(Keith Bacongco/MANILA BULLETIN) The House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture and Food launched on Tuesday, April 30, its evaluation on the effectiveness of the five-year-old Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) on the country’s agriculture sector. The...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) Rice retailing at around P30 per kilo by June. House Speaker Martin Romualdez announced this target on Tuesday afternoon, April 30 as he highlighted solons' effort to amend Republic Act (RA)...
The Philippines has one of the longest coastlines at 36,289 kilometers, the 5 th longest in the world. The country’s thriving salt industry, mostly from Occidental Mindoro, Pangasinan, Bulacan, and Cavite, in the 90’s was able to supply about 85 percent of local requirements. An Act for...
Senator Pia Cayetano criticized the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) over its lack of urgency to enforce provisions of the Vape Law or Republic Act No. 11900. Cayetano noted that up until now the DTI has yet to release mechanisms on the use of vapes and other non-nicotine products...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the University of the Philippines (UP) Law Center have joined hands to generate more research projects to help foster capital market development in the country. SEC Commissioner Karlo S. Bello and UP College of Law Associate Dean Solomon F. Lumba...
The University of the Philippines (UP) College of Law Team posing for a photo after winning the 2024 Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition (Jessup White & Case LLP’s Facebook page). Winning the competition...
The Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday, April 11, expressed its concern over the "advertisement tactics" in the vape industry. Photo from Pixabay “Yung vape industry naman, kapag nakita niyo ‘yung mga advertisement, may cartoons pa eh– pang attraction talaga ng bata (The vape...
Sen. Imee Marcos on Monday, April 1 expressed opposition to any move by the Philippines in its maritime conflict with China in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) that will endanger the Filipino people. "There is no shame in pursuing peace. Whatever action that may put any Filipino in danger is a gross...
AnaKalusugan Party-list Rep. Ray Reyes (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) For AnaKalusugan Party-list Rep. Ray Reyes, the proposed amendments to the Universal Health Care (UHC) Law as identified by the Legislative-Executive Development...
SAN PABLO CITY, Laguna – A litigant was gunned down in a law office here on Thursday morning, March 14. Police identified the victim as Joseph Raymond Fang, a resident of this city. Investigation said Fang was waiting inside the law office and scheduled to attend a case hearing when two men...
Almost 60 percent of the target government agencies have been covered by the report card survey of the Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) which rates the agencies' quality of service. According to ARTA Secretary Ernesto Perez, they have already completed around 60 percent of the 860 target government...
President Marcos has directed the Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) to go down to the villages to explain the importance of the Ease of Doing Business Law. ARTA Secretary Ernesto Perez (Photo courtesy of ARTA) ARTA Secretary Ernesto Perez said they were ordered to conduct town hall meetings with the...
