President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has signed into law the measure that further strengthens professionalism and promotes the continuity of policies and modernization initiatives in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), particularly by amending the cumpolsory retirement age and maximum...
Businessmen involved in agriculture held a meeting on Wednesday, May 17, to come up with solutions to helping small farmers scale up their production under Go Negosyo’s Kapatid Angat Lahat Agri Program (KALAP). (From left) Francisco Dizon of Dizon Farms, Ramon Garcia of DFNN, Winston Uy of...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said the government is eyeing to revitalize the Philippine Sugar Corporation (PhilSuCor) to provide the country's sugar farmers and farmers groups with the necessary assistance as the Philippines worked on boosting the industry. *BOOSTING SUGAR INDUSTRY...
Employers are pointing out that only ten percent of the country’s roughly 50 million labor force will benefit from a legislated minimum wage hike, while a large majority of 90 percent will be further disadvantaged from such measure. Sergio Ortiz-Luis Jr., president of the Employers Confederation...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has recognized the outgoing ambassador of Singapore to the Philippines for his contribution to the strengthening of bilateral relations of both nations. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. and Ambassador Gerard Ho Wei Hong (Photo courtesy of...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has called on local government units (LGUs) to help boost the partnership between the national and local governments to advance the administration's development agenda....
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has appointed new Philippine ambassadors to Turkiye and Oman, the Palace announced. (From left) Career diplomats Henry Bensurto Jr. and Raul Hernandez (RTVM screenshots) In a social media post on Tuesday night, May 16, the Presidential Communications...
OF TREES AND FOREST It was such an emphatic word to describe the relationship between the Philippines and the United States especially given the tensions in the region and the complicated past of the two nations’ bilateral relations. But this was how President Joseph Biden described his...
Amid the perceived security threats posed by the Chinese ownership of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. gave the go signal to Senator Raffy Tulfo to look into the real situation in the country’s energy grid systems operator....
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has urged lawmakers from his bailiwick to strengthen the "Solid North" regional bloc that was once considered as "politically irrelevant." President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Photo courtesy of Malacañang) Marcos made the call to Northern Luzon...
Don’t blame us. Senate President Juan Miguel F. Zubiri on Tuesday, May 16, issued this statement after stressing that passage of a bill requires the reglamentary legislative process. Zubiri was apparently piqued at Congressman Joey Salceda who has called on the Senate to pass quickly a bill that...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. directed the Department of Tourism (DOT) to give regions, cities, and municipalities equal opportunities as he approved the national tourism development plan (NTDP) on Tuesday, May 16. This was the directive of President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. to...
