(File Photo) MANILA - The Senate will pursue to end electronic and mobile phone-aided criminal activities and guarantee a more secure mobile phone and cyberspace use in the country, Senator Grace Poe said on Saturday. This was after President Rodrigo Duterte vetoed the SIM Card Registration bill, citing concerns about free speech and data privacy. As one of the sponsors of Senate Bill 2395 approved in December 2021, Poe noted that each day without the safeguards in the measure makes people vulnerable to rip-offs that take away their money and cause them anxiety. She added that the onslaught of cybercrimes and fake news tears the fabric of the country's democracy. "Our laws and jurisprudence confirm that freedom of expression is not absolute, as in the cases of obscenity, libel, or when public safety and order are at stake," she said in a statement. Poe, who chairs the Committee on Public Services, said the veto highlights the need for ongoing efforts, both public and priv
MANILA - President Rodrigo Roa Duterte appointed Michael Pastores Ong as new associate justice of the Court of Appeals. "The Palace congratulates Atty. Michael Pastores Ong as Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals. We wish CA Justice Ong success in the Court of Appeals, and we are confident that he will continue to uphold the rule of law and to dispense justice with integrity, impartiality and probity," Acting Presidential Spokesperson, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, said in a statement. According to the transmittal of his appointment letter shared by Supreme Court (SC) public information office on Thursday, Ong will take over the post vacated by Samuel Gaerlan, who was named Supreme Court associate justice in January 2020. Ong served as senior deputy executive secretary and was among the 36 candidates recommended by the Judicial Bar and Council to fill six associate justice positions in the CA. He took his oath before Chief Justice Gesmundo on Thursday morning. (PNA)
NEW CA ASSOCIATE JUSTICE. New Court of Appeals Associate Justice Michael Pastores Ong takes his oath before Chief Justice Gesmundo on Thursday (Jan. 27, 2022). President Rodrigo Duterte appointed Ong to take over the post vacated by Samuel Gaerlan, who was named Supreme Court associate justice in January 2020. (Photo courtesy of SC PIO) MANILA - President Rodrigo Roa Duterte appointed Michael Pastores Ong as new associate justice of the Court of Appeals. "The Palace congratulates Atty. Michael Pastores Ong as Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals. We wish CA Justice Ong success in the Court of Appeals, and we are confident that he will continue to uphold the rule of law and to dispense justice with integrity, impartiality and probity," Acting Presidential Spokesperson, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, said in a statement. According to the transmittal of his appointment letter shared by Supreme Court (SC) public information office on Thursday, Ong will take over the post
FREE. Concreting works on this road in Barangay Balanni, Sto. Nino, Cagayan began in November 2021. The Barangay Development Program of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict identified Balanni as one of six villages in the province that has been cleared of insurgency and is eligible to receive PHP20 million worth of development projects. (Photo courtesy of Cagayan-PIO) MANILA - Malacanang hopes the next administration will sustain the gains of the government against the communist insurgency, through the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). Executive Order 70 signed in December 2018 created the NTF-ELCAC that institutionalizes a whole-of-nation approach in obtaining exclusive and sustainable peace, giving the government an effective solution against communist terrorists. "Sana iyong next Pangulo, sinuman iyon, ay kaniya ring ipagpatuloy itong naging matagumpay na accomplishments ng(We hope the next President, whoever that is
FREE. Concreting works on this road in Barangay Balanni, Sto. Nino, Cagayan began in November 2021. The Barangay Development Program of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict identified Balanni as one of six villages in the province that has been cleared of insurgency and is eligible to receive PHP20 million worth of development projects. (Photo courtesy of Cagayan-PIO) MANILA - Malacanang hopes the next administration will sustain the gains of the government against the communist insurgency, through the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). Executive Order 70 signed in December 2018 created the NTF-ELCAC that institutionalizes a whole-of-nation approach in obtaining exclusive and sustainable peace, giving the government an effective solution against communist terrorists. "Sana iyong next Pangulo, sinuman iyon, ay kaniya ring ipagpatuloy itong naging matagumpay na accomplishments ng(We hope the next President, whoever that is