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                    [Title] => While we’re all watching Bush & Blair bash Baghdad, billion-peso scams brewing here may get away unnoticed
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                    [Title] => Katunayan ng narcopolitics
                    [Summary] => Ang pagsabat ng 503 kilo ng shabu mula sa isang meyor sa Quezon ay katunayan na umiiral talaga ang narcopolitics.  Ito ’yung pagpuwesto ng drug syndicates sa mga opisyal para gamitin bilang couriers at protector.


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CHINESE TRIADS

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Drug lord tatakbo para Presidente

September 16, 2003 - 12:00am

MALAKING raket na ang droga sa Pilipinas. May 1.8 milyon adik at 3.5 milyon minsanan tumitira, karamiha’y shabu. Kung ang 1.8 milyon adik ay iiskor ng P100-sachet ng shabu 10 araw kada buwan, aabot sa P21.6...

PSN Opinyon

While we’re all watching Bush & Blair bash Baghdad, billion-peso scams brewing here may get away unnoticed

By BY THE WAY | By Max V. Soliven | March 23, 2003 - 12:00am

Don’t sell the government’s 40 percent share in PETRON! Don’t furtively sell off the Philippine Amusements and Gaming Corp. (PAGCOR) to big, clandestine investors! Don’t sell the government’s...

Opinion

Price of shabu soars — police

By Non Alquitran | February 4, 2002 - 12:00am

Due to scarcity of supply, the price of shabu has gone up from P2,000 to between P2,500 and P2,700 or by as much as two percent in Metro Manila and in the provinces. The remaining shabu circulating in the streets...

Metro

Protesting too much

By GOTCHA | By Jarius Bondoc | January 23, 2002 - 12:00am

Why are half-brothers JV Ejercito and Jude Estrada protesting too much? All PNP Director General Leandro Mendoza said was that an alias Dragon Head owns the shabu factory in San Juan, where JV is mayor and where...

Opinion

Katunayan ng narcopolitics

By Jarius Bondoc | October 22, 2001 - 12:00am

Ang pagsabat ng 503 kilo ng shabu mula sa isang meyor sa Quezon ay katunayan na umiiral talaga ang narcopolitics. Ito ’yung pagpuwesto ng drug syndicates sa mga opisyal para gamitin bilang couriers at protector. Hindi...

PSN Opinyon

‘Narcopolitics’ is for real

By GOTCHA | By Jarius Bondoc | June 27, 2001 - 12:00am

Narcopolitics has yet to enter The Oxford Dictionary of New Words. But it already has entered reality. Ever since earlier listed "narcoterrorists" in Central and South America began winning the fight...

Opinion