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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 ...
Jullebee Cabilis Ranara was a 34-year old woman and an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) who was serving as a domestic worker for her last employer in Kuwait. [5] Ranara got employed through the facilitation of Philippine-based employment agency Catalist International Manpower Services Company and its overseas counterpart in Kuwait, Platinum International Office for Recruitment of Domestic Manpower.
United States military scandals in the Philippines (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Political scandals in the Philippines" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam, is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse by several members of the Congress of the Philippines of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF, popularly called "pork barrel"), a lump-sum discretionary fund granted to each member of Congress for spending on priority development ...
The danger of the Huks overthrowing the government had receded. Factors that contributed to the increase of strength included a lack of funds in the public treasury, low export prices, exposed scandals involving high Filipino government officials and the public concern of local government payments being balanced.
Pinoy Crime Stories (transl. Filipino crime stories) is a Philippine television investigative docudrama show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by John Consulta, it premiered on September 16, 2023, on the network's Sabado Star Power sa Hapon line up.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte speaking to a group of repatriated overseas Filipino workers from Saudi Arabia in 2016. Every year, an unknown number of Filipinos in Saudi Arabia are "victims of sexual abuses, maltreatment, unpaid salaries, and other labor malpractices," according to John Leonard Monterona, the Middle East coordinator of Migrante, a Manila-based OFW organization. [14]
In the 2019 elections, OFW Family Club won back a seat. [3] Bobby Pacquiao, brother of senator and professional boxer Manny Pacquiao, filled in the seat. [4] In the 18th Congress, the House of Representatives passed a bill proposed the creation of the Department of Migrant Workers which eventually became law. The OFW Family Club is one of its ...