MANILA – House speaker Alan Peter Cayetano said on Monday that Lawmakers should vote on their conscience on whether they would allow another 25-year franchise to the media titan ABS-CBN. Cayetano said that the house will not be imposing the lawmakers on how they should vote and would just allow the legislators to decide on their own. “Well, I cannot …

Citizens were busy protesting the ice cream producer Aice, PT Alpen Food Industry (AFI) on social media. Through the hashtag #BoikotAice or boycott Aice ice cream on Twitter, Monday, July 6. This protest became trending on Twitter Indonesia. The citizens echoed their anger at Aice Indonesia for demanding the welfare of the workers employed by the company. This citizens’ anger …

Etty binti Toyib, an Indonesian migrant worker on death row for murder conviction in Saudi Arabia arrived at Soekarno-Hatta airport, Tangerang, Monday, July 7. She is an Indonesian migrant worker from Majalengka, West Java who escaped the death sentence in Saudi Arabia because she paid 4 million riyals or Rp. 15.5 billion in blood money to the kinfolk of the …

Pakatan says that it supports Anwar as a PM candidate, granted a ‘absolute mandate’ to negotiate with all parties including Shafie. It said the meeting also agreed to give Anwar a “absolute mandate” to negotiate with all parties towards the end, including with Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal, president of Parti Warisan Sabah who was also nominated for the same post. …

Malaysia has been recognized as one of the world’s most successful countries in dealing with and controlling the Covid-29 pandemic, Premier Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said. Speaking to around 250 workers of the Department of Prime Minister at their meeting here today after the introduction of the Movement Control Order (MCO), Muhyiddin said the success was due to the hard …

ASEAN regional bloc secretary general Datuk Lim Jock Hoi said that the member nations should reevaluate its economic path that is more inclusive, sustainable and digitally enabled post covid-19 economy. In the  virtual conference of Covid-19 economic recovery plan series by CIMB Asean Research Institute (CARI) last Friday, Lim shared his insights on how this current health crisis and its …

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and it’s member states together with China has expressed closer ties to boost cooperation in the health sectors in fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. In the 26th Asean-China Senior Officials’ Consultation held via videoconference for the first time last July 1, China and the regional bloc review the progress of the partnership and …

Looks like the community has to be more vigilant when making transactions that could have the money is fake. As was the case in Bogor, the Bogor Police Criminal Investigation Unit has just arrested a network of counterfeit money makers and dealers. The falsified money was worth hundreds of millions of rupiahs. So, if it has circulated in the community, …

Minister of Education and Culture (Mendikbud) Nadiem Makarim discussed distance learning (PJJ) is applied permanently and hybrid. This discourse was conveyed by Nadiem in a meeting with the House of Representatives Commission X on Thursday, July 2. At that time, Nadiem spoke about the future map of education in Indonesia. “What happened after COVID-19, after this pandemic, there are a …

According to Tan Sri Shahrir Abdul Samad, Umno ‘s support of Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin remaining the prime minister after the 15th general election was premature as seat talks were not settled. The former Johor Baru MP said Umno would have been debating how his complicated network of political partnerships will be going into the election. Umno is a member …