La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega (Dexter Barro II/MANILA BULLETIN) Deputy Majority Leader and La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega is the latest member of the House of Representatives to back the proposed return of the Philippines to the...
Former president Rodrigo Duterte (left), Batangas 2nd district Rep. Gerville "Jinky Bitrics" Luistro (PPAB) The congresswoman who famously squeezed out an "extrajudicial confession of guilt" from former president Rodrigo Duterte in relation to...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is calling on individuals, who have knowledge about the crimes committed in the Philippines during former president Rodrigo Duterte's bloody war on drugs, to submit to them any information on the anti-drug campaign. Through the ICC Witness Appeal on ICC's...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant attend a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP, File) THE HAGUE (AP) — The world’s top war-crimes court issued arrest...
The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) has acquitted five executives of a cigarette manufacturing company which was raided in 2020 in Angeles City in Pampanga where P14.08 million worth of tobacco products were seized. Acquitted were GB Bem Cigarette Co., Inc. president Gregory G. Lim, treasurer Benson G....
The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) has dismissed the petition for P6 million tax refund sought by a firm that recruits qualified Filipino seafarers for employment by foreign shipping companies. Dismissed was the petition filed by BW Shipping Philippines, Inc. against the Bureau of Internal Revenue...
The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) has ordered the Valenzuela City government to refund North Luzon Expressway Corporation (NLEX) P3.8 million in erronously collected taxes for taxable years 2012 to 2019. In a 34-page decision penned by Associate Justice Corazon G. Ferrer-Flores and promulgated last...
President Marcos appointed Associate Justice Fernanda Lampas-Peralta as the new presiding justice of the Court of Appeals (CA), the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) announced on Tuesday, Nov. 19. President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. administers the oath of office to...
Vice President Sara Duterte and former president Rodrigo Duterte are currently preparing to face the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into the Duterte administration’s bloody war on drugs. (From left) Vice President Sara Duterte talks to former president Rodrigo Duterte...
Senator Jinggoy Estrada urged the Philippine government to consider bringing China's baseline claim before the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague or even to the United Nations. Estrada said this in response to China’s recent efforts to reinforce its claim over the West Philippine...
While President Marcos reiterated that his administration will not cooperate with any International Criminal Court (ICC)-initiated investigation on former president Rodrigo Duterte, he stressed that the Philippines has to live up to its obligations to Interpol once the ICC seeks the latter's...
Malacañang will not object to former president Rodrigo Duterte's desire to be investigated by the International Criminal Court (ICC) after he dared the ICC to probe his bloody drug war immediately. Former president Rodrigo Duterte (Quad-comm media) "If the former president desires to...
