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After nearly three decades, farmers in Hacienda Tinang in Concepcion, Tarlac can expect to finally receive their land titles in a few weeks following the resolution of the land dispute, the Department of Agrarian Reform says.

Speaker Martin Romualdez and Deputy Speaker Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo were both in Malacañang on Tuesday to join President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in meeting business executives from Thailand.

President Bongbong Marcos and associates are not ready to let go of the bone they call Maharlika Fund and have even certified the proposed bill for it as “urgent.” Another term for “urgent” is “to rush” and that is a bad idea because rushing things always creates problems, if not disasters.

Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin and Agriculture Senior Usec. Domingo Panganiban can be indicted for repeated graft.

As Congress begins on Friday its two-week break, debates over the Maharlika Investment Fund bill in the Senate continue, with Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III questioning the apparent rush by his colleagues in the majority to have the measure passed.

Human traffickers are using POGOs, or Philippine offshore gaming operators, as “legal cover” to perpetrate a cryptocurrency scam in the country, according to Sen. Risa Hontiveros.

DAR to award 450 land titles to Hacienda Tinang beneficiaries

Michael Ted Macapagal, chairman of the Philippine National Railways, announced over the weekend that the construction of the 147.26-km North-South Commuter Railway Project from Clark in Pampanga to Metro Manila and then to Calamba City in Laguna has begun.

The Marcos administration is working with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a study aimed at addressing the low value-added

THE Department of Finance (DOF) on Tuesday played down the concerns of some lawmakers on the potential risk to government financial institutions (GFI) and government-owned or -controlled corporations (GOCC) investing in the proposed Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF). In an interview with reporters in Malacañang, Finance Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno said there…