Senator Robin Padilla has asked his fellow senators not to mention any religion-related terms and practices during Senate sessions and hearings.
Padilla made the appeal after the word "Ramadan" was mentioned in an interpellation during the plenary session on Wednesday, Aug 17,, when senators...
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Erwin Tulfo earned glowing remarks from House Speaker Martin Romualdez, whom he paid a courtesy call to on Wednesday, Aug. 17.
DSWD Secretary Erwin Tulfo (left) meets House Speaker Martin Romualdez on Aug. 17, 2022 (Speaker's...
Around 10,000 communist rebels are expected to avail themselves of the amnesty the government is pushing under the current administration, Presidential peace adviser Carlito Galvez Jr. said.
Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. (Photo curtesy of Malacanang)
Galvez said the government expects...
Senator Nancy Binay on Wednesday, Aug. 17 asked the National Housing Authority (NHA) to consider giving housing projects to informal settler families (ISF) for free.
Binay made the suggestion after Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) Secretary Jerry Acuzar said some...
It took a while, but it's finally official--Pampanga 2nd district Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is the senior deputy speaker of the House of Representatives in the 19th Congress.
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Arroyo took her oath for the position during the plenary session...
The House Committee Ways and Means on Wednesday, Aug. 17, approved a proposed measure that would impose value-added tax (VAT) on non-resident digital service providers (DSPs), such as Amazon and Google.
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Albay 2nd District Rep. Joey Salceda, committee chairman, said...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. will reorganize the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) "before the end of this week," following the foiled illegal sugar importation order.
President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate)
Due to the pressing concerns over the sugar...
Department of Finance (DOF) Secretary Benjamin Diokno on Wednesday, Aug. 17, listed down the agency’s suggested measures to accelerate the country’s economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, highlighting the agency’s support for the Marcos administration’s Medium-Term Fiscal Framework...
Senator Joel Villanueva has urged the government to provide long term solutions for job generation in order to address the high poverty incidence in the country.
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Villanueva made the statement after the Philippine Statistics...
Muslims and other minority groups in the country will soon be protected against discrimination.
This followed the filing of Senate Bill (SB) 233 by Senator Robinhood "Robin" Padilla, who stressed the need to protect the rights of all Filipinos.
There is no room for discrimination on the...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. remains "on top things" as far as the dealings within the various government agencies are concerned.
Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda
Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda made this contention Wednesday, Aug. 17 amid the headline-grabbing...
House Committee on Appropriations senior vice chairperson and Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Stella Quimbo has given reporters an idea of what went down during the lawmakers' first Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC)- Technical Working Group (TWG) meeting last week.
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