Philippines

By Ellson Quismorio  A Bicol lawmaker is prodding the 14 government agencies tasked to draft the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the Rice Tariffication Act to work double-time, and beat the 45-day deadline set by the law in order to avoid a repeat of the fiasco that was the…

That’s the way to do it! ‘’It goes without saying, I fully support the President’s decision to retract his earlier decision to terminate the RP-US Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA),’’ Senator Panfilo M. Lacson, chairman of the Senate National Defense and Security committee, said. Defense…

By Reuters US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the Democrats’ decision to interview his longtime fixer, lawyer Michael Cohen, on the same day as a meeting with Kim Jong Un may have led to the North Korea summit ending with no deal. US President Donald Trump (REUTERS / MANILA BULLETIN)…

Senator Nancy Binay on Sunday, Sept. 12 renewed her appeal for the state economic managers to boost the government’s COVID-19 response by allocating a bigger budget for contact tracing in the proposed P5.024-trillion national budget for 2022. Echoing other colleagues sentiment, Binay said she is…

CEBU CITY – “Justice has prevailed, as always.” Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia had this to say after the Supreme Court (SC) affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeals (CA) dismissing the administrative cases filed against her over the controversial purchase of Balili property. “And yet…

A total of 1,573 individuals out of 2,887 examinees have passed the March 2023 Licensure Exam for Physicians, the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced on Thursday evening, March 16. Spearheaded by the Board of Medicine, the exam was given in Metro Manila, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu,.

Most of the country will continue to experience cloudy skies with scattered rain showers due to the prevalence of intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), the state weather bureau said on Saturday morning, Oct. 8. (Pixabay) ITCZ or the convergence of winds from the northern and southern hemispheres..

By Agence France-Presse A man has been charged with ordering videos of rapes and sexual assaults, some of them on children, broadcast live from the Philippines, a French prosecutor said on Saturday. The suspect, a 55-year-old former police officer according to L’Est Republicain newspaper, was being

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran on Thursday criticised a decision by the United States to impose new sanctions on the Islamic republic, saying it shows the Americans have bad intentions towards its people. The US Treasury announced on Wednesday the newly imposed sanctions targeting several entities it…

While the results of the 2022 Bar examinations have not been released, the Supreme Court (SC) announced that the passers’ oathtaking and signing of the Roll of Attorneys will be held starting at 10 a.m. on May 2, 2023 at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in Pasay City. The SC…