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Pharmally scandal. Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. became involved in a scandal over allegations of overpriced medical supplies it supplied to the government for the latter's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. The Blue Ribbon Committee of the Senate of the Philippines launched an investigation into the matter and uncovered ...
The conclusion was that there was no breach of laws or franchise terms. The following is a summary of the findings: The Bureau of Internal Revenue stated that ABS-CBN had fully complied with the tax requirements of the government. Sir Cabantac Jr., BIR Large Taxpayers Service head stated that the company had paid P14.298 billion from 2016 to 2019.
The government seized control of privately owned media. Only Daily Express and Bulletin Today (now operating as Manila Bulletin) were allowed to resume operations among those publications that existed prior to Martial Law. [29] The regulations bred self-censorship among members of the press, which were traditionally adversarial towards the ...
Kian delos Santos, Carl Arnaiz and Reynaldo de Guzman were three teenagers who were killed on August 16 to 18, 2017, during the course of the Philippine drug war.. On the evening of August 16, 2017, a 17-year-old Filipino student named Kian Loyd delos Santos was fatally shot by police officers conducting an anti-drug operation in Caloocan, Metro Manila.
The Manila Bulletin (PSE: MB) (also known as the Bulletin and previously known as the Manila Daily Bulletin from 1906 to September 23, 1972, and the Bulletin Today from November 22, 1972, to March 10, 1986) [4] is the Philippines ' largest English language broadsheet newspaper by circulation. Founded in 1900, [5] it is the second oldest extant ...
Alice Leal Guo[3] (Chinese: 郭華萍[b]; pinyin: Guō Huápíng) is a businesswoman and former politician in the Philippines who served as the mayor of the municipality of Bamban, Tarlac, from June 30, 2022, to August 13, 2024. Guo was accused of being a Chinese spy [6] and also faced investigations over her alleged involvement in illegal ...
The first operation by the PNP-DEG was the raid of the office of the Wealth & Personal Development (WPD) Lending Inc. at Barangay 252 in Tondo, Manila at 4:45 pm on October 8, 2022. The law enforcers which went in undercover were able to seize 990 kilograms (2,180 lb) of methamphetamine or shabu worth ₱6.7 billion stockpiled inside as well as ...
The trial of Philippine president Joseph Estrada (People of the Philippines v. Joseph Estrada, et al., 26558 Sandiganbayan, September 12, 2007) took place between 2001 and 2007 at the Sandiganbayan. Estrada, popularly called Erap, resigned from office in 2001 during a popular uprising in Metro Manila after an aborted impeachment trial in which ...