
Ombudsman flags garbage contracts
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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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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Investigators should ‘piece together’ whatever information could be established, even if only five to 10 percent of the former bodyguards’ claims ultimately…
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The suitcase story needs to be investigated, not demolished, amid a wave of coordinated attacks by allies of those who have been implicated.
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The decision to put off the investigation is to prevent the Ombudsman’s ongoing probe from being prejudiced.
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The Office of the Ombudsman has filed nine counts of graft against Tarlac 3rd District Representative Noel Rivera over his alleged conflict of interest in…
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Robust demand for DoubleDragon Corp.'s first overseas Hotel101 property in Madrid is strengthening the growth prospects of the company's global hospitality…
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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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‘There are questions that he isn’t answering properly.’
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This time his speechwriter must have, in devil-may-care fashion, put in reverse order the main culprits in the epic floodgate scandal.
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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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For the past several years, the mystery surrounding the Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee Foundation Inc. remained unsolved.
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For a country whose vast population queues for hours for P20 per kilo subsidized rice, one cannot help but ask if satellites can be eaten.
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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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NAVALUENGA (AFP) — Firefighters in France and Spain raced Tuesday to contain massive wildfires before another heat wave forecast to bring hotter temperatures…
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