Senate can’t review verbal agreement on Chinese fishing – Sotto

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 21:34:25 +0000

Senate can’t review verbal agreement on Chinese fishing – Sotto

Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Wednesday shrugged off the suggestion of Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio

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Gov’t can afford pay hike, says Dominguez

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 21:30:54 +0000

Gov’t can afford pay hike, says Dominguez

President Rodrigo Duterte’s push to further raise salaries of civil servants, including teachers and nurses

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Bacolod bishop unhappy over Duterte’s death penalty plan

Credit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 09:19:45 +0000

BACOLOD CITY –– Bacolod Bishop Patricio Buzon on Monday expressed dismay over President Duterte’s call to bring back the death penalty.

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Duterte critics ask China: Get out of PH

Credit to Author: acerojano| Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 13:30:17 +0000

Duterte critics ask China: Get out of PH

MANILA, Philippines – There are issues that militant groups have repeatedly raised every State of the Nation Address (Sona), regardless of who the country’s president is — from accusations of United States-sponsored imperialism, woeful labor conditions, and human rights abuses. These issues were still brought up as President Rodrigo Duterte was making his fourth Sona […]

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MPBL throws support to founder Pacquiao

Credit to Author: Tempo Online| Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 18:30:08 +0000

Pacquiao allocated three tickets each for the league’s 31 teams. Majority of the counterpart LGU officials, however, are unavailable due to the State of the Nation Address of President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday.

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Activists doubt surveys on Duterte’s high satisfaction, trust ratings

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 12:59:37 +0000

Activists doubt surveys on Duterte’s high satisfaction, trust ratings

Human rights advocates do not buy the results of the latest public satisfaction and trust ratings survey on President Rodrigo Duterte.

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Romero: Duterte’s Speaker endorsement to foster harmony between Palace and Congress

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 03:41:11 +0000

A party-list lawmaker has warned of a “very destructive government” if the Executive and Legislative branches of government would 

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DSWD: Over 3 million Filipino kids nourished by gov’t feeding programs

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 05:47:49 +0000

At least 3.9 million Filipino children have received nourishment from the government’s feeding program since President Rodrigo Duterte

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Duterte ‘record-high’ rating shows ‘democracy is working’ — analyst

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 08:44:54 +0000

Duterte ‘record-high’ rating shows ‘democracy is working’ — analyst

MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte’s personal record-high satisfaction rating proved that democracy in the Philippines is “working,” a political analyst asserted on Tuesday.  “When it is perceived as popular in the rating, that only shows that our democracy is working [and] that people appreciates what happened in the past three years. This is why […]

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Karapatan asks UNHRC to hold those behind PH drug killings accountable

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 10:47:54 +0000

A Philippine human rights group appealed to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to heed Iceland’s call to investigate unwarranted killings

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