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"As the Philippines were a Spanish colony for 333 years, there’s a wide overlap between Filipino names and Spanish names, which are really popular in the U.S.," Humphrey said.
The Stonehill scandal, named after American expatriate businessman Harry Stonehill, [1] was a 1962 bribery scandal in the Philippines which implicated high level government officials, including President Diosdado Macapagal, [2] future President Ferdinand Marcos, [2] [3] former President Carlos P. Garcia, [3] and numerous other top Philippine officials, who were accused of accepting bribes to ...
Date Branch Department Party People Involved Summary Source 1946 Executive: Office of the President: Liberal: Manuel Roxas: Surplus War Property scandal- disposed $90 billion of surplus war property held by the United States government in the final year of World War II, which caused a huge corruption scandal that led to the rise of the leftist HUKBALAHAP and for Roxas's approval ratings to ...
The Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., the inspiration for the -gate suffix following the Watergate scandal.. This is a list of scandals or controversies whose names include a -gate suffix, by analogy with the Watergate scandal, as well as other incidents to which the suffix has (often facetiously) been applied. [1]
Senator Grace Poe was able to introduce General Provision No. 82, which has measures against epal, in the General Appropriations Act (GAA) of 2021.The provision prohibits any public official, whether elected or appointed to "affix, or cause to be affixed, their name, visage, appearance, logo, signature or other analogous image, on all programs, activities, projects (PAPs), or corresponding ...
An Australian woman is out of a job after accidentally sending a nasty text about her boss ... to her boss. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, office bookkeeper Louise Nesbitt was canned ...
Juan dela Cruz was invented by Robert McCulloch-Dick, the editor and publisher of Philippines Free Press, founded in 1908. [2] He noticed the frequency with which the names appeared on police blotters and court dockets. He was also notified that the Philippine Catholic Church baptized a large number of children, giving them names of popular saints.
A former victims advocate who was fired after sending an email reply to San Francisco's district attorney asking, "What color panties you have on," is suing the county, alleging he was defamed and ...