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Malacañang issued Executive Order (EO) No. 40 on Wednesday, extending the moratorium on the payment of the principal obligation and interest of the amortization due and payable by agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs). President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. signed EO 40 on Tuesday, which he announced during the Department of Agrarian Reform’s (DAR) presentation of the…
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President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. urged businesses in Singapore to consider the Philippines as their investment hub for renewable energy as he laid out the government’s efforts to lower electricity rates in the country. At the sidelines of the 10th Asia Summit Fireside Chat in Singapore, President Marcos said that foreign investors can now enjoy…
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The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) targets to deploy national digital identifications (IDs) by the end of the year following President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s instruction to fast track its issuance after several delays. In a press briefing in Malacañang on Wednesday, DICT Secretary Ivan Uy said that, like the rest of the…
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LEYTE Rep. Richard I. Gomez has called for an upgrade of the government’s age-old earth balling system, or the act of transferring full-grown trees from one place to another, as the country moves forward towards economic development amid the growing risks of climate change. Gomez has filed House Bill No. 9124 proposing the annual appropriation…
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Senator Imee Marcos took a firm position against a “redundant revalidation” of the identities and certificates of land ownership awards (CLOAs) of farmers before they could receive land titles as promised under Republic Act 11953, or the New Agrarian Emancipation Act. Marcos, who chairs the Senate Committee on Social Justice, Welfare, and Rural Development, voiced…
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A total of five registered sex offenders (RSOs) were barred by Philippine immigration from entering the country. Bureau of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Norman Tansingco expressed his concern on the interception of the five RSOs in different ports of the Philippines in the span of a week. Barred last August 30 at the Davao International Airport…
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The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) targets to finish the distribution of livelihood assistance to affected rice farmers by Thursday, September 14, in response to President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s order to expedite the payout and in compliance with the election period spending ban. In a press briefing in Malacañang on Tuesday, DSWD…
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The Senate on Monday, September 11, 2023, approved on third and final reading a bill that will breathe new life into the dying salt industry. With a unanimous vote, senators approved Senate Bill No. (SBN) 2243 or the Philippine Salt Industry Development Act. Sen. Cynthia A. Villar, chairperson of the Committee on Agriculture, Food, and…
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The Philippines and Australia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the establishment of a “Work and Holiday” visa arrangement, allowing nationals of both countries to seek employment while on a holiday“ to supplement the cost of their stay. In a seven-page MOU signed by Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo and Australian Ambassador to…
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The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) underscored on Saturday the need to build a credible defense posture for the Philippine military amid the territorial and maritime issues in the West Philippine Sea. In a news forum in Quezon City, AFP Spokesman Col. Medel Aguilar said that there were initiatives in the AFP’s acquisition of…
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