Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co (Facebook) An anti-inflation, pro-poor budget. That's how Committee on Appropriations Chairman Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co described the prosposed P5.768 trillion budget for 2024, which the House of...
Parañaque City Mayor Eric Olivarez was elected president of a reformed Philippine Tennis Association (Philta) in Friday’s International Tennis Federation (ITF)-authorized election supervised by the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC). Philippine Olympic Committee president Abraham “Bambol”...
The Senate has ratified the bicameral conference committee report on the proposed P5.768-trillion national budget for 2024. In his sponsorship speech, Senate Finance Committee chairman Sen. Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara said the bicameral conference report affirmed an increase of...
The bicameral conference committee on Monday, December 11, has drafted the final version of the proposed P5.768-trillion General Appropriations Bill (GAB) for 2024. The bicameral conference committee report on the 2024 General Appropriations Bill has been approved by the Senate and House...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AFP) -- Olympic chiefs on Friday, Dec. 8, gave the green light to the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes at next year's Paris Games as neutrals, outside of team events and as long as they did not actively support the war on Ukraine. (FILE PHOTO) The...
(MANILA BULLETIN) House Speaker Martin Romualdez has appealed to the Bicameral Conference Committee to swiftly craft a final version of the 2024 national budget so it could be passed before Congress goes on Christmas break. Romualdez made the call even as the...
Senator Sonny Angara doesn't think that the confidential and intelligence funds (CIF) that were stripped under the 2024 General Appropriations Bill (GAB) would be restored during the ongoing bicameral conference committee meetings. Sen. Sonny Angara, chairperson of the Committee on Finance, leads...
PARIS (AFP) -- The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday, Nov. 29, confirmed the French Alps and Salt Lake City as the sole candidates to host the 2030 and 2034 Winter Games. IOC member and Advisory Board Member Karl Stoss of Austria gestures during a press conference after an...
The bicameral conference committee meetings on the proposed P5.768-trillion 2024 national budget will begin on Thursday, Nov. 30. There, select members of the Senate and the House of Representatives (HOR) will meet and formally iron out the disagreeing provisions of the House and Senate versions of...
PARIS (AFP) -- International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach on Tuesday, Nov. 28, said that peace between Israel and the Palestinians was possible because they have lived in sporting "co-existence for decades." International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach (AFP) Bach said that the...
Ronald Robbins, Rep. Aniela Tolentino, Giro Tan and Aldrin Quinto led the winners of the first Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) Golf Cup held on Monday, Nov. 27, for the benefit of the National Athletes’ Trust Fund at the Luisita Golf and Country in Tarlac. Some of the participants of the...
DA Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. (left), Surigao del Sur 2nd district Rep. Johnny Pimentel (MANILA BULLETIN/ Facebook) Surigao del Sur 2nd district Rep. Johnny Pimentel acknowledged on Sunday, Nov. 26 the hefty challenge that Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. has to...
