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The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) filed graft cases against 86 more officials and personnel of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) for their involvement in the illegal entry of foreign nationals under the so-called “pastillas” scam. 

National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon admitted that the Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives is not involved in any illegal activity, amidst the red-tagging controversy between state forces and leftist groups. 

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) is investigating the killing of a supposed survivor of an attempted extrajudicial killing while he was recovering inside a Rizal province hospital. 

The Department of Finance (DOF) is pursuing steps to untangle the legal issues tying down idle mining interests held by the government in an effort to speed up the privatization of these assets and revive their operations.  According to the Privatization and Management Office (PMO), lawsuits filed by the private sector proponents in the operations of these once-flourishing mining assets …

Dollar remittances by Filipinos dropped again in April, for the second consecutive month, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).

How is the Philippines faring in cancer preparedness compared to its neighboring Asian countries?

Malacanang announced it is not in favor of policemen going “house-to-house” in search of confirmed COVID-19 patients, instead it urged those with mild and asymptomatic cases to admit themselves to isolation facilities.

President Rodrigo Duterte’s highly criticized illegal drugs war has resulted in the deaths of 5,722 drug suspects nationwide, according to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and RealNumbersPH.

One of the deputy speakers of the House of Representatives has recommended that government use the radio and TV frequencies of ABS-CBN as means for alternative distance learning for the opening of the new school year next month.

International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (“ICTSI”) and Royal Capital B.V. (the “Issuer”) successfully priced a US$300,000,000 offering of senior perpetual capital securities, guaranteed by ICTSI (“New Perpetual Securities”). The New Perpetual Securities were structured to constitute equity under International Financial Reporting Standards and represent ICTSI’s fifth successful perpetual securities issuance.