The Paris-based press freedom advocacy group Reporters Without Borders expressed concern over the recent move by Department of Justice Alberto Agra to withdraw the murder charges against former Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) governor Zaldy...

Our latest report looks at two trends of spending on political advertisements by the nine candidates for president for Month 2 of the official campaign period, and how these have affected, for good or bad, their ratings in public opinion polls. Money,...

Deadly, unpunished violence against the press has soared in the Philippines and Somalia, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found in its newly updated Impunity Index, a list of countries where journalists are killed regularly and governments fail to...

by Justine Espina-Letargo Legal experts warned of a looming crisis in the justice system after public prosecutors openly defied an order by Acting Justice Secretary Alberto Agra to drop the murder charges against two prominent members of the Ampatuan...

media organizations hold a press conference to denounce the DOJ decision Media groups lashed out at the decision of Justice Secretary Alberto Agra to withdraw the murder charges against former Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) governor...

Our latest report looks at the many naughty methods that some candidates for high office have resorted to, in their apparent effort at perfunctory compliance with campaign finance laws. For one, some of these naughty attempts to go under or over or...

The deluge of political ads on television has earned for the top two candidates for president – the Liberal Party’s Benigno S. Aquino III and the Nacionalista Party’s Manuel B. Villar Jr. – the dubious distinction of ranking among the country’s...