THE total membership of Lakas Christian Muslim Democrats (Lakas-CMD) has increased to 66, with two more lawmakers from the House of Representatives joining the political party recently. Lakas-CMD pres...
08.15.2022 Inquirer.net and 3 sitesA network of alternative media will stream films about Martial Law and the Marcos family for free during Ninoy Aquino Day on August 21. Altermidya, a national network of independent and progressive me...
08.18.2022 Philstar.com and 1 sitesPanganiban: DA secretary ‘in acting capacity’ President Marcos swears in Domingo Panganiban as undersecretary of the Department of Agriculture as shown in a photo posted on the President’s official Fa...
08.16.2022 Philstar.com and 1 sitesPanganiban returns to DA as undersecretary MANILA, Philippines — Former agriculture secretary Domingo Panganiban has returned to the agency as undersecretary as the Marcos administration focuses on ef...
08.15.2022 Philstar.com and 1 sitesI went to a public elementary school in Pampanga in the 1950s. As I recall, the language that all my early grade teachers used was Kapampangan. My classmates and I learned how to read and write in English and Pilipino, the term used for the national language in those years, from teachers who freely used the local language of our province as the medium of instruction. And this was way before Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education became policy. Though my father was a lawyer, my family was nev...
08.14.2022 Inquirer.netThe scale of poverty as seen from below, by the people, is very much larger than as seen from above, by the bureaucracy. Nearly half of household heads in the nation rate their families as Mahirap (Po...
08.13.2022 Inquirer.netMANILA, Philippines — Former Agriculture Secretary Domingo Panganiban is returning to the Department of Agriculture as an undersecretary under the administration of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marc...
08.15.2022 Inquirer.netMore lawmakers have been elected to key posts in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, including former Speaker Lord Allan Velasco who will now lead the House energy panel. Velasco and three othe...
08.18.2022 Inquirer.net‘Marcos’ Jakarta visit will further strengthen the 73-year bilateral relations between the two countries, which have been allies in various common causes, notably the peace in Mindanao, and in the fig...
08.15.2022 Verafiles.org and 1 sitesCongress leaders have given an assurance that the legislature won’t be a rubber stamp of the president despite having a so-called supermajority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives and presidential relatives occupying important positio...
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