The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) cancelled the passports of former presidential spokesman Harry Roque and Katherine Cassandra Li Ong of Lucky 99 scam hub, the agency said on Tuesday, Nov. 25. The DFA made the cancellation after receiving the Omnibus Resolution issued by Pasig Regional Trial...
Senator Robin Padilla presented on Tuesday, Nov. 25, an unverified audio recording allegedly made to sound like a conversation between a certain Presidential Communications Office (PCO) official and an unidentified individual linked to troll farms, which he said surfaced online and required the...
Philippine Veterans Bank (PVB) is now set to take over UCPB Savings Bank Inc. from state-run Land Bank of the Philippines (Landbank) in a ₱2.7-billion deal, following approval from the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC). The PCC said it has cleared PVB’s planned acquisition of 97.55...
House Majority Leader Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos has set the record straight regarding then-Ako Bicol Party-list representative Zaldy Co 's removal as Committee on Appropriations chairman during the previous 19th Congress. According to Rep. Marcos, no resignation happened--Co...
Vice President Sara Duterte has expressed her readiness to be the president in case President Marcos steps down from power, stressing that her Constitutional mandate is to take over Malacañan as the “first in line in succession.” “Of course, there is no question about my readiness. I...
The country’s economic growth is projected to fall below five percent this year and settle at around four to five percent in 2026, as investments are expected to remain sluggish, according to a Sun Life Philippines official. This falls short of the government’s full-year targets of 5.5 to 6.5...
The Senate on Monday, November 24 night rallied behind the Department of Education (DepEd) and its leadership under Secretary Sonny Angara, approving the agency’s proposed P1.044-trillion budget for 2026. The said amount is considered the largest in the country’s history, as senators commit...
House Majority Leader Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos has countered Zaldy Co 's claims of massive corruption by linking him to certain individuals who want to destabilize the current Marcos administration. "I hope that the public can be reminded that we are talking of a person...
The Department of Education (DepEd) is poised to accelerate major education reforms in 2026 after the Senate approved a significantly higher budget for the agency, signaling strong support for DepEd Secretary Sonny Angara and the Marcos administration’s push to improve learning outcomes...
The United States (US) is planning to leverage recent policy changes in the fish quota system to significantly increase its seafood exports to the Philippines, which currently account for less than one percent of the market. In a Nov. 24 policy brief, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said...
Addressing plastic pollution requires not only regulation and advocacy, but credible technology, President Marcos said. During the opening ceremony of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) International High-Level Forum on Nuclear Technology for Controlling Plastic Pollution (NUTEC...
Former Ako-Bicol Party-list representative Zaldy Co is accusing presidential son Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos of having an accumulated P50.938 billion worth project insertions in the 2023, 2024, and 2025 national budgets. Co, who served as House Committee on Appropriations chairman...
