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Graft case filed vs ex-undersecretaries over flood kickbacks

By Ian Laqui | March 31, 2026 - 7:30am

Activists and former officials asked the Ombudsman to investigate former undersecretaries linked to alleged kickbacks.

Headlines

COA yet to confront exec on resignation over ties to contractor-wife, kickback claims

By Dominique Nicole Flores | October 1, 2025 - 6:21pm

COA has yet to speak with Commissioner Mario Lipana about stepping down amid a conflict-of-interest issue involving his wife,...

Headlines

Leviste adds raps vs. Batangas engineer, tags TopTech to bribery case

By Dominique Nicole Flores | September 15, 2025 - 5:23pm

Rep. Leandro Leviste (Batangas, 1st District) has filed his response to the counter-affidavit of Batangas district engineer...

Nation

No real DPWH bidding in Batangas district, engineer tells Leviste

By Dominique Nicole Flores | August 26, 2025 - 5:14pm

Rep. Leandro Leviste (Batangas, 1st District) revealed on Tuesday, August 26, that the district engineer who tried to bribe...

Headlines

Lawmaker seeks passage of anti-kickback bill

By Jess Diaz | November 30, 2011 - 12:00am

Parañaque Rep. Roilo Golez urged the House of Representatives yesterday to pass his anti-kickback bill to reduce irregularities...

News Commentary

Solon moves to stop 'kickbacks' in gov't projects

November 29, 2011 - 9:54am

To boost the current administration's campaign against corruption in government, a lawmaker has proposed a bill that would penalize taking "kickbacks" from government projects.

Justice inked: The world of graphic artist David Lloyd

By J. Vincent Sarabia Ong | May 21, 2011 - 12:00am

The world of David Lloyd’s sequential art straddles the fine line between fiction and fact. His most popular work V for Vendetta, with renowned writer Alan Moore, is presented in a dreamlike backdrop but edged...

Supreme

Solon files anti-kickback bill in House

July 31, 2007 - 12:44pm

Nation