What to Know: Are confidential funds secret funds not subject to audit?
Minerva Generalao
September 30, 2023
The use of confidential funds (CF) by the Office of Vice President Sara Duterte, concurrently the secretary of education, continues
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Yes, we have no tomato, we have no tomato today
Elizabeth Lolarga
September 28, 2023
Friends and I have been comparing online what we were spending on food, what we were scrimping on, what little
The greatest source of economic and social inequality
Roderick Toledo
September 26, 2023
Holding title to property is the greatest source of economic and social inequality. Holding no title of any kind, whether
Norma Rae, Sister Stella L, and newspaper union organizing under martial law
Ester G. Dipasupil
September 21, 2023
They said it couldn’t be done. It was martial law, after all, and among many freedoms suppressed by Ferdinand Marcos
Detention, ‘town arrest’ under martial law
Eduardo C. Tadem
September 20, 2023
It was a comfortless humid night in July 1974 in Zamboanga City when agents of the National Intelligence Security Agency
What’s the endgame for electoral fraud?
Norman Cabrera, Kapatiran Party
September 19, 2023
Electoral fraud, also called vote rigging, voter fraud or election manipulation, involves illegal interference in the process of an election,
Death by drowning in Laguna de Bay
Rosario A. Garcellano
July 30, 2023
Friday on ANC, the skipper of the Aya Express, Donald Anain, recounts what happened in the waters of Laguna de
A new path for Southeast Asian civil society engagement with Asean
Eduardo C. Tadem
July 27, 2023
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) marks its 56th year in 2023 and holds its 43rd summit of leaders
The state of our nation
Milwida Guevara
July 24, 2023
My students found it very difficult to identify two of the current administration’s notable accomplishments in public finance. I can
Poverty alleviation is at the mercy of political patronage
Isaac Linco
July 23, 2023
On July 10, the disbarred lawyer Lorenzo “Larry” Gadon was sworn in as presidential adviser on poverty alleviation. After nearly
What’s the full story behind the ‘Love’ tourism rebrand?
Rosario A. Garcellano
July 5, 2023
Exactly who are behind the scandal that threw the monkey wrench into the “Love the Philippines” rebranding campaign of the
Southeast Asia’s dismal social conditions
Eduardo C. Tadem
June 19, 2023
While Southeast Asian economies have been fast expanding in the last decade, better than most regions, wealth and income inequality—i.e.,
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Zonal values of residential land surging
Juan V. Sarmiento Jr.
October 2, 2023
Zonal values of residential land are rising by up to about 330% in Parañaque City effective Monday, Oct. 2, catching
Estate tax may now be paid in installments and online
Juan V. Sarmiento Jr.
October 1, 2023
Instead of a one-time payment that many find difficult to comply with, heirs may now pay in installments the estate
What to Know: Are confidential funds secret funds not subject to audit?
Minerva Generalao
September 30, 2023
The use of confidential funds (CF) by the Office of Vice President Sara Duterte, concurrently the secretary of education, continues
Gov’t can ill afford Palace’s ‘populist’ policies on rice, says ex-finance official
TJ Burgonio
September 29, 2023
The Marcos administration’s imposition of a price cap on rice and new prices for palay as well as its subsidy
Yes, we have no tomato, we have no tomato today
Elizabeth Lolarga
September 28, 2023
Friends and I have been comparing online what we were spending on food, what we were scrimping on, what little
Hello, Dolly
Christine Ang-Buban
September 27, 2023
Last Sunday at a mall in Quezon City, shrieking fans were applauding the young box-office sensation Kathryn Bernardo and the
