USUALLY nonchalant about the subject matter, Juan Ponce Enrile was in a surprisingly revelatory mood to tell the public what his sentiments are about the 1986 Edsa People Power revolt, whose annual official anniversary every February 25 he has been...

DEEMED as an act to correct a "historic wrong," the $787-billion economic stimulus package recently approved by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by U.S. President Barack Obama comes with $198 million in lump-sum benefits to surviving Filipino...

OUR latest story reveals that the four contractors debarred by the World Bank anti-corruption unit, the Department of Institutional Integrity (INT), had received among the biggest contracts, by value, awarded by the Department of Public Works and...

THE second part of our report on World Bank's controversial NRIMP-1 project focuses on the findings of the Bank's Department of Institutional Integrity that runs through 260 pages in all. This document is Part I of the INT's report, a companion tome to...

IN investigating the alleged collusion and overpricing of World Bank-funded road projects in the Philippines, the international financial institution’s powerful and dreaded anti-corruption unit, the Department of Institutional Integrity (INT), conducted...

AS a sidebar to our story on the conflicting findings by the World Bank Sanctions Board and the Department of Public Works and Highways into the alleged collusion and overpricing among contractors in the National Road Improvement and Management Project...

OUR latest report tackles why and how the World Bank Sanctions Board and the Department of Public Works and Highways reached starkly different conclusions in their separate investigations into the alleged collusion and overpricing among contractors in the...