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Credit to Author: Dominique Nicole Flores| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0800

Congress has finally passed the P6.352 trillion budget for 2025 after reconciling the differences between the two chambers — but not without any losers and winners. Philstar.com takes a look at how Congress divided the country’s public funds.

The Philippine Coast Guard tracked more than 32,000 passengers through the country’s ports early Friday, December 20, capturing the influx in sea travel five days before Christmas.

Credit to Author: Rhodina Villanueva| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0800

The Commission on Elections has suspended work on Dec. 24 and 31 and will not entertain filing of petitions on these dates.

Credit to Author: Bella Cariaso| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0800

Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. has banned the importation of live cattle and buffalo from Japan amid the outbreak of lumpy skin disease.

Credit to Author: Jose Rodel Clapano| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0800

A third impeachment complaint has been filed against Vice President Sara Duterte, this time by a group of lawyers and clergy, citing as grounds her misuse of hundreds of millions of pesos of her confidential funds, including when she was secretary of the Department of Education.

Credit to Author: Jose Rodel Clapano| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0800

Speaker Martin Romualdez inaugurated on Tuesday the Bagong Bayaning Mandirigma casualty and cancer care center in Quezon City.

Credit to Author: Jean Mangaluz| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:50:00 +0800

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Thursday, December 19, that the matter of clemency for Mary Jane Veloso is still far off, but acknowledged that the Philippine government is fully in control of her freedom.

Credit to Author: Jean Mangaluz| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 12:40:00 +0800

Lt. Gen. Arthur Cordura on Thursday officially stepped into his new role as the new commanding general of the Philippine Air Force, assuming the role after outgoing Lieutenant General Stephen Parreño retired.

Credit to Author: Michael Punongbayan| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0800

Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro Jr. has rejected the idea of implementing another holiday truce with the New People’s Army during the holiday season.

Credit to Author: Christine Boton| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0800

In 2015, then justice secretary Leila de Lima was one of three Cabinet officials who, together with then president Benigno Aquino III, appealed to Indonesia to spare Mary Jane Veloso from execution.