Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 07:13:01 +0000
The Malacañang showed confidence on Sunday that the country would continue to increase its rank as one of the best countries in the world as reforms are consistently being instituted.
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 06:02:32 +0000
Malacañang said that the Armed of the Philippines (AFP) will “crush” the “godless criminals” behind the deadly blasts that hit a Roman Catholic church in Jolo, Sulu.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:40:51 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte has declared Feb. 6 a non-working holiday in Lanao Del Norte (except Iligan City) and in seven North Cotabato municipalities for the second day of the plebiscite of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL).
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 02:39:47 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang welcomed Tuesday the Senate’s passage on third and final reading of the proposed P3.757 trillion national budget for 2019.
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 08:26:13 +0000
There is no need to pressure Congress to pass the P3.757 trillion national budget for 2019, Malacañang said Thursday, a week after Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo said any delay would be “unacceptable.”
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 06:53:53 +0000
The alleged threats to the life of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV are merely his “illusion,” Malacañang said Thursday, after the opposition lawmaker sought an exemption from this year’s election gun ban.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 03:07:51 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – “The best is yet to come,” Malacañang said Thursday, after a recent survey showed that hunger incidence among Filipinos dropped in December 2018, the lowest since 2003.
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 07:41:23 +0000
The allegation of House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. that the government had failed to allocate funds for the plebiscite on the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) was “misplaced and without basis.”
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 06:31:35 +0000
Malacañang is not opposing the Senate’s move to delete the P75 billion additional fund for the 2019 budget of the Department of Public Works and Highways.
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 06:05:30 +0000
Malacañang denied Thursday that the government was behind the campaign to vilify the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) by linking them to communist rebels.
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