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Date Branch Department Party People Involved Summary Source 1946 Executive: Office of the President: Liberal: Manuel Roxas: Surplus War Property scandal- disposed $90 billion of surplus war property held by the United States government in the final year of World War II, which caused a huge corruption scandal that led to the rise of the leftist HUKBALAHAP and for Roxas's approval ratings to ...
On February 12, 2020, Palomino was indicted on charges of narcoterrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine and international distribution of cocaine by the Southern District of Texas. [5] On September 21, 2020, the United States offered US$5 million for any information leading to his arrest.
February 27 – Luzon, the largest island in the Philippines, was recognized the world's second Trending Destination by TripAdvisor in its 2020 Travellers' Choice Awards. [ 253 ] March 5 – Former President Corazon Aquino and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa have been included in Time Magazine 's 100 Most Influential Women of the century .
Health and environment COVID-19 pandemic Kiribati becomes the latest country in the Pacific to block Chinese travelers by placing all visa applications from China on hold and ordering all those coming from countries with confirmed cases of the virus to self- quarantine. (Radio NZ International) Apple Inc. announces it will close all of its stores and offices in China until February 9 due to ...
LBC (originally the London Broadcasting Company) is a British phone-in and talk radio station owned and operated by Global and based in its headquarters in London. It was the UK's first licensed commercial radio station, and began to broadcast on Monday 8 October 1973, [1] a week ahead of Capital Radio.
Yang Hongming (Chinese: 杨鸿明), [1] more commonly known as Michael Yang in the Philippines, is a Chinese businessman and is an associate of 16th Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Yang was linked in the Pharmally scandal which allegedly overpriced procurement contracts for medical supplies to be used by the Philippine government during ...
PTV News Tonight is a Philippine television news broadcasting show broadcast by PTV. Originally anchored by Joee Guilas, Charms Espina and Catherine Vital, it premiered on September 7, 2020, [1] replacing PTV News Headlines. [2] Espina, William Thio and Monique Tuzon serves as currently anchors.
Dateline Philippines is the flagship midday newscast of the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) covering the day's most important headlines in politics, business, sports, and entertainment. It concentrates on news from the more than 7,000 islands of the Philippines as reported by ABS-CBN News , the largest news organization in the country.