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An Act Designating Casinos as Covered Persons under Republic Act No. 9160, known as the "Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2001" July 14, 2017 [2] 10928 Amending Section 10 of Republic Act No. 8239, known as the "Philippine Passport Act of 1996" August 2, 2017 [3] 10929 Free Internet Access in Public Places Act August 2, 2017 [4] 10930
A points-based immigration system or merit-based immigration system [1] is an immigration system where a noncitizen's eligibility to immigrate is (partly or wholly) determined by whether that noncitizen is able to score above a threshold number of points in a scoring system that might include such factors as education level, wealth, connection with the country, language fluency, existing job ...
President Duterte signs Republic Act No. 10931 into law. Also known as Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act, the law guarantees all Filipino students to receive free higher education in state universities and colleges (SUCs), and in local universities and colleges (LUCs), exempting from paying tuition fees and other school fees. [69]
The Philippine Identification System Act, also known as the PhilSys Law [1] and officially designated as Republic Act No. 11055, is a Philippine law that provides for the basis of for the Philippine government's national identity document system known as the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys).
In 2009, the Philippines and China signed the Joint Action Plan for Strategic Cooperation, a five-year agreement to increase cooperation in all areas. [10]: 158 In 2016, Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese president Xi Jinping created the biannual Bilateral Consultation Mechanism on the South China Sea, a process allowing the two nations to peacefully manage disputes and ...
The United States and its key Asian and Western allies, including Japan and Australia, condemned the Chinese acts at the shoal and called for the rule of law and freedom of navigation to be upheld ...
[1] [a] According to the law, "everyone is responsible for state security" which is in line with China's state security legal structure as a whole. [1] The final draft of the law on 16 May 2017 was toned down as compared to previous versions. [2] The 12th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress passed the law on 27 June 2017. [3]
In August 2019, assistant researcher Zhengjie Fan of China Institute of International Studies published an article, claiming that the current punishment policies such as the blacklist do not overstep the limits of law. He argued that since 2014, China's Social Credit System and the credit system of the market had grown to complement each other ...