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House approves 2021 budget bill

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Posted at Oct 17 04:17 AM

The Philippine house under a new leadership delivers on its promise to approve the proposed 2021 national budget before the end of the special session called by President Rodrigo Duterte. Read more »

Lawmaker: No reenacted budget, congressional insertions to 2021 spending plan

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 15 10:31 PM

Dispelling worries of a reenacted budget in 2021, Rep. Eric Yap said his colleagues would submit to the Senate next year's national spending plan on Nov. 2 without any congressional insertions. Read more »

'Not pork': Año says P16.4 billion anti-insurgency budget itemized

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Updated as of Sep 14 09:12 AM

Interior Secretary Eduardo Año denied Monday that the P16.4-billion budget proposal for government's anti-insurgency task force was "pork barrel." Read more »

Sandiganbayan asks Jinggoy Estrada’s witness to prove IT expertise

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Updated as of Mar 02 05:51 PM

The Sandiganbayan on Monday sought additional documents before deciding on declaring an information technology practitioner as an "expert witness" for the defense of former senator Jinggoy Estrada in his plunder case in connection with the alleged pork barrel scam.  Read more »

Sandiganbayan asks Jinggoy Estrada’s witness to prove IT expertise

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 02 04:02 PM

The Sandiganbayan on Monday sought additional documents before deciding on declaring an information technology practitioner as an "expert witness" for the defense of former senator Jinggoy Estrada in his plunder case in connection with the alleged pork barrel scam.  Read more »

Napoles signs court order kicking off Enrile graft trial

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Posted at Feb 12 03:23 PM

Former businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles, after repeated absences, finally signed Wednesday a court order that allowed the start of the graft trial against her and former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile.  Read more »

Napoles irks Sandiganbayan justices for continued absence in hearings

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 11 11:30 AM

Former businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles irked justices of the Sandiganbayan 3rd Division for her continued absence in her graft trial involving the Priority Development Assistance Fund of former senator Juan Ponce Enrile. Read more »

Enrile graft, plunder cases to proceed after signing of pre-trial order

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 29 02:12 PM

The court scheduled the start of the graft trial on February 11 and 12, and Tuesdays and Wednesdays thereafter. Read more »

Sandiganbayan denies move to re-arrest ex-lawmaker on plunder trial over PDAF scam

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 14 04:27 PM

MANILA - The Sandiganbayan 5th Division has denied a plea to have former Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives Party-list Rep. Edgar Valdez re-arrested in connection with his plunder case arising from the multibillion-peso Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) scam. Read more »

Lacson says 2020 budget may still have 'questionable items'

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Posted at Jan 06 07:41 PM

Senator Panfilo Lacson said there may still be questionable items in the 2020 national budget that President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law. Read more »

Reposts, retweets, revolutions: How social media sparked change in 2010s

ABS-CBN News Social Media Team
Posted at Jan 03 02:32 AM

Here are some events internationally and locally in the past decade, in which social media played a vital role in initiating sweeping social change. Read more »

The decade in politics: Bossy presidents, good intentions & the obsession to settle scores

Felipe F. Salvosa II
Updated as of Dec 21 08:59 AM

Despite its intentions to uphold good, corruption-free governance in the beginning, and while forging peace and defense of Philippine sovereignty will form part of its hallmarks, the presidency of Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino, says journalist Felipe Salvosa II, is remembered for its ineptitude and an obsession towards revenge Read more »

Lacson: Proposed 2020 budget not 'pork-free'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 12 11:55 PM

Allegations of pork insertions in the proposed national budget for 2020 refuse to die down. Read more »

Congress' P75-B 'insertions' delayed 2019 budget: Lacson

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Updated as of Nov 27 11:28 AM

MANILA - Is the Senate partly to blame for the delay in the budget of the 30th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games? For Senator Panfilo Lacson, nothing could be further from the truth - saying it was congressmen who tried to insert P75 billion in pork barrel projects into the budget even after the bicameral report ratification. Read more »

'What parked funds?' Solon says P500M for Kennon Road repair a typo error

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Updated as of Nov 13 10:06 AM

Camarines Sur Rep. L-Ray Villafuerte said the P500 million fund allotted for the repair of Kennon Road in Baguio was a typographical error and was supposed to be only P15 million. Read more »

Bong Go: ‘Cholesterol-free’, ‘pork-free’ 2020 national budget

Sherrie Ann Torres, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 04 09:13 PM

MANILA - Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go on Monday said he will scrutinize the proposed 2020 national budget to make sure that no taxpayers’ money will be wasted and that it will be a “pork-free, cholesterol-free" budget. Read more »

Bohol governor suspended over PDAF graft case

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 26 03:18 PM

Bohol Governor Arthur Yap was ordered preventively suspended by the Sandiganbayan 3rd Division over his involvement in the alleged misuse of Priority Development Assistance Funds or PDAF. Read more »

PDAF scam whistleblower testifies Revilla 'kind,' allowed installments of alleged kickbacks

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 17 02:41 PM

Pork barrel scam whistleblower Benhur Luy concluded Thursday his testimony in the graft cases against Sen. Bong Revilla by referring to the legislator as a “kind” person, but with reservations.  Read more »

Enrile and Napoles plunder case 'dragging on,' Sandiganbayan says

Adrian Ayalin, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 11 04:27 PM

“The records bear out that this case has been dragging on for quite some time already," the Sandiganbayan said in a resolution Read more »

'Bumukol dito, bumukol doon': Lacson says even NEP not perfect

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 01 10:16 AM

Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Tuesday said he is determined to root out pork barrel insertions in the proposed P4.1-trillion budget for 2020, saying not even the National Expenditure Program from the budget department is perfect. Read more »