
Smoke, mirrors commission
The investigator, who got too close to the flame — like the moth in Jose Rizal’s story that burned its wings and fell — was relegated to being an adviser.
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The investigator, who got too close to the flame — like the moth in Jose Rizal’s story that burned its wings and fell — was relegated to being an adviser.
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Former Public Works and Highways Secretary Manuel Bonoan had discretion over a P10-billion lump-sum fund set aside supposedly for lawmakers seeking…
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When the powerful are released and the witnesses are silenced, the message is unmistakable: the system protects its own.
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Documentary regularity and physical reality are often two different things, and it is in the gap between them that corruption lives.
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STRASBOURG, France (AFP) — An industrial waste warehouse caught fire on Sunday in France, authorities said, spewing foul smoke that gave residents headaches…
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‘There are questions that he isn’t answering properly.’
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This time his speechwriter must have, in devil-may-care fashion, put in reverse order the main culprits in the epic floodgate scandal.
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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has spent a year positioning himself as the exposer of “Floodgate,” not a subject of it, but the paper trail does not cooperate…
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For a country whose vast population queues for hours for P20 per kilo subsidized rice, one cannot help but ask if satellites can be eaten.
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BAGUIO CITY — The Supreme Court (SC) has ended a 14-year legal dispute involving the former Matoytoy-ok-Caluttit open dumpsite in Caluttit, Bontoc, Mountain…
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Vice President Sara Duterte accused President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of trying to rewrite the narrative surrounding the government’s multibillion-peso flood…
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The President has only two years left in his term. Two years to turn promises into reality. Two years to rebuild the trust that has all but evaporated.
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Among those said to be running the deal are a certain Alfred K.L. and happy group members known only as Rolle, Bayot, Jip, Weng and Susan.
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A SoNA delivered with two years remaining of a six-year term should be judged not only on how well emergencies were handled, but on how many fewer emergencies…
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Malacañang on Sunday urged those claiming to have evidence against the alleged “big fish” behind anomalous flood control projects to file criminal complaints…
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A day before President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s fifth State of the Nation Address (SoNA), a civic group challenged the administration to explain what it…
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Where evidence exists, charges should be filed. Where it does not, political rivalry, public suspicion, or participation in budget deliberations cannot…
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Coca-Cola Europacific Aboitiz Philippines (CCEAP) is expanding its support for local government units (LGUs) in Metro Manila to strengthen PET bottle recovery…
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