A party list lawmaker is fighting tooth and nail to impede a passage of a bill institutionalizing the government’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) scheme, saying the measure would give more freedom for concessionaires to charge consumers of higher toll rates.
A 63-hectare agri-industrial economic zone will soon rise adjacent to Mindanao’s busiest international seaport.
As Japan’s reigning monarch makes a state visit to Philippines this week, activists here think it is time for the country to apologize for the brutalities its soldiers committed in the Philippines during World War II.
A party list lawmaker who filed a bill making election service non-compulsory to public teachers is urging President Benigno Aquino III to sign the measure as soon as possible, with local and national polls taking place this year.
The University of the Philippines College of Law will hold the Law Aptitude Exam here on February 7.
Two barangay reading centers in Tagum City received an estimated total of 500 books from the local government.
The Party-list group Anakpawis said it is wary with the appointment of former acting Department of Justice secretary, Alfredo Benjamin Caguioa as associate justice of the Supreme Court.
George San Mateo, national president of Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Operators Nationwide (Piston) reportedly received a death threat last Monday (Jan. 18).
Workers called for compassion for public utility jeep drivers in the country saying rollback on jeepney fares should not be lower than P7 even as global oil prices are decreasing.
Filipino migrants group, Migrante International warned of a looming mass retrenchment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the Middle East and urged the Philippine government to prepare measures that will mitigate the impact on affected OFWs.