Pet Express offers an array of fun, colorful toys for pet dogs and cats, style your favorite dogs and cats in fashion-furward clothing, and an assortment of cute, cozy beds your furry friends will love. Pet Express, the country’s retail superstore for dogs and cats, stretches its paws with the...
The Senate on Monday, March 4 adopted three concurrent resolutions favoring President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s grant of amnesty to various rebel and insurgent groups in the country. The Senate’s concurrence happened less than three months after the President signed the presidential...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday, March 4 expressed hope that the Senate minority bloc would be able to gather a sufficient number of support from colleagues to block the proposed economic amendments to the 1987 Constitution. Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III and...
The Bureau of the Treasury borrowed P15 billion from the local debt market through its successful auction of Treasury bills (T-bills) on Monday, March 4. Averages rates continued to move up during the auction, with all the tenors fetching slightly higher rates. Robust investor demand also marked...
Motorists filling up their vehicles with gasoline products will feel some pinch in their pockets this week as the price of this commodity will increase by P0.50 per liter, according to the pricing advisories of the oil companies. Conversely, diesel products will incur a moderate rollback of P0.40...
FROM THE MARGINS Last month, I visited Vietnam with my wife and her high school friends. My purpose was not just to enjoy their delightful company, but to see how much Vietnam has changed since I lived there many years ago. I was an expat in Vietnam in the 1990s, at the height of the...
REFLECTIONS TODAY In many instances, the prophets acted as the conscience of God in the midst of the people; they called to mind that allegiance belongs to God alone, and all must abide according to the will of God. But the Lord is the God of all, so all are entitled to know about him. This is...
President Marcos took out slightly more loans last year to finance the government's operations and projects. Based on the Bureau of the Treasury's data, the national government's gross borrowings increased by 1.4 percent to P2.193 trillion between January and December 2023 from P2.163 trillion in...
Iloilo 1st district Rep. Janette Garin (PPAB) The Committee of the Whole in the House of Representatives refuses to slow down with its deliberations on its pro-Charter change (Cha-cha) measure, Resolution of Both Houses (RBH) No. 7. This, despite...
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief, General Romeo Brawner Jr. (right) turns over the command symbol to Maj. Gen. Facundo Palafox IV as the new commander of the Southern Luzon Command (SolCom), replacing Lt. Gen. Efren Baluyot, during the change of command ceremony at Camp Guillermo Nakar...
REFLECTIONS TODAY Gospel • John 2:13-25 Since the Passover of the Jews was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. He found in the temple area those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, as well as the money changers seated there. He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the...
PEACE-MAKER Former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited our country recently where he conferred with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in Malacañang and made a historic visit to the Senate, where he delivered a speech. Ban Ki-moon now chairs the Seoul-based Global Green Growth...
