(So you may remember, this was published 17 years ago, July 4, 2004, The Sydney Morning Herald)) A former Sydney swimwear model is at the centre of renewed attempts to locate millions of dollars sent out of the Philippines by former dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Evelin Hegyesi, who modelled mink bikinis in the 1970s and once…
ABS-CBN News Posted at May 18 2022 The United States now tops the global ranking of countries complicit in helping people hide their wealth, a pressure group said Tuesday and accused the world’s leading nations of blocking progress on reducing financial secrecy. Ahead of a meeting of G7 finance ministers in Germany Wednesday, the Tax…
Raoul Manuel will sit in the next Congress as representative of Kabataan Partylist By Bea Zaragosa, ABS-CBN News Posted at Jun 18 2015| Updated as of Jun 19 2015 ILOILO CITY – Raoul Danniel A. Manuel, University of the Philippines (UP) Visayas’ first summa cum laude graduate, is not a guy who spends all his…
May 17, 2022, Lian Buan The Supreme Court is on a writing break and is set to resume only in June when Congress is presumably already done with canvass. But time is not an issue, says one lawyer. MANILA, Philippines – The legal fight has officially reached the last resort, the Supreme Court, as civic…
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May 16, 2022, Kyle Parada ‘As long as poverty is rampant and government is unable to provide every Filipino with basic services, vote-buying, whether explicit or implicit, will persist throughout every election’ May 9, 2022 marked what was, perhaps, the most consequential Philippine election since 1986. The Marcoses – the world’s poster children for corruption,…
by David Robie – May 10, 2022, asia-pacificreport.nz rotests have broken out after the provisional tallies that give Marcos a “lead of millions” with more than 97 percent of the cote counted. Official results could still take some days. READ MORE: 36 years after ousting dictator Marcos, Filipinos elect son as president Other Philippine election…
Who do you suppose will end up paying for the enormous sums of money spent on the six-year social media campaign of Marcos Jr.? And for the transactional politics that convinced so many governors, mayors, and the like, to support him? Unlike our D and E voters, who were ill-informed but sincerely motivated and should not be blamed (e.g. Filipinos are “bobo”), these politicians were motivated by greed and self-preservation. Do you think Marcos Jr. will not want a return on his ill-gotten investments?
Gaea Katreena Cabico – Philstar.com May 13, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — Opposition coalition 1Sambayan asked the Commission on Elections to investigate vote buying incidents and spread of disinformation on social media that cast doubt on the integrity of the May 9 elections. In a statement,1Sambayan said irregularities such as vote buying, voter disenfranchisement, vote counting…