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Duterte admin seeks to amend the BOT IRR

  The Duterte administration seeks to amend the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Law. To pursue the amendments of the BOT IRR, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte designated Socioeconomic Planning...

Bello: KSA to pay P4.6-B unpaid salaries of OFWs in December

The government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is expected to pay P4.6 billion in unpaid salaries to 9,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who were forced to return to the Philippines after they stopped receiving remuneration.

Highway Patrol Group to assist DOTr in pilot run of increase of PUV capacity

Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Police Gen. Guillermo Eleazar directed the Highway Patrol Group (HPG) to assist and coordinate with the Department of Transportation (DOTr) with their 30-day pilot study of the gradual increase in the number of passengers allowed in public utility vehicles.

PH donates books to Kenya National Library Service

The Philippine Embassy in Nairobi donated 76 Philippine-published books and musical compilation albums to the Kenya National Library Service (KNLS) on Oct. 29, marking its first-ever book donation to a national library in Kenya.

Eleazar hails Tawi-Tawi drug ops yielding P5.3-M cocaine

Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Police Gen. Guillermo Eleazar lauded the confiscation of P5.3 million worth of cocaine in a joint operation by the police and anti-illegal drug agents in Sitangkai, Tawi-Tawi.

Dominguez to highlight PHL agenda at COP26 climate change summit

Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III will lead the Philippine delegation to the 26th United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 26) in Glasgow, Scotland, where world leaders and other decision makers will gather starting Sunday (October 31) to determine how to accelerate action on reversing the devastating effects of the climate crisis.

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