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(PIXABAY / FILE PHOTO) Lawmakers have found out that GB Global Exprez Inc. and GB-BEM Cigarette Company Inc., both operating inside economic zones, persisted with their manufacturing operations despite PEZA’s suspension order last February. At the meeting of the House Ways and Means Committee Technical Working Group (TWG) chaired by Party-list Rep. Jericho Jonas “Koko” Nograles on April 20, committee members said they have received reports that the two companies remain operational producing 8389 brand cigarettes. The TWG is working on addressing the loopholes in the system of the import...

(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) With 228 affirmative and six negative votes, House Bill 8242 or the Right to Adequate Food Act was approved by the Lower House and will be transmitted to the Senate for its action. HB 8242 entitled “An Act Providing a Framework to Protect and Promote the Right to Adequate Food” contains provisions taken from bills separately filed  by Reps. Jericho Jonas B. Nograles (PBA Partylist0; Cheryl P. Deloso Montalla (PDP-Laban, Zambales) and Jose Christopher Belmonte (LP, Quezon City). ` Nograles underscored the need to provide a comprehensive framework law to make t...