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MANILA, Philippines — No vice president in recent history has been granted the power to choose who presides over the questioning of their office's proposed budget in Congress mid-hearing. But today, Vice President Sara Duterte attempted to be the first.
MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte does not believe that the budget of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) under her term should be compared with that of former Vice President Leni Robredo, alleging that her predecessor failed to ask for a "fair budget" during her years in office.
HEALTH Secretary Teodoro Herbosa said on Monday that the unused and idle funds of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) should be returned to the national government since the agency failed to utilize these subsidies.
MANILA, Philippines — Amendments to the Universal Health Care Act have been approved by the Senate, voting 19-0-0, on third and final reading.
NAGA CITY — In a move to support local farmers, the Bicol Medical Center (BMC), the largest hospital in the Bicol region, has entered into a direct procurement agreement with the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR). The agreement enables BMC to source fresh agricultural produce from agrarian reform beneficiaries, serving its more than 3,000 patients and employees.
MANILA, Philippines — Organized labor yesterday called for the scrapping of the new policy penalizing motorists without radio frequency identification or those with insufficient load in their RFIDs.
PRESIDENT Marcos Jr. yesterday highlighted the role of the media amid the proliferation of fake news, misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation.
(UPDATE) TWO new mpox cases have been detected in the country, bringing the total cases to 12, the Department of Health (DoH) reported on Monday.