France’s president pounds a punching bag on camera, and Europe notices
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The teeth clench. The brow furrows. The bicep bulges.
India’s rice export ban is boosting prices around the world, increasing the risk of political instability in Asia and Africa, according to the head of a United Nations agency.
For two years, it was the coronavirus pandemic. Then, it was Russia’s war in Ukraine. Throughout it all, the perils of climate change, poverty and inequality have steadily, increasingly thrummed through each convening of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly.
The House of Representatives will start the plenary debates on the proposed P5.768-trillion national budget for 2024 on Tuesday as it is targeting to finish the budget process on September 27.
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in Beijing on Monday.
SENATE President Juan Miguel Zubiri predicts the measure reforming the pension system for the military and uniformed personnel (MUP) will likely be the “bloodiest” that lawmakers will tackle in the second regular session of the 19th Congress.
THE Congress-approved Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) bill is set for signing into law on Tuesday (July 18), but the awaited estate tax amnesty extension bill’s signing was deferred by Malacañang.
THE logo for the newly launched “Bagong Pilipinas (New Philippines)” branding campaign of the Marcos administration was done at no cost to the government.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The independent watchdog agency of Congress agreed Thursday to look into the impacts that offshore wind development could have on the environment, fishing industry and other areas.
SEN. Sherwin Gatchalian has stepped up his calls for a total ban on Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs), saying he recently had a chance to raise the matter with Malacañang Palace, even as police and Justice department officials are still wrangling over the latest case of suspected human trafficking involving more than 2,000 POGO workers in south Metro Manila.
The town of Carmona in Cavite is now officially a city after a total of 30,363 residents voted “yes” during a cityhood plebiscite on Saturday.
AS fierce clashes burst out last week in France’s worst riots in nearly two decades, protesters set buses on fire and charred the facade of a swimming pool being built for the 2024 Olympics in Aubervilliers, a working-class suburb north of Paris near where Emmanuel Macron first declared he was running for president.
The coalition of the country’s biggest labor groups called on Senate President Juan Miguel F. Zubiri to stand firm on the original amount of his proposed legislated wage hike.
The government is eyeing to complete at least 100,000 constructed housing units under the Pambansang Pabahay Para sa Pilipino Housing (4PH) program by next year, according to the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD).
READ his lips: There was no tampering of the enrolled bill of the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF), as alleged by critics, and Senate President Miguel Zubiri is confident that the measure, if enacted into law, can withstand legal challenge.
DAVAO CITY—The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) approved the release of P5 billion to the Bangsamoro government “to rehabilitate its conflict-ridden communities, including those in Marawi City,” the Bangsamoro information office annouced on Wednesday.
THE panel of prosecutors of the Department of Justice (DOJ) has junked the motion of suspended Negros Oriental 3rd District Rep. Arnolfo “Arnie” A. Teves Jr. seeking to inhibit its members from further conducting proceedings on the murder charges filed against him in connection with the killing of Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo and nine others last March 4.
DAVAO CITY—The Bangsamoro Youth Commission (BYC) met policy experts in a learning visit organized by a Malaysian university policy center.
The events in South Korea, moving the President from the Presidential Office into a prison cell, are highlighting the issue of political influence and access as a potential avenue to corruption. Oxfam reports that the 50 largest US corporations moved $1.6 trillion into tax oases in 2015, $200 billion more than in the year before. Meanwhile, this group of tax migrants invested about $2.5 billion into lobby operations “around” the US government, of which $325 million was directed toward tax issues. Obviously, such political “massage” work is beneficial.
Malta—Malta is an idyllic, ancient and historic island in the Mediterranean. Once host to the Knights Templar, it hosted this week the Congress of the European People’s Party (EPP), the governing political coalition in the European Parliament. The top bureaucrats of the European Union (EU) and its leading center-right political leaders, like Chancellor Angela Merkel, were in full attendance. I was an invited guest to the memorable event, and I also attended the Executive Board meeting of the Centrist Democrat International (CDI) held in Malta, too.
By Jocelyn Noveck | The Associated Press
President Duterte was inaugurated on June 30, so we are about five months into his administration. It is difficult to judge the overall performance of the past months. We do recognize that much has happened.
Some people are puzzled, or even critical, of President Rodrigo Duterte’s belligerent attitude toward other people, including leaders of other countries.
Donald Trump is set to tear up a giant Pacific trade pact and has questioned alliances that have defined America’s engagement in Asia since World War II. But it’s too early to declare President Barack Obama’s “pivot” dead.
IT must be sleepless nights for most businessmen nowadays, with Philippine politics and its economy constantly swirling with new developments.
MARTIAL law human rights victims led by former Bayan Partylist Representative Saturnino Ocampo and several others yesterday asked the Supreme Court (SC) to hold in abeyance the interment of strongman Ferdinand Marcos Sr. at the Libingan ng mga Bayani in Taguig City.
Following his recent impressive world welterweight-title victory over Jessie Vargas, fighting Sen. Manny Pacquiao demonstrated he still has the mighty punch despite a dramatic loss to Mayweather in their 2015 fight. This win restored Pacquiao to the boxing world’s pound-for-pound rankings.
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