June 15, 2007 · Posted in: i Report Features, Podcasts
PERHAPS the most wonderful gift ever given to mankind is the gift of memory. It allows us to remember things past -- whether it be about the crisp air or a love lost -- to hold them close, and to never let go. To never let go. This is how award-winning...
June 14, 2007 · Posted in: i Report Features
IN a country that has more than 100 languages, vernacular writing is alive and well, says Vim Nadera Jr., director of Likhaan: Institute of Creative Writing at the University of the Philippines. But as he points out in the latest article in the i Report...
June 13, 2007 · Posted in: 2004 Electoral Fraud, 2007 Elections, Civil Society, Comelec Watch, Gloriagate
SHORT of saying "We told you so," election watchdog Kontra Daya blames Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. for the fiasco in Maguindanao, where reports of large-scale cheating and results-tampering have again pulled down the...
June 13, 2007 · Posted in: Congress Watch, Governance
FOLLOWING is a continuation of excerpts (edited for currency) from The Rulemakers written by Sheila S. Coronel, with updated tables incorporating data from the outgoing 13th House of Representatives. POLITICS AS PROFESSION THE majority of...
June 11, 2007 · Posted in: i Report Features
IT used to be that Muslim children in the Philippines had to go to madaris (traditional Islamic schools) to learn the values of their faith, as well as the Arabic language. Three years ago, however, the Department of Education (DepEd) ordered the teaching...
June 10, 2007 · Posted in: Congress Watch, Governance, In the News
THE concluding session of the outgoing 13th House of Representatives last Thursday ended in typical fashion — none of the pending bills were passed because there was a lack of quorum. To make up for such a lackluster valedictory to another three-year...
June 10, 2007 · Posted in: Congress Watch, Governance, In the News
THE good news is that the Congress of the Philippines is celebrating its centennial (reckoned from the inauguration of the Philippine Assembly in 1907) as an institution, marking 100 years of electoral representation and of democratically choosing the...
