AFTER the acrimonious showdown on charter change, another battle looms between the House of Representatives and the Senate as representatives of the two legislative chambers silently started work in the bicameral conference committee last week to try to...

IN the end the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) called the grand prayer rally it organized today at the Luneta as “thanksgiving” for the administration’s supposed retreat regarding its charter-change bid. Gloria...

WE give you a collection of short audio features from Davao. These features were produced by radio journalists from Mindanao, who gathered in Davao City in October for a week-long training organized by PCIJ and the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng...

FIVE editors of the award-winning fortnightly magazine Newsbreak decried the issuance by a Manila prosecutor yesterday of a resolution approving the filing of libel charges against them in connection with an article on Jose Miguel Arroyo, husband of...

SAMIRA Gutoc is fighting for peace in Mindanao, but she wields no firearm or bolo. Instead, her weapons consist of pen, paper, and PC, from which flow stories about people who would otherwise remain faceless and voiceless. In a first-person essay that...

THE latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey reveals that majority of Filipinos would still vote “no” if a plebiscite to approve a new constitution were held today. The survey was conducted last month and the public outrage that the nation saw in...

OF course Jose Ma. Sison, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines, would have something to say about the moves toward amending the constitution. Asked by i Report to write on the prospects of the communist movement in the Philippines by 2010 as...