
Conference pitches investment in disaster readiness
Senator Loren Legarda on Thursday, 30 April led calls for disaster readiness financing even as financial leaders assured access to such funding during a…
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Senator Loren Legarda on Thursday, 30 April led calls for disaster readiness financing even as financial leaders assured access to such funding during a…
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Business organizations in Metro Cebu on Wednesday proposed a synchronized two-month lifting of truck bans to ease delivery backlogs and assess traffic…
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Dela Rosa has emerged as the Senate’s top absentee, with 31 absences since the opening of the 20th Congress on 28 July last year.
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Senator JV Ejercito on Monday advised his Congress colleagues to meticulously review the proposals to postpone the Barangay and Sanguniang Kabataan Elections…
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Public school teachers have intensified their call for government action after a controversy over garnished payroll accounts exposed deepening financial…
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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday did not proceed with witnessing the distribution of the P5,000 cash assistance to Transportation Network Vehicle…
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As Congress intensifies its probe into the country’s ongoing energy crisis, lawmakers were informed that recent fuel price increases were implemented…
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Senator Christopher Bong Go on Monday urged the government to re-prioritize public spending and to mobilize unused funds to cushion the impact of rising fuel…
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Fuel companies currently follow a ‘replacement cost’ scheme, where retail prices reflect the expected cost of replenishing inventory based on recent global…
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Senator Imee Marcos on Sunday renewed her call for the government to suspend the value-added tax on petroleum products, citing the crippling impact of high…
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A ceasefire would have seemed improbable months ago. Lasting peace, however, is a far more demanding objective altogether.
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Administrative fines were imposed on the firms, and their corporate registrations were canceled after they were found to have solicited investments without the…
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A wealth tax of one to three percent, based on Ibon’s estimate, can generate P500 to P600 billion a year, if it covers 3,000 Filipino billionaires with total…
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Senator Loren Legarda is considering a Bayanihan 3 Law that would grant President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. more special powers, including to temporarily waive the…
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Former National Youth Commission (NYC) chairman Cesar Chavez is proposing a sweeping institutional reform that would transform the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK)…
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Instead of cultivating new talent and ideas, term limits have perpetuated a cycle of mediocrity and political substitutions within families.
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Former Finance Secretary Gary Teves has proposed postponing the Philippines’ hosting of this year’s ASEAN Summit, saying the move could free up billions in…
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Noting that major global events have been re-scheduled in the past, like the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, deferring the ASEAN Summit would save the country P17.5…
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