Unreleased pension benefits
"Many veterans are living on borrowed time." Uniformed veterans numbering in the hundreds of thousands are still waiting for ...
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Duterte proud of his Cabinet, say Palace men
President Rodrigo R. Duterte is proud of his Cabinet and continues to believe in each one of them, Communications Secretary ...
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Dubious budget management
"Is this what the DBM stands for now?" Yesterday, the House of Representatives conducted the Question Hour with ...
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Public sickness
"The opposition has begun wishful thinking about constitutional succession." No, I’m not talking about the public’s reaction to party-list ...
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Team players?
Of late, a distressing trend has emerged among some of Duterte’s Cabinet members: Speaking out against each other in public. ...
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Bam urges governmentt officials: Go down to the people
Senator Bam Aquino on Wednesday challenged the government’s financial managers to personally go down to the people and listen totheir ...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.