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Corruption top concern for businessmen in 2025

By AT GROUND LEVEL | By Satur C. Ocampo | 3 days ago

As the new year begins, it’s the flourishing corruption that the country’s business executives are most worried about, according to a survey towards yearend 2024 conducted by the Management Association...

Opinion

Corruption, education top concerns of business executives

By Louella Desiderio | 5 days ago

Corruption, education and dealing with local government units are top concerns for businesses this year, according to the...

Headlines

AKAP, TAPAD stage shows of corruption

By Aven Piramide | 9 days ago

I was influenced by the less-combative language of Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong, a part of a group called Alliance for Good Governance, when he exposed the 777 can of worms of Speaker Martin Romualdez.

Freeman Opinion

EDITORIAL — Gift-giving season

December 23, 2024 - 12:00am

In this season of giving, it says a lot about the magnitude of the corruption problem in this country that Bureau of Immigration personnel at the country’s airports need guidance on whether or not they can...

Opinion

Procurement violations don't automatically lead to graft conviction, says SC

By Ian Laqui | November 10, 2024 - 4:21pm

According to the court, while some procurement procedures may have been bypassed, there was no evidence of bad faith or favoritism...

Headlines

Where are the gods of guilt?

By EYES WIDE OPEN | By Iris Gonzales | October 27, 2024 - 12:00am

In an early morning meeting last week over black coffee, the head of a Triple A contractor warned me that at the rate that funds for flood control are being corrupted here in our country, it’s likely that in...

Opinion

“Focus on job creation and addressing corruption”

By Antolin dela Serna | October 18, 2024 - 12:00am

Sa Pulse Asia nga survey, nga gi-commission sa Stradbase ADR Institute, September 6 to 13, 2024, sa pangutana kon unsa ang labing mahinungdanon nga mga issue nga angay i-focus sa mga senatorial candidates.

Banat Opinyon

Plunder raps urged in Pharmally scandal

By Emmanuel Tupas | September 19, 2024 - 8:51am

Former senator Richard Gordon maintained that plunder, not just anti-graft, charges be filed against individuals involved...

Headlines

Fighting corruption with the new procurement law

By Joyce Ilas-Reyes | August 3, 2024 - 4:43pm

Time after time, the Philippines has been haunted by billions-worth of procurement scandals---from the botched NBN-ZTE deal...

News Commentary

Nature as fact-checker

By The broader view | By Harry Roque | July 27, 2024 - 12:00am

I thought the great deluge of 2009 was a once-in-a-lifetime ordeal for the people of the Greater Manila Area. Fifteen years have passed but our politicos and public servants have not learned a thing from the Ondoy...

Opinion