(UPDATE) SENATE President Francis Escudero said Tuesday that the House of Representatives has agreed to adopt the Senate version of a bill postponing the first parliamentary elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) from May 12 to Oct. 13. The final version of the ratified measure will be submitted to President Ferdinand … Read more
(UPDATE) SENATE President Francis Escudero said Tuesday that the House of Representatives has agreed to adopt the Senate version of a bill postponing the first parliamentary elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) from May 12 to Oct. 13. The final version of the ratified measure will be submitted to President Ferdinand … Read more
MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. suspended work in government offices and classes at all levels in both public and private schools in the cities Manila and Pasay on Jan. 13, for Iglesia ni Cristo’s (INC) “National Rally for Peace,” Malacañang said Friday. Marcos made the declaration through Memorandum Circular 76, signed by Executive … Read more
(UPDATE) CAMBODIA has pardoned and sent home 13 Filipino women who were jailed over a scheme to become surrogate mothers, an outlawed practice in that country, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Sunday. They were among 24 foreign women detained by Cambodian police in September, and convicted and sentenced to four years in … Read more