All 18 senators present on Monday passed on the final reading a measure that will provide coconut farmers greater representation in the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) board, which was tasked to manage the coco levy fund.
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Malacañang on Monday reiterated that President Rodrigo Duterte remains healthy even as he admitted having undergone certain medical procedures recently.
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More than 300 policemen who tested positive for using illegal drugs have been dismissed from the force, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Oscar Albayalde said Monday.
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What Bonifacio Ilagan saw that day opened the floodgates of memory.
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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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While “humbled” by her continued top ranking in surveys, Senator Grace Poe opted to focus on more important numbers pertaining to the pressing problems of the country.
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The chief presidential legal counsel, Salvador Panelo, has dismissed as “mere publicity stunts” Senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s continued stay in the Senate and claims of military surveillance.
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Students. Labor leaders. Farmers. Members of the clergy. Teachers. Most of them were young activists in their teens, others in their 40s or 50s.
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Former Bayan Muna representative Satur Ocampo reminded former Senator Juan Ponce Enrile on Friday that he, including some of the individuals detained during the Martial Law period, are still alive and can attest to the alleged atrocities of the Marcos regime.
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Sen. Risa Hontiveros should stop “excessive politicking,” Malacañang said Friday, after the opposition lawmaker called President Rodrigo Duterte as the “destabilizer-in-chief.”
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