EX-COMELEC Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano today appeared for the third and final time before the House of Representatives. The joint inquiry terminated its hearings on the controversial "Hello, Garci"  recordings with Garcillano still...

THE joint congressional hearings on the wiretapping controversy ended today without resolving the authenticity of the "Hello, Garci?" tapes. Seven months after the hearings began, Congress has not resolved the most important  issue...

WHERE is the money? As early as last year, the House oversight committee already suspected that the P38-billion Marcos wealth recovered from Swiss banks was slowly disappearing. The committee held a series of meetings from March to April 2005 to try to...

MORE than two weeks after being declared as the second most dangerous place for journalists in 2005 by two international media watchdogs, the Philippines has again earned the same dubious distinction, this time from the International Federation of...

FOUR in every 10 Filipinos did not favor the People Power rallies that ousted Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 and Joseph Estrada in January 2001 and tried to oust Gloria Arroyo in May 2001, Pulse Asia said. But the October 2005 survey found more than half would...

TWO top government officials received positive satisfaction ratings from respondents in the Fourth Quarter 2005 survey of the Social Weather Stations. Vice president Noli de Castro got a net satisfaction rating of +34, as 58 percent of respondents said...

AS the disposable income of millions of Filipinos continue to shrink every day, many families are now reduced to buying food commodities and other consumer goods in ever smaller quantities. Nearly 90 percent of Filipinos, mostly from the D and E classes,...