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A MEMBER of the House of Representatives yesterday bared the Office of the Vice President (OVP) tried, but failed, to prevent the Commission on Audit (COA) from submitting to Congress the audit report on her office’s use of confidential funds in 2022.
MANILA, Philippines — There is no official record of payment to the two Department of Education employees that Vice President Sara Duterte tapped to be illustrators for her self-authored children's book "Isang Kaibigan," which she launched during the national reading month last year.
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education came under fire from House lawmakers on Monday, September 2, for its failure to promptly deliver any of the laptops for school personnel and smart TVs it received funding for in 2022 and 2023 under then-Education Secretary Sara Duterte.
Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Amenah F. Pangandaman encouraged local governments to fully utilize their budgets, fight corruption through digitalization, and explore the possibility of providing medical allowances to their employees during the last day of the Public Financial Management Competency Program (PFMCP) for Local Government Units (LGUs) held in Butuan City on August 30, 2024.
MANILA, Philippines — After Vice President Sara Duterte had some heated exchanges with senators and congressmen over her office’s proposed budget for 2025, Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III challenged Congress yesterday to stop merely acting tough and instead exercise real power over the OVP’s budget.
SEN. Joel Villanueva yesterday called on the Office of the Ombudsman to also investigate other fund transfers made to the Procurement Service office of the Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM), saying that the latter’s transactions with the Department of Health (DOH) could just be the tip of the iceberg of other irregularities.
TOKYO, Japan — Japan voiced "strong concern and protest" Saturday after a Chinese naval ship entered its territorial waters, days after Tokyo accused Beijing of sending a military aircraft into Japanese airspace.