Former Presidential Management Staff (PMS) chief Zenaida Angping was appointed ambassador to France because of her experience in the foreign service "for years." President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. and former Presidential Management Staff Secretary Zenaida Angping (Photo courtesy of...
After asking for a time off from her Palace post last month, Zenaida Angping was nominated by President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. as Ambassador to France. According to a document published online by the Commission on Appointments (CA) as of Jan. 18, Angping, who served as the Presidential...
PARIS, France -- More than a million people marched in France Thursday to protest pension reforms, with some demonstrators clashing with police in Paris, as strikes disrupted public transport, schools and much of the civil service. The interior ministry put the total number of protesters marching...
Deputy Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro on Thursday, Jan. 19, denounced the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) for conducting “red-tagging orientations” in schools because these “condition the minds of the youth” into thinking...
Describing the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland as a "very lavish business trip", ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro says she and her fellow Makabayan bloc solons are mulling the filing of a resolution to probe the supposedly bloated Philippine delegation to the forum. ACT...
Makabayan solon ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro has expressed sadness and anger over the reported suicide of five farmers of white onions from Bayambang, Pangasinan. ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (Screenshot from Zoom meeting) Castro, a deputy minority leader, was referring...
METZ, France - The suicide of a 13-year-old French boy who was subjected to homophobic bullying at school has prompted expressions of shock in the country and warnings that homophobia kills. Prosecutors have opened an investigation into harassment of a minor after the boy, Lucas, took his own life...
France has provided the Philippines nearly P9 billion (15​0​ million euros) as ​policy-based ​loan assistance for the country​'s​ climate actions​ and green recovery from Covid-19.​ French Ambassador to the Philippines Michèle Boccoz and...
A "Magna Carta of Air Passengers' Rights" is being sought by the Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives on the heels of the disastrous Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) New Year's day crisis. The scene at NAIA on Jan. 2, 2023, a day after the critical system glitch (Noel Pabalate/...
Makabayan member ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro thinks she knows that reason behind the alleged "squabblings" within the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (Screenshot from Facebook live) In a statement Sunday, Jan. 8, Castro expressed...
After two government-controlled funds deferred their contribution rate increases for 2023, House Deputy Minority leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro on Saturday, Jan. 7, called on the Social Security System (SSS) to likewise suspend its planned contribution increase for this year....
House Deputy Minority leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro hailed on Saturday, Jan. 7 the Home Development Mutual Fund, or Pag-IBIG Fund for being "sensitive" to pandemic and inflation-weary Filipinos. ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro This, after Pag-IBIG decided to defer...
