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Edvic Yap
Edvic Go Yap (born December 13, 1977) is a Filipino politician and a representative of the ACT-CIS Partylist to the House of Representatives of the Philippines since 2022. He is a vice chairperson for the Good Government and Public Accountability committee and a member for the majority for the Legislative Franchises and Public Accounts committees. He is one of the authors of the Universal Medical Access and Equipment Act. Early life Edvic Go Yap was born on December 13, 1977, in Manila. Yap's siblings are Benguet congressman Eric Yap and Quezon City 4th district councilor Egay Yap. In 1997, Yap graduated with a degree in Commerce. Before his tenure as representative, he distributed goods for the COVID-19 pandemic. Political career Congress (2022–present) During the wake of the 2022 Philippine presidential election, Yap suggested the next president should provide jobs to Filipinos. ACT-CIS Partylist gained 1st place in the 2022 Philippine party-list elections with 2,11 ...
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19th Congress Of The Philippines
The 19th Congress of the Philippines (), composed of the Philippine Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines, House of Representatives, met from July 25, 2022, until June 11, 2025, during the first three years of Bongbong Marcos's presidency. The convening of the 19th Congress followed the 2022 Philippine general election, 2022 general elections, which replaced half of the Senate membership and the entire membership of the House of Representatives. The House of Representatives met in the Batasang Pambansa Complex. The Senate met in the GSIS Building, with a scheduled move to its New Senate Building (Philippines), new building in Taguig indefintely postponed. The 19th Congress was also the first since the 10th Congress of the Philippines, 10th Congress that no senator was from the Liberal Party (Philippines), Liberal Party. Leadership Senate *President of the Senate of the Philippines, Senate President: **Migz Zubiri (Independent politician, Independent), ...
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Abante
''Abante'' (lit. ''Move forward'') is a daily Filipino tabloid publication in the Philippines. Its offices are in Quezon City and Parañaque. It is owned by Prage Management Corporation, a media company owned by two veteran journalists who took over the management and operations of Abante and its sister tabloid, ''Abante Tonite'', from Monica Publishing Corporation of the Macasaet family in October 2017. Aside from ''Abante'', ''Abante Tonite'', and ''NewsKo'', Prage Management Corporation also manage and operates Abante: TNT (Tunay na Tabloidista), a real-time online news website; its sister websites Bilyonaryo, Milyonaryo, Politiko, Fastbreak, Atletiko, Bankero and Abogado, Teletabloid; and two new ventures since 2024, Bilyonaryo News Channel and Abante Radyo 1494. Profile ''Abante'', founded on May 27, 1987, was first published by the Banahaw Publishing Corporation, owned by national artist Virgilio Almario. The tabloid was bought in 1988 by Amado Macasaet, chairma ...
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1977 Births
Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). * January 17 – 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. * January 18 ** Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. ** Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. * January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all 11 people on board. * January 23 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India ...
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Politiko (website)
Politiko () is a Filipino news website covering Philippine politics. Politiko was established in 2014 and managed by MCD Multimedia Corporation (as mentioned in the disclaimer of their website) and Prage Management Corporation who also controls the operation of the tabloid newspaper Abante as well as sibling websites, Bilyonaryo, Abogado and NewsKo. In 2016, Politiko became one of the top media sites in the Philippines just after its first 2 years online marking its presence among social media users. History Politiko started its operation and presence in the social media in August 2014 with its Facebook page created on June 25, 2014. It first focused on current political events within Metro Manila, then Politiko expanded its scope region-wide adding Central Luzon, North Luzon, Mindanao, Bicol/MIMAROPA and Visayas. Book launching Politiko released a political almanac called ''Politiko 365'' in 2017 which were attended by influential politicians including former Philippine Pre ...
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Daily Tribune (Philippines)
The ''Daily Tribune'' is an English-language broadsheet publication in the Philippines. Its office is in the 3450 Concept Building, Florida Street, Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines. ''The Daily Tribune'', as it was called then, was founded on February 1, 2000, by a group of journalists from the then-defunct ''The Philippine Post'' led by then-Editor-in-Chief and Founding Chairman Ninez Cacho-Olivares. On June 1, 2018, Concept and Information Group, publisher of the online ''Concept News Central'', acquired the paper from Cacho-Olivares. With the change of hands, "The" from ''The Daily Tribune'' has been dropped. History On February 24, 2006, the ''Tribune'' was raided by the Philippine National Police at the height of the State of Emergency imposed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The police presence remained in the paper's office until the State of Emergency was lifted on March 4, 2006. The paper continued to publish normally, making defiant statements throughout. ...
