Robin bats for parliamentary, federal gov’t
Sentaor Robin Padilla on Friday said it is high time to fine-tune the 1987 Constitution to include a shift to ...
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Twitter restricted in Nigeria after government decree
Telecoms operators in Nigeria said Saturday they had complied with a government directive to suspend access to Twitter indefinitely, two ...
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Vote sought to end US shutdown
Washington"•Democratic lawmakers unveiled plans to emerge out of the partial shutdown of the federal government by examining and voting on ...
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‘Semi-presidential’ govt system pushed
The Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan wanted to introduce a semi-presidential system or a “hybrid parliamentary system” in the proposed ...
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Federal government to boost property developers
Property developers will likely benefit from president-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s plan to adopt a federal system of government, an executive of ...
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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.