SENATE President Juan Miguel Zubiri, addressing international lawmakers attending the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF) in Manila, prodded the visiting delegates to “opt for cooperative security approach.”

THE Senate Committee on Finance adopted Senator Sherwin T. Gatchalian’s proposal to increase the budget for the implementation of the Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS), a nationwide household-based poll of data on basic and...

Senator Grace Poe, conveying concerns to ensure clean water supplied to consumers, pressed Congress to frontload passage of an enabling law creating the proposed Department of Water, reminding that “the country’s water woes are too big to be met by fr...

SENATORS on Wednesday expressed full support for an investigation initiated by the Office of the Ombudsman into revelations that aliens, specifically POGO workers, have been able to get identification documents supposedly limited to Filipino citizens.

A COST-BENEFIT analysis by government economists has put the estimated loss to the republic from  the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (Pogo)  at over P14 billion, defeating the argument of its economic value while worsening reputational...

Senate probers of the Blue Ribbon Committee on Public Accountability were prodded to dig deeper into a lucrative passport racket involving foreign nationals.

The National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) Board on Thursday approved over P57 billion worth of projects, which are expected to improve the country’s agriculture supply chain and maritime security.

Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, citing microgrids to boost full electrification nationwide, commended the Department of Energy’s (DOE) launch of its competitive selection process (CSP) for microgrid systems providers (MGSP), citing the move as  “a su...

SENATORS on Tuesday promptly moved to investigate a security breach from their executive session on Monday where, as leaked reports said, they discussed among others the request of certain agencies for confidential and intelligence funds.

THE dropping of several key infrastructure projects that would have been funded by China represents an opportunity loss to the Philippines, the Senate Ways and Means committee chief believes. And Sen. Sherwin T. Gatchalian believes the better terms fro...

SENATOR Sherwin T. Gatchalian is urgently pleading with President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. for the complete and immediate banning of Philippine Overseas Gaming Operators (POGOs) in the wake of a shocking revelation exposing a POGO hub’s alleged involvem...

THE chairman of the Senate Defense committee is supporting the plans of the Executive to file a case against China for environmental damage to Philippine reefs and corals, saying the issue at stake “transcends territorial claims and disputes” because t...

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Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva, principal sponsor and author of the Doktor Para sa Bayan law, assured the timely passage of related bills creating five additional medical schools expected to mitigate a looming “shortage of doctors” in order to ...

Telcos and regulators—as well as law enforcement agencies—are under pressure to improve the implementation of the SIM Registration Act, with the chief author of the measure pushing back against those who view the problem as rooted in the law.

THE Senate is maintaining its momentum to pass a law designating maritime areas where the Philippines can exercise sovereignty and jurisdiction.

EIGHT out of 10 Tesda graduates are employed, but most of them earn below minimum wage, drawing concern from a senator who once headed the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority.

AMID the controversy on the granting of big confidential and intel funds to civilian agencies, the Senate vowed to push for higher intelligence funds for the “defenders of Philippine sovereignty in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), the Philippine Coast G...