HOUSE APPROVES VACCINE INDEMNIFICATION FUND MANILA — Voting 225 with six abstentions, the House of Representatives approved on third and final reading House Bill 8648 (Emergency Vaccine Procurement Act), which expedites vaccine procurement and allocates P500 million as
DEMOCRATIC SEN. JOE MANCHIN SET TO DERAIL NEERA TANDEN’S NOMINATION; COULD TORPEDO VIVEK MURTHY AS WELL Two days after the nomination of Neera Tanden (Joe Biden's pick as the director of the Office of Management and Budget in his administration) was thrown into doubt,
DEBATES ON ORAL ARGUMENTS ON ANTI-TERRORISM LAW RESET TO MARCH 2 MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court on Monday reset the fourth day of the oral arguments on the Anti-Terrorism Act petitions to March 2. “Considering that some of the Justices are on se
US OFFICIALLY REJOINS CLIMATE DEAL AS TEXAS REELS UNDER ARCTIC FREEZE The US rejoined the Paris climate accord on Friday even as a Texas-sized political controversy erupted in the country over collapsed power grids and water supply disruption — widely attributed to glo
PHILIPPINES RECEIVES 1ST OF 2 C-130 PLANES FROM US MANILA — The US government on Thursday turned over the first of two C-130H Hercules planes to the Philippines under the Foreign Military Financing grant program. The aircraft, worth P1.54 billion, is capable o
BIDEN PLANS TO 'RECALIBRATE' SAUDI RELATIONS; WARNS CHINA OF REPERCUSSIONS OVER HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES President Joe Biden plans to shift U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia and will conduct diplomacy through Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz rather than his powerful son, Crown Prin
REPORT SHOWS POSSIBLE CONSTRUCTION ON MISCHIEF REEF AMID COVID-19 PANDEMIC MANILA — A firm based in Florida conducting satellite imagery analysis has published a report this February showing what appeared to be movement and structural changes on Chinese-occupied Mischi
FRANCE’S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PASSES BILL AIMED AT CURBING ISLAMISM France’s National Assembly on Tuesday approved legislation designed mainly to counter a rise in Islamism in towns and cities which the government says threatens national unity. The legislation did n
DUTERTE SIGNS FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS BILL INTO LAW MANILA — President Duterte yesterday signed into law a measure that would allow financial institutions to offload their souring loans, to help the banking system remain strong and ready to extend loans to pandemic-hit
AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S REMAND EXTENDED TILL 17 FEB The detention of State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint has been extended until February 17 as both have been under house arrest since the military took control of the country in a military coup on Febru
