PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Like many international organizations, we in the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) had to indefinitely suspend some of our programs due to the raging global pandemic which, sadly, seems to have no apparent end in...
Deputy Speaker and Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Rufus Rodriguez on Friday, August 6 asked fellow officials of the House of Representatives to stop “wasting” people’s money by investigating the Octa Research group whose members should be hailed as “heroes of the war against the pandemic.”...
WASHINGTON, United States -- The White House said on Thursday that the US government has not yet made a final decision on whether to require international travelers to be fully vaccinated. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C.,...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has welcomed the House Committee on Appropriations’ passage of a substitute bill seeking to address the disparity in research and development (R&D) funding in the country’s regions and the lack of R&D in the private sector. (MANILA...
Swift passage by the House of Representatives of the bill that grants proprietary educational institutions lower tax rate of 10 percent has won the applause of private school owners and alliances. House of Representatives The Lower House passed House Bill 9913 on second reading and is expected to...
“Good border control” will keep Philippines protected against the Gamma variant, another 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) modification that is suspected of causing reinfection of people and was reported to have been the cause of deaths among young children in Brazil....
If the Lopez family of ABS-CBN were still owners of Maynilad Water Services Inc.,there is no way the House of Representatives could have handed it a renewed legislative franchise like what the chamber did on Tuesday, August 3. Rep. France Castro2 ACT Teachers Partylist Rep. France Castro gave this...
The United States has already donated and shipped more than 110 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to over 60 countries, including the Philippines, cementing its promise to make the US as the “vaccine arsenal” of the world. The White House In a statement on Wednesday (Tuesday in Washington,...
Leaders of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, August 4 raised serious issues on the credibility of the Octa Research Group as they sought a congressional inquiry into the its “qualifications, methodologies, partnerships and composition”. Octa Research logo Octa Research, which has...
House Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez on Wednesday urged the leadership of the House of Representatives to withdraw Monday’s approval of the 25-year franchises to two of the country’s biggest water concessionaires, Maynilad and Manila Water. “As a deputy speaker, I am ex-officio member of all...
Speaker Lord Allan Velasco lauded President Rodrigo Duterte for signing into law the proposal to establish the Philippine Energy Research and Policy Institute, saying that this is a “major victory for the energy sector.” 41FA4097-B706-4A57-8415-CB55CA7F07D1_4_5005_c Velasco is the main author...
Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Benhur Abalos has asked potential organizers of community pantries to coordinate with authorities so that the goods on their pantries could be delivered to people's doorsteps instead. The community pantry in Diliman, Quezon City (Mark...
