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US drive against China sharpens political tensions in the Philippines Over the course of the last month, tensions have mounted sharply between the Philippines and China over the presence of Chinese vessels anchored in the disputed waters of the South China Sea. The tensions are finding open expression in Philippine politics, where the bourgeois opposition to President Rodrigo Duterte had gathered to form a coalition party, 1Sambayan, whose fundamental concern is to reorient Philippine foreign r...

Facebook urged to permanently ban NTF-ELCAC spokesperson from platform 4859 ); Online users are calling on Facebook to permanently ban a spokesperson of the government’s anti-insurgency task force after it was reported that the official was recently suspended from using the platform for violating its community standards. On Friday, National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) spokesperson Lorraine Badoy said that she was banned from using the social media platfor...

Published May 6, 2021, 3:51 PM Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. on Thursday expressed his support to the suggestion of President Duterte that former DFA Secretary Albert Del Rosario and former Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio should be investigated and held accountable for the pullout of Philippine ships during the 2012 Scarborough Shoal standoff. “We’re all old on both sides of the argument about the loss of Scarborough Shoal; it is time that those ones who were ...

Published May 5, 2021, 3:46 PM House Deputy Minority leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate on Wednesday, May 5, called on government to take immediate action in delivering aid to Filipinos even as the inflation rate for April remained high at 4.5 percent. Zarate said admonishing the “already suffering millions of Filipinos”, instead of ensuring much-needed aid “is not only callous but an attempt to deflect government responsibility in the present still worsening crisis.” He w...

Published May 4, 2021, 3:53 PM House Deputy Minority leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate on Tuesday, May 4, chided President Duterte for “admonishing the already suffering million of Filipinos” seeking immediate aid for the difficulties and hunger they are currently suffering. Reacting to a recent public statement of Duterte, Zarate said government’s ineptness in addressing the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic started everything. Duterte has warned the public agai...

Published May 3, 2021, 12:35 PM The proposed P405.6 billion Bayanihan 3 law that will grant all Filipinos P1,000 to P2,000 cash aid and another P10,000 each for families that absorbed the serious impact of the raging novel coronavirus disease (COVID 19) pandemic, won swift approval from two House of Representatives committees on Monday, May 3. In a joint committee hearing conducted by the House Committees on Economic Affairs and on Social Services, chaired by Albay Rep. Joey Sarte-Salceda and Q...

BusinessWorld May 3, 2021 | 7:11 pm By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr. The Department of Energy (DoE) released the Philippines Power Statistics 2020 this week and it shows some interesting data on the country’s energy mix. Installed capacity in 2020 has reached 26,250 megawatts (MW) or 26.25 gigawatts (GW), and the four biggest energy technologies are coal, oil-based, hydro, and natural gas. In actual electricity generation, the four biggest sources are coal, natural gas, geothermal,...

What is the optimal energy mix? BusinessWorld 2 hrs ago © Provided by BusinessWorld The Department of Energy (DoE) released the Philippines Power Statistics 2020 this week and it shows some interesting data on the country’s energy mix. Installed capacity in 2020 has reached 26,250 megawatts (MW) or 26.25 gigawatts (GW), and the four biggest energy technologies are coal, oil-based, hydro, and natural gas. In actual electricity generation, the four biggest sources are coal, natural gas, geo...

Published May 3, 2021, 6:04 PM Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman on Monday, May 3, asked the Commission on Human Rights to immediately conduct an investigation into the police and military raids conducted in Bicol over the weekend, noting that serious violations of the law and the service of search warrant were allegedly committed by law enforcers. Lagman said Bicolano activists have become the latest victims of the “pernicious pattern of red-tagging, terror-baiting and evidence planting.” The vetera...

House bill seeks to ban cross-ownership in power industry May 2, 2021 | 7:13 pm HOUSE LEGISLATORS have filed a bill that will ban cross-ownership in the power sector to deter monopolies and anti-competitive behavior in the energy industry. In a statement Sunday, Bayan Muna party-list lawmakers said they filed House Bill 9260, which regulates cross-ownership between distribution utilities (DUs) and power generation companies (gencos). “This amendment to ban cross-ownership between DUs and genc...