Maguindanao is the country's third poorest province, yet its leaders roll in scandalous wealth. The Ampatuans left a trail of magnificent mansions, rising from the squalor in the poblacion of their capital town in Shariff Aguak, or "hidden" among other...

Political control begets fiscal control – a truism that has been tried and tested, but for bad results, in Maguindanao and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. In this, the last of our three-part investigative report on the wealth of the...

How did the Ampatuans get so rich in a province like Maguindanao that is so poor? This is the dark mystery that Part 2 of our three-part investigative report on the wealth of the Ampatuans seeks to unravel. In Maguindanao, the nation’s third...

Our latest offering is a three-part investigative report on the mysterious wealth of the Ampatuans, the clan whose patriarch and senior scions stand accused in the Nov. 23, 2009 massacre of 57 perople, including 32 media workers, in...

(PCIJ executive director Malou Mangahas [second from right] receives the Kate Webb Award from Eric Wishart [far left], director of AFP Asia-Pacific, and Kate Webb's siblings, Jeremy Webb and Rachel Webb-Miller. Photos by Tita Valderama.) (Agence...

Amid a flurry of bold speeches and statements they make to curry favor with voters, one topic seems to make the top candidates for president turn timid and tentative -- money matters. In a series, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism...

Our latest report inquires into the apparent breach of ethics and tax laws that the top candidates for president and vice president and their donors have to address on account of over a billion pesos they have altogether spent on pre-campaign political...