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MANILA - There are 124 aspirants for the 36 seats at stake in the 83-year-old Quezon City Council in the May 9 elections. Quezon City, the former capital of the country from 1948 to 1976, is composed of six congressional or city districts with a total of 142 barangays. There are 37 barangays in the first district, five in the second district, 37 in the third district, 38 in the fourth district, 14 in the fifth district, and 11 in the sixth district. According to data from the Commission on Elect...

Environmental science and technology students from Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical High School were given the opportunity last month to learn about oil spill response and prevention through the Massachusetts

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Here we are again with the Duterte administration raising our hopes that our broadband problems will soon be over.

On 21 March 2022, the Philippines finally approved the long-awaited amendment to the 86 year old law, Commonwealth Act No. 146, otherwise known as…

Ibon Foundation executive director Sonny Africa said that foreign direct investments are not “some kind of magic bullet for development.”

A few months before the end of his term, President Duterte approved a new measure which, coupled with the right business environment, can help boost the country’s economic development by attracting new investments.

Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra (File photo) MANILA - The new law amending the Public Service Act (PSA) recently signed by President Rodrigo Duterte now clearly defines which businesses are considered as public utilities that will remain covered by the restrictions on foreign capital enshrined in the Constitution, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Wednesday. "The new law now clearly defines what public utilities are: electricity transmission and distribution, petroleum pipeline tra...

President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday signed the law amending the 85-year-old Commonwealth Act No. 146, or the Public Service Act, relaxing restrictions on foreigners to completely own businesses in the country.

Womenvotersin Marawi City (Photo by Divina M. Suson) MANILA - Many of the country's young women voters may be interested to know that until the middle of the 1930s, only men were allowed to enjoy the right of suffrage in the Philippines. This was because Section 1, Article V of the 1935 Constitution under the heading "Suffrage" originally provided that: "Suffrage may be exercised by male citizens of the Philippines not otherwise disqualified by law, who are twenty-one years of...