Hasty, tactless move to dispute DAP ruling

By AT GROUND LEVEL | By Satur C. Ocampo | July 19, 2014 - 12:00am

It appears that President Aquino acted hastily and tactlessly when he decided to publicly defend the DAP (Disbursement Acceleration Program) and dispute the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision declaring it...

Justice must be served

October 20, 2013 - 12:00am

Not even the best written slogan can mask the growing perception that the Philippines and its leaders are so corrupt that a massive public uprising has become inevitable, if not necessary, to reform the system....

Banana-nana

By Ate Jennifer | September 19, 2013 - 12:00am

We enjoy the sweetness and the creaminess of bananas. One of the great things we love about banana is that bananas are available anywhere and sold at a cheap price. They are also portable that we can eat them anytime,...

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Setting the record straight

By A LAW EACH DAY (KEEPS TROUBLE AWAY) | By Jose C. Sison | August 2, 2013 - 12:00am

During this period when the Supreme Court (SC) is hearing the oral arguments of the opposing parties in the case involving the constitutionality of the RH law, extreme care must be observed by all concerned in reporting...

The usual suspects

March 20, 2013 - 12:00am

People are beginning to suspect something amiss because of the delays being encountered in the award for the contract involving the P8.2 billion Land Transportation Office (LTO) information technology improvement...

PCSO asked to explain award of contract to Pacific Online

March 19, 2013 - 12:00am

The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office is being asked to explain why Pacific Online Systems Corp. was awarded a contract to supply PCSO in Luzon without a public bidding.

PGMC seeks stop to online lotto betting

By Neil Jerome C. Morales | March 6, 2013 - 12:00am

Philippine Gaming Management Corp. (PGMC), the local lottery arm of Malaysia’s Berjaya Group, is seeking the government’s intervention against an online lottery operator in Luzon.

UNA: With PCOS, elections are already over

By Bobit S. Avila | February 12, 2013 - 12:00am

The United Nationalists Alliance (UNA) will hold its first Miting de Avance today at the Plaza Independencia with no less than Vice President JejomarBinay, who has already expressed in so many ways that he will be...

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Berjaya girds for legal battle with PCSO over lotto license

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | December 19, 2012 - 12:00am

Berjaya-led Philippine Gaming Management Corp. (PGMC) is ready to “go to war” with the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) for allowing another entity to enter its supposed exclusive Luzon territory...

Dangerous tendency

By A LAW EACH DAY (KEEPS TROUBLE AWAY) | By Jose C. Sison | September 28, 2012 - 12:00am

Kind hearted and generous as he is widely known, business mogul Manuel V. Pangilinan (MVP)) also has the prerogative to stop supporting at anytime the beneficiaries of his altruistic acts like what he did to the...