Filipinos’ satisfaction with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. stayed nearly unchanged in the last quarter of 2025, with 40 percent satisfied, 43 percent dissatisfied, and 17 percent undecided, the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey released on Tuesday, Feb. 3 showed. The Fourth Quarter...
Japanese financial giant MUFG Bank Ltd. has lowered its forecast for the Philippine peso, projecting the currency will weaken to 60 per dollar as the nation’s economic performance falters and corruption scandals derail government spending. “We have adjusted our Philippine peso forecast profile...
President Marcos has approved the release of an additional P7.372-billion funding intended to provide cash incentives for public school teachers and non-teaching personnel. The additional fund will cover the remaining funding requirements for the 2025 Service Recognition Incentive (SRI) of...
The House Committee on Justice suspended on Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 3 the vote on the sufficiency in substance on the first impeachment complaint filed against President Marcos, but only after panel members verbally tore it apart for apparent lack of merit. The members did so for over three hours...
Malacañang said President Marcos was surprised by his son House Majority Leader Ferdinand Alexander “Sandro” Marcos ' proposal to impose a "no work, no pay" rule for lawmakers. Palace Press Officer and Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro said it seems that the President and his...
The Independent Commission for Infrastructure 's (ICI) fate will depend on their own decision—whether to hire more members, ask for the administration 's help, or conclude their investigation, Malacañang said. President Marcos, in turn, will be listening to whatever the ICI decides,...
The Senate has elected Senator Erwin Tulfo as the new chairperson of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs. At the Senate’s Monday plenary session, Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri moved to elect the neophyte senator as the head of the foreign affairs panel. Tulfo replaced...
More than 60 contractors could potentially be blacklisted amid the ongoing process of revoking the licenses of contractors involved in anomalous flood control projects. Palace Press Officer and Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro disclosed that the Department of Public Works and Highways...
Administration critic and Liberal Party (LP) Chairperson Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima was among the solons who went to great lengths Tuesday, Feb. 3 to discredit the first impeachment complaint filed President Marcos. De Lima took part in Tuesday 's Committee on...
Small-scale fishers are being forced to shorten their time at sea and brace for shrinking incomes as successive oil price hikes sharply drive up production costs, progressive fisherfolk group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) said on Tuesday, Feb. 3. In a...
President Marcos has initially approved the proposal to extend the validity of registration for new vehicles to five years, Malacañang said. Marcos made the approval during a meeting with Department of Transportation (DOTr) acting Secretary Giovanni Lopez at Malacañan on Tuesday, Feb. 3....
A plan to build a Rizal Exhibition Hall within the National Museum was proposed to President Marcos, Malacañang said. Palace Press Officer and Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro said Marcos met with National Museum of the Philippines (NMP) Chairperson Andoni Aboitiz in Malacañang on...
