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Bill seeks to make court proceedings available for media and the public
Cagayan de Oro second district Representative Rufus Rodriguez filed House Bill 7681 or “Sunshine in the Courtroom Act” that seeks to allow court proceedings to be made available to the public. The bill will
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Senator Tulfo files bill to regulate police checkpoints
Senator Raffy Tulfo files Senate Bill No 1977 or the Checkpoint Regularization Act last March 14, seeking to regulate police checkpoints and stop discriminatory practices, especially for motorcycle riders. In the statement released, Tulfo
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P175B bridge project to connect Cavite and Bataan; reduces travel time to 40 minutes
Credit: Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific. The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) announced last March 14 that the construction of the P175 billion bridge that would connect the provinces of
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BBM assures P20 per kilo rice is coming soon
STAR / Andy Zapata Jr. At the launching of “Kadiwa ng Pangulo” in Camarines Sur recently, President Bongbong Marcos assured the public that his promise to lower the price of rice to P20 per
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Do the early rumblings try to shake the foundation of BBM administration
Photo source: pbbm.com.ph Random interviews with ordinary people resulted in mixed views Two months before President Bongbong Marcos’s one- year anniversary as the 17th president of the Republic of the Philippines, a few critics
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DepEd amends a word in “Panatang Makabayan”
Photo source: Facebook Photo/E. Marcos The Department of Education has modified one of the terms in the national pledges “Panatang Makabayan as recommended by experts and linguists. Last February 14, under the Department Order
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No Filipino casualties in Syria quake – DFA
Photo source: Omar Haj Kadour / AFP The Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed that there was no Filipino killed in Syria or Turkey following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the two countries recently.
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DOT: Philippines to welcome 139 cruise ships this year; signifies tourism resurgence
Photo source: Russell Palma | philstar.com The Department of Tourism is is set to welcome 139 cruise ships carrying around 117,000 tourists from across the world this 2023. “Docking in 46 areas in the
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DA launches ORION program to revive onion industry
The Department of Agriculture will launch the Optimization and Resiliency in the Onion Industry Network or ORION Program to support onion farmers and increase domestic supply. In a statement released by DA last January
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Suicide among students alarming
In a Senate panel last January 31, DepEd Assistant Secretary Dexter Galban presented that at the height of the pandemic in 2021, 404 students committed suicide and died, 2,147 attempted it and 775,962 sought
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