THE STOP Chacha movement yesterday showed what it claimed to be proof that signatures — annexed to the petition in support of Charter change — have been “fabricated.” In Makati, for example, some signatures were of deceased individuals; others...

THOSE who have been to Guimaras swear by its beauty. “It is absolutely breathtaking,” says Rep. JR Nereus Acosta of the island-province in Western Visayas, whose coast was where a tanker -- carrying two million liters of low-grade bunker oil --...

IN an era of large-scale transnational female labor migration, Filipino women have been outnumbering men in seeking employment abroad as they are compelled to work overseas for lack of job opportunities in the country. In 2002, the Philippine Overseas...

IN June this year, the PCIJ stopped publishing its bimonthly magazine, the i Report, to focus on multimedia journalism. Beginning September, we will be bringing out the i Report online. Henceforth, the in-depth features and human interest stories...

GET out your astronomy books and cross out Pluto from the list of planets. (see the fullsize image here) Pluto has been demoted to dwarf planet status under the International Astronomical Union (IAU)'s new resolution on the definition of a...

LAST month's address by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo before Congress sounded triumphal: The economy is growing steadily, she enthused, and her government is equipped to bring the country to prosperity. But did the President give the public an...

CRISPIN Beltran doesn't look like he belongs inside a hospital. He has spent six months detained in hospitals — the Philippine National Police (PNP) General Hospital and the Philippine Heart Center, yet he sits easily in the chair next to his bed....