Comelec Bans 15 Party-List Groups
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has disqualified 15 party-list groups, including one incumbent and three applicants seeking accreditation, from running in next May’s polls. The Comelec en banc delisted party-list Kapatiran ng mga Nakakulong na Walang Sala (Kakusa) whose incumbent representative at the House of Representatives is Ranulfo Canonigo. This brings the number of delisted [...]
Foreign Company Engaged in Trade or Business in the Philippines
Aplets Corporation is registered under the laws of the Virgin Islands. It has extensive operations in Southeast Asia. In the Philippines, its products are imported and sold at a mark- up by its exclusive distributor, Kim’s Trading, Inc. The BIR compiled a record of all the imports of Kim from Aplets and imposed a tax [...]
Bar Exam Review on Taxation – Income Sources
Guidant Resources Corporation, a corporation registered in Norway, has a 50 MW electric power plant in San Jose, Batangas. Aside from Guidant’s income from its power plant, which among the following is considered as part of its income from sources within the Philippines? A. Gains from the sale to an Ilocos Norte power plant of [...]
Effective Way to Solve Global Problem
Indonesia’s Education and Culture Minister Muhammad Noeh said Tuesday cultural diplomacy is an effective way to solve global problem. “By adopting culture diversity approach, not uniformity, it will be easier to solve misunderstanding that may incite conflicts in the world,” the minister told culture ministers from participant countries and delegates attending the fifth Asia- Europe [...]
Leaders of the World’s Largest and Richest Companies
By Byun Duk-kun Some 120 leaders of the world’s largest and richest companies will gather here in Seoul, South Korea this week for an unprecedented meeting with the top political leaders of the world’s 20 most advanced and fastest growing countries, organizers said Tuesday. The business CEOs will begin a two-day summit Wednesday, one day [...]
Comprehensive strategy to overcome the challenges of terrorism and extremism
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday said building Pakistan’s economic strength is an important component of the comprehensive strategy to overcome the challenges of terrorism and extremism. He was speaking at a Public-Private Partnership Conference arranged by Friends of Democratic Pakistan (FODP) here. The Foreign Minister stressed that addressing the root causes of violent [...]
Davao Oriental Budget Deliberation
Governor Corazon Malanyaon is strongly pushing for a new budget that will enable her to sustain the gains of her administration and vowed to implement highly innovative measures that would effectively address the province’s pressing problems on poverty, environment degradation, lack of infrastructures, security and governance for the Annual Investment Program for the fiscal year [...]
Philippine Pride
By Ronald Roy, Philippine Tribune Wishing to get off the earth spinning at breakneck velocity tells you you’re having a nightmare. It’s a hallucination or a bad dream, and you’d like to jump out of bed to find out if you’re alive. But you are unable to do so. You struggle on knowing that you’ve [...]
CIA in Manila Philippines
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief Leon Panetta is making a lightning visit to Manila on July 12, a Sunday, reportedly to meet with Gloria Arroyo and some of her security aides. His visit comes amid reports of a spate of bombings in Mindanao as well as talks of a Palace initiated coup, a forced-through constitutional [...]
Definition of Conspiracy in Revised Penal Code
Posted by Recent News on October 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Article 8 of the Revised Penal Code provides that “[a] conspiracy exists when two or more persons come to an agreement concerning the commission of a felony and decide to commit it.” The “evidence of a chain of circumstances,”45 to wit: that appellant went inside the house of Romines to ascertain that the victim was [...]
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