President Marcos accused the lawyer of former House appropriations chair Zaldy Co of attempting to blackmail him amid the widening investigation into alleged anomalies in flood control projects. In a video report uploaded to his social media accounts on Wednesday, Nov. 26, the President said the...
Malacañang has accused Vice President Sara Duterte of fueling political instability after Duterte publicly expressed her “readiness” to assume the presidency should President Marcos resign amid allegations of budget insertions and drug use. Presidential Communications Office (PCO)...
Marking a major shift toward a more equitable, accountable, and discrimination-free work environment for over one million teaching and non-teaching personnel nationwide, the Department of Education (DepEd) has officially rolled out its new Inclusive Employment (IE) Policy. In a statement issued...
The Philippines is at the “right moment” to begin pushing for nuclear energy use amid its aim to achieve energy security and reduce its reliance on fossil fuels like coal, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said. IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi made this remark during the...
Patience will be paramount as Pangilinan-led PXP Energy Corp. embarks on upstream oil and gas exploration, a process expected to advance slowly and require substantial capital, the company’s chairman said. Tycoon Manuel V. Pangilinan, who also chairs PXP, told reporters that the recently awarded...
Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima has agreed with presidential son, House Majority Leader Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos in that Zaldy Co 's video exposés and methods lean toward destabilization. This, as De Lima reiterated the call for the former Ako-Bicol...
Former presidential spokesman Harry Roque dismissed reports that he was arrested in The Hague, Netherlands, explaining that he went back there and was unable to continue on his flight to Vienna, Austria because he was “unfit” to travel. This came just hours after the Department of Foreign...
Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Henry Aguda on Tuesday, November 25, said he has no knowledge about the alleged P6.5-billion inserted into the agency’s budget this year. Aguda made the remark in an interview at the sidelines of the Senate’s plenary...
The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) expects businesses to have “much-needed operational breathing room” following the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s (BIR) suspension of field tax audits and related operations. PCCI, the country’s largest business group, said the temporary...
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...
