When the World Economic Forum first published the Global Gender Gap Report in 2006, the Philippines ranked among the 10 best countriesbouncingball8, placing an impressive sixth. The WEFs Gender Gap Index is one global list where the Philippines has
phgaming EDITORIAL - Identity theft
2024-11-17How easy is it to steal personal identity in the Philippines? Relatively easy, if the details presented by senators about suspended Mayor Alice Guo of Bamban, Tarlac are accurate. Guo, whose certificate of candidacy for mayor listed her birth on Jul
gcash player EDITORIAL - Come out of hiding
2024-11-17Unable to find Apollo Quiboloy, the Department of the Interior and Local Government has dangled a P10-million reward for information leading to the arrest of the pastor, along with P1 million for each of his five co-accused who like him are evading
ezjili EDITORIAL - Sana all
2024-11-17That was impressively swift and decisive action on the part of the Office of the Ombudsman in the case of Alice Guo. Only last May 31, the ombudsman had ordered the six-month suspension of the mayor of Bamban, Tarlac and two town officials in connec
rbet EDITORIAL - No urgency for SC
2024-11-17Perhaps Supreme Court officials and personnel dont worry about their health care coverage. Acting on a petition filed by various groups, seeking an injunction and challenging the constitutionality of the impounding by the Department of Finance of P8
tamabet EDITORIAL - Broken mechanisms
2024-11-17With all the horror stories emerging from the ongoing probe of drug-related killings in the previous administrationtamabet, people are wondering how the abuses committed by ranking Philippine National Police officials got past the internal disciplin
jili777 EDITORIAL - Unused hazard maps
2024-11-17The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council issued the call a week ago. It was echoed by University of the Philippines geologist Mahar Lagmay: there are detailed hazard maps for tropical cyclonesjili777, floods, landslides and storm
The National Bureau of Investigation has summoned former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office general manager Royina Garma for the revival of a probe into the murder of former PCSO board secretary Wesley Barayuga in July 2020 in Mandaluyong. A witn
Before the scandal over dismissed mayor Alice Guo of Bamban, Tarlac led to a total ban on Philippine offshore gaming operations, POGO personnel moved around like VIPs in their favored mode of transport, a spacious luxury van often painted black. The