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Kickbacks are illegal; it is a fact, but who is to stop this practice when it has become almost institutional?
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Kickbacks are illegal; it is a fact, but who is to stop this practice when it has become almost institutional?
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The price tag, charged to the government, is six to eight times what the material actually costs.
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Dizon’s outburst may be the most honest assessment anyone has offered. But honesty from a Cabinet secretary isn’t a fix.
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The rains came, as they always do. Three typhoons circled the archipelago and met the southwest monsoon head-on. Streets became rivers. Towns became islands.…
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Nosy Tarsee has heard that the garbage business in local government had just gotten a lot dirtier — and not from the actual garbage.
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The zarzuela, which is meant to lift the profile of the administration while getting back at political foes, has the overall effect of rewarding grand-scale…
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As the premier Japanese hospitality destination within Newport World Resorts, Hotel Okura Manila continues to honor its heritage by creating meaningful…
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Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla revealed Saturday that he had received calls about alleged corruption schemes in local garbage collection and waste management…
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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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BDO Life has partnered with One Million Lights Philippines and BDO Foundation to provide solar lamps to indigenous Dumagat-Remontado…
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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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The Senate approved on third and final reading Monday a bill establishing the Magna Carta for Barangay Health Workers, seeking to provide standardized…
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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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Once again, former Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. has won a reprieve from serious charges against him, but Ombudsman Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla reminded…
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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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One of the more notable omissions in President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s recent State of the Nation Address was a renewed warning against tampering with the…
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Filipinos have every right to be angry that they’re being billed for electricity siphoned off by illegal connections their utility failed to police.
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