Credit to Author: EDDIE G. ALINEA| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:15:33 +0000
LAS VEGAS: A two-year hiatus in fighting on US soil didn’t diminish Manny Pacquiao’s popularity among American boxing fans especially in this gambling city he called his second home. Adoring…READ
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:42:06 +0000
The Northrail Project of the Arroyo administration has been revived as the Philippine National Railway Clark (PNR Clark), one of the “big-ticket projects” of the Duterte administration.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:40:53 +0000
Lawmakers pressed the Department of Transportation (DOTr) on Wednesday to ensure that six railway projects, including a subway in Metro Manila, would not be hounded by delays that plagued past projects. “The updates sound very good… but how can you assure us that the [DOTr] will be able to meet these timelines?” Cebu City Rep. […]
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:38:45 +0000
From buying office supplies, such as ball pens and pencils, a “small, really small” purchasing unit under the office of Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno grew to supervise the bidding of some P198 billion in big-ticket contracts in 2018, House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. divulged on Wednesday.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:36:26 +0000
Public Works Secretary Mark Villar on Wednesday said that the government had achieved “significant progress” in dealing with right of way problems
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:34:43 +0000
Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno on Wednesday urged lawmakers to pass the proposed P3.8-trillion national budget for 2019 as soon as possible or Malacañang would call a special session of Congress to enact the spending bill, cutting their campaign time for the midterm elections in May. The President has authority to call Congress to a special […]
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:30:08 +0000
Some pharmacies are not complying with the law requiring all drugstores starting Jan. 1 to exempt from the 12-percent value-added tax (VAT) the sale of medicines for diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol to people aged below 60 years old.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:26:34 +0000
A fare increase need not follow the new round of fuel tax hike imposed on oil products this month
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:26:26 +0000
A measure opening the doors to the unrestricted importation of rice is now awaiting President Rodrigo Duterte’s signature.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:24:59 +0000
Malacañang on Wednesday described as “outright silly and childish but absurd as well” the challenge of Novaliches Bishop Emeritus Teodoro Bacani Jr. for President Rodrigo Duterte to walk in the streets without any security.
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