hotline has achieved a 97.23 percent efficiency…
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Applied to public budgeting, blockchain can create a continuous and verifiable record of how public funds move from appropriation to expenditure.
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A household worker was arrested Saturday for allegedly stealing cash, jewelry and documents from a condominium unit in Barangay Loyola Heights, the National…
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Among the issues the SC is asked to resolve is the nature of Unprogrammed Appropriations and how far Congress and the executive can stretch it.
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The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is implementing cost-cutting measures to reduce the projected P191-million budget for an upcoming special election in the…
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Here are some practical ways to complete your school lists.
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Without congressional authorization on the funds, even fully disbursed foreign loans sit inert.e
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After the SC struck down the Priority Development Assistance Fund in 2013, the crooks in government became innovative. They devised ways for discretionary…
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‘I think that will again spike the prices more than anything else. Anything that happens there affects the prices. If there’s a declaration (of full closure)…
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Nearly a year after the Chief Executive used his biggest annual platform to call out the anomalies in the public works agency, a controversial circumferential…
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The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) announced Friday it is investigating contractors following reports of overnight tree-relocation…
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More than 1,000 public schools across Mindanao sustained damage after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck near Sarangani province, disrupting the first week of…
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