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A HOUSE of Representatives committee on Tuesday adopted a resolution allowing Congress to lift restrictive economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution, supposedly to help the Philippine economy recover amid a coronavirus pandemic.
Voting 64 to three with three abstentions, the House committee on constitutional amendments agreed to insert the phrase “unless otherwise provided by law” in parts of the Charter that limit foreign ownership in certain Philippine industries, according to a statement posted on the House website.
This will allow Congress to pass a law later relaxing ownership limits.
Lawmakers agreed not to touch a section of the basic law that bars foreigners from owning land, the House said.
February 2, 2021 | 8:12 pm Font Size
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THE PHILIPPINES will try to order 178 million doses of coronavirus vaccines so it can inoculate more than 90 million Filipinos this year, according to the presidential palace.
âWe are not yet counting the children,â presidential spokesman Harry L. Roque said at a televised briefing in Filipino on Tuesday.
The government is in talks for more than 100 million doses with various drug makers worth $1.2 billion and about 40 million doses under a global initiative for equal access worth $84 million, Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said at a televised meeting with President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Monday night.
January 28, 2021 | 8:05 pm Font Size
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THE US under President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. has affirmed its commitment to help the Philippines in case its naval ships are attacked by China amid growing tensions in the South China Sea.
The US would help its former colony and other claimant countries stand up against Chinese aggression in the disputed waterway, Antony J. Blinken, whom the US Senate confirmed as secretary of state this week, told Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro L. Locsin, Jr. during a call on Thursday.
“Secretary Blinken stressed the importance of the Mutual Defense Treaty for the security of both nations, and its clear application to armed attacks against the Philippine Armed Forces, public vessels or aircraft in the Pacific, which includes the South China Sea,” US Department of State spokesman Edward Price said in an e-mailed statement.
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THE PHILIPPINES on Wednesday updated its testing protocols for foreign travelers to ensure the detection of new coronavirus strains.
Travelers arriving in the country will get tested for the coronavirus on the fifth day of their stay starting Feb. 1, regardless of origin, according to the presidential palace.
They must also get quarantined at a facility as soon as they arrive, presidential spokesman Harry L. Roque said in a statement on Wednesday, citing an order by an inter-agency task force (IATF) against the coronavirus.
âThey shall then undergo reverse transcription-polymerase chain (RT-PCR) test on the fifth day from their date of arrival in the country, unless the passenger shows symptoms at an earlier date while on quarantine,â he added.
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