Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III, Senators Grace Poe and Nancy Binay opposed a resolution of Senator Robinhood C. Padilla calling for a constituent assembly (Con Ass) to amend the restrictive economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution. Binay thinks that amending restrictive...
Senator Robinhood "Robin" C. Padilla has taken the first major step towards amending the restrictive economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution so the economy could better respond to the needs of the times. In Resolution of Both Houses No. 3, Padilla proposed the changes to the Charter via...
A Quezon City congressman has filed a measure that's in line with President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s declaration during the 77th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly that food was “the very basis of human security". Quezon City 5th district Rep. PM Vargas (Facebook)...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) - Valenzuela Chapter held its 8th Biennial Chapter Assembly on Friday, Nov. 25 at the PRC Valenzuela City Chapter Building. Courtesy of Philippine Red Cross The chapter's new Board of Directors was also elected during the event, PRC said. It was attended by staff and...
Senator Robinhood "Robin" C. Padilla, representing the Philippine Senate, acted as the civilian host Thursday morning, November 24 to a high-powered delegation from Vietnam at the Rizal Park and in Intramuros in Manila. Padilla and Vuong Dinh Hue, chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam, were...
The Philippine Senate has expressed its desire to learn more about Vietnam’s policies and programs, that allowed for them to become a regional powerhouse in a short span of time. This includes the need for the Philippines and Vietnam to exchange further research and technologies in agriculture,...
The House of Representatives will be visited Wednesday, Nov. 23 by the top parliamentarian of Vietnam, Vuong Dinh Hue. House Speaker Martin Romualdez (left) and Vietnam National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue meet during the ASEAN Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Speaker's office) Hue, 65, is the...
Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri received Vietnamese Ambassador Hoang Huy Chung at the Senate on Monday to discuss ways to improve the strategic partnership between the Philippines and Vietnam, and the upcoming visit of the Vietnamese parliamentary delegation to the Philippines on...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benjamin ‘Benhur’ Abalos Jr. urged the country’s city and municipal mayors to allow their council members to participate in the year-end assembly of the Philippine Councilors League (PCL). Abalos issued Memorandum Circular (MC)...
There is a new president of the National Unity Party (NUP). (Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte's Facebook) Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte, a former House deputy speaker, led the new officers of the respected political party after he was elected as party president...
It is up to the Philippines under the Marcos administration to participate in the upcoming United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), an official of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Thursday. DFA Asec. for Office of Public and Cultural Diplomacy Ed Meñez made the remark in response to a...
K-pop girl group Aespa’s Giselle, Karina, Winter and Ningning attended the opening of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development at the UN General Assembly Hall in New York City on July 5. The forum, which has the theme “Building back better from the...
