IN what is regarded as the worst flooding to hit Western Visayas, most of the Panay Island provinces of Iloilo, Aklan, Capiz and Antique went under water last week as typhoon Frank, packing heavy rains and strong winds, made its rampage. Antique...

IN the wake of typhoon Frank's devastation, Western Visayas stood out as the hardest hit region. Taking the harshest beating in the area are the provinces of Capiz, Iloilo, Aklan, and Antique. All have already been declared under a state of...

IN-DEPTH stories on governance and corruption, human rights, and environment won in the 19th Jaime V. Ongpin Awards for Excellence in Journalism (JVOAEJ) held yesterday at the Asian Institute of Management. Roel Landingin’s “The Battle for...

BEFORE typhoon Frank ravaged much of Western Visayas and Metro Manila over the weekend, and leaving in its trail yet another maritime tragedy with the sinking of Sulpicio Lines's M/V Princess of the Stars, Filipinos were already hard-pressed at weathering...

TWENTY one years since the sinking of the M/V Doña Paz between Mindoro and Marinduque after colliding with an oil tanker, considered as the world's worst ferry disaster and the worst peace-time maritime disaster in history, it would seem that...

(UPDATED) THE Philippines has one of the poorest privacy safeguards in the world, according to the UK-based human rights group Privacy International (PI) in a forum organized last week by the Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA). On a scale of one...

EDMUNDO Enderez stumbled upon the PCIJ's recent report on the sorry state of Taal Lake while browsing the Internet. A concerned citizen, no less a fisheries graduate who previously worked with two government agencies and a nongovernmental organization, he...