Credit to Author: Emma Ockerman| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 17:30:39 +0000
The actor, the first parent in the Varsity Blues scandal to receive a prison sentence, was released early
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MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang on Monday challenged independent media group Vera Files to prove that its allegations that President Rodrigo Duterte accepted gifts amounting to millions of pesos in 2014. In a Vera Files story published Sunday, it said that on his 69th birthday on March 28, 2014, seven deposits totaling to P193,705,615.88 were made to […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 02:37:22 +0000
MANILA, Philippines—Senator Panfilo Lacson suggested Monday that instead of giving gifts to public servants as appreciation for a job well done, the public should just make an official donation to the institution they work for. Lacson said this as he pushed for the revision of the present anti-graft laws and make them “more attuned to […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 11:12:27 +0000
Former PNP chief and now Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa on Monday admitted to receiving gifts while he was still a policeman.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 11:54:00 +0000
Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Sunday clarified President Rodrigo Duterte’s “accepting-gifts-not-bribery” remark, saying that the chief executive was only referring to unsolicited gifts given “as a mere ordinary token of gratitude or friendship.”
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Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 21:25:42 +0000
The Philippine National Police reminded its officers that they cannot accept gifts from the public, but said it would defer to the “better wisdom” of President Rodrigo Duterte, who earlier said it was OK to receive gifts as long as there was no corruption or abuse involved.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 05:44:50 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — Insatiable greed starts with simple and petty graft. This was the answer of Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Saturday to President Rodrigo Duterte’s claim that it was okay for police officers to accept “gifts” out of gratitude. “Mr President, insatiable greed starts with simple, petty graft,” Lacson tweeted his reminder to Duterte. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 09:54:24 +0000
Two weeks from assuming office, Manila Mayor-elect Isko Moreno Domagoso warned village officials involved in bribery to shape up.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2019 10:56:43 +0000
The NBI arrested six Chinese nationals for kidnapping their compatriots who owed them P7 million and three others for offering money in exchange for their release.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 11:02:49 +0000
Paying for votes to win a position has never happened in the upper chamber of Congress, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said Friday.
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