MANILA: The speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives tendered his resignation on Wednesday (Sep 17) after his name surfaced in a mounting corruption scandal, less than two weeks after the country's Senate president suffered the same fate. Martin Romualdez, a cousin of President Ferdinand Marcos, told lawmakers he was leaving the post with a "clear conscience" so that a newly established investigatory body could do its job without "undue influence". Public anger over so-called ghost