IN 1776, Sweden enacted its freedom of information law, the first country in the world to do so. While it has been challenged time and again, the courts have invariably ruled in favor of disclosure. In the Philippines, while the public's right to...

ALMOST three years after Filipinos first became aware of the "Hello, Garci" tapes, the infamous wiretapped recordings seem to have a way of easing their way back into the realm of public discourse. The audio files, after all, involve genuine...

THE inscription on the Calatagan pot — the country’s oldest cultural artifact with pre-colonial writing — is no longer shrouded in mystery. University of the Philippines literature professor Dr. Ramon Guillermo’s latest attempt at decoding the...

(UPDATED) SUPREME Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno disagreed with majority of his colleagues when they voted yesterday to uphold Romulo Neri's claim of executive privilege over three questions asked of him by senators investigating the scandal-ridden...

IT was a decision certainly most welcome to Malacañang, and in particular, to Romulo Neri, the former director general of the National Economic and Development Authority whose claim of executive privilege the Supreme Court upheld by a vote of 9-6...

DID Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo follow up the national broadband network (NBN) project with then socioeconomic planning secretary Romulo Neri? Was Neri dictated to prioritize the Chinese firm ZTE Corporation? Did Arroyo tell him to go ahead and approve the...

THE debate over who really invented the karaoke machine is still going strong (Filipino businessman Roberto del Rosario or Japanese drummer Daisuke Inoue?), but no one questions the strength of the spell videoke — the updated karaoke — has cast on...