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Philippine Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona. Pic: AP.

Philippines: Chief Justice Corona says he didn’t declare $2.4m

By AP News Fri, May 25, 2012 6:27PM UTC View Comments

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The chief justice of the Philippine Supreme Court has testified at his impeachment trial that he did not violate any laws when he failed to declare $2.4 million in bank accounts. Renato Corona invoked the bank privacy law that protects foreign deposits from disclosure. Several senators and prosecutors who want Corona...

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Philippine Chief Justice Corona denies charges, blames Aquino

By AP News Tue, May 22, 2012 5:10PM UTC View Comments

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The head of the Philippine Supreme Court has denied charges that he stole from the country’s coffers and accuses President Benigno Aquino III of conspiring to remove him from office. Chief Justice Renato Corona testified Tuesday in his impeachment trial that has become the main focus of Aquino’s anti-corruption effort. The...

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Philippines: Is Hacienda Luisita no more?

By Edwin Espejo Wed, Apr 25, 2012 9:22AM UTC View Comments

President Corazon Aquino, right, discusses some points with Agrarian Reform Secretary Philip Juico, left, pictured in January 1988 before signing an agreement placing her family-owned 6,000 hectare (15,067-acre) Hacienda Luisita sugar plantation under land reform. Pic: AP.

One of the vestiges of the country’s feudal past is finally coming to an end. Or is it really? On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled with finality to award the vast tracts of land owned by the Cojuangco side of the family of President Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aqujino III to their tenants and farm workers, more...

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Philippine court orders breakup of Aquino hacienda

By AP News Tue, Apr 24, 2012 6:24PM UTC View Comments

Philippines President Benigno Aquino III. Pic: AP.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine Supreme Court has ruled to break up the sugar estate owned by the president’s relatives and distribute it to thousands of farmers following decades of unrest and unfinished land reform. Tuesday’s decision is politically charged because President Benigno Aquino III has called on the head of the Supreme Court...

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The Corona impeachment: Vulcaseal defense

By Edwin Espejo Sun, Mar 25, 2012 9:10AM UTC View Comments

Two weeks into the turn of embattled Filipino Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona to present evidence and witnesses to disprove allegations against him in his own impeachment trial, more questions are arising, instead of refuting what the prosecution has so far presented. His defense panel has been plugging holes instead of addressing squarely his...

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