Nearly 3,000 Filipino workers received over P756 million in compensation from companies found liable for labor violations in the third quarter of 2025, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said Wednesday, Nov. 26. The department’s attached agency, the National Labor Relations Commission...
Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero lauded President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. for pursuing evidence-based investigations on the issue of flood control budget irregularities. Escudero made the commendation on Tuesday, November 25 during the Senate plenary deliberations on the Department...
House Speaker Faustino "Bojie" Dy III has candidly admitted to a visiting atomic energy official Wednesday, Nov. 26 that power in the Philippines is both "insufficient" and "expensive". At the House of Representatives in Batasan, Quezon City on Wednesday for a courtesy meeting with Dy and other...
Malacañang disclosed that the Office of the Special Assistant to the President for Investment and Economic Affairs (OSAPIEA), which was previously led by Finance Secretary Frederick Go, will be abolished. Palace Press Officer and Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro made the announcement...
Assistant Ombudsman Miko Clavano on Wednesday, Nov. 26, said the information from the videos released by resigned congressman and now fugitive from justice Zaldy Co can be used as “leads” in the investigations. But Clavano pointed out that Co’s statements in the video bear no weight unless...
Vice President Sara Duterte told President Marcos to stop gaslighting his sister, Senator Imee Marcos, after the former claimed that it was unlike his sibling to alleged that he was a drug addict. In a media interview in Davao City on Tuesday, Nov. 25, the official said she was aware that the...
Makabayan lawmakers on Wednesday, Nov. 26, formally asked the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) to investigate President Marcos ' alleged involvement in the anomalous flood control projects following supposedly corroborative statements made by former Ako Bicol Party-list...
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...
