Workers rally in front of the Deparment of Finance to protest the rising taxes and called on the Senate to junk TRAIN, or the Palace-sponsored tax reform program. The group said no tempering of the said bill will make it acceptable for workers.
Incoming Philippine Information Agency (PIA) director general Jose Torres Jr. takes his oath before Secretary Cheloy Velicaria-Garafil of the Presidential...
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Troops from the Philippine Army’s Armor Division under Maj. Gen. Facundo Palafox IV break ground to plant bamboo seedlings to...
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The National Home Mortgage Finance Corp. signs a memorandum of agreement with Baque Corp. in collaboration with the local government...
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Japan’s market. Pedestrians walk past an electronic quotation board displaying the closing numbers of share prices on the Tokyo Stock...
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Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) chair and administrator Jonathan D. Tan (left) shares a light moment with Finance Secretary Benjamin...
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Senator Francis N. Tolentino (third from right) joins Dr. Emmanuel Franco Calairo of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.
