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To help the Armed Forces of the Philippines, particularly the Philippine Navy, do their job of defending the nation, Senator Robin Padilla called on the private sector to allow better port access for Navy vessels. In his privilege speech, Padilla lamented that Navy vessels need to wait four to 48 hours before being given access […]
Following a US-based report on human waste and sewage being dumped by hundreds of Chinese ships into the West Philippine Sea, Senator Kiko Pangilinan urges the government assert the country’s rights and order the ships to leave. “Hindi na nga sa inyo, sisirain niyo pa. Umalis kayo riyan,” Pangilinan said in reaction to the report […]
The government is now expediting the process of transforming maritime vessels, hotels, and other private establishments into quarantine and isolation facilities, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said. Nograles said the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) has already directed concerned government agencies to hasten the identification of establishments that will be […]
Senator Dick Gordon has proposed that government enter into a partnership with local taipans and Korean investors and take over debt-saddled Hanjin Philippines so that the country can build ships for use in defense and commercial purposes. Gordon stressed that the Hanjin shipyard is a very important natural resource, of human, logistical and engineering resource, […]