MANILA, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Senators of the Philippines on Monday elected Vicente Sotto, a staunch ally of President Rodrigo Duterte as new senate president. Senator Aquilino Pimentel, a party mate of Duterte, resigned as senate president earlier on Monday. Pimentel said the "peaceful and willi...
A bicameral committee must now consolidate the two drafts and pass it to the president for approval. The Philippines currently has the lowest minimum age of sexual consent in Southeast Asia, and one of the lowest in the world. Seven of 10 victims of rape in the Philippines ar...
In September 2021, then Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ratified the RCEP agreement and brought it to the Senate for approval. But the Senate failed to ratify the agreement in December 2021 before the free trade deal took effect on Jan...
MANILA, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- China's top political adviser, Jia Qinglin, and Philippines Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile pledged to boost cooperation between the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the Philippine Senate when they met here Thursday. Jia Qinglin (R Fro...
In the Philippines, treaties or international agreements require the approval of the Senate in its ratification by the president. Duterte's presidential term ended in June 2022. Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos succeeded Duterte to be the 17th Philippine president. ...
Here's What We Know About a Commuter Plane Crash in Alaska That Killed 10 People Authorities are working to recover the wreckage of a plane crash in western Alaska that killed 10 people while investigators are trying to determine what caused the small commute...
Chief Justice John Roberts presided over the first impeachment trial against Trump, which centered on his phone conversation with Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, in which he brought up Hunter Biden’s work with a Ukrainian gas company while his father, Joe Biden, was U.S. vice ...
MANILA, Philippines - The official functions of Sen. Panfilo Lacson will stop starting this Monday.This followed a directive of Senate President Juan Ponce... M Bulletin 被引量: 0发表: 0年 SENATE SUSPENDS DMV, E-ZPASS PROBES MANILA, Philippines - The official functions of Sen. Panfilo Lac...
One thing missing from the bill is the billions of dollars in additional funding that President Joe Biden sought to aid the response to COVID-19 and monkeypox. Republicans criticized the health spending as unnecessary. The White House said the money would have been used to accelerate the...