Market posts worst year since 2013 amid corruption issues
Despite a difficult year, the market showed signs of resilience toward yearend, buoyed by renewed bargain hunting. The Philippine Stock Exchange reported a…
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Despite a difficult year, the market showed signs of resilience toward yearend, buoyed by renewed bargain hunting. The Philippine Stock Exchange reported a…
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The most considerable turbulence in 2025 was the flood control project scandal.
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‘They always announce that inflation is low, but the thing is, the public is not feeling this. Prices continue to be high. There’s a lot of hoarding. There’s a…
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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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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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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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Is there hope for systemic change in this country? Ultimately, the nation needs to see genuine justice rendered, not just a show of it.
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The proposed spending plan for 2026, while more ‘orderly,’ still has huge provisions for the pork barrel through the unprogrammed appropriations, which…
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The Executive Branch has begun a comprehensive review of the ratified 2026 General Appropriations Act (GAA) following its receipt on 29 December, Executive…
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SEOUL (AFP) — South Korea’s former first lady was alleged by prosecutors Monday to have accepted lavish bribes totalling over $200,000, including fine art,…
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Credibility is greatly lacking because the government itself is conducting the investigation into the big fish within it.
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The long-awaited 2026 National Budget sailed through the House of Representatives in record time on Monday — less than a minute from start to finish. A chorus…
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In less than a minute, the House of Representatives on Monday ratified the Bicameral Conference Committee report on the 2026 General Appropriations Bill (GAB),…
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Authenticity, access, and who saw what under scrutiny
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If the projects are not the product of rational planning, technical assessment, and genuine need, but instead are the result of political patronage, the…
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In our country, 2025 was one such terrible year. Especially for the President. What’s sad for him is that most of his troubles were self-inflicted.
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House appropriations committee chairperson Mikaela Suansing strongly belied Monday imputations by her colleague, Batangas Rep. Leandro Leviste, that lawmakers…
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Wilcon Depot went public in 2017, raising a little over P7 billion in capital through its initial public offering. Bosch-Ong described the milestone as a…
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