photos by DJ Sta. Ana by DJ Sta. Ana The Inquirer’s Gerry Lirio said it was just like the good old days. Riding in the media bus, munching on crackers, the hurry up and waits and one liners each of us would say to while the time away. Malou...

Columnist David Pilling of The Financial Times quotes PCIJ founding executive director Sheila S. Coronel, in his story, Philippine democracy still awaits its redeemer, posted on August 5, 2009. Click here to read Pilling's...

images by Ed Lingao/ music by jimmyG VETERAN NEWSMEN POINT out that the funeral procession of former President Cory Aquino lasted as long as that of her husband’s in 1983. Ninoy’s funeral cortege travelled for eight hours from Sto. Domingo Church...

by Jaemark Tordecilla The start of the 1986 Edsa People Power revolution was a very exciting time for me, but not in the usual way. I was too young to know what was going on at the time – I had just turned four years old a few months earlier – but...

[caption id="attachment_4061" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="photo by Tita C. Valderama"][/caption] 6:35 p.m. Sucat exit In some ways, it was a journey many did not want to end. But as the funeral cortege of President Cory negotiates the...

[caption id="attachment_4048" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="photo by Tita Valderama"][/caption] 6:18 p.m. South Expressway Men and women held on to the 10-wheeler truck bearing President Cory to her final resting place in an expression of...

3:23 South Expressway We've just spied the Magallanes interchange. It is a sea of people. There is almost no room to pass. Ed Lingao 3:16 South Expressway Stopped for almost an hour near the boundary of Makati. Police say Magallanes...