
Tiangco seeks scrutiny of House budget amid ‘insertion’ concerns
Navotas Rep. Toby Tiangco on Monday questioned why the House of Representatives does not undergo the same pre-plenary budget scrutiny as other government…
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Navotas Rep. Toby Tiangco on Monday questioned why the House of Representatives does not undergo the same pre-plenary budget scrutiny as other government…
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Cash remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) reached $3.04 billion in June 2026, the highest monthly level recorded in the first half of the year,…
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The lawmaker said genuine transparency required dismantling the mechanisms that allow such insertions, rather than simply putting cameras on the proceedings.
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Marcos did not have to invent the leadership fund, but he failed to stop it, and such inaction in a system built on impunity is its own kind of authorship.
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The Alliance of Health Workers (AHW) acknowledged the appointment of Dr. Edwin Mercado, former president and chief executive officer of the Philippine Health…
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Twenty-one Filipino seafarers affected by separate maritime incidents and security concerns involving three vessels have returned to the Philippines, the…
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Even in the National Expenditure Program (NEP), touted as the President’s proposed budget for next year, traces of lump sums suspiciously similar to pork…
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Nine Filipino seafarers from the MV Rostrum Optima have safely returned to the Philippines following an incident involving their vessel while sailing near the…
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The remains of a Filipino seafarer, a second engineer who died from injuries sustained in an incident involving the oil tanker MV Gas Lisbon in the Black Sea,…
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Even assuming the guard had a legitimate reason to call the police, and the patrolman believed the sergeant’s firearm posed a danger, none of that gives a free…
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More than a third of every peso collected from every Filipino taxpayer goes not to a classroom or a hospital but to a bondholder.
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The Philippine economy remains on a growth path despite its slower expansion, with economic officials dismissing concerns that the country is slipping into…
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The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) is supporting efforts to again open the bicameral conference committee deliberations on the proposed…
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Forty-seven overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), including 25 seafarers affected by a drone attack in Russia and 22 distressed workers from Saudi Arabia, have…
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Malacañang on Thursday said government agencies initially sought a combined P11 trillion for 2027 before President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered the proposed…
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A proposed P107.4 billion flood control allocation in the Philippines' 2027 budget has drawn criticism from teachers as monsoon rains disrupt schools and…
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