Randy David | Public Lives Preelection surveys do often take the form of self-fulfilling oracles. This happens when voters find the published resul
Read MoreEDITORIAL The irony in the boiling oil-smuggling issue is that everyone knows how and where it is being done and who are doing it, yet no one seems
Read MoreBabe Romualdez I must admit that I was one of those a bit skeptical about the “daang matuwid” and “walang wang-wang” that President Noynoy Aquino f
Read MoreArtemio V. Panganiban | With Due Respect April 2, 2013, is a sad day for the poor and powerless. On that day, our Supreme Court in Atong Paglaum vs
Read MorePresident Aquino has been included by Time magazine on its latest annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people. Aquino joined 22 other world
Read MoreMANILA (UPDATED) - The Marcos government's alleged half-hearted investigation into Juan Ponce "Jack" Enrile Jr.'s involvement in the killing of the so
Read MorePhilippine Center for Investigative Journalism MARIA IMELDA Marcos Manotoc, the Princeton-educated eldest child of the late Philippine dictator Fer
Read MorePhilippine Center for Investigative Journalism SENATOR MANUEL ‘Manny’ B. Villar Jr. and Congressman Joseph Victor ‘JV’ G. Ejercito are from rival p
Read MoreBoo Chanco | Demand and Supply When I was growing up in a working class section of Paco, my father had his annual Holy Week penitensya. Dressed in
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon yesterday emphasized the need to carry out a major overhaul of the country’s national customs
Read MoreA day after being chided by a “shocked” President Benigno Aquino III about the incredibly low taxes—or sometimes none at all—that affluent Filipino-Ch
Read MorePRESIDENT Aquino on Friday chided Filipino-Chinese businessmen who do not pay the correct taxes or do not pay any income tax at all. Mr. Aquino, wh
Read More“Unfortunately, it’s really difficult to get the bureaucracy to work on all of these details, as anybody who has tried to lead a change
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines – The total value of smuggling in the Philippines amounts to $20 billion per year, according to former Fin
Read MoreTHE GOVERNMENT last year moved on more reforms prescribed by the Joint Foreign Chambers of the Philippines (JFC) in December 2010, according to
Read MoreTHE government must immediately focus on plugging what former Finance Secretary Roberto de Ocampo described as a gaping “smuggling hole”
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - Although he favors amending the economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution, Vice President Jejomar Binay said on
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - Promoting a more conducive business environment remains one of the main priorities of President Aquino in the rem
Read MoreAhead of May 2013 midterm elections in the Philippines, media organizations and political parties signed last week the “Covenant Against
Read MoreBAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya—The Supreme Court decision declaring the constitutionality of an executive order banning used-car importation i
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