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The Law of Karma spares no one! — PERRY DIAZ Intl day vs corruption marks Gloria Arroyo’s 1st day in govt detention GMA News Online GMANews Former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was transfer to a makeshift government detention facility at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC) on Friday, which coincidentally marks the United Nations (UN)-designated International Anti-Corruption Day. It could not have happened at a Read More …
GLIMPSES By Jose Ma. Montelibano After all the criticisms thrown at Filipinos, many by Filipinos themselves, it seems crazy not to accept that we have a lot of problems – and major ones. Maybe, the word “poverty” has become so ordinary because of its constant use. So, too, the word “corruption.” Because poverty and corruption had been around too long, too massively, they can seem Read More …
PerryScope By Perry Diaz Little did United States Ambassador Harry Thomas realize that his comments on sex tourism and child trafficking during a roundtable discussion with a group of appellate court justices would ignite a maelstrom of controversy. “I estimate that maybe up to 40 percent of foreign men who come here come for sexual tourism and that is unacceptable,” he said. “That is not Read More …
Razor’s Edge By Jose Mari Mercader This column can talk with glowing colors about our “fabulous society” right after waking up in the morning. I can describe the exquisite sceneries in our country and the people; and about our sweet and delicious fruits, and a lot of more positive things that would amaze the world. In much the same manner that we marvel at the Read More …
PerryScope by Perry Diaz The recently released 2010 Global Integrity Report rated the Philippines “very weak” (57) in terms of governance and corruption. The overall rating was also “very weak,” a downgrade from the 2008 overall rating of “moderate” (71). The report also rates the country “weak” (64) in the category of “Anti-Corruption Legal Framework, Judicial Impartiality and Law Enforcement Professionalism” and “Rule of Law.” Read More …
By Sabir Shah The News LAHORE: Not fewer than 15 world presidents have been severely punished by the courts in their respective countries in as many years on a variety of charges ranging from rape, torture, war crimes, treason, forced disappearances of political rivals, corruption, murders, genocide, human rights violations, plunder of exchequer, obstruction of justice, fanning ethnicity and for planning coups against their adversaries Read More …
by Jerome Aning from Philippine Daily Inquirer http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20100519-270867/Comelec-whistle-blowers-ready-to-bare-more MANILA, Philippines—The two men who blew the whistle on the Commission on Elections’ attempt to purchase 1.8 million ballot secrecy folders for P700 million for the recent elections were presented to media Tuesday by former Solicitor General Frank Chavez whose law firm is getting ready to file corruption charges against the poll officials involved. Melchor Magdamo, a Read More …
by Marites Dañguilan Vitug from ABS-CBN News http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/views-and-analysis/03/05/10/arroyos-fear-marites-da%C3%B1guilan-vitug What is happening in two countries not far from us must be giving President Arroyo the chills. Last week, Thailand’s Supreme Court ruled that former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra should be stripped of more than half of his contested $2.3 billion fortune. These assets, the Court said, were gained illegally when Thaksin was prime minister. He abused Read More …
by Ducky Paredes from MALAYA “One can say that corruption in its more extreme manifestations is a symptom of poverty, both a result and a cause of poverty.” – Ducky Paredes Ambassador Alistair MacDonald of the Delegation of the European Union in the Philippines, in speaking before the 2nd Bisyon 2020 Integrity and Human Rights Conference, said about the Ampatuan massacre: “I want to underline that Read More …
The Concept of Corruption: Ideology of Thieving Conservatives Rawlein G. Soberano, Ph.D. Conservative anti-corruption outfits have never been and are not models of right conduct and stellar decency because they have been involved in many corrupt cases that benefited them. They are the smoothest hypocrites, a breed apart. Their moral compass always points to free markets; the closer they get to that utopia, the Read More …