Before going on a Christmas break, the powerful Commission on Appointments confirmed today the appointments of presidential appointees to key government offices and diplomatic posts.
Tears also flowed from Senator Grace when she recalled her family’s closeness to the late mother of Ernesto Fer
At the opening last Sunday of the 12th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization being held in Switzerland, its Director-General, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala called for global solidarity and multilateralism amid what she warned as an unprecedented “polycrisis” being experienced by the global community.
The Philippines and Thailand have taken positive steps to resolve outstanding issues in relation to a cigarette tax dispute through the signing of an understanding on agreed procedures.
(File photo) MANILA - Overseas absentee voting for Filipinos abroad has started in different embassies and consulates across the world. In a tweet, the Philippine Mission to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva showed a picture of Permanent Representatives Evan Garcia and Manuel Teehankee submitting their ballots to kick off overseas voting. The two cast their votes at the Philippine Consulate General in Geneva. The Philippine Embassy in Egypt, meanwhile, has also received its first ballot from an absentee voter and will continue to receive absentee ballots until May 9. "The voting period will be every day (including weekends) from 10 April 2022 to 09 May 2022, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. except for the last day 09 May when overseas voting ends at 1 p.m.," the embassy said in a tweet. The same embassy is also set to hold an overseas voting mission in Khartoum, Sudan from April 19 to 21. The Philippine Embassy in Singapore also announced that overseas voting