A French admiral for Asia-Pacific will be coming to Manila next week for meetings with various military and diplomatic officials as the Philippines is expanding its Western alliance amid challenges over the South China Sea. Rear Admiral Geoffroy d’Andigné will be in Manila from June 26 to 30,...
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (Facebook) An additional burden to Filipino commuters. That's how Makabayan solon ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro described the impending fare hikes on Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT-1) and LRT Line 2 (LRT-2). "Commuters are still reeling from...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (left) and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (Facebook, Zoom) The Department of Agriculture (DA) needs a full-time secretary who can offer better solutions to the problems confronting the agriculture sector. Thus, said ACT Teachers Party-list Rep....
French Ambassador to the Philippines Michele Boccoz announced on Saturday, June 17, that one of its warships, the FS Lorraine, will be in Manila for a “drill” with the Philippine Navy. (From left) FS Lorraine is refuelled by the US supply ship USNS Rappahannock in the Philippine Sea (Photo...
(Unsplash) The reliance of young people on so-called influencers and social media platforms as their primary sources of news and information contributes to the lowering of the public's intellectual quotient (IQ). Thus, said House Deputy Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro...
French President Emmanuel Macron has invited President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. to come to France, his embassy in Manila said Tuesday. Macron's invitation was expressed in a letter that also bore his message for the Philippines on its 125th year of independence. In the letter, Macron...
ANNECY, France - French President Emmanuel Macron was visiting preschool children badly wounded in a mass knife attack by a Syrian refugee, as police questioned the attacker Friday. Four children -- aged between 22 months and three years old -- were stabbed Thursday in a playground in the Alpine...
Flowers for the victims are placed at a playground in the 'Jardins de l'Europe' in Annecy, in the French Alps, on June 8, 2023, following a mass stabbing in the park of the city. (OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE / AFP) ANNECY, France -- A Syrian refugee armed with a knife stabbed four preschool children and...
Former senator Leila de Lima (Senate PRIB) Makabayan solons Gabriela Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro have expressed disappointment over a Muntinlupa City Regional Trial Court's (RTC) junking of former senator Leila de Lima's petition for bail. "We, in...
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (Photo from ACT Teachers Party-list) Makabayan lawmaker ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro has issued very specific challenges to newly-appointed Cabinet officials Gibo Teodoro and Dr. Ted Herbosa. Teodoro was installed as Department of National...
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (left), and Vice President Sara Duterte (Rep. Castro's office, Facebook) Vice President Sara Duterte will get to "control" more confidential and intelligence funds in her new role as co-vice chairperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist...
On March 28, 2023, the Philippine government's Department of Agriculture (DA) and the French government's Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, along with the Bureau of Exportation and International Partnership, organized the 2nd Philippines-France Agriculture Forum. The forum aimed to...
