President Rodrigo Duterte's decision to expand the country’s travel ban to visitors from mainland China and its administrative regions is a "very belated response" to the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, the Gabriela Women’s Party-list said.
The Davao City Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) secretary has admitted that the body has asked the authorities to intervene into the increasing number of fixers in its office’s vicinity.
A very good performance rating was given to the members of the 19th City Council for their legislative work in the July-December period last year.
Makabayan lawmakers are seeking investigation on the "illegal and forcible entry" of military agents into the Lumad evacuation center located at a church-owned compound here last Saturday, Jan. 25.
A lawmaker from Mindanao has expressed alarm over the plan of the Duterte government to cancel the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States while the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) says it’s time to do so.