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Malacañang should augment the OFW assistance fund of the Department of Foreign Affairs, as the surge in Filipinos losing their jobs abroad has reduced the P1 billion fund to P300 million.  “That lifeline to our kababayans will be gone soon at the rate it is being

NAIA’s immediate problem is not its signage, but its bottomline, as travel lockdown may cut its 2020 revenues by as much as P10 billion—barely enough for the country’s gateway to keep payroll and the lights on, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said.  “NAIA is a

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto today welcomed the government’s “gone in five days” policy for returning OFWs transiting through Manila on their way home “as one that is painfully overdue.” But as more airports reopen to receive flights from abroad, Recto said th

With their robust remittances – P1.7 trillion last year – overseas Filipinos who are homeward bound have earned the right to be treated “as returning heroes who have sacrificed so much for their country,” Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. “They deserve a red carpet

Virtual committee hearing of the Public Services committee chaired by Senator Grace Poe on the resumption of public transport during COVID-19 crisis. May 11, 2020 Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto clarifies with MIAA GM Eddie Monreal that the country is not yet opening our

I vote ‘Yes’ to this measure, Mr. President.  In reality, the main challenge is not to expand the coverage of the Legal Assistance Fund, but to increase its funding.  It is not about having more slices out of the pie, but how to make that pie bigger. Because the current

Tama ang desisyon ng pamahalaan na i-repatriate ang mga kababayan nating nagtratrabaho sa barkong na-quarantine sa Japan.  If we have to charter a plane, then let us do it, if only to send a powerful signal to Filipino seafarers that when in distress, the

The decision of the government to allow Filipinos to return to their work in Hong Kong and Macau is a step in the right direction.  This will save the jobs of thousands of Filipinos who were vacationing in their home country when their government imposed a travel ban to those two

Republic of the Philippines Congress of the Philippines Metro Manila Sixteenth Congress Third Regular Session Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of July, two thousand fifteen. [REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10863] AN ACT MODERNIZING THE CUSTOMS AND TARIFF

Republic of the Philippines Congress of the Philippines Metro Manila Sixteenth Congress Third Regular Session Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of July, two thousand fifteen. [REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10801] AN ACT GOVERNING THE OPERATIONS AND