Archive for August, 2009

August 25, 2009 · Posted in: General

Senate to take up
access to info bill

Just the other week, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism came out with a series of reports on the President's assets and net worth. The series capped an exhaustive and exhausting investigation that ran for more than three months and...

August 25, 2009 · Posted in: General

Covering Cory

Members of the old Malacanang Press Corps (1986-1992) had a small reunion during the wake and burial of former President Cory Aquino to pay their respects to an ordinary housewife who turned out to be an extraordinary President. Covering Cory was...

August 22, 2009 · Posted in: General

Cory on Ninoy, one last

by Tita Valderama IT TOOK Jun Reyes three years to do put together a 52-minute documentary on the last 10 days in the life of martyred opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr. from the time he left his family in Boston until he was felled by...

The second part of our report on the mining mayhem happening in Zambales province written by multimedia journalist Jaileen F. Jimeno reveals how miners have been scraping the forest cover and operating in Sta. Cruz’s watershed, which feeds the town’s...

Our latest offering is a two-part report on the mining mayhem that is now unfolding in Zambales province, one of the areas hardest hit by Typhoon Kiko last week. Earlier last year, the people of Zambales had endured a similar tragedy when Typhoon Cosme...

August 18, 2009 · Posted in: General

Still on Richard S. Lim

Editor’s Note: Last Monday, August 17, we received a letter from the lawyers of Richard Sy Lim, saying that he is the Richard S. Lim of Derchuan Industrial Co., Inc, but that he is not the Richard S. Lim who bought the San Rafael, Bulacan lot of ...

The Makati Business Club on Wednesday issued a statement on the PCIJ's three-part report, “Can President Arroyo Explain Her Wealth?” (See part 1, part 2, and part 3). Makati Business Club Statement on the PCIJ report on President Arroyo's Statements...