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Latest Daily Tribune news and analysis on corruption.
Debt is not inherently dangerous when it builds something that generates more value than it costs. The danger comes when the money is stolen along the way.
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The Court of Appeals has frozen 116 financial accounts and virtual asset wallets linked to an unnamed prominent lawmaker amid an AMLC investigation into…
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Anything that can strengthen the fight against corruption deserves serious consideration, whatever quarter it comes from.
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The Philippines has elevated impunity into an art form, aided by a weaponized legal system and an electorate acclimated to mediocrity.
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A June 2026 SWS survey found that 52 percent of Filipinos believe citizens cannot stop government corruption, marking the weakest personal efficacy rating in…
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THE PUBLIC HAS NOT FORGOTTEN (AND SHOULD NEVER FORGET) THAT THE FLOODWATERS ARE NOT UNFORESEEABLE ACTS OF GOD BUT A CONSEQUENCE OF INSATIABLE GREED AND A…
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The province is now ground zero of public anger, and this shift, understandable in its origins, carries risks that those in power would be unwise to ignore.
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PNP chief Police General Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. ordered tighter action against recruitment fixers and “slot-for-sale” schemes as 7,000 new police personnel…
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Filipinos abroad ask only that their sacrifices be matched by competent government and honest stewardship.
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He can make a complicated national issue understandable without making himself the center of it.
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To my mind, the greatest danger here is not that justice has been delayed — it is that we might mistake this single arrest for justice itself.
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Nobel laureate Mancur Olson argued that prosperity depends on secure property and contract rights protected from predation from within and without.
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The lesson from Floodgate is simple. A president who signs a budget cannot later distance himself from what that budget financed.
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The Sandiganbayan expects to resolve 26 flood control-related cases within the year, citing faster case handling and a sharp rise in its conviction rate.
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For all we know, the script is still being written: hospitalization, special treatment, legal maneuvering, delays — then a convenient way out .
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Senate Bill 2387, which extends the term of Barangay and SK officials to five years and effectively postpones the November elections, has passed its second…
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Fil-Ams therefore have every reason to demand accountability for how public money is spent back home.
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