Senator Richard Gordon has called for the immediate filing of tax fraud charges against five motorcycle dealers who purportedly defrauded the government of billions of pesos from selling motorcycles. Gordon’s call stems from the result of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee’s investigation into...
Senate Blue Ribbon Committee Chairman Richard Gordon chided President Rodrigo Duterte for asking Filipinos to support his senatorial bid when he failed his countrymen as chief executive. President Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Richard Gordon At the resumption of the Senate probe into the so-called...
Gabe Watkins In the modern digital age, the possibility of spreading your music to neighboring countries is relatively more of a possibility now than before. 19-year-old Thai-Australian Music Engineering student Gabe Watkins is a potential favorite across Southeast Asia. The indie-influenced pop...
Senator Richard J. Gordon, chairman of the Senate Blue Ribbon committee, on Monday, Nov. 29, said the Senate is preserving and protecting the Senate as an institution when it ordered the transfer this afternoon of Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation executives Mohit Dargani and Linconn Ong from...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Monday reiterated that the financial documents they have been asking from Mohit Dargani and Linconn Ong are relevant for the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee’s probe into the procurement of overpriced COVID-19 pandemic supplies. Drilon said these documents...
Senate President Vicente Sotto III has signed the commitment order directing the transfer of Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation officials Linconn Ong and Mohit Dargani from their detention cell at the Senate to the Pasay City Jail. The commitment order, signed by Sotto and Sen. Richard Gordon,...
“Escape from Mogadishu,” starring Jo In-sung and Kim Yoon-seok, won Best Picture and Best Director at the 42nd Blue Dragon Film Awards held on Nov. 26 at the KBS Hall in Seoul. During the ceremony, “Escape from Mogadishu” won six awards: Best Picture, Best Director for Ryu Seung-wan, Best...
Former Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation officer Krizle Mago faced senators again on Friday, Nov. 26 where she admitted that she did receive instructions to repack face shields that were being sold to the government. Krizle Mago, Pharmally executive This was during the Senate Blue Ribbon panel...
Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson expressed concern on Friday, Nov. 26 about the involvement of one of the lawyers of the Dargani siblings who was said to be working for a member of the House of Representatives. Lacson raised this issue on Friday as he bared that Daryl Valles, one of the Dargani...
Senator Richard Gordon said on Friday, Nov. 26, that the former presidential economic adviser Michael Yang was afraid to come out after the capture of his business colleagues Linconn Ong, as well as siblings Mojit and Twinkle Dargani. Following the filing of Yang's petition to nullify the arrest...
Senator Risa Hontiveros said on Thursday, Nov. 25 that they stand by the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee after former presidential economic adviser Michael Yang asked the Supreme Court (SC) to nullify the arrest orders issued against him. "The oversight powers of the senate are well-settled in law and...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday said she would like to ask who paid for the chartered flight arranged by Pharmally Pharmaceutical executives Mohit and Twinkle Dargani when they attempted to fly out of the Philippines last Nov. 14 at the Davao International Airport. In an online press briefing,...