Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 10:36:07 +0000
President Duterte has signed the so-called “Bawal Bastos” law, which aims to punish catcalling and other gender-based harassment in public spaces and online.
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Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 06:47:10 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law the bill that institutionalizes student fare discounts for all modes of transportation.
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 05:44:38 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte will visit Monday the military camp in Jolo province that was attacked by two suicide bombers on June 28.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 23:24:04 +0000
CAVITE CITY, Cavite, Philippines — For a city that was once the center of international trade, a rising airport could finally be its long-needed push to stir a stagnant economy.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 23:21:35 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — In July 2017, President Rodrigo Duterte accused “lumad” (indigenous) schools of “teaching children to rebel against the government” and threatened to bomb them using the Army and the Air Force.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:16:48 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte supports the proposal of Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go, his former aide, to establish a separate department for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to protect them from abusive illegal recruiters. “We won’t allow recruitment from outside,” the President, speaking in Filipino, said on Friday at the Araw ng Pasasalamat sa OFW […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: racosta| Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 21:15:46 +0000
Sangley Point, a trading post for Spanish galleons and a military base once held by United States naval forces, will open its doors in November, this time to civilian aircraft under an urgent P486-million government airport project.
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Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 21:09:40 +0000
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) welcomed on Saturday the creation of a separate department that will handle the affairs of Filipino migrant workers, a move which it said would be most beneficial to the country’s modern-day heroes.
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Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 21:08:42 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to ban private agencies from recruiting Filipinos for jobs abroad and has ordered the government to supervise the hiring of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 12:33:47 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday said he wants a Department of Overseas Filipino Workers by December this year.
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