The Senate will monitor if the automatic deactivation of non-registered Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs) could help address and contribute to reducing, if not eliminating, text scams and other cyber-related crimes, Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva on Wednesday, July 12, said....
Onions (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The House of Representatives will hasten the passage of the proposed amendments to the Anti-Agricultural Smuggling Act upon the start of the second regular session of the 19th Congress later this month. Thus, promised House Speaker Martin Romualdez in a...
Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada on Tuesday, July 4 slammed the recent reported aggression of the Chinese Coast Guard against Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) vessels that were in a resupply mission last June 30 and which was reported by the United States Air Force. "The protection of our national...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday, July 4 called on the Senate to prioritize deliberations on Senate Resolution No. 659 that seeks to get the Philippine government to sponsor a resolution before the UN General Assembly to call on China to stop its harassment of Filipino vessels in the West...
CAVITE – Authorities apprehended a 17-year-old male for allegedly stabbing his 18-year-old neighbor in Tanza. The Cavite Police Provincial Office identified the child in conflict with the law (CICL) as alias Janjan. Tanza Municipal Police Station (MPS) Deputy Chief of Police Capt. Melvin...
Senator Robinhood "Robin" C. Padilla on Monday, June 26, filed a resolution seeking a Senate probe into the alleged violation of the peace agreement between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) following a police operation that resulted in the death of seven persons last June...
Senator Cynthia A. Villar, chairperson of the Senate agriculture and food committee, is elated with the recognition given by the World Bank (WB) to the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) or Republic Act No. 11203 as a "strategic policy reform.” The WB lauded the RTL as "indicative of the true spirit of...
The firefight that erupted during the service of search and arrest warrants by the Philippine National Police (PNP) and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) against former Maimbung, Sulu Vice Mayor Pando Mudjasan left one police officer dead and nine other troops wounded, AFP Chief Gen. Andres...
A joint law enforcement operation conducted by the Philippine National Police (PNP) and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to arrest former Maimbung, Sulu vice mayor Pando Mudjasan ended up in a gunbattle on Saturday morning, June 24. Lt. Col. Enrico Gil Ileto, chief of AFP public affairs...
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. warned the public against the scams associated with the use of artificial intelligence (AI). President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. delivers his speech during the 85th anniversary celebration of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Makati City on...
DAVAO CITY – The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Central Committee has sought an independent probe on the recent law enforcement operation in which seven members were killed in Datu Paglas town in Maguindanao del Sur. In a resolution dated June 20 but made public on June 22, the MILF Central...
BUENAVISTA, Quezon – A 38-year-old miner choked his mother-in-law to death during a heated argument in Barangay Cadlit here on Monday, June 19. THE remains of a 50-year-old woman killed by his son-in-law is retrieved from a mining hole in Barangay Cadlit, Buenavista, Quezon on Wednesday, June 21....
