SENATE Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III on Tuesday called for an investigation into a deal in which the government leased out a prime 4.9-hectare lot to a private organization of exporters for only P1,000 a year starting in 1996.
At a budget hearing, Pimentel questioned the 50-year deal between the Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions (Citem) and the Philippine Exporters Confederation Inc. (Philexport), saying it was “grossly disadvantageous” to the government.
WASHINGTON — Global views toward China appear to be divided between high-income and middle-income countries, and the gap apparently is the widest among China’s neighbors in the Indo-Pacific region, according to a newly released poll […]
THE Philippine Commission on Audit (CoA) has been elected to the governing board of the Asian Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (Asosai) based in New Delhi. The election was held during the Asosai’s 16th Assembly. […]
MANILA, Philippines — The quad committee at the House of Representatives proposed the revival of the death penalty for heinous crimes that would stem from its ongoing investigation. The panel, composed of the committees on […]
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