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  Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Sunday, March 19 urged the government to provide an additional subsidy of P1/kWh for low-income consumers or a total of P418-million to further cushion the adverse impact of high commodity prices.    Gatchalian made the proposal amid the persistent high inflation...

A lifeline for poor cancer patients and their families. (National Cancer Institute/ Unsplash) That's how Deputy Speaker and Las Piñas City lone district Rep. Camille Villar described her measure, House Bill (HB) No.5686, which she filed in the current 19th Congress. If enacted, the bill would...

Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Monday, November 14 said the government should make sure that marginalized consumers are the actual beneficiaries of the law granting electricity lifeline rate subsidy. Gatchalian, vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy, made the call following the recent...

A measure allowing the extension of electricity lifeline rates for poor households until 2051 has been signed into law by President Duterte. President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) Republic Act No. 11552 amended Section 73 of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 or the EPIRA...

The latest batch of coronavirus vaccines delivered to the Philippines through the COVAX facility represented a "lifeline" to Filipinos seeking relief from the pandemic, according to a United Nations (UN) official. The latest batch of AstraZeneca vaccine doses arrived in the Philippines through the...