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Almost half a million more seniors will start getting a P6,000 yearly pension from the government effective this year, after Congress increased by P3 billion the budget for social pension for indigent 60-year-olds and above. So that qualified beneficiaries will start getting

Government should take advantage of the “good summer weather window” in building classrooms to erase the backlog in this critical education resource, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said. With classes in public schools now ended, education officials should also use the

Cyberthieves in the Philippines may not have the sophistication of their international counterparts to stage billion-peso heists, but they now have the capability to steal millions of pesos from automated teller machines (ATM) stationed all over the country. What is alarming,

No doubt it’s a grand conspiracy, but the Senate needs to uncover the connection between a group of hackers and high officials of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) if it wants to solve the $81-million money laundering mystery that rocked the country’s

Government should press full speed ahead in acquiring needed K to 12 classrooms, equipment and teachers after the Supreme Court (SC) rejected several pleas seeking to stop the implementation of the program adding three years to the basic education curriculum. With classes in

President Aquino was urged to sign into law a bill reforming customs and port procedures which one of its authors say would help stamp out smuggling like the kind the country’s hog raisers are protesting against. Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said the proposed Customs

Because lack of transportation or high fares is a leading cause of school absences, government must include bicycles for poor kids in its education shopping cart, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said today. Recto said there is already funding for the purchase of “bancas

Senator Salonga was sui generis, a class of his own. Any senator who serves in the Senate will have to be measured by the Salonga standard. This titan of nationalism left giant footprints which have impacted our nation for good. I respectfully suggest that with the family’s

Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto today called on Malacañang to expedite the signing into law of a recently-approved bill creating the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), saying the country needs “Special Action Forces” in cyberspace