Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 06:00:01 +0000
Lawmakers are now expected to break the deadlock over the final version of the P3.8-trillion national budget proposal for 2019.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 05:09:22 +0000
Senator Grace Poe on Friday said the existing fines for “colorum” public utility vehicles (PUVs) were “certainly too much” for drivers
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 03:01:24 +0000
What “pork” for senators? Senate President Vicente Sotto III asked and said it’s institutional amendments. Sen. Ralph Recto also agrees.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 01:14:35 +0000
Opposition senators on Friday urged government to heed the recommendation of a working group of the United Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 21:30:50 +0000
They are keeping P75 billion in pork in the final version of the P3.8-trillion national budget proposal for 2019 despite Lacson’s strident objections
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 06:06:34 +0000
President Duterte has vowed to certify as urgent a bill seeking reforms in the pension system of the military and other uniformed personnel.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 05:02:22 +0000
European civil society groups have joined calls against the passage of a bill that seeks to hold minors as young as 12 years old.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 04:46:46 +0000
Senator Win Gatchalian has called on Congress to “impose greater accountability” on underperforming electric cooperatives (ECs).
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 00:47:13 +0000
THE Senate has ratified a proposed bill exempting first-time job seekers from paying government fees and charges on documents needed when theyapply for employment. The bicameral conference committee report reconciled…READ
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 02:52:12 +0000
The alleged billions worth of “pork” insertions by congressmen and some senators have been retained in the 2019 national budget, Lacson said
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