ABANG LINGKOD Party-list Rep. Joseph Stephen "Caraps" Paduano (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The ongoing House inquiry into the P149-million questionable transactions of the municipal government of Mexico, Pampanga is about transparency and accountability,...
The House plenary hall (Contributed photo) Filipino church choral group Kammercor Manila was feted by congressmen on Wednesday night, Aug. 17, for recently bagging the coveted 2023 Choir of the World title at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod. Adopted...
ABANG LINGKOD Party-list Rep. Joseph Stephen "Caraps" Paduano (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Three project contractors of the municipal government of Mexico, Pampanga have been subpoenaed to appear before an inquiry of the House Committee on Public...
(MANILA BULLETIN) Basketball, billiards, e-sports, football, skateboarding, surfing, wushu. These are some of the sports that Filipino athletes will compete in if and when the proposed biennial Philippine National Games (PNG)--envisioned as the country’s...
Negros Oriental 3rd district Rep. Arnolfo Teves Jr. (Facebook) Wednesday, Aug. 16 was the last time in the 19th Congress that Negros Oriental 3rd district Rep. Arnolfo Teves Jr. can call himself a congressman. The House of Representatives voted 265-0-3...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (center) gets accompanied by Deputy Majority Leader ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo (left) during his surpise market inspections. (Facebook) Amid the apparent surge in local retail prices of rice, the House...
(Unsplash) House Speaker Martin Romualdez will use the ongoing hearings of the proposed P5.768-trillion national budget for 2024 as a vehicle to solve a very serious problem of the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA). Romualdez, the leader of...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The House Committee on Appropriations will start scrutinizing the budgets of the individual agencies this week as the hearings on the P5.768-trillion National Expenditure Program (NEP) for 2024 goes into high...
PEACE-MAKER Cambodia has broken a historic ground with the imminent election of the Khuon Sudary as the first woman president of the National Assembly. A veteran parliamentarian, she currently serves as vice president of her country’s lawmaking body. She is also one of our steadfast allies...
House of Representatives (MANILA BULLETIN) A commuter safety and protection advocate failed to hide his frustrations during a recent House Committee on Transportation hearing when he practically described as “useless” the Motorcycle Taxi-Technical Working Group...
(Bloomberg) A measure outlawing bulk foreign currency smuggling for any person found concealing through fraud, willful misdeclaration, or other means the amount exceeding $10,000 when arriving or leaving any point of entry in the Philippines has moved past the...
(Unsplash) The House of Representatives has unanimously approved on third and final reading the New Philippine Building Act, which seeks to replace the 46-year-old Presidential Decree (PD) No. 1096 or National Building Code. Embodied in House Bill (HB) No.8500, the...
