The Philippines under Marcos is negotiating for lower tariffs under Trump
The Marcos government on Monday expressed optimism about its planned negotiations with the administration of US President Donald Trump on his imposition of 17 percent reciprocal tariffs on Philippine commodities, with the state seeking an ideal zero rate on Manila's goods. ...
She started her term as Undersecretary of PCO last Monday.
Atty. Claire Castro, the new Undersecretary and Palace Press Officer of the Presidential Communications Office, started her term last Monday, February 24, under the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.She is working alongside former ABS-CBN reporter Jay Ruiz, who was ...
Resigned senator Sonny Angara marks his first SONA as DepEd chief.
More than 2,000 guests, including members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, came to witness President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr.'s third State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday (July 22) at the Batasang Pambansa in Quezon City. ...
The Emir of Qatar is in Manila for a two-day state visit.
The Philippines and Qatar made significant moves in their bilateral relations through the signing of nine pivotal agreements during the state visit of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to Manila on Monday, April 22, 2024. The Qatari emir arrived in the ...
Enrile played a key role in implementing Martial Law during the 1970s.
Presidential Chief Legal Counsel Juan Ponce Enrile wants to bring back "imminent danger" as a ground for declaring martial law. The 1987 Constitution puts limits to the cicrumstances in which the President may declare martial law. The President may declare martial law ...
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has his work cut out for him. In his first State of the Nation Address, he laid out a few economic plans to try to raise revenues and tackle the country's ballooning debt and budget deficit. One ...
It's the lead-up to the 1965 Philippine presidential elections. On one side, we have President Diosdado Macapagal of the Liberal Party. Gunning for his second term, Macapagal had previously run his first campaign on economic and land reforms. The "poor ...
He had been sentenced to die years before he was gunned down by an assassin.
August 21, 1983 is well known in Philippine history as the day Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino was felled by an assassin's bullet upon his arrival at the Manila airport that now bears his name. The outspoken critic of then-President Ferdinand Marcos ...
The Marcos-era agricultural scheme is back in the spotlight.
An exchange between Senator Imee Marcos and Department of Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez during a hearing at the Senate earlier this week brought back into the limelight a once dormant term: Masagana 99.It was Marcos who brought up the phrase, an ...
Imelda Marcos exposes Imelda Marcos in this new documentary on the former first lady.
Thiry-three years since the People Power revolution that toppled the dictatorship of former President Ferdinand Marcos, the family of the late strongman has managed to stay in the limelight despite their continuing notoriety.Once dismissed as a fallen dynasty, the Marcos ...
Manila Mayor Isko Moreno is still making headlines just over two weeks since he assumed office. The 44-year-old former actor has constantly been on the news and social media delivering on his campaign promise to clean up the streets of ...
The infamous Malakas at Maganda painting featuring the Marcoses was the centerpiece of their propaganda.
When the Soviet Union fell, citizens of Moscow toppled a monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the KGB. After Saddam Hussein was killed, a bronze statue of the dictator in Baghdad was dismantled by an angry mob. In 1776, the year the ...
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