
Weight of corruption: Why Filipinos remain poor
Notes the World Bank: workers without secondary education are unable to find formal jobs; this reality persists because corruption diverts investment away from…
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Notes the World Bank: workers without secondary education are unable to find formal jobs; this reality persists because corruption diverts investment away from…
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What the public saw instead was a cascade of maneuvers that, in essence, was meant to poison the well.
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A senior high school teacher has asked the Supreme Court (SC) to uphold the legitimacy of the takeover of the Senate leadership by the bloc led by Sen. Win…
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The Senate’s rival flood control investigations hurtled toward a showdown on Monday, 8 June, as the so-called 18 ex-Marines withheld a commitment to appear…
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The Philippine National Police (PNP) has launched an investigation to identify and arrest the financiers and syndicates behind the P13.25 million worth of…
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Tensions flared after Remulla and some members of the chamber security tried to stop Senators Pia Cayetano and Padilla from escorting a group of supposed…
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The Senate should be a forum for reasoned debate, not a stage for play acting or a circus performance under a P. T. Barnum tent.
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I must confess that at this stage, I am confused and hoping that the Supreme Court will rule on this stalemate.
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Some people have a bucket list. Trillanes has a docket list. Some are more interested in who gave Sonny batteries. That’s the real mystery.
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The public is asked to believe that the Senate erupted in a leadership crisis this week for institutional reasons.
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An overwhelming 267 lawmakers from the House of Representatives have decided to pass an Anti-Political Dynasty Bill that would limit families from concurrently…
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KIBUNGAN, Benguet — Lawmakers in this Benguet province municipality have denied any involvement in the cultivation, production or financing of marijuana within…
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TABUK, Kalinga — An anti-corruption advocacy group filed a criminal and administrative complaint Wednesday before the Office of the Ombudsman against the top…
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Malacañang on Wednesday assured the public that the investigation into the allegedly anomalous flood control projects will continue, in line with the…
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Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero on Wednesday defended his decision to leave the Senate majority bloc, saying the worsening standoff in the chamber had become…
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A Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) director has been placed under preventive suspension after he was arrested in an entrapment operation conducted by…
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Yet the underlying reason for the friction in the chamber runs deep, as it involves exposing anomalies in flood mitigation projects spanning multiple…
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