SANGGUNIANG Kabataan (SK) council member Lira Sanchez (not her real name) remembers the first time she received her “SOP,” the so-called standard operating procedure, otherwise known as love gifts or kickbacks, from projects in their barangay in Metro...

THE recent grant of pardon to former President Joseph ‘Erap’ Estrada, as emphasized by the order read by Press Secretary and Acting Executive Secretary Ignacio Bunye, was in keeping with the Arroyo government's policy of releasing convicted prisoners...

CALLING it part of an effort to hide bribery and criminal activity, Senators Mar Roxas III and Benigno 'Noynoy' Aquino III today asked the Supreme Court to invalidate the executive privilege that Malacañang invoked to keep some documents in relation to...

YOU can't miss the Navals' house on M. Viola Street in Area 3, a residential community at the back of the University Shopping Center for academic and non-teaching personnel of the University of the Philippines Diliman campus. It is the only...

CLIMATE change is not yet part of the daily concerns of the average Filipino, but it’s a topic that is getting harder to ignore. Indeed, the latest winners of the Nobel Peace Prize were recognized for their relentless work in warning the world about the...

SHORTLY before six in the evening today, Malacañang announced that Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has granted executive clemency to convicted former President Joseph Estrada, defying the warnings of civil-society groups, prosecution lawyers in the plunder...

EARLY this month, as media agencies, cause-oriented and academic groups knocked on the doors of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) to get more documents about the National Broadband Network (NBN) deal, they found the passageways shut...