Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 06:06:06 +0000
Reports that some lawmakers are unhappy with President Rodrigo Duterte’s choice of Taguig Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano as the next House Speaker does not show the Chief Executive’s lack of authority in the lower chamber, Malacañang said Thursday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 18:07:39 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the “freezing” of several high-ranking officials and employees of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) over allegations of corruption.
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Read moreCredit to Author: racosta| Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 21:14:08 +0000
Malacañang on Friday rejected a call by some members of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to probe the growing number of killings in President Duterte’s war on drugs, saying it was interfering in the country’s sovereignty.
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 10:33:55 +0000
Malacañang on Friday defended neophyte Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa’s remark that “shit happens” during anti-drug operations, saying that the former chief of police was just explaining that “accidents” are bound to happen during police operations.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 03:25:14 +0000
Malacañang is “optimistic” that the 18th Congress will “swiftly” pass the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill, one of the priority legislations of President Rodrigo Duterte that remains pending.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 10:36:00 +0000
Majority of Filipinos are in awe of the achievements made by President Rodrigo Duterte in the first half of his six-year term
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 14:20:43 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday threatened to send to jail those who would file an impeachment case against him over his alleged failure to protect the country’s territory, especially its exclusive economic zone (EEZ), from Chinese aggression in the West Philippine Sea.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 07:14:27 +0000
Back in Malacañang for the oath-taking of senator-elect Imee Marcos, the Marcos family took the opportunity to pose with the portrait of former president Ferdinand Marcos.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 12:39:02 +0000
The government is fast-tracking the implementation of the normalization program for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 10:35:58 +0000
It is “dangerous” for President Duterte as head of state to show his outrage over the sinking of a Filipino boat in the West Philippine Sea.
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