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PBBM appoints new FDA Director General

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (File photo) MANILA - President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has picked his personal physician, Dr. Samuel Zacate, as director-general of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Malacanang announced Wednesday. Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles announced Zacate's appointment in a Palace press briefing. Zacate is a known public health advocate with years of expertise in medicine and medical consultancy in other government units and offices, including the Public Attorney's Office, Presidential Security Group Hospital (2009-2022), among others. Prior to his appointment, Zacate was a diplomate of the Philippine Society for Venereology and a fellow of the International College of Surgeons. Cruz-Angeles said the new FDA chief possesses all qualifications to head the agency. "If you will look at his qualifications he is eminently qualified. As you know, to be the FDA head, you have to at least be a doctor or a pharmacist so he is quali ....

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Duterte names Michael Ong as new CA associate justice

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) ....

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