Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan appealed to Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson to reconsider his plan to resign as chairman of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee.
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General Brawner, who spoke to This Week in Asia after a briefing with the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (Focap) on Friday, said the overture was made on September 20, on the ...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s embattled governing party now has its new leader, former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line conservative who is poised to become the country’s first female ...
Catholic bishops, lawmakers, a retired justice, and Malacañang on Monday poured cold water on Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano’s call for a snap election, ...
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned from his post on Monday after only 27 days in power, marking his term ...
Snap elections won’t solve corruption, lawmakers say, rejecting Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano’s proposal for a “national reset.” ...
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A crumbling chamber

It’s bad enough that our current crop of senators includes ex-convicts, bad actors and four sets of siblings, but we also have to deal with the reality that some of them are behaving like bullies, ...
No. But… Said one Filipino senator a couple of weeks ago: “Lahat naman corrupt, tanggapin niyo na lang. (We are all corrupt, just accept it),” slurring all of the Senate, or all politicians. Or maybe ...
A sweeping legal confrontation has erupted between the Trump administration and several Democratic-led states over President Donald Trump’s attempt to deploy National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, ...
PHILIPPINE senators on Monday rejected a proposal by Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter S. Cayetano for a snap election, saying it would only worsen political instability as the government faces ...
We go where the evidence leads us, not by the noise coming from highly partisan political persuasions,’ says Senator Panfilo Lacson ...