MEDIA hype has portrayed most Filipino-Americans as celebrities — as MTV VJs, movie starlets, basketball players, and pretty faces on Edsa billboards. But many more are here in the Philippines, not to break into the movies or television but to...

THE constitutional amendments proposed by the Consultative Commission (Con-Com) on charter change make House Speaker Jose de Venecia very happy. For good reason. The shape of the new parliament — to be called the National Assembly — that the Con-Com...

SINCE the 1970s, Saudi Arabia has been hiring fun-loving Filipinos by the hundreds of thousands. There, they find themselves in a place so alien, in a culture so strange and so unwelcoming of foreigners.Filipinos in Saudi Arabia experience acute...

OUR latest story is on basketball — not the usual PCIJ fare. The report takes off from the scandal currently rocking the De La Salle basketball team, two of whose members have been accused of falsifying their admission papers in order to be...

THREE in every four of the country’s extreme poor (Class E) feel their personal quality of life has worsened. Even more — 84 percent — feel the same way about the national quality of life. And they believe that the quality of life will...

THE 55-member Consultative Commission (Con-Com) on charter change wound up three months of work late last night with a package of proposed constitutional amendments that contained a sweetener for President Arroyo and other elected officials: the...

SENATORS have joined electoral reform advocates in calling for the mass resignation of Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioners over the poll body's failed and anomalous handling of its election modernization program. Except for Commissioner Felix...