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Ebdane to form team to review World Bank bid rigging report

By Evelyn Macairan | May 29, 2009 - 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines - Public Works Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. yesterday admitted that he had a copy of the World Bank (WB) fact-finding committee report and that he would form a technical and legal committee...

Headlines

DPWH team submits World Bank rigging controversy report to Ebdane

By Evelyn Macairan | May 28, 2009 - 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines – The fact-finding committee of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has finally submitted to Public Works Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. its report on the alleged rigging...

Headlines

Rural electrification to benefit from World Bank program

By Donnabelle L. Gatdula | March 27, 2009 - 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines - Electrification of the rural areas will be one of the priorities in the granting of loans by the World Bank, Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri said.

Business

DPWH names slain executive's replacement

March 25, 2009 - 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Public Works and Highways named yesterday Undersecretary Romeo Momo to replace Undersecretary Ramon Aquino, who died on March 19 several days after he was ambushed as he was...

Metro

Agent of Tomatu Suzuka denies meeting between FG and Japanese contractor

By Aurea Calica | February 14, 2009 - 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines - An agent of Japanese contractor Tomatu Suzuka testified at a Senate hearing that the alleged meeting of the Japanese with First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo and the late Sen. Robert Barbers...

Headlines

World Bank stands by its findings

January 28, 2009 - 12:00am

In a letter responding to the Senate’s invitation, World Bank (WB) country director for the Philippines Bert Hofman stood by the findings of the bank, saying the Sanctions Board came to its decisions after...

Headlines

Santiago orders Ombudsman, finance chief to explain their absence in hearing

By Dennis Carcamo | January 27, 2009 - 12:06pm

MANILA, Philippines -- An irked Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago ordered Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez and finance chief Margarito Teves to explain for their no-show in today's probe on the blacklisting of three Filipino...

EDITORYAL - Patuloy ang corruption, kailan may makukulong

January 20, 2009 - 12:00am

ANG corruption sa bansang ito ay karaniwan na lamang.

PSN Opinyon

Palace unfazed by bidding probe

January 19, 2009 - 12:00am

Malacañang was unperturbed yesterday over the threat of opposition Sen. Panfilo Lacson to launch an investigation into the bid-rigging in a World Bank (WB)-funded road project by three Filipino companies that...

Headlines

EDITORIAL - Blacklisted

January 17, 2009 - 12:00am

The World Bank has blacklisted three Philippine companies, barring one of them permanently, for colluding with four Chinese firms in rigging the bidding for a road project partly funded by the WB.

Opinion