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Members of the House of Representatives have pledged to grant Filipino gold medalists in the 30th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games additional incentives. The SEA Games is being hosted by the Philippines from November 30 to December 11. The chamber adopted House Resolution No. 568, which seeks to collect and deduct the individual pledges of congressmen […]
Voting 210-0, the House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading House Bill 6922, declaring August 30 of every year as “National Press Freedom Day“ in honor of Marcelo H. Del Pilar, the father of Philippine Journalism, who wrote under the pen name “Plaridel.” The bill mandates all government agencies and instrumentalities, the […]
The House of Representatives, voting 197-0, has approved on third and final reading House Bill 6686, which seeks to provide quick financial assistance to affected agrarian reform beneficiaries in the event of natural calamities to make their losses more bearable. The bill grants full insurance coverage to all qualified agrarian reform beneficiaries of the Comprehensive […]