THERE is some good news in the access-to-information front. The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank have recently made changes in their disclosure policies that should now make it easier for journalists, researchers, NGOs and others to get...

THE 6th Global Forum on Reinventing Government opened this morning here in Seoul, Korea. Organized by the government of the Republic of Korea and the United Nations, the forum carries the theme, "Reinventing Government: Toward Participatory and...

OUR latest series is on the simmering controversy on population control. We look at two local governments — Manila and Pangasinan. The first is a horror story as far as women’s rights advocates and family-planning NGOs are concerned. Our...

LIKE any math enthusiast, my interest got piqued by a Manila Times report that was published on May 5, 2005 about Andrew Wiles — the British Princeton University professor who first claimed in 1993 to have finally solved the world's most famous...

PHILIPPINE Star columnist Domini Torrevillas raves about the second quarter issue of i Report, which focuses this time on the theme "Nursing the World: Filipinas in the Global Care Industry." Torrevillas finds the PCIJ quarterly "an...

THIS week's i Report Feast and Famine feature at pcij.org is a delectable piece by food expert Nancy Reyes Lumen on pancit, the perennial item on the Filipino dining table next to rice. Tracing its historical origins, Nancy says we borrowed pancit from...

IN today’s issue of Malaya, Ellen Tordesillas talks about a recent Pulse Asia Survey on the coping strategies of the poor. She quotes that fewer Filipinos think that the poor is likely to look for jobs overseas. Tordesillas probes some reasons...