
Marcos presses reset; Palace sells discipline
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has cast 2025 as a year of performance-based governance, where he ordered periodic reviews, leadership adjustments, and…
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President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has cast 2025 as a year of performance-based governance, where he ordered periodic reviews, leadership adjustments, and…
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The real culprits in the flood control project mess that President Bongbong Marcos promised would spend Christmas in jail are still out there. Does justice…
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With the country shaken by a massive corruption scandal involving powerful lawmakers, urgency demands that KPIs begin in Congress, where accountability is…
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For us Filipinos who were glued to the TV watching the Korean telenovela, ‘Crash Landing on You,’ many of the scenes were filmed in Interlaken Lake Brienz and…
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Despite a difficult year, the market showed signs of resilience toward yearend, buoyed by renewed bargain hunting. The Philippine Stock Exchange reported a…
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Auditors said the long-standing balance violates the General Appropriations Act, which requires that unused or unexpended funds be returned to the National…
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In Barangay Cabaroan, in Ilocos Norte, what rises from the river is not a bridge but a row of concrete foundations, an outcome that exposes deep flaws in how a…
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The most considerable turbulence in 2025 was the flood control project scandal.
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‘They always announce that inflation is low, but the thing is, the public is not feeling this. Prices continue to be high. There’s a lot of hoarding. There’s a…
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There’s little room for them to insert themselves or receive kickbacks from big-ticket infrastructure projects, so it’s not a priority for legislators.
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Neophyte Congressman Javier Miguel Benitez of Negros Occidental said the ratified P6.7-trillion 2026 national budget was designed with stronger safeguards to…
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Unlike the ferry system, which is frequently suspended during bad weather, a fixed link would ensure the uninterrupted movement of people and goods.
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Economists have widely cited the pullback in public infrastructure spending — largely linked to the flood control controversy involving the Department of…
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In a way, the establishment of the ICI was like saying the National Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, and the Office of the Ombudsman were…
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Is there hope for systemic change in this country? Ultimately, the nation needs to see genuine justice rendered, not just a show of it.
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Three new stations along the EDSA Busway—in Cubao, Magallanes, and the Parañaque Integrated Terminal Exchange (PITX)—will break ground in 2026 as the…
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The Department of Agrarian Reform and the local government of Sallapadan in Abra province inaugurated a P63.8 farm-to-market road Monday to improve market…
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SEOUL (AFP) — South Korea’s former first lady was alleged by prosecutors Monday to have accepted lavish bribes totalling over $200,000, including fine art,…
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