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The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) inspected 65 establishments selling vape products during its nationwide Tax Compliance Verification Drive (TCVD) as part of its intensified campaign against illicit vapor products and tax violations. The operations covered five revenue regions: Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, LaQueMar (Laguna, Quezon, Marinduque), the Negros Island Region, and Cagayan de Oro City, resulting in the issuance […]
Manila 2nd District Representative Rolando Valeriano pushed for “heightened implementation of our country’s Anti-Human Trafficking laws, regulations, and international agreements” in a privilege speech at the House of Representatives. “I manifest my support for the Department of Justice, Department of Migrant Workers, and Department of Foreign Affairs and their attached agencies, particularly for programs that […]
Abra lone district Rep. JB Bernos has called on the government to conduct a stronger crackdown on the sale of counterfeit or smuggled cigarettes as he stressed that doing so would be beneficial for the local tobacco industry. “Ang mga peke at smuggled na sigarilyo ay malaking banta sa ating mga tobacco farmers hindi lamang […]
The House Committee on Population and Family Relations, chaired by Isabela Representative Ian Paul Dy, approved in principle House Bill 11117, also known as the “Fraudulent Birth Certificate Cancellation Law.” Originally approved on Nov. 27 this year, the panel reconvened to reconsider the approval of HB 11117 as a stand-alone measure, since its previous approval […]
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority will start implementing its MMDA Regulation No. 24-022 or the prohibition of e-bikes, e-trikes, tricycles, pedicabs, pushcarts, and kuligligs from traversing national roads, circumferential roads, and radial roads in Metro Manila on April 15.In a press conference after a stakeholder’s consultation meeting on the formulation of implementing rules and regulation […]
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has further intensified its monitoring and enforcement operations against violators of Republic Act No. 11900 or the “Vaporized Nicotine and Non-Nicotine Products Regulation Act and its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR). With its heightened enforcement operations, the DTI covers both physical and online stores, confiscating over 18,000 non-compliant […]
Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte is hopeful of a no-nonsense government drive against illegal online gaming this 2023, following the assurance last month by Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Ivan John Uy that his office would shut down—in tandem with gaming regulators and law enforcers—illicit gambling websites, and then throw the books […]
Senator Dick Gordon welcomed President Duterte’s directive to the Philippine National Police (PNP) to curb the recent spike in crimes involving motorcycle-bound criminals, colloquially known as the “riding-in-tandem.” Gordon, the author of Republic Act (RA) 11235 or the Motorcycle Crime Prevention Act, said the directive issued to the PNP Chief Dionardo Carlos would further shed […]