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The Senate approved today on third and final reading a landmark bill that would help accelerate universal access to tertiary education by providing tuition subsidies and financial assistance to students in state universities and colleges (SUCs) and private higher learning and vocational institutions. Senate Bill No. 1304 or the “Free Higher Education for All Act” […]
Top Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) officials on Sunday belied claims made by the Chamber of Mines against DENR Secretary Gina Lopez during last week’s confirmation hearings that she did not follow due process in the cancellation of 23 mining permits last February. The Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (COMP) is […]
Art aficionados and urban voyagers often go to UP Diliman and find their way around countless exhibits, pop-up installations, talks and plays for a feel of culture. There’s the trusted Vargas Museum as well as Bulwagan ng Dangal in the Main Library for regular showcases. The Wilfrido Guerrero is host to a number of plays […]
MANILA – Senators on Wednesday night finished examining Sen. Francis Pangilinan’s coco levy trust fund bill, moving the measure closer to becoming a law with the end of the period of interpellation. “Umaasa tayo na ma-ipapasa natin ang Coco Levy Trust Fund measure sa third and final reading bago matapos ang first regular session […]
Senator Loren Legarda today underscored the important role climate finance institutions play in building low-carbon and sustainable infrastructure that will support the climate change mitigation targets of climate vulnerable nations such as the Philippines. “Climate-vulnerable countries such as the Philippines fought to enshrine a 1.5 degrees Celsius global warming limit in the Paris Agreement not […]
“If we value our children then we should prioritize the welfare of those who care for them.” These were the sentiments of Laguna 3rd District Rep. Sol Aragones, who called on her colleagues to finally pass the Magna Carta of Daycare Workers, which would put an end to “endo” daycare workers and require that they […]
Citing statistics that show that teenage pregnancies in the Philippines remain disturbingly high, Laguna 3rd District Rep. Sol Aragones has filed a bill that would require the adoption of a national program that would curb teenage pregnancies in the country. Aragones filed HB 4742, or the Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy Act of 2017, that seeks […]
Senator Sonny Angara has called on the government to intensify programs that promote the participation and equitable representation of women particularly in the policy-making processes in government as well as in the military and police force. Angara, during his days in the Lower House, was one of the authors of the Magna Carta of Women […]
Environment Undersecretary Art Valdez, who led the country’s first contingent that conquered Mount Everest in 2006 and 2007, underscored on Tuesday the importance of the Commission on Appointment’s vote on the confirmation of Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Gina Lopez, who again faces the CA on March 8. “Tomorrow’s CA vote […]
As many as 30,000 households could benefit from green jobs that will be generated by a multi-agency four billion-peso investment in three provinces that will be affected by mine closures as a result of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) mining audit that shut down mines near watersheds in Surigao Del Norte, Surigao […]