September 30 2009 1:30 pm The afternoon session begins with an address by Atty Nasser Marohomsalic, convenor of the Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy) on the prospects for peace in East Asia. Atty Marohomsalic is also a convenor of the...

The second speaker for the morning was Atty Milabel Cristobal, of Amnesty International Hong Kong. Very interesting and provocative question put forward by Cambodian journalist Sophea Soy: Should human rights conform to the rule of law, or should the rule...

September 30 2009 9:55 a.m. The first speaker for the last day of PCIJ's 20th anniversary conference on Peace, Human Rights, Good Governance: East Asian Democracies at the Crossroads, is Dr. Zhang Weiyu. Dr Zhang teaches new media at the National...

PCIJ Executive Director Malou Mangahas talks about access to information and extra-judicial killings of journalists in the Philippines. Thai Journalists Association board member Chavarong Limpattamapanee talks about new media in...

The second day of the conference continued with Dr. Aileen SP Baviera, Dean, Asian Center, University of the Philippines, talking about media and democracy in East Asia. She began with a discussion of the dominant yardstick for determining democracy, from...

The second day of the conference began with Prof. Leonor Magtulis-Briones, president of SocialWatch-Philippines and a faculty member at the University of the Philippines-National College of Public Administration talking about the budget process. She...

September 28 3:30p.m. GMAnews.tv editor-in-chief and PCIJ Board Member Howie Severino spoke about Reporting Democracy:Doing Journalism in Old and New Media Platforms in the late afternoon session of the PCIJ Conference at the AIM. Howie of course...