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In a joint statement, Acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio and former Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto del have said that our interests are “safe” and that “nothing is being given away” by the Philippines in its oil exploration agreement with China. This seal of a good agreement

If the Senate will start floor debates on the 2019 national budget next month, then the particulars of any or all of the 29 Philippine -China deals signed during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit may be asked of the Cabinet member who signed the deal, or whose agency is

My unsolicited advice is for Senator Honasan to retain Acting Secretary Eliseo Rio as his Senior Undersecretary, and for the latter to continue serving the public in that capacity. For one to step up, there is no need for the other to step out. The nation will benefit from the

Proceeds from duties collected under the rice tariffication regime should be funnelled into the improvement of post-harvest facilities like dryers in order to save 1/6th of the national palay output lost to poor after-harvest handling, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto today said that the Senate bill on rice tariffication mandates that all duties collected from imported rice be plowed back to farmers through “a raft of assistance in the form of equipment, insurance, credit, and even direct financi

The return of the bells restores a severed historical connection between a proud people and their brave forebears. After more than a century, the descendants will now be able to hear the bells which summoned their ancestors to prayers, to safety, to work, and to the defense of

K to 12’s problem “is not legal, but logistical,” Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said today as he urged the government to move on to address backlogs in the delivery of school facilities upon which the success of the said education reform hinges. Recto made the

As the latest SWS survey reported close to 10 million Filipinos jobless last September, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto has called on government to attach a “jobs odometer” to the P3.757 trillion 2019 national budget and pursue other measures to reduce unemployment. And

Greg is a silent workhorse in a chamber of showhorses. He has always been after good policies not after good publicity. I was the principal author of the law creating the DICT, the modernization of PAGASA and free WiFi, and I can attest that while he gave valuable inputs, he did