Finishing communists in one year “farfetched”: Lorenzana

January 9, 2018

Despite the extension of martial law in Mindanao until the end of 2018, National Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana admitted finishing the communist group within the year is not possible. “To finish the communist terrorists in one year is farfetched. It’s a tall

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Duterte signs joint resolution raising salary of military, uniformed personnel starting Jan. 1, indexation suspended

January 9, 2018

President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law the joint resolution authorizing the increase in base pay of military and uniformed personnel (MUP) in the government. Joint resolution 1, which has the effect of a law, was signed on January 1

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Duterte eyeing to increase salary of teachers

January 9, 2018

President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered concerned government agencies to look for ways to increase the salary of public school teachers. In a press briefing on Tuesday, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said during the Cabinet meeting on Monday, Duterte instructed the

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Duterte wants Congress to enact law vs firecrackers, pyrotechnics

January 9, 2018

President Rodrigo Duterte wants Congress to pass a law banning all firecrackers and pyrotechnics, his spokesman said on Tuesday. In a press briefing, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said Duterte ordered the Department of Trade and Industry to look for alternative livelihood

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49% of Filipinos expect quality of life to improve: SWS survey

January 9, 2018

Close to 50 percent of Filipinos expect their personal quality of life to improve in the next 12 months, Social Weather Stations said in a survey conducted in December and released on Tuesday The tally of 49 percent, minus three

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Duterte admin targeting January start of $500-M Metro Manila flood control project

January 9, 2018

The government is eyeing to start the $500-million Metro Manila Flood Control Management Project this January following the approval by the boards of the World Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) of the co-financing for the project, the Department of

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Police-military team arrest alleged Abu Sayyaf bomb expert

January 9, 2018

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Joint police and military operatives have arrested an alleged explosive expert of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in this city, an official said Tuesday. Senior Supt. Vincent Neri Ignacio, director of the Zamboanga City Police Office, identified

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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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