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The Philippine Star
''The Philippine Star'' (self-styled ''The Philippine STAR'') is an English-language newspaper in the Philippines and the flagship brand of the Philstar Media Group. First published on July 28, 1986, by veteran journalists Betty Go-Belmonte, Max Soliven and Art Borjal, it is one of several Philippine newspapers founded after the 1986 People Power Revolution. Its sister publications include business newspaper '' BusinessWorld''; Cebu-based, English-language broadsheet '' The Freeman''; Filipino-language tabloids '' Pilipino Star Ngayon'' and ''Pang-Masa''; Cebuano-language tabloid ''Banat'', online news portals Philstar.com, PhilstarLife.com, Interaksyon (formerly with News5), LatestChika.com, Wheels.PH, PropertyReport.PH, Multiverse.PH and TV/digital production unit Philstar TV. In March 2014, the newspaper was acquired by MediaQuest Holdings, Inc., a media conglomerate subsidized by the PLDT Beneficial Trust Fund, after the company purchased a majority stake in Philst ...
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Marikina River
The Marikina River () is a waterway in eastern Metro Manila, Philippines. It is the largest tributary of the Pasig River, with headwaters in the Sierra Madre Mountains in what was known as Montalban, presently the municipality of Rodriguez, Rizal. The Marikina River used to be an important transport route during the Spanish colonial era, but its importance as a transport route diminished when the Philippines' national highway system became more established. The resulting lack of river boat traffic and the deforestation of the upland areas in what is now the Upper Marikina River Basin Protected Landscape (UMRBPL) contributed to the river's siltation, further reducing its value as a transport route. The Marikina River system In the Pamitinan Protected Landscape located in Sitio Wawa, Brgy. San Rafael, in Rodriguez, the Marikina River is dammed by Wawa Dam, a structure built during the early 1900s to provide water for Manila. From Rodriguez, the river flows through San ...
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Congress Of The Philippines
The Congress of the Philippines () is the legislature of the national government of the Philippines. It is Bicameralism, bicameral, composed of an upper body, the Senate of the Philippines, Senate, and a lower body, the House of Representatives of the Philippines, House of Representatives, although colloquially, the term "Congress" commonly Totum pro parte, refers to just the latter. The Senate meets at the GSIS Building in Pasay, while the House of Representatives meets at the Batasang Pambansa Complex, Batasang Pambansa in Quezon City, which also hosts Joint session of the Congress of the Philippines, joint sessions. The Senate is composed of 24 senators half of which are elected every three years. Each senator, therefore, serves a total of six years. The senators are elected at-large and do not represent any geographical district. In the current 19th Congress of the Philippines, 19th Congress, there are 316 seats in the House of Representatives. The Constitution of the Phili ...
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Rappler
Rappler (portmanteau of the words "rap" and "ripples") is a Mass media in the Philippines, Filipino online news website based in Pasig, Metro Manila, the Philippines. It was founded by 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and convicted cyberlibelist Maria Ressa along with a group of fellow Filipino journalists as well as technopreneurs. It started as a Facebook page named MovePH in August 2011 and evolved into a website on January 1, 2012. In 2018, agencies under the Government of the Philippines, Philippine government initiated legal proceedings against Rappler. Rappler and its staff alleged it was being targeted for its revelations of corruption by government and elected officials, the usage of bots and trolls favoring Rodrigo Duterte's administration, and documenting the Philippine drug war. In October 2021, Rappler co-founder Ressa, alongside Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for safeguarding freedom of expression in their homelands. History ...
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2022 Philippine House Of Representatives Elections
The 2022 Philippine House of Representatives elections were the 36th lower house elections in the Philippines. The election of the House of Representatives was held on May 9, 2022. The election is held concurrently with the 2022 presidential, Senate and local elections. A voter has two votes in the House of Representatives: one for the congressional district, and one for party-list. Parties of leading presidential candidates are expected to stand candidates in many districts. In the outgoing 18th Congress, there are 243 congressional districts. There are 253 congressional districts for this election, which means 63 seats, or at least 20% of the seats, disputed in the party-list election. The party-list election is done on a nationwide, at-large basis, separate and distinct from the election from the congressional districts. Allies of presidential-elect Bongbong Marcos won a majority of the seats, with his cousin Martin Romualdez being elected as speaker. Background ...
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2022 Philippine Presidential Election
Presidential elections in the Philippines were held on May 9, 2022, as part of the 2022 Philippine general election, 2022 general election. This was the 17th direct presidential election and 15th vice presidential election in the country since 1935 Philippine presidential election, 1935, and the sixth wikt:sextennial, sextennial presidential and vice presidential election since 1992 Philippine presidential election, 1992. Incumbent president Rodrigo Duterte was ineligible for re-election because the president is limited to a single term under the Constitution of the Philippines, 1987 Philippine Constitution. Incumbent vice president Leni Robredo was eligible for re-election but chose to run for the presidency instead. Therefore, this election determined the 17th President of the Philippines, president and the 15th Vice President of the Philippines, vice president. The president and vice president are elected separately, so the two winning candidates can come from different politic ...
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