President Duterte has declined President-elect Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s offer for him to become drug czar in the new administration. Former presidential legal adviser and spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Monday, May 30, he called the outgoing President about Marcos Jr.'s proposal. But...
K-pop idol and Grammy-nominated group BTS arrived in Washington, D.C. on May 29 for their meeting with US President Joe Biden at the White House on May 31 to discuss anti-Asian hate crimes and discrimination. BTS’ RM, Jin, Suga, V, Jimin and J-Hope arrived at Dulles International Airport on May...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Sunday said he is confident Congress would be able to canvass the votes and eventually proclaim the Philippine’s next President and Vice President this week despite the pending petitions filed in the Supreme Court asking to stop Congress from canvassing...
Presumptive president Bongbong Marcos and his family are in Australia for a "much-needed vacation", Marcos's spokesperson and chief-of-staff Vic Rodriguez said in a press conference Tuesday, May 17. (MANILA BULLETIN, Unsplash) "It’s a private trip made by president-elect Bongbong with his family...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar The votes that have been reflected in the COMELEC Transparency Servers and reported in real time by various media outfits and citizen watchdogs seem to show one thing—a landslide victory for the tandem of former Senator Ferdinand...
The progressive party-list group Bayan Muna has pushed the Supreme Court (SC) to act swiftly on the petition seeking to cancel the certificate of candidacy (COC) of presumptive president Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. Bayan Muna Party-list Rep. Carlos Zarate (Photo from Bayan Muna) “There is...
President Duterte and other top ranking officials have been invited by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to attend the proclamation of the 12 winning senators in the 2022 polls on Wednesday, May 18. Comelec/MB In a press briefing on Tuesday, Comelec Commissioner George Garcia said the...
Media practitioners, bank workers, priests, physicians and nurses, among other professions, are now qualified to obtain licenses to carry firearms outside of their residence without having to prove their lives are in imminent danger as President Duterte signed a law easing their application...
President Duterte has signed into law the bill granting government employees a night-shift differential at a rate not exceeding 20 percent of the hourly basic rate of the employee. President Duterte (Malacañang photo) Duterte signed Republic Act (RA) No. 11701 on April 13, but the copy was...
Emperador Inc. is raising its capital expenditure budget to expand its overseas whisky business while sister company Megaworld Corporation is expanding its reach in the domestic front. During the Emperador’s annual stockholders’ meeting, is was disclosed that the firm increasing its capital...
President Duterte has signed a law increasing the mandatory retirement age of key officials in the military to up to 60 years old. Republic Act No. 11709 stated that members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) with the grades of Second Lieutenant/Ensign (O-1) to Colonel/Capitan (O-6) shall...
President Duterte has issued an order requiring franchisors to come up with franchise agreements with micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) for the protection of parties interested in acquiring franchises from them. According to Executive Order No. 169, which was signed on May 12 but was...
