THE PCIJ again emerged victorious at the 2008 Developing Asia Journalism Awards (DAJA) held recently in Tokyo, Japan, garnering the top prize in one of four categories and clinching runner-up honors in another. Alecks P. Pabico, the Center's multimedia...

CULTURE is a fundamental part of people’s lives. Its integration to policies and programs is deemed essential to achieve development, according to this year’s State of World Population report. Carrying the theme “Reaching Common Ground: Culture,...

TOKYO -- The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) is again vying for honors for excellence in journalistic reporting that cover development trends and issues in Asia at the 2008 Developing Asia Journalism Awards (DAJA) organized and...

THE PCIJ blog was declared the best in the Podcast category at the 2008 Digital Filipino Web Awards held last November 5 at the Mall of Asia. The PCIJ's three-year-old blog received the recognition from DigitalFilipino.com, a community of electronic...

AFRICAN-American, Latino and youth votes have been largely credited for helping propel Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States. Women voters, however, also figured prominently in Obama's victory as 56 percent of women who voted in the November...

PCIJ contributor Joseph Israel Laban shares this personal essay in the wake of the historic election victory the other day of Democrat Barack Obama, making the freshman senator of Illinois, Chicago the first African American president of the United...

TWELVE years after a major mining catastrophe there, toxic mine wastes still choke key waterways in Marinduque. The threat of more mine tailings pouring into Boac and Mogpog rivers and Calancan Bay also remains, as abandoned mine structures are in need of...