India – An Indian official said that India has lodged a formal complaint with Singapore over a comment made by the country’s prime minister regarding the number of Indian legislators facing criminal charges, marking a rare case of disagreement between the Asian allies. In Singapore’s parliament on Wednesday, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made the comment while participating in a …

Philippines – The congress has approved an action that looks to give ceaseless advantages to public and private medical care laborers (HCWs), including barangay wellbeing laborers, during the COVID-19 pandemic and future wellbeing crises. In a meeting prior to going into political decision break on Wednesday night, the House of Representatives supported the accommodated variant of the bill, which regulates …

The pioneer recently approached the Senate to focus on and pass the bill making a Department of Disaster Resilience (DDR) when Congress resumes meeting in the not so distant future. For them, much work is anticipated from them in the eighteenth Congress until the 2022 races. Yet, one of the bills that wish to be sanctioned into law is DDR. …

The P18.4-billion unutilized assets under Bayanihan 2 will in all probability be gotten back to the public depository following President Duterte’s inability to require an extraordinary meeting of Congress for motivations behind stretching out the assets to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. The cutoff time is as of now on June 30 since they need time to hold an exceptional meeting. …

Once again, the charter reform train is chugging, with President Rodrigo Duterte’s allies in Congress making steps to reopen negotiations on reforming the basic law of the nation. It is no secret that Duterte wants to amend the Constitution for the longest time in his platform when he ran for president in 2016 along with this is the idea of …

METRO MANILA – The House of Representatives approved on Friday the P4.506 trillion national budget for 2021, paving the way for the for the senate to discussed the bill hopefully in the next session. The lower chamber approved the plan on the third reading with a vote of 257-6. The Senate urged the House to submit the bill to the …

METRO MANILA – Senate President Vicente Sotto III has accepted the apology of Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano on his remarks that the Senate should be the one to blame for any delay in the passage of the 2021 spending bill. Sotto said that he accepted the apology and the Senate will do the best work as the Senate always do. …

METRO MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday vowed to settle the House speakership row if the members of the House of Representatives failed to resolve the crisis brought upon by the speakership squabble between Allan Peter Cayetano and Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco. The President appealed to the lawmakers to refrain from any “political moves” that could risk the …

METRO MANILA – House of Representatives Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano yesterday abruptly approved the P4.5-trillion 2021 General Appropriations Bill on second reading while quicly moving to suspend sessions until November 16 amid the speakership row. Cayetano’s move was seen by some as a “desperate attempt” to stay in power. He was able to terminate the budget deliberations to show that …

METRO MANILA – The House leadership will be decided on Oct. 14 between incumbent Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano and Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco. The two house representative have been trading blows on who should be the house speaker after the agreed on  a term-sharing agreement in 2019. Velasco is supposed to assume the position this month but Cayetano indicated …