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Arroyo hails China development as alternative to Western model

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 31 03:04 PM

Arroyo said that the rapid growth of China in the past 2 decades has shown that "no development model can be applied universally and that the diversity of historical conditions determines the development paths that countries could choose." Read more »

PH SEA Games hosting to push through, says Arroyo

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 22 07:28 PM

MANILA - Former President, now House Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Friday gave her assurances that the country’s hosting of the 2019 SEA Games will push through despite the deadlock over the 2019 Budget in Congress. Read more »

Manila Water says availability reaches 96 pct of consumers

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 22 07:13 PM

Water services has "significantly improved" after adopting a rotational water supply scheme, various technical and network improvements and augmentation from other supply sources, the Ayala-led concessionaire said in an advisory. Read more »

Arroyo to end House probes on water crisis

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 22 05:54 PM

MANILA - Former President, now House Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will end the House probes on the water crisis. Read more »

Arroyo maintains she did not tinker with 2019 budget

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 22 05:37 PM

MANILA - House Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has asserted she did not tinker with the 2019 Budget, an allegation by Sen. Panfilo Lacson that has stalled its passage.  Read more »

Arroyo: Congress to resolve budget row next week

Vivienne Gulla, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 21 11:45 PM

MANILA - House Speaker Gloria Arroyo said Thursday that Congress will seek to resolve the 2019 national budget impasse next week. Read more »

Mga pahayag ng Senate bets sa TRAIN law, K to 12, totoo ba?

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 22 04:01 PM

Tiningnan ang konteksto ng ilang pahayag ng mga kandidatong sumalang sa ikalawang "Harapan 2019," ang senatorial debate ng ABS-CBN. Read more »

Arroyo brushes off talk she is in the running to be next BSP gov

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 26 03:36 PM

MANILA - Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo brushed off Tuesday talk that she is in the running to be the next head of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas following the death of its chief Nestor Espenilla. Read more »

Will Diokno save Duterte or Arroyo? His answer draws laughs

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 17 10:49 PM

If a ship was sinking and there was only one life vest left, who would you save - President Rodrigo Duterte or former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo? Read more »

Challenge for solons backing criminal liability law: 'Where were you at age 12?'

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 24 09:13 AM

Lawmakers supporting a bill to incarcerate children as young as 12 years old should reflect on where they were and what they were doing at this age, a sociologist said Thursday.   Read more »

Help, don't punish: Robredo, CHR rap House move vs juvenile offenders

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 20 04:50 PM

Authorities should help instead of punishing children in conflict with the law, Vice President Leni Robredo and the Commission on Human Rights said Sunday amid a fresh move to lower the age of criminal liability.  Read more »

Life now 'so cheap': Arroyo condemns Batocabe slay

Thea Omelan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 23 11:10 AM

DARAGA, Albay - House Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Sunday denounced anew the fatal shooting of a party-list representative, saying politics has degraded the value of human life.   Read more »

Feud over 'pork' comeback allegations imperils 2019 budget passage

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 13 01:21 AM

The Philippines on Wednesday was on the brink of ending the year without a national budget for the next 12 months as Speaker Gloria Arroyo's allies clashed with officials of the executive over alleged billions of pesos in alleged "insertions." Read more »

'Budget naiipit dahil sa alitang economic managers vs ilang kongresista'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 11 09:54 PM

May hidwaan umano sa pagitan ng mga economic manager ng bansa at ng House of Representatives, ayon sa Makabayan bloc. Read more »

Arroyo on alleged 'insertions': Ask House budget committee

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 11 04:51 PM

Arroyo said she was not the one who prepared the budget. Malacanang earlier said she should explain the alleged insertions in the General Appropriations Act. Read more »

Arroyo allays fears over possible reenacted budget

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 11 04:07 PM

Citing her experience as President, Speaker Arroyo said reenacted budgets last for a "short" period until the General Appropriations Act for the year is finally approved. Read more »

China's Xi, PH Congress leaders discuss Beijing-Manila ties

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 21 05:26 PM

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with the leaders of the Philippine Congress Wednesday on the last day of his state visit here to discuss ties between Manila and Beijing. Read more »

Finance chief Arroyo? Speaker shrugs off talk of Cabinet post

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 13 07:12 PM

Former President and now House Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Tuesday dismissed speculation that she is poised to serve as President Rodrigo Duterte's next finance secretary. Read more »

Withdrawal from parliamentary union may be an 'extreme step' - Pimentel

Trishia Billones, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 23 06:40 PM

Withdrawing from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly may be an extreme step to take, even as there was "overreach" by the body in dealing with Philippine legislators, Senator Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III said Tuesday. Read more »

Duterte: Sara, may kinalaman sa 'coup' sa Kamara

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 19 02:35 AM

Kinumpirma ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na may kinalaman nga ang anak niyang si Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte sa "coup" sa Kamara noong nakaraang State of the Nation Address. Read more »