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Published January 18, 2021, 8:32 PM Key supporters of ABS-CBN’s return on the air launched Monday the difficult task of reviving the network giant by filing separate bills proposing to grant the broadcast station a 25-year legislative franchise. Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Vilma Santos and Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman filed House Bill 8298 and 8322, respectively, to bring back ABS-CBN in the airwaves, six months after this chance was rejected by a vote by  the House Committee on Legislative Franchise chaired by Palawan Rep. Franz Alvarez. Santos and her son, Luis Manzano worked for ABS-CBN...

House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano (PCOO / MANILA BULLETIN / FILE PHOTO) However, Cayetano quickly allayed the fears aired over the formation of the BTS which the former speaker described as the acronym for “back to service” or Bayanihan Tapang at Serbisyo (cooperation, courage and service). Cayetano also quickly addressed the protest aired by fans of the BTS, a South Korean pop, who accused his group of using the popularity of the K-Pop group for political ends. The #CayetanoStopUsingBTS started trending on social media a day after Cayetano’s media group announced that his version of B...

Published January 7, 2021, 2:33 PM Lawmakers welcomed Thursday the Duterte government’s creation of a technical working group (TWG) that would focus on the new COVID-19 variants.  House Deputy Speaker and Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Rufus Rodriguez and Anakalusugan partylist Rep. Michael Defensor lauded the decision of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) to form a panel that would strengthen the country’s readiness against the new COVID-19 variant from the United Kingdom.  “This is a welcome development. We have to face this new variant i...

Being a “fortuitous event,” the COVID-19 pandemic crisis should prod the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to grant a six-month reprieve to its members from paying higher premium contributions, Anakalusugan partylist Rep. Michael Defensor said Sunday.

Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano (PCOO / MANILA BULLETIN / FILE PHOTO) The former head of the lower chamber took a swipe at his successor, Speaker Lord Allan Velasco, after President Duterte named recently a few incumbent and former congressmen who were allegedly involved in anomalous infrastructure projects according to the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC). “I expect more names to be named because there are a lot of names circulating. I’m just disappointed that naunahan pa ng Presidente (the President revealed it first),” Cayetano said in an interview with reporters in Taguig C...