Philippine News

Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez on Monday said the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) will soon play a bigger role in the country’s development through earnings from stocks that would be used for projects to spur business activities, create more jobs, and implement needed social programs. The Speaker issued this prediction …

The Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (Lakas-CMD) reaffirmed its solid political alliance with six other parties in the House of Representatives by signing agreements with them on Monday. Renewing pacts with the House’s biggest party were the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban), National Unity Party (NUP), Nacionalista Party (NP), Nationalist People’s …

Despite facing stiffer sanctions from the House of Representatives, murder suspect and Negros Oriental Rep. Arnolfo Teves Jr. on Monday said he has no plan to return to the country despite the recantations of the suspect-witnesses in the killing of Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo. In a virtual press briefing, …

RESOLVED. DAR Secretary Conrado Estrella III, in a press briefing at the Malacañan Palace on Tuesday (May 30, 2023), said the historic land dispute cases involving Hacienda Tinang in Concepcion, Tarlac have been finally resolved. Estrella said that DAR is set to distribute land titles to beneficiaries in the coming weeks. (Photo …

President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has invited students to visit the two new museums in Malacañang that feature all the country’s presidents, saying “it is very educational.” President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. delivers his speech at the Goldenberg Mansion in Malacañang Palace compound on May 30, 2023. (Noel B. Pabalate) …

More than 4,000 people were moved to safer ground Monday as Typhoon Betty was raised to Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal No. 2, with Cagayan and Batanes provinces just beginning to feel the strong wind and rains that leveled some old structures in northern Luzon. Packing maximum sustained winds of 155 …

BRP Melchora Aquino. PHOTO by MIKE ALQUINTO  FOR the first time, the Philippines will hold maritime exercises this week with two of its closest allies — the United States and Japan. The trilateral exercises will be conducted off Mariveles, Bataan from June 1 to 7, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) …

Albay Rep. Joey Salceda on Sunday said Congress is studying the Senate’s version of the Maharlika Investment Fund, which President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. earlier certified as urgent in a bid to hasten its passage as Congress adjourns sine die this week. “We are talking to stakeholders and experts to see …

The Philippine Navy will get more modern ships and aircrafts as part of its modernization program, Rear Admiral Jose Ma. Ambrosio Ezpeleta said. “There are many other new modern ships of the Philippine Navy that will be arriving soon, not only ships but also aircraft,” Ezpeleta said on Monday in …

FLEEING LANAO. This screen grab from an ABS-CBN TV report on Sunday shows some of the 1,236 persons from Marogong, Lanao del Sur evacuating the town to avoid being in the middle of the possible crossfire with government troops and forces of the Daulah Islamiyah, who threatened reprisal for the …