Despite a 12-month tariff cut imposed on pork, a group of local meat importers began lobbying for a much longer period wherein the pork import tariff rate is kept at 15 percent from the original 40 percent until 2025. A customer pays for pork at a roadside market stall in Mandaluyong City, Manila,...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdowns we have experienced for more than a year now has crippled our economy but it has also resulted to some positive changes that we can take advantage of. These are transformations that we can fully utilize...
GOVERNANCE MATTERS Former Vice President Jejomar Binay The discredited Health Secretary, asked if the country could also experience the unprecedented number of infections and deaths from COVID-19 being recorded in India, said that such a grim scenario could happen if the public fails to observe the...
There is a new no profanity rule among members of the Duterte Cabinet. President Rodrigo Duterte meets with several Cabinet members in Malacañang on February 22, 2021 (Malacañang) Only President Duterte can hurl expletives after Cabinet members have been asked to avoid profanity especially in...
Senator Manny Pacquiao may have criticized President Duterte for his stance against China regarding the West Philippine Sea, but Malacañang said on Tuesday, May 4, there is no animosity between the two officials. In his virtual media briefing, Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque asserted there...
Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo got inoculated against the coronavirus disease Tuesday, saying he felt no adverse side effects. Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo receives a coronavirus vaccine shot on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 (Photo: Panelo) Panelo received the first...
President Duterte is not seeking an end to the operations of community pantries despite raising concerns that these might cause the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Malacañang said Tuesday, May 4. People form a line leading to a community pantry in Sta. Mesa, Manila on April 30,...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Tuesday said he apologized for his profanity-laden tweet against China only to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and not to the Chinese ambassador to the Philippines. DFA Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. (Twitter/Teddy Boy Locsin) This was contrary to an...
Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. defended on Tuesday, May 4, the use of inoculation of President Duterte using a Sinopharm vaccine which has not yet been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for emergency use. Duterte was vaccinated with his first dose of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)...
President Duterte is furious with two former government officials for supposedly passing the blame for the latest situation in the West Philippine Sea. President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) The President unleashed profanity-laced rants against former Supreme Court Justice Antonio...
Malacañang maintained that President Duterte did not break any law when he had himself inoculated with Chinese-made Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine even if it has not been granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) by the country’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Presidential spokesman Harry...
President Duterte chose state-owned and Chinese-made Sinopharm over other coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines because of the recommendation of his doctors, Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said on Tuesday, May 4. President Duterte receives the COVID-19 vaccine from Health Secretary Francisco...
