Senate President Francis "Chiz" Escudero sees nothing wrong in including the Bagong Pilipinas hymn and pledge in the Senate's Monday flag ceremonies. (MB file photo) "I allowed it as I don't find anything wrong (in its intention nor contents) with its inclusion in our Monday ceremonies," he said in...
Motorists will have another week of just slightly happy drive to the pumps this week as the price of diesel products will be on rollback by marginal P0.20 per liter; while gasoline prices will be reduced by a token P0.10 per liter. Additionally, kerosene products will be slashed by relatively...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (rightmost) rubs elbows with local beneficiaries during one of the many events of the "mega" Bagong Pilipinas Serbisyo Fair in Tacloban City ,Leyte on Friday (Speaker's office) TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte--"Ayuda" or...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (center), in black poses with his fellow congressmen during the BPSF-Eastern Visayas (Speaker’s office) TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte--House of Representatives members could have held a well-attended...
TACLOBAN CITY – House Speaker Martin Romualdez led the launching of the Bagong Pilipinas Serbisyo Caravan for Eastern Visayas at the Leyte Sports Development Center here on Friday, August 2. "We want to see if this program is good, and if we will fund and continue this, and if this is what the...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez leads the conduct of a previous BPSF (Speaker’s office) The House-organized Bagong Pilipinas Serbisyo Fairs (PBSF) is going region-wide for the first time on Friday, Aug. 2, and the the event slated for Eastern...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Ranking members of the House of Representatives says the Marcos administration’s all-encompassing service caravan, the Bagong Pilipinas Serbisyo Fair (BPSF), is “living proof”...
ILOILO CITY – More than P1 billion have been allocated for the development of barangays in Western Visayas cleared of the influence of communist insurgency. “These are formerly communist affected areas that have been cleared,” said Juan Jovian Ingeniero, regional director of the Department of...
The typhoon-induced torrential rains and flooding incidents in recent days might have plunged many Filipinos into a new realm of financial hardship - including those in Metro Manila, but the rollback in oil prices this week is expected to bring much needed relief to consumers’ squeezed budgets in...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) stressed disaster resilience in a recent exposition in Cebu City. “We believe that through science, technology, and innovation, resilience is possible and Filipinos can come out as disaster victors, not disaster victims,” said DOST...
The Philippine financial markets ground to a halt Wednesday, July 24, as Malacañang suspended operations in government offices due to Typhoon Carina and the southwest monsoon. In the early morning of Wednesday, the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) announced a trading suspension, while the Bangko...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is on track to issuing its own central bank digital currency (CBDC) sooner than anticipated after announcing the conclusion of the proof-of-concept phase by the end of this year. When asked if he can reconfirm if the BSP will be able to launch the CBDC within...
