Now You Know (NYK) is a civic media platform which aims to provide relevant information for the Filipino people. Story leads & advisories: [email protected]
Makati City
Joined November 2018
- Tweets38.8K
- Following148
- Followers4K
- Likes80
Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian on Thursday said it would still depend on the defense panel’s strategy if they would let Vice President Sara Duterte testify personally in her impeachment trial once it resumes this November.
READ: tinyurl.com/3ytujvvv
📰ABS CBN NEWS
Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. on Thursday rejected China’s accusation that the Philippines abused its chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) defense meetings to obstruct Beijing’s
participation, saying the allegation did not reflect the regional bloc’s position.
READ: tinyurl.com/bddrjnyj
📰 Inquirer.net
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s defensive stance regarding the highest-ever dollar-peso exchange rate is mere posturing, ACT Teachers party-list Rep. Antonio Tinio said on Thursday, warning that financial analysts believe the peso will slide further in the coming months.
Vice President Sara Duterte’s camp on Thursday dismissed discussions about her possible replacement as “premature” and called them a “distraction” from the “serious issues” surrounding her impeachment.
READ: tinyurl.com/2x46n3dh
📰Inquirer.net
New Transport chief Vince Dizon on Wednesday shrugged off transport group Piston’s criticism of his reappointment as head of the Department of Transportation (DOTr).
READ: tinyurl.com/2s4m8pbv
📰Inquirer.net
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will resume its voter registration on November 10, 2026, until July 30, 2027, ahead of the 2028 national and local elections, its Chairperson George Erwin Garcia said on Wednesday.
READ: tinyurl.com/bdh7ryt8
📰Inquirer.net
Newly-installed Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Giovanni “Banoy” Lopez on Thursday vowed to withhold funding releases for infrastructure projects that lack sufficient supporting documents, including those inserted into the proposed 2027 national budget.
Caloocan City 2nd District Edgar Erice slammed as “callousness” the proposed 2027 allocation of more than P4 billion in Department of Public Works and Highways infrastructure projects in Ilocos Norte's 1st District, where Majority Leader Sandro Marcos is congressman.
After a string of bomb threats against several schools and universities in Metro Manila that led to the suspension of classes, the Philippine National Police on Wednesday ordered a review of its explosives-related threat response protocols.
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is moving to tighten pork import rules after the government raised the country’s corn import quota, as it seeks to bring down livestock production costs and protect local hog raisers from declining farm-gate prices.
Mamamayang Liberal party-list Rep. Leila de Lima said on Wednesday that she and other lawmakers are set to file a bill that will decriminalize libel, to prevent the use of such laws to attack journalists and stifle press freedom.
Former Budget and Management chief Amenah Pangandaman was supposedly aware of the so-called “leadership fund” within the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) budget for 2025, while President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was not.
Stronger cooperation among Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) member-states on food and energy security efforts will be key as the region braces for a super El Niño, which may cause drought and power
shortages, Defense Secretary Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro Jr. said on Wednesday.
READ: tinyurl.com/38x84pev
📰 Inquirer.net