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1 month ago | manilatimes.net | Kaiser Jan Fuentes |Catherine S. Valente

Read this in The Manila Times digital edition. (UPDATE) CEBU CITY — A campaign promise once met with skepticism will weigh exactly 1 kilo and cost just P20 — starting next week in the Visayas. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is moving ahead with the pilot rollout of his "P20 per kilo" rice program beginning May 1, making subsidized rice available through local government units (LGUs). Register to read this story and more for free.

1 month ago | manilatimes.net | Red Mendoza |Kaiser Jan Fuentes |Catherine S. Valente

A LEAKED document outlines the campaign strategies of the administration-backed Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas going into the final three weeks before the May 12 elections, including a push to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte and to have candidates she supports disqualified.

1 month ago | manilatimes.net | Catherine S. Valente |Bernadette E. Tamayo |Kaiser Jan Fuentes

(UPDATES) MALACAÑANG on Tuesday countered the campaign advertisement of Sen. Imee Marcos depicting the country's current situation as "black," saying the color better described conditions during the previous administration under former president Rodrigo Duterte. In a press conference, Palace Press Officer Claire Castro described President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s administration as trying to achieve a white color compared to the blackness of the past administration.