BEIJING, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) China Ministry of Commerce announced on Thursday the inclusion of two companies on its unreliable entities list as they sold arms t
BEIJING, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has signed a State Council decree outlining a set of regulations, which will come into effect on Jan. 1,
Press Secretary Beatrix Rose "Trixie" Cruz-Angeles (Screengrab from RTVM) MANILA - President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. can veto a bill passed by Congress during the past administration, Malacanang said on Wednesday. "The President can veto, that is the stand," Press Secretary Beatrix Rose "Trixie" Cruz-Angeles said in a Palace press briefing. This was after Senator Francis Escudero raised a "unique legal quandary" over Marcos' veto of a measure establishing a special economic zone and freeport adjacent to the proposed airport city in Bulacan province. In a Twitter post on Sunday, Escudero said he is unsure if Marcos has the power to veto a bill "passed by the previous Congress" or the time when the sitting president was still his predecessor, former president Rodrigo Duterte. "If he can't sign it (because the signatories will be composed of past/present officials that didn't serve at the same time), can
MANILA - The Board of Investments (BOI) reported the agency is already cleared from the Commission on Audit (COA) report that it has undistributed personal protective equipment (PPE) donated by China's Panhua Group as of end-2021. In a press conference on Friday, Trade Undersecretary and BOI Managing Head Ceferino Rodolfo shed light on a news report published June 7 that the "BOI failed to distribute donated PPEs", using a 2021 COA report. Rodolfo said COA cleared the agency on the issue last March. This, as the donated PPE from China with the BOI as the recipient for health care workers are non-medical grade. "We are talking about products here that are meant to protect our health workers so when we received the packages, as a protocol, the BOI had to do proper checking and evaluation of the protective health gear products including its location of origination as well as its quality," Rodolfo said. He added that the agency has no intention to hold or stockp