Palace ‘confident’ Philippines to climb ranking as ‘best country in the world’

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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Palace to Catholic clergy: Stop meddling in state affairs

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 07:38:30 +0000

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang on Thursday told members of the Catholic clergy to stop meddling in state affairs as there seems to be no end to the word war between President Rodrigo Duterte and the Catholic Church.

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Palace: Alleged threats to Trillanes’ life just his ‘illusion’

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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Andaya ‘misinformed’; Bangsamoro plebiscite has enough funds — Palace

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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Palace won’t stop Senate move to delete P75 B add’l DPWH funding

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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Work from home law to ease traffic woes – Palace

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 02:32:06 +0000

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang is optimistic that the work from home law will help ease vehicular traffic congestion in Metro Manila and other urban areas.

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Palace: Gov’t not behind red-tagging journalists; NUJP just ‘paranoid’

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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Palace says Duterte has no serious illness 

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 05:25:21 +0000

Palace says Duterte has no serious illness 

There is no reason for President Rodrigo Duterte to release an official medical bulletin about his health, Malacañang said Thursday, citing that he has no serious illness.

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Palace: Surveillance on teachers not gov’t policy

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 09:22:36 +0000

The government has no policy to conduct surveillance on teachers, Malacañang said Monday, after a left-leaning teachers’ union received reports that police officers were going around schools in Metro Manila and some provinces to gather information about their members.

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Palace on death of ex-mayor in ‘narcolist’: Political status irrelevant in drug war

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2019 08:14:27 +0000

The death of a former mayor included in the President’s “narcolist” proves that the administration’s drug war sees no social or political status, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said.

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