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A department secretary with three powerful bureaus under his command may have been taken for a ride, and by one of his own bureau men, Nosy Tarsee has figured.
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A department secretary with three powerful bureaus under his command may have been taken for a ride, and by one of his own bureau men, Nosy Tarsee has figured.
Somewhere in the House of Representatives, a very prominent lawmaker is having a very cold week, Nosy Tarsee learned from state investigators.
Fresh chatter, which Nosy Tarsee recently heard, is making the rounds in one of Quezon City’s most exclusive enclaves.
Local gaming companies are losing sleep over the direct and indirect effects of a decree signed on the other side of the world.
Nosy Tarsee found a famous Japanese industrial giant and a famous Manila conglomerate standing together in an alliance. Sources say every alliance has a price.…
A foreign business group raised a red flag with Nosy Tarsee over one of the country’s flagship growth projects, and the warning boils down to a simple truth:…
The State, the ruling made plain, was not in the business of profit-farming for suspects
Nosy Tarsee has a word to the wise about that fast-food empire’s Vietnam love affair that turned out not to be a marriage but a long-term lease with an option…
If floodgates have mentors, we should ask who taught the class. The PDAF scam had its architects. The Unprogrammed Appropriations circus had its choreographers.
Nosy Tarsee noticed that nobody at the bank giant threw a party or leaked a memo. The board met on a Wednesday, raised its hands and blessed a change that has…
Nosy Tarsee has a riddle: Which conglomerate, the kind that is a household name, just got a whole power plant for free?
Nosy Tarsee learned the real story from Puerto Princesa, and it wasn’t about intercepting misdeclared items, but about their release.
Which private consortium, fresh from securing one of the country’s largest infrastructure concessions worth a staggering P170.6 billion, has quietly rewritten…
They held the meeting fast, right after the stockholders left the room, the way families do things when they don’t want an audience lingering. The old holding…
Nosy Tarsee has been sniffing around corporate boardrooms long enough to know that when a company built on betting starts talking about solar panels, something…
Word is that a high-ranking official overseeing a key energy agency is quietly clearing the runway for a competitive bidding round involving a prized mining…
Before the trillion-peso flood control mess hit the primetime news, there was a smaller, angrier dress rehearsal — and it happened in plain sight, on the floor…
Energy sector insiders have buzzed Nosy Tarsee about a bidding process gone sideways, and the whispers are getting louder by the week.
Somebody is not telling the truth, and Nosy Tarsee wants to know why.
An intended beneficiary of the cash assistance meant for residents flooded out by the recent deluge in Rodriguez, Rizal, approached Nosy Tarsee wanting to know…