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CEBU, Philippines — The Cebu City government was able to save at least P234 million out of the P405 million budget approved by the Cebu City Council intended for the Palarong Pambansa 2024.
MANILA, Philippines — Government workers can expect higher wages this August, Budget Secretary Amenah Panagdaman said Monday.
MANILA, Philippines — It was described as the smoking gun versus China’s nine-dash line claim and sealed the landmark victory of the Philippines in its arbitration case on the South China Sea.
HOUSE Speaker Martin Romualdez said the subsistence allowance of soldiers would increase by more than double under the 2025 national budget.
MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte continued her broadsides yesterday against her erstwhile allies, declaring that “leaders should not be motivated by cash, cocaine or champagne… And most certainly, leaders should not be made to hold champagne glasses.”
MANILA, Philippines — A House lawmaker has called on his colleagues to no longer give Vice President Sara Duterte a “free pass” during deliberations of the proposed budget of the Office of the Vice President. How Duterte spends the budget of the OVP — which lawmakers have consistently passed within minutes at the committee level since 2022 — should be scrutinized “down to every peso,” Rep.
MANILA, Philippines — Former president Rodrigo Duterte and Sen. Bong Go are facing anew a plunder complaint before the Department of Justice (DOJ) in connection with the allegedly anomalous P16-billion Navy frigate acquisition project.
MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Appointments swiftly confirmed the ad interim appointment of Education Secretary Sonny Angara as a matter of courtesy, since he was a former member of the CA, the House of Representatives and the Senate.