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CLIMATE CHANGE FORUM. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with key government officials at the Malacanan Palace on Monday night (May 23, 2022). Duterte said he would want to attend climate-related meetings and conventions before the end of his term to confront rich nations that disregarded their commitments to addressing climate change. (Presidential photo by Valerie Escalera) MANILA - President Rodrigo Roa Duterte on Monday night said he would want to atten...

Online sabong (File photo) MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte said he will decide on the fate of e-sabong (online cockfighting) operations by Monday. In a speech in San Fernando City, Pampanga during the inspection of the Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) Hospital on Sunday, Duterte said the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has finished drafting a recommendation on whether or not to suspend e-sabong operations. "There is a department, si DILG, I tasked it to make a serio...

President Rodrigo Duterte MANILA - President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Tuesday night welcomed the commitment of the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) facility to replace around 3.6 million doses of vaccines in the country that have expired. "That's nice of them to do that. It's a distinct humanitarian sentiment," Duterte said in a prerecorded public address with Cabinet officials aired Wednesday morning. This, after Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III rev...

President Rodrigo Duterte and former DICT Secretary Gregorio Honasan II (File/Presidential Photo) MANILA - The nation needs "quiet" but hardworking people like reelectionist senator and former Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) secretary Gringo Honasan II back in the Senate, President Rodrigo Duterte said. Duterte made this remark while interviewing Honasan during the third episode of President's Chatroom on state-run PTV-4 aired on Monday night. "K...

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (Screengrab from RTVM) MANILA - President Rodrigo Roa Duterte on Monday urged Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) Chief Minister Ahod "Murad" Ebrahim to convince more Bangsamoro people to get vaccinated against Covid-19. Duterte expressed concern that BARMM has the lowest vaccination rate among 17 regions in the country with only 27.31 percent of the region's target population of 3 million are so far fully inoculated. "Mga kapa...

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (Screengrab from RTVM) MANILA - President Rodrigo Roa Duterte on Monday urged Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) Chief Minister Ahod "Murad" Ebrahim to convince more Bangsamoro people to get vaccinated against Covid-19. Duterte expressed concern that BARMM has the lowest vaccination rate among 17 regions in the country with only 27.31 percent of the region's target population of 3 million are so far fully inoculated. "Mga kapa...

Senator Francis Pangilinan (Senate photo) MANILA - Vice presidential aspirant Senator Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan on Sunday defended his vote on the Rice Tariffication measure in the Senate, stressing that he abstained because he had reservations. During the debate organized by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza, Pangilinan got into a heated argument with former lawmaker Walden Bello who questioned the latter's stand on Republic Act (RA) No. 11203 o...

Senator Francis Pangilinan (Senate photo) MANILA - Vice presidential aspirant Senator Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan on Sunday defended his vote on the Rice Tariffication measure in the Senate, stressing that he abstained because he had reservations. During the debate organized by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza, Pangilinan got into a heated argument with former lawmaker Walden Bello who questioned the latter's stand on Republic Act (RA) No. 11203 o...

(Anadolu photo) ANKARA - US stocks plummeted to close Wednesday in the red as tensions concerning the Russia-Ukraine crisis escalated. At the closing bell, the Dow Jones was down 452.53 points, or 1.35 percent, to 33,144. The S&P 500 lost 74.56 points, or 1.73 percent, to hit 4,230 points. The Nasdaq fell 313.13 points, or 2.34 percent, to finish at 13,068 points. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday announced that Moscow was recognizing two Ukrainian breakaway regions, Luhansk and Don...

Acting Presidential Spokesperson, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles (File photo) MANILA - Malacanang on Tuesday thanked the public for giving President Rodrigo Roa Duterte a "very good" net satisfaction rating of +60 based on the December 2021 survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS). "Lubos po kaming nagpapasalamat sa sambayanang Pilipino sa patuloy ninyong suporta at tiwala sa liderato ni Pangulong Rodrigo Roa Duterte (We are very grateful to the Filipino people for your conti...