Our latest report inquires into the curious case of the top two candidates for president acting as poster boys in the rising volume of television ads supposedly "paid for" and "paid by" seven party-list groups. Indeed, the horribly costly air war for...

by JC Cordon WHOEVER will be elected president might have to hurdle among many others, two big tasks in the area of healthcare – rescuing mothers from the throes of death at childbirth, and providing universal healthcare protection to all 90 million...

The Southeast Asian Press Alliance, a coalition of journalist and press freedom advocacy groups from around Southeast Asia, released a statement expressing concern over the continuing turmoil in Thailand that has created a tenuous environment for media...

At 10:41 p.m. Monday, 26 April 2010, Acting Justice Secretary Alberto C. Agra finally responded to questions mailed by the PCIJ. What follows is the full text of his reply. Last Thursday, the PCIJ first contacted Atty Agra to request a face-to-face...

Our latest report looks at the checkered past and messy present of acting Justice Secretary Alberto Agra, an ex-activist lawyer in the line of fire today for his resolution ordering state prosecutors to drop murder charges against Zaldy and Akmad...

With the country’s first nationwide automated elections exactly two weeks away, business groups are pleading with the Commission on Elections to allow a parallel manual count of election results to allay fears of a failure of the automated count on May...

By his own reckoning, Acting Justice Secretary Alberto Agra is the "most hated man in the country" for making "the most unpopular decision of the decade." Agra had earlier ordered the dismissal of the murder charges against Zaldy and Akmad Ampatuan,...