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Senator Francis Tolentino said Justin Brownlee’s bid to become a Filipino citizen may secure the blessing of the Senate by December. “So give and take, since we’re done with the budget hearings, probably by December we can have some progress on this, sans any opposition,” said Tolentino, chairman of the Senate Committee on Justice and […]
Senator Lito Lapid filed a resolution congratulating and commending young Philippine chess players for winning their age group and obtaining FIDE titles in the standard chess category at the 6th annual Eastern Asia Youth Chess Championships held in Bangkok, Thailand recently. The Philippines obtained a total of 32 gold medals, 27 silver medals, and 21 […]
A total of 12,399 nursing graduates from the Philippines took the U.S. licensure examination for the first time from January to September this year, in hopes of practicing their profession in America, Quezon City Rep. Marvin Rillo said on Sunday. “The nine-month figures already surpassed the 9,788 Filipino nursing graduates that took the U.S. admissibility […]
The resolute advocacy of urgent climate action on the international stage by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.— from New York to Bangkok—has cast him as the champion or point person of high-risk developing economies like the Philippines long seeking financial and technical aid from wealthy nations that have grown even richer from their largely unchecked greenhouse […]
The Northern Samar provincial government’s medical scholarship program has produced its first passer in the Physician Licensure Examination (PLE). Dr. Ric Arthur Estuaria, a native of Allen town, is one of the province’s eight medical scholars when the program was launched in 2020. Estuaria was among the 3,826 passers of the PLE administered by the […]
In celebration of the World Toilet Day, the province of Iloilo was conferred with the Zero Open Defecation (ZOD) Grade 1 status, the first Western Visayas province to be awarded with the ZOD seal. “This month the world reached eight billion people and about 45 percent of the total world populations do not have access […]
The chairman of the House Committee on Transportation pressed the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) and the Department of Health – Bureau of Quarantine (DOH-BOQ) to determine the cause of the long lines of Filipino passengers and returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) at the airports and address the problem immediately. Antipolo City 2nd District Representative […]
The referral of Senate Bill No. 1336 titled An Act Granting Philippine Citizenship to Justin Brownlee had been transferred to the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights. Under the Rules of the Senate, the said Committee shall have jurisdiction on matters relating to, among others, immigration and naturalization. Senator Francis Tolentino, Chairman of the […]
The Senate ended its marathon debates on House Bill (HB) 4488 or the P5.268 trillion 2023 proposed national budget, with the Commission on Higher Education’s budget as the last agency tackled. Senate President Migz Zubiri and 15 other senators closed the period of interpellations and gave his colleagues, staff and all government agencies pats on […]
Mayor Fernando Semanero Jr. has vowed that projects of the town of Sallapadan in Abra province will no longer bear faces and names of politicians as these are funded by taxpayers’ money. “This will be the trend in all projects of the municipality,” Semanero said. “The credit will be that of the residents and not […]