CRITICS of blogging and the Internet often characterize the medium as a virtual “wild, wild West,” a place where any schmuck could make anything up with no consequences. But the latter has been proven wrong, and not only with posts or sites containing...

As part of its training series for reporters on how to cover the automated elections, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism flew to Legazpi City last January 14 for the Bicol leg of its nationwide training workshops. The PCIJ is part of...

With just five Congress session days to go, a broad coalition of over 100 media, civil society and nongovernment organizations yesterday urged senators and congressmen to set aside partisan politics this week and ratify the Freedom of Information (FOI)...

The Southeast Asian Press Alliance, a coalition of journalist and press freedom advocacy groups from around Southeast Asia, released a statement condemning the conviction of Vietnamese lawyer Le Cong Dinh and three of his associates. SEAPA called for the...

Four Vietnamese dissidents charged with “subversive activities” against the government were sentenced to up to 16 years in prison in a trial that attracted public attention on Wednesday. After a day-long trial, 43-year-old Tran Dinh Duy Thuc,...

AFTER Generation X and Y comes Generation E – for Elections. According to the Commission on Elections (Comelec), about half of the registered 50 million voters for the 2010 polls (up from 45 million in 2007) could be classified as youth (18 to 33...

by Che de los Reyes ELECTIONS, according to the United Nations, are “one of the most important opportunities when the poor can exercise the power of their large numbers as voters and extract some commitments from the political class.” But more than...