by Roel Landingin MWSS officials address the apparent haste in the tender of the Laiban dam project. Video by Ed Lingao. MWSS officials talk about 'take or pay', and whether the company explored all possible options to secure the best deal...

by Ed Lingao [caption id="attachment_3827" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="laiban dam site from MWSS website"][/caption] THE BIGGEST AND most costly dam project in Philippine history may yet turn out to be also the most costly single...

by Roel Landingin and Ed Lingao IT'S NO BIG wonder that even the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) cannot get a copy of the proposed or negotiated joint venture agreement (JVA) between the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System...

Our latest story looks at the impact on the affected communities of the P52-billion Laiban Dam project, the subject of an ongoing tender that has been kept largely secret by the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS). The MWSS has yet to...

Our latest report follows up on the deepening secrecy that shrouds the P52-billion Laiban Dam project of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) in Tanay, Rizal. This story written by PCIJ Fellow Roel Landingin reveals that not only the...

Joint venture projects by the Philippine government have been a mix of lucrative success stories and tales of financial struggle, with healthy doses of controversy peppered along the way. Apart from robust competition and public transparency, the project...

It has been almost a year since fighting broke out between government forces and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front after the Supreme Court struck down the Memorandum Agreement on Ancestral Domain. While the story of the continued fighting still makes...