The Philippines continues to support the ambitious plan to interconnect customs bureaus of Southeast Asian countries, streamline procedures, and ease trade barriers to boost intraregional trade and curb corruption.
We get the government we deserve. This is a saying that farmers are now acting upon with greater vigor. During the fertilizer scam period, they bravely came out to denounce the corruption by specific unscrupulous officials in the Department of Agriculture, local government units, and even Congress. They succeeded only because of the help of the Senate, led by Senator Jun Magsaysay, and COA, led by officials like Heidi Mendoza.
DURING THE awarding ceremonies for the Healthy Lifestyle Exemplars given by the H&L (Health & Lifestyle) magazine on its 10th anniversary last week, I mentioned in my opening remarks that vices like smoking is a “form of corruption that squanders one’s health and wellness. And anyone who walks the straight path or ‘daang matuwid’ should stay away from it.”
Links between Europe’s financial crisis and corruption can no longer be ignored, with Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain doing the least against malpractice, Transparency International said Wednesday.
Delsa Flores, the former court interpreter who lost her job because she did not declare in her Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth that she owned a market stall, was asked what lessons could be drawn from the impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona.
Continued reforms in the rule of law, regulatory efficiency and governance in the Philippines are the keys to that country’s economic growth, a US think tank report said. The 2012 Index of Economic Freedom said financial reforms in the Philippines as well as overseas remittances have allowed the country to weather the global financial crisis. [...]
Hong Kong’s anti-graft body on Thursday arrested two of Asia’s richest property developers, Thomas and Raymond Kwok, for alleged corruption as part of an ongoing bribery probe.
In this article, I refer to cancer of a much larger and more pernicious nature. Thankfully, possible cures for Corruption are now also being developed in a growing number of countries across the industrialized and developing world.
It is not enough to just eliminate corruption if we want to make poverty history. It is also necessary to do something positive such as increase competence. In addition, where there are know-it-all officials who refuse to listen to the private sector and thus contradict P-Noy’s directive of “Ikaw ang boss ko,” poverty will remain.
Companies from Russia and China are seen as the worst offenders for paying bribes when doing business abroad, a new report said Wednesday, while Swiss and Dutch companies top the table for honesty.
The head of the World Bank Group praised President Benigno Aquino III, who has promised to curb corruption under his term, for placing transparency and good governance at the forefront of the Philippine government’s agenda. Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, indicated the belief of the multilateral institution in the significance of Aquino’s agenda [...]
Signatories to the Integrity Initiative, a private sector-led campaign to rid the country of corruption, have formulated a Unified Code of Conduct for Business to govern businessmen’s actions and ensure that their every transaction will be carried out with utmost integrity.
