Customs officials arrest BOC employee in an entrapment operation

A 12-year veteran employee of the Bureau of Customs was arrested on Wednesday after receiving P7,000 in marked money in an entrapment operation led by Customs Deputy Commissioner Jessie Dellosa.

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House energy panel still hopeful on emergency powers for PNoy

House of Representatives energy committee chairman Reynaldo Umali is still interested in allowing President Benigno Aquino III to wield emergency powers although the president has said those powers are no longer a viable solution to the looming power crisis next year.

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PNoy pushes anew for Code of Conduct in South China Sea

President Benigno Aquino III made a fresh push for a code of conduct to solve territorial disputes in the West Philippine Sea during the 25th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit in Myanmar.

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LP eyeing Roxas-Poe tandem in 2016 –Erice

A Liberal Party official on Wednesday bared that the ruling party is considering the tandem of Interior Secretary Mar Roxas and Sen. Grace Poe in the 2016 elections.

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Alan Cayetano gets a death threat: ‘Isang bala lang siya’

The staff of Senate Majority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano on Wednesday night claimed receiving a phoned-in death threat against the senator at his office.

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Drilon, Cabinet members confirm presence in Iloilo Center probe

Senate President Franklin Drilon and the two Cabinet secretaries implicated in the alleged overpricing of the P700-million Iloilo Convention Center will be present when the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee starts its inquiry on the matter on Thursday.

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Iloilo officials rally behind Drilon on eve of Senate probe on ICC

About 200 officials in Iloilo City have expressed support for the Iloilo Convention Center (ICC) on the eve of the first hearing of the Senate blue ribbon committee on its alleged overpricing.

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Prosecution blocks Jinggoys’s request for subpoena on Benhur’s bank records

State prosecutors on Wednesday opposed Senator Jinggoy Estrada’s bid to have bank accounts of whistleblowers subpoenaed, saying such a broad request was nothing but a “fishing expedition.”

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Aquino blames Tacloban execs for slow post-Yolanda rehab

If politicking was the reason for the slow pace of rehabilitation in Tacloban, it's not coming from the administration, President Benigno Aquino III said on Tuesday evening.

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CA agrees with QC court: 3 Maguindanao massacre suspects can’t be state witnesses

The Court of Appeals has upheld the ruling of the Quezon City court denying a request to convert three suspects in the November 2009 Maguindanao massacre into state witnesses.

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Garin dares critics to present evidence linking her to anomaly

Acting Health Secretary Janette Loreto-Garin, declaring her readiness to immediately resign if proven guilty of corruption, challenged her detractors on Wednesday to present evidence linking her to an alleged anomaly involving P5 billion in funds from the defunct National Agribusiness Corp. (Nabcor).

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Bong Revilla sets hospital date before court approves leave

Detained Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla has taken it for himself to set the date for his medical check up, even before the Sandiganbayan has given him the go signal.

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Why PNoy had Ona investigated and not Alan Purisima

Why did President Benigno Aquino III order an investigation on Health Secretary Enrique Ona and the Department of Health's P833-million purchase of vaccines in 2012 and not on the allegations of corruption against Philippine National Police chief Director-General Alan Purisima and even political ally Senate President Franklin Drilon?

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CA upholds Pasay judge’s refusal to inhibit in poll case vs. Gloria Arroyo, Abalos

The Court of Appeals has affirmed a Pasay judge's decision not to inhibit from the electoral sabotage case against former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and former Comelec chair Benjamin Abalos Sr. over alleged poll fraud in the 2007 mid-term elections.

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