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MANILA, Philippines — The brother of expelled lawyer Arnolfo Teves Jr., Pryde Henry Teves, was arrested in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental by the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) on Thursday.
MANILA, Philippines — The National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) said the prosecutor involved in the case of the killings of Luis and Gabriel Bonifacio testified in favor of the four accused police officers.
Pacific Online Systems [LOTO 4.35, up 0.5%; 842% avgVol] [link] disclosed that it has received a Notice of Award from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) of a 5-year lease for a “web-based application betting platform” for a total contract price of P4.088 billion. LOTO has been the front-runner for this award since it was announced by the PSCO in late May that LOTO was the only qualified bidder for the 5-year e-lotto lease. This lease will cover LOTO’s “e-lotto” system which had captured over 14% of e-lotto sales during the 6-month trial between LOTO and PCSO. LOTO is owned by Willy Ocier.
AN honest mistake by a public official, absent any evidence of malice, does not amount to a crime.
THE Department of Justice has indicted a Nueva Ecija resident for selling sexual abuse and exploitation materials involving minors on social media.
MANILA, Philippines – A Caloocan City court has convicted four cops of homicide over the killing of two people – a father and his son – during a drug war operation in the city in 2016.
Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor Griffin Dunne‘s family has done so many larger-than-life, unbelievable things that when the actor-director-producer started to write his memoir “The Friday Afternoon Club: A Memoir of Family,” he realized it wasn’t enough to start the story with his complex writer father Dominick Dunne. In fact, it was impossible to understand the forces that shaped the Dunnes, including his uncle John Gregory Dunne and sister Dominique Dunne — without understanding his father’s abusive upbringing in an Irish Catholic family, his mother’s Mexican heritage and all great love stories, clandestine affairs, celebrity encounters and tragedies that seem to surround them, buffeted with lots of pitch-black mordant humor. The heart of the new memoir is the 1982 murder of Griffin Dunne’s younger sister, “Poltergeist” star Dominique Dunne.
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Aquatics Inc. (PAI) is calling all homegrown swimmers and Filipinos based abroad to register and prepare to participate in the national trials for 50-meter and 25-meter swimming championships slated on August 15-18 and August 19-21, respectively, at the Teofilo Ildefonso swimming pool in Malate, Manila.