AS we've said earlier, this is a country where there's bound to be a pair of eyes on you, with or without the help of technology. Admit it already, we are a nation of usyoseros, so much so that even coup attempts are turned into honest-to-goodness...

IF you have P36 a day for your food and non-food needs, you live above the country's per capita poverty threshold -- at least according to the government. The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (Philippines) (GCAP) derived this number from a 2004...

OUR latest i Report feature looks at alleged violations of the Foreign Service Act. The main objective of the Foreign Service Act, or Republic Act No. 7157, is to reorganize and strengthen the Philippine Foreign Service Corps to "upgrade the...

MALAYA columnist and senior reporter Ellen Tordesillas and former senator Francisco Tatad posted P10,500 in bail today after a Manila court ordered their arrest in connection with a libel case filed by First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo against the...

PCIJ brings you a special podcast from Cebu: a collection of short features produced by reporters belonging to radio organizations in the Visayas. These reporters participated in a week-long training on radio features production, organized by PCIJ and the...

BY Bayan Muna's own reckoning, at least 116 of its members have been killed by "suspected state security forces" under the Macapagal-Arroyo administration. The spate of extra-judicial killing began after May 2001, when Bayan Muna gained 1.7 million...

WHAT face comes with your favorite Pinoy blogger? PCIJ shows you two. We recently had a chat with Bryanboy, owner of the two-year-old blog with the same name, and Nikki Alfar, who's been blogging 'Contradiction in terms' since 2003. Bryanboy is a...