THEY'RE big, bold, and not quite beautiful. They can also be a health and environmental hazard, but so far, no one is policing them. We're talking of billboards, which have been mushrooming along Edsa and Metro Manila's main thoroughfares, blocking...

THE Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) and Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP), with support from the USAID through The Asia Foundation (TAF), and the Canadian Embassy, are holding a series of one-day basic safety training...

AGAIN, to aid in the intelligent discussion and debate on charter change, we have prepared another matrix, comparing this time the 1987 Constitution with the working draft of the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments chaired by Lakas Rep....

WHEN the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) issued its first pastoral letter at the height of the wiretapping scandal last year, various groups criticized the Church for not calling on the President to resign. The Bishops, instead,...

LIKE the Amazon, the Philippines is home to some of the world’s best collections of birds. Sadly, extinction threatens a number of these creatures, including the Philippine eagle. Various initiatives to conserve the country’s nearly 600 bird...

REMEMBER Minamata? In 1932, the Japanese petrochemical firm Nippon Chisso Hiryu began operating an acetaldehyde and PVC (polyvinyl chloride) manufacturing plant in Minamata using mercury as a catalyst. For 36 years, the plant was directly discharging...

THE wiretapping inquiry at the House of Representatives formally ended today (see previous post) with former Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioner Virgilio Garcillano sticking to his previous testimony, refusing to the very end to...