On June 30, 2022, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. will have been the fourth Philippine president to be inaugurated at the National Museum of the Philippines (NMP) in Ermita, Manila. The previous three presidents to take their oath there were President Manuel Quezon in 1935, President Jose Laurel in...
President-elect Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has unveiled his administration’s priority programs and projects for his first full-year budget anchored with the goal of economic reconstruction. In a directive to incoming Budget Secretary Amenah F. Pangandaman, Marcos wanted that his 2023 National...
With Quirino grandstand being unavailable, the camp of President-elect Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has picked the National Museum in Ermita, Manila as the site of his inauguration on June 30, 2022. President-elect Bongbong Marcos (BBM Media Office) This was confirmed Thursday, June 2 by Press...
The Univesity of the Philippines (UP) students held a protest at UP Diliman in Quezon City on Wednesday, June 1, to urge the incoming 19th Congress to institutionalize the UP-Department of National Defense (UP-DND) accord. University of the Philippines Diliman (Wikimedia) This is in line with the...
ROGER Gilbaliga, Rolinda Gilbaliga, and Rennel Lavilla of the Panay Bukidnon indigenous group show how to make musical instruments made from bamboo during a workshop in Iloilo City. (National Museum Western Visayas) ILOILO CITY — The National Heritage Month capped with an indigenous music...
Celebrating Dr. Jose Rizal's 161st birthday Photos courtesy of the Philippine Mission in Geneva and Kuluki Ave UNVEILING of the GLOBAL FILIPINO mural, May 20, 2022, Philippine Chancery, Geneva, Switzerland Global Filipino by Manila Bulletin Bureau Chief, Ms. MARY GRACE C. YAP; Deputy Permanent...
Senator Sonny Angara on Tuesday vouched that the upcoming Department of Budget and Management (DBM) secretary of the incoming administration of President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. is highly qualified and has an impressive track record. Angara said Amenah Pangandaman, concurrent...
Philippine benchmark interest rates for short-term loans dipped with strong demand from domestic investors. At Monday's auction of Treasury bills on May 30, the bellwether 91-day Treasury bill rate, which banks use in pricing their loans, fell to 1.460 percent from 1.675 percent last week. The...
President-elect Marcos’ chief economic manager has high hopes for incoming Socioeconomic Planning Arsenio M. Balisacan, describing the latter as the “poverty guru” of the next administration tasked to bring down the nation’s poverty rate to single-digit. Incoming Finance Secretary Benjamin...
Globe, in partnership with the Department of Agriculture’s National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (DA-NFRDI) and Carmel-Haifa University Economic Corporation Ltd from the University of Haifa in Israel, recently held a webinar series that tackled the importance of incorporating...
For building a more secure ecosystem for consumers and enterprises, the country's only all-in-one money platform Maya has copped recognitions at the Privacy Awareness Week Awards 2022 organized by the National Privacy Commission (NPC). Maya won at the Privacy Awareness Week Awards 2022 for its...
The Department of Education (DepEd) on Sunday, May 29, welcomed the approval of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on granting additional honoraria for select teachers for their extended service during the 2022 National and Local Elections on May 9, 2022. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN)...
