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Zubiri resigns as Senate chief (Eagle News)–Senator Chiz Escudero will replace Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri as Senate President. On the Senate floor on Monday, May 20, no one objected when Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano nominated Escudero as the next leader of the upper chamber. The voting took place after Zubiri announced his resignation as Senate chief on the floor. The resignation came amid rumors of a motion to be filed for a change in leadership […]
(Eagle News)–The Luzon and Visayas grids are under yellow alert on Monday, May 20, the The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines said. The NGCP said the alert over the Visayas grid is in place from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. One plant, the NGCP said, has been on forced power outage since 2022, two since 2023, two between January and March 2024, and 11 between April and May 2024. Seven, it said, were running […]
(Eagle News)–The 23 Filipino crew members onboard a vessel attacked by Houthi rebels on Saturday are “safe and unharmed,” the Department of Migrant Workers said on Sunday, May 19. The DMW said their vessel only sustained slight damage after they were attacked while sailing close to the Yemeni port city of Hodeida. The DMW said the vessel was “continuing on its journey to its next port of call.” It added it was closely coordinating with […]
(Eagle News)–The government is implementing an integrated pre-border technical verification and cross-border electronic invoicing system of all imported commodities. In ordering the move through Administrative Order No. 23, President Bongbong Marcos said “a single electronic invoicing system controlled by the Philippine Government is necessary to effectively monitor international trade transactions of all imported goods.” For implementation of the system, a Committee for Pre-border Technical Verification and Cross- border Electronic Invoicing shall be created, according to […]
MANILA, May 18, 2024 (AFP) – The Philippine military said Saturday it has replaced a key commander overseeing forces in the South China Sea, including Filipino troops garrisoned on a disputed reef. Rear Admiral Alfonso Torres Jr will replace Vice Admiral Alberto Carlos as chief of the Western Command on Palawan island, which is the closest Philippine landmass to the hotly contested Spratly Islands. The military said in a statement the move was part of […]
MANILA, May 18, 2024 (AFP) – The Philippines will “vigorously defend what is ours”, President Ferdinand Marcos said on Saturday, as Manila’s maritime row with Beijing over the South China Sea escalates. Marcos told a Philippine Military Academy graduation ceremony that the Southeast Asian country faced “a blatant disregard of internationally accepted principles”. His remarks follow a series of incidents involving Philippine and Chinese vessels near disputed reefs in the South China Sea that have […]
(Eagle News)–President Bongbong Marcos has ordered the transfer of the Philippine Crop Insurance Corp. from the oversight of the Department of Finance to that of the Department of Agriculture. In ordering the reorganization through Executive Order No. 60, the President noted that “a strong organizational link between the PCIC and DA is necessary to enhance agricultural insurance protection program highly responsive to the needs of small farmers and fisherfolk and other agricultural stakeholders..” Under Republic […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippine government is eyeing a 10-fold increase in tourist arrivals from the original target set under the original Balikbayan program to become Asia’s tourism behemoth. “Ang ambisyon natin doon one million tourists. That was the ambition. One million tourists can come back. And then kasama na doon ‘yung mga overseas Filipinos..Now, we are targeting 10 times that,” President Bongbong Marcos said during the recent launch of the Tourist Rest Area (TRA) in Pagudpud, […]
(Eagle News)–President Bongbong Marcos on Thursday, May 16, called on the Armed Forces of the Philippines to develop the skills needed to fight new forms of warfare, particularly in the digital space. “Times are changing and we are facing new threats now to our nation’s security. The battlefield is changing, it will go beyond traditional warfighting as we have known it,” President Marcos said in his visit to Camp Edilberto Evangelista in Cagayan de Oro […]
(Eagle News)–The National Economic Development Authority Board has approved the reduction of tariffs imposed on e-motorcycles, e-bicycles and nickel metal hydride accumulators to zero until 2028. Also covered by the zero tariff policy are e-tricycles and quadricycles, hybrid EVs and plug-in hybrid EV (PHEV) jeepneys or buses. The NEDA Board, in its 16th meeting on Wednesday, May 15, also agreed to maintain the Most Favored Nation rate at zero for duty on 34 tariff lines […]
(Eagle News)–A short-lived phreatic event was monitored at Taal on Thursday, May 16. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the Main Crater Observation Station monitored the event at the volcano, which remains on alert level 1, at 8:54 a.m. PHIVOLCS said the event lasted for three minutes and produced a 300-meter steam plume. In a separate advisory, PHIVOLCS said the ban on the entry into the Permanent Danger Zone should remain in place. […]
MANILA, May 16, 2024 (AFP) – A convoy of boats carrying Philippine civilians bearing supplies for Filipino fishers has abandoned plans to sail closer to a China-held reef off the Southeast Asian country, organisers said Thursday. The convoy set sail Wednesday to distribute fuel and food to fishers and assert Philippine rights in the disputed South China Sea. The trip comes two weeks after China Coast Guard vessels used water cannon against two Philippine government […]
