ILOILO CITY – The Court of Appeals (CA) has ordered the arrest of Emily V. Yanson for perjury and falsification of public documents after it ruled that she is not a stockholder of Ceres Transport Inc., one of the nine companies under the country’s largest bus conglomerate based in Bacolod City....
The Sandiganbayan has dismissed the appeal filed by former Cebu customs official Benjamin C. Bongon and private individual Roger T. Ang seeking to overturn their graft conviction on the irregular sugar auction conducted in 2000. In a decision dated Dec. 1, 2017, the Cebu City regional trial court...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has granted the petition for money claim filed by Southern Philippines Power Corporation (SPPC) against the National Power Corporation (NPC) and the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) for the payment of contractual obligations under the...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has dismissed, due to pending Supreme Court (SC) cases, the petition for money claim filed by MTD Philippines, Inc. which sought the payment by the Calamba City government of P755,006,011.34 for the botched construction of the CALABARZON Regional Government Center in...
San Miguel Global Power Holdings (SMGP), the electricity generating subsidiary of conglomerate San Miguel Corporation (SMC), has bewailed the higher electricity rates that consumers are now paying after the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) denied its tariff adjustment application last year. “It...
Former Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Rowena Guanzon took her oath on Thursday afternoon, June 23 as P3PWD Party-list representative in the upcoming 19th Congress. (Photo from Rowena Guanzon's Twitter) Guanzon's oath was administered by Court of Appeals (CA) Justice Edwin Sorsogon....
Senator Richard Gordon on Sunday lauded the decision of the Court of Appeals (CA) to grant Rappler CEO Maria Ressa’s petition to allow her to travel to Oslo, Norway and personally receive her Nobel Peace Prize for 2021. Gordon said the CA’s decision sends a strong message to the whole world...
The Court of Appeals (CA) has upheld the Securities and Exchange Commission’s issuance of a cease and desist order against Planpromatrix Online Co. to bar it from soliciting investments from the public without the necessary license. In its decision, the CA Special 10th Division affirmed the...
