The Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) learned Monday that the website of "Irrawady", a Thailand-based magazine which is a leading critic of the Burmese junta, has been experiencing a "distributed denial of service attack" (DDoS) since midnight. The...

by Che de los Reyes “JEJEMON” may be a strong contender for 2010’s Word of the Year, but back in the 1980s, it would have been a poor competitor to “Imeldific.” The term stemmed from then Philippine First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos, whose...

THE major media groups in the country have started to draft clearer editorial and ethical standards that should apply to coverage of crisis situations like the hostage-taking incident last August 23 at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila.  That day, a ...

Exactly 70 days ago, President Benigno Simeon ‘Noynoy’ C. Aquino III became the Philippines’ 15th president, triggering a contagion of hopefulness among Filipinos with his battle cry, ”Kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap.” But while his first...

In his message that accompanies the proposed budget for 2011, President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III notes that the allocation for health is 13.6 percent higher than 2010’s P29.3 billion – which is enrolled in the 2010 General Appropriations Act to be...

In the next fortnight, President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III will fly to the United States – his first trip out of the country as chief executive – in part to attend the United Nations General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals or...

relatives of massacre victims light candles for justice LAWYERS defending Andal Ampatuan Jr. and 195 other co-accused in the Maguindanao Massacre will use every trick in the book to delay the trial and wear down prosecutors and their witnesses,...