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Covering Campaign Finance: The Philippine Experience Campaign finance is an important, if not the most important aspect, of any electoral exercise. One’s capacity to run for office is largely hinged on their access to resources. BY KAROL ILAGAN AND FLOREEN SIMON May 9, 2021 | 07:00:00 AM   This is a chapter in the book Media Reporting of Elections in Asia published and released by the Asian Net...

Value of SALN in campaign finance The shrinking trend in accessing SALN of public officials had proven to pose hindrances in reporting on the wealth of public officials. The latest of these restrictions is an Ombudsman Memorandum Circular that prevents access to SALNs under its safekeeping unless requested by the filer themselves, authorized by the filer, or if summoned by the Ombudsman’s Field Investigation Office, Bureau or Unit for purposes of a fact-finding investigation. ...

(CSC Facebook Page) Under its Resolution No. 2100304 dated April 5, 2021, the CSC decided to refund the P500 examination fee to registered examinees of the CSE-PPT, which was postponed due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. CSC: Registered examinees of the 15 March 2020 Career Service Examination-Pen and Paper Test, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, may claim the refund of their P500 application fee starting this May.@manilabulletin — charissa luci (@chailuci) May 8, ...

Press Release Senate President Vicente Sotto III and I had a good meeting with the three czars of the governments COVID response Thursday night to discuss red tape issues and the funding needs hounding the countrys fight against COVID. We met with vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr., testing czar Vivencio Dizon, and contact tracing czar Benjamin Magalong. Among the topics we discussed were: * Immediate legislative action against red tape in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that hampers govern...

Published May 7, 2021, 3:37 PM Senator Panfilo M. Lacson on Friday expressed optimism that herd immunity might yet be achieved in the country with proper budget and lots of help from the business sector and local government units (LGUs). Lacson issued this statement after he and Senate President Vicente Sotto III had a ‘’good meeting’’ with the three czars of the government’s COVID response Thursday night to discuss red tape issues and the funding needs hounding the country’s fight...

BusinessWorld April 26, 2021 | 8:38 pm THE JUSTICE department’s cybercrime team has flagged the unlawful debt collection practices of online lending companies, citing the growing number of reports it has received. In a public advisory on Monday, the Department of Justice–Office of Cybercrime (DoJ-OOC) said various laws prohibit these online firms from accessing the debtor’s phone contacts, posting their personal information, threatening them with death and physica...

Photo courtesy of Altermidya Network) “Not being required, and in fact prohibited by law, the organizers should not be forced, and are within their right, to refuse to sign any disclosure forms. Lest some of the red-faced government officials forget, the 1987 Constitution recognizes the right of all citizens to participate in governmental and societal concerns, and mandates that these rights shall not be abridged.” By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL MANILA – “Leave them alone for you already did.�...

Published April 8, 2021, 2:29 PM It has been more than a month ago when the alleged data breach at Cashalo, operated by Oriente Express Techsystem Corporation, surfaced online. It was Valentine’s Day this year when several posts were made in forum websites on the “dark web” selling the personal information of some 3.3 million Cashalo users. Personal information such as usernames, passwords, email addresses, phone numbers, and even device identifications are being sold online at a bargain ...

​ THE PHILIPPINE Health Insurance Corp. has created a debit-credit payment method to facilitate the settlement of accounts payable to healthcare facilities amid a coronavirus pandemic, the presidential palace said on Thursday. This after President Rodrigo R. Duterte ordered it to fast-track the payment of hospital claims in relation to the health crisis. “Through this measure, we are confident there would be continuous delivery of healthcare services, especially in identified areas of conce...

The Filipinos are not unfamiliar with their personal data being made freely and publicly available on the internet, and we have the Commission on Elections to thank for that (remember COMELEAKS?). What can you do when the one who is held responsible has gone into hiding with extraditing is not a pri