THIS one, for sure, is genuine. Wilfred Oliver Segovia, 23 years old and Filipino, won the top prize (and $3,000) in the recently concluded  international essay competition sponsored by the World Bank. The theme of this year's competition is...

THE new secretary of health will take his post tomorrow, replacing Manuel Dayrit, who had resigned. Learn more about Francisco T. Duque III from i-site....

IN this week’s i Report Feast and Famine feature at pcij.org, Ernesto Ordoñez tries to answer the nagging question: "Why are Filipinos Hungry?" A former undersecretary of agriculture and trade and industry, and...

IS it really an attack on press freedom? For years now, television networks have been submitting their public affairs tapes to MTRCB for review, whenever possible, and not consistently. The award-winning The Probe Team is one group we know subscribing...

HERE in full is the memorandum issued by the Movie and Television Ratings and Classification Board (MTRCB) that has been cited by media groups as being a threat to press freedom: Office of the President of the Philippines MOVIE & TELEVISION REVIEW...

COMING on the heels of the PCIJ report on the controversy hounding population control, Manila Mayor Lito Atienza has issued an order yesterday to rid the city of contraceptives. Here is the news from ABS-CBN Interactive:  Atienza issues order to...

MINDANAO is a region that is poor: four of every ten families fall below the poverty threshold, and in self-rated hunger surveys, an average 20 percent of households report experiencing hunger in the quarter prior to being asked. Overall, the island...