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Senate Advocates, Champion of the Makabansa Basketball League Tournament, to Donate Prize to Tahanang Walang Hagdan – PIMENTEL

  Senate President Koko Pimentel III on Monday congratulated the Senate’s basketball team for bagging the Makabansa Basketball League Championship at the Meralco Fitness Center. The Senate Advocates, led by co-captains Senator Sonny Angara and Senator Joel Villanueva, and steered by playing coach lawyer Rodelio Dascil, won 76-75 over the Philippine Star Troopers, ending the […]

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Milk, 3-In-1 Coffee, Excluded in Excise Tax – ANGARA

  Milk and 3-in-1 coffee are excluded from the proposed excise tax on sweetened beverages under the version that the Senate panel reported out last week. Senator Sonny Angara, chairman of the ways and means committee, said the committee finds it unjustifiable to tax milk – given its nutritional value – the same way as […]

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Use Travel Tax for Tourism-Related Education Programs – BINAY

  Senator Nancy Binay reminded the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) that it had to follow the Tourism Act of 2009 which mandates it to fund tourism-related educational programs and courses. According to Binay, the law requires CHED to fund the education and training of students by providing tourism-related programs that would focus on languages, […]

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3.5 Million Coconut Farmers Will Earn More from Intercropping – VILLAR

  Senator Cynthia Villar pushed for the allocation of a bigger budget for intercropping, saying the 3.5 million coconut farmers will be able to earn more from this planting strategy. Villar, chair of the Committee on Agriculture and Food, said a study shows that farmers earn only P50 a day from planting coconuts while intercropping […]

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Sports & Entertainment

From #LetRobPlay to #RobWillPlay: A Story of Choice, Chance and Change

  Judge Marlo Magdoza-Malagar of Branch 19 of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Manila issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) in order to allow Rob Ricafort of the UP Fighting Maroons Men’s Basketball Team to play in the ongoing Season 80 of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP). Previously, the UAAP Eligibility […]

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Ensuring Water Supplies and Wisely Managing Water Resources Key Component to Sustaining the Robust Growth – SANTOS

  Local water districts (LWDs) must work overtime to adequately service their customers given the fast pace of development in Central Luzon. Welcoming participants of the “Local Development means Local Involvement: The Role of LGUs in Water and Wastewater Management” roundtable discussion (RTD) at Hotel Stotsenberg in Clarkfield, Pampanga, Pampanga Association of Water Districts (PAMAWD) […]

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Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections Postponed – GORDON

  Senator Dick Gordon was elated with the Senate’s decision to approve, on third and final reading, the bill that he sponsored proposing to postpone the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections from October this year to May 2018. Gordon said with the issue on the postponement of the said elections already decided, the Senate can […]

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Speed up Delivery of Learning Materials to Millions of Students – AQUINO

  Senator Bam Aquino urged the Department of Education (DepEd) to address its underspending to speed up delivery of needed learning materials to millions of primary and secondary students in the country. “The DepEd needs to be more efficient in its delivery, which can hamper the delivery of learning materials and other needs to our […]

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OWWA to Get Funding from National Budget for First Time – ANGARA

  The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), the lead government agency tasked to promote the welfare of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their families, will be getting for the first time government allocation for its operating requirements, thanks to the new OWWA law. “Sa halos apat na dekada mula nang naitatag ang OWWA, ito ang […]

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TV Stations to Use Subtitles for the Benefit of the Deaf – POE

  Senator Grace Poe today urged television networks to comply with the recently passed law that obliges TV stations to use subtitles for the benefit of the deaf and hard of hearing and provide them access to important programs. Poe, chairperson of the Senate committee on public information and mass media and primary author of […]