Solon sues 20 individuals, media outlets over bribery allegations
Manila Representative Bienvenido “Benny” Abante filed libel and cyber libel complaints Tuesday against 20 individuals and organizations, including former…
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Manila Representative Bienvenido “Benny” Abante filed libel and cyber libel complaints Tuesday against 20 individuals and organizations, including former…
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Long silence. The nation is weeping now. Not because Win is Chinese. The most painful part was Risa was the last to know.
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Hernandez testified that only 30 to 50 percent of each contract actually went to construction; the rest was siphoned off and stuffed into luggage delivered to…
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The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has dismissed allegations made by 18 former bodyguards of former AKO Bicol Rep. and fugitive Zaldy Co, who claimed…
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The so-called “bagmen” of ex-lawmaker Elizaldy Co, who had identified themselves as former Marines, were no-shows at yesterday’s Senate Blue Ribbon Committee…
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The lawyer of the 18 ex-bodyguards of former Ako Bicol Representative turned fugitive Zaldy Co, Atty. Levi Baligod, said he will present another set of…
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Nosy Tarsee has a riddle for you: A prominent politician from a powerful business family with Chinese roots was born in the Philippines when both his parents…
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Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso appealed to national leaders Monday to set aside political rivalries and find common ground to resolve the…
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More than P841 million in alleged stolen funds from questioned flood control projects had been recovered and remitted to the public coffers, the Department of…
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How do we explain to other nationalities why our political system is this way, let alone to ourselves, who have long allowed it to happen?
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The whispers have graduated into full-blown chatter, and a recent Metro Manila sighting may have just turned speculation into something harder to dismiss.
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Democracies do not erode only when courts are abolished or Congress is shut down. They also erode when institutions remain intact but are used so selectively…
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Notes the World Bank: workers without secondary education are unable to find formal jobs; this reality persists because corruption diverts investment away from…
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What the public saw instead was a cascade of maneuvers that, in essence, was meant to poison the well.
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A former government official has reinvented herself as a fierce government critic — conveniently forgetting that she was once among its biggest beneficiaries.
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The Senate should be a forum for reasoned debate, not a stage for play acting or a circus performance under a P. T. Barnum tent.
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The corrupt officials — the ‘crocs’ Barzaga calls them — have had decades to entrench themselves, gorge themselves, protect themselves, and perfect the art of…
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