MASSIVE graft has cost the government a total P1.2 trillion (US$48 billion) in the last five years, Ombudsman Ma. Merceditas Gutierrez said at a recent seminar for barangay officials in Quezon City. In keynote remarks for an anti-corruption seminar in...

THE National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) has rejected Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez's proposal to arm members of media as a solution to the continued killings of journalists in the country. The NUJP said the only way to end the...

THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has barred its officials and employees from attending any congressional inquiry that will probe ongoing efforts to amend the 1987 Constitution through a people's initiative. The order applies to appearances in all...

DESPITE having a generics drug law enacted in 1988, making the country the first in Southeast Asia to have done so, Filipinos continue to endure the sky-high cost of medicines. Such a situation is described by former senator Wigberto Tañada as a "huge...

BISHOP Pedro Arigo, the Apostolic Vicar of Puerto Princesa, has condemned Monday's killing of the city's most popular radio broadcaster as "an assault on all peace loving Palaweños." He called on authorities to swiftly bring the assailants to...

WHISTLE-BLOWERS hurdle obstacles and face very serious risks, but continue to watch against corruption as an act of hope, according to results of nationwide workshops aimed at making life easier --- and safer --- for those who want to stop fraud. Not...

THE government should stop "trivializing" the deaths of journalists in the country, said the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP). In a strongly worded statement issued following the recent death of a radio journalist in Palawan, the...