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THE Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) has suspended two programs of the Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI) for 14 days after a review and investigation into the programs’ alleged violations, the same issues being investigated by the House Committee on Legislative Franchises.
TWO administration lawmakers yesterday urged the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTR) to heed the advice of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to extend by one month the bidding for the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) rehabilitation project to ensure due diligence and avoid a monopoly.
LAWMAKERS yesterday adjourned their regular sessions for the year as they go on a five-week holiday break, with the House of Representatives fulfilling its commitment to approve on third and final reading the 17 priority bills that President Marcos Jr. asked Congress to pass during his State of the Nation Address last July.
THE House of Representatives has formed an ad hoc committee chaired by Camarines Sur Rep. Luis Raymund Villafuerte to study a proposal to transfer the House of Representatives to the Bonifacio Global City (BGC) proximate to where the Senate is now building its new home.
THE Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has assured lawmakers that the more than 760,000 families delisted from the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) will be reinstated and get paid retroactively to cover the period that they were removed from the list.
VICE President Sara Duterte yesterday openly criticized President Marcos Jr.’s proclamations granting amnesty to communist and other rebels who have committed crimes for their political beliefs.
VICE President Sara Duterte’s spokesman, lawyer Reynold Munsayac, has been named assistant secretary of the Department of Education, which she heads as concurrent Education Secretary.
SPEAKER Martin Romualdez yesterday dismissed Sen. Ronald dela Rosa’s statement questioning the timing of the hearings being conducted by the House of Representative on resolutions urging the government to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) probe on former President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs.