CLARK, Pampanga (AFP) – NASA has kicked off a series of marathon flights in Asia with the world's biggest flying laboratory, in an ambitious mission to improve the models that help to forecast and fight air pollution. CREW of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) DC-8...
2024 Social Weather Stations Survey Review (SWS) A Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey revealed that there is "growing" support for the International Criminal Court's (ICC) investigation into drug-related killings that occurred in the Philippines under the Duterte administration. SWS vice...
President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. (Malacañang photo) The fourth quarter of 2023 Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey revealed the Marcos administration has received a “very good” net rating of +52. SWS vice president Jay Sandoval presented the survey results at the 2024 SWS Survey...
Several key points were conveyed by United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Irene Khan as she summed up her observations during her 10-day visit to the Philippines. At the end of her trip on Feb. 2, Khan, rapporteur on the freedom of opinion and expression, called on the Marcos administration to...
President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) Majority of Filipinos have expressed satisfaction with how the Marcos administration is running the country, based on the December 2023 "Tugon ng Masa" survey conducted by the OCTA Research. The survey results released on...
The administrator of the National Tobacco Administration (NTA) cannot appoint the agency's representative to the Inter-Agency Committee–Tabacco (IAC-T), the Department of Justice (DOJ) said. In a legal opinion issued by DOJ Undersecretary Raul T. Vasquez, the DOJ said that under Republic Act No....
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian A complete takeover of the Palawan Electric Cooperative (PALECO) by the National Electrification Administration (NEA) may be what's needed to alleviate the suffering of the province's residents. Senator...
After being denied a grant under former president Duterte’s administration, the US foreign aid agency Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC) is again extending its hands to the Philippines as it sees the country is on the “right pathway forward.” MCC Chief Executive Officer Mary Albright said that...
Senator Imee Marcos on Thursday, February 1 said she will do anything to save the UniTeam, saying she finds it hard to accept that the alliance between the Marcoses and the Dutertes has been ruined in a little over a year. “Let me be candid. I will do anything to salvage the...
Senator Imee Marcos on Thursday, February 1 urged her brother President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to clarify his administration’s stand regarding the International Criminal Court (ICC). While the President has already stated that it would not cooperate with the ICC in any...
(Mark Balmores/MANILA BULLETIN) AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee called on the Marcos administration to strictly implement existing fishery laws in an effort to increase the country’s fish stock. “While President Marcos said last year that he was not...
Senator Imee Marcos on Thursday, February 1 urged her brother President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to abandon the push for a People’s Initiative (PI) that he and his allies in the House of Representatives had started. Marcos said she cannot understand why the President has...
