
Extortion, not free speech
The rule of law cannot survive if every criminal prosecution involving a public personality is automatically repackaged as ‘suppression.’
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The rule of law cannot survive if every criminal prosecution involving a public personality is automatically repackaged as ‘suppression.’
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) shot down reports, which resurfaced on Saturday, saying that an arrest warrant has been issued for Senator Ronald “Bato”…
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Online media personality Franco Mabanta and four co-accused have posted bail after being charged with robbery by extortion over an alleged P300-million scheme…
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The owners of a Tondo cockpit arena criticized the National Police Commission (Napolcom) on Friday following the dismissal of an administrative complaint…
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Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla said Friday that fugitive former lawmaker Zaldy Co’s “world is getting smaller” as Philippine authorities continue efforts to…
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The police are tracking what officials described as a growing “guerrilla-style” black market for illegal text blasters allegedly recycled from shuttered…
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Government contractor Curlee Discaya was returned to Senate custody Thursday after spending a week in the hospital for shoulder surgery, officials confirmed.
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The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) filed a criminal complaint Thursday with the Department of Justice against Lobelle Commodities Corp. for allegedly evading…
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‘People have come to understand the negative impact of the overuse of personal devices.’
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They say you can fool some of the people all of the time, but not all of the people all of the time.
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The driver involved in a viral “gas-and-run” incident at a Mindanao Avenue service station surrendered to authorities Wednesday night, the Quezon City Police…
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‘They said that if it was not settled by 5 May, they would release part one of the video. A teaser was sent showing the complainant and the content was…
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GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — A former passenger on a cruise ship stricken by a deadly hantavirus outbreak is being treated in a Zurich hospital for the virus,…
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The massive fire at a Navotas sanitary landfill is now 80 percent contained after burning for weeks, but local officials say they are already preparing a legal…
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The owner of a construction firm testified before the Sandiganbayan Fourth Division on Wednesday that she was encouraged by a public works official to lend her…
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Which can only mean that honest and sober inquiries are now the order of the day, that we have to squarely face the abuses of power and money secrets of our…
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SYMS Construction liaison officer Monica Ocampo-Santos returned to the stand Tuesday and presented her judicial affidavit as hearings into the graft case…
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Kaufman argued that the chamber ‘erred in law’ by accepting the prosecution’s evidence ‘at face value’ without fully considering the defense’s submissions.
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