5 Senate contenders uphold bikers’ rights

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 21:16:57 +0000

Motorcycle riders might have found champions in five senatorial candidates who, in a rare show of solidarity, vowed to uphold bikers’ rights

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Otso Diretso banks on late groundswell of support

Credit to Author: dmorcoso| Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 21:22:32 +0000

Don’t write off Otso Diretso just yet. Despite their dismal showing in recent surveys, candidates from the Otso Diretso coalition are banking on a “come-from-behind victory” buoyed by the “last-minute discernment of voters,” Sen. Francis Pangilinan, the group’s campaign manager, said on Thursday. “We will not stop campaigning, we will not stop convincing and wooing […]

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Labor code amendment, repeal of TRAIN Law pushed

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 10:08:17 +0000

Labor code amendment, repeal of TRAIN Law pushed

MANILA, Philippines – Labor Day demonstrators called for amendments to the Labor Code of the Philippines in order to put an end to contractualization and repeal of tax reform law.

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Colmenares hits Duterte’s ‘below the belt’ attacks vs Diokno, Hilbay 

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 05:12:12 +0000

Colmenares hits Duterte’s ‘below the belt’ attacks vs Diokno, Hilbay 

President Duterte’s attacks against Diokno and Hilbay were “below the belt, dirty and vindictive,” fellow candidate Neri Colmenares said.

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Unique killings, same language, lawyers say of drug war reports

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 21:40:24 +0000

The police reports on the killings of suspects in President Duterte’s brutal war on drugs “leave much to be desired,”

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LOOK: Otso Diretso bets woo voters in GenSan 

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 03:00:12 +0000

LOOK: Otso Diretso bets woo voters in GenSan 

Otso Diretso candidates visited the General Santos City public market on Thursday to kick off their campaign in Mindanao.

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Andaya: If cash budgeting legal, why ask House OK?

Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:14:45 +0000

Andaya: If cash budgeting legal, why ask House OK?

House appropriations committee chair Rolando Andaya Jr. on Thursday questioned Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno’s insistence that the government could impose cash-based budgeting even after it was deleted in the approved 2019 spending budget.

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Diokno belies Andaya’s ‘bribery’ claims; says it’s ‘wild, baseless’

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 03:50:37 +0000

Diokno belies Andaya's 'bribery' claims; says it's 'wild, baseless'

Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno branded as “baseless” the fresh accusation of Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr. that he tried to “bribe” the House of Representatives with an amount of P40 billion.

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‘Diokno tried to bribe House with P40B to shut up about insertions’ — Andaya

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 03:43:23 +0000

MANIBudget Sec. Benjamin Diokno tried to “buy” and “bribe” the House of Representatives in the amount of P40 billion to “shut up”

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