Smoke, mirrors commission
The investigator, who got too close to the flame — like the moth in Jose Rizal’s story that burned its wings and fell — was relegated to being an adviser.
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The investigator, who got too close to the flame — like the moth in Jose Rizal’s story that burned its wings and fell — was relegated to being an adviser.
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Corruption concerns contributed to the sharp slowdown in Philippine economic growth last year by weakening investor confidence and delaying public investments,…
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Former Public Works and Highways Secretary Manuel Bonoan had discretion over a P10-billion lump-sum fund set aside supposedly for lawmakers seeking…
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When the powerful are released and the witnesses are silenced, the message is unmistakable: the system protects its own.
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Ibinasura ng Sandiganbayan Second Division ang mosyon ng prosecution na alisin si dating Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Manuel Bonoan…
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A regional trial court has ordered a 90-day preventive suspension for Cagayan Vice Governor Manuel Mamba in connection with an alleged violation of the…
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‘There are questions that he isn’t answering properly.’
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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has spent a year positioning himself as the exposer of “Floodgate,” not a subject of it, but the paper trail does not cooperate…
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The Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 17 in Batac City, Ilocos Norte, has ordered the 90-day preventive suspension of Cagayan Vice Gov.…
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The Sandiganbayan Second Division has denied prosecutors' request to dismiss former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Manuel…
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For the past several years, the mystery surrounding the Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee Foundation Inc. remained unsolved.
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If the Pasig teaches us that even a neglected river may flow again, Quezon reminds us that a Republic may also renew itself.
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Asia United Bank (AUB) posted a net income of P6.19 billion in the first half of 2026, up slightly from P6.13 billion a year earlier, as continued loan growth…
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More than P841 million in cash from individuals implicated in the highly controversial flood-control scandal was remitted to the National Treasury, the…
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By accurately pinning down some of our reprehensible political leaders as kleptocrats we’ll be better off. Calling them merely corrupt is too kind and cuddly.
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Proposals to overhaul the country’s system loss charges could simply shift—not eliminate—a multi-billion-peso burden that the power industry cannot afford to…
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Vice President Sara Duterte accused President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of trying to rewrite the narrative surrounding the government’s multibillion-peso flood…
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