HERE is a copy of the 112-page Technical Report on the 2008 State of the Nation Address of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The PCIJ obtained a copy of the report prepared by the Presidential Management Staff. Download...

A STRETCH of the 18-lane Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City has become a study in contrast on the day President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo delivers her State of the Nation Address (SONA) before a joint session of Congress at the Batasang Pambansa, home of...

TODAY’S state of the nation address of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will be different from the previous years in terms of the stringent security arrangements in and out of the sprawling16-hectare Batasang Pambansa complex. “We are trying to be...

THE Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism's latest report looks into the massive renovation project at the House of Representatives in time for the eighth state of the nation address (SONA) of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Nograles says the long...

EVEN before she could deliver her eighth state of the nation address (SONA) this coming Monday, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has already been weighed and found wanting by over 80 former senior government officials. In their own take on the state...

WILL this be the end of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) as we know it? At a forum at the University of the Philippines School of Economics in October last year, Professor Solita Monsod, the first post-Marcos NEDA director general...

INVOKING executive privilege over the people's constitutional right to know has become a trademark of the Arroyo administration. The recent Supreme Court decisions restricting the public disclosure of information on the Japan-Philippine Economic...