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PALO, Leyte — Recent upgrades to the iconic San Juanico Bridge have failed to fully clear logistics bottlenecks along the Maharlika Highway, as a deteriorating…
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PALO, Leyte — Recent upgrades to the iconic San Juanico Bridge have failed to fully clear logistics bottlenecks along the Maharlika Highway, as a deteriorating…
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A Finnish border guard patrol vessel and helicopter located the suspected ship.
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The Department of Agriculture (DA) is eyeing a sweeping overhaul of laws and institutions to revive a farm sector weighed down by years of weak growth.
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What began in early 2024 as a Senate probe into possible links between a provincial official and a Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO) hub in Tarlac…
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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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The tag may turn out to be the smoking gun that would link Malacañang to the anomalous flood control projects.
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For 2026, P250 billion in UA has been proposed, which watchdogs have linked to anomalous projects that prioritize vested interests over essential services like…
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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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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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Amid the overall gloom of 2025, opinion makers still hold onto the prospect of a better year, anchored in the primacy of the law that is expected to emerge…
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Money doesn’t sit in one pocket. It percolates carefully, coordinated. Lawmakers insert. Contractors overprice. Engineers approve. Budget officials release the…
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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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By the time 2025 ended, the Philippines was not only battling floodwaters and seismic fear — it was reckoning with a year defined by political rupture,…
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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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