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Cyberthieves in the Philippines may not have the sophistication of their international counterparts to stage billion-peso heists, but they now have the capability to steal millions of pesos from automated teller machines (ATM) stationed all over the country. What is alarming,

No doubt it’s a grand conspiracy, but the Senate needs to uncover the connection between a group of hackers and high officials of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) if it wants to solve the $81-million money laundering mystery that rocked the country’s

Government should press full speed ahead in acquiring needed K to 12 classrooms, equipment and teachers after the Supreme Court (SC) rejected several pleas seeking to stop the implementation of the program adding three years to the basic education curriculum. With classes in

President Aquino was urged to sign into law a bill reforming customs and port procedures which one of its authors say would help stamp out smuggling like the kind the country’s hog raisers are protesting against. Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said the proposed Customs

Because lack of transportation or high fares is a leading cause of school absences, government must include bicycles for poor kids in its education shopping cart, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said today. Recto said there is already funding for the purchase of “bancas

Senator Salonga was sui generis, a class of his own. Any senator who serves in the Senate will have to be measured by the Salonga standard. This titan of nationalism left giant footprints which have impacted our nation for good. I respectfully suggest that with the family’s

Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto today called on Malacañang to expedite the signing into law of a recently-approved bill creating the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), saying the country needs “Special Action Forces” in cyberspace

Six hundred thousand pieces of imported car plates would not have passed through the port of Manila, where Customs officials seized them, if they were only manufactured locally. Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto cited the above case in underscoring the need for government

The distribution of women’s “dignity kits” during disasters and emergencies is now mandatory, pursuant to a Department of Health (DOH) order released last month, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said today. The kit must contain 22 items of women’s personal care,