(BUSINESS MIRROR) SENATOR Jose Pimentel Ejercito Jr. is prodding the economic team of President Marcos and the Department of National Defense (DND) to discuss at length the next steps in reforming the pension system for military and uniformed personnel (MUP) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), now the subject of several bills in…
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(BUSINESS MIRROR) More senators weighed in on the issue of banning the live-action film Barbie from cinema exhibition in the Philippines, a day after Vietnam announced a decision to ban it over a segment showing China’s controversial nine-dash-line map that other South China Sea claimants deem an excessive claim. Senators Francis Tolentino, a lawyer, and…
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(BUSINESS MIRROR) SENATORS weighed in on Tuesday on calls to ban the cinema exhibition of the movie “Barbie” for showing an image of the 9-dash line map that China has been using—amid objections by other claimants—to illustrate its claim over most of the South China Sea. Two senators, Jinggoy Estrada and Francis Tolentino, asked the Movie Television Review and Classification Board…
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(BUSINESS MIRROR) MAJORITY and minority senators denounced the latest reported incident of aggression by China naval militia within the West Philippine Sea. Sen. Jinggoy Estrada promptly deplored initial reports even as “we have yet to receive confirmation” from Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) or the Department of National Defense (DND) regarding the June 30 incident where…
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(BUSINESS MIRROR) Senate probers are poised to mount an inquiry into the proliferation of internet scam cases “faking online celebrity endorsements and deceptive social media postings” in dubious advertisements selling assorted unregistered food and drug products. Paving the way for a thorough probe, Senator Jinggoy Estrada filed Senate Resolution No. 666, citing the risks the…
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(BUSINESS MIRROR) SENATOR Jinggoy Estrada is pressing for the timely passage of an enabling law seeking to impose tougher sanctions against misuse of police and military uniforms. In filing Senate Bill 2149, Estrada alerted both government and the public to “beware of the falsities and misrepresentation of people who pretend to be uniformed personnel by wearing…
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(BUSINESS MIRROR) A LAWMAKER is pushing to have all copies of textbooks and reference materials in public elementary and secondary schools digitized. This, as Senator Jinggoy Estrada is moving to realize the ideal 1:1 textbook-student ratio in public-learning institutions, which for him is facing major delays. Estrada said in Filipino that having digital copies accessible…
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(BUSINESS MIRROR) SEN. Jinggoy Estrada is asking Congress to pass a law requiring telecommunication companies (telcos) and Internet service providers (ISPs) to automatically refund subscribers when they experience at least 24 hours of accumulated service interruptions within a month. This is the gist of Senate Bill No. 2074, which Estrada filed last April 17. “A…
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(BUSINESS MIRROR) The winners of the search for the country’s best domestic workers pose with senators after being feted during the 10th anniversary of Republic Act 10361, or the Domestic Workers Act or Batas Kasambahay. he law’s author, Sen. Jinggoy Estrada, gave out the awards as head of the Senate’s Labor panel. He was joined…
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