Philippine News

PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Friday said he is not keen on imposing a total ban on the deployment of Filipino workers to Kuwait. Marcos was responding to calls for the Philippines to impose such a ban after the Gulf state stopped issuing new entry visas to Filipinos. “I’m never …

Survey says most Filipino workers find it hard to land a job nowadays. The Social Weather Station (SWS) survey during the first quarter of the year showed that 69 percent of adult Filipinos are having difficulty looking for jobs these days. The SWS study indicated that only 11 percent said …

At a Glance P3PWD Party-list nominee Rowena Guanzon’s tweets show that she is upset with the Marcos administration’s plan to implement a food stamps program as a way to address the hunger problem. Rowena Guanzon (MANILA BULLETIN) P3PWD Party-list nominee Rowena Guanzon is upset with the Marcos administration’s intention of …

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Some Mindanao-based groups of LGBTQ people and school-based organizations called on the University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines (USTP) here to resolve an issue on alleged gender discrimination involving a student. The university found itself dragged in a controversy following a video showing …

STAYING IN STEP. President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. walks with Philippine Navy officers and some Cabinet members as they attend its 125th anniversary celebration and commissioning of patrol gun boats at the PN headquarters on Roxas Boulevard on Friday. Rolando Mailo  President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Friday that his …

At a Glance Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman says the government still has some P18.3 billion in calamity funds that can be used for various disaster relief operations. Pangandaman says identified frontline government agencies may also mobilize their Quick Response Fund (QRF) allocated in their respective budgets. Further, after the typhoon, …

SUPER typhoon “”Mawar (local name Betty) slightly weakened as it continued to approach the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), the state weather bureau reported late Friday night. As of 10 p.m., the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said the center of the eye of Mawar was estimated …

Cagayan, Batanes brace for ‘Betty,’ typhoon in PAR until Wednesday READY FOR ‘BETTY’. A fishermen in Parañaque City lashes his boat to a bamboo raft to prepare for the coming of Super Typhoon Mawar or Betty, which showed a fearsome eye in photographs by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center on …

The 19th Congress has approved only four of the 42 priority legislative measures of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ahead of its sine die adjournment next week. The House of Representatives already approved 31 of the priority bills, including the four that were also passed by the Upper Chamber. Of the …

At a Glance Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno wants to resume Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations between the Philippines and European Union. Diokno says geo-economic fragmentation and trade protectionism will only burden an already struggling global economy. The exploratory FTA scoping meetings between Manila and the EU started in 2013. The …