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MANILA, Philippines — The Senate has ratified the bicameral conference version of the bill that seeks to make agricultural smuggling a non-bailable offense, according to the principal author Sen. JV Ejercito.
THE House of Representatives yesterday approved on third and final reading a bill seeking to legalize absolute divorce and allowing the dissolution of marriages to liberate couples in problematic marriages.
MANILA, Philippines — President Marcos was in Tawi-Tawi and Maguindanao del Sur yesterday to distribute aid to farmers and fisherfolk as part of his visits to provinces hardest hit by the El Niño phenomenon, which has so far left 374 areas in the country under a state of calamity.
REP. Dan Fernandez has listed what he said were grounds to reject the renewal of Meralco’s franchise, including the utility’s failure to provide updates on its weighted average cost of capital (WACC), a key factor that determines power rates.
Bright Kindle Resources [BKR suspended] [link] was suspended indefinitely by the PSE after it disclosed the acquisition of Strong Built (Mining) Development Corp. (SBMDC) for P5 billion. The suspension will remain in effect until BRK is able to provide comprehensive disclosure on the transaction. SBMDC is an iron ore (magnetite) mining company that has a mining tenement in Leyte. According to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, SBMDC produced P88.3 million worth of chromite concentrate in FY21, and paid P5 million in taxes, fees, and royalties to produce that value. BKR is owned and controlled by Martin Romauldez, the current House Speaker and cousin of President Marcos.
After the extraordinary triple whammy of Emelia Perez, The Substance and Anora, here comes Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes with a blast of cinematic chloroform to calm the Cannes Competition down a touch.
MANILA, Philippines — A divided House of Representatives yesterday approved on third and final reading the absolute divorce bill that in nearly four decades only reached plenary debates in the halls of Congress.
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Statistics Authority confirmed on Wednesday that they found several discrepancies in the birth certificate of Bamban Mayor Alice Guo, including the absence of any government record that proves her mother's existence and her parents' marriage.