In Davos, President Marcos will speak about the Maharlika Investment Fund. Imagine a thief who once deposited his family’s loot in Swiss bank accounts and who now wants the world to know that he is suddenly a beggar for investors’ money.
Matapos ang unang 100 araw sa pamumuno ni Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr., may mga alingasngas na lumutang at tatlo agad ang nalagas sa kanyang Gabinete. Tara’t kilatisin natin ang mga napili niya para mapabilang sa kanyang official family dito sa ika-13 episode ng What The F?! Podcast.
We need decisive and concrete actions now to create more jobs, bring down food prices, and deliver other public services efficiently. Ordinary folks want to have parties, too!
More than two weeks after announcing his resignation as executive secretary, lawyer Victor Rodriguez backtracked on his statement that he would continue serving the country as presidential chief of staff.
Mahigit dalawang linggo matapos ipahayag ang kanyang pagbibitiw bilang executive secretary, binago ng abogadong si Victor Rodriguez ang kanyang pahayag na magpapatuloy siya sa pagsisilbi sa bansa bilang presidential chief of staff.
Wishful thinking ba kung patigilin niya ang trolls sa pagkakalat ng kasinungalingan?
Sinabi ni Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles na ang dahilan ng pagtaas ng inflation sa bansa ay ang peso-dollar exchange rate na bumagsak sa pinakamababang halaga, at “hindi dahil sa anumang lokal kadahilanan.” Ito ay nakaliligaw.
Sonny Africa, executive director of IBON Foundation, told VERA Files Fact Check in an email that while rising global prices of food and the depreciation of the peso, driven by interest rate hikes in the United States, are indeed immediate inflation factors, the government has “direct control over factors like the excise and value added taxes it puts on goods and services consumed or, like fuel, used to produce other goods and services.”
Sinabi ni Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. sa United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) na ang Pilipinas ay nananatiling “on track” para maabot ang upper middle-income status sa 2023 “sa kabila ng mga hamon ng pandemya at ng pagkadiskaril ng pandaigdigang ekonomiya.” Ito ay nangangailangan ng konteksto.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. claimed before the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that the Philippines remains “on track” to reach upper middle-income status by 2023 “despite the challenges of the pandemic and the global economic upheavals.” This needs context.