Category: Crime

Allan Bantiles: Parent who allegedly threatened CSA student at gunpoint still at large

September 25, 2012 benign0 33 Comments

Colegio de San Agustin (CSA) student Jaime Garcia who was the alleged victim of a serious bullying and assault incident within the CSA campus has been seeking assistance from the Philippine Media to progress his cause versus his tormentors. Garcia’s grandmother, Sony Lopez Gonzales, started by bringing the matter to the attention of ABS-CBN personality…

Crime, Education, Media

Formerly-jailed coup plotter Trillanes now embroiled in diplomatic coup blessed by Ph president

September 20, 2012June 9, 2013 benign0 36 Comments

I recall that archaic metaphor used to describe guys who are in romantic relationships with two women — they are said to be swimming in two rivers. That’s what red-faced President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III is looking like now having been caught out overseeing two negotiation channels facing the Chinese government: one via what…

Crime, Government, Politics

The latest outrage fad: Protests against the new Philippine anti-cybercrime law have become personal

September 19, 2012 benign0 20 Comments

After scanning online forums and social media discussions in the aftermath of the enactment of Republic Act 10175 also known as the Philippine Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, one thing has become quite evident: the fear mongering that has erupted around the Act (Jojo Robles in a Manila Standard article, for example wrote that “unprecedented…

Crime, Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Three online writers who may be most at risk of being sued for libel

September 18, 2012July 5, 2017 benign0 71 Comments

Now that Republic Act 10175, also known as the Philippine Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, has been enacted to law, the question in most people’s minds now is “Who is gonna be sued first?” Here are three of them (or rather three classes of them) that immediately come to mind. * * * (1) The…

Crime, Media

Wanking to lewd Web videos now a crime in the Philippines!

September 17, 2012September 18, 2012 Kate Natividad 33 Comments

Now that there is an anti-Cybercrime law in the Philippines, stuff published online is now subject to the same libel laws that have for some time been applied to stuff published on traditional media like newspapers and magazines and broadcast on TV and radio. I suppose the principle there is that computers and their networks…

Crime, Lifestyle, Tech Talk

Who’s afraid of the Philippine Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012?

September 17, 2012September 18, 2012 benign0 23 Comments

Senate Bill 2796 or the Philippine Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 is not a bad law. Most of the online nasties the law aims to curb are no-brainers. So I will go straight to what, to me, is its main feature that sends chills up the spine of the average schmoe… 4) Libel – The…

Crime, Media

Philippine anti-human-trafficking NGO sued by Uncle Sam on allegations of fraudulent use of aid funds

September 14, 2012September 14, 2012 benign0 25 Comments

A bookkeeper of noted Philippine NGO Visayan Forum Foundation (VFF) blew the whistle on its founder Cecilia Flores-Oebanda. Maria Analie Villacorte who, according to VFF attorney Laurence Arroyo, resigned from the VFF last July alleges she received instructions from Oebanda to “falsify” documents that would have been used to support the disbursement of up to…

Crime, Development, Government

The Lucky One: Rico Puno – it pays to be a presidential buddy

September 12, 2012September 12, 2012 Ilda 69 Comments

Itâ€™s good to have friends in high places. At least that is the case in Philippine society. Having very important people backing you can help you get what you want in your career or your business. If one doesnâ€™t have friends in the right places, it would be harder to get things going for one’s…

Crime, Government, Politics