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Drive to remove old, smoke-belching PUVs starts

January 8, 2018

Transport officials flagged down smoke-belching and decrepit public utility vehicles along Marcos Highway and Dona Carmen along Commonwealth, Quezon City on Monday as part of a government drive to modernize public transport. Personnel of the Inter-Agency Council on Traffic (I-ACT)

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Palace welcomes survey results showing Duterte’s record approval, trust ratings

January 8, 2018

Malacanang welcomed on Monday results of the latest Pulse Asia survey, showing all-time high approval and trust ratings of President Rodrigo Duterte. “These numbers show that our people are aware of and recognizes the significant strides the President undertook in his one

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Military task force says it can handle possible stampede in Black Nazarene Feast

January 8, 2018

The military sees stampede as the worst case scenario during the observance of the Feast of the Black Nazarene this week but the head of a military task force said the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is prepared for

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Palace to exhaust all legal remedies to reverse CA decision junking case vs ex-Palawan governor

January 8, 2018

The Duterte administration will exhaust all legal remedies to reverse the decision of the Court of Appeals finding no probable cause to indict former Palawan governor Mario Joel Reyes, who allegedly masterminded the killing of an environmentalist in the province

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Duterte ratings remain at all-time high: Pulse Asia

January 8, 2018

Performance and trust ratings of President Rodrigo Duterte remained at an all-time high, according to a quarterly survey of top government officials by Pulse Asia on Monday. Performance rating of Duterte remained at 80 percent while his trust rating  rose

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Duterte names new PCG chief

January 8, 2018

President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Elson Hermogino as the new commandant of the Philippine Coast Guard. Hermogino, a member of Philippine Military Academy Class 1985, was appointed on January 4. Hermogino is the current commander of the Maritime Safety Service

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DOF to submit other tax reform packages to Congress within the year

January 8, 2018

The Philippine government is eyeing about P2 trillion additional revenues once all the other packages of the Comprehensive Tax Reform Program ( CTRP) are passed into law within the Duterte administration, an official said on Monday. In a press briefing

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Final nod to dismiss 67 cops to be out this month: Dela Rosa

January 8, 2018

Philippine National Police ( PNP) Director General Ronald dela Rosa said the final decision for the dismissal from service of the 67 police officers will be released this month. In a press conference Monday, Dela Rosa said the National Police

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