The Department of Justice has junked charges filed by a lawyer against Senator Aquino “Koko” Pimentel III after he visited Makati Medical Center where his wife was giving birth even as he tested positive for COVID-19.
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte will keep a “warm and friendly” relationship with the United States under the presidency of Joe Biden, Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo said on Wednesday.
A resolution seeking a congressional inquiry on the unilateral abrogation by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana of the Department of National Defense-University of the Philippines Agreement of 1989 has been filed at the House of Representatives.
National Policy Against Covid-19 chief implementer and vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. said the government expects to finalize the supply agreements with pharmaceutical companies by "end of January or first week of February."
Senators voice out their dismay on the unilateral termination of the 1989 accord between the University of the Philippines and the Department of National Defense.