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Press Release Sponsorship Speech of Sen. Leila M. De Lima for The Foundling Recognition and Protection Act Good afternoon, dear colleagues. I speak to you today, as I always have in this chamber, in behalf of those who can't speak for themselves. When one of our colleagues, Sen. Grace Poe, ran for President on 2016, she shined a light on a class of citizens which would otherwise be invisible in the eyes of the law: the foundlings. This bill defines a foundling as "a deserted or abandoned child or infant with unknown facts of birth and parentage." For too long, we have ignored fulfilling our...

Published May 25, 2021, 6:00 AM Foreign businessmen have strongly urged Congress to pass at the earliest possible time the amendments of the Public Service Act (PSA), which seeks to open more economic activities in the country to higher foreign equity, as they vowed to promote to foreign investors in the Philippines once the critical economic reforms are passed.  The Joint Foreign Chambers (JFC) of Commerce of the Philippines, which is composed of 14 foreign chambers, issued a statement as the  following the Senate commenced the plenary debate on SB 2094 or the Amendments of the PSA. The Ho...

endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 30) — After being barred from entering the country for over a month, some foreign nationals can again come starting May 1, subject to conditions, Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said Friday. The entry ban on most foreigners, which was imposed on March 22 due to rising COVID-19 cases, is set to end April 30. All travelers from India and those who went to India preceding their arrival to the Philippines are barred from entering the country until May 14 as a safeguard against virus spread that may be caused by the massive surge in COVID-19 cas...

By ANNA FELICIA BAJO, GMA News Published April 15, 2021 1:32pm Gabriela party-list Representative Arlene Brosas on Thursday branded as "piecemeal Cha-cha (Charter-change)" the three economic measures which were certified as urgent by President Rodrigo Duterte. "Piecemeal Cha-cha itong [certified] as urgent at pinapamadaling ipasa ni Pangulong Duterte na tatlong economic measures" (President Duterte's certifying of three economic measures as urgent is a piecemeal Cha-cha), Brosas said in a virtual presser "Dahil bigo silang makumbinsi ang sambayanan sa Cha-cha kahit may pandemya, gust...

CALOOCAN CITY, March 11 (PIA) — Senator Grace Poe on Wednesday said the passage of the amendments to the Public Service Act (PSA) will usher in more choices, improved services and lower cost of basic services which the people badly need amid the pandemic era."Magiging paligsahan ang pagbibigay...