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The Senate buckled down to work on the last week of the regular plenary session of the 19th Congress before the legislature goes on a month long break starting Sept. 30.
MANILA, Philippines — Four ranking members of a religious group posing as a people’s organization were ordered detained at the Senate for not admitting their role in the alleged rape and forced marriages of children in a secluded but fortified mountainside village in Socorro, Surigao del Norte.
MANILA, Philippines — A Senate panel has cited in contempt the figurehead of the Socorro Bayanihan Services Inc. (SBSI) and three of its members for refusing to own up to allegations from four witnesses that they ordered child marriages in their island community at Sitio Kapihan in Socorro town.
MANILA, Philippines — The Senate has approved on final reading the Magna Carta of seafarers, which seeks to outline the rights of Filipino mariners and sets guidelines for their training and overseas employment.
MANILA, Philippines — There is a need to review and rectify flaws in the government’s process for approving reclamation projects in order to safeguard both the environment and communities, a senator said Wednesday.
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, September 27) — A bill seeking to establish the Magna Carta for Filipino seafarers hurdled the Senate plenary on Wednesday following hours-long debates.
SENATE President Juan Miguel «Migz» Zubiri on Tuesday commended his colleagues for approving on third and final reading five bills, four of which were priority measures of the Marcos administration expected to help boost the country's economy.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Congress is starkly divided over very different paths to preventing a federal shutdown — the Senate charging ahead with a bipartisan package to temporarily fund the government but the House slogging through a longshot effort with no real chance of finishing by Saturday’s deadline.