House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte has been designated as chairman of a newly-formed ad hoc panel tasked to study the possible transfer of the House of Representatives to the...
PEACE-MAKER On Dec. 8, 2021, we in the 350-member International Conference of Political Parties (ICAPP) conducted a special conference on climate change, as our modest collective contribution in the battle against climate change. Ban Ki-moon, the 8th Secretary General of the United Nations,...
China has urged the Philippines to stop hyping up the conflict over the West Philippine Sea after Beijing criticized the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives that condemned its actions in the waters. Wang Wenbin, spokesman of China's Foreign Ministry, said in his regular...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) House Speaker Martin Romualdez has trumpeted before the 4th Asia-Pacific Evaluation Association conference the Philippine lawmakers' commitment to enact a National Evaluation Policy (NEP). ...
Bulacan 6th district Rep. Salvador Pleyto (Facebook) Neophyte congressman Bulacan 6th district Rep. Salvador Pleyto Sr. recently achieved a huge milestonehaving one of his bills enacted into law for the first time. This bill turned out to be Republic Act...
TACLOBAN CITY – The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill declaring the more than 60,000 hectares of waters surrounding Panaon Island located in the southern tip of Southern Leyte as a protected seascape under the Expanded National Integrated Protected Areas...
Jeffrey "Ka Eric" Celiz (left, seated) and Lorraine Badoy (right, seated) submit themselves to a check-up at the House of Representatives. (Office of the House Secretary General) SMNI program anchors Jeffrey "Ka Eric" Celiz and Lorraine Badoy...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The House of Representatives has adopted on Wednesday night, Dec. 6 a resolution condemning China's "illegal actions" in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). Adopted during plenary session...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The House of Representatives has adopted a resolution strongly condemning the bombing of a Catholic mass celebration by students of the Mindanao State University (MSU) in Marawi City,...
SMNI logo (Wikipedia) The measure seeking to suspend the operations of controversial television network SMNI has been adopted by the House Committee on Legislative Franchises. Adopted on Tuesday night, Dec. 5 during a marathon hearing of the committee...
Decriminalizing libel and abortion depends on Congress, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Wednesday, Dec. 6. “Kami naman sa DOJ (We at DOJ) we implement the law,” DOJ Assistant Secretary Jose Dominic F. Clavano IV said during the sidelines of the two-day National Jail Decongestion...
President Marcos on Wednesday, Dec. 6, emphasized the need for a “whole-of-government approach” to address the high congestion rates in the country’s prison facilities. In his address to participants in the first ever National Jail Decongestion Summit at the Diamond Hotel in Manila, the...
