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‘Form ready-to-deploy rescue brigades, build hospital ships’ The next administration should cut the red tape slowing down calamity aid and preposition Quick Response Funds (QRF) to the regions in order to bring relief to disaster areas fast, Senator Ralph Recto said...

Include Abu Sayyaf problem in next pres’l debate – Recto   Finishing off the Abu Sayyaf is this president’s last job and the next president’s first. They have bedeviled four presidencies and, if not stopped, is on track to confront the fifth Malacañang occupant in their almost...

No-el due to No-el must be avoided Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto today called on the executive department to act swiftly on the blackouts hitting large swaths of Mindanao, saying power failure in the island of 12.5 million voters on election day could seriously affect...

No Electricity, No Election. Ito, ayon kay Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto, ang nakakatakot na pangyayari na dapat aksyunan agad ng pamahalaan kung nais nitong masiguro ang mapayapa at tapat na eleksyon sa susunod na buwan. Ayon kay Recto, marami ang nangangamba na aabot...

A Senate leader said today that “complicated rules and cumbersome requirements” governing the request, release and use of national calamity funds are equally liable for the trickle down of aid to El Niño-hit areas. “Red tape and rules are the main culprits why aid is moving in a...

Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto today laughed off the outburst made by Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang labeling him irresponsible for linking Chinese hackers to the $81-million cyberheist on Bangladesh Bank, describing China’s response as “mere...

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has given the thumb of approval to Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto’s appeal that teachers displaced by the K to 12 basic education program be given more time to apply for the government-funded scholarship program for higher...

Mga taong may mental illness, saklaw ng batas Nagbitaw na ng salita ang miyembro ng Gabinete na mangunguna sa pagsusulat ng Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) ng Expanded Persons with Disability (PWD) Benefits Law na ito ay mabilis na mailalabas, bagay na lubos na ikinatuwa...