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                    [Title] => Philippines gains in fight vs corruption cited at United Nations confab
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Key Philippine anti-corruption initiatives were highlighted at a United Nations conference in Russia on Thursday.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-06 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804865 [AuthorName] => Pia Lee-Brago [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1398460 [Title] => Aquino pledges to intensify measures against corruption [Summary] =>

President Benigno Aquino III vowed today to strengthen and rationalize government's reform measures to weed out corruption.

[DatePublished] => 2014-12-02 21:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1394836 [Title] => The ungiving [Summary] =>

I never thought that I would need to use the four letter word L-O-V-E in an argument among opposing counsels in a commercial transaction. But I did, with good effect. (To be fair, the word love even finds its way in the Philippine Constitution, and thus is also legal lingo.)

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133538 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1308556 [Title] => Prescriptive period sa graft gagawing 30 years [Summary] =>

Upang masiguro na hindi makakalusot dahil sa isyu ng teknikalidad, pasado na sa committee level sa Kamara ang panukala para taasan ang prescriptive period ng pagsasampa ng mga kasong may kaugnayan sa graft and corruption.

[DatePublished] => 2014-04-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1334962 [AuthorName] => Gemma Amargo-Garcia [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1270329 [Title] => PNoy muling sinisi si Arroyo [Summary] =>

Muli na namang bumanat si Pangulong Benigno Aquino III sa umano’y pangungurakot ng dating Pangulo at ngayo’y Pampanga Second District Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-20 12:16:45 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Balita Ngayon [SectionUrl] => balita-ngayon [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1266271 [Title] => Parliamentarians: Corruption a crime against humanity [Summary] =>

The Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC) is asking members of parliament all over the world to declare the worst forms of corruption as crimes against humanity.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097363 [AuthorName] => Michael Punongbayan [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/6974/a6jn.jpg ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1249900 [Title] => EDITORIAL - You can run but you can’t hide [Summary] =>

Some lawmakers are crying foul over the request of the Department of Justice for the cancellation of their passports along with those of other individuals implicated in the pork barrel scam. The lawmakers complain that they have not been convicted of any offense or ordered arrested. Another senator, on the other hand, has pointed out that the cancellation is allowed under the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, which went into force in December 2005, and to which the Philippines is a signatory.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img823/4954/7su.gif ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1211411 [Title] => EDITORIAL - You can’t hide [Summary] =>

Flight may be seen as a sign of guilt, but this has not stopped people from skipping town to avoid the possibility of arrest. This is especially true when there is a strong prospect of detention without bail.

[DatePublished] => 2013-09-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img19/733/z96.gif ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 956028 [Title] => Outrage against corruption [Summary] =>

It did not result in any front page headlines or extensive television coverage. Perhaps there was not enough human interest or drama that the usual headlines require.

[DatePublished] => 2013-06-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133740 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1302661 [AuthorName] => Elfren S. Cruz [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 954146 [Title] => Palace, Ombudsman ink pact vs corruption [Summary] =>

The Office of the President (OP) and the Office of the Ombudsman signed yesterday a memorandum of agreement (MOA) to rationalize the government’s reform measures in weeding out bureaucratic corruption.

[DatePublished] => 2013-06-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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