Little more than a year into a three-year term, Sarangani Representative Manny Pacquiao has already had enough of the House of Representatives and wants to move to the Sarangani provincial capitol in 2013. The professional boxer and part-time congressman is reportedly “[dismayed] over the slow pace of how changes for the country are made [...]
For the next few months, both houses of Philippine Congress will be tackling what is probably the most important law they will pass this year: next year’s national budget.
Fresh from a 10-day crash course on how to be a congressman, Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao seems to have learned the basics of politics quite well. He has bolted losing presidential candidate Sen. Manuel Villar’s Nacionalista Party for the Liberal Party. This, after coming out in a TV ad during the campaign season sucker punching [...]
I always check the comments section on news sites that have them. They help give me an arbitrary and unbalanced peek at how your average Filipino thinks. One of the big stories over the long weekend was the plagiarized commencement speech delivered at the Ateneo by Philippine Long Distance and Telephone Co. chairman Manuel Pangilinan, [...]