Massive corruption threatens future generations
Extortion and cumbersome bureaucratic processes (red tape) increase the cost of doing business, discouraging both local and foreign investments.
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Extortion and cumbersome bureaucratic processes (red tape) increase the cost of doing business, discouraging both local and foreign investments.
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Among the issues the SC is asked to resolve is the nature of Unprogrammed Appropriations and how far Congress and the executive can stretch it.
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Naga City Mayor Leni Robredo has credited President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for what she described as an aggressive housing campaign, saying the national…
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Russia signed the Rome Statute in 2000 but never ratified it to become a member of the ICC, and in 2016 it finally withdrew its signature.
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Has Senator Joel Villanueva, having joined the Senate majority bloc led by Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian, escaped the fate that befell Senator Jinggoy…
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Ongoing investigations into a multibillion-peso flood control scandal in the Philippines must lead to deep institutional reforms rather than just the…
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Without congressional authorization on the funds, even fully disbursed foreign loans sit inert.e
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After the SC struck down the Priority Development Assistance Fund in 2013, the crooks in government became innovative. They devised ways for discretionary…
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One witness said he was part of a convoy that transported four suitcases to a residence in New Manila identified as Escudero’s.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the House of Representatives and the Senate to submit supporting documents explaining hundreds of billions of pesos in…
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday continued oral arguments on the constitutionality of unprogrammed appropriations, with justices probing whether the budget…
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The Senate faction aligned with Senator Alan Peter Cayetano is reportedly pushing through with its flood control investigation on Tuesday — in a hearing to be…
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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday inspected earthquake-hit areas in Sarangani and assured residents that government assistance and recovery programs are…
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Roads and bridges built with public funds crumbled; the earthquake exposed many as having been constructed without steel reinforcement.
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A press release from Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson arrived Saturday on news desks talking of defective and ghost flood control projects that — outside of the…
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Marcos had pledged that 37 lawmakers, government officials and contractors would be in jail by Christmas 2025. Christmas came and went, but the scandal did not.
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