Archive for August, 2008

PCIJ co-founder and former executive director Sheila Coronel is the featured lecturer in the University of the Philippines Centennial Lecture Series this Friday, August 22, at 2 p.m. at the UP National Institute of Science and Mathematics Education...

SPORADIC attacks believed to have been conducted by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in several parts of Mindanao yesterday have left scores dead, mostly civilians. The renewed hostilities come in the wake of the aborted signing of the...

August 18, 2008 · Posted in: Podcasts

Poetry (while) in motion

TILA ahas na nagmula sa himpilang kanyang lungga, ang galamay at palikpik, pawang bakal, tanso, tingga, ang kaliskis, lapitan mo't mga bukas na bintana! (Like a snake from its lair its claws and fins like metal, bronze and lead approach...

AT today's initial Supreme Court hearing of oral arguments on the controversial, and yet to be signed, memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain (MOA-AD) between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP)-Moro Islamic Liberation Front...

AMID the worsening impacts of climate change and the spiraling cost of oil, the urgent use of renewable energy is the way to go. In its latest report, Greenpeace Southeast Asia outlined the benefits that renewable energy systems can offer as an...

GENERATIONS of Filipinos have grown up amid rallies denouncing the country's constantly ballooning foreign debt. In her eighth and latest State of the Nation Address, however, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo boasted that her administration has managed...

PEACE advocate and legal scholar Soliman Santos Jr. contributes this piece in anticipation of oral arguments to be heard by the Supreme Court on August 15 regarding the petitions filed by those opposing the memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain...