Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2019 09:53:05 +0000
Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III says peace talks with communists are still possible despite a court petition to have them declared as terrorists.
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Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle on Tuesday urged parents and elders to give the youth the gift of faith during the holiday season
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 21:38:53 +0000
Its death would not save the Road Board from an investigation to uncover the irregularities that led to calls for its abolition
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The Senate may strong-arm the country’s economic managers into proceeding with the suspension of the increase in excise on fuel by using the pending 2019 national budget as leverage, Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian said on Sunday.
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Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri is backing the reelection bid of Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III.
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Reelectionist-Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III arrived early Thursday morning at the Commission on Elections (Comelec) headquarters at the Palacio del Gobernador in Intramuros, Manila, to file his certificate of candidacy for the May 2019 midterm elections.
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Filipinos who lived through martial law should debunk claims there were no arrests, torture and killings during the 21-year rule of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
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Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III on Saturday said government officials against federalism would “need more information” on the proposed shift of government. He made this comment after Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III and other economic managers earlier told the Senate finance committee that federalism might damage the momentum of the country’s economy. “Ang nakukuha ko naman […]
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Read moreSenators are mulling to legislate a ban on the single-use plastics after a study revealed the Philippines as one of the major contributors of plastic wastes in oceans.
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Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri vowed to support and fast-track any proposed measure at the Senate that would seek to ban single-use plastics, following reports that the Philippines was one of the major sources of plastic waste dumped in the oceans.
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